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.
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
45 ** Build And Configuration
47 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
50 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
51 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
54 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
58 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
60 * Changes up to version 1.5
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.
70 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
75 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
76 allow independent control of process priorities.
78 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
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
87 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
89 * Changes up to version 1.4
93 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
94 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
97 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
98 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
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.
105 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
106 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
108 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
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.)
117 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
122 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
123 the server would exit with an error.
125 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
128 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
129 issued. This should no longer be the case.
131 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
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.
140 * Changes up to version 1.3
144 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
148 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
149 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
151 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
154 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
158 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
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.
166 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
167 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
169 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
170 runs a separate deadlock manager.
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.
178 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
180 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
183 Connection errors are reported more gracefuly.
187 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
189 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
190 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
192 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
197 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
198 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
202 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
203 getting text encoding right.
205 * Changes up to version 1.2
207 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
211 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
213 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
214 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
216 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
219 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
224 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
225 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
227 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
228 searching has been reduced.
230 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
231 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
233 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
234 access to the server's ordinary log output.
236 ** Web Interface Changes
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.
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).
251 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
255 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
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
265 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
266 links to the corresponding directory.
268 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
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).
277 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
278 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
280 * Changes up to version 1.1
284 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
286 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
287 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
291 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
294 Track IDs are more compact.
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.
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
305 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
307 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
309 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
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.
318 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.