If you can get me some design mockups of the new website layout I can program it out for you. I typically outsource design work and then just build whatever is given to me.
Do we have any designers in the house? -Nolan On Nov 10, 2018, 10:38 AM, at 10:38 AM, Romain Beauxis <romain.beau...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi there! > >I just came back from a break from Liquidsoap activities and realized I >never sent a proper announcement for the 1.3.4 release.. > >Liquidsoap 1.3.4 was released this past September. It was the result of >a >months long process of featuring adding but, mostly bug fixing. > >I want to send a special thank you note to all our users who have >worked >through their submitted issues, patiently responding and testing >development code. This is highly appreciated, we could not ship such a >good >release without this precious help. Also, it is always great to see a >community using the software. > >New features in this release include a decoder based on the ffmpeg >library, >not the external decoder based on the binary. It should prove helpful >to >support the plethora of format that ffmpeg can decode though it only >decodes audio for now. In the future, we'll be looking at a similar >ffmpeg >encoder and, of course, to support video. > >It always amazes me to see all the feedback we get about video support. >In >particular, gstreamer support has been known to be a big pain for a lot >of >users interested in video streaming. The good news with this release is >that, thanks again to a couple of very patient users, it seems that the >gstreamer support is fully functional and stable! > >A little gotcha on this, though: the new `output.youtube.live` had a >minor >issue in release 1.3.4. But, fear not, you can grab a fixed script code >here: >https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/blob/master/scripts/gstreamer.liq#L68 > >Another great news is that the Debian package has a new maintainer! >1.3.3 >was uploaded recently and, hopefully, 1.3.4 will make it soon. Big >thank >you Kyle Robbertze for taking care of that. It's no small feat to have >to >update all of liquidsoap dependencies and we know very well that this >has >been a big sticking point for a lot of y'all. > >Also on the build side, the windows build are back again! Thanks to the >awesome opam-windows project, the build is now fully automated through >docker. This should provide long time support for it and allow to move >away >from the rather artisanal way the build used to be executed.. > >Beside these big points, there are a ton of bug fixes in that release. >I >believe that this is one of the best we've had recently. > >In the future, I plan on keeping track on bugs showing up -- there's >already a fixed one in ocaml-duppy pending a release, which will be >pushed >soon. New features are always welcome but a concerted effort to >consolidate >the existing codebase if what seems to be the most needed at the >moment. > >We're also hoping to modernize a little bit the project. It would be >nice >to revamp the website, if any of y'all is interested to step in for it. >Likewise, I see users mention a slack channel. I wouldn't personally >participate, for lack of time, but we'd be happy to add one such >channel to >the website if the community wants to create one. > >Finally, the project is always looking for new developers. This is the >most >threatening part moving forward. To that end, Gilou (Gilles Pietry) >recently offered to spearhead a liquidsoap consulting idea. I support >it >wholeheartedly. > >Although liquidsoap will always be free to use and modify, we know that >some of y'all are depending on it for time-critical applications. For >these >cases, a consulting operation should provide a better, more timely >support >and, hopefully, attract new developers as well. We shall be back with >more >concrete things about this soon. > >Before I close out with the full changelog for this release, I want, >again >to thank you all for using, contributing and being patient with us. It >is >amazing to see the liquidsoap/savonet project after all these years >still >finding new group and being used in all y'all projects! > >On to the next release! >Romain > >1.3.4 Changelog: > >New: >* Added FFMPEG decoder using the new ocaml-ffmpeg API. Thanks for @gndl >for >the hard work there. >* Added "init.allow_root" setting to allow running liquidsoap as root. >* Added on_track callback for playlists. Can be used to force a reload. >* Added server.condition, server.wait, server.broadcast and >server.signal. >Used to control server command execution. >* Added server.write, server.read{chars,line} to write interactive >server >commands in conjunction with the above functions. (#544, #568) >* Added output.youtube.live as a wrapper around >output.gstreamer.audio_video to stream live to Youtube (#498) >* Added metadata extraction to ffmpeg2wav protocol (#623). > >Changed: >* Depends on OCaml >= 4.03.0 >* Depends on camomile > 1.0.0 >* Use http{s}.head when available to fetch remote file's mime type. >(win32 >port) >* Better log messages for root exit and buffer override. >* Switch default log to stdout. Set to file when log.file.path is set >(#612) >* Disabled Gstreamer stream decoder. >* Removed asynchronous mode for output.gstreamer.audio_video >* Reworked smartcross internal logic (#596) >* Enabled replaygain on m4a files, thanks to @gilou (#604) >* Added encoding parameter to output.shoutcast to allow alternative >string >encoding for metadata updates (#411) >* Deprecated rewrite_metadata > >Fixed: >* Decouple dyntools compilation. >* Support for OCaml >= 4.06 >* File descriptor leak in output.icecast (#548) >* Fixed URL regexp for input.https (#593) >* Multiple gstreamer fixes: >* File decoder with video. >* Memory leaks (#516, #511, #434, #318) >* Process freeze (#608, #278) >* Duppy crash on exit (#160) >* Fixed audio glitches when using the pipe operator (#614) >* Deadlock in external decoder. 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