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* Upgrading DisOrder

The general procedure is:

 * stop the old daemon:  /etc/init.d/disorder stop
 * back up your database directory (example below)
 * build and install the new version as described in the README.  Remember to
   install the new version of the web interface too.
 * update the configuration files (see below)
 * start the new daemon, e.g. with
     /etc/init.d/disorder start

The rest of this file describes things you must pay attention to when
upgrading between particular versions.  Minor versions are not
explicitly mentioned; a version number like 1.1 implicitly includes
all 1.1.x versions.

If you install from .deb files then much of this work is automated.

* 4.x -> 5.0

** Web Confirmation Strings

The syntax of confirmation strings for online registrations has changed and old
ones no longer work.  This only affects users who registered before the upgrade
but have not yet confirmed their login.  You can delete such half-created users
with 'disorder deluser USERNAME' (as an administrative user, for instance as
root on the server) and they can start the registration process again.

** Handling Of Configuration Changes

There is a new mechanism to ensure that the search database and aliases are
reconstructed if any options that affect them change.  Unfortunately this means
that the reconstruction step always takes place on upgrade from 4.3 or earlier,
as those versions don't record sufficient information for the server to tell
whether it needs to reconstruct or not.

The result will be a log message of the form:

new database parameter string dbparams-0-sha256:61609f3e6395ec8dee317ee216fe2848d70c249d347dd03c6a219441a13dd456 - removing old data

...and a slower rescan on startup.  Subsequent restarts should not have this
problem (unless of course you change a relevant option).

** Deprecation Notices

The player --wait-for-device option is deprecated and will be removed in a
future version.

The 'lock' option no longer does anything.  You must delete it from any
configuration files that contain it.

* 3.0 -> 4.x

If you customized any of the templates, you will pretty much have to start from
scratch as the web interface has been rewritten.  See disorder.cgi(8) for a
starting point.

The 'gap' directive will no longer work.  You must delete it from any
configuration files that contain it.

You may prefer to remove any 'smtp_server' directive you have, as the web
interface will now use the local sendmail executable if available.

If you want to be able to do use management over non-local connections (thereby
potentially exposing passwords!) you must set 'remote_userman' to 'yes'.

* 2.0 -> 3.0

** Authentication

Users are now stored in the database rather than in 'allow' directives in a
private configuration file.  'allow' is still understood in this version, but
is only used to populate the database on startup.  After the first (successful)
run of the server the remaining 'allow' directives should be deleted.

'restrict' and 'trust' are replaced by a system of per-user rights.  The
default user rights are based on the 'restrict' setting, and the rights of
users created frow 'allow' directives preserve the meaning of 'trust', but
after the first run you should remove these directives and (optionally) add a
'default_rights' directive.

'allow', 'restrict' and 'trust' will stop working entirely in a future version
but for now they will generate harmless error messages.  Remove them and the
error messages will go away.

See README for new setup instructions for the web interface.

** Other Server Configuration

Sensible defaults for 'stopword', 'player' and 'tracklength' are now built into
the server.  If you haven't modified the values from the example or Debian
configuration files then you can remove them.

'gap' now defaults to 0 seconds instead of 2.

The sound output API is now configured with the 'api' command although
'speaker_backend' still works.  If you use 'api alsa' then you may need to
change your 'mixer' and 'channel' settings.

** Web Interface

The web interface no longer uses HTTP basic authentication and the web server
configuration imposing access control on it should be removed.  Users now log
in using their main DisOrder password and the one in the htpassed file is now
obsolete.  You should revisit the web interface setup instructions in README
from scratch.

As part of this, the DisOrder URL has changed from (e.g.)

    http://yourserver/cgi-bin/disorder/disorder

to just

    http://yourserver/cgi-bin/disorder

** Checklist

   * delete default 'stopword', 'player' and 'tracklength' directives
   * set 'gap' if you want a non-0 inter-track gap
   * set 'api' and maybe 'mixer' and 'channel'
   * perhaps add 'default_rights' directive
   * delete 'allow', 'restrict' and 'trust' directives after first run
   * follow new web interface setup in README

* 1.4/1.5 -> 2.0

** 'transform' and 'namepart' directives

'transform' has moved from the web options to the main configuration file, so
that they can be used by other interfaces.  The syntax and semantics are
unchanged.

More importantly however both 'transform' and 'namepart' are now optional, with
sensible defaults being built in.  So if you were already using the default
values you can just delete all instances of both.

See disorder_config(5) for the default values.  Hopefuly they will be suitable
for many configurations.  Please do send feedback.

** 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' directives

These have been removed.  Instead the state persists from one run of the server
to the next.  If they appear in your configuration file they must be removed;
the server will not start if they are present.

** Database upgrade

It is strongly recommended that you back up your database before performing the
upgrade.  For example, as root, with the server STOPPED:
  cd /var/disorder
  mkdir BACKUP
  cp -p * BACKUP

To restore, again as root:
  cd /var/disorder
  rm *
  cp -p BACKUP/* .

The first thing the server does when upgrading from 1.5 is run the
disorder-dbupgrade program.  This is necessary to modify any non-ASCII track
names to meet the latest version's stricter normalization practices.  The
upgrade should succeed automatically; if not it should leave an error message
in syslog.

* 1.3 -> 1.4

** Raw Format Decoders

You will probably want reconfigure your install to use the new facilities
(although the old way works fine).  See the example configuration file and
README.raw for more details.

Depending on how your system is configured you may need to link the disorder
libao driver into the right directory:

   ln -s /usr/local/lib/ao/plugins-2/libdisorder.so /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/.

* 1.2 -> 1.3

** Server Environment

It is important that $sbindir is on the server's path.  The example init script
guarantees this.  You may need to modify the installed one.  You will get
"deadlock manager unexpectedly terminated" if you get this wrong.

** namepart directives

These have changed in three ways.

Firstly they have changed to substitute in a more convenient way.  Instead of
matches for the regexp being substituted back into the original track name, the
replacement string now completely replaces it.  Given the usual uses of
namepart, this is much more convenient.  If you've stuck with the defaults no
changes should be needed for this.

Secondly they are matched against the track name with the collection root
stripped off.

Finally you will need to add an extra line to your config file as follows for
the new track aliasing mechanisms to work properly:

namepart        ext     "(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$"                   "$1"    *

* 1.1 -> 1.2

** Web Interface Changes

The web interface now includes static content as well as templates.
The static content must be given a name visible to HTTP clients which
maps to its location in the real filesystem.

The README suggests using a rule in httpd.conf to make /static in the
HTTP namespace point to /usr/local/share/disorder/static, which is
where DisOrder installs its static content (by default).
Alternatively you can set the url.static label to the base URL of the
static content.

** Configuration File Changes

The trackname-part web interface directive has now gone, and the
options.trackname file with it.

It is replaced by a new namepart directive in the main configuration
file.  This has exactly the same syntax as trackname-part, only the
name and location have changed.

The reason for the change is to allow track name parsing to be
centrally configured, rather than every interface to DisOrder having
to implement it locally.

If you do not install new namepart directives into the main
configuration file then track titles will show up blank.

If you do not remove the trackname-part directives from the web
interface configuration then you will get error messages in the web
server's error log.

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