Author: acidcycles

Server update, 2013-07-08

We’ve just finished deploying the latest version of MusicBrainz on our servers. This release is again primarily a bug fix release, but as always we’ve got a couple of improvements in added too. Thanks to Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki and the MusicBrainz team for all their work on this release! Here’s a list of what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-5892] – Make wikidocs links always go to the server the user is on
  • [MBS-5941] – Using the link to http://musicbrainz.org from beta.mb after starting to use the beta site redirects to beta.mb again
  • [MBS-6020] – Work types in the relationship editor still don’t sort alphabetically
  • [MBS-6272] – Countries are no longer linked in the release sidebar
  • [MBS-6325] – Moving a release with a release date into an empty release group does not provide it with a date (sorting doesn’t work)
  • [MBS-6327] – Development servers ask users to change passwords when logging in
  • [MBS-6331] – Internal server error entering an existing ISO code
  • [MBS-6384] – Internal server error looking up a disc ID in the JSON webservice
  • [MBS-6404] – Regression: it is impossible to have a track without "track #" field empty (despite edit doing just that passes without problem)
  • [MBS-6440] – Opening filter fails due to syntax error
  • [MBS-6485] – Blocking of /ws/1 URLs should be done in MusicBrainz-Server, not nginx config
  • [MBS-6491] – Editing an artist area should not be an auto-edit
  • [MBS-6501] – Internal Server Error: "Wide character in subroutine entry" trying to create an account with Unicode characters in the username or password
  • [MBS-6504] – Digest authentication is broken for new accounts until the password is changed
  • [MBS-6519] – Recording index page column span is incorrect
  • [MBS-6524] – Work type and lyrics language ordered differently for editing and display
  • [MBS-6548] – ModBot is unable to close Edit::Relationship::Delete edits

Improvement

  • [MBS-5487] – Edit search : Add the relationship type information to "remove relationship" edits
  • [MBS-5835] – Report of recordings with tracks which vary a lot in length
  • [MBS-6132] – Show filename in Add/Edit cover art edits as in removals
  • [MBS-6226] – Use new page version in the wikidocs edit page form
  • [MBS-6258] – Add accept/reject buttons to the edit search results pages on test servers
  • [MBS-6350] – Merge release events where dates are equal but release country in one or more instances is unknown
  • [MBS-6499] – Kill the nag

Task

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-07-08.

Server Update, 2013-06-25

We’ve just finished pushing out another version of MusicBrainz. Sorry that we’re a day behind on this one, yesterday we had a few tests that needed fixing before we could release. This release is mostly bug fixes and small improvements, and should solve problems with the “remember me” login feature working incorrectly. This upgrade might have lost a few remember me tokens, but if you are still seeing problems after a few days of the site, please leave a comment on MBS-6471.

Many thanks to Lukáš Lalinský, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Here’s what changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-3427] – "Internal Server Error" submitting CD Stubs with invalid data
  • [MBS-5524] – Edit relationship type edits are missing information for identifying the relationship type
  • [MBS-5903] – JSON webservice doesn’t return release-list in collection query
  • [MBS-5958] – Release editor did something very very wrong
  • [MBS-6027] – JSON webservice returns asin: null for releases with ASINs
  • [MBS-6073] – Inaccurate range of credits when grouped at the bottom of a release page
  • [MBS-6101] – Redis should only be required if sessions are used
  • [MBS-6206] – Soundtrack Collector URLs should not be possible at the Release level
  • [MBS-6244] – Private data dump contains bcrypt column and can’t be imported
  • [MBS-6261] – "Date unknown" is inconsistent with our handling of unknown values elsewhere
  • [MBS-6296] – Area alias links are shown for non-location-editors
  • [MBS-6315] – Recordings tab of the RE showing lots of [removed]
  • [MBS-6349] – Artist credits display wrong on add release edit
  • [MBS-6364] – "Possibly duplicate artists" report doesn’t show any results
  • [MBS-6374] – Release editor seeding is broken
  • [MBS-6383] – Can’t add search hint to area
  • [MBS-6416] – release editor loses track identifiers when editing a medium.
  • [MBS-6467] – "you may add a new label" in area search
  • [MBS-6471] – "Keep me logged in" is broken

Improvement

  • [MBS-2782] – "Edit medium" edit type > Don’t show pointless artists credits changes (e.g. when only join phrase has been changed)
  • [MBS-2848] – New "Add medium" artist credits section is cluttered and hard to parse
  • [MBS-3663] – "No" votes should allow time for the original editor to respond
  • [MBS-4652] – Add a link to How To under Documentation
  • [MBS-5911] – Display source for non-CAA cover art
  • [MBS-6205] – Clean up Soundtrack Collector URLs
  • [MBS-6207] – Check formatting for Soundtrack Collector URLs
  • [MBS-6259] – Bring back date/country columns in tables
  • [MBS-6352] – ExportAllTables::check_tables_completeness should be updated and used
  • [MBS-6363] – Update Twitter URL cleanup to use https

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-06-25.

Server Update, 2013-06-10

Another week, another release! This release is mostly bug fixes, but I’m sure a lot of people will be happy to notice that we have finally resolved MBS-357. That’s right – we no longer have a single clear text password in the MusicBrainz database. We’re sorry that it took so long, but at least it’s finally been done! Other than that, this release mostly builds on top of the new schema change features, and provides bug fixes for things that have regressed.

Many thanks to Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo and the MusicBrainz team for their work in this release. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-6007] – JSON release webservice doesn’t include works
  • [MBS-6179] – Sorting a collection by catalog number sorts ‘8BP117’, ‘8BP126’ and ‘8BP127’ in the wrong order
  • [MBS-6260] – Dates and countries are displayed inconsistently
  • [MBS-6263] – Adding an area without ISO 3166 codes shows blank values in edits
  • [MBS-6264] – Languages/Scripts statistics have an empty "Last updated field"
  • [MBS-6297] – Can’t create relationships from areas to other entities from the area page, but only from the other entities’ page
  • [MBS-6325] – Moving a release with a release date into an empty release group does not provide it with a date (sorting doesn’t work)
  • [MBS-6326] – ModBot is unable to close some edits as they still use ‘country_id’
  • [MBS-6334] – Release editor: loses join phrases and artist credits when switching to tracklist tab
  • [MBS-6355] – 502 displaying relationships for prolific artist
  • [MBS-6357] – Track/medium tables have indexes/constraints with bad names
  • [MBS-6370] – Beta: Inline search can load duplicate results
  • [MBS-6377] – Track ACs appear changed but the edit isn’t submitted
  • [MBS-6385] – Strange results when pasting an area URL in the inline search
  • [MBS-6409] – ModBot leaves translated edit notes
  • [MBS-6441] – Release (date, country) are blank when displaying a disc ID
  • [MBS-6443] – Ascending and descending sorting of releases in a collection results in the same order

Improvement

  • [MBS-357] – Don’t store passwords in clear text
  • [MBS-4962] – Slave servers should cache heavily due to hourly update process
  • [MBS-6203] – Only allow recognised URLs for relationship types which are for specific sites
  • [MBS-6233] – Ensure SecondHandSongs links are added at the right level
  • [MBS-6300] – Link to countries in country statistics
  • [MBS-6301] – Consider linking to areas {artist,release,label} list in country statistics
  • [MBS-6347] – Show parents somehow for underlying areas
  • [MBS-6358] – Add basic area stats display
  • [MBS-6362] – Improve how release data is displayed in Google searches
  • [MBS-6371] – Extend Wikipedia and Wikidata autoselect to areas

New Feature

  • [MBS-6269] – Expose track identifiers in the webservice
  • [MBS-6270] – Expose track identifiers on the website

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-06-10.

Server update, 2013-05-28

Now that the fires around the last schema upgrade seem to be dying down to a much more manageable level, we’ve just put out the next version of MusicBrainz server. As you might already expect, this release is mostly a bug fix release. Thanks to Lukáš Lalinský, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-3059] – Using "Submit votes & edit notes" added edit note to all edits
  • [MBS-6158] – Reset password form claims the user/email address does not exist
  • [MBS-6172] – Lost password claims to work when user has no email
  • [MBS-6209] – Direct search for work doesn’t check aliases
  • [MBS-6230] – Internal server error removing a relationship in the relationship editor
  • [MBS-6271] – Internal server error trying to set track lengths
  • [MBS-6274] – Capitalisation of "release events" in sidebar and edits is inconsistent
  • [MBS-6299] – "License" header in release sidebars is displayed even if the following list is empty
  • [MBS-6302] – Country column empty in search results page
  • [MBS-6304] – Table on Attach CD TOC page broken (too many columns)
  • [MBS-6305] – Regression: Release dates are no longer optional
  • [MBS-6318] – Search hint alias for areas require a sortname when adding
  • [MBS-6319] – Internal server error editing an area alias
  • [MBS-6329] – REGRESSION. no more dates in collection pages
  • [MBS-6335] – Regression: Tracklists not shown when merging releases
  • [MBS-6341] – Area alias aren’t found by direct search unless they match an area name

Improvement

  • [MBS-3083] – Do not use placeholder text for artist credit names
  • [MBS-5603] – Edit relationships page should show disambiguation comments
  • [MBS-6198] – Deleted Editor Stats
  • [MBS-6213] – Permit ISRCs starting with TC
  • [MBS-6219] – Stop using two edit types and two places in the UI for the "change release group" functionality
  • [MBS-6222] – Update FeaturingRecordings report
  • [MBS-6223] – Display language and script in the right order on release edits
  • [MBS-6294] – Release events are weirdly indented on release pages
  • [MBS-6340] – Redirect to direct search for indexed area searches as long as the latter are not actually available
  • [MBS-6348] – Display the type of area on inline search

New Feature

  • [MBS-6018] – Add /oauth2/tokeninfo and /oauth2/userinfo handlers for 3rd party login

Task

  • [MBS-6229] – Add autoselect, sidebar links and pretty URLs for Wikidata

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-05-28.

Schema change release, 2013-05-15

Today we released a schema change update for MusicBrainz. Schema change updates change the format of the underlying MusicBrainz database and allow us to store more information, or model information in a richer/more correct form.

Summary

This release specifically includes some exciting new features:

Areas

A new entity is this release is the “area” entity, which can track countries, subdivisions of countries, cities, and other such location entities (venues, however, will be another entity). While this release primarily only introduces the entity, migrating only our existing list of countries, it’s now also possible to add start and end locations to artists, and to mark works as anthems. Editing of areas, their aliases and annotations, and area-area and area-url relationships, is limited to a new class of “Location Editor”.

ISNI Codes

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO standard that identifies public identities of parties. We now have support for storing ISNI codes inside the MusicBrainz database, which will make it easier to cross-reference data in MusicBrainz with other databases.

Multiple Release Events

Releases can now have multiple date and country pairs, whereas previously they could only have one country and one date. This will allow us to more accurately store information about releases that occur in different areas at different dates, but are otherwise the same physical product.

Forthcoming Features

We also began work on the database support for some future MusicBrainz features:

Track MBIDs

All tracks on mediums now have unique identifiers. This will allow people to refer to a specific track in a release in a way that is more resilient to editing than just the track name or position. Currently we have database support for this, but track identifiers are not yet exposed in either the website or the web service.

Dynamic Work Attributes

Dynamic work attributes will let us introduce new attributes to describe works without schema changes

Free Text Relationship Attribute Credits

This feature will let editors specify an alternative name for relationship attributes to specifically exactly which model guitar was used in a recording, rather than the current vague “electric guitar” attribute. Support for this feature is now in the database (in the link_attribute_credit) table, but the UI to do this editing is still to be finished.

Support more formats in the Cover Art Archive

Uploading cover art to the cover art archive will soon support a few other image formats, starting with PNG.

Other Schema Changes

The remaining smaller schema changes are:

  • The wiki transclusion version mapping is now stored in the database, not a flat file.
  • The link_type.short_link_phrase was renamed to link_type.long_link_phrase.
  • The work.artist_credit column was dropped.
  • Collections can now have a description.

Upgrading

If you are currently running a slave database, then you will need to perform a few manual steps to upgrade to the new version:

  1. Take down the web server running MusicBrainz, if you’re running a web server.
  2. Turn off cron jobs if you are automatically updating the database via cron jobs.
  3. Make sure your REPLICATION_TYPE setting is RT_SLAVE
  4. Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2013-05-15
  5. Run carton install --deployment to install any new perl modules.
  6. Run carton exec -Ilib -- ./upgrade.sh from the top of the source directory.
  7. Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 17 in lib/DBDefs.pm
  8. Turn cron jobs back on, if needed.
  9. Restart the MusicBrainz web server, if needed.

Please see the instructions in our more recent blog post instead of these instructions.

Release Notes

This release wouldn’t have possible without help from Alastair Porter, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo or the rest of the MusicBrainz team – thank you all for your hard work! As we missed the previous release, there are a few other changes in this release. Here are the full release notes:

Bug

  • [MBS-4703] – Add Medium edit does not correctly display the auto-edit note
  • [MBS-5834] – Users’ votes page mistitled as “edits”
  • [MBS-5851] – Instruments are missing from the JSON webservice responses
  • [MBS-5979] – Automatic redirect to beta clear release editor seeding
  • [MBS-6015] – Edit Artist Credit edits affecting track ACs don’t appear in related release edit histories
  • [MBS-6129] – Relationship editor isn’t correctly parsing attributes
  • [MBS-6149] – Entity merges silently dropping aliases with locales
  • [MBS-6178] – URL page headers are completely inconsistent
  • [MBS-6196] – work/edit_form.tt includes artist credit docs
  • [MBS-6249] – Add Event button broken on add release with cdtoc

Improvement

  • [MBS-1346] – New Report: Artists with 0 subscribers
  • [MBS-2229] – Allow multiple release events per release
  • [MBS-3626] – Display license logos in the sidebar
  • [MBS-3669] – Merge dated and undated relationships
  • [MBS-4115] – Cover art archive: Support .png SQL changes
  • [MBS-4294] – Add a “description” field to collections (SQL/UI)
  • [MBS-4756] – Move the wiki transclusion index to the database
  • [MBS-4866] – URL autoselect: ameblo.jp -> has blog at
  • [MBS-4867] – Timeline graph rate-of-change graph should change its vertical scaling depending on where it’s zoomed
  • [MBS-4925] – Add country of birth and country of death to Artist (person)
  • [MBS-5528] – Change short_link_phrase to long_link_phrase
  • [MBS-5772] – Generate relationship documentation (semi-)automatically
  • [MBS-5848] – Instrument credits (SQL)
  • [MBS-6023] – Track MBID UI changes
  • [MBS-6141] – Add discography page URL matching for universal-music.co.jp, lantis.jp, jvcmusic.co.jp, wmg.jp, avexnet.jp and kingrecords.co.jp
  • [MBS-6142] – Prevent Wikipedia links from being added as discography page relationships
  • [MBS-6188] – Remove rating from work merge page
  • [MBS-6189] – Show work languages on ISWC page
  • [MBS-6190] – Artist credit diffs per word, join phrase per char

New Feature

  • [MBS-799] – Location, venue and event support
  • [MBS-1839] – Track MBID SQL changes
  • [MBS-2417] – Support multiple countries/regions on a single release
  • [MBS-3296] – Add dynamic attributes
  • [MBS-3985] – Support multiple artist countries
  • [MBS-5272] – Create daily and weekly “rollup” replication packets
  • [MBS-5302] – Store International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI, ISO 27729) for artists and labels
  • [MBS-5861] – Dynamic work attributes (SQL)

Task

  • [MBS-5314] – Drop the work.artist_credit column
  • [MBS-6133] – Ensure JPEG uploads still work through CAA
  • [MBS-6167] – Add iTunes links to the sidebar
  • [MBS-6170] – Add Bandcamp links to the sidebar

Sub-task

  • [MBS-4217] – Spotify relationship under the External links section
  • [MBS-5809] – SQL changes for MBS-4294: Add a “description” field to collections
  • [MBS-5917] – transclusion to DB: SQL
  • [MBS-5918] – transclusion to DB: UI
  • [MBS-5919] – locations: SQL
  • [MBS-5920] – locations: UI
  • [MBS-5929] – Schema changes to store relationship type guidelines and example usages in the database
  • [MBS-5930] – Generate documentation automatically/allow managing guidelines in DB
  • [MBS-5933] – Schema changes to support multiple (date, country) pairs on releases
  • [MBS-6187] – UI changes to support multiple country/date pairs on releases

Server Update 2013-04-22 and a Notice Regarding Passwords

We’ve just finished deploying a new update to the MusicBrainz website, but before covering release notes we’d like to clarify a few points regarding the recent password leak.

There have been a few reports suggesting that MusicBrainz was attacked or compromised, but we can assure that this is not the case. As stated in our original blog post, we accidentally included private information in our otherwise routine public backups. As the majority of MusicBrainz data is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA or CC0, these backups are intended to be public – the mistake was the human error in accidentally including password hashes.

A few of you also mentioned that we didn’t respond in a timely fashion in alerting users via emails. We completely agree with these comments, and apologise for not being able to respond quicker. Unfortunately, we did not have the infrastructure to do such mass mailing, and as we didn’t want to rush this out to the point of making yet more errors, it took us a little longer than we all would have liked.

With that out of the way, here’s what we’ve done in the last fortnight. Many thanks to Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release.

Bug

  • [MBS-4277] – Guess Case: Keep uppercase option should be clearer
  • [MBS-4468] – “Enter vote” button incorrectly also adds edit note
  • [MBS-5597] – Funky Caps inConsisTency in Edit search paGes (presets or not)
  • [MBS-5832] – Rating not showing on Merge Recordings page
  • [MBS-5967] – No feedback after editing a user
  • [MBS-5998] – Barcodes incorrectly represented in mo RDF
  • [MBS-6077] – Reorder tracks edit not working
  • [MBS-6081] – Viewing MusicBrainz Events and Cover Art information makes the CAA launch event appear to the left of the actual graph
  • [MBS-6082] – “Remove Label” edit page has broken documentation link
  • [MBS-6100] – Internal server error with webservice requests which require authentication
  • [MBS-6111] – Amazon taking precedence over CAA after merging releases
  • [MBS-6121] – Logging in with non-ascii password throws exception
  • [MBS-6122] – Unable to merge release groups when cover art is set
  • [MBS-6169] – Check for edit user uses the wrong sub

Improvement

  • [MBS-4632] – Link to archive.org item from cover art tab
  • [MBS-4658] – Report: duplicate ISWCs
  • [MBS-5261] – Link to How to Add Disc IDs from the Disc ID tab of releases
  • [MBS-5667] – Rename “Other release groups”
  • [MBS-5800] – Remove restriction on entering standalone recordings
  • [MBS-6001] – Make the autoeditor election overview more useful
  • [MBS-6034] – label search is missing country column
  • [MBS-6086] – Setting cover art type (from nothing to something) should be an autoedit
  • [MBS-6109] – Work search doesn’t show type
  • [MBS-6110] – Relate To URL should auto-identify audiojelly.com as “can be purchased for download” relation.
  • [MBS-6119] – Seeing vote counts on closed elections shouldn’t require log in

New Feature

  • [MBS-1891] – Anchors/Permalinks on Edit Notes
  • [MBS-5737] – Notification when RE has created a release

Task

  • [MBS-6096] – Add soundtrackcollector.com to the Other Databases whitelist

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-04-11.

Server Update, 2013-04-08

We’ve just finished pushing out another fortnight of work to the main MusicBrainz servers. While work continues on the forthcoming schema change release, we have fixed a few bugs and added a few improvements. Thanks to Lukáš Lalinský and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release! Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-5524] – Edit relationship type edits are missing information for identifying the relationship type
  • [MBS-5830] – Attributes are not shown in relationship type edits
  • [MBS-5964] – Artist credit’s sort name tooltip doesn’t update after edit
  • [MBS-5980] – Cover art comments can make the cover art page look very unstructured
  • [MBS-5993] – name variation checks happen after HTML entity conversion
  • [MBS-6019] – Some FreeDB data getting wrongly imported from the dumps
  • [MBS-6021] – Track count search in Add Disc uses full release count for multi-disc releases
  • [MBS-6038] – "See all {num} {entity}" is just wrong i18n-wise
  • [MBS-6042] – Release country field in edit search breaks after doing a search
  • [MBS-6043] – In front page "Recent Additions" the text for the cover art pop-up labels (HTML title attribute) is wronlgy escaped
  • [MBS-6075] – An error occured while loading this edit

Improvement

  • [MBS-5613] – Set cover art page does not show enough information
  • [MBS-6039] – Make it possible to display attributes after the link phrase

Sub-task

  • [MBS-4258] – Make dates translatable

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-04-08.

Potential Security Leak

What Happened?

On March 29th 2013 we discovered that one of the MusicBrainz database dumps contained password hashes for a large portion of MusicBrainz accounts. While we don’t believe that these password hashes are either useful or widely distributed, we are requiring all users change their passwords.

What Data Was Leaked?

bcrypt password hashes, with a cost parameter of 8, for all accounts as of March 25th 2013.

Why Did This Happen?

We’ve recently began work on a long standing ticket against MusicBrainz server – MBS-357, “don’t store passwords in clear text”. We’re going to be moving away from clear text passwords, and we’ve decided to use one of the current industry standards for hashing passwords – bcrypt. Using bcrypt means that MusicBrainz will store only the hashes of passwords, which in laymans terms is a “fingerprint” of the password. Hashing means that we never store the actual password, but only the hash. There are many hashing functions available, and bcrypt is designed to be an expensive hash to compute with an adjustable “cost” – this makes it very hard to find out what the original password was via brute force attacks.

While this does mean that it’s hard to extract passwords from the hashes, the initial round of hashing passwords to move away from clear text is time consuming. As such, we built a small program that would gradually hash passwords over the course of a few days in order to make the switch from clear text passwords to secure password hashes done with as little downtime as possible.

This script hashed the password into the bcrypt_password column for all editors, and would also be notified when users changed their password in order to update the hash. Unfortunately, our database dump scripts sanitize this data by excluding data after-the-fact, rather than declaring what data to dump before running the script. As such, it dumped the entire editor table with the new column, as we forgot to add a rule to exclude this column.

Our Response

The database dumps that contain this data were promptly deleted, and have been replaced with correctly sanitized database dumps. Unfortunately logs from this server do show that this database dump was downloaded, and as we have no real indication of where this data now is, we’re treating this seriously. We have adjusted our database dumping scripts to be very specific about exactly which data they should export, so that in the future we will not leak private data by making the same mistake again.

We’re extremely sorry about this mistake, and while we don’t believe this data should allow attackers to retrieve user passwords, we can’t be 100% certain. As such, we require that all users change their password as soon as possible.

Server update 2013-03-25

We’ve just finished deploying changes from the last fortnight. This release is mostly bug fixes, but we also have a bit more validation when entering label URLs and some improvements to reports. Many thanks to Alastair Porter, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen, Lukáš Lalinský, Nicolás Tamargo, Paul Taylor, Pavan Chander and the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Detailed changes follow:

Bug

  • [MBS-4364] – Various Artists should not have a gender (and other attributes)
  • [MBS-4868] – Regression : « → view aliases » link disappeared from alias edits
  • [MBS-5947] – Changed AC display doesn’t detect unchanged gaps
  • [MBS-5953] – oauth: web application reauthorization creates table spam
  • [MBS-5958] – Release editor did something very very wrong
  • [MBS-5979] – Automatic redirect to beta clear release editor seeding
  • [MBS-5996] – Release and work level relationships getting mixed up in release pages
  • [MBS-6012] – Internal server error in Wikipedia extract
  • [MBS-6016] – browse works by invalid artist id causes an error

Improvement

  • [MBS-2535] – Lookup labels based on Label Code when entering releases
  • [MBS-4894] – Reject non-BBC Music URLs when using the BBC Music relationship
  • [MBS-5491] – Check for “vs.” and “feat.” in PossibleCollaborations report
  • [MBS-5912] – Report of releases with cover art relationships

Task

  • [MBS-5975] – Add Anime News Network Encyclopedia to “Other Databases” whitelist
  • [MBS-5976] – Add Generasia.com to the “other databases” whitelist

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-03-25.

Server Update, 2013-02-25

Thanks to work from Ben Ockmore, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki, Sean Burke, and the MusicBrainz team, we’ve just released a new version of the MusicBrainz website. As usual, this is mostly a bug fix release, but we do have one shiny new feature… collection subscriptions! It is now possible to subscribe to your own collections, or other public collections, and receive daily emails summarizing edits recently made that might affect releases in these collections. This feature is new, so if you encounter any problems, please be sure to let us know!

Here’s a full list of what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-3514] – Part of an edit was applied but not shown in preview nor in edit history
  • [MBS-3952] – Last Updated time is wrong on the Statistics page
  • [MBS-4543] – Seeding the create relationship page ignores some parameters
  • [MBS-4774] – Edit to swap two recordings creates a blank edit
  • [MBS-4947] – /edit/open won’t load
  • [MBS-5016] – Buttons misaligned in Firefox
  • [MBS-5309] – Not all artist credit changes are shown in tracklist edits
  • [MBS-5388] – Relationship editor allows linking an entity to itself
  • [MBS-5397] – Edit medium’s diff (insert track) : shows track duration change where there are none
  • [MBS-5402] – Country (and language) dropdown is sorted by English alphabet
  • [MBS-5461] – No space between releases in collection and button to remove them
  • [MBS-5520] – Translation problem on disc IDs page
  • [MBS-5547] – Relationship Editor: Can’t unselect orchestra type
  • [MBS-5560] – Internal server error (after creating recording-work relationship via relation-editor)
  • [MBS-5565] – Link to add new label is missing when there are results
  • [MBS-5677] – URL MBIDs missing from the webservice
  • [MBS-5726] – Internal server error when requesting /ws/2/discid in JSON
  • [MBS-5765] – Very long releases have bad release length parameters
  • [MBS-5787] – i18n: “This beta test server allows testing of new features with the live database” is untranslatable
  • [MBS-5799] – Relationship editor doesn’t allow adding multiple relationships with different attributes
  • [MBS-5815] – Use “Died” in edit artist page like on sidebar
  • [MBS-5819] – Instrument select in relat. editor requires accents
  • [MBS-5821] – i18n: work types are untranslatable inside the relationship editor
  • [MBS-5824] – Internal server error loading Wikipedia extract for page name containing &
  • [MBS-5825] – Internal server error when requesting an artist with a really large ID
  • [MBS-5828] – Internal server error on /chrome_frame
  • [MBS-5836] – Relationship editor accepts POST data containing mismatched entity/link type combos
  • [MBS-5842] – “Position” is untranslatable in add_cover_art.tt
  • [MBS-5880] – Internal server error for Wikipedia extract when Wikipedia page is a redirect
  • [MBS-5889] – Subscription summary test fails, does not check collection subscriptions

Improvement

  • [MBS-1955] – Sort relationship types tree
  • [MBS-2225] – Subscribe to collection
  • [MBS-3990] – Add a user preference for using beta version of MB
  • [MBS-4094] – Make artist credits more compact in edits
  • [MBS-5568] – Work types list should be sorted
  • [MBS-5644] – relationship editor : check all/several recordings and batch-add relationship to same work
  • [MBS-5759] – Make reorder cover art an auto-edit
  • [MBS-5823] – Work alias page doesn’t allow to select the guess case options

New Feature

  • [MBS-5833] – Show off the latest releases on the homepage

Task

  • [MBS-3856] – Revert MBS-1052 “Amazon should lookup cover art by barcode too”
  • [MBS-5802] – Add autoselect + sidebar links to VIAF
  • [MBS-5849] – Adding lyricsnmusic.com to the lyrics whitelist

Sub-task

  • [MBS-4270] – Release editor JS strings should be in text.js or similar so they are translatable
  • [MBS-4997] – Add lookup url to webservice
  • [MBS-5490] – CAA coverart over SSL

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-02-25.