Server update, 2014-10-13 (a day late)

I’m slacking again and it’s a day late, but here’s another server release, almost kinda on schedule!

We’ve included a few nice improvements this release:

• Better ways to use Track MBIDs (added in May 2013!), by both linking to their URLs on the site and by allowing them to be used as a linked entity for release lookups (this work by ianmcorvidae, with a bit added by chirlu).
• Place coordinates can now be selected using a map on the edit page and feedback on proper coordinate formatting needn’t wait for a full form submission (thanks nikki!). This new interface can be seen in the image accompanying this post!
• When the Internet Archive is likely to reject Cover Art Archive uploads, a warning should now be shown on the site (thanks to the IA for implementing an endpoint to use for this, and nikki for integrating it).
• Data entered on the site should now be normalized according to Unicode Normalization Form C (or NFC), which means that, for example, a character entered with a separate combining acute accent will be normalized to a combined character where one is available (thanks to chirlu for this work).
• A variety of edit listing pages, including edit search, should be faster due to an overhaul in our query generation and database indexing (thanks to chirlu for this!).
• A variety of other bug fixes and smaller improvements, as usual (thanks to bitmap, ianmcorvidae, nikki, and chirlu for various pieces).

The git tag for this release is v-2014-10-13.

The full list of issues, as usual:

Bug

• [MBS-7750] – Video attribute displays confusingly as “(true)”
• [MBS-7875] – “Recording of” relationship inherits instrument from artist
• [MBS-7886] – Internal server error when trying to include ratings for places in the webservice
• [MBS-7888] – Searching in a new tab from relationship editor disables search button
• [MBS-7892] – Instrument merge process has not been updated for creditable attributes
• [MBS-7893] – Disambiguation not displayed in area search results
• [MBS-7905] – ISE when including place-rels and fmt=json
• [MBS-7915] – Tracklist missing on “Set track durations” page
• [MBS-7916] – “Set track durations” preview is broken for single-track mediums

Improvement

• [MBS-3725] – webservice discid lookup should accept query with only a toc
• [MBS-5553] – Tell the user before uploading when the Cover Art Archive is down
• [MBS-6010] – Normalise text to NFC
• [MBS-6829] – Select place location using a map
• [MBS-6972] – Provide immediate feedback when editing coordinates
• [MBS-7634] – Standardise lightbox image links from Commons
• [MBS-7693] – Release Editor’s “edit the release group” does not open in a new tab
• [MBS-7831] – Votes by Editor is ordered by edit time, but would be more useful ordered by vote time.
• [MBS-7869] – Make edit search faster
• [MBS-7895] – Make reordering mediums an auto-edit
• [MBS-7896] – Deal better with track MBIDs when merging releases
• [MBS-7897] – Provide a way to look up things by track MBID via the WS
• [MBS-7898] – Link to track MBIDs from the tracklist