Tags : blog, osflash
The Red5 Team is proud to announce the release of Red5 0.8.0 RC1. This is not a FINAL release.

Major changes since 0.7.0

New Features

• Added socket policy file server to support new security model, starting in flash player 9.0.124
• Added virtual hosting capabilities (Tomcat only)
• Added W3C log appender for logback modeled after FMS log events and categories
• Added the ability to unload a context using the ContextLoader
• Added RTMPS support (Jira SN-69)
• Set default J2EE servlet container / HTTP server to Tomcat
• Added Flex based application installer for red5 web applications
• Added War auto-deployer service
• Added additional MP3 ID3 data to the onMetaData event
• Added onImageData and MP3 cover art support

Bugfixes

• RTMPProtocolDecoder fixed to support RSO sendMessage (Jira CODECS-9)
• Fixed Tomcat logging problem
• Fixed memory leak in ServiceUtils
• Fixed connection timeout (Jira SN-95 / APPSERVER-274)
• Resolved exception with WarLoaderServlet (Jira APPSERVER-224)
• Resolved log directory issue (Jira APPSERVER-246)
• Resolved ServerStream issue with w3c logging (Jira APPSERVER-263)
• Added patch to support ability to implement IBroadcastStream for custom streaming protocols (Jira SN-87)
• Resolved OSX connection problem with players > version 9,0,115
• Added patch for InvocationTargetException on missing files (Jira SN-99 and SN-97)
• Fixed a small issue with stream ids > 100
• Added patch for flv metadata handling
• Added patch for RTMPT client
• Added patch for start and stop scripts
• Fixed logging in web applications
• Root cause was not being sent on error in Flex message service (Jira APPSERVER-288)
• Allow serializer to make use of other annotations like JPA (Jira APPSERVER-277)
• Collections are not serialized appropriately (Jira APPSERVER-293)
• Unable to read external AMF3 arrays in IExternalizable classes (Jira APPSERVER-283)
• Deadlock issues with fix in Output.java (Jira APPSERVER-289)
• Bug with scope stopping and multithreading (Jira APPSERVER-290)
• SharedObjects modified flag doesn't get set to false (Jira APPSERVER-291)
• Delete/overwrite streams from clientside (Jira SN-20)

Other

• Split demos and flash sources into their own top level directories
• Added application snapshot repository

Installers

• Windows - Java 6 Download

• Windows - Java 5 Download

• Mac OSX - Coming soon

• Debian - Java 6 Download
• Tarball - Java 6 Download

Notes

Windows 64-bit JVM

The windows service wrapper will not work with 64-bit JVM's due to change made by the wrapper provider (Tanuki software). The standard start up batch / command scripts are not affected by the wrapper and will continue to work as expected.

Demos

Demo applications must be installed with the "installer" prior to their being launched. Go to http://localhost:5080/installer once you have your server up and running.

WAR Version

The war version will be made available just as soon as I fix it.