About Icecast 2
Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports
Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.
It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately
running jukebox and many things in between.
It is very versatile in that new formats can be added
relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and
interaction.
Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2.
End of support for Icecast 2.4.4
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 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.
libigloo Release 0.9.5
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.
Icecast Release 2.5.0
We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0.
Downloads
Security updates
This release comes with no specific security fixes.
New features
- Web interface
- General improvements of web interface
- 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
Icecast Release 2.5.0-rc2
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
Security updates
This release comes with 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
libigloo Release 0.9.4
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.
