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 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
 
-<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.</p>
+<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
+ href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2>
+
+  <div class=section>
+  
+    <h3>Server</h3>
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
+      Devices may
+      be specified either by UID or name.  Fixes <a
+       href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
+      27</a>.</p>
+
+      <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
+      should be a bit lower.  Note though that all the sound output code has
+      been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
+      that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.  Decoding of scratches is also
+      initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
+      
+      <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
+      of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
+
+      <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
+      available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
+      <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>.  SoX support will be
+      removed in a future version.</p>
+
+      <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not
+      usable in libao 1.0.0.</p>
+
+      <p>Playlists are now supported.  These allow a collection of tracks to be
+      prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
+
+    </div>
+      
+    <h3>Disobedience</h3>
+
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
+      Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
+      &ldquo;Recent&rdquo;, &ldquo;Added&rdquo; and &ldquo;Choose&rdquo; tabs
+      to the queue.</p>
+
+      <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
+      available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p>
+
+      <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
+      manual</a>.</p>
+
+    </div>
+
+    <h3>Web Interface</h3>
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
+      with punctuation).  (Please see <a
+      href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
+
+    </div>
+      
+    <h3>RTP Player</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
+      to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
+      the man page for details.</p>
+      
+      <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
+      under OS X (as above).</p>
+        
+    </div>
+      
+    <h3>General</h3>
+
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>IPv6 should now work.  Network address specifications
+      (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
+      <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
+      of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
+
+      <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
+      href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
+      5.1.0</a>.</p>
+
+      <p>Various elements of the source code have been
+      rationalized.</p>
+      
+    </div>
+    
+    <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <table class=bugs>
+        <tr>
+          <th>ID</th>
+          <th>Description</th>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
+          <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
+          <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></d>
+          <td>mini disobedience interface</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></d>
+          <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
+          <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
+          <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
+          <td>Missing stub function</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
+          <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
+          <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
+          <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
+          <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
+          <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></d>
+          <td>Sort search results in web interface</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
+          <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></d>
+          <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td>
+          <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td>(none)</td>
+         <td>&ldquo;found track in no collection&rdquo; messages for scratches
+         are now suppressed</td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <tr>
+          <td>(none)</td>
+          <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
+          started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td>
+        </tr>
+
+      </table>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
+
+  <div class=section>
+
+    <h3>Disobedience</h3>
+
+      <div class=section>
+
+        <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
+        played.  This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
+        various situations.</p>
+
+        <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
+        ones.  The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
+
+        <p>&ldquo;Select all&rdquo; is now no longer available in the choose
+        tab.  Instead there is a new &ldquo;Select children&rdquo; option which
+        selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
+
+      </div>
+
+    <h3>Server</h3>
+
+      <div class=section>
+
+        <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half.  You
+        can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
+        &ldquo;<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>&rdquo; in the config file.</p>
+
+        <p>It is now possible to &lsquo;adopt&rsquo; randomly picked tracks.
+        Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
+        interface does not.</p>
+
+        <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
+        generated by iTunes.</p>
+        
+      </div>
+
+    <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
+
+      <div class=section>
+
+        <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
+
+        <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
+         href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>.  The main
+        goal is to prohibit <a
+         href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
+
+        <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
+        packages.  There are a number of improvements to the Debian
+        packaging.</p>
+
+        <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
+
+        <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
+
+      </div>
+
+  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <table class=bugs>
+        <tr>
+          <th>ID</th>
+          <th>Description</th>
+        </tr>
+        
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
+          <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
+          <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+      
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
+
+<div class=section>
+
+  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch.  If this is turned off
+      then Disobedience will connect to a local server.  Formerly it would
+      always use TCP/IP.</p>
+
+      <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
+      Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
+      now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
+      
+    </div>
+
+  <h3>Documentation</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
+      <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
+      
+    </div>
+
+  <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <table class=bugs>
+        <tr>
+          <th>ID</th>
+          <th>Description</th>
+        </tr>
+        
+        <tr>
+          <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
+          <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+      
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
+
+<div class=section>
+
+  <p>Disobedience's &ldquo;Login&rdquo; window now works when you are logged
+  in.</p>
+  
+</div>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
+
+<div class=section>
+
+  <h3>Disobedience</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+  
+      <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+        
+        <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
+        greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
+        applications.</li>
+
+        <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab.  The initiation
+        of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
+        half way through entering search terms.</li>
+
+        <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
+    
+        <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
+        be used.</li>
+
+        <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
+        
+      </ul>
+      
+      <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
+      a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
+      fully up to date.</p>
+
+    </div>
+     
+  <h3>Server</h3>
+  
+    <div class=section>
+
+      <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
+      now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
+      behaviour).</p>
+      
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
+
+<div class=section>
+
+  <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
+  
+</div>
+
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
+
+<div class=section>
+
+  <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly.  As part of this,
+  <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>.  The configure
+  script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
+  
+</div>
 
-<h2>Changes up to version 3.1</h2>
+<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
 
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   possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server.  See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
   <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
 
-  <p>The makefiles will now install the CGI automatically.  If they cannot
-  figure out the location of the cgi-bin directory on your system, set
-  <tt>cgidir</tt> on the <tt>configure</tt> command line.</p>
+  <p>The web interface is now installed automatically.  If you don't want it,
+  use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>.  If you want it in a non-default
+  location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
+  and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
   
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