Author: yvanzo

This is the last update before upgrading to Postgres 12. It is mainly focused on React conversion but also carries ten small bugfixes and improvements.

Thanks to navap for hacking the user interface. Thanks to admiy, chaban, fabe56, Freso, jesus2099, zas for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, and salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-05-11.

Bug

• [MBS-10138] – Guess case crashes if track name ends with word “F”
• [MBS-10564] – YouTube channel links that contain non-Latin characters won’t display the name in the sidebar
• [MBS-10641] – Edit subscriptions email links to all edits for subscribed entities rather than open edits
• [MBS-10768] – ISE on “Donation Check” tab for users with / in their names
• [MBS-10772] – Sidebar doesn’t display genres if other tags have more upvotes
• [MBS-10803] – Cannot link to https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/<artist>/<number&gt;

Improvement

• [MBS-10737] – Allow thesession.org URLs for Places
• [MBS-10761] – Disallow YouTube links at wrong levels
• [MBS-10804] – Remove redundant user header from edit page
• [MBS-10805] – Support for Amazon.AE/NL/SG/TR ASINs

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9910] – Convert wikidocs transclusion admin templates to React/JSX
• [MBS-10748] – Convert the relationship doc page to React
• [MBS-10760] – Convert Remove Track edit to React
• [MBS-10762] – Convert historic Remove Release/Releases edits to React
• [MBS-10764] – Convert historic Remove Label Alias edits to React
• [MBS-10765] – Convert historic Add, Move and Remove DiscID edits to React
• [MBS-10773] – Convert historic Change Release Quality edit to React
• [MBS-10775] – Convert historic Add/Remove Relationship edits to React
• [MBS-10790] – Convert historic MAC/SAC edits to React
• [MBS-10791] – Convert historic Change RG edit to React
• [MBS-10792] – Convert historic Change Artist Quality edit to React
• [MBS-10811] – Convert historic Edit Relationship edit to React

A large variety of issue types have been addressed in today’s release!

As a new feature, search indexes are now dumped and made available along with database dumps under the FTP directory search-indexes. They are mainly intended to be loaded on a MusicBrainz slave server to start a mirror with search.

Among improvements, a noticeable one is to lighten the area’s overview page that was heavily crowded with all sorts of relationships that have been scattered over more specific tabs.

As for bugfixes, the major one secures user/admin forms against CSRF attacks.

Thanks to atj for contributing code to support Traxsource URLs. Thanks to alex_s7, chaban, danbloo, Lotheric, murdos, Skeebadoo for reporting issues. Thanks to kellnerd, Jormangeud, mfmeulenbelt, salorock for updating the translations in German, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, respectively. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-27.

Bug

• [MBS-10359] – Guess feat. artists from track titles do not give expected result
• [MBS-10677] – Place type shown as null on WS event place rels
• [MBS-10717] – Cookie attributes must be adjusted to work with with new behavior in browsers
• [MBS-10719] – “remove PUID” edit doesn’t load
• [MBS-10742] – “Show more” country miscount
• [MBS-10756] – Inconsistent default sort order for recordings on Works page
• [MBS-10778] – User/admin forms are prone to CSRF attacks

New Feature

• [MBS-10546] – Dump MB Solr data along with MB DB full export

Improvement

• [MBS-1921] – Display edit link under annotations
• [MBS-9086] – Move most relationships away from area overview
• [MBS-10666] – Collapse work artists when there are too many on merge pages
• [MBS-10741] – Make “relationship [attribute] in use” pages consistent
• [MBS-10755] – Add entity type restrictions for musik-sammler.de URLs
• [MBS-10781] – Add support for Traxsource URLs

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10740] – Convert /relationship static pages to React
• [MBS-10751] – Convert Remove PUID edits to React

No Easter egg in today’s update but rather a dozen or so of small bugfixes and convenient improvements.

Thanks Rotab for the pair of bugfixes he submitted, to CatQuest, chaban, chirlu, FSpy, HibiscusKazeneko, JesseW, KRSCuan, MichelV, wcw1966 for issues they reported, to salorock for the Italian translation he updated, and to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-13.

Bug

• [MBS-7465] – Tag cloud isn’t updated
• [MBS-9169] – Inconsistent locale identifiers
• [MBS-9728] – Recently-added Unicode emojis can’t be used in titles
• [MBS-9894] – Timeline shows future date
• [MBS-10360] – Whitelist User-Agent header in CORS Preflight requests
• [MBS-10640] – Incorrect donation status in “Donation Check” tab
• [MBS-10688] – Attaching a CDTOC that already exists on the medium gives a cryptic error
• [MBS-10718] – Duplicate series “part of” relationships which got grouped are harder to detect
• [MBS-10730] – Recording is displayed twice in artist overview when credited multiple times

Task

• [MBS-10735] – Remove (discontinued) CD Baby links from the sidebar

Improvement

• [MBS-5641] – Show release language/script in reports ReleasesWithUnlikelyLanguageScript, NoLanguage and NoScript
• [MBS-10679] – Link to the JSON WS from the Details tab
• [MBS-10680] – Link to WS docs from the Details tab
• [MBS-10724] – Make sorting options (area, date, artist) consistent
• [MBS-10747] – Change wording/phrasing of status description for open edits
• [MBS-10753] – Use artist sort names for artist collection ordering

This time we have a couple bugfixes, a couple of small improvements, and continued changes to simplify the React table code.

Thanks to chaban, kellnerd, Kid Devine, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-31.

Bug

• [MBS-10704] – Relationships header shown for works with no rels to be displayed
• [MBS-10707] – Open Add DiscID edit already adds discID, cancelling does not remove it
• [MBS-10712] – ISE when trying to load “merge release” edit

Improvement

• [MBS-10669] – Restrict “Metal Archives” album links to release
• [MBS-10699] – Remove “medley” from Guess Case when at the end of a title

Task

• [MBS-10365] – Refactor display of entity list/table
• [MBS-0401] – Replace handshaking protocol with bit mask

Mostly bugfixes today, along with a new data report, plus usual small improvements, React conversion and refactoring. We also blocked ratings for unverified users, since a specific artist was getting hundreds of ratings by people creating many accounts per person just for that (people, please be nice!).

Thanks to andrybo6, chaban, cyna, dimpole, dseomn, gioele, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, nikki, outsidecontext, panos, sophist, sothotalker, yindesu, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-16.

Bug

• [MBS-7835] – [No lyrics] works showing up as “No linguistic content” in old edit summaries
• [MBS-9359] – Web service shows “mul” languages, but all single languages are duplicates
• [MBS-9651] – Top voters overall includes more edits than editor profile’s yes+no+approve
• [MBS-10628] – [no label] should not be editable
• [MBS-10633] – Can’t change capitalization on username
• [MBS-10661] – Recording-work rel not showing pending edits on release page
• [MBS-10683] – Map doesn’t focus on new marker when creating a new Place
• [MBS-10684] – Message over Place’s map is misleading
• [MBS-10685] – Place maps: Zooming by clicking doesn’t follow the cursor
• [MBS-10693] – Artist merge submission page doesn’t show any error message if you attempt to merge a special purpose artist

Improvement

• [MBS-4090] – Report for recordings with a single track but with different spellings
• [MBS-10607] – Give context to translations of “unknown” / “(unknown)”
• [MBS-10676] – Add MD5/SHA256 checksum files for JSON data dumps
• [MBS-10695] – Show full language names on work lists

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10618] – Convert Edit work edit to React

Other Task

• [MBS-10671] – Block ratings for unverified users
• [MBS-10689] – Update MapBox API calls
• [MBS-10692] – Change React imports to “import * as React”

Today’s release brings a fair amount of small bug fixes and improvements to the website. Notably, it changes the way we display relationships to group ones that are similar (such as different instruments by the same performers) and makes editing history (but not editors and edit notes!) available to visitors without needing to log in.

Thanks to chaban, chirlu, cyberskull, cyna, dimpole, hibiscuskazeneko, jeandeaual, kellnerd, lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, murdos, nikki, rdswift, salorock, supersandro2000, v6lur, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-02-18.

Bug

• [MBS-2436] – “Edit medium” edits don’t link to new recordings
• [MBS-10209] – Error parsing URL when entering Instagram link on artist’s page
• [MBS-10223] – ArtistRoles lists don’t use relationship credits
• [MBS-10329] – URL cleanup breaks Amazon Music URLs
• [MBS-10576] – Medium merge error messages with links are not properly formatted
• [MBS-10583] – Event dates displayed twice in event lists
• [MBS-10586] – Release duplicates tab shows [missing media] when medium format is simply unknown
• [MBS-10587] – Medium counts broken in Release Duplicates list
• [MBS-10588] – Medium formats untranslated in Release Duplicates list

New Feature

• [MBS-3873] – New Report: Release groups with name not matching release’s name
• [MBS-10331] – Add new URL cleanup/autoselect/sidebar for Amazon Music URLs
• [MBS-10620] – Add the Discography of American Historical Recordings to the otherdbs whitelist

Improvement

• [MBS-4326] – Add “Add discid” edits in release artist(s) editing history
• [MBS-7678] – Combine display of multiple relationships to the same entity
• [MBS-9164] – Show edit history (but not edit notes) when not logged in
• [MBS-10308] – Cleanup maniadb URLs
• [MBS-10584] – Collapse work artists when there are too many
• [MBS-10623] – Automatically add US store country-code to iTunes URLs missing it
• [MBS-10625] – Block even more smart links

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9917] – Convert the instrument public pages to React
• [MBS-10401] – Convert Edit Series edit to React

This release includes a new feature: if you find a mystery MBID (such as “69755ab1-409e-3ad7-902f-3a839042799c”) and you don’t know what it might be for, you can use https://musicbrainz.org/mbid/69755ab1-409e-3ad7-902f-3a839042799c to find out without having to specifically select the entity type. Keep in mind some MBIDs for non-entities (such as packaging types) won’t work with this method!

If you’re a user of our JSON web service and use begin or end area information on artists, please be aware of MBS-10072! Starting with this release, we’re resolving a long-standing bug whereby the mentioned properties have been incorrectly outputted as begin_area and end_area, while search requests correctly outputted them as begin-area and end-area (using hyphens in line with the rest of the format). The interim fix released today is to output both sets of properties for at least 6 months, and then remove the underscored variants from the response. Please update any code you have that accesses begin_area or end_area on artists to use begin-area and end-area instead!

Today’s chunk of React conversion has been made by Cyna, so thanks to him for his dedication! Thanks also to SuperSandro2000 for updating our PostgreSQL collate extension with ICU configuration changes. And finally, thanks to chaban, jesus2099, mfmeulenbelt, roboron, and all others who reported issues or tested beta version or translated today’s release!

The git tag is v-2020-02-04.

Bug

• [MBS-10072] – In the JSON WS, artist nodes use begin_area, end_area except search responses which use begin-area, end-area
• [MBS-10366] – Medium edits removing pregap when disc ID is attached are not rejected
• [MBS-10579] – Regression: The es-ES and el-GR translations are broken

New Feature

• [MBS-6539] – Redirect musicbrainz.org/mbid/$mbid to the appropriate entity page

Improvement

• [MBS-5460] – Add shift-click multi-(de)select to the release editor’s Recordings tab
• [MBS-5572] – Add shift-click multi-(de)select to the edit artist ACs
• [MBS-9477] – Disable Discid tab for releases that can’t have a discid
• [MBS-10568] – Show number of discIDs on discID tab
• [MBS-10569] – If no mediums on a release can have discIDs, say so on its discID tab

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10390] – Convert Add Place edit to React
• [MBS-10392] – Convert Add Series edit to React
• [MBS-10398] – Convert Edit Place edit to React

Other Task

• [MBS-10322] – Convert fabfile (Fabric 1) to shell scripts (Bash 3)

Happy new year with a new “Artists” page for instruments on MusicBrainz, plus a way to collapse the display of very long release country lists, alongside with some bugfixes, the usual improved handling of external URLs and continued conversion to React.

Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, Lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext, Sotho Talker, and all others who reported issues or helped test or translate today’s release!

The git tag is v-2020-01-06.

Bug

• [MBS-10335] – Installing Perl dependencies fails on outdated DBD::Pg version
• [MBS-10497] – Internal server error when editing artist and credits
• [MBS-10521] – Add Medium -> Existing medium search in the release editor is broken, spins forever
• [MBS-10524] – /account/change-password gives an internal server error if not logged in
• [MBS-10526] – Private collaborative collections for a user shown publicly

New Feature

• [MBS-10316] – Add “Artists” tab for instruments
• [MBS-10424] – Collapse release country list when there are too many release event countries for a single release

Improvement

• [MBS-10292] – Normalize and validate links to Québec Info Musique
• [MBS-10309] – Update URL cleanup for musik-sammler.de
• [MBS-10455] – Block more smart links

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-9919] – Convert the place public pages to React