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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 4.1</h2>
61
62<div class=section>
63
64 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
65
66 <div class=section>
67
68 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
69
70 <ul>
71
72 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
73 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
74 applications.</li>
75
76 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
77 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
78 half way through entering search terms.</li>
79
80 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
81
82 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
83 be used.</li>
84
85 </ul>
86
87 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
88 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
89 fully up to date.</p>
90
91 </div>
92
93 <h3>Server</h3>
94
95 <div class=section>
96
97 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
98 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
99 behaviour).</p>
100
101 </div>
102</div>
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104<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
105
106<div class=section>
107
108 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
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110</div>
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112<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
113
114<div class=section>
115
116 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
117 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
118 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
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126 <h3>Server</h3>
127
128<div class=section>
129
130 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
131 restored if there is real demand.</p>
132
133 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
134
135<div class=section>
136
137 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
138 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
139 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
140 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
141 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
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144
145<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
146
147<div class=section>
148
149 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
150
151 <ul>
152
153 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
154 eligible for random choice.</li>
155
156 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
157 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
158
159 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
160 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
161 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
162
163 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
164 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
165
166 </ul>
167
168</div>
169
170<h4>Web Interface</h4>
171
172<div class=section>
173
174 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
175
176 <ul>
177
178 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
179 includes links to parent directories.</li>
180
181 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
182 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
183 redirected to the login page.</li>
184
185 </ul>
186
187 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
188 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
189 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
190
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191 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
192 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
193 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
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195 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
196 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
197 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
198 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
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204<h3>Disobedience</h3>
205
206<div class=section>
207
208 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
209 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
210
211 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
212 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
213
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215
216<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
217
218<div class=section>
219
220 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
221 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
222
223</div>
224
225<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
226
227<div class=section>
228
229 <table class=bugs>
230 <tr>
231 <th>ID</th>
232 <th>Description</th>
233 </tr>
234
235 <tr>
236 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
237 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
238 </tr>
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240 <tr>
241 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
242 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
243 </tr>
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245 <tr>
246 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
247 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
248 </tr>
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250 <tr>
251 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
252 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
253 </tr>
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255 <tr>
256 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
257 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
258 </tr>
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260 <tr>
261 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
262 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
263 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
264 </tr>
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266 <tr>
267 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
268 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
269 </tr>
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271 </table>
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275</div>
276
277<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
278
279<div class=section>
280
281 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
282
283 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
284 syntax it will accept.</p>
285
286 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
287
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289
290<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
291
292<div class=section>
293
294 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
295
296</div>
297
298<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
299
300<div class=section>
301
302 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
303 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
304
305 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
306
307<div class=section>
308
309 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
310 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
311 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
312
313</div>
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315<h3>Server</h3>
316
317<div class=section>
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319 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
320 file.</p>
321
322 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
323 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
324
325 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
326
327 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
328 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
329 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
330
331 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
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335<h3>Web Interface</h3>
336
337<div class=section>
338
339 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
340 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
341 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
342 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
343
344 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
345
346 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
347 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
348 7 and Opera 9.</p>
349
350</div>
351
352<h3>Disobedience</h3>
353
354<div class=section>
355
356 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
357 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
358 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
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