<P>FLAC 1.1.0 is out. New features include ReplayGain and cue sheet support, improved 24-bit compression, and tag editing in the plugins. See <AHREF="news.html#20030126">here</A> for the full list.</P>
<P>Note that the minor version has incremented, meaning forward compatibility was broken (forward compatibility means an earlier decoder can play all streams made by a later decoder). This is only because of a bug in 1.0.4 and prior where the decoder could not properly skip unknown metadata. The stream format itself has not changed and FLAC is still fully backward-compatible. All it means is that a FLAC file containing cue sheet metadata will not decode in older decoders. This bug is fixed in 1.1.0.</P>
<P>Attention <AHREF="http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp">AudioTron</A> users: Bery Rinaldo has released his <AHREF="http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/">Samba File Extension Mapping VFS Module</A> that allows FLAC files to be played on the AudioTron.</P>
<P>New development on FLAC 1.0.5 is finishing up and I hope to have the next release out before the end of the year, or early January, depending on how testing goes.</P>
<P>If you use FLAC and have suggestions or patches, please <AHREF="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13478">join the mailing list</A>. Bugs can be filed <AHREF="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=addbug&group_id=13478">here</A>, but make sure to check the <AHREF="documentation.html#bugs">known bugs</A> section first.</P>
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<TR><TDBGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONTFACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><AHREF="news.html#20020822">22-Aug-2002</A> :<BR> FLAC support for Rio Receiver<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<B>FLAC 1.0.5 released</B> I didn't get everything in that I wanted, but it's high time for a release. Here's what's new (see the latest <AHREF="http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#flac">documentation</A> for more):
<B>FLAC 1.1.0 released</B> I didn't get everything in that I wanted, but it's high time for a release.
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Note that the minor version has incremented, meaning forward compatibility was broken (forward compatibility means an earlier decoder can play all streams made by a later decoder). This is only because of a bug in 1.0.4 and prior where the decoder could not properly skip unknown metadata. The stream format itself has not changed and FLAC is still fully backward-compatible. All it means is that a FLAC file containing cue sheet metadata will not decode in older decoders. This bug is fixed in 1.1.0.
