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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 5.0</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. Decoding of scratches is also
	79	initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
	80
	81	<p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
	82	of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
	83
	84	<p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
	85	available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
	86	<a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
	87	removed in a future version.</p>
	88
	89	<p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
	90	prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
	91
	92	</div>
	93
	94	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	95
	96	<div class=section>
	97
	98	<p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
	99	Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
	100	“Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
	101	to the queue.</p>
	102
	103	<p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing.</p>
	104
	105	<p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
	106	manual</a>.</p>
	107
	108	</div>
	109
	110	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	111
	112	<div class=section>
	113
	114	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	115	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	116	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	117
	118	</div>
	119
	120	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	121
	122	<div class=section>
	123
	124	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	125	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	126	the man page for details.</p>
	127
	128	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	129	under OS X (as above).</p>
	130
	131	</div>
	132
	133	<h3>General</h3>
	134
	135	<div class=section>
	136
	137	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	138	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	139	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	140	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	141
	142	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	143	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	144	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	145
	146	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	147	rationalized.</p>
	148
	149	</div>
	150
	151	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	152
	153	<div class=section>
	154
	155	<table class=bugs>
	156	<tr>
	157	<th>ID</th>
	158	<th>Description</th>
	159	</tr>
	160
	161	<tr>
	162	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
	163	<td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
	164	</tr>
	165
	166	<tr>
	167	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	168	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	169	</tr>
	170
	171	<tr>
	172	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></d>
	173	<td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
	174	</tr>
	175
	176	<tr>
	177	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	178	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	179	</tr>
	180
	181	<tr>
	182	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	183	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	184	</tr>
	185
	186	<tr>
	187	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	188	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	189	</tr>
	190
	191	<tr>
	192	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	193	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	194	</tr>
	195
	196	<tr>
	197	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	198	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	199	</tr>
	200
	201	<tr>
	202	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	203	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	204	</tr>
	205
	206	<tr>
	207	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	208	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	209	</tr>
	210
	211	<tr>
	212	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	213	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	214	</tr>
	215
	216	<tr>
	217	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
	218	<td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
	219	</tr>
	220
	221	<tr>
	222	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></d>
	223	<td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
	224	</tr>
	225
	226	<tr>
	227	<td>(none)</td>
	228	<td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches
	229	are now suppressed</td>
	230	</tr>
	231
	232	</table>
	233	</div>
	234	</div>
	235
	236	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
	237
	238	<div class=section>
	239
	240	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	241
	242	<div class=section>
	243
	244	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
	245	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
	246	various situations.</p>
	247
	248	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	249	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	250
	251	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	252	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	253	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	254
	255	</div>
	256
	257	<h3>Server</h3>
	258
	259	<div class=section>
	260
	261	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	262	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	263	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	264
	265	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	266	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	267	interface does not.</p>
	268
	269	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	270	generated by iTunes.</p>
	271
	272	</div>
	273
	274	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	275
	276	<div class=section>
	277
	278	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
	279
	280	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	281	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	282	goal is to prohibit <a
	283	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	284
	285	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
	286	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
	287	packaging.</p>
	288
	289	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
	290
	291	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
	292
	293	</div>
	294
	295	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	296
	297	<div class=section>
	298
	299	<table class=bugs>
	300	<tr>
	301	<th>ID</th>
	302	<th>Description</th>
	303	</tr>
	304
	305	<tr>
	306	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	307	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	308	</tr>
	309	<tr>
	310	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	311	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	312	</tr>
	313	</table>
	314
	315	</div>
	316	</div>
	317
	318	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	319
	320	<div class=section>
	321
	322	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	323
	324	<div class=section>
	325
	326	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	327	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	328	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	329
	330	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	331	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	332	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	333
	334	</div>
	335
	336	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	337
	338	<div class=section>
	339
	340	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	341	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	342
	343	</div>
	344
	345	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	346
	347	<div class=section>
	348
	349	<table class=bugs>
	350	<tr>
	351	<th>ID</th>
	352	<th>Description</th>
	353	</tr>
	354
	355	<tr>
	356	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	357	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	358	</tr>
	359	</table>
	360
	361	</div>
	362	</div>
	363
	364
	365	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	366
	367	<div class=section>
	368
	369	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	370	in.</p>
	371
	372	</div>
	373
	374	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	375
	376	<div class=section>
	377
	378	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	379
	380	<div class=section>
	381
	382	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	383
	384	<ul>
	385
	386	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	387	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	388	applications.</li>
	389
	390	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	391	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	392	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	393
	394	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	395
	396	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	397	be used.</li>
	398
	399	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	400
	401	</ul>
	402
	403	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	404	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	405	fully up to date.</p>
	406
	407	</div>
	408
	409	<h3>Server</h3>
	410
	411	<div class=section>
	412
	413	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	414	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	415	behaviour).</p>
	416
	417	</div>
	418	</div>
	419
	420	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	421
	422	<div class=section>
	423
	424	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	425
	426	</div>
	427
	428	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	429
	430	<div class=section>
	431
	432	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	433	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	434	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	435
	436	</div>
	437
	438	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
	439
	440	<div class=section>
	441
	442	<h3>Server</h3>
	443
	444	<div class=section>
	445
	446	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	447	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	448
	449	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	450
	451	<div class=section>
	452
	453	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	454	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	455	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	456	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	457	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	458
	459	</div>
	460
	461	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	462
	463	<div class=section>
	464
	465	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	466
	467	<ul>
	468
	469	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	470	eligible for random choice.</li>
	471
	472	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	473	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	474
	475	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	476	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	477	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	478
	479	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	480	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	481
	482	</ul>
	483
	484	</div>
	485
	486	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	487
	488	<div class=section>
	489
	490	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	491
	492	<ul>
	493
	494	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	495	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	496
	497	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	498	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	499	redirected to the login page.</li>
	500
	501	</ul>
	502
	503	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
	504	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
	505	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
	506
	507	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	508	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	509	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
	510
	511	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	512	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	513	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	514	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
	515
	516	</div>
	517
	518	</div>
	519
	520	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	521
	522	<div class=section>
	523
	524	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	525	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	526
	527	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	528	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	529
	530	</div>
	531
	532	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	533
	534	<div class=section>
	535
	536	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	537	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	538
	539	</div>
	540
	541	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	542
	543	<div class=section>
	544
	545	<table class=bugs>
	546	<tr>
	547	<th>ID</th>
	548	<th>Description</th>
	549	</tr>
	550
	551	<tr>
	552	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	553	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	554	</tr>
	555
	556	<tr>
	557	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	558	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	559	</tr>
	560
	561	<tr>
	562	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	563	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	564	</tr>
	565
	566	<tr>
	567	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	568	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	569	</tr>
	570
	571	<tr>
	572	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	573	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	574	</tr>
	575
	576	<tr>
	577	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	578	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	579	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
	580	</tr>
	581
	582	<tr>
	583	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
	584	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
	585	</tr>
	586
	587	</table>
	588
	589	</div>
	590
	591	</div>
	592
	593	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
	594
	595	<div class=section>
	596
	597	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
	598
	599	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
	600	syntax it will accept.</p>
	601
	602	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
	603
	604	</div>
	605
	606	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
	607
	608	<div class=section>
	609
	610	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
	611
	612	</div>
	613
	614	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
	615
	616	<div class=section>
	617
	618	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
	619	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
	620
	621	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
	622
	623	<div class=section>
	624
	625	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
	626	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
	627	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
	628
	629	</div>
	630
	631	<h3>Server</h3>
	632
	633	<div class=section>
	634
	635	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
	636	file.</p>
	637
	638	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
	639	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
	640
	641	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
	642
	643	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
	644	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
	645	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
	646
	647	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
	648
	649	</div>
	650
	651	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	652
	653	<div class=section>
	654
	655	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
	656	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
	657	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
	658	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
	659
	660	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
	661
	662	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
	663	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
	664	7 and Opera 9.</p>
	665
	666	</div>
	667
	668	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	669
	670	<div class=section>
	671
	672	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
	673	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
	674	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
	675
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