1.68.3 - Security & Stability Update

This release focuses on security fixes, recording stability, cleaner terminal output, and Debian packaging improvements.

🛡️ Security & Stability

• 🔒 Safer HTTP handling — Fixed out-of-bounds reads in malformed SHOUTcast/Icecast responses and oversized HTTP headers.
• 🧪 Expanded security tests — Added regression coverage for historical HTTP vulnerabilities and malformed playlists.
• 🎵 More reliable recording — Fixed buffer handling and cleanup errors during MP3/Ogg recording and track splitting.
• 🔧 Safer audio processing — Prevented integer overflow during MP3 sample analysis.

🖥️ Terminal Improvements

• Unicode titles — Preserve complete track titles when redirecting output to files or pipes.
• Cleaner status display — More space for track titles and simplified labels.
• Less flickering — Update console status only when displayed information changes.
• Clearer interruptions — Mark interrupted tracks as incomplete before cleanup or reconnection.

📦 Packaging

• Debian package renamed to streamripper-ng to avoid conflicts with the original streamripper package.
• CLI command unchanged: /usr/bin/streamripper.

1.68.2 - HLS, FLAC & Linux Support

This release introduces new recording formats, Linux packages, improved reliability, and several usability enhancements.

Highlights

• 📺 HLS recording — Record live HLS streams with automatic variant selection, AES-128 decryption, and secure HTTPS.
• 🎵 Native FLAC support — Record FLAC and Ogg FLAC streams without transcoding or quality loss.
• 🐧 Linux support — New amd64 DEB packages with automatic dependency handling.
• ✂️ Smarter AAC splitting — Detect quiet track boundaries in ADTS AAC streams without re-encoding.
• 🔄 Live metadata rules — Use --reload-rules to apply rule changes without restarting recordings.
• 📡 Automatic reconnection — Recover from temporary network and DNS failures.
• 🖥️ Improved terminal display — Responsive recording status, Unicode support, and clearer format information.

Fixes & Improvements

• HLS: Reliable segment retries without partial or skipped audio.
• FLAC: Fixed Ogg duration, seeking, finalization, and incomplete recordings.
• Networking: Improved reconnection and HTTP Retry-After handling.
• Metadata: Better ICY text encoding, station names, and title handling.
• Compatibility: Graceful handling of unsupported --relay with HLS/FLAC.

Documentation

• Added a recording format capability table.
• Consolidated metadata-rule documentation and examples.

1.68.1 - IPv6 and proxy support, Linux compatible building, reduced disk fragmentation

Recording, metadata, and networking improvements for the independent Windows and Linux CLI fork.

Highlights

• Smarter metadata handling — Automatic UTF-8 detection and timestamped ICY title logging with --metadata-log.
• Incomplete recording cleanup — Remove short incomplete recordings with --incomplete-min-duration.
• Clearer recording status — Track duration, distinct incomplete / filtered / ripping states, and connection details.
• Reduced disk fragmentation — Automatic 2 MiB preallocation on Windows and Linux ext4.
• IPv6 and proxy support — IPv4/IPv6 selection, HTTP CONNECT, and HTTPS proxies with certificate verification.
• Linux source builds — Validated on Debian 13/WSL2, with separate complete Windows and Linux build guides.

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed metadata filtering and automatic track numbering.
• Improved MP3 duration headers, AAC frame boundaries, and duration tags.
• Fixed Unicode output in Windows consoles.
• Finalize recordings and clean up short incomplete files when closing the Windows console.
• Prevent concurrent writers in the same directory and conflicting relay listeners.
• Improved recording cleanup, silence detection, and portable packaging.

Configuration Change

• User INI files are no longer loaded or saved automatically.
• Use --config FILE to load settings explicitly; command-line options take precedence.

1.68.0 - Native TLS 1.2/1.3 support, Unicode support, memory fixes and more

First public release of the independent 64-bit Windows CLI fork, based on upstream 1.65.0-alpha.

🚀 Highlights

• 🔒 Native HTTPS support — Secure streaming with OpenSSL 3.x, TLS 1.2/1.3, and certificate verification.
• 🎵 WAV recording — Save MP3 streams as 16-bit PCM WAV using --wav.
• 📡 More reliable streaming — Fixed MP3 relay playback, ICY metadata, buffering, and connection handling.
• 🌐 Better server compatibility — HTTP/1.1 chunked decoding, improved redirects, and --http10 fallback.
• 🪟 Full Unicode support — UTF-8 console output and Windows file paths.
• 📦 Portable 64-bit Windows build — Ready-to-extract 7z archive.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed memory leaks, thread handling, and shutdown issues.
• Improved TLS, socket timeouts, and error handling.
• Fixed metadata filtering, CUE files, and partial file writes.
• Improved URL parsing and HTTP response validation.
• Various stability and 64-bit compatibility fixes.

🧹 Cleanup

• Removed obsolete Winamp GUI/plugin and legacy components.
• Removed outdated SDKs, unused code, and build scripts.
• Streamlined portable distribution.