MistServer Changelog

Development builds

These will be in the next release

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2.11 (Stable Release)

• Pro Feature: Access logs
• Pro Feature: UDP-based API access added, localhost-only on UDP port 4242
• Pro Feature: Session tagging
• Pro Feature: Automatic user-agent session tagging
• Pro Feature: Added PCM A-law audio support to RTSP input and output
• Pro Feature: Added RIFF format analyser
• Pro Feature: ".wav" output support, PCM A-law and MP3 codecs supported
• Pro Feature: HLS input support (both from file and from URL)
• Pro Feature: RTSP input and output now support de Opus audio codec
• Feature: Ogg input and output now support the Opus audio codec
• Pro Improvement: prometheus setting can now be changed during runtime through the API
• Pro Improvement: Session cache is now wiped much faster when playback was denied
• Pro Improvement: Built-in updater no longer blocks API access while running, can now perform rolling updates without disconnecting users
• Pro Improvement: RTMP push output now only interprets and strips the last "?" encountered in targets
• Pro Improvement: Tweaked timing of RTMP push output, now works correctly with YouTube live
• Improvement: Console output is now colour-coded for better visibility
• Improvement: Local API access no longer requires authorization
• Improvement: Tweaked levels of debug messages for better usability
• Improvement: Overhaul on all Analysers, now all standardized in usage
• Improvement: Added v2 API, which always returns minimized-style output
• Improvement: Backported many previously Pro-only API calls to the OS edition (see manual for details)
• Improvement: Many improvements to the web interface
• Improvement: Added "iid" (instance ID) to API config responses, to differentiate between instances
• Improvement: Most API calls now automatically remove invalid data and are more robust
• Improvement: Configuration file is now stripped of runtime status info, and much smaller as a result
• Bugfix: ".html" access to streams now works correctly when used behind a proxy
• Bugfix: Pushed inputs no longer confuse tracks with each other sometimes
• Bugfix: PCM A-law support in FLV/HDS/RTMP inputs and outputs now works
• Bugfix: MP3 support in FLV/HDS/RTMP outputs now works correctly
• Note: Web interface now calls google analytics. To disable, simply configure your browser to send a Do-Not-Track header.

2.10.1 (Bugfix Release)

• Bugfix: Fixed overview screen in web interface not working in open source edition.

2.10 (Stable Release)

• Feature: Idle connections now automatically time out after 5 minutes of inactivity
• Feature: Added the -N option to MistOut processes, which will prevent new MistIn processes from spawning when used
• Feature: Added H265 support to the TS analyser
• Feature: Meta player now detects when streams go live when they were offline and reloads
• Pro Feature: Prometheus-style main bandwidth statistics no longer measure localhost traffic
• Pro Feature: RTSP input now supports missing VUI parameters (framerate autodetection)
• Pro Feature: Added support for RTSP input FU-A frames with Annex B data inside SPS NAL units
• Pro Feature: RTSP input now supports receiving SPS/PPS updates after the stream already started
• Pro Feature: Added H264 analyser tool
• Pro Feature: Better support for HTTP forward-proxying through HTTP public-address option
• Pro Feature: Added LIVE_BANDWIDTH trigger
• Improvement: Faster recovery of existing sessions when restarting the Controller
• Improvement: Speed-ups to all MP4-related features
• Improvement: Outputs no longer wait for data on non-live streams
• Improvement: Full Unicode (UTF-8 / UTF-16) support
• Improvement: Rewrote the internals of the push input handler
• Improvement: Better volume controls in the meta-player
• Improvement: Various other improvements to meta-player
• Improvement: Significant speed improvements to FLV file input
• Improvement: Added no-cache headers to all HTTP outputs
• Improvement: Better handling of static HTTP outputs and offline streams
• Pro Improvement: RTSP live output now attempts to sync up to the live point as much as possible
• Pro Improvement: RTSP UDP now uses ephemeral ports, preventing socket collisions
• Pro Improvement: Major reduction of CPU time for MP4 live output
• Bugfix: Several multi-second slowdown problems fixed when starting streams and/or the controller
• Bugfix: The JSON output no longer produces invalid syntax when returning an empty result
• Bugfix: Various fixes to UDP sockets, especially when using multicast UDP
• Bugfix: Fixed Windows builds incorrectly sizing RAM for certain VoD streams
• Bugfix: Fixed MP4 output not working for large VoD files
• Bugfix: Apple/iOS support for MP4 VoD
• Bugfix: Fixed MP3 file input seeking
• Bugfix: Fixed live streams when hosting on Windows
• Bugfix: Immediately restarted pushes now correctly handled instead of silently ignored
• Bugfix: Several small bugfixes for MistServer's internals
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed Prometheus-style statistics sometimes holding invalid values
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed Opera support for MP4 live streams
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed video-only MP4 live streams in Chrome
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed RTSP input not counting as an input
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed RTSP UDP input/output not counting bytes sent/received correctly in statistics

2.9 (Stable Release)

• Feature: TS SDT tables implemented
• Feature: Implemented ES_Rate in PES packets in TS outputs
• Feature: VideoJS player added to the meta-player
• Feature: Added ability for the controller to restart without closing listening protocols
• Pro Feature: Added RECORDING_END trigger
• Improvement: Better signal debug messages
• Improvement: Various improvements to TS output internals
• Improvement: Many small improvements to the meta player
• Improvement: RTMP timestamp checks are now track-specific, allowing a wider range of RTMP inputs to work
• Improvement: Removed several unnecessary semaphore locks, improving loading times
• Improvement: Added RelAccX class for generic forward/backward compatible memory storage
• Improvement: Faster controller shutdown speed
• Improvement: Cleaned up / corrected CMakeLists.txt file
• Pro Improvement: TS Analyser made much more powerful
• Pro Improvement: Added support for Firefox to MP4 live output
• Pro Improvement: Made behaviour of RTMP_REWRITE trigger for invalid responses more intuitive
• Pro Improvement: MP4 live protocol no longer randomly disconnects/reconnects
• Pro Improvement: MP4 live protocol end-to-end latency reduced to 5-8 seconds for practically all stream types
• Bugfix: The sourcery utility now handles UTF-8 correctly
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP support for audio-only and video-only streams
• Bugfix: Fixed stuck socket problem in controller / improved shutdown speed
• Bugfix: DTSC pull now supports receiving multiple ping message in a row
• Bugfix: Improved recovery of statistics data after a controller reload or crash
• Bugfix: Fixed favicon URL not working in some cases
• Bugfix: Stalled message in embed code no longer shows up when it shouldn't

2.8.2 (Bugfix)

• Fixed a free-edition-only bug with MP4 playback. Again.
• Pro edition is identical to 2.8 release. Again.

2.8.1 (Bugfix)

• Fixed a free-edition-only bug with MP4 playback
• Pro edition is identical to 2.8 release.

2.8 (Stable Release)

• Feature: DTSC pull input now allows selection of all buffer process parameters
• Pro Feature: Added support for track selection in RTMP push output
• Pro Feature: Added native HTTPS output support
• Improvement: Re-ordered Flash protocol priorities to RTMP > FLV > HDS
• Improvement: RTMP output now supports audio/video URL parameters besides the existing track parameter
• Improvement: Better detection of minimum buffer size for working output on all protocols
• Improvement: Significant improvements to FLV input speed
• Improvement: Better buffer behaviour for faster-than-real-time streams, making them playable
• Improvement: Speed improvements to shared memory counters
• Improvement: HLS output much more reliable and faster.
• Improvement: Optimized output waiting algorithm when input is slow
• Improvement: Significant speed boost to all TS-based outputs
• Improvement: Fixed compiling under Cygwin/Mac
• Improvement: IPv6 now re-enabled under Cygwin
• Improvement: RTMP pushes are now automatically disconnected when timestamps become nonsensical
• Improvement: Live metadata header size increased from 4MiB to 16MiB, allowing for larger live streams (longer buffers, more simultaneous tracks)
• Improvement: FLV input now shuts down (and auto-restarts if needed) when the source file is changed
• Improvement: Added crash handler for pull-mode inputs
• Improvement: Robustified live packet handling
• Improvement: Various improvements and fixes to the integrated web interface
• Pro Improvement: Manually started pushes now check for duplicates before starting
• Pro Improvement: (Automatic) pushes now recover automatically after controller crashes or restarts
• Pro Improvement: DASH output much more stable and faster
• Pro Improvement: The USER_NEW trigger is now instantly resolved for existing sessions
• Pro Improvement: DTSC analyser in compact mode now more accurate and detects/advises on possible stream problems
• Pro Improvement: STREAM_BUFFER trigger now reports a JSON blob with stream information and possible issues
• Pro Improvement: Prometheus-style statistics now contain per-protocol gauges
• Pro Improvement: Rolling restarts now maintain statistics better across instances
• Bugfix: Fixed reboot loop when aborting controller startup
• Bugfix: Fixed HDS manifest bit rate reporting
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak when receiving looped data at a memory page boundary
• Bugfix: Fixed outputs sleeping forever when timestamps jumped by large amounts
• Bugfix: Fixed a null pointer dereference when dropping tracks
• Bugfix: Fixed disconnect bug when a track did not receive packets for ~16 seconds
• Bugfix: RTMP output now correctly zero-bases timestamps
• Bugfix: HTTP-based outputs now send correct amount of newlines when finishing a response
• Bugfix: Fixed HTTP TS content type
• Bugfix: Fixed DTSH version writing bug
• Bugfix: Fixed several rare segmentation faults
• Bugfix: HLS packets are no longer unnecessarily discontinuous
• Bugfix: Login attempts for non-existent accounts no longer alter the server configuration file
• Bugfix: Fixed off-by-one-frame time stamp errors in all near-live outputs
• Bugfix: Manual track selection for outputs ignored some track/codec combinations in favour of others
• Bugfix: HLS output no longer ignores Connection: close header
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed DASH manifest bit rate reporting
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed triggers doing a prefix-match on stream names instead of a full match
• Pro Bugfix: When startInput is called directly by an input, no longer check limits/triggers
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed stats when connections were switching quickly
• Pro Bugfix: Removed extra newline from STREAM_READY trigger
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed semaphore locking issue with HTTP stream access to Pro-based releases
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed RTSP start timing for live streams for specific combinations of stream config and client

2.7 (Stable Release)

• Feature: Added the ability to pass on track language tags for MP4 and TS inputs/outputs
• Feature: JSON output now supports pseudostreamed live mode
• Feature: Added ISO639-2 decoding in JSON-formatted metadata outputs
• Feature: Added an angel process that watches over the MistController, making init-based setups much more reliable
• Feature: Added a new meta-player that auto-detects the best protocol for a given stream and device combination.
• Pro Feature: MP4 input now reads TTXT subtitle tracks
• Pro Feature: RTSP input now supported
• Pro Feature: Load balancer weights can now be set manually
• Pro Feature: Controller can now restart and/or update without losing prometheus-style statistics information
• Pro Feature: TS file input can now optionally pseudostream files and devices, treating them as live
• Pro Feature: Added new "stop sessions" API call to disconnect/stop sessions selectively by stream or type
• Improvement: The initd script was made more portable
• Improvement: HLS buffer size optimizations
• Improvement: The deprecated startpos setting has been removed (optimal value now autodetected)
• Improvement: Browsing for files through the web interface now more robust
• Improvement: Packets with invalid timestamps are now ignored in all (both VoD and live) inputs
• Improvement: Memory pages now limited to ~1 minute per track, decreases shared memory usage
• Improvement: Added a performance timer on debug level 4 for page loading
• Improvement: ADTS parsing improvements as well as other TS-related robustness additions, improving packet loss handling and corrupt packet handling
• Improvement: TS output now fully HBBTV compliant
• Improvement: SRT and MP4 outputs now send CORS headers
• Improvement: Buffering behaviour tweaked to prevent eternal buffering screens in some players
• Improvement: Many stability and verbosity tweaks throughout all DTSC, RTMP and buffer code
• Improvement: Fixed support for non-HTTP/1.1 compliant devices pulling HTTP TS output
• Improvement: Buffer process can now detect certain deadlocks and escape from them
• Improvement: Increased DTSC packet wait timeout duration
• Improvement: DTSC pull now has a keepalive signal for slow sources
• Improvement: Fixed strict compliance with RTMP v3 clients (e.g. Mishira)
• Improvement: Better restarting behaviour, allowing manual rolling restarts/updates of any executable
• Improvement: Better handling of corrupted VoD asset headers
• Improvement: XSplit RTMP clients now spam the logs much less
• Improvement: Better timeout handling for slow inputs
• Improvement: Added dtsh file versioning, switch to "bigMeta"-style builds by default
• Improvement: Made header debug messages for VoD streams less spammy in most cases
• Improvement: More compatible UDP socket implementation
• Improvement: Updated web interface to be more modern and more user-friendly.
• Pro Improvement: Added several "stop all" buttons to the push output web interface
• Pro Improvement: Recording to file will no longer overwrite existing files with empty files if recording was aborted during start
• Pro Improvement: DTSC inputs/outputs can now (re-)add (new) tracks on the fly
• Pro Improvement: FLV output can now (re-)add (new) tracks on the fly
• Pro Improvement: RTSP output compatibility increased
• Pro Improvement: Load balancer can now properly ignore nonsensical values returned by servers
• Pro Improvement: MistInTS and MistInTSStream are now merged into a single binary
• Pro Improvement: TS UDP input now much simpler to set up, made autostarting optional
• Bugfix: Fixed various RTMP protocol corruption bugs
• Bugfix: All Flash-supported codecs now function equally well again
• Bugfix: TS-based outputs can no longer use reserved PIDs
• Bugfix: Fixed Windows builds having abnormally long loading times
• Bugfix: TS PMT entry size corrected
• Bugfix: Fixed several 2.6.X-version TS regressions
• Bugfix: Web interface no longer crashes when previewing folder streams
• Bugfix: Fixed real-time playback of VoD streams that did not start at a zero timestamp
• Bugfix: WebVTT output now compliant with WebVTT spec again
• Bugfix: Fixed controller crash if shared memory was not writable
• Bugfix: Outputs no longer cause a segmentation fault on page load failures
• Bugfix: Embed code and web interface now correctly support international characters/symbols
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP output not shutting down correctly after playback
• Bugfix: RTMP streams no longer have problems initializing after 5 hours
• Bugfix: Better JWPlayer play/pause compatibility for RTMP outputs
• Bugfix: Fixed support for VoD assets with a > 8 MiB header size
• Bugfix: Fixed crash when push inputs reconnected very quickly
• Bugfix: Fixed seek-to-end issues with very near-live outputs
• Bugfix: Fixed segmentation fault when no outputs were installed/available
• Bugfix: TS input from stdin no longer drops packets randomly
• Bugfix: Fixed 100% CPU usage on DTSC inputs with invalid source
• Bugfix: Fixed FLV input crash on some single-track files
• Bugfix: Fixed crashes caused by corrupted header files
• Bugfix: Fixed slow VoD loading causing 100% CPU usage in some cases
• Bugfix: Fixed input parameters being ignored in many cases
• Bugfix: Patched a race condition in tinythread library
• Pro Bugfix: The + symbol can now be used in filenames in folder streams
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed sometimes missing BUFFER EMPTY trigger

2.6.1 (Bugfix Release)

• Pro Feature: RTMP output and RTMP push output can now (re-)add (new) tracks on the fly
• Improvement: Corrected various small typos
• Improvement: Better default start positions for live streams
• Improvement: Better waiting/loading behaviour for live streams
• Improvement: Inputs now buffer data during negotiation, instead of discarding it
• Improvement: Live buffers now auto-resize to make HLS work, regardless of keyframe interval settings
• Improvement: Better auto-detection of dropped tracks
• Improvement: Config interface: preview sizing and positioning improvements
• Pro Improvement: MP4 live is now less delayed
• Bugfix: Fixed memory corruption bug during seeking in live streams
• Bugfix: Socket data counters are now 64 bits
• Bugfix: Fixed slow loading issue for integrated embed code and preview features
• Bugfix: Fixed VoD slow loading issue for all outputs
• Bugfix: Config interface: no longer show version as non-latest when latest
• Bugfix: Config interface: no longer double-confirms when submitting a form with return key
• Pro Bugfix: Now nulling packet on auto-reconnect to source.
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed RTMP push output failing if streams took long to initialize
• Pro Bugfix: Fixed bandwidth sometimes being inaccurate for prometheus-style statistics

2.6 (Stable Release)

• Feature: A bash helper for easily making API calls from command line is now available in the source repository
• Feature: DTSC pull support, allowing extremely efficient pulling of live streams from MistServer Pro sources
• Pro Feature: Added USER_NEW trigger, allowing for atomic approval or rejection of entire sessions
• Pro Feature: The activestreams and statsstreams API calls have been given new functionalities and better precision
• Pro Feature: Added instrumentation for both Prometheus-style and JSON-style statistics gathering
• Pro Feature: On request, our experimental load balancing algorithm is now available
• Pro Feature: DTSC output support, for pulling and other automation purposes
• Pro Feature: Both automated and manual recording of streams to FLV, TS and MP3 formats is now available
• Pro Feature: Added generic interface and API calls for all future and current recording and push output types
• Pro Feature: RTMP push output
• Pro Feature: FLV output can now output latest key frame for streams over command line, for thumbnailing purposes
• Pro Feature: Sessions are now split over viewer sessions, incoming sessions and outgoing sessions, allowing for accurate human viewer counts
• Pro Feature: RTMP input rate-limiting (off by default)
• Pro Feature: Max simultaneous connections per IP address setting
• Pro Feature: MistAnalyserDTSC now has a --compact flag for automated parsing of output
• Pro Feature: Added STREAM_BUFFER DRY and RECOVER states, for detecting lag on incoming connections
• Pro Feature: Added invalidate_sessions API call, for invalidating all current sessions for a specific stream, allowing conditional disconnecting of existing sessions on request
• Pro Feature: RTMP outputs can now add audio/video tracks that become available after playback has started
• Improvement: HLS playback stability improvements
• Improvement: Resume support is now disabled by default (makes restarting live streams faster)
• Improvement: Resume support is now also an option in the open source edition
• Improvement: MP4 playback in Firefox now works in more cases
• Improvement: Configuration interface compatibility with Edge browser has been improved
• Improvement: RTMP and FLV inputs are now able to (re-)create missing initialization data if needed
• Improvement: Various encoding and decoding helper functions have been split off into a separate library
• Improvement: Fixed statistics subsystem not deleting some stats data when it should (fixes a small memory leak)
• Improvement: Current CPU usage in percent is now reported by capabilities API and displayed in configuration interface
• Improvement: iOS devices can now be told apart by the X-Playback-Session-Id header
• Improvement: In the event of crashes, live buffers now automatically clean up any left over data in memory
• Improvement: Dropped tracks due to inactivity can now be re-added when they become active again
• Improvement: Various waiting times and other delays have been shortened, improving overall responsiveness
• Improvement: All components can now auto-recover from earlier crashes properly
• Improvement: Incoming live source negotiation has been significantly sped up
• Improvement: Verbosity levels of various debug output settings tweaked for usability
• Improvement: HDS and RTMP outputs have had their priorities swapped for better user experience
• Improvement: Most outputs will now pause and wait for streams to become fully available, instead of aborting
• Improvement: Tweaked default sizes for various shared memory data pages
• Improvement: Generic output loop has been optimized for less CPU usage
• Improvement: The standard install prefix is now /usr (still user-override-able)
• Improvement: New and improved systemd service file
• Pro Improvement: STREAM_BUFFER now no longer triggers at 50% of buffer, but at 3 segments
• Pro Improvement: MP4 input header parsing significantly sped up
• Pro Improvement: DASH playback now compatible with practically all players
• Pro Improvement: Most API calls for stats now by default lag behind 15 seconds as opposed to 2, to improve accuracy
• Pro Improvement: Most API calls now only count sessions after they have send or received at least 128k of data
• Pro Improvement: HLS output now sets unique session IDs on each distinct playback session
• Pro Improvement: The stats delay can now be changed with a compile flag, allowing per-customer defaults
• Pro Improvement: The media data page size can now be changed with a compile flag, allowing per-customer defaults
• Pro Improvement: The limits API and interface have been deprecated and their functionality is now replaced by triggers
• Bugfix: Fix various shared memory leaks and improved auto-clean-up algorithms
• Bugfix: Fixed new streams not being named correctly
• Bugfix: Fixed sessions not being deleted in the controller (fixes a small memory leak)
• Bugfix: RTMP input and output now urlunescape playback paths, fixing XSplit compatibility
• Bugfix: Fixed support for X-Real-IP headers
• Bugfix: Listening sockets are now closed when forking processes, freeing listening ports for new listens much earlier than before
• Bugfix: Fixed various segmentation errors and race conditions in the buffer and controller
• Bugfix: Fixed IP address of clients not being set correctly in all cases
• Bugfix: MP4 ouput byte-precise seeking has been fixed
• Bugfix: Configuration interface no longer crashes when no folder-streams are set up
• Bugfix: Fixed TS-based outputs buffer overflow
• Bugfix: Fixed stream name corruptions in statistics
• Bugfix: Various thread-safety improvements
• Bugfix: Fixed active connections being reset in stats every ~10 minutes
• Bugfix: Fixed various time-outs in outputs, making playback during high server load more reliable
• Bugfix: Fixed a long-duration RTMP input timing bug
• Bugfix: Fixed various IPv6 IP address compatibility issues (hostnames were unaffected)
• Pro Bugfix: RTSP timestamps corrected
• Pro Bugfix: MP4 input now correctly retrieves video resolution in all cases
• Pro Bugfix: MP4 input can now correctly handle negative frame offsets
• Pro Bugfix: Triggers now pass through all internal and external GET parameters present in playback URLs
• Pro Bugfix: TS input stability improvements

2.5.3 (Bugfix Release)

• Feature: NGINX proxy support
• Feature: Recording support

2.5.2 (Bugfix Release)

• Improvement: Improved UDP socket binding robustness
• Improvement: Better CORS header support
• Improvement: Removed unused code
• Improvement: Various minor improvements
• Pro Improvement: Added PUSHREWRITE and STREAMBUFFER triggers
• Pro Improvement: Added minimal flag in API for requesting minimal responses
• Bugfix: Fixed the ability to disable video or audio tracks in HTTP outputs

2.5.1 (Bugfix Release)

• Improvement: Various minor improvements

2.5 (Stable Release)

• Note: Old Makefile no longer supported
• Pro Feature: Trigger support
• Improvement: Aspect ratio now works through mp4
• Improvement: Various LSP improvements
• Improvement: JSON library definition is now no longer recursive
• Pro Improvement: TS Input support improved

2.4 (Stable Release)

• Note: We now have a bigmeta version which consumes more memory but allows for longer streams
• Pro Feature: Added Minimal HTTP webserver
• Pro Feature: Added PlayReady/Verimatrix DRM support
• Pro Feature: Added HEVC support in MP4
• Pro Feature: Added MP4 Live streaming
• Pro Feature: Added TS Input Support
• Improvement: Improved MPEG-DASH compatibility
• Improvement: Various minor improvements
• Pro Improvement: Allow for setting MP4 playback speed
• Pro Bugfix: RTSP now works with folder and wildcard support
• Bugfix: Reconnection of an output now happens correctly
• Bugfix: Fixed a race condition in VoD scenarios

2.3.1 (Bugfix Release)

• Note: Recording temporarily disabled
• Pro Feature: Added CORS headers to DASH output.
• Pro Feature: The error text for an unvailable stream is now configurable
• Improvement: Improved shared memory handling for windows
• Improvement: Removed various parts of legacy code
• Improvement: Increased the maximum number of simultaneously selected tracks
• Improvement: Various improvements for the LSP

2.3 (Stable Release)

• Note: CMake is now used as the main build system
• Note: Mist library is no longer a separate repository
• Note: MistInfo is removed
• Feature: Added an mp3 input
• Improvement: Split of generic input/output code to io files
• Improvement: Various optimizes RTMP output and analyser code
• Pro Improvement: AC3, MP3 and generic optimizes for MP4 Input
• Bugfix: Various bug fixes

2.2.1 (Bugfix Release)

• Note: Default buffer size changed from 30s to 50s
• Note: Outdate converters removed
• Improvement: Unified TS protocol implementation
• Improvement: Improved linux signal handling
• Improvement: Statistics kan now properly timeout
• Bugfix: Fixed high CPU usage in HTTP connector

2.2 (Stable Release)

• Feature: New LSP code
• Feature: Better statistics
• Feature: Added API call for storing and retrieving interface settings
• Improvement: Various optimizations for playback through VLC
• Improvement: Re-enabled OGG support
• Improvement: Improved 'conversion mode' for inputs
• Improvement: Buffer position for live streams now more sensible
• Improvement: Added keysizes to metadata
• Improvement: Added failsaves against metatdata corruption for VoD
• Improvement: HTTP based outputs updated to new mechanism
• Improvement: Automatic input selection based on capabilities
• Improvement: Improved on debug message clarity and debug levels
• Improvement: Various minor optimizes
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak on shared pages not being removed
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory and filedescriptor leak in RTMP
• Bugfix: Fixed steam info javascript page
• Bugfix: Various fixes for HLS
• Bugfix: Various bug fixes

2.1.4 (Bugfix release)

• Bugfix: Hotfix for HLS and TS over HTTP

2.1.3 (Bugfix release)

• Feature: Added file browsing to LSP
• Feature: Added support for streaming TS over HTTP
• Improvement: HLS and HSS segments are now no longer generated at realtime speed.
• Improvement: HLS now generates crossdomain.xml
• Improvement: Various speed-ups for the analysers.
• Improvement: Various protocols now also support MP3 audio
• Improvement: Various LSP improvements
• Bugfix: Fixed some bugs in statistics
• Bugfix: Internal request now no longer trigger an infinite loop
• Bugfix: Non-h264 video now works in flash-related protocols
• Bugfix: Various bug fixes

2.1.2 (Bugfix release)

• Note: Conversion API temporarily disabled while we work on improvements.
• Feature: MistController is now multi-threaded.
• Improvement: Windows and Mac VoD streams fully operational again.
• Improvement: RTMP analyser no longer shows errors at end of stream.
• Improvement: Tweaked verbosity and wording of various debug messages.
• Improvement: Improved accuracy of several timers.
• Improvement: MistIn processes now correctly obey global debug level setting.
• Bugfix: Fixed single-track streams in the HLS protocol.
• Bugfix: HLS live no longer shows unreliable fragments in the index.
• Bugfix:Fixed stream start-up causing random stability issues.
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP delta timestamps.

2.1.1 (Bugfix release)

• Improvement: Added more debug messages relevant to certain debug levels.
• Improvement: Added dual-stack support to Windows builds. Windows builds will now correctly listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 when the OS and network support it.
• Improvement: Improved support for Fedora, Slackware and other related Linux distributions.
• Improvement: Various other small tweaks and fixes.
• Bufgix: Fixed semaphore file handle leak.
• Bugfix: Fixed timeout problems in output connectors.
• Bugfix: Fixed various bugs in Windows and MacOS builds.

2.1 (Stable release)

• Feature: Added debug level setting.
• Feature: SMIL support added
• Pro feature: Added support for MP4 and TS input
• Improvement: HTTP proxy rewrite.
• Improvement: Library version numbers now equal to server version number.
• Improvement: MistServer Management Interface includes more statistics
• Improvement: DTSH files now auto-update.
• Improvement: Cleaned up debug messages.
• Improvement: Improved Windows capabilities
• Improvement: Memory optimizations for various protocols.
• Improvement: Stabilized RTMP pushes.
• Improvement: Various bug fixes
• Pro improvement: Improved Live Multibitrate support
• Pro improvement: Improved the experimental MistInAV connector

2.0.2 (Bugfix release)

• Pro feature: Added experimental MistInAV
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 8.0.2
• Improvement: Windows version now available.
• Improvement: RTMP stability improved
• Improvement: Improved seeking function
• Improvement: Improved HTTP Dynamic protocol
• Improvement: Management Interface improvements
• Improvement: Several other minor bugfixes
• Pro improvement: Limits now function again
• Pro improvement: Recording now works properly

2.0.1 (Bugfix release)

• Note: Mac Version now available.
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 8.0.1
• Improvement: Updated help function for Management Interface.
• Improvement: Improved Memory management.
• Bugfix: Fixed custom stream properties which caused programs like FMLE & XSplit to be unable to push to MistServer.
• Bugfix: Fixed header handling for Management Interface.
• Bugfix: Fixed incorrect buffer times when left empty within Management Interface.
• Bugfix: Fixed an RTMP end of stream error in VoD streaming.
• Bugfix: Fixed audio page handling for live streams.

2.0 (Stable release)

• Note: Daemonizing no longer standard
• Feature: Added native support for FLV
• Feature: More calls to API for better statistics
• Feature: Init and systemd service files
• Feature: Support for log files
• Pro Feature: Added native support for ISMV
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 8.0.0
• Improvement: Tremendously increased CPU and Memory performance and stability
• Improvement: Improved Management Interface
• Improvement: Changed converters to MistIn
• Improvement: Changed names of the in/outputs to better fit what they do
• Improvement: Embed code works without compiling with Java
• Improvement: Several minor bugfixes

1.3 (Stable release)

• Feature: Added option to create initial login through web interface
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 7.0.0
• Improvement: Switched from automake to plain make.
• Improvement: Completely rewritten and redesigned the web management interface.
• Improvement: Metadata efficiency upgrade, streams now use significantly less memory.
• Improvement: DTSC file format efficiency improvements.
• Improvement: Improved Ogg format handling, added live support.
• Improvement: Improved progressive MP4 performance.
• Improvement: Improved HTTP Smooth Streaming performance.
• Improvement: Improved multi-bitrate support for all protocols.
• Improvement: Improved stability and performance for live streams
• Improvement: Dozens of other bug fixes and minor improvements.
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP live stream resetting problems.

1.2.1 (Bugfix release) ##

• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 6.1.0
• Improvement: Improved Network Efficiëncy of internal formats
• Improvement: RTMP Analyser output has better readability
• Improvement: Improved readability and maintainability of MistBuffer code
• Improvement: Minor RTMP optimises
• Bugfix: Fixed CPU usage problems for the MistBuffer
• Bugfix: Fixed FMLE sync problems
• Bugfix: Dyamic naming bug fixed
• Bugfix: Repushing bug fixed

1.2 (Stable release)

• Feature: Added automatic running of MistDTSCFix.
• Feature: Added a warning/notification if H264 data is not baseline 3.0.
• Improvement: Dozens of general bugfixes and optimizations.
• Bugfix: Now discovers the tmp folder in a cross-platform way, auto-creates mist folder inside it if necessary.
• Bugfix: .exe extension now properly handled, if used.
• Bugfix: Fixed several race conditions in the HTTP proxy.
• Bugfix: Fixed several segmentation faults in the HTTP proxy.
• Bugfix: Re-enabled H263 and VP6 codecs in FLV connector.
• Bugfix: Reduced log duplicity.
• Bugfix: JSON interfaces now properly handle all binary data in strings.

1.2 RC1 (Release candidate)

• Note: OGG video corruption / audio desync
• Note: Conversion API may not detect installed encoder(s) correctly.
• Feature: Added multibitrate support.
• Feature: Added a Conversion API.
• Feature: Added HTTP Progressive connector for MP4.
• Feature: Added HTTP Progressive connector for OGG.
• Feature: Added HTTP connector for SRT and WebVTT.
• Feature: Added a connector for obtaining metadata/subtitles in JSON format.
• Feature: Added support for HTTP chunked encoding in the internal HTTP proxy.
• Feature: Added auto-detection of connectors and their capabilities.
• Feature: Added configuration location option to controller
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 6.0.0
• Improvement: Updated the internal DTSC format to version 2.
• Improvement: Split up HTTP Progressive into multiple connectors.
• Improvement: Updated the embed code to automatically pick the optimal protocol depending on stream parameters and installed plugins.
• Bugfix: JSON toPrettyString no longer prints binary under rare certain circumstances.
• Bugfix: JSON library no longer mis-reads escape codes in JSON.
• Bugfix: General CPU usage decrease and other optimizations through all parts of MistServer.
• Bugfix: All proccesses shut down correctly and much faster now
• Bugfix: Massive speedups for segmented HTTP streaming (Dynamic, Live, Smooth)

1.1.2 (Bugfix release)

• Feature: Logs in the settings page can now auto-refresh.
• Improvement: Made log messages less verbose for trivial information.
• Bugfix: Generated embed code for live stream was fixed.
• Bugfix: iOS support for HLS fixed.
• Bugfix: Fixed preview button when using default ports for protocols.
• Bugfix: Fixed VoD stream status resetting/displaying improperly.
• Bugfix: Several other minor bugfixes

1.1.1 (Bugfix release)

• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 5.1.2 (backwards compatible with 3.X.X and up)
• Improvement: Improved FLV memory management robustness.
• Improvement: Updated tinythread version to 1.1
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak in FLV handling.
• Bugfix: Fixed Flash Media Live Encoder RTMP ingest.
• Bugfix: Live stream fragmenter timings improved.
• Bugfix: Fixed stack corruption problems in optionless binaries (converters).
• Bugfix: Fixed local settings page support for LTS releases and features.
• Bugfix: RTMP Analyser performance improved.
• Bugfix: Fixed Buffer multithreading problems.
• Bugfix: Fixed HTTP proxy multithreading problems.
• Bugfix: Simplified HTTP proxy thread and connection handling.
• Bugfix: Simplified Buffer thread and connection handling.
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP ingest memory leak.
• Bugfix: Fixed several HTTP proxy memory leaks.
• Bugfix: Fixed Buffer not shutting down properly in some cases.
• Bugfix: Fixed deadlock if buffer is in the process of shutting down while a new user connects.

1.1 (Stable release)

• Feature: Added DVR support to live streaming and buffer time parameter.
• Feature: Added live support to HTTP Smooth Streaming.
• Feature: Added live support to HTTP Live Streaming.
• Feature: Added MP3 support to HTTP progressive.
• Feature: Added simple favicon to internal HTTP handler.
• Feature: Added support for FLV-based metadata packets.
• Feature: Added HTML5-only HLS (Apple devices only) and Smooth Streaming (Windows Phone and Windows 8 only) support to embed code generator.
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 5.0.2 (backwards compatible with 3.X.X and up)
• Improvement: Simplified streaming source API.
• Improvement: Improved connector uplink support - still disabled by default.
• Improvement: Improved TS and HLS performance by a factor of 5-10.
• Improvement: DTSCFix binary will now automatically be run if needed - but can still be ran manually if preferred.
• Improvement: Added timing information to verbose mode messages of HTTP connector.
• Improvement: Toned down "default" and "verbose" verbosity levels to be more what one would expect.
• Improvement: Code cleanup and refactoring, improving performance, stability and readability.
• Bugfix: HTTP Dynamic Streaming now properly supports live streaming, instead of faking a VoD stream.
• Bugfix: All applications now properly clean up their child processes if they are supposed to.
• Bugfix: Fixed threading and segfault issues in Buffer process.
• Bugfix: Fixed AMF analyser no longer producing output.
• Bugfix: Fixed RTMP push input.
• Bugfix: Fixed VoD statistics problems
• Bugfix: Fixed controller reporting stream statuses wrongly and/or slowly.
• Bugfix: Fixed HLS audio desync problems.
• Bugfix: Fixed embed code generator problems.
• Bugfix: Cancelled HTTP requests no longer corrupt future requests.
• Bugfix: Most protocols will now no longer output channels if an unsupported codec is used for them.
• Bugfix: Added support for some older Adobe-based RTMP sources.
• Bugfix: Hundreds of other minor bugfixes

1.1pre (Preview release)

• Note: HTTP connector behaviour change - other HTTP handlers are now manually configured and started through the Controller process.
• Note: Binaries now no longer all have to be in the PATH to work (but need to be all in the same folder).
• Feature: Added capability detection to Controller with processor, memory, load and supported protocol information.
• Feature: Added HTTP Smooth Streaming support and connector (VoD-only).
• Feature: Added HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) support and connector (VoD-only).
• Feature: Added raw MPEG2 TS support and connector.
• Feature: Added DTSC to TS converter.
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 4.0.1 (backwards compatible with 3.X.X)
• Improvement: Updated local settings page (LSP) with support for latest API changes.
• Improvement: Updated MP4 analyser with support for the most used boxes.
• Improvement: Code cleanup and refactoring, improving performance and stability.
• Bugfix: Added support for clientaccesspolicy.xml requests.
• Bugfix: Fixed several CPU usage-related bugs.
• Bugfix: Fixed several segmentation faults in Buffer process.
• Bugfix: Fixed embed code generator using wrong default ports.
• Bugfix: Hundreds of other minor bugfixes

1.0.1 (Bugfix release)

• Bugfix: Fixed a HTTP bug causing some requests to never be answered
• Bugfix: Removed some debug output that was left behind.

1.0 (First public release)

• Feature: Added MP4 analyser
• Feature:Added support for VoD seeking to all protocols (MistPlayer binary).
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 3.0.0
• Bugfix: Fixed several cygwin-related issues under Windows.

0.7

• Feature: Video on Demand support for all protocols.
• Feature: Added support for generating distribution packages.
• Feature: Added embed code generator.
• Improvement: Updated libmist to version 2.0.0
• Improvement: Code cleanup and refactoring, improving performance.
• Bugfix: Dozens of minor bugfixes

0.6

• Note: Removed ABST and MP4 analysers temporarily.
• Feature: Switched to new DTSC internal file format
• Feature: Added DTSC2FLV converter.
• Feature: Added FLV2DTSC converter.
• Feature: Added DTSCFix binary.
• Feature: Added FLV analyser.
• Feature: Added DTSC analyser.
• Feature: Added RTMP analyser.
• Feature: Added local settings page (LSP).
• Feature: Made live buffer process multithreaded.
• Feature: Code cleanup and refactoring, improving performance.
• Improvement:Switched to automake build system
• Improvement: Switched to our own JSON library implementation.
• Improvement: Moved libraries into separate libmist library (version 1.0.0).
• Improvement: Split HTTP connector into HTTP (basic reverse proxy), HTTPProgressive and HTTPDynamic.
• Bugfix: RTMP stability improvements.
• Bugfix: Default verbosity reduced from debugging level to release level.
• Bugfix: Hundreds of other minor bugfixes

0.5

• Feature: Added Controller process and remote administration API.
• Feature: Switched to our own socket library implementation.
• Feature: GET parameter support in HTTP libraries
• Improvement: Code cleanup and refactoring, improving performance.
• Bugfix: Dozens of minor bugfixes

0.4.3

• Featue: Added live HTTP Dynamic Streaming output to the HTTP connector.
• Bugfix: Connectors now properly clean up their child processes.

0.4.2

• Feature: Added support for host binding in all relevant binaries.
• Bugfix: Added support for both IPv4 and IPv6, single and/or dual-stack.

0.4.1 (First private release)

• Feature: Added ABST box analyser
• Feature: Added AMF analyser
• Feature: Added generic MP4 box analyser
• Feature: Support for live FLV input through stdin or RTMP
• Feature: Added live HTTP Progressive output in FLV format
• Feature: Added RAW output in FLV format
• Feature: Added live RTMP output with push support.