Red5 0.7.1 - What will be there for us?

Red5 flash media server is in version 0.7 and the next release is v0.7.1. Below is a look of new Red5 features, known bugs and enhancements, we may see in the next release.

New Features:-

W3C Logging Format

Unlike FMS, Red5 server was not able to logging in an easily parsable W3C format in previous versions. In this new version, Red5 will support W3C logging format.

Detailed Information (Stats API)

FMS provides the detailed information about the stream such as bytes sent, client ip etc. and also provides splitting of logging file depending on it's an event or access log. It seperate outs the debugging and errors of application from Access log. Red5 will now also provide the detailed information as mentioned above in the next version.

Run all protocols on all ports

FMS provides support for running protocols on different ports. According to Adobe -

"Flash Player communicates with the Flash Communication Server using RTMP protocol over port 1935. If that fails, it will try again over ports 443 and 80 in an attempt to workaround firewall settings within a company, which prevents TCP/IP connections over non-standard ports. The above approach allows approximately 96% of all users to access publicly accessible Flash Communication servers"

Read in detail from HTTP Tunneling protocols

In the current version of Red5, this thing does not happen. Red5 only listen to a port configured in red5.properties file. There was no way to listen on multiple ports for all protocols like FMS, but in the next release 0.7.1, Red5 will support this feature.

Enhancements:-

Extend Scope Easily

Previously stats counters in scope were private, so they were not available when you extend the scope. Now all the current stats counters have been made protected to let them easily accessible by subclasses.

Bug Fixes:-

RemoteObject now works with Flex3 beta 3. More details are here.
Marshalling errror when pass Int from Flash Client to Red5 fixed. More details are here.

This was just a quick look of Red5 v0.7.1 future release. More detail information over new features, enhancements and bug fixes will be available in the release notes when 0.7.1 will be released.