Server update, 2014-04-28

Once more now before our upcoming schema change, we’re here with our fortnightly musicbrainz-server release! Some notable changes aside from bug fixes include a few additions to whitelists newly-approved, and enabling thumbnail display for PDF cover art. Thanks to the Internet Archive for making PDF thumbnails work, and thanks to chirlu, nikki, reosarevok, and bitmap for their work this release.

The git tag for this release is v-2014-04-28.

Full list of tickets:

Bug

• [MBS-4151] – Publisher ARs for different entity types create quite confusing label AR pages
• [MBS-6166] – Deleted accounts can still have details edited
• [MBS-6508] – Artist/label create/edit edits fail to display removed or merged areas
• [MBS-7037] – Chrome displays broken image instead of error message
• [MBS-7352] – Release editor prints an untrue error “not logged in” after clicking “Enter Edits”
• [MBS-7376] – Selecting value from a drop-down list by pressing Enter prompts inexplicable behaviour
• [MBS-7400] – “merge artist” edit with “rename artist credit” option is a tracklist changing edit but is missing in release, release-group and recording edit histories
• [MBS-7412] – Reorder medium edits are generated for new releases
• [MBS-7437] – Area can’t be removed from a place
• [MBS-7438] – Empty edits are created for places due to coordinate padding
• [MBS-7439] – Internal server error when seeding badly formatted dates to the release editor
• [MBS-7444] – Release editor seeding should ignore medium position field
• [MBS-7445] – Not all mediums gets reordered when you delete one
• [MBS-7447] – Internal server error when seeding invalid track lengths to the release editor
• [MBS-7450] – Places on the equator don’t have their coordinates displayed
• [MBS-7451] – Possibility to remove track durations from releases with discID
• [MBS-7453] – Internal server error in the release editor (new row for relation “release_group” violates check constraint “control_for_whitespace”)
• [MBS-7455] – ISE for /ws/js/edit/preview: Error: Could not create MusicBrainz::Server::Edit::Release::DeleteReleaseLabel edit
• [MBS-7456] – Error when using the track parser to parse artists and it can’t find any
• [MBS-7458] – Internal server error when trying to delete a non-existent user
• [MBS-7459] – Internal server error displaying add disc ID edit (Can’t call method “release” on an undefined value)
• [MBS-7464] – Release editor does not use canonical URLs

Improvement

• [MBS-4758] – Show list of recordings after work rels on work pages
• [MBS-5552] – Mark edit URL merge-edits properly
• [MBS-5640] – Don’t embed full size images in the page when no thumbnails are present
• [MBS-7345] – Sidebar external links: show span.mp pending edit status
• [MBS-7361] – Provide an HTML markup hook for finding/matching dynamic work attributes
• [MBS-7460] – Enable thumbnails for PDFs

Task

• [MBS-7440] – Add Resident Advisor and IMVDb to the otherdbs whitelist
• [MBS-7454] – Add Rap Genius / Rock Genius and Project Gutenberg to lyrics whitelist

Sub-task

• [MBS-7448] – Add URL lookup to the website