We are pleased to announce that the long awaited 2.1 version of icecast is
nearing release. Since there has been quite a bit of changes since 2.0, we
thought it best to release a "release candidate" version. We welcome
any
testing on this version, and highly encourage current users to send us
feedback about the testing.
For those wondering what happened to RC1, we did a small RC1 internal
release that found a few issues (mostly minor) that we've cleaned up and
made RC2 ready for public consumption.
RC2 Binaries and Source can be downloaded here :
Source: http://svn.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.1RC2.tar.gz
Fedora Core 1 RPM :
http://svn.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.1RC2-1.i386.rpm
Source RPM : http://svn.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.1RC2-1.src.rpm
Win32 Binary Installer :
http://svn.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast2_win32_2.1RC2_setup.exe
The following gives a brief overview of the changes in 2.1 (and special
thanks to everyone who has contributed fixes and suggestions as well as all
those who help us tremendously with help testing in between releases) :
Icecast 2.1
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****New features for 2.1 (in no particular order):****
-Listener Authentication-
Icecast now supports listener authentication. This provides a mechanism for
creating/maintaining users and passwords for listeners. Currently, we only
have implemented a simple, file-based storage for users and passwords. New
authenticators are on the horizon (such as URL-based or possibly MySQL
based)
New admin pages were also added for the maintenance of users/passwords.
Please
check the docs for a more detailed description of this new feature.
-Multi-Level Fallbacks-
Multi-level fallbacks allow for specifications of a series of fallback
mounts
that you could use, for instance, to set up a series of progressively lower
bitrate streams that would be cascaded through. For instance, a modem user
would connect to the highest bitrate stream, and then could be cascaded
down to a progressively lower stream until they reach a value they can
handle.
-Burst-On-Connect-
This is an new, optional config setting which will send a initial burst of
data to connecting listeners. This has the effect of reducing
(significantly) the startup buffer latency from the end-user perspective.
This option is enabled by default.
****New Enhancements for 2.1****
-Update to admin interface-
This interface has been cleaned up quite a bit and made a bit nicer.
-Rewrite of the YP listing code-
The icecast yp code has received a complete overhaul by karl, and it's a
much
more stable and failure-resistant implementation.
-Lots and lots of bugs fixed-
Check the ChangeLog for a complete list of these...
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