Wowza Media Server is a Flash Media Server alternative, Flash streaming server and flash server.



Development Builds
In between stable, official releases, the Wowza Team will periodically produce development builds in the form of patches. This allows users to try out the latest releases of Wowza Server to test and give feedback, and to get access to new features early.

Please note that these are not official releases and may not be stable. Your feedback is greatly appreciated by sending email to support@wowzamedia.com.

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All patches are accumulative. Each new patch contains the changes and fixes included in any previous patches.

WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch8.zip
  • Improved RTSP/RTP to support more devices including the Amino set-top box
  • Improved SHOUTcast/Icecast re-streaming performance (both AAC and MP3 streams)
  • Added RTP property sendSDESEvents to Application.xml to control sending of onSDES events
  • Added Smooth streaming fragementation configuration properties
  • Added HTTPStreamer property to Application.xml named smoothStreamingUseSMILBitrates to force Smooth streaming to use bitrates in .smil file
  • Added Pragma: no-cache header to Smooth streaming Manifest and encryption key requests
  • Changed rtspConnectionTimeout default (RTSP/RTP) to 8 seconds
  • Fixed RTSP/RTP, Smooth Streaming and Cupertino Streaming logging context problem
  • Fixed small potential problem with RTPPacket.write where it could cause java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException error
  • Fixed RTSP/RTP logging issue
  • Version: 2.0.0.08 build23392 (26 Feb 2010 14:32:00 PST)
WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch6.zip
  • Fixed low level UDP send problem with RTSP/RTP and MPEG-TS out
  • Changed Cupertino streaming: set default playlistMimeType to application/vnd.apple.mpegurl to avoid warning in iPhone stream validator
  • Changed Cupertino streaming: set default value of relativePlaylistItems to true to avoid warning in iPhone stream validator
  • Added RTP-Info statement to RTSP headers when streaming audio only
  • Fixed order in which notifySessionCreate is called to be sure appInstance is valid in the RTSPSession
  • Fixed problem with FCUnsubscribe
  • Added RTP/IdleFrequency setting to Application.xml
  • Added MediaWriter/Properties container to Application.xml
  • Changed RTP/IdleFrequency setting in VHost.xml to 25
  • Fixed problem with PublishingProviderMediaReader where it was referencing the incorrect logging class
  • Added RTP/Property rtspSessionName to control SDP data session name (accepts variables such as ${com.wowza.wms.context.StreamName})
  • Added API RTPStream.getSessionName() and RTPStream.setSessionName(String sessionName)
  • Added ability to turn on/off logging of playlist switches in Stream class (switchLog)
  • Added debugKeyFrameTimecodes boolean Streams/Property to Application.xml to help debug key frame alignment
  • Added following configuration properties to HTTPStreamers.xml: requestTimeout, tcpTimeToLive, tcpKeepAliveTimeout
  • Version: 2.0.0.06 build23206 (08 Feb 2010 21:05:00 PST)
WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch4.zip
  • Added IMediaWriterActionNotify listener interface to enable notification of MediaWrite write completion for file post processing and moving
  • Added ModuleMediaWriterFileMover to enable per-application file moving afte file writing
  • Added RTP/Property rtspBindIpAddress to control the UDP bind address for RTSP sessions
  • Added ability to configure Cupertino streaming mime-types using HTTPStreamer properties: playlistMimeType, videoMimeType, keyMimeType
  • Added ability to configure Cupertino streaming playlist URLs to relative URLS through boolean property relativePlaylistItems
  • Fixed issue that caused server shutdown down when invalid RTSP/RTP connections were attempted
  • Fixed logging issue with Smooth and Cupertino streaming when using the live stream repeater
  • Version: 2.0.0.04 build23145 (31 Jan 2010 05:22:00 PST)
WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch3.zip
  • Fixed Smooth and Cupertino streaming logging issue with x-suri, x-suri-stem, x-name, x-suri-query, x-sname-query
  • Fixed shutdown issue
  • Fixed JMX applicationInstance removal of IOPerformanceHTTPSmooth object
  • Fixed Smooth Streaming exception in MediaReaderH264SmoothStreamer.getVideoFragment/getAudioFragment
  • Updated PublishingProviderLive to properly deal with stream duration when a live stream is not available
  • Version: 2.0.0.03 build23122 (28 Jan 2010 14:42:00 PST)
WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch2.zip
  • Fixed problem with RTP extension header interpretation
  • Change default value of smoothStreamingMediaMajorVersion from 1 to 2 (we now have a 2.0 compatible live player)
  • Fixed HTTPByteReader read problem where it was incorrectly reading the header size in rare cases (Amazon EC2 vods3 problem)
  • Fixed server level connection counters (smooth and cupertino counter were crossed)
  • Added API IApplicationInstance.getPublishStreamNames()
  • Fixed JMX problem where operations with same name but different arguments where being filtered out
  • Improved locking performance of MediaStreamMap (added Client.streamCache)
  • Improved error checking in AAC RTP depacketizer (rfc 3640)
  • Improvde MediaStreamMap stream name locking
  • Version: 2.0.0.02 build23100 (21 Jan 2010 09:10:00 PST)
WowzaMediaServer2.0.0-patch1.zip
  • Fixed JMX applicationInstance removal of IOPerformanceHTTPSmooth object
  • Fixed several documentation errors
  • Fixed page reload problem with Silverlight streaming
  • Fixed problem with MediaStreamMap synchronization
  • Fixed problem with NetStream.receiveVideo(false) not properly cloning AMFPackets
  • Added new reconnect delay mechanism to MediaCaster system
  • Added support for RTSP/RTP bind address (MediaCaster property rtspBindAddress)
  • Added support for RTSP/RTP SETUP Blocksize header (MediaCaster property rtspBlockSize)
  • Fixed SSL problems on OSX
  • Added support for NetConnection.proxyType = "best" when using RTMPS
  • Version: 2.0.0.01 build23027 (12 Jan 2010 14:35:00 PST)