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	56	<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
	57
	58	<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
	59	href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
	60
	61	<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
	62
	63	<div class=section>
	64
	65	<h3>Server</h3>
	66
	67	<div class=section>
	68
	69	<p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
	70	Devices may
	71	be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
	72	href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
	73	27</a>.</p>
	74
	75	<p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
	76	should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
	77	been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
	78	that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
	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>
	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</a>. SoX support will be
	86	removed in a future version.</p>
	87
	88	<p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
	89	prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
	90
	91	</div>
	92
	93	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	94
	95	<div class=section>
	96
	97	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
	98	Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
	99	“Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
	100	to the queue.</p>
	101
	102	<p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing.</p>
	103
	104	<p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
	105	manual</a>.</p>
	106
	107	</div>
	108
	109	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	110
	111	<div class=section>
	112
	113	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	114	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	115	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	116
	117	</div>
	118
	119	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	120
	121	<div class=section>
	122
	123	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	124	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	125	the man page for details.</p>
	126
	127	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	128	under OS X (as above).</p>
	129
	130	</div>
	131
	132	<h3>General</h3>
	133
	134	<div class=section>
	135
	136	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	137	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	138	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	139	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	140
	141	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	142	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	143	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	144
	145	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	146	rationalized.</p>
	147
	148	</div>
	149
	150	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	151
	152	<div class=section>
	153
	154	<table class=bugs>
	155	<tr>
	156	<th>ID</th>
	157	<th>Description</th>
	158	</tr>
	159
	160	<tr>
	161	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	162	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	163	</tr>
	164
	165	<tr>
	166	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></d>
	167	<td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
	168	</tr>
	169
	170	<tr>
	171	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	172	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	173	</tr>
	174
	175	<tr>
	176	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	177	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	178	</tr>
	179
	180	<tr>
	181	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	182	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	183	</tr>
	184
	185	<tr>
	186	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	187	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	188	</tr>
	189
	190	<tr>
	191	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	192	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	193	</tr>
	194
	195	<tr>
	196	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	197	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	198	</tr>
	199
	200	<tr>
	201	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	202	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	203	</tr>
	204
	205	<tr>
	206	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	207	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	208	</tr>
	209
	210	<tr>
	211	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	212	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	213	</tr>
	214
	215	<tr>
	216	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></d>
	217	<td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
	218	</tr>
	219
	220	</table>
	221	</div>
	222	</div>
	223
	224	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
	225
	226	<div class=section>
	227
	228	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	229
	230	<div class=section>
	231
	232	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
	233	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
	234	various situations.</p>
	235
	236	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	237	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	238
	239	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	240	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	241	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	242
	243	</div>
	244
	245	<h3>Server</h3>
	246
	247	<div class=section>
	248
	249	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	250	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	251	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	252
	253	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	254	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	255	interface does not.</p>
	256
	257	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	258	generated by iTunes.</p>
	259
	260	</div>
	261
	262	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	263
	264	<div class=section>
	265
	266	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
	267
	268	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	269	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	270	goal is to prohibit <a
	271	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	272
	273	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
	274	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
	275	packaging.</p>
	276
	277	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
	278
	279	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
	280
	281	</div>
	282
	283	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	284
	285	<div class=section>
	286
	287	<table class=bugs>
	288	<tr>
	289	<th>ID</th>
	290	<th>Description</th>
	291	</tr>
	292
	293	<tr>
	294	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	295	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	296	</tr>
	297	<tr>
	298	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	299	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	300	</tr>
	301	</table>
	302
	303	</div>
	304	</div>
	305
	306	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	307
	308	<div class=section>
	309
	310	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	311
	312	<div class=section>
	313
	314	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	315	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	316	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	317
	318	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	319	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	320	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	321
	322	</div>
	323
	324	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	325
	326	<div class=section>
	327
	328	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	329	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	330
	331	</div>
	332
	333	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	334
	335	<div class=section>
	336
	337	<table class=bugs>
	338	<tr>
	339	<th>ID</th>
	340	<th>Description</th>
	341	</tr>
	342
	343	<tr>
	344	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	345	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	346	</tr>
	347	</table>
	348
	349	</div>
	350	</div>
	351
	352
	353	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	354
	355	<div class=section>
	356
	357	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	358	in.</p>
	359
	360	</div>
	361
	362	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	363
	364	<div class=section>
	365
	366	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	367
	368	<div class=section>
	369
	370	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	371
	372	<ul>
	373
	374	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	375	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	376	applications.</li>
	377
	378	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	379	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	380	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	381
	382	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	383
	384	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	385	be used.</li>
	386
	387	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	388
	389	</ul>
	390
	391	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	392	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	393	fully up to date.</p>
	394
	395	</div>
	396
	397	<h3>Server</h3>
	398
	399	<div class=section>
	400
	401	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	402	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	403	behaviour).</p>
	404
	405	</div>
	406	</div>
	407
	408	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	409
	410	<div class=section>
	411
	412	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	413
	414	</div>
	415
	416	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	417
	418	<div class=section>
	419
	420	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	421	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	422	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	423
	424	</div>
	425
	426	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
	427
	428	<div class=section>
	429
	430	<h3>Server</h3>
	431
	432	<div class=section>
	433
	434	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	435	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	436
	437	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	438
	439	<div class=section>
	440
	441	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	442	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	443	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	444	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	445	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	446
	447	</div>
	448
	449	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	450
	451	<div class=section>
	452
	453	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	454
	455	<ul>
	456
	457	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	458	eligible for random choice.</li>
	459
	460	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	461	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	462
	463	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	464	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	465	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	466
	467	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	468	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	469
	470	</ul>
	471
	472	</div>
	473
	474	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	475
	476	<div class=section>
	477
	478	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	479
	480	<ul>
	481
	482	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	483	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	484
	485	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	486	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	487	redirected to the login page.</li>
	488
	489	</ul>
	490
	491	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
	492	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
	493	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
	494
	495	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	496	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	497	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
	498
	499	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	500	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	501	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	502	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
	503
	504	</div>
	505
	506	</div>
	507
	508	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	509
	510	<div class=section>
	511
	512	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	513	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	514
	515	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	516	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	517
	518	</div>
	519
	520	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	521
	522	<div class=section>
	523
	524	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	525	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	526
	527	</div>
	528
	529	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	530
	531	<div class=section>
	532
	533	<table class=bugs>
	534	<tr>
	535	<th>ID</th>
	536	<th>Description</th>
	537	</tr>
	538
	539	<tr>
	540	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	541	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	542	</tr>
	543
	544	<tr>
	545	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	546	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	547	</tr>
	548
	549	<tr>
	550	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	551	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	552	</tr>
	553
	554	<tr>
	555	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	556	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	557	</tr>
	558
	559	<tr>
	560	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	561	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	562	</tr>
	563
	564	<tr>
	565	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	566	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	567	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
	568	</tr>
	569
	570	<tr>
	571	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
	572	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
	573	</tr>
	574
	575	</table>
	576
	577	</div>
	578
	579	</div>
	580
	581	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
	582
	583	<div class=section>
	584
	585	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
	586
	587	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
	588	syntax it will accept.</p>
	589
	590	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
	591
	592	</div>
	593
	594	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
	595
	596	<div class=section>
	597
	598	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
	599
	600	</div>
	601
	602	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
	603
	604	<div class=section>
	605
	606	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
	607	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
	608
	609	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
	610
	611	<div class=section>
	612
	613	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
	614	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
	615	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
	616
	617	</div>
	618
	619	<h3>Server</h3>
	620
	621	<div class=section>
	622
	623	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
	624	file.</p>
	625
	626	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
	627	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
	628
	629	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
	630
	631	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
	632	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
	633	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
	634
	635	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
	636
	637	</div>
	638
	639	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	640
	641	<div class=section>
	642
	643	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
	644	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
	645	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
	646	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
	647
	648	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
	649
	650	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
	651	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
	652	7 and Opera 9.</p>
	653
	654	</div>
	655
	656	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	657
	658	<div class=section>
	659
	660	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
	661	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
	662	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
	663
	664	</div>
	665
	666	</div>
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