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.

fluidsynth 2.0.8

• fix incorrect behavior of fluid_sample_set_sound_data() (#576, thanks to @swesterfeld)
• fix voices being mixed incorrectly, causing audible crackle esp. at sample-rates >48kHz (#580)
• make sure that defining NDEBUG disables assertions

fluidsynth 2.0.7

• fix broken audio output when reverb was active after synth creation (#563)
• fix debug console messages not being visible for debug builds on Windows

fluidsynth 2.0.6

• fix an uninitialized memory access, which could have led to NULL dereference or heap corruption in an out-of-memory situation
• fix a use-after-free when calling fluid_player_stop()
• fix the MIDI player not outputting any sound after stopping and restarting the playback (#550)

fluidsynth 2.0.5

• the MIDI player erroneously assumed a default tempo of 125 BPM rather than 120 BPM (#519)
• improve integration of systemd (#516, thanks to @fleger)
• fix a buffering bug in fluid_synth_process() (#527, thanks to @swesterfeld)
• fix a major memory leak when unloading SF3 files (#528, thanks to @mawe42)
• fix several NULL dereferences and memory leaks in jack driver
• fix a memory leak when creating threads

fluidsynth 2.0.4

• introduce verbose error reporting for fluid_settings_* functions
• avoid undefined behavior when fopen() directories
• improve compatibility with FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD (#508, thanks to @t6)
• fix build when cross compiling (#501)
• fix build on MacOSX 10.4 (#513)
• fix build when compiling with MinGW
• enable network support on Mac by default (#513)

fluidsynth 2.0.3

• fix handle leak in winmidi driver (#469, thanks to @carlo-bramini)
• fix build failures when cross compiling (#484)
• fix a bug when calculating the lower boundary of attenuation (#487, thanks to @jjceresa)
• fix a double free in fluid_sample_set_sound_data()
• silence a warning when loading soundfonts from memory (#485, thanks to @mawe42)
• minor performance improvements (#461, #471, #482, #486, thanks to @carlo-bramini and @jjceresa)