- update to version 2.5.0:
* Autotools and packaging changes:
- Upgraded autoconf version requirement to 2.60
- Added '--with-alsa' to suppress ALSA sound driver inclusion
- Added '--without-oss' to suppress OSS sound driver inclusion
- Added '--disable-cache' to remove tags cache support
- Added specific GDB support to '--enable-debug'
- Refactor decoder plug-ins' autoconf scripts into source
directories
- Ensure that all decoders get into the source distribution
tarball
- Removed SID decoder's dependance on .la-file presence
- Removed distribution-specific .spec file
- Minor reformatting of the configure summary
- Added warnings for various deprecations and potential problems
- Added warnings for unmet future package requirements
- Updated GNU boilerplate text
* Improved support for embedded systems:
- Refined FFmpeg decoder configuration for use with
cross-compilation
- Provided use of Tremor with the Vorbis decoder
- Improve portability to non-GNU library platforms
- Added --with-libiconv-prefix configure option
* Audio driver changes:
- Allow use of the OSSv4 per-application mixer API
- Provided SNDIO support for OpenBSD systems
* New and changed audio decoders:
- New TiMidity decoder for MIDI
- Migrate AAC decoder to later FAAD2 API
- Added AAC+ (HE-AAC) support to AAC decoder