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11 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to
<a
12 href=
"http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder
</a>.
</p>
14 <p><b>IMPORTANT
</b>: you should read
<a
15 href=
"README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades
</a> before upgrading.
</p>
17 <h2>Changes up to version
5.2</h2>
21 <h3>PulseAudio Support
</h3>
25 <p>PulseAudio is now supported, if the support library is available at
26 build time. It is the default for client applications, reflecting its
27 widespread use in desktop environments.
</p>
29 <p>Volume setting is not currently supported when PulseAudio is in
34 <h3>Changes To RTP Support
</h3>
38 <p>Disobedience now has a menu to select the network playback API.
</p>
40 <p><code>disorder-playrtp
</code> now selects playback API using
41 a
<code>--api
</code> option. The old API-selection options remain
42 available but are deprecated and will be removed in the future.
</p>
44 <p>RTP playback can now transmit to multiple unicast destinations, added
45 and removed on demand. This is controlled by the new
<code>rtp_mode
</code>
46 option. The motivating use case is a bridged network with high- and
47 low-capacity components. However it is may also be useful in a routed
48 network without multicast routing support.
</p>
54 <h2>Changes up to version
5.1.1</h2>
63 <li><code>player
</code> and
<code>tracklength
</code> can now be used
64 without arguments to clear the lists, as per the documentation.
</li>
66 <li>Tracks without a player are forgotten upon rescan.
</li>
68 <li>The speaker process avoids splitting frames.
</li>
71 <p>Thanks to Mark Wooding and Joe Birr-Pixton.
</p>
77 <h2>Changes up to version
5.1</h2>
81 <h3>Removable Device Support
</h3>
85 <p>The server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is
86 mounted or unmounted. (Use the
<tt>mount_rescan
</tt> option if you want to
87 suppress this behavior.)
</p>
89 <p>The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so
90 that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being
99 <p>You can now edit the
<tt>required-tags
</tt> and
<tt>prohibited-tags
</tt>
100 global preferences in Disobedience
101 (
<a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=29">issue
104 <p>The
“Manage users
” option is now more reliably greyed out if
105 it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be
106 wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.
</p>
108 <p>A
<tt>.desktop
</tt> file is now shipped, making Disobedience visible as
109 an application in freedesktop.org-compliant systems.
</p>
117 <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database
118 daily. See
<tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder
</tt>. You can put settings
119 in
<tt>/etc/default/disorder
</tt> to turn this off or to control how long
120 the backups are kept for.
</p>
122 <p>The
<tt>disorder-dump -r
</tt> option was broken.
</p>
124 <p><tt>disorder-dump
</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (
<a
125 href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue
134 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to
<a
135 href=
"http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode
138 <p>Client programs no longer depend on libdb.
</p>
140 <p>The following have been removed:
</p>
144 <li>The
<tt>allow
</tt>,
<tt>gap
</tt>,
<tt>lock
</tt>,
<tt>prefsync
</tt>,
145 <tt>restrict
</tt>,
<tt>trust
</tt> configuration commands. If they still
146 appear in your configuration file then the server will not start.
</li>
148 <li>The
<tt>columns
</tt> web interface option. It will generate an
149 message in your error log but otherwise be ignored.
</li>
151 <li>The
<tt>--wait-for-device
</tt> player option. If it still appears in
152 any player commands, they will not work.
</li>
154 <li>Support for automatically importing pre-
3.0 users.
</li>
158 <p>Various minor bug fixes.
</p>
164 <h2>Changes up to version
5.0.3</h2>
168 <p><b>Security
</b>: Local connections can no longer create and delete users
169 unless they are properly authorized.
</p>
173 <h2>Changes up to version
5.0.2</h2>
177 <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.
</p>
181 <h2>Changes up to version
5.0.1</h2>
185 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
189 <p>The sense of the Control
→ Playing menu item was fixed.
</p>
195 <h2>Changes up to version
5.0</h2>
203 <p>The
<tt>device
</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
205 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes
<a
206 href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
209 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
210 should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
211 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
212 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also
213 initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.
</p>
215 <p>The
<tt>command
</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
216 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.
</p>
218 <p>If
<a href=
"http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate
</a> is
219 available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
220 <a href=
"http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX
</a>. SoX support will be
221 removed in a future version.
</p>
223 <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not
224 usable in libao
1.0.0.
</p>
226 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
227 prepared offline and played as a unit.
</p>
231 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
235 <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
236 Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
237 “Recent
”,
“Added
” and
“Choose
” tabs
240 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
241 available from the
<b>Control
</b> menu.
</p>
243 <p>Disobedience has a
<a href=
"disobedience/manual/index.html">new
248 <h3>Web Interface
</h3>
252 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
253 with punctuation). (Please see
<a
254 href=
"README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades
</a> for more about this.)
</p>
262 <p>There is a new
<tt>--command
</tt> option which allows the RTP player
263 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
264 the man page for details.
</p>
266 <p>The
<tt>--device
</tt> option to
<tt>disorder-playrtp
</tt> now works
267 under OS X (as above).
</p>
275 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
276 (
<tt>listen
</tt>,
<tt>connect
</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
277 <tt>-
4</tt> or
<tt>-
6</tt> to force use
278 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.
</p>
280 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to
<a
281 href=
"http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
284 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
300 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#
22</a></td>
301 <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload
</td>
305 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#
27</a></td>
306 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device
</td>
310 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#
30</a></td>
311 <td>mini disobedience interface
</td>
315 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#
32</a></td>
316 <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown
</td>
320 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#
33</a></td>
321 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.
</td>
325 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#
39</a></td>
326 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET
</td>
330 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#
40</a></td>
331 <td>Missing stub function
</td>
335 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#
41</a></td>
336 <td>Missing includes for timeval
</td>
340 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#
42</a></td>
341 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section
</td>
345 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#
43</a></td>
346 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC
1.2.1</td>
350 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#
44</a></td>
351 <td>gcc
4.3.2-
1ubuntu
12 SUYB patch
</td>
355 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#
45</a></td>
356 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end
</td>
360 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#
46</a></td>
361 <td>Sort search results in web interface
</td>
365 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#
48</a></td>
366 <td>build-time dependency on
<tt>oggdec
</tt> removed
</td>
370 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#
49</a></td>
371 <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date
</td>
375 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#
51</a></td>
376 <td>Improved speaker process robustness
</td>
381 <td>“found track in no collection
” messages for scratches
382 are now suppressed
</td>
387 <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
388 started, leading to its display getting out of date.
</td>
395 <h2>Changes up to version
4.3</h2>
399 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
403 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
404 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
405 various situations.
</p>
407 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
408 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.
</p>
410 <p>“Select all
” is now no longer available in the choose
411 tab. Instead there is a new
“Select children
” option which
412 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.
</p>
420 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
421 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
422 “<tt>new_bias
900000</tt>” in the config file.
</p>
424 <p>It is now possible to
‘adopt
’ randomly picked tracks.
425 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
426 interface does not.
</p>
428 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
429 generated by iTunes.
</p>
433 <h3>Miscellaneous
</h3>
437 <p><tt>disorderfm
</tt> now preserves directory permissions.
</p>
439 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under
<a
440 href=
"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3
</a>. The main
441 goal is to prohibit
<a
442 href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization
</a>.
</p>
444 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
445 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
448 <p>DisOrder now builds on
64-bit Linux systems.
</p>
450 <p>There are various minor fixes.
</p>
465 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#
24</a></td>
466 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu
8.10</td>
469 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#
26</a></td>
470 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause
</td>
477 <h2>Changes up to version
4.2</h2>
481 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
485 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
486 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
487 always use TCP/IP.
</p>
489 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
490 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
491 now works in the login and properties windows.
</p>
495 <h3>Documentation
</h3>
499 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
500 <b>disorder_preferences
</b>(
5) man page.
</p>
515 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#
21</a></td>
516 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly
</td>
524 <h2>Changes up to version
4.1.1</h2>
528 <p>Disobedience's
“Login
” window now works when you are logged
533 <h2>Changes up to version
4.1</h2>
537 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
541 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:
</p>
545 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
546 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
549 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
550 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
551 half way through entering search terms.
</li>
553 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.
</li>
555 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
558 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.
</li>
562 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
563 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
564 fully up to date.
</p>
572 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
573 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
579 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0.2</h2>
583 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.
</p>
587 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0.1</h2>
591 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
592 <tt>cgidir
</tt> has been renamed to
<tt>cgiexecdir
</tt>. The configure
593 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.
</p>
597 <h2>Changes up to version
4.0</h2>
605 <p>The
<tt>gap
</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
606 restored if there is real demand.
</p>
608 <h4>Event Scheduling
</h4>
612 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
613 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
614 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
615 turned on or off). See the
<tt>schedule-*
</tt>
616 commands described in disorder(
1).
</p>
620 <h4>Random Track Choice
</h4>
624 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:
</p>
628 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
629 eligible for random choice.
</li>
631 <li>there is a new
<tt>weight
</tt> track preference allowing for
632 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(
1) for details.
</li>
634 <li>there is a new configuration item
<tt>replay_min
</tt> defining
635 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
636 The default is
8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).
</li>
638 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see
<tt>new_bias
</tt> and
639 <tt>new_bias_age
</tt> in disorder_config(
5).
</li>
645 <h4>Web Interface
</h4>
649 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:
</p>
653 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
654 includes links to parent directories.
</li>
656 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
657 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
658 redirected to the login page.
</li>
662 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
663 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
664 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(
8) as a starting point).
</p>
666 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
667 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See
<tt>sendmail
</tt> and
668 <tt>smtp_server
</tt> in disorder_config(
5).
</p>
670 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
671 use
<tt>./configure --without-cgi
</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
672 location, or no location for it is detected, set
<tt>cgidir
</tt>
673 and
<tt>httpdir
</tt> on the
<tt>./configure
</tt> command line.
</p>
679 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
683 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
684 remove users or modify their settings.
</p>
686 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
687 <tt>remote_userman
</tt> to
<tt>yes
</tt>.
</p>
691 <h3>Miscellaneous
</h3>
695 <p><tt>scripts/setup
</tt> now honors command line options, and can
696 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.
</p>
711 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#
2</a></td>
712 <td>Search results should link to directories
</td>
716 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#
6</a></td>
717 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time
</td>
721 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#
10</a></td>
722 <td>Non-uniform track selection
</td>
726 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#
11</a></td>
727 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks
</td>
731 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#
13</a></td>
732 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts
</td>
736 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#
16</a></td>
737 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
738 subsequently redirected to login page
</td>
742 <td><a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#
20</a></td>
743 <td>Broken aliasing rules
</td>
752 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0.2</h2>
756 <p>Builds
<tt>--without-server
</tt> should work again.
</p>
758 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
759 syntax it will accept.
</p>
761 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.
</p>
765 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0.1</h2>
769 <p>Debian upgrades from
2.0.x should now work better.
</p>
773 <h2>Changes up to version
3.0</h2>
777 <p><b>Important
</b>! See
<a
778 href=
"README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades
</a> when upgrading.
</p>
780 <h3>Platforms And Installation
</h3>
784 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
785 script in
<tt>scripts/setup
</tt> which will automate the setup after
786 <tt>make install
</tt>.
</p>
794 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
797 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
798 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
</p>
800 <p>The default inter-track gap is now
0s.
</p>
802 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new
<tt>api
</tt>
803 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
804 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.
</p>
806 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in
2.0.4).
</p>
810 <h3>Web Interface
</h3>
814 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
815 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
816 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
817 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).
</p>
819 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
</p>
821 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
822 been tested with Firefox
2, Safari
3, Konqueror
3, Internet Explorer
827 <h3>Disobedience
</h3>
831 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
832 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
833 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
</p>