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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>

      <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
      available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
      <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</>.  </p>

    </div>
      
    <h3>Disobedience</h3>

    <div class=section>

      <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
      Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
      &ldquo;Recent&rdquo;, &ldquo;Added&rdquo; and &ldquo;Choose&rdquo; tabs
      to the queue.</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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	56	<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
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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>
c3feb35b RK	82
	83	<p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
	84	available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
	85	<a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</>. </p>
	86
7cd4dd21 RK	87	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	88
6a7eb118 RK	89	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	90
	91	<div class=section>
	92
69c456f3 RK	93	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
	94	Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
	95	“Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
	96	to the queue.</p>
6a7eb118 RK	97
	98	</div>
	99
7cd4dd21 RK	100	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	101
	102	<div class=section>
53710d44	103
7cd4dd21 RK	104	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	105	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	106	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	107
f207f710 RK	108	</div>
	109
	110	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	111
	112	<div class=section>
	113
	114	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	115	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	116	the man page for details.</p>
	117
	118	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	119	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	120
f5fd9a6b RK	121	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	122
7cd4dd21 RK	123	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	124
7cd4dd21 RK	125	<div class=section>
	126
	127	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	128	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	129	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	130	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	131
2cb9bc5f RK	132	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	133	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	134	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	135
7cd4dd21 RK	136	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	137	rationalized.</p>
	138
	139	</div>
	140
f5fd9a6b RK	141	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	142
	143	<div class=section>
	144
	145	<table class=bugs>
	146	<tr>
	147	<th>ID</th>
	148	<th>Description</th>
	149	</tr>
	150
	151	<tr>
	152	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	153	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	154	</tr>
	155
7cd4dd21 RK	156	<tr>
	157	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	158	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	159	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	160
	161	<tr>
	162	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	163	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	164	</tr>
	165
	166	<tr>
	167	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	168	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	169	</tr>
	170
	171	<tr>
	172	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	173	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	174	</tr>
	175
	176	<tr>
	177	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	178	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	179	</tr>
	180
93379b3d RK	181	<tr>
	182	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	183	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	184	</tr>
	185
6762ac8a RK	186	<tr>
	187	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	188	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	189	</tr>
	190
	191	<tr>
	192	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	193	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	194	</tr>
fa667301 RK	195
	196	<tr>
	197	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	198	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	199	</tr>
	200
7cd4dd21	201
f5fd9a6b RK	202	</table>
	203
	204	</div>
	205	</div>
	206
a0e78d96	207	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	208
	209	<div class=section>
	210
	211	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	212
	213	<div class=section>
	214
	215	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	216	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	217	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	218
	219	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	220	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	221
a0e78d96 RK	222	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	223	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	224	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	225
d8b95785 RK	226	</div>
d8b95785 RK	227
6151ae7e RK	228	<h3>Server</h3>
	229
	230	<div class=section>
	231
	232	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	233	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	234	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	235
ff45af7c RK	236	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	237	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	238	interface does not.</p>
	239
e02f9807 RK	240	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	241	generated by iTunes.</p>
	242
6151ae7e RK	243	</div>
6151ae7e RK	244
10a6c925	245	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	246
	247	<div class=section>
	248
10a6c925 RK	249	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	250
e7eb3a27 RK	251	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	252	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	253	goal is to prohibit <a
	254	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	255
d8b95785	256	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	257	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	258	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	259
74cfbeaa RK	260	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	261
e02f9807	262	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	263
	264	</div>
	265
e02f9807 RK	266	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	267
	268	<div class=section>
	269
	270	<table class=bugs>
	271	<tr>
	272	<th>ID</th>
	273	<th>Description</th>
	274	</tr>
	275
	276	<tr>
	277	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	278	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	279	</tr>
	280	<tr>
	281	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	282	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	283	</tr>
	284	</table>
	285
	286	</div>
d8b95785	287	</div>
b0a578cb	288
eb2a1fe9 RK	289	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	290
	291	<div class=section>
	292
	293	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	294
	295	<div class=section>
	296
	297	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	298	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	299	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	300
	301	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	302	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	303	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	304
	305	</div>
	306
	307	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	308
	309	<div class=section>
	310
	311	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	312	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	313
	314	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	315
	316	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	317
	318	<div class=section>
	319
	320	<table class=bugs>
	321	<tr>
	322	<th>ID</th>
	323	<th>Description</th>
	324	</tr>
	325
	326	<tr>
	327	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	328	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	329	</tr>
	330	</table>
	331
	332	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	333	</div>
	334
	335
68210888 RK	336	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	337
	338	<div class=section>
	339
	340	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	341	in.</p>
	342
	343	</div>
	344
452ad6ba RK	345	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	346
	347	<div class=section>
	348
	349	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	350
	351	<div class=section>
	352
	353	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	354
	355	<ul>
	356
	357	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	358	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	359	applications.</li>
	360
	361	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	362	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	363	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	364
	365	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	366
	367	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	368	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	369
	370	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	371
452ad6ba RK	372	</ul>
	373
	374	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	375	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	376	fully up to date.</p>
	377
	378	</div>
	379
	380	<h3>Server</h3>
	381
	382	<div class=section>
	383
	384	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	385	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	386	behaviour).</p>
	387
	388	</div>
	389	</div>
	390
32918782 RK	391	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	392
	393	<div class=section>
	394
	395	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	396
	397	</div>
	398
f03d4184 RK	399	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	400
	401	<div class=section>
	402
	403	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	404	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	405	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	406
	407	</div>
	408
0ba75c7f	409	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	410
	411	<div class=section>
	412
	413	<h3>Server</h3>
	414
	415	<div class=section>
	416
	417	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	418	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	419
	420	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	421
	422	<div class=section>
	423
	424	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	425	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	426	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	427	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	428	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	429
	430	</div>
	431
	432	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	433
	434	<div class=section>
	435
	436	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	437
	438	<ul>
	439
	440	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	441	eligible for random choice.</li>
	442
	443	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	444	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	445
	446	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	447	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	448	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	449
	450	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	451	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	452
	453	</ul>
	454
	455	</div>
	456
	457	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	458
	459	<div class=section>
	460
	461	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	462
	463	<ul>
	464
	465	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	466	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	467
	468	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	469	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	470	redirected to the login page.</li>
	471
	472	</ul>
	473
474	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
475	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
476	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
477
2eee4b0c RK	478	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	479	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	480	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	481
64ac73bb RK	482	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	483	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	484	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	485	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	486
b0a578cb RK	487	</div>
	488
	489	</div>
	490
	491	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	492
	493	<div class=section>
	494
	495	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	496	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	497
	498	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	499	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	500
	501	</div>
	502
	503	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	504
	505	<div class=section>
	506
	507	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	508	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	509
	510	</div>
	511
	512	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	513
	514	<div class=section>
	515
	516	<table class=bugs>
	517	<tr>
	518	<th>ID</th>
	519	<th>Description</th>
	520	</tr>
	521
	522	<tr>
	523	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	524	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	525	</tr>
	526
	527	<tr>
	528	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	529	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	530	</tr>
	531
	532	<tr>
	533	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	534	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	535	</tr>
	536
	537	<tr>
	538	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	539	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	540	</tr>
	541
	542	<tr>
	543	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	544	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	545	</tr>
	546
	547	<tr>
	548	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	549	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	550	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
551	</tr>
552
553	<tr>
554	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
555	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
556	</tr>
557
558	</table>
559
560	</div>
561
562	</div>
563
564	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
565
566	<div class=section>
567
568	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
569
570	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
571	syntax it will accept.</p>
572
573	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
574
575	</div>
576
577	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
578
579	<div class=section>
580
581	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
582
583	</div>
584
585	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
586
587	<div class=section>
588
589	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
590	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
591
592	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
593
594	<div class=section>
595
596	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
597	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
598	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
599
600	</div>
601
602	<h3>Server</h3>
603
604	<div class=section>
605
606	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
607	file.</p>
608
609	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
610	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
611
612	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
613
614	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
615	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
616	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
617
618	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
619
620	</div>
621
622	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
623
624	<div class=section>
625
626	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
627	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
628	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
629	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
630
631	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
632
633	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
634	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
635	7 and Opera 9.</p>
636
637	</div>
638
639	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
640
641	<div class=section>
642
643	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
644	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
645	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
646
647	</div>
648
649	</div>
650
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