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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>
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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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151
152<h3>Disobedience</h3>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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219 </table>
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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
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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>
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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>
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