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56 | <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1> | |
57 | ||
58 | <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.</p> | |
59 | ||
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60 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2> |
61 | ||
62 | <div class=section> | |
63 | ||
64 | <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this, | |
65 | <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure | |
66 | script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p> | |
67 | ||
68 | </div> | |
69 | ||
0ba75c7f | 70 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2> |
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72 | <div class=section> | |
73 | ||
74 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
75 | ||
76 | <div class=section> | |
77 | ||
78 | <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be | |
79 | restored if there is real demand.</p> | |
80 | ||
81 | <h4>Event Scheduling</h4> | |
82 | ||
83 | <div class=section> | |
84 | ||
85 | <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. | |
86 | Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and | |
87 | changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be | |
88 | turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt> | |
89 | commands described in disorder(1).</p> | |
90 | ||
91 | </div> | |
92 | ||
93 | <h4>Random Track Choice</h4> | |
94 | ||
95 | <div class=section> | |
96 | ||
97 | <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p> | |
98 | ||
99 | <ul> | |
100 | ||
101 | <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer | |
102 | eligible for random choice.</li> | |
103 | ||
104 | <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for | |
105 | non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li> | |
106 | ||
107 | <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining | |
108 | the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random. | |
109 | The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li> | |
110 | ||
111 | <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and | |
112 | <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li> | |
113 | ||
114 | </ul> | |
115 | ||
116 | </div> | |
117 | ||
118 | <h4>Web Interface</h4> | |
119 | ||
120 | <div class=section> | |
121 | ||
122 | <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p> | |
123 | ||
124 | <ul> | |
125 | ||
126 | <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and | |
127 | includes links to parent directories.</li> | |
128 | ||
129 | <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, | |
130 | instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are | |
131 | redirected to the login page.</li> | |
132 | ||
133 | </ul> | |
134 | ||
135 | <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it | |
136 | is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is | |
137 | less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p> | |
138 | ||
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139 | <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains |
140 | possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and | |
141 | <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p> | |
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143 | <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it, |
144 | use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default | |
145 | location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt> | |
146 | and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p> | |
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148 | </div> |
149 | ||
150 | </div> | |
151 | ||
152 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
153 | ||
154 | <div class=section> | |
155 | ||
156 | <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and | |
157 | remove users or modify their settings.</p> | |
158 | ||
159 | <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set | |
160 | <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p> | |
161 | ||
162 | </div> | |
163 | ||
164 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> | |
165 | ||
166 | <div class=section> | |
167 | ||
168 | <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can | |
169 | set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p> | |
170 | ||
171 | </div> | |
172 | ||
173 | <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3> | |
174 | ||
175 | <div class=section> | |
176 | ||
177 | <table class=bugs> | |
178 | <tr> | |
179 | <th>ID</th> | |
180 | <th>Description</th> | |
181 | </tr> | |
182 | ||
183 | <tr> | |
184 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td> | |
185 | <td>Search results should link to directories</td> | |
186 | </tr> | |
187 | ||
188 | <tr> | |
189 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td> | |
190 | <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td> | |
191 | </tr> | |
192 | ||
193 | <tr> | |
194 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td> | |
195 | <td>Non-uniform track selection</td> | |
196 | </tr> | |
197 | ||
198 | <tr> | |
199 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td> | |
200 | <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td> | |
201 | </tr> | |
202 | ||
203 | <tr> | |
204 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td> | |
205 | <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td> | |
206 | </tr> | |
207 | ||
208 | <tr> | |
209 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td> | |
210 | <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not | |
211 | subsequently redirected to login page</td> | |
212 | </tr> | |
213 | ||
214 | <tr> | |
215 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td> | |
216 | <td>Broken aliasing rules</td> | |
217 | </tr> | |
218 | ||
219 | </table> | |
220 | ||
221 | </div> | |
222 | ||
223 | </div> | |
224 | ||
225 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2> | |
226 | ||
227 | <div class=section> | |
228 | ||
229 | <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p> | |
230 | ||
231 | <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value | |
232 | syntax it will accept.</p> | |
233 | ||
234 | <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p> | |
235 | ||
236 | </div> | |
237 | ||
238 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2> | |
239 | ||
240 | <div class=section> | |
241 | ||
242 | <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p> | |
243 | ||
244 | </div> | |
245 | ||
246 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2> | |
247 | ||
248 | <div class=section> | |
249 | ||
250 | <p><b>Important</b>! See <a | |
251 | href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p> | |
252 | ||
253 | <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3> | |
254 | ||
255 | <div class=section> | |
256 | ||
257 | <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash | |
258 | script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after | |
259 | <tt>make install</tt>.</p> | |
260 | ||
261 | </div> | |
262 | ||
263 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
264 | ||
265 | <div class=section> | |
266 | ||
267 | <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration | |
268 | file.</p> | |
269 | ||
270 | <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so | |
271 | only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p> | |
272 | ||
273 | <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p> | |
274 | ||
275 | <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt> | |
276 | configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set, | |
277 | which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p> | |
278 | ||
279 | <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p> | |
280 | ||
281 | </div> | |
282 | ||
283 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> | |
284 | ||
285 | <div class=section> | |
286 | ||
287 | <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and | |
288 | allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer | |
289 | necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you | |
290 | can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p> | |
291 | ||
292 | <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p> | |
293 | ||
294 | <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has | |
295 | been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer | |
296 | 7 and Opera 9.</p> | |
297 | ||
298 | </div> | |
299 | ||
300 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
301 | ||
302 | <div class=section> | |
303 | ||
304 | <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the | |
305 | queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new | |
306 | 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p> | |
307 | ||
308 | </div> | |
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