Steamcast is designed to make handling and distributing media content to users over the internet. It is also designed to make distributing static multimedia files easy and with little consideration for configuration. The present version comes withe improved memory management of buffers.
v1.0 [Mar 7, 2008]
1.0.0 decennium
* Better build identification
* 64 bit compatibility on Windows (installer will auto detect and install the correct build for your system)
* Improved memory management of buffers
* Fix threading race conditions
* Improved logging capabilities
* Fix hanging publication threads
* Allow Client requests up to 10KB
* Better form and request management
* Better AJAX updating (Works much better in Chrome)
* Improvements to local socket binding for outgoing requests
* Use Flash only when Browser does not support format
* Improvements to string error conversion
* Memory management Improvements to ICY meta data support
* Config uses first item as default when only one item is needed but many exist
* Improvements to thread locking
* Effeciency improvments to client response code
* Bitrate information is now more real time
* Improvements to client booting when buffer size is not properly detected
* Effeciency improvements to buffer
* Fix indefinite source thread hangs due to poor network conditions from source side
* Fix memory leaks in SHOUTcast source socket
* GCC 4.8 is now required for all Steamcast builds (GLIBC 2.15)
* Improvements to shutdown performance
* Fix memory leak in W3C logging
* Graceful disconnects no longer show error string
* Improvements to Buffer long term stability
* Filter meta data from SHOUTcast 1 servers that might happen to relay Steamcast (fixes crashing on SHOUTcast)
* Proper reset of packet buffer and reader when sources drop
* Panel consistancy improvments and style fixes
Session List management
Allow multipart form message parsing
Addition of "UploadLimit" and "MaxRequestBufferSize" options
UTF8 aware and conversion capabilities from legacy sources using latin1
Clean and sanitize external inputs before displaying on web panel
JSON and JSONP support (addition of /status.json and /admin/status.json which mimics functionality in xml stats sheets)
Custom tags exposed to stats sheets
Hex display of internal data added to webpanel (support feature only)
Non-standard Icy meta data is now parsed into custom meta fields.
Mounts can now be restricted to IP and port
Addition of "Debug" configuration item to allow more detailed logging (may cause poor performance)
Additional checks done before a stream can be listed on SHOUTcast.
Use chunked encoding for all Steamcast Relaying where available (Meta data now passed in an HTTP/1.1 standards correct way)
PUT added to list of allowable methods in OPTIONs requests
Allow listeners to be safely migrated from one source to another.
Average Quarter Hour (AQH) stat added to all mounts.
Allow stats to be reset in web panel
