What's new in WavPack 5.6.0
Nov 28, 2022
- WavPack Library Source Code - 5.6.0
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 5.6.0
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 5.6.0
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 5.6.0
- wvtag.exe (command-line tagging utility) - 5.6.0
- added: AIFF file import/export support
- added: WATCOM compiler and OS/2 support
- added: cmake support for mingw, builds Cooledit + Winamp plugins
- added: --force-even-byte-depth option for rounding up bit depths
- fixed: detect and report PCM files having non-zero padding bits
- fixed: possible crash when displaying long channel assignments
- fixed: big-endian-sourced "raw" files gave big-endian "wav"s
- fixed: numerous minor issues
New in WavPack 5.5.0 (Nov 28, 2022)
- WavPack Library Source Code - 5.5.0
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 5.5.0
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 5.5.0
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 5.5.0
- wvtag.exe (command-line tagging utility) - 5.5.0
- fixed: CVE-2021-44269 (encoding crafted DSD file triggers OOB read crash)
- fixed: very long filenames cause stack-overflow crash in all CLI programs
- fixed: the length stored in WAV headers not always corrected when using -i
- fixed: attempting to encode raw DSD audio from stdin sometimes causes crash
- fixed: DSD to PCM decimation: small clicks between tracks and tiny DC offset
- fixed: length update in library-generated WAV headers on big-endian machines
- fixed: sanitize custom extensions read from WavPack files to be alphanumeric
- added: accepting brace-delimited options in the wavpack executable filename
- added: "--drop" option to Windows executables for multi-file "drag-and-drop"
- added" "--raw-pcm" option to wvunpack executable (does DSD --> 24-bit PCM)
- added: "--no-overwrite" option to wavpack executable (to resume sessions)
- improved: build system clean-up including switch to non-recursive "make"
New in WavPack 5.4.0 (Jan 19, 2021)
- WavPack 5.4.0 contains a fix for CVE-2020-35738 wherein a specially crafted WAV file could cause the WAVPACK command-line program to crash with an out-of-bounds write (see issue #91).
- Additional changes:
- new "quick verify" option (-vv) added to WVUNPACK
- update Windows builds to Visual Studio 2019
- fix build on Apple silicon
New in WavPack 5.3.0 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Fixed: trailing garbage characters on imported ID3v2 TXXX tags
- Fixed: various minor undefined behavior and memory access issues
- Fixed: sanitize tag extraction names for length and path inclusion
- Improved: reformat wvunpack "help" and split into long + short versions
- Added: regression testing to Travis CI for OSS-Fuzz crashers
New in WavPack 5.2.0 (Dec 25, 2019)
- fixed: potential security issues including the following CVEs:
- CVE-2018-19840 CVE-2018-19841 CVE-2018-10536
- CVE-2018-10537 CVE-2018-10538 CVE-2018-10539
- CVE-2018-10540 CVE-2018-7254 CVE-2018-7253
- CVE-2018-6767
- added: support for CMake, Travis CI, and Google's OSS-fuzz
- fixed: use correction file for encode verify (pipe input, Windows)
- fixed: correct WAV header with actual length (pipe input, -i option)
- fixed: thumb interworking and not needing v6 architecture (ARM asm)
- added: handle more ID3v2.3 tag items and from all file types
- fixed: coredump on Sparc64 (changed MD5 implementation)
- fixed: handle invalid ID3v2.3 tags from sacd-ripper
- fixed: several corner-case memory leaks
New in WavPack 5.1.0 (Jan 23, 2017)
- WavPack Library Source Code - 5.1.0
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 5.1.0
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 5.1.0
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 5.1.0
- wvtag.exe (command-line tagging utility) - 5.1.0
- added: all new command-line tagging utility (wvtag)
- added: option to import ID3v2.3 tags from Sony DSF files
- fixed: fuzz test failures from AFL reported on SourceForge
- improved: DSD decimation filter (less HF rolloff & CPU use)
- fixed: non-byte audio depths (12-bit, 20-bit) not showing
- fixed: rare case of noise-shaping triggering a lossy mute
- fixed: recognize UTF-8 BOM when reading text files
- fixed: a few portability issues
- in_wv.dll (winamp plugin) - 2.8.0.3
- CoreWavPack DirectShow Filters - 1.5.1.0
- AmioWavpack.amio (Adobe Audition Plugins) - 2.1
- cool_wv4.flt (Cool Edit / Audition filter) - 3.1
- updated: see 5.1.0 library changes
New in WavPack 5.0.0 (Jan 3, 2017)
- WavPack Library Source Code 5.0.0
- wavpack.exe (commandline encoder) 5.0.0
- wvunpack.exe (commandline decoder) 5.0.0
- wvgain.exe (commandline ReplayGain scanner) 5.0.0
- added: multiple input formats, including RF64, Wave64, and CAF
- added: lossless DSD audio in Philips DSDIFF and Sony DSF files
- fixed: seeking in > 2GB WavPack files (new stream reader)
- fixed: accept > 4GB source audio files (all formats)
- improved: increase maximum samples from 2^32 to 2^40
- added: block checksums for robustness to corruption
- added: support for nonstandard channel identities
- removed: support for legacy WavPack files (< 4.0)
- added: block decoder for streaming applications
- fixed: many small fixes and improvements
- added: all new pdf documentation
- AmioWavpack.amio (Adobe Audition Plugins) 2.0
- improved: all new dialog for WavPack settings
- fixed: handle unlimited audio file size
- fixed: save all Amio channel identities
- added: save/restore APEv2 tags
- in_wv.dll (winamp plugin) 2.8.0.2
- CoreWavPack DirectShow Filters 1.5.0.0
- cool_wv4.flt (Cool Edit / Audition filter) 3.0
- updated: see 5.0.0 library changes
New in WavPack 4.80.0 (Jan 3, 2017)
- wavpack.exe (commandline encoder) 4.80.0
- wvunpack.exe (commandline decoder) 4.80.0
- wvgain.exe (commandline ReplayGain scanner) 4.80.0
- added: full Unicode support on Windows platform
- added: new option prequantize to truncate highresolution files
- to a reasonable depth (e.g., 20bit) for better compression
- fixed: Debian bug #793320 (executable stack)
- fixed: LargeAddressAware problem reported on HA
- fixed: several "fuzz test" failures reported on GitHub
- fixed: repack blocks after possible arithmetic overflows
- improved: faster assembly code for mono packing
- improved: portability for various platforms
- wvtest.exe (commandline libwavpack test suite) 4.80.0
- added: exhaustive test for WavpackSeekSample() API
- in_wv.dll (winamp plugin) 2.8.0.1
- CoreWavPack DirectShow Filters 1.3.0.0
- AmioWavpack.amio (Adobe Audition Plugins) 1.5
- cool_wv4.flt (CoolEdit / Audition filter) 2.14
- updated: see 4.80.0 library changes
New in WavPack 4.75.2 (Jan 3, 2017)
- fixed: corrupt mono or multichannel files created with assembly code (rare)
- fixed: building on Clang systems like Darwin and FreeBSD (req. Clang 3.5+)
- fixed: explicitly sign-extend audio data (< 4-byte) to avoid corrupt files
- fixed: rare decoding errors due to integer overflow (ARM assembly code)
- added: assembly optimizations for "extra" mode on mono or multichannel
- wvtest.exe (command-line libwavpack test suite) - 4.75.2
- all new program to stress-test libwavpack (requires Pthreads)
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 4.75.2
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 4.75.2
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 4.75.2
- fixed: corrupt mono or multichannel files created with assembly code (rare)
- added: assembly optimizations for "extra" mode on mono or multichannel
- improved: flush stderr after all writes
- cool_wv4.flt (CoolEdit / Audition filter) - 2.13
- AmioWavpack.amio (Adobe Audition Plugins) - 1.4
- fixed: corrupt mono or multichannel files (rare)
New in WavPack 4.75.0 (Jan 3, 2017)
- WavPack Library Source Code - 4.75.0
- improved: reorganization for modularity and to improve linking
- added: assembly optimizations for encode/decode on x86 and x64
- added: assembly optimizations for decoding on ARMv7 (Linux)
- improved: several minor speed optimizations using intrinsics
- fixed: wavpack.pc.in not working correctly on some Linux distros
- fixed: memcpy() issue causing abort() on OpenBSD
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 4.75.0
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 4.75.0
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 4.75.0
- changed: writing to console title default is off (Linux only, -z1 to enable)
- fixed: wvgain crashes on bad file arguments (Debian bug #716478)
- cool_wv4.flt (CoolEdit / Audition filter) - 2.12
- improved: performance (from assembly optimizations)
New in WavPack 4.70.0 (Oct 21, 2013)
- wavpack.exe (command-line encoder):
- added: transcoding from existing WavPack files (with tag copy)
- added: option to verify WavPack file integrity on creation (-v)
- added: use temporary files for safer overwriting
- added: detect UTF-16LE encoding for tag text files (mostly a Windows thing)
- added: --version command to write machine-parsable value
- added: option to allow up to 16 MB APEv2 tag data (--allow-huge-tags)
- added: allow channel-order specification on WAV files with zeroed channel mask
- added: several Windows features to Linux (clean ^C handling, console title)
- added: 4GB file support on 32-bit Linux targets
- WavPack Library Source Code:
- fixed: seeking to last block failure (after finishing file)
- fixed: memcpy() not always used correctly (Linux targets)
- fixed: unsigned char issue (ARM targets)
- fixed: add binary tag functions to Windows DLL exports (forgot on 4.60)
- added: read-only access to APEv2 tags that come at the beginning of files
- improved: switched to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (win32 only)
- wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder):
- added: use temporary files for safer overwriting
- added: --version command to write machine-parsable value
- added: new command (-f) for getting machine-parsable WavPack file info
- added: option (-n) to suppress audio decoding (useful for extracting only tags)
- wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 4.70.0
- fixed: the -q (quiet) option would cause the -c (clean) option to fail
- added: version command (-v) to write machine-parsable value
- in_wv.dll (winamp plugin):
- fixed: settings could not be saved on newer Windows versions (7 & 8)
- fixed: installation issue caused by including manifest in build
- added: dialog to installer suggesting "Winamp Essentials Pack"
New in WavPack 4.60.1 (Dec 2, 2009)
- fixed: filename specs in tag extractions failed in batch operations
- fixed: prevent creation of APEv2 tags > 1 MB (which we can't read)
- fixed: crash when decoding old WavPack files (pre version 4.0)
- added: man pages to build system and updated with newer options
- added: versioning info to Windows DLL
- improved: build compatibility (eliminated uchar, ushort types)
New in WavPack 4.60 (Sep 28, 2009)
- added: API for reading & writing binary fields in APEv2 tags
- fixed: recognize APEv2 tags with footers but no headers
- fixed: playback of files with 8 streams (15-16 channels)
- fixed: playback and seeking failed on certain rare correction files
- fixed: handle case where library makes RIFF header but app adds RIFF trailer
- improved: channel count limit now virtually unlimited (tested to 256)
- improved: move all tag functions into new module (tags.c)
New in WavPack 4.50 (Jun 19, 2008)
- added: dynamic noise shaping for improved hybrid quality
- added: option to merge blocks of similar redundancy
- added: ability to store and retrieve extra mode level
- fixed: alignment fault on some big-endian machines
- fixed: compiling with enable-mmx on gcc 4.3.x (thanks Joachim)
- improved: allow bitrate to be calculated for files down to 1/10 second
- improved: decoding of corrupt files (prevents heap overrun crashes)
New in WavPack 4.41 (May 10, 2007)
- added: create wavpackdll.dll for Windows (not used yet)
- fixed: corrupt floating-point audio on big-endian machines
- fixed: put MSVC projects in their own subdir (fixed build problems)
- fixed: limit RIFF data buffering to 16 MB to prevent out-of-memory crash
- improved: attempt to mute errors when decoding corrupt legacy WavPack files
- improved: overall performance enhancements of 10% to 30% (depending on mode)
- added: MMX intrinsics for 24-bit (and higher) stereo encoding (thanks to Joachim Henke)
New in WavPack 4.40 beta (Nov 29, 2006)
- fixed: detect debug mode in all cases (win32 only)
- improved: use latest service pack and SDK for building (win32 only)
- improved: better directory choice for logging file (win32 only)
- improved: allow shell to expand wildcards (*nix only)
- added: option (-o) to specify output directory or path (*nix only)
- added: option (-t) to copy timestamp (*nix only)