Server Updates

The server has been updated once again, bringing you Album Languages,
completely rewritten Guess Case functionality, fancy-looking input forms
and a few bug fixes.

Read on for the full change log…

The server has been updated once again, bringing you Album Languages,
completely rewritten Guess Case functionality, fancy-looking input forms
and a few bug fixes.

Changes mainly of interest to MusicBrainz Users

Language/Script Support

Albums now have script and language attributes. All add album
workflows (including the FreeDB imports) have been updated to
set language and script during the process. Batch editing is
also possible.

Additionally, Add Album and Edit Language edits
have a language attribute and it is now possible to search
for moderations in a certain language using the
Advanced
Moderation Search.

For more information please read the
Album Language
documentation.

Guess Case / Site Layout

There has been a full rewrite of the popular Guess Case feature
bringing you lots of new functionality.

All input forms have also been improved and look a lot better now.

Miscellaneous

There is now a link on the user profile pages that takes you to the open
edits of that user.

The
Data Tracks
report has been improved and catches more data tracks.

Random inline mods are back as a user preference, but for automods
only. They had been disabled because of the infamous random voter problem.
Bribery with chocolate brought them back.

Changes mainly of interest to MusicBrainz Administrators

Some dependencies for mb_server have been changed. Please update them
before you install a new mb_server.

• String::Similarity can now be used out of the box. The old patched
  version can be removed.
• Language::Guess is now required. You’ll need to download the seed data from ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/language-guess.tar.gz. See the INSTALL file for more.
• Devel::Peek is now required.

Please also note that you should use DBD::Pg 1.32. Newer versions
have been fully rewritten causing us lots of troubles. We’ll have to wait
until the 1.40 series stabilises.

Fixed bugs

• 1157640
  Web
  Service encoding bug
• Problems with the site search that turned up recently have been fixed.
• An artist sorting bug has been fixed.
• Some AR bugs in the moderation subsystem have been fixed.

Credits

This release includes the work of more people than usual.
Many thanks to

• Stefan Kestenholz for the autofix features and the new fancy forms.
  Additional thanks to Tarragon Allen who started the guess case work.
• Dave Evans for helping with the language feature, including writing the
  Script and Language classes, doing most of the bug fixes listed above,
  updating the dependencies and general guidance and support.
  Thanks a lot, Dave!
• Nikki for helping with the language stuff including writing the
  documentation, improving the superfluous data tracks report,
  open moderations link (and advanced search preset) on the user
  profile and some small HTML/CSS updates. Many thanks for helping
  to test the replication system (schema upgrade) and for general
  testing and support.
• Alexander Dupuy for helping to improve the language feature, including
  the great language inclusion policy.
• Robert Kaye for re-adding random inline voting mods and some AR fixes.
• Jan van Thiel and Marco Sola for taking part in the testing process.

Matthias Friedrich