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56 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
58 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
59 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
61 <h2>Changes up to version XXX</h2>
69 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
70 played. This would lead to the counter incorrectly resetting to 0:00
71 from whenever anything about the queue changed.</p>
73 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
74 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
82 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
83 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
84 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
92 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
93 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
94 goal is to prohibit <a
95 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
97 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
100 <p>There are some minor fixes to the test suite.</p>
106 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
110 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
114 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
115 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
116 always use TCP/IP.</p>
118 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
119 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
120 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
124 <h3>Documentation</h3>
128 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
129 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
144 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
145 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
153 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
157 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
162 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
166 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
170 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
174 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
175 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
178 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
179 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
180 half way through entering search terms.</li>
182 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
184 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
187 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
191 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
192 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
193 fully up to date.</p>
201 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
202 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
208 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
212 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
216 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
220 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
221 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
222 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
226 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
234 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
235 restored if there is real demand.</p>
237 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
241 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
242 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
243 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
244 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
245 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
249 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
253 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
257 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
258 eligible for random choice.</li>
260 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
261 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
263 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
264 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
265 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
267 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
268 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
274 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
278 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
282 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
283 includes links to parent directories.</li>
285 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
286 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
287 redirected to the login page.</li>
291 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
292 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
293 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
295 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
296 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
297 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
299 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
300 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
301 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
302 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
308 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
312 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
313 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
315 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
316 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
320 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
324 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
325 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
340 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
341 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
345 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
346 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
350 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
351 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
355 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
356 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
360 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
361 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
365 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
366 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
367 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
371 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
372 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
381 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
385 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
387 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
388 syntax it will accept.</p>
390 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
394 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
398 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
402 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
406 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
407 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
409 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
413 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
414 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
415 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
423 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
426 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
427 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
429 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
431 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
432 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
433 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
435 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
439 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
443 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
444 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
445 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
446 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
448 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
450 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
451 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
456 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
460 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
461 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
462 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>