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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 4.4</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 thought 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.</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>
+      
+    </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=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=33">#33</a></d>
+          <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</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>