Darwin Streaming Server changelog

Changelog History

• v6.0.3 Changes

  January 23, 2016

  What's New with Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3

  • 🍎 DSS now builds and runs 64-bit on MacOS X
  • ⚡️ Updates for example modules:
    • The example Authorization module has been updated.
      Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSDemoAuthorizationModule.bproj
    • The example Spam Defense module has been updated.
      Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSSpamDefenseModule.bproj
    • An example RTSP redirect module has been included
      Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSDemoRedirectModule.bproj
    • Example modules are installed into:
      🍎 (MacOS X): /Library/QuickTimeStreamingServer/Modules.disabled
      (other Unix): /usr/local/sbin/StreamingServerModules
  • 👍 OS X based user account support is added using Apple Open Directory services and includes LDAP and Active Directory user account authentication and authorization
  • Separate thread pools are used for RTSP processing and RTP processing
  • 🚀 Performance is improved on OS X systems with 4 and 8 cores over previous releases.
  • 👌 Supports hinted files greater than 4GB in size.
  • 🍎 The posted pre-built MacOS package runs on MacOS X 10.5 or later only
  • 🏗 No build support yet for non-Mac OS X systems (open source submissions are needed to build on other platforms)
  • No longer posting pre-built install binaries for non-Mac OS X systems.
    🔖 Version 5.5.5 for Linux and Windows can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html

  🚀 This release contains open source submissions for the following issues:

  • 🛠 Fixed compilation problem on Solaris 10u3 (Stefan Parvu)
  • 🛠 Fixed access log c-bytes value (Amir Wolf)
  • 🛠 Fixed access log CPU utilization value
  • 🛠 Fixed compilation problem on FC6 linux PPC (Matthew McGillis)
  • 🛠 Fix to allow streaming of files with bad hint track references, allows compatibility with some popular encoders (Fredrik Widlund)
  • 🛠 Fix StreamingProxy compilation problems for some non-MacOSX platforms
  • ➕ Added a HowTo for uninstalling DSS on a MacOS X system
  • 🐧 Misc. fixes for Debian linux (Ben Humpert)
  • 🛠 Fixed problem with video sync frame detection for MacOS X on Intel (Lorenzo Vicisano)

• v5.5.5 Changes

  January 23, 2016

  What's New with Darwin Streaming Server 5.5.5

  🚀 Darwin Streaming Server 5.5.5 is a new release containing open source submissions for the following issues:

  • Compilation problems using gcc 4 (Andreas Thienemann)
  • 👌 Support for SDPs created by VLC and Mpeg4IP (David Moore)
  • 🛠 Fix date display in DSS Web Admin (Maksym Veremeyenko)
  • 👍 Better support for streaming through NAT (Denis Ahrens)
  • 👍 Better support for running DSS on a multi-homed system (Denis Ahrens)
  • Relaying problems with VLC (Alessandro Falaschi, http://labtel.ing.uniroma1.it/opencdn/darwinp.html)
  • 🔒 A security fix for possible stack and heap overflow attacks in the StreamingProxy (CVE-2007-0748, CVE-2007-0749)
  • 🔀 A fix for sync sample searching on OS X.
  • A fix for an infinite loop when the server fails to bind to streaming ports.
  • An enhancement allowing RTSP requests to contain the hh:mm:ss format for the npt value (Fredrik Widlund)