Hello everyone! Stable release 2.18 of MistServer is now available! The full changelog is available here and downloads are here. Our Pro edition customers with active licenses will receive a new build notification in their e-mail automatically.

It's been an especially long time as we've done a lot of preparation for a rather large overhaul of the MistServer core to boost performance and make our in/outputs a lot more flexible. Another smaller update containing smaller changes will follow soon™.

Here are some highlights:

Features:

• Pro: Default stream and fallback options for any stream unable to load. Handy for "technical difficulties" or placeholders for intermittently live streams.
• Pro: Advanced track selectors, allowing you to select a track based on additional specifications. (See updated manual for details.)
• Pro: Playlist support (.pls files), for scheduling VoD content as pretend-live streams.
• Added stream start time option to the .html output. The ?t=X GET parameter will allow you to start playback at any point, where X is time in seconds.
• Added support for multiple public addresses, added support for "X-Mst-Path" HTTP header to override public address directly from HTTP proxies for improved reliability.

Improvements:

• Pro: HLS live input is now multithreaded and supports decoding clearkey encryption.
• Optimized speed of the HTTPS protocol and HTTP parsing code.
• Meta player has improved UX for mobile users.
• HTTP/RTSP headers are now case insensitive.

Bugfixes:

• Pro: Fixed a TS input deadlock for unknown track types.
• Pro: Fixed "always on" streams to no longer be stuck in that state.
• Pro: Fixed RTMP_PUSH_REWRITE and PUSH_OUT_START triggers not ignoring responses in non-blocking mode
• Certbot now correctly handles certificate renewals
• Added a workaround for issue 2865, introduced in OBS version 25
• Metaplayer fixed duplicate player problems, improved videojs/dashjs stability and several small improvements