Icecast Release 2.5 beta3
We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5 beta3 (2.4.99.3).
This is a beta release. Usage in production should be with caution.
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New features
- Overall
- Support for configure option
--with-default-config=PATH
- Allowing on the fly reconfiguration of PID file
- Clearing XSLT cache on configuration reload
- Updated playlist size from 4 to 10
- Improved relay configuration including multi-upstream support
- Improved directory configuration including updated mechanism for listen URL submission
- Report of
Host:-header in client list
- Updates to example configuration
- Better warning about legacy operations
- Support for developer logging to de-spam production
error.log
(--enable-devel-logging)
- Added support for usernames and passwords in master’s mountlist
- Improved client navigation including per-client history and improved handling of fallback overrides
- Improved configuration validation warnings
- Support for plain text streaming
- Support for media type parameters
- New experimental JSON renderings
- Web interface
- Complete redesign
- Show
<audio> for WebM
- Support to move single listeners between sources
- Logfile display on admin interface
- Support for setting marks in logfiles via admin interface
- New dashboard including overall health and maintenance information
- Admin interface rendering of fallback updates
- New confirm dialogues for critical operations
- Added new endpoint
/admin/publicstats replacing /status-json.xsl which is now deprecated
- Added stats key
display-title to replace title, and artist
- ulimit related information on dashboard
- Warning about legacy sources on dashboard
- Listing of listen sockets on admin interface
- Warning when IPv6 is not enabled
- Advanced version display on admin interface
- Protocol
- Full
OPTIONS, POST, and DELETE support
- Addition of
no-store to Cache-Control:-header.
- Setting the protocol version to
HTTP/1.1
- Improved CORS support
- Improved Keep-Alive support
- Marked
SOURCE as deprecated
- Prefer IPv6 when IPv4-mapped is supported for listen sockets
- Network
- Support for new listen socket type
virtual
- Improved listen URL reporting
- Allowing full on the fly reconfiguration of listen sockets
- Support to configure listen backlog
- Per listen socket HTTP headers
- Authentication
- Per role matches:
match-web, nomatch-web, match-admin, nomatch-admin, match-method, and nomatch-method
- Per listen socket authentication
- Client altering via authentication including redirection
- Allow client altering on authentication fail and acl deny
- Per role HTTP headers
- New backend
enforce_auth to improve performance with URL authentication
- Internals
- Support for admin commands with embedded parameters
- Fast event support
- Buffer support
- JSON renderer
- Support names for ACLs
- PRNG API
- HMAC support
- Module support
Fixes and Cleanup
- Several TLS related fixes
- Fix for segfault on incorrectly configured htpasswd auth
- Several autotool related fixes and cleanup
- Fixed XSLT cache invalidation
- Skip using poll() on Darwin
- Detection of missing submodules in autogen.sh
- Several locking related fixes
- Several fixes for legacy metadata
- Several memory leak fixes
- Limit source settable stats key
- Send final reply to client on HTTP upgrade
- Fixed usage of
<shoutcast-compat> with <shoutcast-mount>
- Re-implemented
<no-mount> and renamed to <allow-direct-access>
- Send correct
<iceresponse> for admin command manageauth
- Corrected error code for mounts with max listeners reached
- Handle safe HTTP methods in unsafe context correctly
- Made global client limit warning easier to understand
- Improved logging messages
- Not consider reuse of connections if they reached an error state
References
Closed tickets
#738
#1272
#2057
#2085
#2225
#2332
#2335
#2336
#2342
#2343
#2347
#2348
#2355
#2356
#2358
#2359
#2363
#2366
#2369
#2370
#2373
#2377
#2385
#2396
#2398
#2408
#2409
#2413
#2421
Related tickets
#1902
#2017
#2084
#2365
#2372
#2395
libshout #2303
Posted Mar 12, 2022 by phschafft
