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  CHANGELOG - GNUMP3d

        This is the Changelog for the GNU Audio Streamer, GNUMP3d.

        As a brief summery:

        v0.1     - v0.9.9.3   Were coded in C
        v0.9.9.4 - v1.0       Were coded in C++
        v1.0     - Current    Were coded in Perl
        

  2.9.6 [ 28th October 2005 ]

    - BUGFIX:  When "disable_tag_cache" is set don't spawn gnump3d-index.
    - BUGFIX:  Still run `gnump3d-index` on startup if given --quiet.
    - BUGFIX:  Playlist play-lengths are correctly displayed now.
    - BUGFIX:  "/COPYING" link is now non-broken
    - BUGFIX:  Process playlist files that share directory names.
    - BUGFIX:  ".ram" files are playlist, not audio files.

    - SECURITY: Remove XSS attacks.     [CVE-2005-3122]
    - SECURITY: Prevent path traversal. [CVE-2005-3123]


  2.9.5 [ 8th September 2005  ]

    - BUGFIX:  Don't stat the file twice in the indexer.
    - BUGFIX:  Have Info plugin handle non/newly-cached items.
    - BUGFIX:  Escape filenames more.
    - BUGFIX:  Allow the 'new_days' parameter to work properly.
    - BUGFIX:  Strip newline characters from tag values.
    - BUGFIX:  Filter user supplied input in 404 page. (XSS).
    - BUGFIX:  MPEG4 tracknumber reading bugfix.
    - BUGFIX:  Avoid warnings about 'sanitizePath'.

    - CLEANUP: HTML Validation fixes for the playlist plugin.
        
    - THEMES:  New theme 'Liquid' from Daniel Eiland
    - THEMES:  New theme 'BlueBox' from Aaron Brown

    - MISC:    "Most recent" now shows the time of the songs played.
    - MISC:    The "currently playing files" are cleaned up on Windows


  2.9.4 [ 10th May 2005  ]

    - FEATURES: Updated MP3::Info module to support newer tags.

    - BUGFIX:   Fixed the broken /info/ links from the previous release.

        - MISC:     Fixed typos on 'extra.html' pages.
        - MISC:     Avoid warning due to depreciated use of split in custom playlist.


  2.9.3 [ 1st April 2005 ]

    - CACHING: Allow incremental tag cache updating.

    - MISC:    Show new files instead of new directories.
    - MISC:    Tag support for .WMA files.
    - MISC:    Tag support for .MP4 / .AAC files.
    - MISC:    Be paranoid about cookie values and parameter values.
    - MISC:    Added French language translation.
    - MISC:    Added a couple of new sorting options.

    - THEMES:  Fix the broken link in the footer of the Nomad Theme.
    - THEMES:  Add <body> tags to the LaFrere theme.
    - THEMES:  Use JavaScript to focus the search forms on all search pages.

    - BUGFIX:  URL Encode files on the random playlist page.
    - BUGFIX:  Fix 'FILENAME' tag computation in the worker 
               children; it was exposing filesystem layout.
    - BUGFIX:  Tag cache reload should happen in the parent.


  2.9.2 [19th Feb 2005]

       - Identical to previous release, issued immediately afterwards
         due to screwup uploading to savannah.gnu.org


  2.9.1 [ 19 Feb 2005 ]

        - FEATURES:  Support .aif/.aiff tag display and processing.
        - FEATURES:  Show .shn files as audio files too.
        - FEATURES:  Show all audio files in the statistics page.
        
        - BUGFIX:    Applied patch from Martin Lohmeier for broken tag handling.
        - BUGFIX:    Quoting files is handled slightly better.

        - PLUGINS:   Added a new link to serve a random directory's playlist.

        - MISC:      Added '--debug' flag to gnump3d-top.
        - MISC:      Added support for custom META tags to be added, to allow
                     users to customize Content-type, etc.

        - THEMES:    New theme from Jeff Smith
        

  2.9  [ 11th Jan 2005 ]

        - BUGFIX: Avoid infinate loop when calling /random/ with empty cache file
        - BUGFIX: Handling sorting of track numbers more intelligently.
        - BUGFIX: Allow library files to install correctly on Mac OS X
        - BUGFIX: Correct the rewriting of absolute pathnames in premade playlists

        - MISC: Added --debug option go gnump3d-index
        - MISC: Quote command line arguments more safely when invoking commands
        - MISC: Allow meta information to persist even when downsampling.
        - MISC: Don't print 'tag cache initialized' when starting.

        - FEATURES: Allow recently modified directories to be flagged.
                new config, new_format, new_days, and $NEW for directory_format
        - FEATURES: Allow URL rewriting when behind a proxy server.

        - THEMES: Added a new theme optimized for handheld devices.
        - THEMES: Added new 'Club Nomad' theme.

        - PLUGINS: Updated the handling of nested directorys in custom playlist
        - PLUGINS: Updated playing of nested playlists. (esp. for Firefox
        

  2.8  [ 18 May 2004 ]
        
        - MISC: Added more comprehensive support for Microsoft Windows
        - MISC: Don't output 'indexing complete' when running with '--quiet'
        - MISC: mpc is a valid audio file type.
        - MISC: Leave playlists which point to external sites alone.
        - MISC: Test for password files all the way up to the root of the archive.
        - MISC: Deal with the root directory containing a trailing '/'.
        - MISC: Added explicit DOWNSAMPLING document.
        - MISC: Highlight entire row in tabular theme.
        - MISC: Updated version numbers
    
        - BUGFIX: Fix date used for logging to access log.
        - BUGFIX: Abort with error if indexing program fails.
        - BUGFIX: Don't hold server socket open in child processes,
                  this fix allows logrotation to function correctly.
        - BUGFIX: Fixed up playlists which were erroneoulsy empty
        - BUGFIX: Downsampling treats its arguments case insensitively.

        - PLUGINS: Allow the configuration file to set the default number
                   of random songs generated via 'random.pm'.
        - PLUGINS: Custom playlist verified working properly.
        

  2.7  [ 25th March 2004 ]

    - MISC: New module 'sorter.pm'
        - MISC: Removed module 'playlist.pm'
        - MISC: Updated the Debian rcfile, to source /etc/default/gnump3d
        - MISC: Fixed the display of version on the templates and startup.
        - MISC: Available themes are sorted upon the preferences page.
        - MISC: .wma is recognised as an audio file.
        - MISC: .m4p is recognised as an audio file.
        - MISC: Make sure each plugin is mentioned in each theme directory.
        - MISC: Added startup script for Gentoo Linux.
        - MISC: Allow caching of downsampled files.
        - MISC: Report perl version on --help and --version output
        - MISC: New module gnump3d::MD5

        - FEATURES: Much improved installation system
        - FEATURES: Sorting of playlists and track display are *identical*
        - FEATURES: Enhanced logfile writing, the user may specify the format.
        - FEATURES: Massive speedup of indexing via file modification date cache.
        
        - THEMES: Fixed to use the $RELEASE variable instead of hardcoding.
        - THEMES: Corrected a couple of typos and HTML errors.
        - THEMES: Fixed obsolete references to /last/
        - THEMES: Font tweaking and cosmetics in default theme.
        - THEMES: Added new 'SchwartzNGrau' theme by Pat Riehecky
        - THEMES: Several minor cleanups.
        - THEMES: dotNet cleanup.
        - THEMES: Updated version numbers in static pages to 2.7
        - THEMES: Removed `simple`

    - BUGFIX: Don't escape the ':' character.  (Broke banners).
    - BUGFIX: Allow downsampling commands to work case insensitively of
                  filename suffix.
    - BUGFIX: 'Random Selection' on the directory index links properly.
        - BUGFIX: Added several new test scripts.
        - BUGFIX: Advanced playlists contain the track lengths in seconds.
        - BUGFIX: gnump3d-index has a valid shebang line.
        - BUGFIX: Searching with no terms returns an error rather than all files.
        - BUGFIX: Searching on genre fixed.
        - BUGFIX: XHTML 1.0 output cleanups (default theme only).
        - BUGFIX: Default preference is to show all file types, not hide them.
        - BUGFIX: Don't offer to play the prefs panel
        - BUGFIX: gnump3d-index '--root' argument works correctly.
        - BUGFIX: Indexing ignores 0-byte files.
        - BUGFIX: Document log_format, and remove mention of maximum_connections.
        - BUGFIX: Quieten gnump3d2 debugging output.
        - BUGFIX: Make sure the 'accept' call succeeds.
        - BUGFIX: Committed fix from rpmohn for filenames with '.' in their names.
        - BUGFIX: Persist downsample quality in pre-made playlists.
        - BUGFIX: Ignore zero-byte sized files when indexing.

        - PLUGINS: Preferences plugin shows installed languages.
                (doesn't allow switching; wanna encourage more contributions)
        - PLUGINS: Now possible to search on artist, album, or song title.
        - PLUGINS: Browsing by categories such as artist, year, genre.


  2.6  [ 16th October 2003  ]

          Moved to hosting at Savannah / gnu.org

        - CACHING:  Added patch from Solomon Peachy for improved tag
                    caching.

        - CLEANUP:  Remove gnump3d-index, and gnump3d-index.1 on uninstall
        - CLEANUP:  Removed FreezeThaw.pm
        - CLEANUP:  Changed the way the "currently playing" works.
        
        - BUXFIX: Escape song and directory names in the info plugin.
        - BUGFIX: Chop out trailing '/' in banner section if necessary.
        - BUGFIX: Plugin disabling works properly again.
        - BUGFIX: gnump3d-index will work with symlink for the root directory
        - BUGFIX: Sorting works again.
        - BUGFIX: Movies are displayed correctly.
        - BUGFIX: Advanced playlists work again - and are optional.
        - BUGFIX: Switch GID before UID.
        - BUGFIX: Initialise the tag index after running gnump3d-index,
                  not before.
        - BUGFIX: URL Encode form submission values in the random plugin.
        - BUFFIX: Sort directories case insensitiviely.

        - PLUGINS: The random plugin will includes "Random Directory".
        - PLUGINS: Added new plugin '/size' to show the size of your archive.
        - PLUGINS: Search plugin removes XSS attacks properly.

        - THEMES: Added new theme 'Clean' based upon the layout of steve.org.uk

        - LANGUAGES: The code is moving towards multilingual support now!

        - MISC: Fix install permissions.        
        - MISC: rewrote getlibdir to be much neater.
        - MISC: gnump3d-index will now follow symbolic links correctly. 
        - MISC: 'gnump3d-index --stats' will display more intersting stats.
        - MISC: Changed the sample downsample lines for the OGG files.
        - MISC: Most of the startup error messages now contain instructions
                on fixing the problem.
        - MISC: .WMV is now marked as being a movie filetype.
        - MISC: The 'Tabular' theme now has fixed menus.
        - MISC: Make cookies persist "indefinately".    

   Updates:
        
        - PLUGINS: The random plugin honours downsampling settings.
        - PLUGINS: The currently playing plugin shows the times of tracks
        - BUGFIX:  Escape the HTML banner section.
        - BUGFIX:  Now playing works properly.


  2.5b [ 2nd July 2003 ]
        - CLEANUP: Don't duplicate commented lines in gnump3d.conf.win
        - CLEANUP: Removed an annoying tracing message.
        - CLEANUP: Added more links to the new Tabular Theme.

        - PORTABILITY: Allow gnump3d-index program to be read from gnump3d.conf
        - PORTABILITY: Run indexing script even on windows.

        - PLUGINS: Show song tags for the custom playlist plugin.

        - Added massive optimization for displaying directories with 
          large numbers of files inside them.
        - Added the ability to ignore song tags via 'hide_song_tags = 1'


  2.5 [ 29th June 2003 ] 
        - PORTABILITY: Generate gnump3d.conf.win as part of 'make dist'
        - PORTABILITY: Added initial multilingual support.

        - FEATURES: Added configuration option 'tag_cache'.
        - FEATURES: Use FreezeThaw for the currently playing list.
        - FEATURES: Added the ability to limit access to a specific referrer.
        - FEATURES: Added tag indexer as seperate script.
        - FEATURES: Highlight the matching search terms on the results page.
        - FEATURES: Show the directory name in search results.
        - FEATURES: More robust tag handling.

        - DOWNSAMPLING: Added support for 'default_quality'.
        - DOWNSAMPLING: Abort aborted connections properly.

        - MISC: Removed bin/installer - looks like I'm never going to use it.
        - MISC: Updated version numbers
        - MISC: Convert root to using '/' characters upon Windows.
        - MISC: Added support for .m4a files.
        - MISC: Added 'profile' target to the Makefile.
        - MISC: Spell checked all the README's and the configuration file.      
        - MISC: Hide the 'lost+found' mountpoint directories.

        - BUGFIX: Open the access log before dropping privileges.
        - BUGFIX: Fix OGG Vorbis comment handling.
        - BUGFIX: '/info' link works for movies too.
        - BUGFIX: Space characters are encoded correctly to '%20' not '+' now.
        - BUGFIX: gnump3d-top shows the most popular user agents properly.

        - THEMES: Added the dotNET theme from MarquiS
        - THEMES: Each plugin now uses a dedicated template file.
        - THEMES: Taking advantage of the new flexibility - a new template:
                  Tabular, using pure CSS to make tab menus.
        - THEMES: Removed 'split' as it was ugly and hard to deal with.

        - PLUGINS: The currently playing plugin works again.
        - PLUGINS: The search function will works nicely.
        - PLUGINS: Highlight the matching search terms on the results page.
        - PLUGINS: Show the directory name in search results.
        - PLUGINS: Added new 'random tracks' plugin
        - PLUGINS: The currently playing works correctly again.

  2.4 [ 2nd May 2003  ]
        - BUGFIX: Make the logfile format really be Apache common format.
        - BUGFIX: Give error when user-playlists are empty.
        - BUGFIX: Correctly handle downsample commandlines.
                  (quoting and inserting filename appropriately)
        - BUGFIX: Sorting by track number works again.
        - BUGFIX: Always retrieve bitrate and length of MP3s regardless of
                  missing ID3 tags.
        - BUGFIX: Fixed the currently playing for non-windows systems.
        - BUGFIX: Password protection works for plugins.
        - BUGFIX: Directory access works without trailing '/'
        - BUGFIX: Make the 'isWindows' function work correctly.
        - BUGFIX: Serve HTTP header for downsampled audio
        
        - Misc: Updated the version number(s).
        - Misc: Record the remote username of visitors within the access log.
        - Misc: Record invalid login attempts.
        - Misc: Allways present $LENGTH and $BITRATE
        - Misc: Added a reaper function to collect zombie children.
        - Misc: Don't load DB_File under Microsoft Windows systems.
        - Misc: /now/ and /recent/ refresh every 30 seconds.
        - Misc: Tested under Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.
                (Successfully).
        - Misc: Content type of web pages is served as UTF.
        - Misc: Added POD to some of the modules.
        - Misc: Added .aac as an audio file suffix.
        - Misc: Url encode filenames.
        - Misc: Renamed '/last' to '/recent'
        - Misc: Show song tags for the most recent tracks.
        - Misc: Added UNTESTED local playback (jukebox) mode. 
                For single files only.


  2.3 [ 16th March 2003 ]
        - BUGFIX: Don't attempt to switch user under Windows.
        - BUGFIX: Search results take notice of 'always_stream'.
        - BUGFIX: Search results only contain audio files.
        - BUGFIX: Report the correct title in the search and playlist plugins.  
        - BUGFIX: Better song tag handling
        - BUGFIX: stats_args -> stats_arguments
        - BUGFIX: /playlist/ honours 'song_format' and 'always_stream'
        - BUGFIX: Make the bug reporting plugin work correctly.
        - BUGFIX: Better testing of the permissions of our logfile.

        - CLEANUP: Updated the option handling.
        - CLEANUP: Insert the correct plugin directory into the 
                   config file upon installation.
        - CLEANUP: /last/ includes the hostname
        - CLEANUP: Make sure $HOME is defined before using it.

        - MISC: Added sort by filename to the preferences page.
        - MISC: Custom playlist feature now displayes nested directories.       
        - MISC: Allow individual songs to be selected with the custom playlist
                feature.
        - MISC: Show the release version in the --help and --version text.
        - MISC: Added song info plugin.
        - MISC: Document that keys and values may span lines with '\'
        - MISC: Theme files can now include command output.
        - MISC: Theme files can now include other files.
        - MISC: The most popular directories now optionally hides plugin dirs.
        - MISC: Seeking over HTTP works correctly now.
        - MISC: Custom playlist functionality is much improved.
        - MISC: Added minimal currently playing support.
        - MISC: Added the startup files for Mac OS X.

        - DOCUMENTATION: Ensure all configuration values are documented.
        - DOCUMENTATION: Added specific README's for Windows and Mac OS X
        - DOCUMENTATION: Added a readme to the templates/ directory.


  2.2 [ February 3rd, 2003 ]
        - BUGFIX: Install correctly.


  2.1 [ February 3rd, 2003 ]
        - BUGFIX: Expand $FILENAME
        - BUGFIX: Password file cleanup.
        - BUGFIX: Include our own base64 decoding module.
        - BUGFIX: Include our own mime.types file.
        
        - Documentation: Include the INSTALL file in the release.
        

  2.0 [ February 2nd, 2003 ]
        - Recoded entirely in Perl.
        - Updated the man pages.
        - Display the theme creator alongside the theme name.
        - Use the system-wide 'mime.types' file when serving content.
        - Added support for serving/streaming movies.
        - Updated the bug reporting form considerably.  Mention privacy too.
        - Add titles to MPEG files via `basename`.title
        - Handle allowed_clients/denied_clients with CIDR notation.
        - Improved the sanity testing.
        - Support for intelligent playlist re-writing.
        - Added support for per-client preferences.
        - Added a test system, and several test scripts.
        - .title files override all other forms of meta information viewing.

        
  1.0 [ November 30, 2002 ]
        - MISC: Keep track of the currently streaming songs.
        - MISC: Optimize CUtility::uc and CUtility::lc
        - MISC: Optimize CUtility::replaceStrInStr
        - MISC: Use CUtility::int2str function, which is new, throughout.
        - MISC: Fixed memory leaks in ID3 tag handling.
        - MISC: Cleaned up the configuration file.
        - MISC: Several minor optimizations and cleanups.
        - MISC: Be more forgiving of user agent identification.
        - MISC: Use a large buffer when reading stats output.

        - PLUGINS: Added custom playlist generated plugin.
        - PLUGINS: Added currently playing plugin.
        - PLUGINS: Attempt to allow them to build under Cygwin better.
        - PLUGINS: Allow arbitary plugins to be selectively disabled.
        - PLUGINS: Search plugin will allow multiple terms.
        - PLUGINS: Search plugin will highlight matches on the output page.
        - PLUGINS: Ignore non-readable shared libraries and directories
                   when searching for plugins to load.

        - CLEANUP: CDirectory::ReadDirectoryRecursively stores directory names.
        - CLEANUP: Remove .deps and .libs prior to building a distribution.
        - CLEANUP: Logfiles now record the actual data size served to clients.
                   As well as the HTTP header code served.
        - CLEANUP: Minor autoconf changes.
        - CLEANUP: Report errors in the main GUI if files can't be read.
        - CLENAUP: Limit $FILENAME to the filename minus suffix, and directory
                   name.

        - BUGFIX: Updated default config file on gnump3d-top script.
        - BUGFIX: The stats script will report errors to the server via
                  STDOUT now - so permission problems will be caught with
                  ease.  Hopefully.
        - BUGFIX: Fixed big per-connection memory leak.  :(
        - BUGFIX: Playlists don't contain duplicate '//''s.
        - BUGFIX: Directory limiting for searching is restored.
        - BUGFIX: Send HTTP status code when serving search form.
        - BUGFIX: Escape directory names when sending banner.
        - BUGFIX: Exit cleanly if the socket cannot be bound for listening.
        - BUGFIX: Fixed crash on unreadable .OGG files.
        - BUGFIX: Make sure the song+directory names in the 'last' plugin
                  are absolute.
        
        - PORTABILITY: Optionally use 'dlopen' interface for loading plugins.
                       (Useful for Cygwin systems).
        - PORTABILITY: Detect when building under Cygwin.
        
        - Updated version number.
        - Allow the user to control the display order of files in the GUI, and
          in the playlists via new option 'sort_order'.
        - Allow the server admin to selectively disable individual plugins 
          via the configuration file.
        - Changed all mutex protection. 
        - Added hook for passing arguments to the stats program.
        - Attempt to display hostnames rather than IP addresses when possible. 
        - Track numbers are recognised in OGG Vorbis files.
        - Serialize incoming requests if we're using paranoid threading.        
        - Don't use any caching if we're paranoid about threading.
        - Added support for more media types.
        - Added new 'RedGrey' theme from Rodolphe Quiedeville
        - Added new 'LaFrere' theme from Rodolphe Quiedeville
        - Switched to using the GNU regex code.


  1.0-pre1 [ August 19th 2002 ]

        - BUGFIX:  Fixed bad HTML in the /versions/ plugin
        - BUGFIX:  Applied patch from FreeBSD ports collection.
        - BUGFIX:  Don't assume a plugin handled the path it said it would.
        - BUGFIX:  Handle broken 'Host:' headers.
        - BUGFIX:  Don't abort if the root directory contains '.'.
                   (Only abort if it contains '..').
        - BUGFIX:  Strip trailing '/' from root directory if present.
        - BUGFIX:  Updated the contributed RC files.
        - BUGFIX:  Escape '+' characters in file and directory names.
        - BUGFIX:  Make CUtility::splitStr deal with the last entry in the
                   string correctly.
        - BUGFIX:  Correctly close shared library handles if they don't
                   implement our plugin API.
        - BUGFIX:  Strip the '.so' from plugins when initializing them.

        - CLEANUP: gnump3d-top script decodes URL's prior to display.
        - CLEANUP: Removed some obsolete config options.
        - CLEANUP: Moved regular expression class into seperate source +
                   header files.
        - CLEANUP: Log malformed requests in 'serveDirectory'.
        - CLEANUP: Improved Makefile.am's.
        - CLEANUP: Default template is now valid XHTML.
        - CLEANUP: The split theme is now valid XHTML.
        - CLEANUP: The simpled theme is now valid XHTML.
        - CLEANUP: The default HTML is now lowercased to be valid XHTML
        
        - MISC:  Added dump of loaded plugins to /versions/ output.
        - MISC:  Set the stream URL to something sensible for the WinAmp
                 minibrowser.   
        - MISC:  Added optional command line argument '--pid fileName'
        - MISC:  Reopen the logfile in response to SIGHUP.
        - MISC:  Added function to mplib - mp_get_bitrate.
        - MISC:  Record the build date of each file.
        - MISC:  Allow the size of the servering buffer to be tweaked.

        - PORTABILITY: Reorded headers so that FreeBSD compile works.
        - PORTABILITY: Fixes for 64bit archs
        - PORTABILITY: Autoconf stuff may now build without GNU Make.

        - Updated the version number.
        - Added new playlist type 'random.m3u' this will behave as a
          randomized recursive playlist contributed by Mark Howson
          <aonq05@dsl.pipex.com>
        - Added new option 'recursive_randomize' which will force normal
          recursive playlists to be randomized also.
        - Updated the gnump3d-config script to use the correct config file.
          (Debian GNU/Linux specific fix).
        - Added support for downsampling IN PROGRESS..
        - Expand $LENGTH In the templates -> length of the track in HH:MM:SS    
        - User playlists are re-written appropriatly.
        - Added a bug reporting plugin to help people make good bug reports.
        - Link to the new online forums.


  0.9.9.9.2 [Jul 14th 2002]
        - BUGFIX: Fixed potential bug with CUtility::replaceStrInStr();
        - BUGFIX: Correctly terminate the shoutcast header.
        - BUGFIX: Don't trample on any existing gnump3d.conf file on install.
        - BUGFIX: Fully qualify the string namespace in CBase64.  (GCC 3)
        - BUGFIX: Expand '$BPS' into the bitrate of the tracks.
        - BUGFIX: The track number of MP3's is now available.

        - CLEANUP: Change the parsing of URL parameter arguments.
        - CLEANUP: Removed several obsolete functions.
        - CLEANUP: We now use one centralized config file parser.

        - CLEANUP: Only show 'subdirectories' section if subdirs exist.
        - CLEANUP: Only show 'files' section if songs exist.
        - CLEANUP: Only show 'playlists' section if playlists are found.
        - CLEANUP: Only show 'play results' if songs were found in the search.

        - PORTABILITY: Included an Autoconf bootstrapping script.
        - PORTABILITY: Test for more header files and types in 'configure'
        - PORTABILITY: Integrated version of 'mplib' for reading ID3v[12]
          tags.

        - MISC : Added support for loadable modules with libtool + libltdl
        - MISC : Migrated lots of core functionality into external modules.
        - MISC : Added 'last 20 tracks' plugin.
        - MISC : Added 'theme browsing' plugin.
        - MISC : A new configuration option 'denied_clients'.
        - MISC : If a song has no artist + title information use the filename.
        
        - Added the ability to limit the starting path of searchs.
        - Cache the contents of template files.
        - Included several loop optimizations.
        - Included an updated Nausicaa theme from Lawrence Lin.
        - Process and display user generated playlists.

        - Updated the version number.
          
        
  0.9.9.9.1 [Jun 24th 2002]
        - CLEANUP: Each theme shows itself as being selected.
        - CLEANUP: Use libvorbis if available to parse song tags.
                   [This allows international characters to display]
        - CLEANUP: 'Play All' links aren't shown for empty directories.
        - CLEANUP: 'Play Recursively' links aren't shown unless there
                   are subdirectories present.
        - CLEANUP: User may specify the text to show for the play all/
                   play recursively links.
        - CLEANUP: The banner shown above search pages is correct.
        
        - BUGFIX:  Fixed default directory_format string.
        - BUGFIX:  Made sure that theme_directory is specified in gnump3d.conf
        - BUGFIX:  Improved URL encoding function to handle foreign characters.
        - BUGFIX:  Don't send extra newline after the end of HTTP headers.
        
        - PORTABILITY: Install to /usr/local/{ bin man etc} by default.
        - PORTABILITY: Use autoconf + automake.
                     : Test the libraries we need to use for socket functions.
                     : Test for different versions of pthreads.
                     : Insert the correct path to the Perl interpretter.
        

        - Other Changes:
        -  Allow content to be served from the template directories, eg logos.
        -  Updated error messages.
        -  Added decent error reporting for missing _directories_.
        -  The search results page show the directory which contains the
           given result.
        -  Minor updates have been applied to the supplied themes.
        
        -  All names of scripts directorys and programs have been changed:

                *mp3d* -> *gnump3d*

           This is a pain for users, but it's better to do it sooner than
           later - we were having collisions with the perl server 'mp3d'
        
        -  Optional minimal support for syslog.
        -  Optional support for libid3.
        -  Updated version number.
        
        
  0.9.9.9 [12-Jun-2002 04:33]

        - CLEANUP: The uninstall target is much more streamlined.
        - CLEANUP: Permissions are corrected on theme installation.
        - CLEANUP: Not a single malloc in the entire server!
        - CLEANUP: Protected all singleton objects with private
                   copy constructors and assignment operators.

        - BUGFIX: Minor cleanup to allow streaming upon FreeBSD/OpenBSD.
        - BUGFIX: Only display audio files in the directory listings.
        - BUGFIX: mp3d-top uses the first 'log_file' value it finds.

        - PORTABILITY: Included patch found in the FreeBSD ports tree.
        - PORTABILITY: Added distinct NetBSD and OpenBSD Makefiles.

        - DOCUMENTATION:  Moved README-C++ to src/
        - DOCUMENTATION:  Update man pages.

        - Other changes:
        -  Updated version number.
        -  Accept multiple values in 'allowed_clients'.
        -  Added 'realm' password protection to the server.
        -  Added base64.[ch] - (Implements realm decoding from BASE64).
        -  Removed obsolete 'allow_save' config option.
        -  Added Debian configuration script 'mp3d-config'.


  0.9.9.8 [Wednesday, May 29th 2002 16:43 EDT]
        - CLEANUP: 'make install' will install all themes properly.
        - CLEANUP: Major updates made to the configuration file.
        - CLEANUP: Themes are tested for validity prior to usage.

        - BUGFIX: Search results display the correct files.
        - BUGFIX: Search results takes notice of 'always_stream'.
        - BUGFIX: Logfile works with '--background'.
        - BUGFIX: Genres are now supported in MP3's via $GENRE

        - PORTABILITY: User may specify the theme directory.
        - PORTABILITY: Minor fix for Mac OS X compatibility.
        - PORTABILITY: Updated the 'test-tag-parser' test program.

        - DOCUMENTATION: Removed duplication in source code documentation.

        - Other changes:
        -  Updated version number.
        -  New theme 'nausicaa' - A coloured version of the default.
        -  New theme 'split' - A two paned 'explorer' style theme.
        -  Themes may be specified on a per client basis, with cookies.
        -  All themes have been updated to include a theme choosing option.
        -  Themes may contain configuration options which override 'mp3d.conf'
        -  Debian packages built!


  0.9.9.7 [16-May-2002 06:43]

        - BUGFIX:  Fixed off-by-one error when reading config file.
        - BUGFIX:  Fixed thread creation/termination bug.
        - BUGFIX:  OGG tag parsing is now more robust.
        - BUGFIX:  `make uninstall` removes the correct binary.

        - PORTABILITY: MacOS X port now builds and runs.

        - CLEANUP:  Added the small test programs to the CVS repository.
        - CLEANUP:  The server configuration isn't browsable via /status/
        - CLEANUP:  New virtual path '/search/' which serves a search form.
        - CLEANUP:  If the hostname isn't set use 'localhost' in playlists.

        - Other changes:
        -  Updated version number.
        -  Introduced a theming system which allows end-users to completely
          customize the appearence of the server.
        -  Use the clients 'Host: ' header, if present.
           (New configuration variable 'use_client_host' controls this).


  0.9.9.6 [05-May-2002 22:23]
        - BUGFIX:  Allow songs to contain '..' in their filenames.
        - BUGFIX:  Added fixes which allow compilation under GCC 3.x.
        - BUGFIX:  Tidied up headers + namespaces for GCC 3.x
        - BUGFIX:  'all.m3u', and 'recurse.m3u' links work for directories
                   requested without trailing '/' character.
        - BUGFIX:  Delete the results of CDir::ReadDirectory.
        - BUGFIX:  Free the results of 'scandir' correctly.
        - BUGFIX:  Free the results of CUtility::splitString

        - CLEANUP:  Made CServer a singleton object.
        - CLEANUP:  Renamed all singleton accessors 'GetInstance'.
        - CLEANUP:  Documented CMutex properly.
        - CLEANUP:  Removed unnecessary #include's to speed compilation.
        - CLEANUP:  Minor optimizations to CFile::normalizePath

        - Other changes:
        - Updated version number.
        - Received another RC file from: watsondk@pobox.com
        - Added previous release dates to the changelog.
        - Be more carefull setting the group + user ID.
        - Doubled the size of the file serving buffer.
        - Greatfully received several new logo submissions at:
                http://www.gnump3d.org/logos.html


  0.9.9.5 [21-Apr-2002 15:27]

        - CLEANUP: Removed 'CFile::GetFullPath' its not used anywhere.
        - CLEANUP: Removed some system headers that aren't needed.
        - CLEANUP: Renamed 'CHeader' class to 'CRequestHeader'.
        - CLEANUP: Introduced mutex abstraction class 'CMutex'.
        - CLEANUP: Changed CApacheLog + CDebugLog to have CMutex members.
        - CLEANUP: Changed the signature of 'sendData'.
        - CLEANUP: Tidied up the Makefiles for all systems.
        - CLEANUP: Don't attempt to remove previous versions on 'make install'.
        - CLEANUP: Install manpages in correct location for FreeBSD.
        - CLEANUP: Move file comparison function into CFile.
        - CLEANUP: Move song tag comparison function into CPlaylist.
        - CLEANUP: Order object files alphabetically.
        - CLEANUP: Remove '-g' when compiling.

        - BUGFIX:  Close the debug file handle when destroyed.
        - BUGFIX:  Show unknown command line options after usage info.
                   (Simpler to read that way).
        - BUGFIX:  Don't print 'Not reached' - when server exits.
        - BUGFIX:  Removed a lot of printf's which aren't often seen.
        - BUGFIX:  Show the correct error message when the server admin
                   disables access to '/status/'
        - BUGFIX:  Correctly bound the header when reading a request from the
                   client.  (Off by one error in CRequestHeader::ReadHeader).
        - BUGFIX:  New class CConnectionCount; handles max_connections properly
        - BUGFIX:  mp3d-top takes notice of 'always_stream'.
        - BUGFIX:  CApacheLog - fixed off by one error in 'AddEntry'.
        - BUGFIX:  Expand '$COMMENT' in song displays.
        - BUGFIX:  Display directories sorted alphabetically
        - BUGFIX:  URL Encode files in playlists, this allows files with '+' in
                   their names, for example, to work.
        - BUGFIX:  Use correct thread type - fixes compilation issue on *BSD
        - BUGFIX:  CUtility::stripWhitespace will return "" if given a string 
                   composed wholly of whitespace characters.
        - BUGFIX:  Delete the CClientConnection object on thread termination.

        - DOCUMENTATION:  Updated misleading comments throughout the code.
        - DOCUMENTATION:  Cleaned up + expanded the man pages.

        - Other Changes:
        -  Expand $HOST in the header and footer templates.
           (This is $HOSTNAME minus any domain information).
        -  New option 'allow_saving' if this is enabled a 'save' link is
           generated next to each track, to allow simple downloads.


  0.9.9.4 [14-Apr-2002 09:09]

        -  Major update : Re-wrote all the code in C++.
        -  Major update : Re-wrote all the code in C++ - worth stating twice.

        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Added manpages, in doc/
        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Updated README for grammer, spelling, etc.
        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Added README-C++
        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Updated comments in 'mp3d.conf'
        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Document the hostname option in mp3d.conf
        -  DOCUMENTATION:  Added source code documentation in src/html/

        -  BUGFIX: Handle the debugging options correctly.
        -  BUGFIX: Expand the MP3 Albumn tag, via $ALBUM.
        -  BUGFIX: Close filehandle when an abort happens on file serving.
                  (ie. ignore SIGPIPE).
        -  BUGFIX: Allow searching on song tags
        -  BUGFIX: Abort if the configuration file doesn't exist.
        -  BUGFIX: Handle directories without a trailing '/' correctly.
        -  BUGFIX: Removed striping on search results.
        -  BUGFIX: Terminate headers with '\r\n' as per RFC's.
        -  BUGFIX: Don't show play link if search returns no results.
        -  BUGFIX: URL encoding/decoding RFC 1738 compliant.
        -  BUGFIX: Loop until all network data sent - stops random stuttering.

        -  PORTABILITY: Code builds + runs on Solaris properly now.
        -  PORTABILITY: Updated Cygwin build.
        -  PORTABILITY: Embryonic MacOS X support.
        -  PORTABILITY: Use 'stat' instead of FILE * functions.

        - Other changes:
        -  Tidied up the startup banner.
        -  Removed logo from the source code repository, now in website src.
        -  Implemented access controls, and connection limiting.
        -  /status/ now shows source versions.
        -  Configurable shoutcast title streaming - thanks to the author of
           Ample for a good explaination of how this works:
                http://ample.sf.net/
        -  New command line option '--background'
        -  Received an RPM .spec file, from:
           Angles  Puglisi <devel@aminvestments.com>
        -  Perform thread cleanup correctly.
        -  Parse OGG Vorbis tags - this is very simplistic.
        -  Cache the ID3/OGG TAG information which we retrieve.
        -  Added debug tracing throughout the entire codebase.
        -  Add option to disable server browsing, strange as that might seem.

        
  0.9.9.3 [12-Mar-2002 07:48]

        -  Made portability fixes to portable.c - for FreeBSD.
        -  Added Slackware rc file, 
           from : Boris Kurktchiev <linux@BgDefenderS.zzn.com>
        -  Added logo, from: Adam Doxtater <adoxx@hotmail.com>
        -  Made the daemon re-read its configuration file upon receipt
           of SIGHUP.
        -  Allows config file to control the notion of what is an audio file.
        -  BUGFIX: Make sure file info is served with a playlist for a single
           file, as a result of 'always_stream=1', and 'advanced_playlist=1'
        -  Added Access Control, based upon IP addresses.
        -  Updated Header template, contributed by :
           Boris Kurktchiev  <linux@BgDefenderS.zzn.com> 
        -  BUGFIX: Send proper HTTP header prior to sending error messages.
        -  BUGFIX: Send message to clients that aren't allowed to connect.
        -  Default to appending to our logfile, with config file controlling
           whether we truncate or not.
        -  BUGFIX: Stop blanking out the hostname, as this broke the template
           expansion.
        -  Removed all references to WIN32 - AS OF NOW THERE IS NO WINDOWS PORT
        -  Show IP address (hostname) in the top N users.
        -  CODE-CLEANUP: Handle the special requests in a neater manner.
        -  CODE-CLEANUP: Don't, needlessly, return the requested path
        -  BUGFIX: Remove trailing slashes from clickable directory headers.
        -  mp3d-top : Don't cache hostnames needlessly.
        -  BUGFIX: Removed the trailing slash which is displayed on 
           all directory names in the main index.
        -  BUGFIX: $VERSION is now expanded in header + footer files.
        -  BUGFIX: mp3d-stats use numerical comparison, fix by
           TAHARA Ryozo <r-tahara@yamatosokki.co.jp>
        -  BUGFIX: serve .m3u files properly, fix by:
           TAHARA Ryozo <r-tahara@yamatosokki.co.jp>
        -  Updated handling of comments, and 'logfile' key in mp3d-top from:
           TAHARA Ryozo <r-tahara@yamatosokki.co.jp>    
   

  0.9.9.2 [01-Mar-2002 10:47]

        -  Moved mutex handling code into threads.[ch]
        -  Added Cygwin Makefile.
        -  Renamed links to '/' to read 'Home'
        -  Added song titles to playlists, so that the players may use them.
           This is controlled by the config entry "advanced_playlist".
        -  Wrapped server status in pretty HTML to match search results, etc.
        -  Avoided reading the 'Hostname:' from client requests, if this
           is not equal to our server hostname bad things are afoot - the
           server hostname may be explicitly set by the configuration entry
           'binding_host' option anyway.
        -  Re-write playlist files on the fly, if they aren't http entries.
           Code from: TAHARA Ryozo <r-tahara@yamatosokki.co.jp>
        -  Added a statistics program, which is run when people request
           '/stats/'
           (The statistics program is "mp3d-top", and running 
            "mp3d-top --help" will give running instructions.)
        -  Added an RC file for Debian.
        -  Tidied up the usage of the configFile, and port handling.
        -  Added the "contrib/debian/" directory, which can be used to build
           a .deb binary file - contributed by : Henning Glawe <glawe@web.de>
        -  Created contrib/win32/
        -  Finally solved the issues with terminating the server.
           As suggested by : Andrew Birkett <adb@tardis.ed.ac.uk>, over a pint.
        -  Honour the "Range:" header - this allows people to seek within a 
           song, if the player supports it.  (WinAmp does).
        -  Made all the files + directories in the stats page clickable.
        -  Allow the user to specify the colour of the border used in all
           the display sections, via the "border_colour" config file entry.
        -  Massive code commentry update.
        -  Fixed a filehandle leak.  (We were losing one handle for each 
           music file served).
        -  Added the ability to play all the results of a search.
        -  Added SuSe rc file, from: Daniel Troeder <daniel@troeder.de>


  0.9.9.1 [23-Feb-2002 12:35]

        - Added simple search.
        - Added option 'search_enabled'.
        - Updated header template to include a search form.
        - Search results now honour the 'always_stream' flag.
        - Added patch to encode URL's in generated playlists, from:
          Francesco Usseglio Gaudi <cecco@libero.it>
        - Perform variable expansion in /status page.
        - Improved the portability of code in 'portable.c'.
        - Fixed playlists so they are served properly.  
          (Hand made playlists, which are placed in the directory tree,
          not the auto-generated all.m3u / recurse.m3u files).
        - Updated the comments in the supplied config file considerably.
        - Updated the links at the top/bottom of directories to be made of 
          links to the path components. 
        - Fixed access logging, the log is written at the start of a 
          file-serving transaction, not the end.


  0.9.9  [19-Feb-2002 11:57]

        - Created a centralized routine for searching for files.
        - Migrated existing code to use it.
        - Updating network connection, no more "Address already in use" errors!
        - Addition of a new config option, to specify the log file.
        - Accesses are logged in an Apache common log compatable format.
        - BUGFIX: Playlists had erroneous '\n' character in them.
        - BUGFIX: Report + abort on unknown command line option.
        - BUGFIX: make install works correctly, and the binary reads
          the installed configuration file properly.
        - New 'theme' system, allows all pages to be surrounded by
          user specified text.
        - Expand $HOSTNAME, and $DIRECTORY in template files.
        - BUGFIX: Install signal handlers only if they're available.
          Contributed : by Alan Stein <ajs@ajsoft.com>
        - Updated the Win32 port.
TODO: FIXME - Allow playlists to be listed in the directory tree.
        - BUGFIX: Handling of missing files killed server, if they didn't
          have a suffix.
        - BUGFIX: The number of currently active connections only increased.


  0.9.8  [12-Feb-2002 10:02]

        - Changed the link title for the server status.
        - Updated the header + footer.
        - Made some code cleanups.
        - Moved all file handling code to files.[ch].
        - Moved all debug handling code to debug.[ch]
        - Added 'always_serve' option, as suggested by : Thomas Sattler
        - Fixed up logging, so that 'all.m3u', and 'recurse.m3u' are
          correctly reported.
        - Added a simple build system for dealing with new platforms,
          this includes those files/changes submitted by other people.
        - Fixed bug: generated m3u files not having port numbers in them.
        - Fixed bug: searching for suffixes stopped at the first period.
        - Code cleanup : Pass connection_info around, not client_socket.
        - Code cleanup : centralized debug interface.
        - Added --debug switch, to replace the x-debug target.
        - Added "ostype" to the --version information, and updated the startup banner.
        - Added Emacs mode settings.
        - Fixed bug: signal 11 -> replacestrinstr was buggy.  bigtime.
        - Fixed bug: make sure subdirectories + links have "%20", not ' '.


  0.9.7 [08-Feb-2002 04:01]

        - Added id3parse.[ch] - C routines for accessing ID3 tags.
        - A new make target 'test': will build test programs for the ID3 parser,
          and the config file parser.
        - Allow user to specify how files are displayed, via 'song_format'
        - Fixed issue with processing the files in a directory.
        - Updated the handling of missing files to send the appropriate
          HTTP status code, (404), along with a more friendly error message.
        - A working recursion option.
        - Added bzero, and stricmp implementations for those that lack them.
        - Test that the root directory exists before starting the server. D'oh.
        - Updated "IsAudioFile", to compare case insensitively, this fixes 
          incorrect file count bugs.
        - Added DoesDirExist
        - Allow the server to change UID & GUID after bind().
          (means server can be started with port<1024, and no risk ;).
        - Send "Date" headers with all pages.
        - Save starting date + time of server, not just time.
        

  0.9.6 [08-Feb-2002 04:01]

        - Added basic logging; connection number, ip address, and request path
        - Added server-start-time to the status page.
        - Show the number of active connections.
        - Added new configuration option "stripe_depth", controls the size of
          stripes.
        - Updated the HTML generation, to change the layout.
        - Updated Makefile(s) to build on FreeBSD.
        - Added server stats in a basic manner.


  0.9.5  [06-Feb-2002 04:34]

        - Added the configuration file, to control the server, this involves
          the introduction of many new features, eg. controllable mime typing.
        - Added parse.[ch], removed getopt.[ch].
        - Added the ability to report on server status.
        - Added test program for the parser.
        - Added '--quiet' option.


  Released to the World, via Freshmeat.net

  Pre-history:

  0.9  - Allows directory contents to be played, via an "All" link.

  0.8  - Shows the contents of directories in an attractive manner.
       - Allows navigation back up the directory tree.

  0.7  - Correctly processes directories.
       - Ignores '.' files, and directories.
       - Has a root directory, browsing outwith this is prohibited.

  0.6  - Serve files.  Woo hoo!
         No longer shows dotfiles of any kind.
         Note: content type is fixed at text/html.  This should be
         teakable via a config file, something like:

         [MimeTypes]
         .htm=text/html
         .html=text/html
         .txt=text/plain

  0.5  - Shows directory listings, which include ".", and ".."

  0.4  - Replace string in string works multiple times.

  0.3  - Control the errors, via text substitution.  Replace this with
         an error file for each permissable error, eg. HTTP 404 -> not found.

  0.2  - Send an error message when things go bad... ;)

  0.1  - Start up the listening socket - and make sure that its not
         already in use, and >= 1024
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