This new myMPD major version brings only a few new features, but the backend code has been completely rewritten. The web server and the mpd client code have been swapped out into their own threads, which communicate with each other with an asynchronous message queue. This provides the necessary flexibility to enhance existing features and implement new ones.
Many thanks to rollenwiese for his work on the docker support for myMPD.
The release code is now compiled with -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -pie for security reasons. myMPD 5 is the first release, that was completely checked with the valingrid memchecker.
WARNING: This release has a new configuration file syntax. You should copy the mympd.conf.dist file over your configuration and customize it.
Functional changes
- docker support (experimental)
- read environment variables (overwrites configuration options)
- AutoPlay - add song to (empty) queue and mpd starts playing
- new webui startup modal
- better handling of mpd connection errors
Code improvements
- separate threads for backend and frontend functions
- many security and memory leak fixes
- remove global states
- fix compiler warnings