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libtimidity-0.2.7 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.7/

ChangeLog:

• Several code clean-ups.
• Several build and portability fixes/updates.

libtimidity-0.2.6 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.6/

ChangeLog:

• fixed a possible signed integer overflow with crafted midi files.
• other minor clean-ups, etc.

libtimidity-0.2.5 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.5/

ChangeLog:

• allow dual-licensing as LGPL / Artistic.

libtimidity-0.2.4 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.4/

ChangeLog:

• fixes to the pkg-config file.

libtimidity-0.2.3 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.3/

ChangeLog:

• fixed a potential buffer overrun in timi_fgets() which might have led
  to a crash during config parsing.

libtimidity-0.2.2 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous version. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.2/
ChangeLog:

• removed DLS instruments support completely, it was never good enough:
  one less thing to worry about. (and no, the 0.2.x api didn't change.)

libtimidity-0.2.1 is released: This is a stable maintenance release
after the previous v0.2.0, upgrading is encouraged. Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.1/
ChangeLog:

• new --with-timidty-cfg=FILE configury option to specify the full path
  of timidity.cfg. the default is "timidity.cfg". if building without
  configury and a config.h, you can always edit options.h to change the
  value of TIMITIDY_CFG macro.
• fixed 8 bit output in test programs (use U8 format, not S8), along
  with some other minor issues.
• fixed some minor portability issues.
• added project files and standalone makefiles for windows and mac os x.
• fixed copyright/license mistakes in some files, license clarification.
• added standalone makefiles for less common operating systems e.g. dos,
  os/2, morphos, aros, and amigaos.

libtimidity-0.2.0 is released: This is a stable major bugfix / maintenance
release. Upgrading is encouraged. Download from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libtimidity/files/libtimidity/0.2.0/
ChangeLog:

• stream.c, api change: added mid_istream_seek and mid_istream_tell to
  the mid_istream_* api. added seek and tell funcs to the _MidIStream
  structure. mid_istream_open_callbacks() is changed now accepts these
  callbacks.
• stream.c, api change: mid_istream_open_mem() no longer accepts an
  autoclose parameter, which was error-prone.
• MidSongOptions, api change: padded the struct with reserved members
  for better alignment.
• mid_song_load(): options are now validated. limited the acceptable
  sample rate range to 4000-256000. MID_AUDIO_U16MSB audio format is
  now handled correctly.
• malloc-safe: upon memory allocation failures, the library either does
  a mid_exit() to free all the allocated memory during init time, or a
  mid_song_free() to free the allocated memory during a song load time.
• the library can be compiled using a different memory allocator than
  malloc. (edit common.h for timi_malloc and timi_free)
• mid_init(), mid_init_no_config(): a mid_exit() is guaranteed upon
  config file parse failures or malloc() failures.
• mid_init(): the library doesn't care about common timidity.cfg system
  locations any more, callers of mid_init() are responsible for it. if
  the config file argument to mid_init() contains a parent directory,
  that will be added to timidity search path.
• mid_exit(): does a proper cleanup now and a reinitialization of the
  library doesn't crash.
• multiple resampling fixes. several timidity-0.2i fixes from the
  onicos.com site (http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/dist/),
  as well as a few bits from timidity++. several fixes for memory
  errors reported by valgrind.
• mid_istream_skip(): accepts a long type length instead of size_t
  and returns success or failure now.
• options.h (DEFAULT_DRUMCHANNELS): do not mark 16 as a drum channel.
• read_midi_file(): added support for Microsoft RMID format.
• read_midi_file(): fixed parsing of certain MIDI files with extra
  data at the end of the tracks. (SDL_mixer bug:
  http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299)
• read_config_file(): honor the return code from a recursive call.
• mid_get_version(): new function to retrieve library version.
• DLS instruments support: made it a config time option, disabled by
  default, because the code isn't good enough, neither is it used in
  unix installations where timidity is normally needed.
• DLS: a few changes from vavoom svn repository to fix loading of drums
  and somewhat improve the dls instruments use. still not good enough.
• renamed macro FSCALE to TIM_FSCALE to avoid possible clashes with
  system headers. renamed FSCALENEG to TIM_FSCALENEG for consistency.
• support for elf and macho symbol visibility attributes. support for
  windows dllexport/dllimport attributes.
• build: changed DEBUG to TIMIDITY_DEBUG for DEBUG_MSG. made to compile
  cleanly using newer gcc versions, as well as clang. made it to compile
  using C++ compilers.