Hey everyone, we've just released our 3.7 update! Some good improvements all around, new feature "stream keys" and WHIP push to other servers!

Downloads can be found here, and the full changelog can be found here.

Noteworthy Changes

New feature: Stream keys

Stream keys adds native support for the most common method of pushing live streams into MistServer. It allows you to set or generate a token for stream names and thus prevent the need for further customization or integration if this is your intended usage.

For more information please look at the documentation. Specifically the stream key documentation.

New feature: WHIP push to other servers

You can now use WebRTC WHIP as a push option. You can do so through the following targets:

• http: whip://example.com/publish
• https: whips://example.com/publish

Should an authentication bearer token be needed you can add this through a parameter: ?auth=TOKEN

• http: whip://example.com/publish?auth=TOKEN
• https: whips://example.com/publish?auth=TOKEN

We have verified this implementation is cross-compatible with Cloudflare, Twitch and Pion (among others).

New feature: HLS push to Youtube

MistServer now supports HLS push to Youtube specifically. When MistServer recognizes a Youtube puhs url it'll automatically adapt the push output to work. Links such as https://a.upload.youtube.com/http_upload_hls?cid=TOKEN&copy=0&file= that come from Youtube Studio can now be used directly as a push target without further configuration needed.

New feature: Shell-style string quoting and escaping

This has been a limitation for quite a while. MistServer has various places where it would run commands that you specify. However it did not implement shell-style string quoting and escaping. This made it impossible (for example) to put spaces in arguments. You should now be able to copy most commands directly into the MistServer fields that run commands, without having to worry about changing the format to something non-standard.

Pull-styled streams function better

Sometimes pull styled streams (dtsc or srt pull) would run stuttery, several improvements have been made.

Local-only UDP API auto-retries connection

In some environments MistServer would lose contact to its UDP API. This is now able to reconnect properly.