This release features some performance enhancements, such as
precompiled JSPs and caching of directory paths. As before, set the
initial heap size to 16megs+ for best performance.

Installation requirements have been relaxed. No more Jikes (or other
Java compiler required.) The new playlist parser doesn't require an
International English version of the JRE to support the Cp437
codepage for Windows.

This release requires the new Jetty 4.1.x. Tomcat 4.1.x may also
work, but I haven't tried it. Please let me know if you try to do so.

For Rio users, there's a table comparing the different clients:

http://jreceiver.sourceforge.net/rio/jrec-faq-rio.html

The new tag parser can extract ID3 tags from MP3, Ogg, FLAC and even
WMA files. It'll even extract Vorbis tags from FLAC files. There's
a etc/tag-policy.xslt file which determines which tags have priority.

It supports the new XML-based Winamp playlist type: B4S.

The larger size of the distribution binaries is due to the size of
the libraries required for XML transformation. These will be used
quite heavily in the future, so it's worth it.

--Reed