[Icecast-dev] Icecast 2.5 beta3 release

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

the Icecast Project is very pleased to have released the next beta
of Icecast, version 2.5 beta3.

As this is a beta usage in production should be with caution.

Please see the full news entry linked below for details.

New features (extract):

 * Overall
    * Improved relay configuration including multi-upstream support
    * Improved directory configuration including updated mechanism for
      listen URL submission
    * Updates to example configuration
    * Better warning about legacy operations
    * Improved client navigation including per-client history and
      improved handling of fallback overrides
    * Improved configuration validation warnings
    * Support for plain text streaming
    * New *experimental* JSON renderings
 * Web interface
    * Complete redesign
    * Support to move single listeners between sources
    * Logfile display on admin interface
    * New dashboard including overall health and maintenance
      information
    * Added new endpoint `/admin/publicstats` replacing `/status-
      json.xsl` which is now deprecated
    * Added stats key `display-title` to replace `title`, and `artist`
    * Warning about legacy sources on dashboard
    * Listing of listen sockets on admin interface
    * Advanced version display on admin interface
 * Protocol
    * Full `OPTIONS`, `POST`, and `DELETE` support
    * Addition of `no-store` to `Cache-Control:`-header.
    * Improved CORS support
 * Network
    * Support for new listen socket type `virtual`
    * Improved listen URL reporting
    * Per listen socket HTTP headers
    * Prefer IPv6 when IPv4-mapped is supported for listen sockets
 * 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
    * New backend `enforce_auth` to improve performance with URL
      authentication

Fixes and Cleanup (extract):

 * Several TLS related fixes
 * Several autotool related fixes and cleanup
 * 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
 * Re-implemented `<no-mount>` and renamed to `<allow-direct-access>`
 * Handle safe HTTP methods in unsafe context correctly
 * Improved logging messages
 * Not consider reuse of connections if they reached an error state

Full news entry:

   https://icecast.org/news/icecast-release-2_5-beta3/

Download:

   http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.5-beta3.tar.gz

SHA-2-256:
e050e892803dcc10d88fc4403bf92e4c7699ea365804b4896625ff21815a096f
   SHA-3-512:
   e8af24dd1d593c5c3fa15d16c7b600ae5bcf9ee79678d79f952c44e28dad2430
   78e9aa21837c6a229a0ba2bb3c6ca2147f2f4085966cfb32bd4cad52c5faffdb

   Experimental packages:
   https://build.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:xiph:beta

Tickets and bug reports:

   https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/-/issues


With best regards,

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Philipp Schafft (CEO/Geschäftsführer) 
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