1 See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history.
3 * Changes up to version 1.6
7 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
8 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
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.
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)).
20 Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with
21 large collections and/or slow platforms.
23 The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of
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.
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
35 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
36 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
38 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
39 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
41 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
42 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
46 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
47 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
51 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
52 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
53 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
56 ** Build And Configuration
58 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
61 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
62 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
67 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
68 contributed in some way to this release.
70 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
74 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
76 * Changes up to version 1.5
80 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
81 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
82 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
86 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
91 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
92 allow independent control of process priorities.
94 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
97 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
98 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
99 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
100 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
101 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
103 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
105 * Changes up to version 1.4
109 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
110 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
113 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
114 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
116 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
117 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
121 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
122 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
124 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
127 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
128 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
129 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
130 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
131 from the command line.)
133 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
138 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
139 the server would exit with an error.
141 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
144 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
145 issued. This should no longer be the case.
147 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
151 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
152 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
153 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
154 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
156 * Changes up to version 1.3
160 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
164 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
165 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
167 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
170 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
174 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
177 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
178 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
179 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
180 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
182 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
183 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
185 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
186 runs a separate deadlock manager.
188 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
189 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
190 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
194 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
196 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
199 Connection errors are reported more gracefuly.
203 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
205 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
206 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
208 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
213 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
214 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
218 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
219 getting text encoding right.
221 * Changes up to version 1.2
223 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
227 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
229 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
230 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
232 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
235 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
240 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
241 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
243 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
244 searching has been reduced.
246 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
247 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
249 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
250 access to the server's ordinary log output.
252 ** Web Interface Changes
256 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
257 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
258 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
259 such in the track picking screen.
261 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
262 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
263 the trackstate lines).
267 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
271 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
276 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
277 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
278 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
281 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
282 links to the corresponding directory.
284 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
286 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
287 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
288 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
289 instead (or edit the template).
293 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
294 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
296 * Changes up to version 1.1
300 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
302 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
303 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
307 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
310 Track IDs are more compact.
312 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
313 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
315 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
316 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
321 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
323 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
325 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
330 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
331 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
332 now properly supported in this context.
334 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.