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