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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 4.4</h2>
69 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
71 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
72 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
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>
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>
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>
88 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
89 prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
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
102 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing.</p>
106 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
110 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
111 with punctuation). (Please see <a
112 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
120 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
121 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
122 the man page for details.</p>
124 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
125 under OS X (as above).</p>
133 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
134 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
135 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
136 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
138 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
139 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
142 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
158 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
159 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
163 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
164 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
168 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
169 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
173 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
174 <td>Missing stub function</td>
178 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
179 <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
183 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
184 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
188 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
189 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
193 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
194 <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
198 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
199 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
203 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
204 <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
213 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
217 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
221 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
222 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
223 various situations.</p>
225 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
226 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
228 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
229 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
230 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
238 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
239 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
240 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
242 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
243 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
244 interface does not.</p>
246 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
247 generated by iTunes.</p>
251 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
255 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
257 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
258 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
259 goal is to prohibit <a
260 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
262 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
263 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
266 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
268 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
283 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
284 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
287 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
288 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
295 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
299 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
303 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
304 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
305 always use TCP/IP.</p>
307 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
308 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
309 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
313 <h3>Documentation</h3>
317 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
318 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
333 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
334 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
342 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
346 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
351 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
355 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
359 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
363 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
364 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
367 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
368 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
369 half way through entering search terms.</li>
371 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
373 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
376 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
380 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
381 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
382 fully up to date.</p>
390 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
391 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
397 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
401 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
405 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
409 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
410 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
411 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
415 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
423 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
424 restored if there is real demand.</p>
426 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
430 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
431 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
432 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
433 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
434 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
438 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
442 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
446 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
447 eligible for random choice.</li>
449 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
450 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
452 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
453 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
454 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
456 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
457 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
463 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
467 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
471 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
472 includes links to parent directories.</li>
474 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
475 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
476 redirected to the login page.</li>
480 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
481 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
482 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
484 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
485 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
486 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
488 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
489 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
490 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
491 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
497 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
501 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
502 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
504 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
505 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
509 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
513 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
514 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
529 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
530 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
534 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
535 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
539 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
540 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
544 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
545 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
549 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
550 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
554 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
555 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
556 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
560 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
561 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
570 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
574 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
576 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
577 syntax it will accept.</p>
579 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
583 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
587 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
591 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
595 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
596 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
598 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
602 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
603 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
604 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
612 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
615 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
616 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
618 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
620 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
621 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
622 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
624 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
628 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
632 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
633 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
634 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
635 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
637 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
639 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
640 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
645 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
649 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
650 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
651 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>