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| 56 | <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1> |
| 57 | |
| 58 | <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a |
| 59 | href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p> |
| 60 | |
| 61 | <h2>Changes up to version XXX</h2> |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <div class=section> |
| 64 | |
| 65 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 66 | |
| 67 | <div class=section> |
| 68 | |
| 69 | <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had |
| 70 | played. This would lead to the counter incorrectly resetting to 0:00 |
| 71 | from whenever anything about the queue changed.</p> |
| 72 | |
| 73 | <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful |
| 74 | ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p> |
| 75 | |
| 76 | </div> |
| 77 | |
| 78 | <h3>General</h3> |
| 79 | |
| 80 | <div class=section> |
| 81 | |
| 82 | <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a |
| 83 | href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main |
| 84 | goal is to prohibit <a |
| 85 | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p> |
| 86 | |
| 87 | <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+ |
| 88 | packages.</p> |
| 89 | |
| 90 | <p>There are some minor fixes to the test suite.</p> |
| 91 | |
| 92 | </div> |
| 93 | |
| 94 | </div> |
| 95 | |
| 96 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2> |
| 97 | |
| 98 | <div class=section> |
| 99 | |
| 100 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 101 | |
| 102 | <div class=section> |
| 103 | |
| 104 | <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off |
| 105 | then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would |
| 106 | always use TCP/IP.</p> |
| 107 | |
| 108 | <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue. |
| 109 | Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return |
| 110 | now works in the login and properties windows.</p> |
| 111 | |
| 112 | </div> |
| 113 | |
| 114 | <h3>Documentation</h3> |
| 115 | |
| 116 | <div class=section> |
| 117 | |
| 118 | <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new |
| 119 | <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p> |
| 120 | |
| 121 | </div> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
| 124 | |
| 125 | <div class=section> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <table class=bugs> |
| 128 | <tr> |
| 129 | <th>ID</th> |
| 130 | <th>Description</th> |
| 131 | </tr> |
| 132 | |
| 133 | <tr> |
| 134 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td> |
| 135 | <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td> |
| 136 | </tr> |
| 137 | </table> |
| 138 | |
| 139 | </div> |
| 140 | </div> |
| 141 | |
| 142 | |
| 143 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2> |
| 144 | |
| 145 | <div class=section> |
| 146 | |
| 147 | <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged |
| 148 | in.</p> |
| 149 | |
| 150 | </div> |
| 151 | |
| 152 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2> |
| 153 | |
| 154 | <div class=section> |
| 155 | |
| 156 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 157 | |
| 158 | <div class=section> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p> |
| 161 | |
| 162 | <ul> |
| 163 | |
| 164 | <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in |
| 165 | greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+ |
| 166 | applications.</li> |
| 167 | |
| 168 | <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation |
| 169 | of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're |
| 170 | half way through entering search terms.</li> |
| 171 | |
| 172 | <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't |
| 175 | be used.</li> |
| 176 | |
| 177 | <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li> |
| 178 | |
| 179 | </ul> |
| 180 | |
| 181 | <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to |
| 182 | a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server |
| 183 | fully up to date.</p> |
| 184 | |
| 185 | </div> |
| 186 | |
| 187 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 188 | |
| 189 | <div class=section> |
| 190 | |
| 191 | <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is |
| 192 | now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous |
| 193 | behaviour).</p> |
| 194 | |
| 195 | </div> |
| 196 | </div> |
| 197 | |
| 198 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2> |
| 199 | |
| 200 | <div class=section> |
| 201 | |
| 202 | <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p> |
| 203 | |
| 204 | </div> |
| 205 | |
| 206 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2> |
| 207 | |
| 208 | <div class=section> |
| 209 | |
| 210 | <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this, |
| 211 | <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure |
| 212 | script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p> |
| 213 | |
| 214 | </div> |
| 215 | |
| 216 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2> |
| 217 | |
| 218 | <div class=section> |
| 219 | |
| 220 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 221 | |
| 222 | <div class=section> |
| 223 | |
| 224 | <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be |
| 225 | restored if there is real demand.</p> |
| 226 | |
| 227 | <h4>Event Scheduling</h4> |
| 228 | |
| 229 | <div class=section> |
| 230 | |
| 231 | <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. |
| 232 | Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and |
| 233 | changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be |
| 234 | turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt> |
| 235 | commands described in disorder(1).</p> |
| 236 | |
| 237 | </div> |
| 238 | |
| 239 | <h4>Random Track Choice</h4> |
| 240 | |
| 241 | <div class=section> |
| 242 | |
| 243 | <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p> |
| 244 | |
| 245 | <ul> |
| 246 | |
| 247 | <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer |
| 248 | eligible for random choice.</li> |
| 249 | |
| 250 | <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for |
| 251 | non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li> |
| 252 | |
| 253 | <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining |
| 254 | the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random. |
| 255 | The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li> |
| 256 | |
| 257 | <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and |
| 258 | <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li> |
| 259 | |
| 260 | </ul> |
| 261 | |
| 262 | </div> |
| 263 | |
| 264 | <h4>Web Interface</h4> |
| 265 | |
| 266 | <div class=section> |
| 267 | |
| 268 | <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p> |
| 269 | |
| 270 | <ul> |
| 271 | |
| 272 | <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and |
| 273 | includes links to parent directories.</li> |
| 274 | |
| 275 | <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, |
| 276 | instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are |
| 277 | redirected to the login page.</li> |
| 278 | |
| 279 | </ul> |
| 280 | |
| 281 | <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it |
| 282 | is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is |
| 283 | less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p> |
| 284 | |
| 285 | <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains |
| 286 | possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and |
| 287 | <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p> |
| 288 | |
| 289 | <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it, |
| 290 | use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default |
| 291 | location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt> |
| 292 | and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p> |
| 293 | |
| 294 | </div> |
| 295 | |
| 296 | </div> |
| 297 | |
| 298 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 299 | |
| 300 | <div class=section> |
| 301 | |
| 302 | <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and |
| 303 | remove users or modify their settings.</p> |
| 304 | |
| 305 | <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set |
| 306 | <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p> |
| 307 | |
| 308 | </div> |
| 309 | |
| 310 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> |
| 311 | |
| 312 | <div class=section> |
| 313 | |
| 314 | <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can |
| 315 | set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p> |
| 316 | |
| 317 | </div> |
| 318 | |
| 319 | <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3> |
| 320 | |
| 321 | <div class=section> |
| 322 | |
| 323 | <table class=bugs> |
| 324 | <tr> |
| 325 | <th>ID</th> |
| 326 | <th>Description</th> |
| 327 | </tr> |
| 328 | |
| 329 | <tr> |
| 330 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td> |
| 331 | <td>Search results should link to directories</td> |
| 332 | </tr> |
| 333 | |
| 334 | <tr> |
| 335 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td> |
| 336 | <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td> |
| 337 | </tr> |
| 338 | |
| 339 | <tr> |
| 340 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td> |
| 341 | <td>Non-uniform track selection</td> |
| 342 | </tr> |
| 343 | |
| 344 | <tr> |
| 345 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td> |
| 346 | <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td> |
| 347 | </tr> |
| 348 | |
| 349 | <tr> |
| 350 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td> |
| 351 | <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td> |
| 352 | </tr> |
| 353 | |
| 354 | <tr> |
| 355 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td> |
| 356 | <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not |
| 357 | subsequently redirected to login page</td> |
| 358 | </tr> |
| 359 | |
| 360 | <tr> |
| 361 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td> |
| 362 | <td>Broken aliasing rules</td> |
| 363 | </tr> |
| 364 | |
| 365 | </table> |
| 366 | |
| 367 | </div> |
| 368 | |
| 369 | </div> |
| 370 | |
| 371 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2> |
| 372 | |
| 373 | <div class=section> |
| 374 | |
| 375 | <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p> |
| 376 | |
| 377 | <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value |
| 378 | syntax it will accept.</p> |
| 379 | |
| 380 | <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p> |
| 381 | |
| 382 | </div> |
| 383 | |
| 384 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2> |
| 385 | |
| 386 | <div class=section> |
| 387 | |
| 388 | <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p> |
| 389 | |
| 390 | </div> |
| 391 | |
| 392 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2> |
| 393 | |
| 394 | <div class=section> |
| 395 | |
| 396 | <p><b>Important</b>! See <a |
| 397 | href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p> |
| 398 | |
| 399 | <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3> |
| 400 | |
| 401 | <div class=section> |
| 402 | |
| 403 | <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash |
| 404 | script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after |
| 405 | <tt>make install</tt>.</p> |
| 406 | |
| 407 | </div> |
| 408 | |
| 409 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 410 | |
| 411 | <div class=section> |
| 412 | |
| 413 | <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration |
| 414 | file.</p> |
| 415 | |
| 416 | <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so |
| 417 | only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p> |
| 418 | |
| 419 | <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p> |
| 420 | |
| 421 | <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt> |
| 422 | configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set, |
| 423 | which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p> |
| 424 | |
| 425 | <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p> |
| 426 | |
| 427 | </div> |
| 428 | |
| 429 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> |
| 430 | |
| 431 | <div class=section> |
| 432 | |
| 433 | <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and |
| 434 | allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer |
| 435 | necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you |
| 436 | can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p> |
| 437 | |
| 438 | <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p> |
| 439 | |
| 440 | <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has |
| 441 | been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer |
| 442 | 7 and Opera 9.</p> |
| 443 | |
| 444 | </div> |
| 445 | |
| 446 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 447 | |
| 448 | <div class=section> |
| 449 | |
| 450 | <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the |
| 451 | queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new |
| 452 | 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p> |
| 453 | |
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| 455 | |
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