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460b9539 | 1 | See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. |
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3 | * Changes up to version 2.1 |
4 | ||
5 | ** Server | |
6 | ||
7 | Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. | |
8 | ||
d84bf422 | 9 | ** Web Interface |
10 | ||
11 | The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows | |
12 | online registration of new users. | |
13 | ||
92afc09e | 14 | * Changes up to version 2.0 |
460b9539 | 15 | |
16 | ** General | |
17 | ||
460b9539 | 18 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
19 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. | |
20 | ||
21 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search | |
22 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is | |
23 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and | |
24 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). | |
25 | ||
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26 | Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows |
27 | the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the | |
28 | latte case). | |
29 | ||
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30 | ** Disobedience |
31 | ||
32 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. | |
33 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. | |
34 | ||
35 | ** Web Interface | |
36 | ||
37 | The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From | |
38 | here they can be played or their preferences changed. | |
39 | ||
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40 | Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover |
41 | for the full name. | |
42 | ||
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43 | ** Network Play |
44 | ||
45 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on | |
46 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. | |
47 | ||
460b9539 | 48 | ** Server |
49 | ||
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50 | Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help |
51 | installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. | |
460b9539 | 52 | |
53 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. | |
54 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. | |
55 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable | |
56 | playing and then scratch the current track. | |
57 | ||
58 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there | |
59 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more | |
60 | efficiently. | |
61 | ||
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62 | 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. |
63 | ||
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64 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
65 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
66 | ||
63e28749 | 67 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
68 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. | |
69 | ||
75db8354 | 70 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
71 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. | |
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73 | Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server |
74 | (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. | |
75 | ||
460b9539 | 76 | ** disorderfm |
77 | ||
78 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
79 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
80 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
81 | details. | |
82 | ||
83 | ** Build And Configuration | |
84 | ||
85 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
86 | README. | |
87 | ||
88 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
89 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
90 | now optional. | |
91 | ||
63e28749 | 92 | ** Thanks |
93 | ||
94 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all | |
95 | contributed in some way to this release. | |
96 | ||
460b9539 | 97 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
98 | ||
99 | ** Web Interface | |
100 | ||
101 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
102 | ||
103 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
104 | ||
105 | ** Web Interface | |
106 | ||
107 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
108 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
109 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
110 | ||
111 | ** Client | |
112 | ||
113 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
114 | client. | |
115 | ||
116 | ** Server | |
117 | ||
118 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
119 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
120 | ||
121 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
122 | ||
123 | Bugs fixed: | |
124 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
125 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
126 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
127 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
128 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
129 | reliable. | |
130 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
131 | ||
132 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
133 | ||
134 | ** General | |
135 | ||
136 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
137 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
138 | inter-track gap. | |
139 | ||
140 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
141 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
142 | ||
143 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
144 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
145 | ||
146 | ** Web Interface | |
147 | ||
148 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
149 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
150 | ||
151 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
152 | of the queue. | |
153 | ||
154 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
155 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
156 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
157 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
158 | from the command line.) | |
159 | ||
160 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
161 | disorder_config(5). | |
162 | ||
163 | ** Server | |
164 | ||
165 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
166 | the server would exit with an error. | |
167 | ||
168 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
169 | subprocesses. | |
170 | ||
171 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
172 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
173 | ||
174 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
175 | ||
176 | ** Plugins | |
177 | ||
178 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
179 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
180 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
181 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
182 | ||
183 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
184 | ||
185 | ** Dependencies | |
186 | ||
187 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
188 | ||
189 | ** Client | |
190 | ||
191 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
192 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
193 | ||
194 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
195 | alias. | |
196 | ||
197 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
198 | ||
199 | ** Server | |
200 | ||
201 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
202 | maintainability. | |
203 | ||
204 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
205 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
206 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
207 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
208 | ||
209 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
210 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
211 | ||
212 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
213 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
214 | ||
215 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
216 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
217 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
218 | ||
219 | ** Web Interface | |
220 | ||
221 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
222 | ||
223 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
224 | works. | |
225 | ||
226 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. | |
227 | ||
228 | ** Plugins | |
229 | ||
230 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
231 | ||
232 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
233 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
234 | ||
235 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
236 | immediately. | |
237 | ||
238 | ** Tools | |
239 | ||
240 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
241 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
242 | ||
243 | ** Other | |
244 | ||
245 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
246 | getting text encoding right. | |
247 | ||
248 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
249 | ||
250 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
251 | ||
252 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
253 | ||
254 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
255 | ||
256 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
257 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
258 | ||
259 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
260 | action. | |
261 | ||
262 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
263 | artist or album. | |
264 | ||
265 | ** Server | |
266 | ||
267 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
268 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
269 | ||
270 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
271 | searching has been reduced. | |
272 | ||
273 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
274 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
275 | ||
276 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
277 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
278 | ||
279 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
280 | ||
281 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
282 | ||
283 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
284 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
285 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
286 | such in the track picking screen. | |
287 | ||
288 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
289 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
290 | the trackstate lines). | |
291 | ||
292 | *** Search | |
293 | ||
294 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
295 | ||
296 | *** Syntax | |
297 | ||
298 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
299 | certain places. | |
300 | ||
301 | *** Miscellaneous | |
302 | ||
303 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
304 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
305 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
306 | template. | |
307 | ||
308 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
309 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
310 | ||
311 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
312 | ||
313 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
314 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
315 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
316 | instead (or edit the template). | |
317 | ||
318 | ** tkdisorder | |
319 | ||
320 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
321 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
322 | ||
323 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
324 | ||
325 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
326 | ||
327 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
328 | ||
329 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
330 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
331 | ||
332 | ** Server | |
333 | ||
334 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
335 | restarts. | |
336 | ||
337 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
338 | ||
339 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
340 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
341 | ||
342 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
343 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
344 | 1.1.) | |
345 | ||
346 | ** Command Line | |
347 | ||
348 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
349 | ||
350 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
351 | ||
352 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
353 | options. | |
354 | ||
355 | ** Web Interface | |
356 | ||
357 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
358 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
359 | now properly supported in this context. | |
360 | ||
361 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
362 | ||
363 | Local Variables: | |
364 | mode:outline | |
365 | fill-column:72 | |
366 | End: |