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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 no 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.</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>
        
      </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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	56	<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
	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
7cd4dd21 RK	69	<p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option no works under OS X.
7cd4dd21 RK	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
7cd4dd21 RK	75	<p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over
	76	RTP should be a bit lower.</p>
	77
	78	<p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
	79	of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
	80
	81	</div>
	82
	83	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	84
	85	<div class=section>
53710d44	86
7cd4dd21 RK	87	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	88	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	89	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	90
f207f710 RK	91	</div>
	92
	93	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	94
	95	<div class=section>
	96
	97	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	98	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	99	the man page for details.</p>
	100
	101	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	102	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	103
f5fd9a6b RK	104	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	105
7cd4dd21 RK	106	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	107
7cd4dd21 RK	108	<div class=section>
	109
	110	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	111	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	112	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	113	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	114
2cb9bc5f RK	115	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	116	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	117	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	118
7cd4dd21 RK	119	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	120	rationalized.</p>
	121
	122	</div>
	123
f5fd9a6b RK	124	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	125
	126	<div class=section>
	127
	128	<table class=bugs>
	129	<tr>
	130	<th>ID</th>
	131	<th>Description</th>
	132	</tr>
	133
	134	<tr>
	135	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	136	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	137	</tr>
	138
7cd4dd21 RK	139	<tr>
	140	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	141	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	142	</tr>
	143
f5fd9a6b RK	144	</table>
	145
	146	</div>
	147	</div>
	148
a0e78d96	149	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	150
	151	<div class=section>
	152
	153	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	154
	155	<div class=section>
	156
	157	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	158	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	159	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	160
	161	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	162	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	163
a0e78d96 RK	164	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	165	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	166	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	167
d8b95785 RK	168	</div>
d8b95785 RK	169
6151ae7e RK	170	<h3>Server</h3>
	171
	172	<div class=section>
	173
	174	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	175	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	176	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	177
ff45af7c RK	178	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	179	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	180	interface does not.</p>
	181
e02f9807 RK	182	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	183	generated by iTunes.</p>
	184
6151ae7e RK	185	</div>
6151ae7e RK	186
10a6c925	187	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	188
	189	<div class=section>
	190
10a6c925 RK	191	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	192
e7eb3a27 RK	193	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	194	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	195	goal is to prohibit <a
	196	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	197
d8b95785	198	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	199	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	200	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	201
74cfbeaa RK	202	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	203
e02f9807	204	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	205
	206	</div>
	207
e02f9807 RK	208	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	209
	210	<div class=section>
	211
	212	<table class=bugs>
	213	<tr>
	214	<th>ID</th>
	215	<th>Description</th>
	216	</tr>
	217
	218	<tr>
	219	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	220	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	221	</tr>
	222	<tr>
	223	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	224	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	225	</tr>
	226	</table>
	227
	228	</div>
d8b95785	229	</div>
b0a578cb	230
eb2a1fe9 RK	231	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	232
	233	<div class=section>
	234
	235	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	236
	237	<div class=section>
	238
	239	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	240	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	241	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	242
	243	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	244	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	245	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	246
	247	</div>
	248
	249	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	250
	251	<div class=section>
	252
	253	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	254	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	255
	256	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	257
	258	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	259
	260	<div class=section>
	261
	262	<table class=bugs>
	263	<tr>
	264	<th>ID</th>
	265	<th>Description</th>
	266	</tr>
	267
	268	<tr>
	269	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	270	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	271	</tr>
	272	</table>
	273
	274	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	275	</div>
	276
	277
68210888 RK	278	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	279
	280	<div class=section>
	281
	282	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	283	in.</p>
	284
	285	</div>
	286
452ad6ba RK	287	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	288
	289	<div class=section>
	290
	291	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	292
	293	<div class=section>
	294
	295	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	296
	297	<ul>
	298
	299	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	300	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	301	applications.</li>
	302
	303	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	304	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	305	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	306
	307	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	308
	309	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	310	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	311
	312	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	313
452ad6ba RK	314	</ul>
	315
	316	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	317	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	318	fully up to date.</p>
	319
	320	</div>
	321
	322	<h3>Server</h3>
	323
	324	<div class=section>
	325
	326	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	327	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	328	behaviour).</p>
	329
	330	</div>
	331	</div>
	332
32918782 RK	333	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	334
	335	<div class=section>
	336
	337	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	338
	339	</div>
	340
f03d4184 RK	341	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	342
	343	<div class=section>
	344
	345	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	346	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	347	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	348
	349	</div>
	350
0ba75c7f	351	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	352
	353	<div class=section>
	354
	355	<h3>Server</h3>
	356
	357	<div class=section>
	358
	359	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	360	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	361
	362	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	363
	364	<div class=section>
	365
	366	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	367	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	368	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	369	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	370	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	371
	372	</div>
	373
	374	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	375
	376	<div class=section>
	377
	378	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	379
	380	<ul>
	381
	382	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	383	eligible for random choice.</li>
	384
	385	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	386	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	387
	388	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	389	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	390	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	391
	392	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	393	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	394
	395	</ul>
	396
	397	</div>
	398
	399	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	400
	401	<div class=section>
	402
	403	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	404
	405	<ul>
	406
	407	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	408	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	409
	410	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	411	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	412	redirected to the login page.</li>
	413
	414	</ul>
	415
416	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
417	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
418	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
419
2eee4b0c RK	420	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	421	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	422	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	423
64ac73bb RK	424	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	425	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	426	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	427	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	428
b0a578cb RK	429	</div>
	430
	431	</div>
	432
	433	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	434
	435	<div class=section>
	436
	437	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	438	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	439
	440	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	441	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	442
	443	</div>
	444
	445	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	446
	447	<div class=section>
	448
	449	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	450	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	451
	452	</div>
	453
	454	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	455
	456	<div class=section>
	457
	458	<table class=bugs>
	459	<tr>
	460	<th>ID</th>
	461	<th>Description</th>
	462	</tr>
	463
	464	<tr>
	465	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	466	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	467	</tr>
	468
	469	<tr>
	470	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	471	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	472	</tr>
	473
	474	<tr>
	475	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	476	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	477	</tr>
	478
	479	<tr>
	480	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	481	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	482	</tr>
	483
	484	<tr>
	485	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	486	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	487	</tr>
	488
	489	<tr>
	490	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	491	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	492	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
493	</tr>
494
495	<tr>
496	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
497	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
498	</tr>
499
500	</table>
501
502	</div>
503
504	</div>
505
506	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
507
508	<div class=section>
509
510	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
511
512	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
513	syntax it will accept.</p>
514
515	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
516
517	</div>
518
519	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
520
521	<div class=section>
522
523	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
524
525	</div>
526
527	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
528
529	<div class=section>
530
531	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
532	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
533
534	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
535
536	<div class=section>
537
538	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
539	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
540	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
541
542	</div>
543
544	<h3>Server</h3>
545
546	<div class=section>
547
548	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
549	file.</p>
550
551	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
552	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
553
554	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
555
556	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
557	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
558	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
559
560	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
561
562	</div>
563
564	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
565
566	<div class=section>
567
568	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
569	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
570	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
571	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
572
573	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
574
575	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
576	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
577	7 and Opera 9.</p>
578
579	</div>
580
581	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
582
583	<div class=section>
584
585	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
586	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
587	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
588
589	</div>
590
591	</div>
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