Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

About Icecast 2

Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.
It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.

Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2.

libshout Release 2.4.6

We are pleased to announce a new release of libshout!

The changes include:

• Fixed pkg-config file (#2329)
• Made vorbis an optional codec
• Do not pass to small headers to libspeex
• Updated documentation, mostly in regard of making it clearer which functions are now obsoleted
• General code cleanup
• Added compiler warnings about obsoleted functions and ignored return values
• Replaced old shout_set_metadata(3) with new shout_set_metadata_utf8(3)
• Added support for plain text streaming
• Fixed shout_set_metadata*(3) sometimes returning SHOUTERR_RETRY (#2328)
• Workaround old clients by emulating SHOUTERR_RETRY with SHOUTERR_BUSY (#2316)
• Remove our re-implementation of X509_check_host(3)
• Allow to disable building tools (#2331)

Download libshout 2.4.6 from the download page.

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.

Downloads

• Source: icecast-2.5-beta3.tar.gz

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