flac-1.5.0 (download issue)

[Xi Ruoyao]

New minor version: ​https://github.com/xiph/flac/releases/download/1.5.0/flac-1.5.0.tar.xz

It seems not available at the old download location (yet?)

[zeckma]

The new tarball is now at the old download location: ​https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.5.0.tar.xz

[zeckma]

Changes:

• General
  • Multithreaded encoding is now possible in libFLAC and through the flac command line tool
  • The GFDL license file is updated to version 1.3
  • The markdown tool documentation is now also converted to HTML, for bundling with systems that do not read manpages (e.g. Windows)
  • Decoding of chained Ogg FLAC files is now possible (philippe44, Martijn van Beurden)
  • Various fixes (Sam James, Miroslav Lichvar, Cristian Rodríguez, manxorist, kgroeneveld, Lee Carré, Jevin Sweval, braheezy, Wolfgang Stöggl)
  • Is is now possible in libFLAC, libFLAC++ and metaflac to write to a new file when changing metadata, instead of needing to overwrite an existing file
• flac
  • Testing mode (flac -t) now parses all metadata blocks and warns the user when ID3v1 metadata is detected
  • A warning is displayed when frame numbers do not increase correctly throughout a file
  • The explain option (-H or \--explain) is now removed, use the manpage or html tool documentation instead
  • Built-in help and tool documentation are improved (H2Swine)
  • When re-encoding a FLAC file from an existing FLAC file, a check is added that the MD5 sums of both files are the same
• libFLAC and libFLAC++
  • The library interfaces have been extended. See the porting guide (part of the API documentation)
  • An error is sent when a frame is missing
  • The algorithm of the 'loose mid side' option has changed. Instead of checking every few frames which option is best and keeping that for the next few frames, a fast heuristic is now used. This was necessary to enable multithreading
  • Most level 0 metadata interface functions now also work with Ogg FLAC files
  • When encoding Ogg FLAC files, the callback now returns a number of samples instead of always 0 (Jesper Larsson, ziplantil)
  • When changing metadata, libFLAC now detects when an input file is a symlink, and will refuse to write data to it when an in-place rewrite of the metadata cannot happen
  • When encoding using seektable templates, unused seekpoints (with a sample number higher than the total number of samples) are converted to placeholders
• Build system
  • Fix building on Android with API version < 24 (Steve Lhomme)
  • The microbench utility has been removed
  • Enable building with emscripten (werner mendizabal)
  • Minimum CMake version required (when building with CMake) is now formally 3.12
• Testing/validation
  • Improve fuzzing of allocation failures
  • Various other fuzzing improvements
• Documentation
  • The FLAC format is now specified in RFC 9639
  • The foreign metadata storage format used by the flac command line tool is now properly documented

[zeckma]

Fixed at 9175e849652ac4f5121c2074620275e2996e3859.

[Douglas R. Reno]

I'm having an interesting problem with trying to download this package.

If I click on the link in Firefox, it'll download fine. If I use wget or curl, I'll get a 404 error. Can anyone else reproduce this?

[Xi Ruoyao]

It seems the problem is ftp.osuosl.org has multiple servers:

ftp.osuosl.org: 2605:bc80:3010::134            -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2
                2600:3404:200:237::2           -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2
                2600:3402:200:227::2           -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2
                64.50.236.52                   -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2
                64.50.233.100                  -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2
                140.211.166.134                -- link: enp0s20f0u1c2

Some of them (for example 64.50.236.52) lack the tarball, and others (for example 140.211.166.134) have the tarball. So it's completely by luck.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I think they will sync up after a few hours.

[zeckma]

We could use the tarball provided on Github to avoid this issue.

[zeckma]

Since the one on Github is the same tarball, contains all the needed files, and has the same stats, I'll change the link to use the one on Github.

[zeckma]

Fixed the download link at 9847d805a2607fc3f1bab6a53ac2c301f58e8c45. Leaving open in case anyone has any objections.