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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>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
83 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
84 goal is to prohibit <a
85 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
87 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
90 <p>There are some minor fixes to the test suite.</p>
96 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
100 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
104 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
105 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
106 always use TCP/IP.</p>
108 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
109 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
110 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
114 <h3>Documentation</h3>
118 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
119 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
134 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
135 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
143 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
147 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
152 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
156 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
160 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
164 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
165 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
168 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
169 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
170 half way through entering search terms.</li>
172 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
174 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
177 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
181 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
182 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
183 fully up to date.</p>
191 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
192 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
198 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
202 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
206 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
210 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
211 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
212 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
216 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
224 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
225 restored if there is real demand.</p>
227 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
231 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
232 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
233 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
234 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
235 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
239 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
243 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
247 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
248 eligible for random choice.</li>
250 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
251 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
253 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
254 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
255 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
257 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
258 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
264 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
268 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
272 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
273 includes links to parent directories.</li>
275 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
276 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
277 redirected to the login page.</li>
281 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
282 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
283 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
285 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
286 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
287 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
289 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
290 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
291 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
292 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
298 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
302 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
303 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
305 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
306 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
310 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
314 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
315 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
330 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
331 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
335 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
336 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
340 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
341 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
345 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
346 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
350 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
351 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
355 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
356 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
357 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
361 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
362 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
371 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
375 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
377 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
378 syntax it will accept.</p>
380 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
384 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
388 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
392 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
396 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
397 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
399 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
403 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
404 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
405 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
413 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
416 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
417 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
419 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
421 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
422 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
423 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
425 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
429 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
433 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
434 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
435 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
436 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
438 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
440 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
441 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
446 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
450 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
451 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
452 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>