Category: Server

First NGS Bug Fix Release Now Out

Our first set of bug fixes have now been deployed on our production servers! Please keep the bug reports coming in, we’re aiming to do almost daily releases until we really get things stable. Here are the bugs that are now fixed:

Bug

  • [MBS-1660] – “To be cancelled” edits aren’t highlighted
  • [MBS-1665] – “Artist as credited” gray default must be manually set
  • [MBS-1776] – Seeding releases no longer picking up tracks on ngs.musicbrainz.org
  • [MBS-1888] – Change direction shown for relationships where changing the direction is not possible
  • [MBS-1897] – 500 error in release editor
  • [MBS-1898] – Changing artist {credit} for release and tracks in VA conflicts
  • [MBS-1902] – Internal Server Error trying to edit a Release<->URL relationship
  • [MBS-1912] – Weirdness after editing release labels
  • [MBS-1913] – “Attribute (params) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for ‘HashRef’ with value undef”
  • [MBS-1931] – Beethoven’s Relationships timeout
  • [MBS-1952] – Simultaneous Release edits impossible
  • [MBS-1954] – Medium edit page shows tracklist when it hasn’t been changed
  • [MBS-1959] – Internal server error when trying to relate a recording to a work
  • [MBS-1962] – Cannot cancel edit
  • [MBS-1963] – Release in a remove release label edit doesn’t display
  • [MBS-1967] – Internal Server Error in relate to recordings
  • [MBS-1977] – ModBot complains more
  • [MBS-1980] – ISE when adding standalone recordings for artists not in the DB
  • [MBS-1996] – Setting track durations from TOC returns back to same page
  • [MBS-2002] – “Internal Server Error” when attempting to add release to existing release group
  • [MBS-2003] – Error entering a various artists edit
  • [MBS-2004] – Internal Server Error attaching Discogs URL
  • [MBS-2006] – Internal Server Error submitting add release label edit
  • [MBS-2019] – Release editor > Advanced tracklist mode > Can’t change artist credits of tracks of a release with 5 mediums
  • [MBS-2024] – Voting twice gives odd results
  • [MBS-2089] – Error displaying release label edit
  • [MBS-2090] – Merge artists doesn’t show whether the keep artist credits box is ticked
  • [MBS-2091] – All relationship IDs in the URL cleanup JS are incorrect
  • [MBS-2100] – Removing an {artist} alias is an autoedit for autoeditors
  • [MBS-2105] – Merged artist not being redirected to target artist

New NGS Virtual Machine available

The promised Virtual Machine for MusicBrainz Next Generation Schema Release Candidate 1+ is now available for download. This virtual machine is setup as a slave and can pull replication data from the test server by running the admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges from the musicbrainz-server codebase about 10 minutes after every hour.

See our wiki page for details on how to use this VM

Next Generation Schema Release Candidate 1: Monday January 17th

As of today we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! We feel confident that we can finish all new features (and most improvements as listed in jira) by January 17th. Once we reach RC1 we’re going to freeze the features for NGS and only work to fix bugs in our codebase.

That said, we hope to release NGS onto the main servers sometime in February.

Its been a very long road to NGS, but it is finally tangibly close. I’m getting excited!

NGS Beta 2: May 24th 2010

After much scheduling and getting our ducks in a row, we’re pleased to announce the final beta release of NGS on May 24th! This is one year after our last release, so this date is a little bitter/sweet for us. I had hoped to get this release out before then, but the team is making sure we’re getting this release right, and there are a ton of difficult things to get right.

And the tentative release date for NGS is going to be in July. No promises on a firm date yet.

New server image for 2009-05-24 release available

The VMWare image has been updated for the 2009-05-24 server release. The previous image was getting old and updating steps have been reported not easy.

The new image has been upgraded to Debian 5.0, includes a more recent Linux kernel and uses PosgreSQL 8.3 (the required version to work on NGS).

To download and play with the new image, read our VirtualMusicBrainzServer wiki page!

Release groups and ISRC release is complete!

We’ve just finished rolling out our latest release to support Release Groups, ISRCs and CD Stub searching!

For all the details on this release, check out the release notes.
I would like to thank Luks, Dave Evans, Navap, Outsidecontext, Voiceinsideyou, Murdos, Pronik, Prodoc and everyone else who has helped put this release together! Thank you for all your hard work!

P.S. Happy Birthday to Matt Wood!