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<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>

<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>

  <div class=section>
  
    <h3>Server</h3>
 
    <div class=section>

      <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
      Devices may
      be specified either by UID or name.  Fixes <a
       href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
      27</a>.</p>

      <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
      should be a bit lower.  Note though that all the sound output code has
      been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
      that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
      
      <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
      of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
      
    </div>
      
    <h3>Web Interface</h3>
 
    <div class=section>

      <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
      with punctuation).  (Please see <a
      href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
      
    </div>
      
    <h3>RTP Player</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
      to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
      the man page for details.</p>
      
      <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
      under OS X (as above).</p>
        
    </div>
      
    <h3>General</h3>

    <div class=section>

      <p>IPv6 should now work.  Network address specifications
      (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
      <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
      of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>

      <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
      href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
      5.1.0</a>.</p>

      <p>Various elements of the source code have been
      rationalized.</p>
      
    </div>
    
    <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
          <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
          <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
          <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
          <td>Missing stub function</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
          <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
          <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
          <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
          <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
        </tr>
        
      </table>
      
    </div>
  </div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>

  <div class=section>

    <h3>Disobedience</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
        played.  This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
        various situations.</p>

        <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
        ones.  The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>

        <p>&ldquo;Select all&rdquo; is now no longer available in the choose
        tab.  Instead there is a new &ldquo;Select children&rdquo; option which
        selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>

      </div>

    <h3>Server</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half.  You
        can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
        &ldquo;<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>&rdquo; in the config file.</p>

        <p>It is now possible to &lsquo;adopt&rsquo; randomly picked tracks.
        Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
        interface does not.</p>

        <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
        generated by iTunes.</p>
        
      </div>

    <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>

      <div class=section>

        <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>

        <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
         href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>.  The main
        goal is to prohibit <a
         href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>

        <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
        packages.  There are a number of improvements to the Debian
        packaging.</p>

        <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>

        <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>

      </div>

  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
          <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
          <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </div>
  </div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch.  If this is turned off
      then Disobedience will connect to a local server.  Formerly it would
      always use TCP/IP.</p>

      <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
      Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
      now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
      
    </div>

  <h3>Documentation</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
      <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
      
    </div>

  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <table class=bugs>
        <tr>
          <th>ID</th>
          <th>Description</th>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
          <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      
    </div>
</div>


<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Disobedience's &ldquo;Login&rdquo; window now works when you are logged
  in.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
  
    <div class=section>
  
      <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>

      <ul>
        
        <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
        greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
        applications.</li>

        <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab.  The initiation
        of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
        half way through entering search terms.</li>

        <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
    
        <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
        be used.</li>

        <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
      a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
      fully up to date.</p>

    </div>
     
  <h3>Server</h3>
  
    <div class=section>

      <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
      now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
      behaviour).</p>
      
    </div>
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly.  As part of this,
  <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>.  The configure
  script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work.  It could be
  restored if there is real demand.</p>
  
  <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
  Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
  changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
  turned on or off).  See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
  commands described in disorder(1).</p>

</div>

<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>

  <ul>

    <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
    eligible for random choice.</li>

    <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
    non-uniform track selection.  See disorder(1) for details.</li>

    <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
    the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
    The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>

    <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
    <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>

  </ul>

</div>

<h4>Web Interface</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been largely rewritten.  The most immediate benefits are:</p>

  <ul>
    
    <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
    includes links to parent directories.</li>
    
    <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
    instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
    redirected to the login page.</li>

  </ul>

  <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
  is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
  less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>

  <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
  possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server.  See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
  <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>

  <p>The web interface is now installed automatically.  If you don't want it,
  use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>.  If you want it in a non-default
  location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
  and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
  
</div>

</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>There is now a new user management window.  From here you can add and
  remove users or modify their settings.</p>

  <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
  <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>

</div>

<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
  set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>

</div>

<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>

<div class=section>

  <table class=bugs>
    <tr>
      <th>ID</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
      <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
      <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
      <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
      <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
      <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
      <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
      subsequently redirected to login page</td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
      <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
    </tr>
    
  </table>

</div>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>

  <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
  syntax it will accept.</p>

  <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p><b>Important</b>!  See <a
  href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
  
  <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
  
<div class=section>
  
  <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported.  There is now a bash
  script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
  <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
  file.</p>
  
  <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
  only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
  
  <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
  
  <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
  configuration command.  This also controls how the volume is set,
  which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
  
  <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Web Interface</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
  allows online registration of new users.  Also it is no longer
  necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
  can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
  
  <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
  
  <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved.  It has
  been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
  7 and Opera 9.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
  queue while no track was playing has been fixed.  There is a new
  'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
  
</div>

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d8b95785 RK	58	<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
	59	href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
	60
f5fd9a6b RK	61	<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
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	63	<div class=section>
	64
f207f710 RK	65	<h3>Server</h3>
f207f710 RK	66
f5fd9a6b RK	67	<div class=section>
f5fd9a6b RK	68
fe33cfc0	69	<p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
7cd4dd21	70	Devices may
f207f710	71	be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
f5fd9a6b RK	72	href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
f5fd9a6b RK	73	27</a>.</p>
f207f710	74
f71fc3ab	75	<p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
6762ac8a	76	should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
f71fc3ab RK	77	been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
f71fc3ab RK	78	that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
7cd4dd21 RK	79
	80	<p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
	81	of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
	82
	83	</div>
	84
	85	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	86
	87	<div class=section>
53710d44	88
7cd4dd21 RK	89	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	90	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	91	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	92
f207f710 RK	93	</div>
	94
	95	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	96
	97	<div class=section>
	98
	99	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	100	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	101	the man page for details.</p>
	102
	103	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	104	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	105
f5fd9a6b RK	106	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	107
7cd4dd21 RK	108	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	109
7cd4dd21 RK	110	<div class=section>
	111
	112	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	113	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	114	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	115	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	116
2cb9bc5f RK	117	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	118	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	119	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	120
7cd4dd21 RK	121	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	122	rationalized.</p>
	123
	124	</div>
	125
f5fd9a6b RK	126	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	127
	128	<div class=section>
	129
	130	<table class=bugs>
	131	<tr>
	132	<th>ID</th>
	133	<th>Description</th>
	134	</tr>
	135
	136	<tr>
	137	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	138	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	139	</tr>
	140
7cd4dd21 RK	141	<tr>
	142	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	143	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	144	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	145
	146	<tr>
	147	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	148	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	149	</tr>
	150
	151	<tr>
	152	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	153	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	154	</tr>
	155
	156	<tr>
	157	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	158	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	159	</tr>
	160
	161	<tr>
	162	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	163	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	164	</tr>
	165
	166	<tr>
	167	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	168	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	169	</tr>
	170
	171	<tr>
	172	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	173	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	174	</tr>
7cd4dd21	175
f5fd9a6b RK	176	</table>
	177
	178	</div>
	179	</div>
	180
a0e78d96	181	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	182
	183	<div class=section>
	184
	185	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	186
	187	<div class=section>
	188
	189	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	190	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	191	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	192
	193	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	194	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	195
a0e78d96 RK	196	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	197	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	198	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	199
d8b95785 RK	200	</div>
d8b95785 RK	201
6151ae7e RK	202	<h3>Server</h3>
	203
	204	<div class=section>
	205
	206	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	207	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	208	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	209
ff45af7c RK	210	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	211	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	212	interface does not.</p>
	213
e02f9807 RK	214	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	215	generated by iTunes.</p>
	216
6151ae7e RK	217	</div>
6151ae7e RK	218
10a6c925	219	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	220
	221	<div class=section>
	222
10a6c925 RK	223	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	224
e7eb3a27 RK	225	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	226	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	227	goal is to prohibit <a
	228	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	229
d8b95785	230	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	231	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	232	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	233
74cfbeaa RK	234	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	235
e02f9807	236	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	237
	238	</div>
	239
e02f9807 RK	240	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	241
	242	<div class=section>
	243
	244	<table class=bugs>
	245	<tr>
	246	<th>ID</th>
	247	<th>Description</th>
	248	</tr>
	249
	250	<tr>
	251	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	252	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	253	</tr>
	254	<tr>
	255	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	256	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	257	</tr>
	258	</table>
	259
	260	</div>
d8b95785	261	</div>
b0a578cb	262
eb2a1fe9 RK	263	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	264
	265	<div class=section>
	266
	267	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	268
	269	<div class=section>
	270
	271	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	272	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	273	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	274
	275	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	276	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	277	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	278
	279	</div>
	280
	281	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	282
	283	<div class=section>
	284
	285	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	286	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	287
	288	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	289
	290	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	291
	292	<div class=section>
	293
	294	<table class=bugs>
	295	<tr>
	296	<th>ID</th>
	297	<th>Description</th>
	298	</tr>
	299
	300	<tr>
	301	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	302	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	303	</tr>
	304	</table>
	305
	306	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	307	</div>
	308
	309
68210888 RK	310	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	311
	312	<div class=section>
	313
	314	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	315	in.</p>
	316
	317	</div>
	318
452ad6ba RK	319	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	320
	321	<div class=section>
	322
	323	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	324
	325	<div class=section>
	326
	327	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	328
	329	<ul>
	330
	331	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	332	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	333	applications.</li>
	334
	335	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	336	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	337	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	338
	339	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	340
	341	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	342	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	343
	344	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	345
452ad6ba RK	346	</ul>
	347
	348	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	349	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	350	fully up to date.</p>
	351
	352	</div>
	353
	354	<h3>Server</h3>
	355
	356	<div class=section>
	357
	358	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	359	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	360	behaviour).</p>
	361
	362	</div>
	363	</div>
	364
32918782 RK	365	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	366
	367	<div class=section>
	368
	369	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	370
	371	</div>
	372
f03d4184 RK	373	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	374
	375	<div class=section>
	376
	377	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	378	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	379	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	380
	381	</div>
	382
0ba75c7f	383	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	384
	385	<div class=section>
	386
	387	<h3>Server</h3>
	388
	389	<div class=section>
	390
	391	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	392	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	393
	394	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	395
	396	<div class=section>
	397
	398	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	399	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	400	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	401	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	402	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	403
	404	</div>
	405
	406	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	407
	408	<div class=section>
	409
	410	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	411
	412	<ul>
	413
	414	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	415	eligible for random choice.</li>
	416
	417	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	418	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	419
	420	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	421	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	422	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	423
	424	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	425	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	426
	427	</ul>
	428
	429	</div>
	430
	431	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	432
	433	<div class=section>
	434
	435	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	436
	437	<ul>
	438
	439	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	440	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	441
	442	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	443	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	444	redirected to the login page.</li>
	445
	446	</ul>
	447
448	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
449	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
450	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
451
2eee4b0c RK	452	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	453	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	454	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	455
64ac73bb RK	456	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	457	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	458	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	459	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	460
b0a578cb RK	461	</div>
	462
	463	</div>
	464
	465	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	466
	467	<div class=section>
	468
	469	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	470	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	471
	472	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	473	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	474
	475	</div>
	476
	477	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	478
	479	<div class=section>
	480
	481	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	482	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	483
	484	</div>
	485
	486	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	487
	488	<div class=section>
	489
	490	<table class=bugs>
	491	<tr>
	492	<th>ID</th>
	493	<th>Description</th>
	494	</tr>
	495
	496	<tr>
	497	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	498	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	499	</tr>
	500
	501	<tr>
	502	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	503	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	504	</tr>
	505
	506	<tr>
	507	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	508	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	509	</tr>
	510
	511	<tr>
	512	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	513	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	514	</tr>
	515
	516	<tr>
	517	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	518	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	519	</tr>
	520
	521	<tr>
	522	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	523	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	524	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
525	</tr>
526
527	<tr>
528	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
529	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
530	</tr>
531
532	</table>
533
534	</div>
535
536	</div>
537
538	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
539
540	<div class=section>
541
542	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
543
544	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
545	syntax it will accept.</p>
546
547	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
548
549	</div>
550
551	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
552
553	<div class=section>
554
555	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
556
557	</div>
558
559	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
560
561	<div class=section>
562
563	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
564	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
565
566	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
567
568	<div class=section>
569
570	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
571	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
572	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
573
574	</div>
575
576	<h3>Server</h3>
577
578	<div class=section>
579
580	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
581	file.</p>
582
583	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
584	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
585
586	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
587
588	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
589	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
590	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
591
592	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
593
594	</div>
595
596	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
597
598	<div class=section>
599
600	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
601	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
602	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
603	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
604
605	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
606
607	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
608	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
609	7 and Opera 9.</p>
610
611	</div>
612
613	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
614
615	<div class=section>
616
617	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
618	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
619	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
620
621	</div>
622
623	</div>
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