fluidsynth 2.1.7

• a regression introduced in 2.1.0 prevented chorus from being audible when fluid_synth_process() was used (#751, thanks to @chirs241097)
• a regression introduced in 2.0.6 prevented the MIDI player from restarting playback after all files have been played (#755, thanks to @rncbc)
• fix a double-free violation introduced in 2.0.0 after executing the info shell command (#756)

fluidsynth 2.1.6

SoundFonts may never be unloaded correctly, if

• polyphony is ever exceeded (#727), or
• voices are still playing while their SoundFont is being unloaded.

Calling delete_fluid_synth() does not free those SoundFonts either. Affected are versions from 1.1.4 to 2.1.5 .

Other bug-fixes:

• fix a heap-based use-after-free (#733)

fluidsynth 2.1.5

• loading DLS may have failed in certain setup environments (#666)
• fix a build failure with GCC 4.8 (#661, thanks to @ffontaine)

fluidsynth 2.1.4

• fix an uninitialized memory access possibly triggering an FPE trap
• fix several regressions introduced in 2.1.3:
  • fluid_synth_start() failed for certain presets
  • fix a NULL dereference in jack driver
  • fix a stack-based overflow when creating the synth

fluidsynth 2.1.3

• fix a cross-compilation failure from Win32 to WinARM (#630)
• fix issues while fluid_player is seeking (#634, #646)
• fix a NULL pointer dereference if synth.dynamic-sample-loading is enabled (#635)
• fix a NULL pointer dereference in delete_rvoice_mixer_threads() (#640)
• fix a NULL pointer dereference in the soundfont loader (#647, thanks to @jjceresa)
• fix dsound driver playing garbage when terminating fluidsynth (#642, thanks to @jjceresa)
• avoid memory leaks when using libinstpatch (#643)

fluidsynth 2.1.2

• fluidsynth now exits with error when user-provided command-line arguments are out-of-range (#623)
• add verbose error logging to opensles and oboe drivers (#627)
• fix a memory leak in oboe driver (#626)
• fix a NULL dereference in the fluidsynth commandline program

fluidsynth 2.1.1

• a regression introduced in 2.1.0 caused the jack audio driver to not correct a sample-rate mismatch (#607)
• pkg-config is now being to used to find readline (#606, thanks to @ffontaine)
• fix various typos in the documentation (#600, thanks to @luzpaz)
• fix a memory leak in the file renderer
• fix leaking memory when sequencer clients were not explicitly unregistered (#610)
• fix a heap-based use-after-free in jack driver (#613)
• fix the linker possibly not finding libinstpatch (#617, thanks to @realnc)

fluidsynth 2.1.0

New features

• new, less "ringing" reverb engine (#380, thanks to @jjceresa)
• new, stereophonic chorus engine (#548, thanks to @jjceresa)
• support for Downloadable Sounds (DLS) files was added (#320, requires libinstpatch)
• improved integrity checking of SoundFont modulators (#467, thanks to @jjceresa)
• rendering to stdout is now possible (#553, thanks to @mawe42)
• the following Audio Drivers have been added:
  • Oboe (#464, tested on Android, thanks to @atsushieno)
  • OpenSLES (#464, tested on Android, thanks to @atsushieno)
  • SDL2 (#478, thanks to @carlo-bramini)
  • WaveOut (#466, tested on Win98, WinNT4.0, WinXP, thanks to @carlo-bramini)
• various performance improvements (#543, #545, #547, #569, #573)

Bug fixes

• generator modEnvAttack now has a convex shape according to SoundFont spec (#153)
• the default MIDI Pitch Wheel to Initial Pitch modulator now uses Fine Tune as destination generator, allowing it to be overridden by the soundfont designer (#154, thanks to @jjceresa)

fluidsynth 2.0.9

• an implicitly declared function caused a pointer to int truncation in CoreAudio driver (#591)
• fix a stack-based overflow in CoreAudio driver (#594, thanks to @fkmclane)

fluidsynth 2.1 RC1

Release candidate of fluidsynth 2.1.0 as it is planned to be released in late November. For more details refer to the mailing list:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2019-10/msg00012.html

Prebuilt binaries for Android (#574, thanks to @JonLatane) and WindowsXP (and later) are attached and for the future will be available as CI artifacts.