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460b9539 | 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 | ||
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35 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
36 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
37 | ||
460b9539 | 38 | ** disorderfm |
39 | ||
40 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
41 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
42 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
43 | details. | |
44 | ||
45 | ** Build And Configuration | |
46 | ||
47 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
48 | README. | |
49 | ||
50 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
51 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
52 | now optional. | |
53 | ||
54 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 | |
55 | ||
56 | ** Web Interface | |
57 | ||
58 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
59 | ||
60 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
61 | ||
62 | ** Web Interface | |
63 | ||
64 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
65 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
66 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
67 | ||
68 | ** Client | |
69 | ||
70 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
71 | client. | |
72 | ||
73 | ** Server | |
74 | ||
75 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
76 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
77 | ||
78 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
79 | ||
80 | Bugs fixed: | |
81 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
82 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
83 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
84 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
85 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
86 | reliable. | |
87 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
88 | ||
89 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
90 | ||
91 | ** General | |
92 | ||
93 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
94 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
95 | inter-track gap. | |
96 | ||
97 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
98 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
99 | ||
100 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
101 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
102 | ||
103 | ** Web Interface | |
104 | ||
105 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
106 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
107 | ||
108 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
109 | of the queue. | |
110 | ||
111 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
112 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
113 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
114 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
115 | from the command line.) | |
116 | ||
117 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
118 | disorder_config(5). | |
119 | ||
120 | ** Server | |
121 | ||
122 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
123 | the server would exit with an error. | |
124 | ||
125 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
126 | subprocesses. | |
127 | ||
128 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
129 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
130 | ||
131 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
132 | ||
133 | ** Plugins | |
134 | ||
135 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
136 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
137 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
138 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
139 | ||
140 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
141 | ||
142 | ** Dependencies | |
143 | ||
144 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
145 | ||
146 | ** Client | |
147 | ||
148 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
149 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
150 | ||
151 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
152 | alias. | |
153 | ||
154 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
155 | ||
156 | ** Server | |
157 | ||
158 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
159 | maintainability. | |
160 | ||
161 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
162 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
163 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
164 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
165 | ||
166 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
167 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
168 | ||
169 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
170 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
171 | ||
172 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
173 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
174 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
175 | ||
176 | ** Web Interface | |
177 | ||
178 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
179 | ||
180 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
181 | works. | |
182 | ||
183 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. | |
184 | ||
185 | ** Plugins | |
186 | ||
187 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
188 | ||
189 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
190 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
191 | ||
192 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
193 | immediately. | |
194 | ||
195 | ** Tools | |
196 | ||
197 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
198 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
199 | ||
200 | ** Other | |
201 | ||
202 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
203 | getting text encoding right. | |
204 | ||
205 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
206 | ||
207 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
208 | ||
209 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
210 | ||
211 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
212 | ||
213 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
214 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
215 | ||
216 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
217 | action. | |
218 | ||
219 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
220 | artist or album. | |
221 | ||
222 | ** Server | |
223 | ||
224 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
225 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
226 | ||
227 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
228 | searching has been reduced. | |
229 | ||
230 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
231 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
232 | ||
233 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
234 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
235 | ||
236 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
237 | ||
238 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
239 | ||
240 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
241 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
242 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
243 | such in the track picking screen. | |
244 | ||
245 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
246 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
247 | the trackstate lines). | |
248 | ||
249 | *** Search | |
250 | ||
251 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
252 | ||
253 | *** Syntax | |
254 | ||
255 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
256 | certain places. | |
257 | ||
258 | *** Miscellaneous | |
259 | ||
260 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
261 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
262 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
263 | template. | |
264 | ||
265 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
266 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
267 | ||
268 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
269 | ||
270 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
271 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
272 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
273 | instead (or edit the template). | |
274 | ||
275 | ** tkdisorder | |
276 | ||
277 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
278 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
279 | ||
280 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
281 | ||
282 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
283 | ||
284 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
285 | ||
286 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
287 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
288 | ||
289 | ** Server | |
290 | ||
291 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
292 | restarts. | |
293 | ||
294 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
295 | ||
296 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
297 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
298 | ||
299 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
300 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
301 | 1.1.) | |
302 | ||
303 | ** Command Line | |
304 | ||
305 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
306 | ||
307 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
308 | ||
309 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
310 | options. | |
311 | ||
312 | ** Web Interface | |
313 | ||
314 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
315 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
316 | now properly supported in this context. | |
317 | ||
318 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
319 | ||
320 | Local Variables: | |
321 | mode:outline | |
322 | fill-column:72 | |
323 | End: |