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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 5.2</h2>
21 <h3>PulseAudio support</h3>
25 <p>PulseAudio is now supported, if the support library is available at
26 build time. It is the default for client applications, reflecting its
27 widespread use in desktop environments.</p>
29 <p>Volume settings is not currently supported when PulseAudio is in
38 <p>Disobedience now has a menu to select the network playback API.</p>
42 <h3><code>disorder-playrtp</code></h3>
46 <p>Playback APIs are now selected using a <code>--api</code> option.</p>
52 <h2>Changes up to version 5.1.1</h2>
61 <li><code>player</code> and <code>tracklength</code> can now be used
62 without arguments to clear the lists, as per the documentation.</li>
64 <li>Tracks without a player are forgotten upon rescan.</li>
66 <li>The speaker process avoids splitting frames.</li>
69 <p>Thanks to Mark Wooding and Joe Birr-Pixton.</p>
75 <h2>Changes up to version 5.1</h2>
79 <h3>Removable Device Support</h3>
83 <p>The server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is
84 mounted or unmounted. (Use the <tt>mount_rescan</tt> option if you want to
85 suppress this behavior.)</p>
87 <p>The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so
88 that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being
97 <p>You can now edit the <tt>required-tags</tt> and <tt>prohibited-tags</tt>
98 global preferences in Disobedience
99 (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=29">issue
102 <p>The “Manage users” option is now more reliably greyed out if
103 it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be
104 wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.</p>
106 <p>A <tt>.desktop</tt> file is now shipped, making Disobedience visible as
107 an application in freedesktop.org-compliant systems.</p>
115 <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database
116 daily. See <tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder</tt>. You can put settings
117 in <tt>/etc/default/disorder</tt> to turn this off or to control how long
118 the backups are kept for.</p>
120 <p>The <tt>disorder-dump -r</tt> option was broken.</p>
122 <p><tt>disorder-dump</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (<a
123 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue
132 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
133 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode
136 <p>Client programs no longer depend on libdb.</p>
138 <p>The following have been removed:</p>
142 <li>The <tt>allow</tt>, <tt>gap</tt>, <tt>lock</tt>, <tt>prefsync</tt>,
143 <tt>restrict</tt>, <tt>trust</tt> configuration commands. If they still
144 appear in your configuration file then the server will not start.</li>
146 <li>The <tt>columns</tt> web interface option. It will generate an
147 message in your error log but otherwise be ignored.</li>
149 <li>The <tt>--wait-for-device</tt> player option. If it still appears in
150 any player commands, they will not work.</li>
152 <li>Support for automatically importing pre-3.0 users.</li>
156 <p>Various minor bug fixes.</p>
162 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.3</h2>
166 <p><b>Security</b>: Local connections can no longer create and delete users
167 unless they are properly authorized.</p>
171 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.2</h2>
175 <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.</p>
179 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.1</h2>
183 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
187 <p>The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.</p>
193 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2>
201 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
203 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
204 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
207 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
208 should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
209 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
210 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also
211 initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
213 <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
214 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
216 <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
217 available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
218 <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
219 removed in a future version.</p>
221 <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not
222 usable in libao 1.0.0.</p>
224 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
225 prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
229 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
233 <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
234 Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
235 “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
238 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
239 available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p>
241 <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
246 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
250 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
251 with punctuation). (Please see <a
252 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
260 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
261 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
262 the man page for details.</p>
264 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
265 under OS X (as above).</p>
273 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
274 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
275 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
276 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
278 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
279 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
282 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
298 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
299 <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
303 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
304 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
308 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></td>
309 <td>mini disobedience interface</td>
313 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></td>
314 <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
318 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></td>
319 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
323 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></td>
324 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
328 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></td>
329 <td>Missing stub function</td>
333 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></td>
334 <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
338 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></td>
339 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
343 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></td>
344 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
348 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></td>
349 <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
353 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></td>
354 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
358 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></td>
359 <td>Sort search results in web interface</td>
363 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></td>
364 <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
368 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></td>
369 <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
373 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td>
374 <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td>
379 <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches
380 are now suppressed</td>
385 <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
386 started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td>
393 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
397 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
401 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
402 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
403 various situations.</p>
405 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
406 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
408 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
409 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
410 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
418 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
419 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
420 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
422 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
423 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
424 interface does not.</p>
426 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
427 generated by iTunes.</p>
431 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
435 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
437 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
438 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
439 goal is to prohibit <a
440 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
442 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
443 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
446 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
448 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
463 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
464 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
467 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
468 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
475 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
479 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
483 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
484 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
485 always use TCP/IP.</p>
487 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
488 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
489 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
493 <h3>Documentation</h3>
497 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
498 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
513 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
514 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
522 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
526 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
531 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
535 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
539 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
543 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
544 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
547 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
548 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
549 half way through entering search terms.</li>
551 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
553 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
556 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
560 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
561 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
562 fully up to date.</p>
570 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
571 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
577 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
581 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
585 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
589 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
590 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
591 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
595 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
603 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
604 restored if there is real demand.</p>
606 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
610 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
611 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
612 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
613 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
614 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
618 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
622 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
626 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
627 eligible for random choice.</li>
629 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
630 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
632 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
633 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
634 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
636 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
637 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
643 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
647 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
651 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
652 includes links to parent directories.</li>
654 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
655 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
656 redirected to the login page.</li>
660 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
661 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
662 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
664 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
665 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
666 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
668 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
669 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
670 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
671 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
677 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
681 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
682 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
684 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
685 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
689 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
693 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
694 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
709 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
710 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
714 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
715 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
719 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
720 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
724 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
725 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
729 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
730 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
734 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
735 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
736 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
740 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
741 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
750 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
754 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
756 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
757 syntax it will accept.</p>
759 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
763 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
767 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
771 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
775 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
776 href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
778 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
782 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
783 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
784 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
792 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
795 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
796 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
798 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
800 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
801 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
802 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
804 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
808 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
812 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
813 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
814 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
815 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
817 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
819 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
820 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
825 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
829 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
830 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
831 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>