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<h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>

<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 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.</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>

        <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>
        
      </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 4.0</h2>

<div class=section>

  <h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work.  It could be
  restored if there is real demand.</p>
  
  <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>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 <tt>schedule-*</tt>
  commands described in disorder(1).</p>

</div>

<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>

  <ul>

    <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
    eligible for random choice.</li>

    <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
    non-uniform track selection.  See disorder(1) for details.</li>

    <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
    the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
    The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>

    <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
    <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>

  </ul>

</div>

<h4>Web Interface</h4>

<div class=section>

  <p>This has been largely rewritten.  The most immediate benefits are:</p>

  <ul>
    
    <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
    includes links to parent directories.</li>
    
    <li>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.</li>

  </ul>

  <p>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 (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>

  <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
  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 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>
  
</div>

</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>There is now a new user management window.  From here you can add and
  remove users or modify their settings.</p>

  <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
  <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>

</div>

<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
  set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</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=2">#2</a></td>
      <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
      <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
      <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
      <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
      <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
      <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
      subsequently redirected to login page</td>
    </tr>
    
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
      <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
    </tr>
    
  </table>

</div>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>

<div class=section>

  <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>

  <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
  syntax it will accept.</p>

  <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>

</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
  
</div>

<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>

<div class=section>
  
  <p><b>Important</b>!  See <a
  href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
  
  <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
  
<div class=section>
  
  <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported.  There is now a bash
  script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
  <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Server</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
  file.</p>
  
  <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
  only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
  
  <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
  
  <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
  configuration command.  This also controls how the volume is set,
  which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
  
  <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Web Interface</h3>

<div class=section>
  
  <p>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).</p>
  
  <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
</div>

<h3>Disobedience</h3>

<div class=section>

  <p>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.</p>
  
</div>

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	57
d8b95785 RK	58	<p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
	59	href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
	60
f5fd9a6b RK	61	<h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
	62
	63	<div class=section>
	64
f207f710 RK	65	<h3>Server</h3>
f207f710 RK	66
f5fd9a6b RK	67	<div class=section>
f5fd9a6b RK	68
fe33cfc0	69	<p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
7cd4dd21	70	Devices may
f207f710	71	be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
f5fd9a6b RK	72	href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
f5fd9a6b RK	73	27</a>.</p>
f207f710	74
f71fc3ab	75	<p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
6762ac8a	76	should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
f71fc3ab RK	77	been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
f71fc3ab RK	78	that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
7cd4dd21 RK	79
	80	<p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
	81	of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
	82
	83	</div>
	84
	85	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
	86
	87	<div class=section>
53710d44	88
7cd4dd21 RK	89	<p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
	90	with punctuation). (Please see <a
	91	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
	92
f207f710 RK	93	</div>
	94
	95	<h3>RTP Player</h3>
	96
	97	<div class=section>
	98
	99	<p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
	100	to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
	101	the man page for details.</p>
	102
	103	<p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
	104	under OS X (as above).</p>
f5fd9a6b RK	105
f5fd9a6b RK	106	</div>
7cd4dd21 RK	107
7cd4dd21 RK	108	<h3>General</h3>
f5fd9a6b	109
7cd4dd21 RK	110	<div class=section>
	111
	112	<p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
	113	(<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
	114	<tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
	115	of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
	116
2cb9bc5f RK	117	<p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
	118	href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
	119	5.1.0</a>.</p>
	120
7cd4dd21 RK	121	<p>Various elements of the source code have been
	122	rationalized.</p>
	123
	124	</div>
	125
f5fd9a6b RK	126	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	127
	128	<div class=section>
	129
	130	<table class=bugs>
	131	<tr>
	132	<th>ID</th>
	133	<th>Description</th>
	134	</tr>
	135
	136	<tr>
	137	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
	138	<td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
	139	</tr>
	140
7cd4dd21 RK	141	<tr>
	142	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
	143	<td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
	144	</tr>
6762ac8a RK	145
	146	<tr>
	147	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
	148	<td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
	149	</tr>
	150
	151	<tr>
	152	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
	153	<td>Missing stub function</td>
	154	</tr>
	155
	156	<tr>
	157	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
	158	<td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
	159	</tr>
	160
	161	<tr>
	162	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
	163	<td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
	164	</tr>
	165
93379b3d RK	166	<tr>
	167	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
	168	<td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
	169	</tr>
	170
6762ac8a RK	171	<tr>
	172	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
	173	<td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
	174	</tr>
	175
	176	<tr>
	177	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
	178	<td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
	179	</tr>
7cd4dd21	180
f5fd9a6b RK	181	</table>
	182
	183	</div>
	184	</div>
	185
a0e78d96	186	<h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
d8b95785 RK	187
	188	<div class=section>
	189
	190	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	191
	192	<div class=section>
	193
	194	<p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
e02f9807 RK	195	played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
e02f9807 RK	196	various situations.</p>
d8b95785 RK	197
	198	<p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
	199	ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
	200
a0e78d96 RK	201	<p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
	202	tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
	203	selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
	204
d8b95785 RK	205	</div>
d8b95785 RK	206
6151ae7e RK	207	<h3>Server</h3>
	208
	209	<div class=section>
	210
	211	<p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
	212	can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
	213	“<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
	214
ff45af7c RK	215	<p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
	216	Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
	217	interface does not.</p>
	218
e02f9807 RK	219	<p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
	220	generated by iTunes.</p>
	221
6151ae7e RK	222	</div>
6151ae7e RK	223
10a6c925	224	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
d8b95785 RK	225
	226	<div class=section>
	227
10a6c925 RK	228	<p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
10a6c925 RK	229
e7eb3a27 RK	230	<p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
	231	href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
	232	goal is to prohibit <a
	233	href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
	234
d8b95785	235	<p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
e02f9807 RK	236	packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
e02f9807 RK	237	packaging.</p>
d8b95785	238
74cfbeaa RK	239	<p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
74cfbeaa RK	240
e02f9807	241	<p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
d8b95785 RK	242
	243	</div>
	244
e02f9807 RK	245	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	246
	247	<div class=section>
	248
	249	<table class=bugs>
	250	<tr>
	251	<th>ID</th>
	252	<th>Description</th>
	253	</tr>
	254
	255	<tr>
	256	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
	257	<td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
	258	</tr>
	259	<tr>
	260	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
	261	<td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
	262	</tr>
	263	</table>
	264
	265	</div>
d8b95785	266	</div>
b0a578cb	267
eb2a1fe9 RK	268	<h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
	269
	270	<div class=section>
	271
	272	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	273
	274	<div class=section>
	275
	276	<p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
	277	then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
	278	always use TCP/IP.</p>
	279
	280	<p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
	281	Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
	282	now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
	283
	284	</div>
	285
	286	<h3>Documentation</h3>
	287
	288	<div class=section>
	289
	290	<p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
	291	<b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
	292
	293	</div>
cc5b0a8e RK	294
	295	<h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
	296
	297	<div class=section>
	298
	299	<table class=bugs>
	300	<tr>
	301	<th>ID</th>
	302	<th>Description</th>
	303	</tr>
	304
	305	<tr>
	306	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
	307	<td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
	308	</tr>
	309	</table>
	310
	311	</div>
eb2a1fe9 RK	312	</div>
	313
	314
68210888 RK	315	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
	316
	317	<div class=section>
	318
	319	<p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
	320	in.</p>
	321
	322	</div>
	323
452ad6ba RK	324	<h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
	325
	326	<div class=section>
	327
	328	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	329
	330	<div class=section>
	331
	332	<p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
	333
	334	<ul>
	335
	336	<li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
	337	greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
	338	applications.</li>
	339
	340	<li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
	341	of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
	342	half way through entering search terms.</li>
	343
	344	<li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
	345
	346	<li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
	347	be used.</li>
30f2f8c9 RK	348
	349	<li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
	350
452ad6ba RK	351	</ul>
	352
	353	<p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
	354	a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
	355	fully up to date.</p>
	356
	357	</div>
	358
	359	<h3>Server</h3>
	360
	361	<div class=section>
	362
	363	<p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
	364	now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
	365	behaviour).</p>
	366
	367	</div>
	368	</div>
	369
32918782 RK	370	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
	371
	372	<div class=section>
	373
	374	<p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
	375
	376	</div>
	377
f03d4184 RK	378	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
	379
	380	<div class=section>
	381
	382	<p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
	383	<tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
	384	script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
	385
	386	</div>
	387
0ba75c7f	388	<h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
b0a578cb RK	389
	390	<div class=section>
	391
	392	<h3>Server</h3>
	393
	394	<div class=section>
	395
	396	<p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
	397	restored if there is real demand.</p>
	398
	399	<h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
	400
	401	<div class=section>
	402
	403	<p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
	404	Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
	405	changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
	406	turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
	407	commands described in disorder(1).</p>
	408
	409	</div>
	410
	411	<h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
	412
	413	<div class=section>
	414
	415	<p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
	416
	417	<ul>
	418
	419	<li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
	420	eligible for random choice.</li>
	421
	422	<li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
	423	non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
	424
	425	<li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
	426	the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
	427	The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
	428
	429	<li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
	430	<tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
	431
	432	</ul>
	433
	434	</div>
	435
	436	<h4>Web Interface</h4>
	437
	438	<div class=section>
	439
	440	<p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
	441
	442	<ul>
	443
	444	<li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
	445	includes links to parent directories.</li>
	446
	447	<li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
	448	instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
	449	redirected to the login page.</li>
	450
	451	</ul>
	452
453	<p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
454	is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
455	less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
456
2eee4b0c RK	457	<p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
	458	possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
	459	<tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
4cbafe13	460
64ac73bb RK	461	<p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
	462	use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
	463	location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
	464	and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
2eee4b0c	465
b0a578cb RK	466	</div>
	467
	468	</div>
	469
	470	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
	471
	472	<div class=section>
	473
	474	<p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
	475	remove users or modify their settings.</p>
	476
	477	<p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
	478	<tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
	479
	480	</div>
	481
	482	<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
	483
	484	<div class=section>
	485
	486	<p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
	487	set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
	488
	489	</div>
	490
	491	<h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
	492
	493	<div class=section>
	494
	495	<table class=bugs>
	496	<tr>
	497	<th>ID</th>
	498	<th>Description</th>
	499	</tr>
	500
	501	<tr>
	502	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
	503	<td>Search results should link to directories</td>
	504	</tr>
	505
	506	<tr>
	507	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
	508	<td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
	509	</tr>
	510
	511	<tr>
	512	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
	513	<td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
	514	</tr>
	515
	516	<tr>
	517	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
	518	<td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
	519	</tr>
	520
	521	<tr>
	522	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
	523	<td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
	524	</tr>
	525
	526	<tr>
	527	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
	528	<td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
	529	subsequently redirected to login page</td>
530	</tr>
531
532	<tr>
533	<td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
534	<td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
535	</tr>
536
537	</table>
538
539	</div>
540
541	</div>
542
543	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
544
545	<div class=section>
546
547	<p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
548
549	<p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
550	syntax it will accept.</p>
551
552	<p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
553
554	</div>
555
556	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
557
558	<div class=section>
559
560	<p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
561
562	</div>
563
564	<h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
565
566	<div class=section>
567
568	<p><b>Important</b>! See <a
569	href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
570
571	<h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
572
573	<div class=section>
574
575	<p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
576	script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
577	<tt>make install</tt>.</p>
578
579	</div>
580
581	<h3>Server</h3>
582
583	<div class=section>
584
585	<p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
586	file.</p>
587
588	<p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
589	only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
590
591	<p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
592
593	<p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
594	configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
595	which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
596
597	<p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
598
599	</div>
600
601	<h3>Web Interface</h3>
602
603	<div class=section>
604
605	<p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
606	allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
607	necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
608	can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
609
610	<p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
611
612	<p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
613	been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
614	7 and Opera 9.</p>
615
616	</div>
617
618	<h3>Disobedience</h3>
619
620	<div class=section>
621
622	<p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
623	queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
624	'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
625
626	</div>
627
628	</div>
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