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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</a>.  SoX support will be
      removed in a future version.</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>
	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>
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
317dc3e8 RK	85	<a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
317dc3e8 RK	86	removed in a future version.</p>
c3feb35b	87
7cd4dd21 RK	88	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	89
6a7eb118 RK	90	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	91
	92	<div class=section>
	93
69c456f3 RK	94	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
	95	Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
	96	“Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
	97	to the queue.</p>
6a7eb118 RK	98
	99	</div>
	100
7cd4dd21 RK	101	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	102
	103	<div class=section>
53710d44	104
7cd4dd21 RK	105	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	106	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	107	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	108
f207f710 RK	109	</div>
	110
	111	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	112
	113	<div class=section>
	114
	115	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	116	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	117	the man page for details.</p>
	118
	119	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	120	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	121
f5fd9a6b RK	122	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	123
7cd4dd21 RK	124	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	125
7cd4dd21 RK	126	<div class=section>
	127
	128	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	129	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	130	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	131	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	132
2cb9bc5f RK	133	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	134	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	135	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	136
7cd4dd21 RK	137	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	138	rationalized.</p>
	139
	140	</div>
	141
f5fd9a6b RK	142	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	143
	144	<div class=section>
	145
	146	<table class=bugs>
	147	<tr>
	148	<th>ID</th>
	149	<th>Description</th>
	150	</tr>
	151
	152	<tr>
	153	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	154	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	155	</tr>
	156
7cd4dd21 RK	157	<tr>
	158	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	159	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	160	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	161
	162	<tr>
	163	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	164	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	165	</tr>
	166
	167	<tr>
	168	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	169	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	170	</tr>
	171
	172	<tr>
	173	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	174	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	175	</tr>
	176
	177	<tr>
	178	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	179	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	180	</tr>
	181
93379b3d RK	182	<tr>
	183	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	184	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	185	</tr>
	186
6762ac8a RK	187	<tr>
	188	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	189	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	190	</tr>
	191
	192	<tr>
	193	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	194	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	195	</tr>
fa667301 RK	196
	197	<tr>
	198	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	199	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	200	</tr>
	201
7cd4dd21	202
f5fd9a6b RK	203	</table>
	204
	205	</div>
	206	</div>
	207
a0e78d96	208	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	209
	210	<div class=section>
	211
	212	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	213
	214	<div class=section>
	215
	216	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	217	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	218	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	219
	220	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	221	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	222
a0e78d96 RK	223	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	224	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	225	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	226
d8b95785 RK	227	</div>
d8b95785 RK	228
6151ae7e RK	229	<h3>Server</h3>
	230
	231	<div class=section>
	232
	233	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	234	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	235	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	236
ff45af7c RK	237	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	238	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	239	interface does not.</p>
	240
e02f9807 RK	241	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	242	generated by iTunes.</p>
	243
6151ae7e RK	244	</div>
6151ae7e RK	245
10a6c925	246	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	247
	248	<div class=section>
	249
10a6c925 RK	250	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	251
e7eb3a27 RK	252	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	253	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	254	goal is to prohibit <a
	255	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	256
d8b95785	257	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	258	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	259	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	260
74cfbeaa RK	261	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	262
e02f9807	263	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	264
	265	</div>
	266
e02f9807 RK	267	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	268
	269	<div class=section>
	270
	271	<table class=bugs>
	272	<tr>
	273	<th>ID</th>
	274	<th>Description</th>
	275	</tr>
	276
	277	<tr>
	278	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	279	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	280	</tr>
	281	<tr>
	282	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	283	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	284	</tr>
	285	</table>
	286
	287	</div>
d8b95785	288	</div>
b0a578cb	289
eb2a1fe9 RK	290	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	291
	292	<div class=section>
	293
	294	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	295
	296	<div class=section>
	297
	298	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	299	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	300	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	301
	302	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	303	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	304	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	305
	306	</div>
	307
	308	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	309
	310	<div class=section>
	311
	312	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	313	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	314
	315	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	316
	317	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	318
	319	<div class=section>
	320
	321	<table class=bugs>
	322	<tr>
	323	<th>ID</th>
	324	<th>Description</th>
	325	</tr>
	326
	327	<tr>
	328	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	329	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	330	</tr>
	331	</table>
	332
	333	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	334	</div>
	335
	336
68210888 RK	337	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	338
	339	<div class=section>
	340
	341	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	342	in.</p>
	343
	344	</div>
	345
452ad6ba RK	346	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	347
	348	<div class=section>
	349
	350	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	351
	352	<div class=section>
	353
	354	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	355
	356	<ul>
	357
	358	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	359	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	360	applications.</li>
	361
	362	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	363	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	364	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	365
	366	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	367
	368	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	369	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	370
	371	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	372
452ad6ba RK	373	</ul>
	374
	375	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	376	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	377	fully up to date.</p>
	378
	379	</div>
	380
	381	<h3>Server</h3>
	382
	383	<div class=section>
	384
	385	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	386	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	387	behaviour).</p>
	388
	389	</div>
	390	</div>
	391
32918782 RK	392	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	393
	394	<div class=section>
	395
	396	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	397
	398	</div>
	399
f03d4184 RK	400	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	401
	402	<div class=section>
	403
	404	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	405	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	406	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	407
	408	</div>
	409
0ba75c7f	410	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	411
	412	<div class=section>
	413
	414	<h3>Server</h3>
	415
	416	<div class=section>
	417
	418	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	419	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	420
	421	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	422
	423	<div class=section>
	424
	425	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	426	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	427	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	428	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	429	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	430
	431	</div>
	432
	433	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	434
	435	<div class=section>
	436
	437	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	438
	439	<ul>
	440
	441	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	442	eligible for random choice.</li>
	443
	444	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	445	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	446
	447	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	448	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	449	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	450
	451	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	452	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	453
	454	</ul>
	455
	456	</div>
	457
	458	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	459
	460	<div class=section>
	461
	462	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	463
	464	<ul>
	465
	466	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	467	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	468
	469	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	470	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	471	redirected to the login page.</li>
	472
	473	</ul>
	474
475	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
476	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
477	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
478
2eee4b0c RK	479	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	480	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	481	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	482
64ac73bb RK	483	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	484	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	485	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	486	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	487
b0a578cb RK	488	</div>
	489
	490	</div>
	491
	492	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	493
	494	<div class=section>
	495
	496	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	497	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	498
	499	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	500	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	501
	502	</div>
	503
	504	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	505
	506	<div class=section>
	507
	508	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	509	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	510
	511	</div>
	512
	513	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	514
	515	<div class=section>
	516
	517	<table class=bugs>
	518	<tr>
	519	<th>ID</th>
	520	<th>Description</th>
	521	</tr>
	522
	523	<tr>
	524	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	525	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	526	</tr>
	527
	528	<tr>
	529	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	530	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	531	</tr>
	532
	533	<tr>
	534	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	535	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	536	</tr>
	537
	538	<tr>
	539	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	540	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	541	</tr>
	542
	543	<tr>
	544	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	545	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	546	</tr>
	547
	548	<tr>
	549	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	550	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	551	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
552	</tr>
553
554	<tr>
555	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
556	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
557	</tr>
558
559	</table>
560
561	</div>
562
563	</div>
564
565	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
566
567	<div class=section>
568
569	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
570
571	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
572	syntax it will accept.</p>
573
574	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
575
576	</div>
577
578	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
579
580	<div class=section>
581
582	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
583
584	</div>
585
586	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
587
588	<div class=section>
589
590	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
591	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
592
593	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
594
595	<div class=section>
596
597	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
598	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
599	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
600
601	</div>
602
603	<h3>Server</h3>
604
605	<div class=section>
606
607	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
608	file.</p>
609
610	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
611	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
612
613	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
614
615	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
616	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
617	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
618
619	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
620
621	</div>
622
623	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
624
625	<div class=section>
626
627	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
628	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
629	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
630	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
631
632	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
633
634	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
635	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
636	7 and Opera 9.</p>
637
638	</div>
639
640	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
641
642	<div class=section>
643
644	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
645	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
646	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
647
648	</div>
649
650	</div>
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