Changelog

Version 1.6.0 (2022-10-18)

Built with Go 1.19.2
New API endpoint /api/status/count (see API documentation)
New flag to configure the job purger (-job-purger <duration>) for removing finished async job requests.
The binary is now static and not longer dynamically linked.

Broadcast methods added to statistics API endpoint
Documentation updates for connection arguments in both argument help output and man-page.
proxy-port is now being used for the UI request URL port
proxy-proto is now working for the UI request URL
New request-proxy-host argument to specify a different host as the request URL from the UI.

During hot-reload some nodes can be removed. Under high load, statistics for such nodes will panic as they are no longer part of the configuration. This has now been fixed.

New mgmt-host option added for binding to different host on management interface. If not specified, same host specified with -host will be used.
New mgmt-on option added to enable/disable management interface. To disable the management interface completely, specify -mgmt-on=false.
Statistics endpoint added /api/v1/stats and /api/v1/stats/reset. Broadcast statistics in JSON format will be returned by calling the new statistics endpoint /api/v1/stats. The statistics can be reset with a call to /api/v1/stats/reset at any time (see examples).
Improved port validation for port arguments.

Fixes a rare race condition that could cause a panic while fetching status.
Improved error handling for host parsing
Versioning of management API added (/api/v1), /api/ still works and is the same as v1.
Updated man page to describe the -log argument correctly and added missing parameters.
Updated man page with header normalization information.
Systemd service file updated to create pid file at startup.
New header X-Broadcaster-Ua added to broadcasted requests containing broadcaster version (eg. Broadcaster/1.2.4)
New random broadcast functionality added (X-Broadcast-Random)
Limit of 10240 open files in systemd service file.