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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>Disobedience</h3>

    <div class=section>

      <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single
      operation.</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
6a7eb118 RK	85	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	86
	87	<div class=section>
	88
	89	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single
	90	operation.</p>
	91
	92	</div>
	93
7cd4dd21 RK	94	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	95
	96	<div class=section>
53710d44	97
7cd4dd21 RK	98	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	99	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	100	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	101
f207f710 RK	102	</div>
	103
	104	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	105
	106	<div class=section>
	107
	108	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	109	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	110	the man page for details.</p>
	111
	112	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	113	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	114
f5fd9a6b RK	115	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	116
7cd4dd21 RK	117	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	118
7cd4dd21 RK	119	<div class=section>
	120
	121	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	122	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	123	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	124	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	125
2cb9bc5f RK	126	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	127	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	128	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	129
7cd4dd21 RK	130	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	131	rationalized.</p>
	132
	133	</div>
	134
f5fd9a6b RK	135	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	136
	137	<div class=section>
	138
	139	<table class=bugs>
	140	<tr>
	141	<th>ID</th>
	142	<th>Description</th>
	143	</tr>
	144
	145	<tr>
	146	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	147	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	148	</tr>
	149
7cd4dd21 RK	150	<tr>
	151	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	152	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	153	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	154
	155	<tr>
	156	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	157	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	158	</tr>
	159
	160	<tr>
	161	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	162	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	163	</tr>
	164
	165	<tr>
	166	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	167	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	168	</tr>
	169
	170	<tr>
	171	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	172	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	173	</tr>
	174
93379b3d RK	175	<tr>
	176	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	177	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	178	</tr>
	179
6762ac8a RK	180	<tr>
	181	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	182	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	183	</tr>
	184
	185	<tr>
	186	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	187	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	188	</tr>
fa667301 RK	189
	190	<tr>
	191	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	192	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	193	</tr>
	194
7cd4dd21	195
f5fd9a6b RK	196	</table>
	197
	198	</div>
	199	</div>
	200
a0e78d96	201	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	202
	203	<div class=section>
	204
	205	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	206
	207	<div class=section>
	208
	209	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	210	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	211	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	212
	213	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	214	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	215
a0e78d96 RK	216	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	217	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	218	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	219
d8b95785 RK	220	</div>
d8b95785 RK	221
6151ae7e RK	222	<h3>Server</h3>
	223
	224	<div class=section>
	225
	226	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	227	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	228	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	229
ff45af7c RK	230	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	231	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	232	interface does not.</p>
	233
e02f9807 RK	234	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	235	generated by iTunes.</p>
	236
6151ae7e RK	237	</div>
6151ae7e RK	238
10a6c925	239	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	240
	241	<div class=section>
	242
10a6c925 RK	243	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	244
e7eb3a27 RK	245	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	246	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	247	goal is to prohibit <a
	248	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	249
d8b95785	250	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	251	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	252	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	253
74cfbeaa RK	254	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	255
e02f9807	256	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	257
	258	</div>
	259
e02f9807 RK	260	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	261
	262	<div class=section>
	263
	264	<table class=bugs>
	265	<tr>
	266	<th>ID</th>
	267	<th>Description</th>
	268	</tr>
	269
	270	<tr>
	271	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	272	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	273	</tr>
	274	<tr>
	275	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	276	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	277	</tr>
	278	</table>
	279
	280	</div>
d8b95785	281	</div>
b0a578cb	282
eb2a1fe9 RK	283	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	284
	285	<div class=section>
	286
	287	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	288
	289	<div class=section>
	290
	291	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	292	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	293	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	294
	295	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	296	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	297	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	298
	299	</div>
	300
	301	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	302
	303	<div class=section>
	304
	305	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	306	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	307
	308	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	309
	310	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	311
	312	<div class=section>
	313
	314	<table class=bugs>
	315	<tr>
	316	<th>ID</th>
	317	<th>Description</th>
	318	</tr>
	319
	320	<tr>
	321	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	322	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	323	</tr>
	324	</table>
	325
	326	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	327	</div>
	328
	329
68210888 RK	330	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	331
	332	<div class=section>
	333
	334	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	335	in.</p>
	336
	337	</div>
	338
452ad6ba RK	339	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	340
	341	<div class=section>
	342
	343	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	344
	345	<div class=section>
	346
	347	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	348
	349	<ul>
	350
	351	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	352	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	353	applications.</li>
	354
	355	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	356	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	357	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	358
	359	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	360
	361	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	362	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	363
	364	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	365
452ad6ba RK	366	</ul>
	367
	368	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	369	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	370	fully up to date.</p>
	371
	372	</div>
	373
	374	<h3>Server</h3>
	375
	376	<div class=section>
	377
	378	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	379	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	380	behaviour).</p>
	381
	382	</div>
	383	</div>
	384
32918782 RK	385	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	386
	387	<div class=section>
	388
	389	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	390
	391	</div>
	392
f03d4184 RK	393	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	394
	395	<div class=section>
	396
	397	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	398	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	399	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	400
	401	</div>
	402
0ba75c7f	403	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	404
	405	<div class=section>
	406
	407	<h3>Server</h3>
	408
	409	<div class=section>
	410
	411	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	412	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	413
	414	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	415
	416	<div class=section>
	417
	418	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	419	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	420	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	421	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	422	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	423
	424	</div>
	425
	426	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	427
	428	<div class=section>
	429
	430	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	431
	432	<ul>
	433
	434	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	435	eligible for random choice.</li>
	436
	437	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	438	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	439
	440	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	441	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	442	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	443
	444	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	445	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	446
	447	</ul>
	448
	449	</div>
	450
	451	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	452
	453	<div class=section>
	454
	455	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	456
	457	<ul>
	458
	459	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	460	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	461
	462	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	463	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	464	redirected to the login page.</li>
	465
	466	</ul>
	467
468	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
469	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
470	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
471
2eee4b0c RK	472	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	473	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	474	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	475
64ac73bb RK	476	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	477	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	478	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	479	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	480
b0a578cb RK	481	</div>
	482
	483	</div>
	484
	485	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	486
	487	<div class=section>
	488
	489	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	490	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	491
	492	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	493	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	494
	495	</div>
	496
	497	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	498
	499	<div class=section>
	500
	501	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	502	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	503
	504	</div>
	505
	506	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	507
	508	<div class=section>
	509
	510	<table class=bugs>
	511	<tr>
	512	<th>ID</th>
	513	<th>Description</th>
	514	</tr>
	515
	516	<tr>
	517	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	518	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	519	</tr>
	520
	521	<tr>
	522	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	523	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	524	</tr>
	525
	526	<tr>
	527	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	528	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	529	</tr>
	530
	531	<tr>
	532	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	533	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	534	</tr>
	535
	536	<tr>
	537	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	538	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	539	</tr>
	540
	541	<tr>
	542	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	543	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	544	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
545	</tr>
546
547	<tr>
548	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
549	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
550	</tr>
551
552	</table>
553
554	</div>
555
556	</div>
557
558	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
559
560	<div class=section>
561
562	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
563
564	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
565	syntax it will accept.</p>
566
567	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
568
569	</div>
570
571	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
572
573	<div class=section>
574
575	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
576
577	</div>
578
579	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
580
581	<div class=section>
582
583	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
584	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
585
586	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
587
588	<div class=section>
589
590	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
591	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
592	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
593
594	</div>
595
596	<h3>Server</h3>
597
598	<div class=section>
599
600	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
601	file.</p>
602
603	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
604	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
605
606	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
607
608	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
609	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
610	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
611
612	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
613
614	</div>
615
616	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
617
618	<div class=section>
619
620	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
621	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
622	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
623	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
624
625	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
626
627	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
628	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
629	7 and Opera 9.</p>
630
631	</div>
632
633	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
634
635	<div class=section>
636
637	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
638	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
639	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
640
641	</div>
642
643	</div>
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