MPD 0.24 released
Music Player Daemon 0.24 has been released.
This took more than three years (sorry for the long delay), and in these years, many many new features have accumulated: better multi-channel support, improved partitions, many new protocol features, NFS4 support, …
On the development side, MPD has switched to C++20 and thus needs a modern compiler (e.g. GCC 12). The dependency on Boost was removed, good riddance!
Support for the Haiku operating system was removed because there was no maintainer. macOS support got removed temporarily, but was brought back by a new maintainer (thanks, Camille Scholtz). The Android port is still there, but hasn’t received enough attention to make it really usable.
Since MPD 0.23, there were 2397 commits by 72 contributors.
There is no shortage of ideas for MPD 0.25, and unfortunately there are too many open bug reports. I’ll try to finish MPD 0.25 faster than 0.24, but time constraints are still difficult for me. My orignal idea was to finish MPD 1.0 for its 20th anniversary, but we’re already two years past that… and the code still feels not mature enough to call it 1.0. Maybe in 2028, for MPD’s 25th anniversary?
