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56 <h1>DisOrder Change History
</h1>
58 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.
</p>
60 <h2>Changes up to version
4.1.1</h2>
64 <p>Disobedience's
“Login
” window now works when you are logged
69 <h2>Changes up to version
4.1</h2>
77 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:
</p>
81 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
82 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
85 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
86 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
87 half way through entering search terms.
</li>
89 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.
</li>
91 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
94 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.
</li>
98 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
99 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
100 fully up to date.
</p>
108 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
109 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
115 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0.2</h2>
119 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.
</p>
123 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0.1</h2>
127 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
128 <tt>cgidir
</tt> has been renamed to
<tt>cgiexecdir
</tt>. The configure
129 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.
</p>
133 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0</h2>
141 <p>The
<tt>gap
</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
142 restored if there is real demand.
</p>
144 <h4>Event Scheduling
</h4>
148 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
149 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
150 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
151 turned on or off). See the
<tt>schedule-*
</tt>
152 commands described in disorder(
1).
</p>
156 <h4>Random Track Choice
</h4>
160 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:
</p>
164 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
165 eligible for random choice.
</li>
167 <li>there is a new
<tt>weight
</tt> track preference allowing for
168 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(
1) for details.
</li>
170 <li>there is a new configuration item
<tt>replay_min
</tt> defining
171 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
172 The default is
8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).
</li>
174 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see
<tt>new_bias
</tt> and
175 <tt>new_bias_age
</tt> in disorder_config(
5).
</li>
181 <h4>Web Interface
</h4>
185 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:
</p>
189 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
190 includes links to parent directories.
</li>
192 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
193 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
194 redirected to the login page.
</li>
198 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
199 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
200 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(
8) as a starting point).
</p>
202 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
203 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See
<tt>sendmail
</tt> and
204 <tt>smtp_server
</tt> in disorder_config(
5).
</p>
206 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
207 use
<tt>./configure --without-cgi
</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
208 location, or no location for it is detected, set
<tt>cgidir
</tt>
209 and
<tt>httpdir
</tt> on the
<tt>./configure
</tt> command line.
</p>
215 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
219 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
220 remove users or modify their settings.
</p>
222 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
223 <tt>remote_userman
</tt> to
<tt>yes
</tt>.
</p>
227 <h3>Miscellaneous
</h3>
231 <p><tt>scripts/setup
</tt> now honors command line options, and can
232 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.
</p>
247 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#
2</a></td>
248 <td>Search results should link to directories
</td>
252 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#
6</a></td>
253 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time
</td>
257 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#
10</a></td>
258 <td>Non-uniform track selection
</td>
262 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#
11</a></td>
263 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks
</td>
267 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#
13</a></td>
268 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts
</td>
272 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#
16</a></td>
273 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
274 subsequently redirected to login page
</td>
278 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#
20</a></td>
279 <td>Broken aliasing rules
</td>
288 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0.2</h2>
292 <p>Builds
<tt>--without-server
</tt> should work again.
</p>
294 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
295 syntax it will accept.
</p>
297 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.
</p>
301 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0.1</h2>
305 <p>Debian upgrades from
2.0.x should now work better.
</p>
309 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0</h2>
313 <p><b>Important
</b>! See
<a
314 href=
"README.upgrades">README.upgrades
</a> when upgrading.
</p>
316 <h3>Platforms And Installation
</h3>
320 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
321 script in
<tt>scripts/setup
</tt> which will automate the setup after
322 <tt>make install
</tt>.
</p>
330 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
333 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
334 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
</p>
336 <p>The default inter-track gap is now
0s.
</p>
338 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new
<tt>api
</tt>
339 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
340 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.
</p>
342 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in
2.0.4).
</p>
346 <h3>Web Interface
</h3>
350 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
351 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
352 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
353 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).
</p>
355 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
</p>
357 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
358 been tested with Firefox
2, Safari
3, Konqueror
3, Internet Explorer
363 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
367 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
368 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
369 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
</p>