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)

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)