1 Changes in 0.5.3, released on 2007-12-01:
4 - [FIX] Prevent (very) long-running ezstream processes from dying without
5 error message by ignoring SIGPIPE where available.
9 Changes in 0.5.2, released on 2007-11-04:
12 - [FIX] Fix a crash that occurs when streaming from standard input without
13 using a script or program that supplies metadata information.
15 - [FIX] Similar to the fix for #1247, properly initialize another
16 variable. The result is a cosmetic fix for the "real-time" status
17 line when streaming from standard input.
18 - [MISC] Provide a useful error message when there's no more data to read
19 from standard input instead of talking about scary, bad file
21 - [MISC] Further prettify the output to make more sense when streaming from
25 - [FIX] A rare, possible crash has been fixed in an error path.
28 - [NEW] Add an example configuration for streaming from standard input.
29 - [MISC] Improve reencoding examples to make them more easily usable with
31 - [MISC] Reenconding example files have been renamed.
35 Changes in 0.5.1, released on 2007-09-16:
38 - [FIX] Fix a segmentation fault in playlist_*_next() when trying to
39 access empty playlists. (Ticket #1240)
42 - [MISC] Issue a warning in verbose mode when dealing with an empty
43 playlist file. This also makes it more obvious what is going on
44 when a user makes ezstream spin on an empty playlist with
45 <stream_once/> set to 0.
49 Changes in 0.5.0, released on 2007-08-31:
52 - [FIX] The special case of streaming MP3 files without reencoding had
53 been lost, causing such streams to have no metadata. This has
54 been fixed. (Ticket #1225)
55 - [MISC] Handle SIGINT and SIGTERM to perform a clean shutdown.
58 - [NEW] A new convenience feature has been added, to allow automatic
59 normalization of metadata strings. Useful if the majority of
60 files come from a broken encoder/tagging program. Disabled
61 by default, this feature can be enabled with the new `-n'
62 command line parameter.
63 - [NEW] Enable Unicode support in TagLib and convert metadata strings
64 to the current locale (LC_CTYPE) before displaying them on the
65 console. Unsupported characters are displayed as '?', which
66 does not affect the actual metadata. This feature requires
67 iconv() via libc, if available, or GNU libiconv.
68 - [NEW] Support gettimeofday() functionality on all platforms, including
69 Windows. The "real-time status line" when using the -q and -v
70 parameters is now complete everywhere.
71 - [MISC] Add new --enable-debug configuration option to the configure
72 script, which enables (also new) memory debugging features.
73 (Not interesting for non-developers.)
74 - [MISC] Various small code cleanups.
76 * The Windows build of ezstream now supports reading metadata from files
81 Changes in 0.4.3, released on 2007-07-24:
84 - [FIX] Plug the file descriptor leak, partially fixed in version 0.4.1,
85 for good - it affected more than just the -q use case.
89 Changes in 0.4.2, released on 2007-07-17:
92 - [FIX] Make <stream_once/> work with playlists, too. Problem found by
93 Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely dot com>.
97 Changes in 0.4.1, released on 2007-07-15:
100 - [FIX] Plug a file descriptor leak when using the -q parameter.
103 - [FIX] Minor spelling/consistency fixes.
107 Changes in 0.4.0, released on 2007-03-11:
110 - [FIX] The xfree() function did not work as intended due to a programming
111 error. Found, and fix suggested, by Karl Heyes.
114 - [FIX] An error compareable to the one about xfree() in src/util.* has
116 - [MISC] Refuse to execute a group- or world-writeable playlist script or
120 - [ADD] Implement a basename() function for Windows that behaves like the
121 ones used on Unix systems.
124 - [MISC] Remove the rather ugly HTML version of the man page from the
125 distribution, and provide a much better PDF version instead.
128 - [ADD] Allow ezstream to use TagLib for reading metadata from media
129 files. TagLib (libtag_c) is now an optional dependency.
130 - [ADD] When built with TagLib support, include the song length in the
131 "real-time" information line, if available.
132 - [ADD] New <metadata_progname> configuration option, which causes
133 metadata to be read from the output of an external program or
135 - [ADD] New runtime control via the SIGUSR2 signal, which triggers reading
136 of fresh metadata information from <metadata_progname> (metadata
137 is always read at song changes.)
138 - [ADD] New <metadata_format> configuration option, to customize metadata
139 strings when used with the new <metadata_progname> feature.
140 - [ADD] New '@a@' and '@t@' placeholders for separate artist and title
141 metadata in de-/encoder commands.
145 Changes in 0.3.0, released on 2007-03-05:
147 * The original author, Ed Zaleski, hands over ezstream maintainership to
151 - Playlist shuffling support, enabled via the new <shuffle> configuration
153 - Playlist scripting support: Indicate that the executable in <filename>
154 should be run each time to get a new media filename to stream, by setting
155 the new <playlist_program> configuration option to 1.
156 - New <stream_once> configuration option, which makes ezstream play a media
157 file or playlist once and then exit.
158 - New <reconnect_tries> option to restrict the number of reconnection
159 attempts to a server in case the connection goes down.
160 - Add feature to skip the currently streaming track, done by sending the
161 SIGUSR1 signal to the ezstream process.
162 - New command line option `-q': Suppress standard error output from external
164 - New command line option `-v': Produce more verbose output.
165 - New "real-time" status display of the stream when both -q and -v are given
167 - Thorough configuration file checks with helpful error messages.
168 - The @M@ metadata placeholder is now supported in <decode>.
169 - Playlists may now have the '.txt' filename extension in addition to
173 - At least one stack and one heap overflow have been fixed.
174 - Several memory leaks have been fixed.
175 - Strict checking of the configuration file prevents unexpected behavior and
176 adds another safeguard to prevent crashes.
177 - Fixed and more portable signal handling.
179 * Miscellaneous, user-visible changes:
180 - Improved documentation. Ezstream now has a comprehensive man page and the
181 README file has been rewritten.
182 - Consistency improvements in the configuration examples. The examples are
184 - The <format/> and <match/> configuration elements, as well as filename
185 extension matching to detect playlists in the <filename> element, are
186 now case insensitive.
187 - Various improvements in the build system and portability fixes.
188 - Consistent and more helpful messages from ezstream. By default, ezstream
189 no longer clutters the screen with lots of output (some information that
190 used to be available needs to be enabled with the new `-v' command line
192 - Tweaked metadata string generation: no more lone " - " dashes at the
193 beginning or end of the string.
194 - New command line option `-V': Print the version number and exit.
198 Changes in 0.2.1, released on 2005-12-14:
201 - [FIX] Prevent a heap overflow with large ID3v1 tags.
202 - [FIX] Use pclose() on FILE* handles that were opened with popen().
206 Changes in 0.2.0, released on 2005-01-05:
209 - [MISC] Clean up and improve example configuration files, and add more
213 - [FIX] Fix reencoding support on Windows.
214 - [ADD] Attempt to reconnect to a server if the connection goes down
219 Changes in 0.1.3, released on 2004-12-22:
222 - [ADD] Add support for streaming Ogg Theora.
223 - [ADD] Add reencoding support via external de-/encoders.
224 - [ADD] Support passing through unknown media types.
228 Changes in 0.1.2, released on 2004-04-21:
231 - [ADD] Add feature to reread the playlist after the currently streaming
232 track, done by sending the SIGHUP signal to the ezstream process.
236 Changes is 0.1.1, released on 2004-02-02:
239 - [FIX] Set read mode to binary for stdin on WIN32.
241 * win32/ezstream.dsp:
242 - [MISC] Add libxml to project file.
248 * Initial import of ezstream 0.1.0 into Xiph.org SVN.
250 * Ezstream 0.1.0 released.