# Chapter 1. Introduction

Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports:

- Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3)

- Recording Client Streams (FLV only)

- Shared Objects

- Live Stream Publishing

- Remoting (AMF)

For the current release information goto the Releases page at red5.org.

Lastly the documentation is under development at the moment. If you have unanswered questions after using it, please check out our mailing list

## 1.1. 0.8 Public Beta Release

More stable version of 0.7 for production environment testing. This public beta release will have many more features and so the focus should be on testing and bug reports.

- Hot Deployment

- Auto-unpacking of wars

- New Install application for example apps

** examples are downloaded and installed on demand

- No installed examples by default

- New Download Repository

- Official Release Home (red5.org)

- New Welcome page with new styles

- Bug fixes

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