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