MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-10-28

You shouldn’t be afraid of this small release that fixes some bugs and delivers some improvements, making editors’ lives easier!

Thanks to Besnik, CatQuest, dkg, jesus2099, outsidecontext, zexpe, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-10-28.

Bug

  • [MBS-9468] – Edit search finds no “remove (download for free) relationship” edits
  • [MBS-10408] – Artists are not marked as pending in that recording merge edit
  • [MBS-10420] – My Data Menu’s “All My Edits” links to bogus URL
  • [MBS-10428] – WS: Recording request missing artist aliases
  • [MBS-10429] – Empty aliases element returned for artists in relationships
  • [MBS-10430] – Actions column for fingerprints wraps for translations

Improvement

  • [MBS-2176] – Add a “Finish” button alongside “Next” in release editor
  • [MBS-10356] – Replace <b> with <strong> in messages
  • [MBS-10425] – Allow instrument credits for relationships from/to instrument
  • [MBS-10431] – Remove ‘yourmusic’ from 7digital URLs
  • [MBS-10454] – Block removing an area still in use

MusicBrainz Server update, 2019-10-14

This post-summit release mostly contains bugfixes and small improvements for quality of life, along with continued conversion of templates to React.

Thanks to alastairp, andrebreiler, antonphoton, chaban, dibou, foolip, hibiscuskazeneko, jdamcd, jesus2099, mat813, mineo, okno, rochusw, silentbird, Skeebadoo, and everyone who tested the beta version, reported issues, or updated website localizations.

The git tag is v-2019-10-17-hotfixes.

Bug

  • [MBS-4980] – Releases on the same date aren’t sorted by catalog number
  • [MBS-5322] – Release group browse requests no longer return results in first-release-date order
  • [MBS-9111] – It’s still possible to leave empty edit notes
  • [MBS-10263] – Annotation not removed after it has been downvoted
  • [MBS-10344] – Navigating to artist/ or recording/merge with only 1 item in the queue ISEs
  • [MBS-10345] – /merge loads (brokenly) even if not ready to merge
  • [MBS-10346] – Table of collections has large table cell padding
  • [MBS-10353] – Enable ratings for release browse
  • [MBS-10369] – Database statistics for countries are wrong
  • [MBS-10406] – The WS can still sometimes try to communicate with the template renderer, timing out
  • [MBS-10411] – Inconsistent type for place coordinate
  • [MBS-10421] – Lookup of cluster in browser from Picard generates an server error
  • [MBS-10423] – Internal Server Error when trying to query by release language

Improvement

  • [MBS-3112] – TAB from “Edit note” doesn’t go to “Enter edit” in “Release editor”
  • [MBS-4486] – Disambiguation input field sanitation: Automatically remove leading and trailing parentheses
  • [MBS-4913] – Show how many CAA images we have for a release
  • [MBS-5083] – Release pages: Display recording artist on tracks (recording)
  • [MBS-5479] – Move “Edit relationships” to be a tab by “Edit” on releases
  • [MBS-8566] – Release artist should be selected automatically for all tracks with the same artist name (CD stub import)
  • [MBS-8967] – The duplicate events report should not show events if all of them have disambiguation comments
  • [MBS-10229] – Block smart links
  • [MBS-10240] – Allow specifying that a release has no barcode while seeding
  • [MBS-10347] – “Actions” columns should only take as much space as they need
  • [MBS-10349] – Clarify what “exclusive” vs “inclusive” means in relationship stats
  • [MBS-10355] – Display track artist on recording pages
  • [MBS-10363] – Cancelling merge on merge helper should stay in the same page
  • [MBS-10370] – Add `direction: forward` to all forward relationships in WS
  • [MBS-10373] – Link to How to Write Edit Notes above the edit note fields
  • [MBS-10404] – Limit the total number of tracks that can be returned in a WS release list
  • [MBS-10405] – Switch to XML::LibXML for serializing XML WS responses
  • [MBS-10407] – Add limit/offset parameters to /ws/2/discid

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-9915] – Convert the artist public pages to React
  • [MBS-9920] – Convert the recording public pages to React
  • [MBS-9924] – Convert the work public pages to React
  • [MBS-10357] – Convert edit diff macros to React

Picard 2.2.2 released

Picard 2.2.2 is available for download. Most significantly this release addresses a performance regression which affected the Windows and macOS versions of previous Picard 2 releases. It is highly recommended for Windows and macOS users to upgrade.

The complete list of changes:

Bug

  • [PICARD-1606] – Crashes on opening options with broken plugin
  • [PICARD-1612] – Trackpad tap is not working properly on macOS
  • [PICARD-1614] – macOS: Incorrect ‘LSMinimumSystemVersion’
  • [PICARD-1618] – macOS and Windows packages built without C astrcmp
  • [PICARD-1621] – Lookup CD dropdown does not list additional drives
  • [PICARD-1624] – Updating default CD device in options does not change default for keyboard shortcut

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1610] – Make the labels in Options > User Interface > Colours wider
  • [PICARD-1619] – Grey out cover art providers list when cover art is disabled