Disobedience supports editing track weight

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-See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history.
+* Changes up to version 3.1
 
-* Changes up to version 1.6
+** Server
+
+The 'gap' directive will no longer work.  It could be restored if there
+is real demand.
+
+*** Random Track Choice
+
+This has been completely rewritten to support new features:
+   - tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
+     eligible for random choice
+   - there is a new 'weight' track preference allowing for non-uniform
+     track selection.  See disorder(1) for details.
+   - there is a new configuration item replay_min defining the minimum
+     time before a played track can be picked at random.  The default is
+     8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).
+
+* Changes up to version 3.0
+
+Important!  See README.upgrades when upgrading.
+
+** Platforms And Installation
+
+Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported.  There is now a bash script
+in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'.
+
+** Server
+
+Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
+
+The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only
+additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
+
+The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
+
+How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration
+command.  This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with
+ALSA as well as OSS.
+
+A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
+
+** Web Interface
+
+The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
+online registration of new users.  Also it is no longer necessary to
+manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
+if you don't like the value it figures out).
+
+It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
+
+The web interface's browser support has been improved.  It has been
+tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
+Opera 9.
+
+** Disobedience
+
+A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
+while no track was playing has been fixed.  There is a new 'deselect all
+tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
+
+* Changes up to version 2.0
 
 ** General
 
@@ -12,6 +71,10 @@ documentation for any interface) as well as by word search.  It is
 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
 
+Unicode support is improved.  Case-folding and word breaking now follows
+the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
+latter case).
+
 ** Disobedience
 
 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
@@ -22,6 +85,9 @@ Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database.  From
 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
 
+Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen.  Hover
+for the full name.
+
 ** Network Play
 
 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
@@ -29,11 +95,8 @@ multiple client machines.  See README.streams for details.
 
 ** Server
 
-Cache slow file lookups in the server.  Should help installations with
-large collections and/or slow platforms.
-
-The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of
-Disobedience.
+Slow file lookups are cached in the server.  This should help
+installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
 
 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
@@ -44,6 +107,8 @@ The 'pick' plugin has been abolished.  All the logic formerly done there
 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
 efficiently.
 
+'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
+
 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
 
@@ -53,6 +118,9 @@ tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
 and FLAC.  The example config file uses it.
 
+Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
+(and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
+
 ** disorderfm
 
 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
@@ -203,7 +271,7 @@ Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
 works.
 
-Connection errors are reported more gracefuly.
+Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
 
 ** Plugins