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11 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
12 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
14 <p><b>IMPORTANT</b>: you should read <a
15 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> before upgrading.</p>
17 <h2>Changes up to version 5.1</h2>
21 <h3>Removable Device Support</h3>
25 <p>The server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is
26 mounted or unmounted. (Use the <tt>mount_rescan</tt> option if you want to
27 suppress this behavior.)</p>
29 <p>The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so
30 that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being
39 <p>You can now edit the <tt>required-tags</tt> and <tt>prohibited-tags</tt>
40 global preferences in Disobedience
41 (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=29">issue
44 <p>The “Manage users” option is now more reliably greyed out if
45 it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be
46 wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.</p>
54 <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database
55 daily. See <tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder</tt>. You can put settings
56 in <tt>/etc/default/disorder</tt> to turn this off or to control how long
57 the backups are kept for.</p>
59 <p>The <tt>disorder-dump -r</tt> option was broken.</p>
61 <p><tt>disorder-dump</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (<a
62 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue
71 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
72 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode
75 <p>Client programs no longer depend on libdb.</p>
77 <p>The following have been removed:</p>
81 <li>The <tt>allow</tt>, <tt>gap</tt>, <tt>lock</tt>, <tt>prefsync</tt>,
82 <tt>restrict</tt>, <tt>trust</tt> configuration commands. If they still
83 appear in your configuration file then the server will not start.</li>
85 <li>The <tt>columns</tt> web interface option. It will generate an
86 message in your error log but otherwise be ignored.</li>
88 <li>The <tt>--wait-for-device</tt> player option. If it still appears in
89 any player commands, they will not work.</li>
91 <li>Support for automatically importing pre-3.0 users.</li>
95 <p>Various minor bug fixes.</p>
101 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.3</h2>
105 <p><b>Security</b>: Local connections can no longer create and delete users
106 unless they are properly authorized.</p>
110 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.2</h2>
114 <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.</p>
118 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.1</h2>
122 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
126 <p>The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.</p>
132 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2>
140 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
142 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
143 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
146 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
147 should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
148 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
149 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also
150 initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
152 <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
153 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
155 <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
156 available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
157 <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
158 removed in a future version.</p>
160 <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not
161 usable in libao 1.0.0.</p>
163 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
164 prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
168 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
172 <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
173 Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
174 “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
177 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
178 available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p>
180 <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
185 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
189 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
190 with punctuation). (Please see <a
191 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
199 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
200 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
201 the man page for details.</p>
203 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
204 under OS X (as above).</p>
212 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
213 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
214 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
215 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
217 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
218 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
221 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
237 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
238 <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
242 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
243 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
247 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></td>
248 <td>mini disobedience interface</td>
252 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></td>
253 <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
257 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></td>
258 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
262 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></td>
263 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
267 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></td>
268 <td>Missing stub function</td>
272 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></td>
273 <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
277 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></td>
278 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
282 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></td>
283 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
287 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></td>
288 <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
292 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></td>
293 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
297 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></td>
298 <td>Sort search results in web interface</td>
302 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></td>
303 <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
307 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></td>
308 <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
312 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td>
313 <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td>
318 <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches
319 are now suppressed</td>
324 <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
325 started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td>
332 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
336 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
340 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
341 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
342 various situations.</p>
344 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
345 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
347 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
348 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
349 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
357 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
358 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
359 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
361 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
362 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
363 interface does not.</p>
365 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
366 generated by iTunes.</p>
370 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
374 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
376 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
377 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
378 goal is to prohibit <a
379 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
381 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
382 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
385 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
387 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
402 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
403 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
406 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
407 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
414 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
418 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
422 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
423 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
424 always use TCP/IP.</p>
426 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
427 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
428 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
432 <h3>Documentation</h3>
436 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
437 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
452 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
453 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
461 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
465 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
470 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
474 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
478 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
482 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
483 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
486 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
487 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
488 half way through entering search terms.</li>
490 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
492 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
495 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
499 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
500 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
501 fully up to date.</p>
509 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
510 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
516 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
520 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
524 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
528 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
529 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
530 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
534 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
542 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
543 restored if there is real demand.</p>
545 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
549 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
550 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
551 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
552 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
553 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
557 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
561 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
565 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
566 eligible for random choice.</li>
568 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
569 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
571 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
572 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
573 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
575 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
576 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
582 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
586 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
590 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
591 includes links to parent directories.</li>
593 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
594 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
595 redirected to the login page.</li>
599 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
600 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
601 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
603 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
604 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
605 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
607 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
608 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
609 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
610 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
616 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
620 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
621 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
623 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
624 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
628 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
632 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
633 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
648 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
649 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
653 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
654 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
658 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
659 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
663 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
664 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
668 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
669 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
673 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
674 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
675 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
679 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
680 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
689 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
693 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
695 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
696 syntax it will accept.</p>
698 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
702 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
706 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
710 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
714 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
715 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
717 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
721 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
722 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
723 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
731 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
734 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
735 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
737 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
739 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
740 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
741 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
743 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
747 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
751 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
752 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
753 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
754 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
756 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
758 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
759 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
764 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
768 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
769 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
770 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>