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3* Changes up to version 1.6
4
5** General
6
7There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
8Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
9
10Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
11or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
12
13The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
14documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
15possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
16prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
17
18** Server
19
20Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with
21large collections and/or slow platforms.
22
23The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of
24Disobedience.
25
26The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
27Instead 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
29playing and then scratch the current track.
30
31The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
32is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
33efficiently.
34
35** disorderfm
36
37There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
38for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
39It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
40details.
41
42** Build And Configuration
43
44You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
45README.
46
47options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
48with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
49now optional.
50
51* Changes up to version 1.5.1
52
53** Web Interface
54
55Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
56
57* Changes up to version 1.5
58
59** Web Interface
60
61Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
62'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
63amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
64
65** Client
66
67Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
68client.
69
70** Server
71
72New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
73allow independent control of process priorities.
74
75Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
76
77Bugs 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
90Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
91README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
92inter-track gap.
93
94Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
95plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
96
97When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
98queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
99
100** Web Interface
101
102Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
103fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
104
105The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
106of the queue.
107
108You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
109single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
110time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
111on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
112from the command line.)
113
114Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
115disorder_config(5).
116
117** Server
118
119If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
120the server would exit with an error.
121
122The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
123subprocesses.
124
125It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
126issued. This should no longer be the case.
127
128The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
129
130** Plugins
131
132Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
133whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
134they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
135calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
136
137* Changes up to version 1.3
138
139** Dependencies
140
141Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
142
143** Client
144
145There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
146users. Please report successes as well as failures.
147
148There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
149alias.
150
151The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
152
153** Server
154
155The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
156maintainability.
157
158There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
159to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
160inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
161locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
162
163Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
164preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
165
166The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
167runs a separate deadlock manager.
168
169Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
170This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
171but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
172
173** Web Interface
174
175Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
176
177Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
178works.
179
180Connection errors are reported more gracefuly.
181
182** Plugins
183
184Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
185
186disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
187available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
188
189Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
190immediately.
191
192** Tools
193
194disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
195file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
196
197** Other
198
199Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
200getting text encoding right.
201
202* Changes up to version 1.2
203
204See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
205
206** Bugs Fixed
207
208Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
209
210When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
211added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
212
213Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
214action.
215
216The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
217artist or album.
218
219** Server
220
221New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
222are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
223
224The number of database queries per candidate match required when
225searching has been reduced.
226
227The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
228default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
229
230The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
231access to the server's ordinary log output.
232
233** Web Interface Changes
234
235*** Choosing Tracks
236
237When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
238redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
239feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
240such in the track picking screen.
241
242It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
243argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
244the trackstate lines).
245
246*** Search
247
248Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
249
250*** Syntax
251
252The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
253certain places.
254
255*** Miscellaneous
256
257Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
258reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
259in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
260template.
261
262Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
263links to the corresponding directory.
264
265More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
266
267The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
268down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
269appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
270instead (or edit the template).
271
272** tkdisorder
273
274tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
275recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
276
277* Changes up to version 1.1
278
279** Bugs Fixed
280
281Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
282
283In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
284'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
285
286** Server
287
288The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
289restarts.
290
291Track IDs are more compact.
292
293Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
294work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
295
296Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
297upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
2981.1.)
299
300** Command Line
301
302Tracks 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
307options.
308
309** Web Interface
310
311New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
312details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
313now properly supported in this context.
314
315CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
316
317Local Variables:
318mode:outline
319fill-column:72
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