Bug#600467: SDL-mixer 1.2.8 outdated/replace with SDL-mixer 1.2.11

Edward Lee tigerfishdaisy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 12:18:51 UTC 2010


Package: sdl-mixer1.2
Version: 1.2.8-6

SDL-mixer 1.2.8 is around 3 years old now and has been replaced by
1.2.11.  There have been many changes since and significant API upgrades
and bugfixes.


> Changes:
> 
> 
> 1.2.11:
> * Fixed initialization error and crashes if MikMod library isn't available
> * Fixed bug loading multiple music files
> 
> 1.2.10:
> * Added Mix_Init()/Mix_Quit() to prevent constantly loading and unloading DLLs
> * Check for fork/vfork on any platform, don't just assume it on UNIX
> * Fixed export of Mix_GetNumChunkDecoders() and Mix_GetNumMusicDecoders()
> * Use newer MIDI API on Mac OS X 10.5+
> 
> 1.2.9:
> * Updated native MIDI support on Mac OS X for 10.6
> * Reset channel volumes after a fade out interrupts a fade in.
> * Fixed crash race condition with position audio functions
> * Fixed stereo panning in 8-bit mode
> * Added /usr/share/timidity to the default timidity.cfg locations
> * MOD support uses libmikmod and is dynamically loaded by default
> * A patched version of libmikmod is included in libmikmod-3.1.12.zip
> * The libmikmod patches fix security issues CVE-2007-6720 and CVE-2009-0179.
> * Added TIMIDITY_CFG environment variable to fully locate timidity.cfg
> * Implemented seamless looping for music playback
> * ID3 files are now recognized as MP3 format
> * Fixed native MIDI crash on 64-bit Windows
> * Added decoder enumeration API:
> 	Mix_GetNumChunkDecoders(), Mix_GetChunkDecoder(),
> 	Mix_GetNumMusicDecoders(), Mix_GetMusicDecoder()
> * Added support for FLAC audio both as chunks and streaming
> * Added support for streaming WAV files with Mix_LoadMUS_RW()
> * Fixed crash caused by not resetting position_channels
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