Icecast - Jan 2014 - Icecast 2.4 beta4 release

This is to announce the release of Icecast 2.4 beta4 (aka 2.3.99.4).

We've landed an important bug fix and we're looking forward to testing
and feedback. As this is a beta release please discuss it on the
icecast-dev mailing list.
(Please do NOT cross-post to both lists, do NOT reply to the icecast
mailing list, PLEASE reply to icecast-dev at xiph.org only).

  * Fixed a memory leak. Lost headers of stream because of wrong ref
    counter in associated refbuf objects.
  * avoid memory leak in _parse_mount() when "type"-attribute is set
  * Completed HTTP PUT support, send 100-continue-header,
    if client requests it. We need to adhere to HTTP1.1 here.
  * Updated web interface to be more XHTML compliant.
  * corrected Date-header format to conform the standard (see RFC1123).
    Thanks to cato for reporting.
  * Added a favicon to the web-root content
  * We now split handling of command line arguments into two parts.
    Only the critical part of getting the config file is done first (and
    -v as it prevents startup). The rest (only -b) is deferred.
    It allows us to log error messages to stderr even if the -b argument
    is passed. This is mainly for the case where the logfile or TCP port
    can't be opened.

Please test this and also all other new 2.4 features and report to the
dev mailing list with your observations and findings.

Source tar ball:
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.4-beta4.tar.gz

Windows build:
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast_win32_2.4_beta4.zip

Also there are experimental packages for many distributions built on OBS:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=icecast&project=home%3Adm8tbr
The package repositories are here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dm8tbr/
Those are not intended for production use and _none_ of the packages
have been tested, so if it scares your cat, bites your dog and blows up
- enjoy the fireworks.

Cheers

Thomas

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Hello!
  I have tested the newly released IceCast 2.4beta4 and again found a
noticeable memory leak in it.
  This time it is even larger than in the beta3 version.
  Here is the graph similar to the one I prepared last time:
    http://ftp.wombat.org.ua/IceCast-2_4_beta4-memory_leak.png

    Regards,
        Vladimir

----- 
 <v_2e at ukr.net>

Hi,

On 01/25/2014 11:47 PM, v_2e at ukr.net wrote:
>   I have tested the newly released IceCast 2.4beta4 and again found a
> noticeable memory leak in it.
Can you please run Icecast under Valgrind?
I'm personally using:
valgrind -v --time-stamp=yes --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes
icecast -c /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

With our experiments so far we were not able to see such massive leaks.
It would also help to know more about your setup.
Which distro is this on? Which version of it?
Built from source? OBS package?

>   This time it is even larger than in the beta3 version.
>   Here is the graph similar to the one I prepared last time:
>     http://ftp.wombat.org.ua/IceCast-2_4_beta4-memory_leak.png
>
By the looks of it each stream leaks something in your case.
How long are the songs you have in the playlists (Wondering how often it
gets metadata updates).

Really appreciate your help, as we want to make a good 2.4 release soon.

Cheers

Thomas