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56 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
58 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.</p>
60 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
68 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
72 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
73 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
76 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
77 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
78 half way through entering search terms.</li>
80 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
82 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
87 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
88 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
97 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
98 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
104 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
108 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
112 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
116 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
117 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
118 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
122 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
130 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
131 restored if there is real demand.</p>
133 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
137 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
138 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
139 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
140 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
141 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
145 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
149 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
153 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
154 eligible for random choice.</li>
156 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
157 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
159 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
160 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
161 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
163 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
164 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
170 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
174 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
178 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
179 includes links to parent directories.</li>
181 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
182 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
183 redirected to the login page.</li>
187 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
188 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
189 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
191 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
192 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
193 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
195 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
196 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
197 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
198 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
204 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
208 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
209 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
211 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
212 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
216 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
220 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
221 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
236 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
237 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
241 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
242 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
246 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
247 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
251 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
252 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
256 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
257 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
261 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
262 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
263 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
267 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
268 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
277 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
281 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
283 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
284 syntax it will accept.</p>
286 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
290 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
294 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
298 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
302 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
303 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
305 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
309 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
310 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
311 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
319 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
322 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
323 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
325 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
327 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
328 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
329 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
331 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
335 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
339 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
340 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
341 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
342 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
344 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
346 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
347 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
352 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
356 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
357 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
358 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>