X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/blobdiff_plain/a69fcd7a36d565697b0184a7ee0f51585e9a873d..b9bbb6c8bd8630fe4321045ce57174c4890bfa46:/CHANGES?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 07c4867..d484c58 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,4 +1,82 @@ -* Changes up to version 2.1 +* Changes up to version 3.1 + +** Server + +The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there +is real demand. + +*** Event Scheduling + +It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. Currently +the supported actions are playing a specific track, and changing a +global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be turned on or +off). See the schedule-* commands described in disorder(1). + +*** 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). + - recently added tracks are biased up; see new_bias and new_bias_age + in disorder_config(5). + +*** Web Interface + +This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are: + - the search page is integrated into the choose page, and includes + links to parent directories + - if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, + instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are + redirected to the login page + +Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, +it is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the +documentation is less monolithic. + +** Disobedience + +There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and +remove users or modify their settings. + +Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set +remote_userman to 'yes'. + +** Miscellaneous + +scripts/setup now honors command line options, and can set up network +play as well as the local default sound device. + +** Bugs Fixed + + #2 Search results should link to directories + #6 Schedule tracks for a particular time +#10 Non-uniform track selection +#11 Bias random selection to newly added tracks +#16 Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not + subsequently redirected to login page +#20 Broken aliasing rules + +* Changes up to version 3.0.2 + +Builds --without-server should work again. + +The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value syntax it +will accept. + +Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available. + +* Changes up to version 3.0.1 + +Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better. + +* Changes up to version 3.0 + +Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading. ** Platforms And Installation @@ -36,7 +114,7 @@ Opera 9. ** Disobedience A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue -while no rtack was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all +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 @@ -53,7 +131,7 @@ 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 -latte case). +latter case). ** Disobedience @@ -251,7 +329,7 @@ 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