Icecast Release 2.5.0-rc1

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 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

Posted Aug 26, 2025 by phschafft