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9 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
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
50 <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database
51 daily. See <tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder</tt>. You can put settings
52 in <tt>/etc/default/disorder</tt> to turn this off or to control how long
53 the backups are kept for.</p>
55 <p>The <tt>disorder-dump -r</tt> option was broken.</p>
57 <p><tt>disorder-dump</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (<a
58 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue
67 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
68 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode
71 <p>Various minor bug fixes.</p>
77 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.2</h2>
81 <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.</p>
85 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.1</h2>
93 <p>The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.</p>
99 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2>
107 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
109 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
110 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
113 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
114 should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
115 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
116 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also
117 initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
119 <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
120 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
122 <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
123 available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
124 <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
125 removed in a future version.</p>
127 <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not
128 usable in libao 1.0.0.</p>
130 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
131 prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
135 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
139 <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
140 Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
141 “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
144 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
145 available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p>
147 <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
152 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
156 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
157 with punctuation). (Please see <a
158 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
166 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
167 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
168 the man page for details.</p>
170 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
171 under OS X (as above).</p>
179 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
180 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
181 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
182 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
184 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
185 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
188 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
204 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
205 <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
209 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
210 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
214 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></td>
215 <td>mini disobedience interface</td>
219 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></td>
220 <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
224 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></td>
225 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
229 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></td>
230 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
234 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></td>
235 <td>Missing stub function</td>
239 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></td>
240 <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
244 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></td>
245 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
249 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></td>
250 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
254 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></td>
255 <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
259 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></td>
260 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
264 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></td>
265 <td>Sort search results in web interface</td>
269 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></td>
270 <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
274 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></td>
275 <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
279 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td>
280 <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td>
285 <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches
286 are now suppressed</td>
291 <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
292 started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td>
299 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
303 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
307 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
308 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
309 various situations.</p>
311 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
312 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
314 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
315 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
316 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
324 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
325 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
326 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
328 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
329 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
330 interface does not.</p>
332 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
333 generated by iTunes.</p>
337 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
341 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
343 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
344 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
345 goal is to prohibit <a
346 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
348 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
349 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
352 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
354 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
369 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
370 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
373 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
374 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
381 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
385 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
389 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
390 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
391 always use TCP/IP.</p>
393 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
394 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
395 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
399 <h3>Documentation</h3>
403 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
404 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
419 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
420 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
428 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
432 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
437 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
441 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
445 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
449 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
450 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
453 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
454 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
455 half way through entering search terms.</li>
457 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
459 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
462 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
466 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
467 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
468 fully up to date.</p>
476 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
477 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
483 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
487 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
491 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
495 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
496 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
497 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
501 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
509 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
510 restored if there is real demand.</p>
512 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
516 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
517 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
518 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
519 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
520 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
524 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
528 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
532 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
533 eligible for random choice.</li>
535 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
536 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
538 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
539 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
540 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
542 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
543 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
549 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
553 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
557 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
558 includes links to parent directories.</li>
560 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
561 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
562 redirected to the login page.</li>
566 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
567 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
568 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
570 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
571 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
572 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
574 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
575 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
576 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
577 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
583 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
587 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
588 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
590 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
591 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
595 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
599 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
600 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
615 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
616 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
620 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
621 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
625 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
626 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
630 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
631 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
635 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
636 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
640 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
641 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
642 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
646 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
647 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
656 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
660 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
662 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
663 syntax it will accept.</p>
665 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
669 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
673 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
677 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
681 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
682 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
684 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
688 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
689 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
690 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
698 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
701 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
702 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
704 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
706 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
707 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
708 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
710 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
714 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
718 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
719 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
720 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
721 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
723 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
725 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
726 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
731 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
735 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
736 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
737 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>