Icecast

With the release of Icecast 2.5.0 the era of 2.4.x is slowly fading. Today we would like announce that the last support for Icecast 2.4.4 will end on 2026-12-31, a bit more than eight years after its release. As of this writing only security fixes ... [More] are accepted. Icecast 2.5.x will continue to read Icecast 2.4.x configuration files, so upgrades should be seamless. Our new series of Icecast also provides useful hints to ease any upgrade. Naturally we suggest to consider them. [Less]

We are pleased to announce a new release of libigloo! The changes include: Added more strings to the string pool (sp) Updated prototypes for the string pool (sp) Added strcasestr() compatibility function for Windows builds (cs) Corrected CI/CD builds Download libigloo 0.9.5 from the download page.

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0. Downloads Source: icecast-2.5.0.tar.gz Security updates This release comes with no specific security fixes. New features Web interface General improvements of web interface ... [More] Experimental dark mode Events Added listener counts to source events Protocol Added X-Forwarded-For support using virtual sockets Changed handling of TLS clients on high buffer pressure API Report more data on clients Fixes and Cleanup Several smaller updates to CI/CI and general build infrastructure [Less]

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0. Downloads Source: icecast-2.5.0.tar.gz Security updates This release comes with no specific security fixes. New features Web interface General improvements of web interface ... [More] Experimental dark mode Events Added listener counts to source events Protocol Added X-Forwarded-For support using virtual sockets Changed handling of TLS clients on high buffer pressure API Report more data on clients Fixes and Cleanup Several smaller updates to CI/CI and general build infrastructure [Less]

We are pleased to announce a new release of libigloo! The changes include: Added more strings to the string pool (sp) Updated prototypes for the string pool (sp) Added strcasestr() compatibility function for Windows builds (cs) Corrected CI/CD builds Download libigloo 0.9.5 from the download page.

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc2 (2.4.999.2). This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing. Downloads Source: icecast-2.4.999.2.tar.gz Security updates This release comes with ... [More] no specific security fixes. However some of the changes below might improve security. Miscellaneous updates Require libigloo 2.9.4 Updated Icecast installer and run helper on Windows Added support for build-info (to be used by downstream distributions) New features Web interface General improvements of web interface Added warning if a stream has no language set Added more information on legacy clients on dashboard Events Added support to terminate Icecast using an event Internals Added checks for file permissions Fixes and Cleanup Fixed HTTP keep alive handling for legacy clients. This works around a bug in PHP Provide internal fallback implementations for string matching functions missing on Windows Improved keep alive handling for URL Auth backend Improved log output Fixed incorrect header handling in FLAC streams [Less]

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc2 (2.4.999.2). This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing. Downloads Source: icecast-2.4.999.2.tar.gz Security updates This release comes with ... [More] no specific security fixes. However some of the changes below might improve security. Miscellaneous updates Require libigloo 2.9.4 Updated Icecast installer and run helper on Windows Added support for build-info (to be used by downstream distributions) New features Web interface General improvements of web interface Added warning if a stream has no language set Added more information on legacy clients on dashboard Events Added support to terminate Icecast using an event Internals Added checks for file permissions Fixes and Cleanup Fixed HTTP keep alive handling for legacy clients. This works around a bug in PHP Provide internal fallback implementations for string matching functions missing on Windows Improved keep alive handling for URL Auth backend Improved log output Fixed incorrect header handling in FLAC streams [Less]

We are pleased to announce a new release of libigloo! The changes include: Corrected license header Updated string pool Fixed header guards Improved UUID support Improved release process Download libigloo 0.9.4 from the download page.

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc1 (2.4.999.1). This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing. Downloads Source: icecast-2.4.999.1.tar.gz Security updates Require at least TLS ... [More] 1.2 Support more and more modern password hashing Several smaller fixes (see below) New features Formats Improved FLAC support Web interface Added health reporting for streams Added more important information to dashboard Renamed mountpoint list to source list Added show-listeners parameters to stats.xml-style output Added live eventfeed Report content languages of streams Network Use settings from listen socket for YP/directory if there is only one Improved YP/directory protocol Added geoip support Dumpfiles Report dumpfile status Allow defining size and time limits for dumpfiles Allow killing a running dumpfile Added UUID interpolation in dumpfile filenames Events Emit icecast-active/icecast-idle events based on source status Emit source-flags-changed whenever a source changes flags Emit format-metadata-changed on metadata changes Emit source-listeners-is-zero when listeners on a source become zero Emit source-listeners-changed when listener count on a source changed Emit source-listener-attach when a listener is attached to a source Include source media type in event data Include dumpfile filename in event data Added new style URL events Allow wildcard event triggers Internals Reworked early client handling Added global instance UUID Added per-source instance UUID Added ping request support Added verbose version display (-V) Allow exporting internal identifiers as ValueFile (--export-database) Include checks required for future versions Fixes and Cleanup Fixed file missing after install Update levels on dashboard Try to fail early on several operating system shortcomings General code cleanup Migrated to libigloo 0.9.2 Fixed windows builds Fixed minor memory leak on configuration reload Improved/Fixed timeout handling for clients Fixed incorrect lock in signal handler Fixed typo SROUCE_HIDDEN -> SOURCE_HIDDEN Fixed several small TLS problems Allow to disable IPv6 on 32 bit Windows [Less]

We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc1 (2.4.999.1). This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing. Downloads Source: icecast-2.4.999.1.tar.gz Security updates Require at least TLS ... [More] 1.2 Support more and more modern password hashing Several smaller fixes (see below) New features Formats Improved FLAC support Web interface Added health reporting for streams Added more important information to dashboard Renamed mountpoint list to source list Added show-listeners parameters to stats.xml-style output Added live eventfeed Report content languages of streams Network Use settings from listen socket for YP/directory if there is only one Improved YP/directory protocol Added geoip support Dumpfiles Report dumpfile status Allow defining size and time limits for dumpfiles Allow killing a running dumpfile Added UUID interpolation in dumpfile filenames Events Emit icecast-active/icecast-idle events based on source status Emit source-flags-changed whenever a source changes flags Emit format-metadata-changed on metadata changes Emit source-listeners-is-zero when listeners on a source become zero Emit source-listeners-changed when listener count on a source changed Emit source-listener-attach when a listener is attached to a source Include source media type in event data Include dumpfile filename in event data Added new style URL events Allow wildcard event triggers Internals Reworked early client handling Added global instance UUID Added per-source instance UUID Added ping request support Added verbose version display (-V) Allow exporting internal identifiers as ValueFile (--export-database) Include checks required for future versions Fixes and Cleanup Fixed file missing after install Update levels on dashboard Try to fail early on several operating system shortcomings General code cleanup Migrated to libigloo 0.9.2 Fixed windows builds Fixed minor memory leak on configuration reload Improved/Fixed timeout handling for clients Fixed incorrect lock in signal handler Fixed typo SROUCE_HIDDEN -> SOURCE_HIDDEN Fixed several small TLS problems Allow to disable IPv6 on 32 bit Windows [Less]