Dear customers,

In the framework of upgrading the quality of our services, we have updated the azura cast servers to the latest stable version, which fixes several errors.

New Features/Changes

  • Passwordless Login with Passkeys: You can now associate passkeys (also known as WebAuthn) with your account and then automatically log in with those passkeys any time. Popular passkeys include those provided by your operating system (i.e. Windows Hello or Apple's Safari passkey system) or may be provided by third-party software (like Bitwarden). They're a secure alternative to passwords and two-factor authentication. You can register multiple passkeys with a single account, and if you ever misplace your passkey, you can still log in with your regular e-mail address and password (and two-factor auth, if you've set one up).

Code Quality/Technical Changes

  • We've even further improved our performance on production installations by switching from PHP-FPM to the Roadrunner PHP application engine and tweaking how we handle caching on things like album art images. These changes should dramatically reduce how often PHP is called, and make it much faster when it is called.

  • Our High-Performance Now Playing updates through Centrifugo now send the current Now Playing data immediately upon connection, meaning you can rely on it exclusively for Now Playing data instead of making another API call to load the initial data. See our updated code samples for more information.

  • MariaDB has been updated to 11.2. Databases will automatically be upgraded on the first boot after updating.

  • If you upload media to a folder and that folder is set to auto-assign to a playlist, the media will instantly be a part of that playlist, not subject to a sync task delay; this should greatly improve the user experience when using this feature.

  • We've identified several places in our Docker image where caches led to excessive image size. We've reduced our uncompressed Docker image size from 3GB to 1.4GB, and the compressed images from 700MB to under 500MB. This should mean faster update pulls and less disk space used for installation operators.

Bug Fixes

  • An issue causing audio recordings to break the station filesystem was fixed by Liquidsoap, and the fixed version is included in this version of AzuraCast.

  • A bug causing fade/cue/etc. values on media of "0" or "0.0" to not properly disable crossfading/etc. has been fixed.



Thursday, January 4, 2024





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