X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/blobdiff_plain/763d5e6ad88ef3ba1cd1d7742d060e4f1e54c6b8..a55c70c74f75d7b745d3560c862dac69b45ec367:/CHANGES diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 14edbdd..ada5cf9 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. -* Changes up to version 1.6 +* Changes up to version 2.1 -** General +** Server -There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. -Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. +Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. + +* Changes up to version 2.0 + +** General Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. @@ -15,13 +18,32 @@ 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)). -** Server +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 +latte case). + +** Disobedience + +There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. +Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. + +** Web Interface + +The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From +here they can be played or their preferences changed. -Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with -large collections and/or slow platforms. +Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover +for the full name. -The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of -Disobedience. +** Network Play + +DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on +multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. + +** Server + +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. @@ -32,6 +54,20 @@ 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. + +A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random +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 @@ -48,6 +84,11 @@ options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are now optional. +** Thanks + +Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all +contributed in some way to this release. + * Changes up to version 1.5.1 ** Web Interface