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1 | See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. |
2 | |
3 | * Changes up to version 1.6 |
4 | |
5 | ** General |
6 | |
7 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. |
8 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. |
9 | |
10 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
11 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. |
12 | |
13 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search |
14 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is |
15 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and |
16 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). |
17 | |
18 | ** Server |
19 | |
20 | Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with |
21 | large collections and/or slow platforms. |
22 | |
23 | The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of |
24 | Disobedience. |
25 | |
26 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. |
27 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. |
28 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable |
29 | playing and then scratch the current track. |
30 | |
31 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there |
32 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more |
33 | efficiently. |
34 | |
35 | ** disorderfm |
36 | |
37 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed |
38 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. |
39 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional |
40 | details. |
41 | |
42 | ** Build And Configuration |
43 | |
44 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See |
45 | README. |
46 | |
47 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced |
48 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are |
49 | now optional. |
50 | |
51 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
52 | |
53 | ** Web Interface |
54 | |
55 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. |
56 | |
57 | * Changes up to version 1.5 |
58 | |
59 | ** Web Interface |
60 | |
61 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial |
62 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the |
63 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. |
64 | |
65 | ** Client |
66 | |
67 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line |
68 | client. |
69 | |
70 | ** Server |
71 | |
72 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options |
73 | allow independent control of process priorities. |
74 | |
75 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. |
76 | |
77 | Bugs fixed: |
78 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. |
79 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. |
80 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. |
81 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. |
82 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not |
83 | reliable. |
84 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. |
85 | |
86 | * Changes up to version 1.4 |
87 | |
88 | ** General |
89 | |
90 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and |
91 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the |
92 | inter-track gap. |
93 | |
94 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player |
95 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. |
96 | |
97 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the |
98 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. |
99 | |
100 | ** Web Interface |
101 | |
102 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a |
103 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. |
104 | |
105 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail |
106 | of the queue. |
107 | |
108 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a |
109 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the |
110 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced |
111 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences |
112 | from the command line.) |
113 | |
114 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than |
115 | disorder_config(5). |
116 | |
117 | ** Server |
118 | |
119 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled |
120 | the server would exit with an error. |
121 | |
122 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player |
123 | subprocesses. |
124 | |
125 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was |
126 | issued. This should no longer be the case. |
127 | |
128 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. |
129 | |
130 | ** Plugins |
131 | |
132 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document |
133 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether |
134 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup |
135 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. |
136 | |
137 | * Changes up to version 1.3 |
138 | |
139 | ** Dependencies |
140 | |
141 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. |
142 | |
143 | ** Client |
144 | |
145 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local |
146 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. |
147 | |
148 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an |
149 | alias. |
150 | |
151 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. |
152 | |
153 | ** Server |
154 | |
155 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve |
156 | maintainability. |
157 | |
158 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile |
159 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be |
160 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support |
161 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. |
162 | |
163 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ |
164 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. |
165 | |
166 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also |
167 | runs a separate deadlock manager. |
168 | |
169 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. |
170 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly |
171 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. |
172 | |
173 | ** Web Interface |
174 | |
175 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. |
176 | |
177 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now |
178 | works. |
179 | |
180 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. |
181 | |
182 | ** Plugins |
183 | |
184 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. |
185 | |
186 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer |
187 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). |
188 | |
189 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected |
190 | immediately. |
191 | |
192 | ** Tools |
193 | |
194 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular |
195 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. |
196 | |
197 | ** Other |
198 | |
199 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding |
200 | getting text encoding right. |
201 | |
202 | * Changes up to version 1.2 |
203 | |
204 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. |
205 | |
206 | ** Bugs Fixed |
207 | |
208 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. |
209 | |
210 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be |
211 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. |
212 | |
213 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing |
214 | action. |
215 | |
216 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single |
217 | artist or album. |
218 | |
219 | ** Server |
220 | |
221 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There |
222 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. |
223 | |
224 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when |
225 | searching has been reduced. |
226 | |
227 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The |
228 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. |
229 | |
230 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw |
231 | access to the server's ordinary log output. |
232 | |
233 | ** Web Interface Changes |
234 | |
235 | *** Choosing Tracks |
236 | |
237 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than |
238 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets |
239 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as |
240 | such in the track picking screen. |
241 | |
242 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= |
243 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally |
244 | the trackstate lines). |
245 | |
246 | *** Search |
247 | |
248 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. |
249 | |
250 | *** Syntax |
251 | |
252 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in |
253 | certain places. |
254 | |
255 | *** Miscellaneous |
256 | |
257 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text |
258 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed |
259 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every |
260 | template. |
261 | |
262 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now |
263 | links to the corresponding directory. |
264 | |
265 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. |
266 | |
267 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of |
268 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old |
269 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' |
270 | instead (or edit the template). |
271 | |
272 | ** tkdisorder |
273 | |
274 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and |
275 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). |
276 | |
277 | * Changes up to version 1.1 |
278 | |
279 | ** Bugs Fixed |
280 | |
281 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. |
282 | |
283 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not |
284 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. |
285 | |
286 | ** Server |
287 | |
288 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server |
289 | restarts. |
290 | |
291 | Track IDs are more compact. |
292 | |
293 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both |
294 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. |
295 | |
296 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people |
297 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to |
298 | 1.1.) |
299 | |
300 | ** Command Line |
301 | |
302 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. |
303 | |
304 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. |
305 | |
306 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and |
307 | options. |
308 | |
309 | ** Web Interface |
310 | |
311 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane |
312 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are |
313 | now properly supported in this context. |
314 | |
315 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. |
316 | |
317 | Local Variables: |
318 | mode:outline |
319 | fill-column:72 |
320 | End: |