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  56 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
  57
  58 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
  59  href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
  60
  61 <h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
  62
  63   <div class=section>
  64
  65     <h3>Server</h3>
  66
  67     <div class=section>
  68
  69       <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
  70       Devices may
  71       be specified either by UID or name.  Fixes <a
  72        href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
  73       27</a>.</p>
  74
  75       <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
  76       should be a bit lower.  Note though that all the sound output code has
  77       been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
  78       that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
  79
  80       <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
  81       of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
  82
  83       <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
  84       available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
  85       <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>.  SoX support will be
  86       removed in a future version.</p>
  87
  88       <p>Playlists are now supported.  These allow a collection of tracks to be
  89       prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
  90
  91     </div>
  92
  93     <h3>Disobedience</h3>
  94
  95     <div class=section>
  96
  97       <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
  98       Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
  99       &ldquo;Recent&rdquo;, &ldquo;Added&rdquo; and &ldquo;Choose&rdquo; tabs
 100       to the queue.</p>
 101
 102       <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing.</p>
 103
 104     </div>
 105
 106     <h3>Web Interface</h3>
 107
 108     <div class=section>
 109
 110       <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
 111       with punctuation).  (Please see <a
 112       href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
 113
 114     </div>
 115
 116     <h3>RTP Player</h3>
 117
 118     <div class=section>
 119
 120       <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
 121       to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
 122       the man page for details.</p>
 123
 124       <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
 125       under OS X (as above).</p>
 126
 127     </div>
 128
 129     <h3>General</h3>
 130
 131     <div class=section>
 132
 133       <p>IPv6 should now work.  Network address specifications
 134       (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
 135       <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
 136       of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
 137
 138       <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
 139       href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
 140       5.1.0</a>.</p>
 141
 142       <p>Various elements of the source code have been
 143       rationalized.</p>
 144
 145     </div>
 146
 147     <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
 148
 149     <div class=section>
 150
 151       <table class=bugs>
 152         <tr>
 153           <th>ID</th>
 154           <th>Description</th>
 155         </tr>
 156
 157         <tr>
 158           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
 159           <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
 160         </tr>
 161
 162         <tr>
 163           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
 164           <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
 165         </tr>
 166
 167         <tr>
 168           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
 169           <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
 170         </tr>
 171
 172         <tr>
 173           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
 174           <td>Missing stub function</td>
 175         </tr>
 176
 177         <tr>
 178           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
 179           <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
 180         </tr>
 181
 182         <tr>
 183           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
 184           <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
 185         </tr>
 186
 187         <tr>
 188           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
 189           <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
 190         </tr>
 191
 192         <tr>
 193           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
 194           <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
 195         </tr>
 196
 197         <tr>
 198           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
 199           <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
 200         </tr>
 201
 202         <tr>
 203           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
 204           <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
 205         </tr>
 206
 207         <tr>
 208           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></d>
 209           <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
 210         </tr>
 211
 212       </table>
 213     </div>
 214   </div>
 215
 216 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
 217
 218   <div class=section>
 219
 220     <h3>Disobedience</h3>
 221
 222       <div class=section>
 223
 224         <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
 225         played.  This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
 226         various situations.</p>
 227
 228         <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
 229         ones.  The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
 230
 231         <p>&ldquo;Select all&rdquo; is now no longer available in the choose
 232         tab.  Instead there is a new &ldquo;Select children&rdquo; option which
 233         selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
 234
 235       </div>
 236
 237     <h3>Server</h3>
 238
 239       <div class=section>
 240
 241         <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half.  You
 242         can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
 243         &ldquo;<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>&rdquo; in the config file.</p>
 244
 245         <p>It is now possible to &lsquo;adopt&rsquo; randomly picked tracks.
 246         Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
 247         interface does not.</p>
 248
 249         <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
 250         generated by iTunes.</p>
 251
 252       </div>
 253
 254     <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
 255
 256       <div class=section>
 257
 258         <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
 259
 260         <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
 261          href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>.  The main
 262         goal is to prohibit <a
 263          href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
 264
 265         <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
 266         packages.  There are a number of improvements to the Debian
 267         packaging.</p>
 268
 269         <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
 270
 271         <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
 272
 273       </div>
 274
 275   <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
 276
 277     <div class=section>
 278
 279       <table class=bugs>
 280         <tr>
 281           <th>ID</th>
 282           <th>Description</th>
 283         </tr>
 284
 285         <tr>
 286           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
 287           <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
 288         </tr>
 289         <tr>
 290           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
 291           <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
 292         </tr>
 293       </table>
 294
 295     </div>
 296   </div>
 297
 298 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
 299
 300 <div class=section>
 301
 302   <h3>Disobedience</h3>
 303
 304     <div class=section>
 305
 306       <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch.  If this is turned off
 307       then Disobedience will connect to a local server.  Formerly it would
 308       always use TCP/IP.</p>
 309
 310       <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
 311       Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
 312       now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
 313
 314     </div>
 315
 316   <h3>Documentation</h3>
 317
 318     <div class=section>
 319
 320       <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
 321       <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
 322
 323     </div>
 324
 325   <h3>Bugs fixed</h3>
 326
 327     <div class=section>
 328
 329       <table class=bugs>
 330         <tr>
 331           <th>ID</th>
 332           <th>Description</th>
 333         </tr>
 334
 335         <tr>
 336           <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
 337           <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
 338         </tr>
 339       </table>
 340
 341     </div>
 342 </div>
 343
 344
 345 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
 346
 347 <div class=section>
 348
 349   <p>Disobedience's &ldquo;Login&rdquo; window now works when you are logged
 350   in.</p>
 351
 352 </div>
 353
 354 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
 355
 356 <div class=section>
 357
 358   <h3>Disobedience</h3>
 359
 360     <div class=section>
 361
 362       <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
 363
 364       <ul>
 365
 366         <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
 367         greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
 368         applications.</li>
 369
 370         <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab.  The initiation
 371         of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
 372         half way through entering search terms.</li>
 373
 374         <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
 375
 376         <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
 377         be used.</li>
 378
 379         <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
 380
 381       </ul>
 382
 383       <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
 384       a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
 385       fully up to date.</p>
 386
 387     </div>
 388
 389   <h3>Server</h3>
 390
 391     <div class=section>
 392
 393       <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
 394       now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
 395       behaviour).</p>
 396
 397     </div>
 398 </div>
 399
 400 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
 401
 402 <div class=section>
 403
 404   <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
 405
 406 </div>
 407
 408 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
 409
 410 <div class=section>
 411
 412   <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly.  As part of this,
 413   <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>.  The configure
 414   script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
 415
 416 </div>
 417
 418 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
 419
 420 <div class=section>
 421
 422   <h3>Server</h3>
 423
 424 <div class=section>
 425
 426   <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work.  It could be
 427   restored if there is real demand.</p>
 428
 429   <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
 430
 431 <div class=section>
 432
 433   <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
 434   Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
 435   changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
 436   turned on or off).  See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
 437   commands described in disorder(1).</p>
 438
 439 </div>
 440
 441 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
 442
 443 <div class=section>
 444
 445   <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
 446
 447   <ul>
 448
 449     <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
 450     eligible for random choice.</li>
 451
 452     <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
 453     non-uniform track selection.  See disorder(1) for details.</li>
 454
 455     <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
 456     the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
 457     The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
 458
 459     <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
 460     <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
 461
 462   </ul>
 463
 464 </div>
 465
 466 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
 467
 468 <div class=section>
 469
 470   <p>This has been largely rewritten.  The most immediate benefits are:</p>
 471
 472   <ul>
 473
 474     <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
 475     includes links to parent directories.</li>
 476
 477     <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
 478     instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
 479     redirected to the login page.</li>
 480
 481   </ul>
 482
 483   <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
 484   is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
 485   less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
 486
 487   <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
 488   possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server.  See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
 489   <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
 490
 491   <p>The web interface is now installed automatically.  If you don't want it,
 492   use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>.  If you want it in a non-default
 493   location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
 494   and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
 495
 496 </div>
 497
 498 </div>
 499
 500 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
 501
 502 <div class=section>
 503
 504   <p>There is now a new user management window.  From here you can add and
 505   remove users or modify their settings.</p>
 506
 507   <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
 508   <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
 509
 510 </div>
 511
 512 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
 513
 514 <div class=section>
 515
 516   <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
 517   set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
 518
 519 </div>
 520
 521 <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3>
 522
 523 <div class=section>
 524
 525   <table class=bugs>
 526     <tr>
 527       <th>ID</th>
 528       <th>Description</th>
 529     </tr>
 530
 531     <tr>
 532       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
 533       <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
 534     </tr>
 535
 536     <tr>
 537       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
 538       <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
 539     </tr>
 540
 541     <tr>
 542       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
 543       <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
 544     </tr>
 545
 546     <tr>
 547       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
 548       <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
 549     </tr>
 550
 551     <tr>
 552       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
 553       <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
 554     </tr>
 555
 556     <tr>
 557       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
 558       <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
 559       subsequently redirected to login page</td>
 560     </tr>
 561
 562     <tr>
 563       <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
 564       <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
 565     </tr>
 566
 567   </table>
 568
 569 </div>
 570
 571 </div>
 572
 573 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
 574
 575 <div class=section>
 576
 577   <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
 578
 579   <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
 580   syntax it will accept.</p>
 581
 582   <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
 583
 584 </div>
 585
 586 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
 587
 588 <div class=section>
 589
 590   <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
 591
 592 </div>
 593
 594 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
 595
 596 <div class=section>
 597
 598   <p><b>Important</b>!  See <a
 599   href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
 600
 601   <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
 602
 603 <div class=section>
 604
 605   <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported.  There is now a bash
 606   script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
 607   <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
 608
 609 </div>
 610
 611 <h3>Server</h3>
 612
 613 <div class=section>
 614
 615   <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
 616   file.</p>
 617
 618   <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
 619   only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
 620
 621   <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
 622
 623   <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
 624   configuration command.  This also controls how the volume is set,
 625   which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
 626
 627   <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
 628
 629 </div>
 630
 631 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
 632
 633 <div class=section>
 634
 635   <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
 636   allows online registration of new users.  Also it is no longer
 637   necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
 638   can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
 639
 640   <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
 641
 642   <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved.  It has
 643   been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
 644   7 and Opera 9.</p>
 645
 646 </div>
 647
 648 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
 649
 650 <div class=section>
 651
 652   <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
 653   queue while no track was playing has been fixed.  There is a new
 654   'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>
 655
 656 </div>
 657
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