New Version (4.2/4.2.1)

[Mr-Dave]

0. Reviewed guide and contributing documents? (Yes/No): Yes
1. version [x.y.z, hash, other]: Motion 4.1.1+dirty20180910-b8aa381
2. installed as a package or compiled from sources [deb, rpm, git, other]: Git
3. standalone or part of third party [motion, MotionEyeOS, other]: Standalone
4. video stream source [V4L (card or USB), net cam (mjpeg, rtsp, other), mmal]: rtsp
5. hardware [x86, ARM, other]: x86
6. operating system [16.04, Stretch, etc, FreeBSD, other]: Debian Stretch

Any interest from the community of preparing a 4.2 release based upon current master? Which (if any) of the open issues does the community deem critical for inclusion?

[tosiara]

I don't see any reason why we couldn't release 4.2

[leppis]

I'm having trouble building this in Raspbian Wheezy (disabling mmal), while the 4.1.1 builds all right.

Errors during compilation of 062a328 or b8aa381: -e Compiling webu.c into webu.o... webu.c: In function ‘webu_mhd_send’: webu.c:1062:52: error: ‘MHD_HTTP_HEADER_ACCESS_CONTROL_ALLOW_ORIGIN’ undeclared (first use in this function) webu.c:1062:52: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in webu.c: In function ‘webu_mhd_flags’: webu.c:1742:60: error: ‘MHD_USE_DUAL_STACK’ undeclared (first use in this function) Makefile:131: recipe for target 'webu.o' failed make: *** [webu.o] Error 1

[Mr-Dave]

Thanks for reporting. Unfortunately, Wheezy is at EOL so it is not supported. You will need to upgrade your distribution if you wish to use a updated version.

[Mr-Dave]

Short task list:

1. Update travis to include debian stretch/jessie
2. Eliminate the legacy sub stream method (legacystream PR)
3. Regress on the static file processing via netcam (mjpg-file PR)
4. Add the threshold_maximum configuration option (threshold-max PR)
5. Add config parms somewhere to be found by xgettext
6. Update po files for latest code.
7. Guide Update
   • a. How to set up to start automatically.
   • b. Instruction on how to put "all" configuration options into the motion.conf file
   • c. Instructions on how to upgrade and eliminate depreciation warnings.
   • d. Use the webcontrol preview to do side by side setup.
   • e. Configuration files section. Default sys location for motion.conf is incorrect.
   • f. Update version number on alpha list header
   • g. How to set up the motion detection
   • f. Adjust font on options-topic / alpha (looks smaller)
   • g. Valid values for movie_codec. Remove ogg.
   • h. Remove live stream reference of the http control in first sentence.
   • i. Add reference to motion image streams with the sub-streams, static images.
8. Remove substream port writing out to the parms(legacystream PR)
9. Regress to implement the 1990's web interface(1990s PR)
10. Manual update
    • Header date
    • Copyright date
11. Test BSD, Raspbian, PI camera
12. Review and revise INSTALL e.g. correct for libjpeg8
13. Update Changelog
14. Write release notes
15. Update version.sh
16. Tag as a release
17. Update/revise builddeb.sh script and debian rules
18. Build deb packages
19. Update IRC banner
20. Update news, documentation, home web pages
21. Update version.sh back to git
22. Update table for alpha list in motion_guide.html
23. Wikipedia update.
24. Consider instructional youtube videos(samples here
    • Install from apt / gdebi
    • Install from source
    • Build a deb
    • Basic setup
    • Save new config to eliminate depreciated warnings/have all options in conf file
    • What is Noise, threshold, despeckle, etc
    • Set up for movie/debug via web interface
    • Masks (smart, privacy, motion)
    • Script Execution
    • API uses

[leppis]

Wheezy is at EOL so it is not supported. You will need to upgrade your distribution if you wish to use a updated version.

Thank you, that was indeed the reason. I upgraded to Jessie and now it compiles!