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| 56 | <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1> | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.</p> | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.1</h2> | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | <div class=section> | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | <div class=section> | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be | |
| 69 | restored if there is real demand.</p> | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | <h4>Event Scheduling</h4> | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | <div class=section> | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. | |
| 76 | Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and | |
| 77 | changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be | |
| 78 | turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt> | |
| 79 | commands described in disorder(1).</p> | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | </div> | |
| 82 | ||
| 83 | <h4>Random Track Choice</h4> | |
| 84 | ||
| 85 | <div class=section> | |
| 86 | ||
| 87 | <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p> | |
| 88 | ||
| 89 | <ul> | |
| 90 | ||
| 91 | <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer | |
| 92 | eligible for random choice.</li> | |
| 93 | ||
| 94 | <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for | |
| 95 | non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li> | |
| 96 | ||
| 97 | <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining | |
| 98 | the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random. | |
| 99 | The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li> | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and | |
| 102 | <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li> | |
| 103 | ||
| 104 | </ul> | |
| 105 | ||
| 106 | </div> | |
| 107 | ||
| 108 | <h4>Web Interface</h4> | |
| 109 | ||
| 110 | <div class=section> | |
| 111 | ||
| 112 | <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p> | |
| 113 | ||
| 114 | <ul> | |
| 115 | ||
| 116 | <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and | |
| 117 | includes links to parent directories.</li> | |
| 118 | ||
| 119 | <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, | |
| 120 | instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are | |
| 121 | redirected to the login page.</li> | |
| 122 | ||
| 123 | </ul> | |
| 124 | ||
| 125 | <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it | |
| 126 | is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is | |
| 127 | less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p> | |
| 128 | ||
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129 | <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains |
| 130 | possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and | |
| 131 | <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p> | |
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132 | |
| 133 | <p>The makefiles will now install the CGI automatically. If they cannot | |
| 134 | figure out the location of the cgi-bin directory on your system, set | |
| 135 | <tt>cgidir</tt> on the <tt>configure</tt> command line.</p> | |
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137 | </div> |
| 138 | ||
| 139 | </div> | |
| 140 | ||
| 141 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
| 142 | ||
| 143 | <div class=section> | |
| 144 | ||
| 145 | <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and | |
| 146 | remove users or modify their settings.</p> | |
| 147 | ||
| 148 | <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set | |
| 149 | <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p> | |
| 150 | ||
| 151 | </div> | |
| 152 | ||
| 153 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> | |
| 154 | ||
| 155 | <div class=section> | |
| 156 | ||
| 157 | <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can | |
| 158 | set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p> | |
| 159 | ||
| 160 | </div> | |
| 161 | ||
| 162 | <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3> | |
| 163 | ||
| 164 | <div class=section> | |
| 165 | ||
| 166 | <table class=bugs> | |
| 167 | <tr> | |
| 168 | <th>ID</th> | |
| 169 | <th>Description</th> | |
| 170 | </tr> | |
| 171 | ||
| 172 | <tr> | |
| 173 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td> | |
| 174 | <td>Search results should link to directories</td> | |
| 175 | </tr> | |
| 176 | ||
| 177 | <tr> | |
| 178 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td> | |
| 179 | <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td> | |
| 180 | </tr> | |
| 181 | ||
| 182 | <tr> | |
| 183 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td> | |
| 184 | <td>Non-uniform track selection</td> | |
| 185 | </tr> | |
| 186 | ||
| 187 | <tr> | |
| 188 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td> | |
| 189 | <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td> | |
| 190 | </tr> | |
| 191 | ||
| 192 | <tr> | |
| 193 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td> | |
| 194 | <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td> | |
| 195 | </tr> | |
| 196 | ||
| 197 | <tr> | |
| 198 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td> | |
| 199 | <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not | |
| 200 | subsequently redirected to login page</td> | |
| 201 | </tr> | |
| 202 | ||
| 203 | <tr> | |
| 204 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td> | |
| 205 | <td>Broken aliasing rules</td> | |
| 206 | </tr> | |
| 207 | ||
| 208 | </table> | |
| 209 | ||
| 210 | </div> | |
| 211 | ||
| 212 | </div> | |
| 213 | ||
| 214 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2> | |
| 215 | ||
| 216 | <div class=section> | |
| 217 | ||
| 218 | <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p> | |
| 219 | ||
| 220 | <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value | |
| 221 | syntax it will accept.</p> | |
| 222 | ||
| 223 | <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p> | |
| 224 | ||
| 225 | </div> | |
| 226 | ||
| 227 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2> | |
| 228 | ||
| 229 | <div class=section> | |
| 230 | ||
| 231 | <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p> | |
| 232 | ||
| 233 | </div> | |
| 234 | ||
| 235 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2> | |
| 236 | ||
| 237 | <div class=section> | |
| 238 | ||
| 239 | <p><b>Important</b>! See <a | |
| 240 | href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p> | |
| 241 | ||
| 242 | <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3> | |
| 243 | ||
| 244 | <div class=section> | |
| 245 | ||
| 246 | <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash | |
| 247 | script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after | |
| 248 | <tt>make install</tt>.</p> | |
| 249 | ||
| 250 | </div> | |
| 251 | ||
| 252 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
| 253 | ||
| 254 | <div class=section> | |
| 255 | ||
| 256 | <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration | |
| 257 | file.</p> | |
| 258 | ||
| 259 | <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so | |
| 260 | only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p> | |
| 261 | ||
| 262 | <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p> | |
| 263 | ||
| 264 | <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt> | |
| 265 | configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set, | |
| 266 | which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p> | |
| 267 | ||
| 268 | <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p> | |
| 269 | ||
| 270 | </div> | |
| 271 | ||
| 272 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> | |
| 273 | ||
| 274 | <div class=section> | |
| 275 | ||
| 276 | <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and | |
| 277 | allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer | |
| 278 | necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you | |
| 279 | can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p> | |
| 280 | ||
| 281 | <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p> | |
| 282 | ||
| 283 | <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has | |
| 284 | been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer | |
| 285 | 7 and Opera 9.</p> | |
| 286 | ||
| 287 | </div> | |
| 288 | ||
| 289 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
| 290 | ||
| 291 | <div class=section> | |
| 292 | ||
| 293 | <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the | |
| 294 | queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new | |
| 295 | 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p> | |
| 296 | ||
| 297 | </div> | |
| 298 | ||
| 299 | </div> | |
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