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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=43">#43</a></d>
          <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</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>

        <tr>
          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
          <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</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>
  
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	57
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>
	62
	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
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	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
93379b3d RK	166	<tr>
	167	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	168	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	169	</tr>
	170
6762ac8a RK	171	<tr>
	172	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	173	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	174	</tr>
	175
	176	<tr>
	177	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	178	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	179	</tr>
fa667301 RK	180
	181	<tr>
	182	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	183	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	184	</tr>
	185
7cd4dd21	186
f5fd9a6b RK	187	</table>
	188
	189	</div>
	190	</div>
	191
a0e78d96	192	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	193
	194	<div class=section>
	195
	196	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	197
	198	<div class=section>
	199
	200	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	201	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	202	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	203
	204	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	205	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	206
a0e78d96 RK	207	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	208	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	209	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	210
d8b95785 RK	211	</div>
d8b95785 RK	212
6151ae7e RK	213	<h3>Server</h3>
	214
	215	<div class=section>
	216
	217	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	218	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	219	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	220
ff45af7c RK	221	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	222	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	223	interface does not.</p>
	224
e02f9807 RK	225	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	226	generated by iTunes.</p>
	227
6151ae7e RK	228	</div>
6151ae7e RK	229
10a6c925	230	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	231
	232	<div class=section>
	233
10a6c925 RK	234	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	235
e7eb3a27 RK	236	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	237	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	238	goal is to prohibit <a
	239	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	240
d8b95785	241	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	242	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	243	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	244
74cfbeaa RK	245	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	246
e02f9807	247	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	248
	249	</div>
	250
e02f9807 RK	251	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	252
	253	<div class=section>
	254
	255	<table class=bugs>
	256	<tr>
	257	<th>ID</th>
	258	<th>Description</th>
	259	</tr>
	260
	261	<tr>
	262	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	263	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	264	</tr>
	265	<tr>
	266	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	267	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	268	</tr>
	269	</table>
	270
	271	</div>
d8b95785	272	</div>
b0a578cb	273
eb2a1fe9 RK	274	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	275
	276	<div class=section>
	277
	278	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	279
	280	<div class=section>
	281
	282	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	283	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	284	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	285
	286	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	287	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	288	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	289
	290	</div>
	291
	292	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	293
	294	<div class=section>
	295
	296	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	297	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	298
	299	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	300
	301	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	302
	303	<div class=section>
	304
	305	<table class=bugs>
	306	<tr>
	307	<th>ID</th>
	308	<th>Description</th>
	309	</tr>
	310
	311	<tr>
	312	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	313	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	314	</tr>
	315	</table>
	316
	317	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	318	</div>
	319
	320
68210888 RK	321	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	322
	323	<div class=section>
	324
	325	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	326	in.</p>
	327
	328	</div>
	329
452ad6ba RK	330	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	331
	332	<div class=section>
	333
	334	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	335
	336	<div class=section>
	337
	338	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	339
	340	<ul>
	341
	342	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	343	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	344	applications.</li>
	345
	346	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	347	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	348	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	349
	350	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	351
	352	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	353	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	354
	355	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	356
452ad6ba RK	357	</ul>
	358
	359	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	360	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	361	fully up to date.</p>
	362
	363	</div>
	364
	365	<h3>Server</h3>
	366
	367	<div class=section>
	368
	369	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	370	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	371	behaviour).</p>
	372
	373	</div>
	374	</div>
	375
32918782 RK	376	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	377
	378	<div class=section>
	379
	380	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	381
	382	</div>
	383
f03d4184 RK	384	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	385
	386	<div class=section>
	387
	388	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	389	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	390	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	391
	392	</div>
	393
0ba75c7f	394	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	395
	396	<div class=section>
	397
	398	<h3>Server</h3>
	399
	400	<div class=section>
	401
	402	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	403	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	404
	405	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	406
	407	<div class=section>
	408
	409	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	410	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	411	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	412	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	413	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	414
	415	</div>
	416
	417	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	418
	419	<div class=section>
	420
	421	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	422
	423	<ul>
	424
	425	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	426	eligible for random choice.</li>
	427
	428	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	429	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	430
	431	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	432	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	433	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	434
	435	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	436	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	437
	438	</ul>
	439
	440	</div>
	441
	442	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	443
	444	<div class=section>
	445
	446	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	447
	448	<ul>
	449
	450	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	451	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	452
	453	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	454	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	455	redirected to the login page.</li>
	456
	457	</ul>
	458
459	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
460	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
461	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
462
2eee4b0c RK	463	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	464	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	465	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	466
64ac73bb RK	467	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	468	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	469	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	470	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	471
b0a578cb RK	472	</div>
	473
	474	</div>
	475
	476	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	477
	478	<div class=section>
	479
	480	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	481	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	482
	483	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	484	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	485
	486	</div>
	487
	488	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	489
	490	<div class=section>
	491
	492	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	493	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	494
	495	</div>
	496
	497	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	498
	499	<div class=section>
	500
	501	<table class=bugs>
	502	<tr>
	503	<th>ID</th>
	504	<th>Description</th>
	505	</tr>
	506
	507	<tr>
	508	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	509	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	510	</tr>
	511
	512	<tr>
	513	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	514	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	515	</tr>
	516
	517	<tr>
	518	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	519	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	520	</tr>
	521
	522	<tr>
	523	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	524	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	525	</tr>
	526
	527	<tr>
	528	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	529	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	530	</tr>
	531
	532	<tr>
	533	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	534	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	535	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
536	</tr>
537
538	<tr>
539	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
540	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
541	</tr>
542
543	</table>
544
545	</div>
546
547	</div>
548
549	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
550
551	<div class=section>
552
553	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
554
555	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
556	syntax it will accept.</p>
557
558	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
559
560	</div>
561
562	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
563
564	<div class=section>
565
566	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
567
568	</div>
569
570	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
571
572	<div class=section>
573
574	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
575	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
576
577	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
578
579	<div class=section>
580
581	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
582	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
583	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
584
585	</div>
586
587	<h3>Server</h3>
588
589	<div class=section>
590
591	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
592	file.</p>
593
594	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
595	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
596
597	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
598
599	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
600	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
601	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
602
603	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
604
605	</div>
606
607	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
608
609	<div class=section>
610
611	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
612	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
613	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
614	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
615
616	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
617
618	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
619	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
620	7 and Opera 9.</p>
621
622	</div>
623
624	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
625
626	<div class=section>
627
628	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
629	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
630	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
631
632	</div>
633
634	</div>
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