Icecast is terug na versie 2.5 beta 1 op  28 januari 2015 zijn nu bezig met 2.5 beta 2 en met nieuwe mogelijkheden en verbeteringen. Zie hier onder de lijst met aanpassing van Icecast release 2.5 beta 2:

Nieuwe mogelijkheden

• General:
  • Add support for HTTP PUT, including chunked encoding support
  • Improve TLS support including additional options, on the fly certificate reload, RFC2817-mode, and TLS and non-TLS connections on same port
  • Improve WebM support
  • HTTP Keep-Alive support
  • New error handling and better HTTP status codes in error cases
  • Improved HTTP headers returned by Icecast
  • Send <admin> tag content to YP servers – provides contact information for directory operators
• Web Interface/API:
  • Add support for Opus metadata in web/stats interface
  • List last played songs in web/stats interface
  • Add support for xsl includes from the admin directory
  • Add protocol to listener client stats XML
  • Add opmode (operation mode) strict option
  • Add support for config reload from the admin interface
• Config:
  • Add new tag <tls-context> with childs <tls-certificate>, <tls-key> and <tls-allowed-ciphers>
  • Add new <shoutcast-user> tag to specify the username that is used for SHOUTcast sources
  • Moved <mime-types> to the <paths> section
  • Rename <mp3-metadata-interval> tag to <icy-metadata-interval>
  • Rename <kartoffelsalat> tag to <event-bindings>
  • Rename ssl tags (<ssl>, <ssl-certificate>, <ssl-allowed-ciphers>) to tls (<tls>, <tls-certificate>, <tls-allowed-ciphers>)

Fixes

• HTTP PUT now supports chunked encoding
• HTTP PUT with Expect: 100-Continue now sends the 200 status as expected at the end of transmission, not right after the 100
• Fix login problems for admin user, if default mount had auth defined
• Fix that in some cases stats JSON would be malformed
• Fix that the JSON exposed listener details if queried with a specific mountpoint
• Fix segfault on some bad opus streams
• Fix segfaults due to empty strings in config
• Fix fetching of streamlist (for relaying) from HTTP/1.1 servers
• Fix information disclosure CVE that allowed to view the source of a xsl file by appending a . to it, when using Icecast on Windows (#2248)