MistServerMistServer Changelog
2.12 (Stable Release)
- Pro Feature: Buffers no longer shut down when idle when the "Always on" setting is active and/or the stream is not configured
- Pro Feature: PCM audio support in RTSP (both input and output)
- Pro Feature: PCM audio support in WAV output
- Pro Feature: Push to file now automatically creates non-existent parent directories as-needed
- Pro Feature: Push system now accepts $wildcard and $basename as new target variables
- Pro Feature: Added MistInBalancer input, for receiving input instructions from an external load balancer
- Pro Feature: Added DTSC push input support
- Pro Feature: Added raw H.264 Annex B output over HTTP and recording to file support
- Pro Feature: Added ts-exec source support, which will execute a shell command and takes resulting output as live TS stream data
- Pro Feature: Added live HTTP TS input support
- Pro Feature: Added support for MPEG2 video and MP2 audio in all TS-based inputs and outputs
- Pro Feature: Added support for HEVC RTSP input and output
- Pro Feature: Added support for MPEG2 video and MP2 audio RTSP output
- Pro Feature: Added RTSP TCP data analyser
- Feature: PCM audio support in all Flash-based protocols (both input and output)
- Feature: Whitelisting of hostnames and IP addresses now has subnet mask support
- Feature: Added raw H.264 Annex B video input support
- Feature: Added piped live DTSC input support
- Pro Improvement: RECORDING_END trigger now contains more details about exactly when and how much was recorded
- Pro Improvement: HLS input can now be set to always on, significantly improved performance and compatibility with various HLS stream types
- Pro Improvement: HLS analyser is now much more compatible and verbose
- Pro Improvement: TS file input now supports files larger than 8GiB
- Pro Improvement: All TS-based inputs sped up significantly
- Pro Improvement: MP4 and RTSP outputs now play back stable for live HLS input
- Improvement: MistInBuffer now refuses to start when the calling process has no data to fill the buffer with
- Improvement: Incoming pushes during stream shutdown no longer get dropped
- Improvement: DTSC analyser can now print hexdumps of raw packet data
- Improvement: Now sets socket keep alive option on all TCP connections, allowing closed connections to time out over time
- Improvement: API calls affecting streams now take effect immediately, instead of after a short delay
- Improvement: Changed default maximum simultaneous tracks per input/output from 10 to 20.
- Improvement: Controller no longer asks to enable default protocols when none are installed/available
- Pro Bugfix: UDP socket is no longer inherited by child processes
- Pro Bugfix: TS input now correctly obeys the "Always on" setting
- Pro Bugfix: Fixed MP4 live output random disconnect problem
- Pro Bugfix: Fixed potential missing of STREAM_BUFFER EMPTY trigger
- Pro Bugfix: RTSP can now successfully select tracks numbers 10 and higher
- Bugfix: Fixed MP3 input timestamps
- Bugfix: Pushed input sometimes dropped several packets depending on input timestamps - not any more
- Bugfix: Web interface no longer rejects new triggers when no triggers previously configured
- Bugfix: Web interface now correctly saves when pushing save on the overview page
- Bugfix: Several (other) small fixes to embed code and web interface
- Bugfix: Fixed pointer overflow issues when handling corrupted H.264 SPS/PPS data
- Bugfix: Controller no longer freezes when interrupted during first-time setup
- Bugfix: Fixed VoD output with more than 5 simultaneously active tracks
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.