Category: Server

MusicBrainz schema change release, 2021-05-17 (with upgrade instructions)

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2021 schema change today! Thanks to all who were patient during today’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers.

This is a fairly minor release as far as schema changes go, but please do report any issues that you come across, especially related to the display of recordings, releases and release groups on artist and release group pages.

New, user-facing changes with this release are limited to the new ability to merge collections (MBS-10208) and the addition of ratings for places (MBS-11451). Additionally, MBS-11463 adds a new view that is used to fix a couple small requests related to disc IDs (MBS-11268) and release length calculation (MBS-11349). Two other changes – adding a first-release-date field to recordings (MBS-1424) and support for PKCE in OAuth (MBS-11097) are more or less end-user affecting but were already released on the main MusicBrainz servers a while ago. All other changes are under the hood only.

We ran into a few complications while working on this schema change update, so we decided to postpone two changes to our October schema change to ensure only stuff we are more confident on is released. Those are MBS-11457, which involves dropping the ordering_attribute column for series and would have had no direct effect on user experience, and MBS-11456, which would have added MBIDs for artist credits.

A few of the released new features and improvements — namely the first-release-date field for recordings, and the performance improvements to artist pages — make use of new materialized tables. These tables aren’t dumped, nor are they replicated, since they’re derived entirely from primary table data. Rather, we’ve added a new script to build them (admin/BuildMaterializedTables, included in the upgrade instructions below), and triggers to keep them up-to-date once they’re built. These triggers are created on replicated servers, too. If you use the web interface or web service at all, just note the extra step of running BuildMaterializedTables after upgrade.sh below!

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that solves an issue for live indexing and matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Now, on to the instructions.

Schema Change Upgrade Instructions

Note: Importing the latest data dump is always a valid alternative to running ./upgrade.sh on an existing database, if you’d prefer to also get new data in one go. Just follow the relevant instructions in INSTALL.md. The git tag is v-2021-05-19-hotfixes. The rest of the instructions here assume an in-place upgrade.

  1. Make sure DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE is set to 25 in lib/DBDefs.pm.
  2. If you’re using the live data feed (your REPLICATION_TYPE is set to RT_SLAVE), ensure you’ve replicated up to the most recent replication packet available with the old schema. If you’re not sure, run ./admin/replication/LoadReplicationChanges and see what it tells you; if you’re ready to upgrade, it should say “This replication packet matches schema sequence #26, but the database is currently at #25.”
  3. Take down the web server running MusicBrainz, if you’re running a web server.
  4. Turn off cron jobs if you’re automatically updating the database via cron jobs.
  5. If you’re using the live search indexing, stop it and, assuming sir is under the same directory as musicbrainz-server, run cd ../sir && python2.7 -m sir triggers && cd - && ./admin/psql < ../sir/sql/DropTriggers.sql && ./admin/psql < ../sir/sql/DropFunctions.sql
  6. Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2021-05-19-hotfixes.
  7. Install newer dependencies Perl 5.30 or later and NodeJS 16 according to install prerequisites.
  8. Run cpanm --installdeps --notest . (note the dot at the end) to ensure your perl-based dependencies are up to date.
  9. Run ./upgrade.sh (it may take a while to vacuum at the end).
  10. Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 26 in lib/DBDefs.pm as instructed by the output of ./upgrade.sh.
  11. If you’re using the web interface or web service, run ./admin/BuildMaterializedTables --database=MAINTENANCE all to build new materialized tables. These will take several additional gigabytes of spaces and be kept up-to-date automatically via triggers. For more information, see INSTALL.md.
  12. If you’re using the live search indexing, assuming sir is under the same directory as musicbrainz-server, run cd ../sir && git fetch origin && git checkout v2.1.0 && python2.7 -m sir triggers && cd - && ./admin/psql < ../sir/sql/CreateFunctions.sql && ./admin/psql < ../sir/sql/CreateTriggers.sql and rebuild indexes (by running cd ../sir && python2.7 -m sir reindex && cd -) then start it in watch mode (with cd ../sir && git fetch origin && git checkout v2.1.0 && python2.7 -m sir amqp_watch)
  13. Turn cron jobs back on, if applicable.
  14. Restart the MusicBrainz web server, if applicable. It’s also recommended you restart Redis. If you’re accessing your MusicBrainz server in a web browser, run ./script/compile_resources.sh.

Here’s the list of resolved tickets:

New Feature

  • [MBS-10208] – Allow merging collections
  • [MBS-11451] – Support ratings for places
  • [MBS-11463] – Add view to easily access medium track lengths
  • [MBS-11652] – Add support for artist series (hotfixed)

Improvement

  • [MBS-10962] – Speed up listing artist’s releases
  • [MBS-11268] – Show “Set track durations” on release/discids page
  • [MBS-11460] – Add materialized tables to fetch release groups by artist or track artist

Database Schema Change Task

  • [MBS-10647] – Add [no label] to b_del_label_special trigger for labels
  • [MBS-11453] – Change entity0_cardinality, entity1_cardinality to SMALLINT
  • [MBS-11459] – Create the edit_data_type_info function on mirrors
  • [MBS-11464] – Drop table statistics.log_statistic
  • [MBS-11466] – Change language.frequency and script.frequency to SMALLINT

Previously Released Changes

  • [MBS-1424] – Add a ‘First release date’ field to recordings
  • [MBS-10821] – Edit changing medium tracklist and format is stuck
  • [MBS-11097] – Support PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) by OAuth clients
  • [MBS-11431] – Speed up /ws/js/check_duplicates

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-05-03

Hi! This time we have another small release with a bunch of minor fixes and small quality of life improvements. The latter include one small improvement to an error message requested over 10 years ago! It might take us time, but we get to things eventually, and that’s what matters, right? Right? Next release will be our May schema change – you can read what is coming with that one at the dedicated announcement post.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that solves an issue for live indexing and matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to chaban, Cyberskull, Lotheric, nikki, salo.rock and Sophist for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-05-03.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-11550] – Untranslated strings on Confirm Form Submission page
  • [MBS-11573] – Collection data missing on ratings pages
  • [MBS-11598] – Broken links generated for deleted artwork missing suffix
  • [MBS-11603] – DNB validation is too strict and blocks legitimate links
  • [MBS-11611] – OverClocked ReMix URLs shouldn’t have a trailing slash after the number.
  • [MBS-11612] – No link to genre/delete from genre index

Improvement

  • [MBS-1588] – More user friendly error when trying to add a CD with a bad TOC
  • [MBS-9251] – Display ended places differently on the map
  • [MBS-9259] – Document how the track list parser works
  • [MBS-9376] – Indicate that edit searches can be bookmarked to save them
  • [MBS-11546] – Allow Resident Advisor /exchange URLs for releases
  • [MBS-11559] – Specify tracklist is empty in Remove medium edits
  • [MBS-11571] – Warn about e-mail as a username
  • [MBS-11587] – Block smart links: hypel.ink
  • [MBS-11590] – Equalize display of empty fields in cover art edits
  • [MBS-11604] – Add genre name to genre index title
  • [MBS-11619] – Ignore periods and +tags in admin e-mail searches

New Feature

  • [MBS-10899] – Report for releases with catalog numbers that look like ISRCs

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-04-19

Hi! We’re back with another (fairly small) release. Perhaps the most noticeable new thing, other than a few squashed bugs, is that we’re finally officially linking to the 1200px thumbnails of Cover Art Archive images. While these were being generated for new images already for quite a while, we didn’t want to start linking to them until we figured out how to ensure they were also generated for all the images already there. Thankfully, our user (and recent new auto-editor) ROpdebee got in touch with the right people in the Internet Archive and basically made all the efforts needed to ensure this happened. So, we officially have 1200px thumbnails now! That’s some big thumbnails for you.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to yyoung for improving Bandcamp and DNB URL cleanup. Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, kepstin, Lotheric, navap, selflessself, synthicalist13 and xplt for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to ROpdebee for helping us get all the 1200px thumbnails generated. Thanks to Mellthas, mfmeulenbelt, salorock and SistemaRayoXP for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-04-19.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-11500] – “Add cover art” edits link to no longer existing release
  • [MBS-11563] – Cache makes newly linked recordings not show in work rels table
  • [MBS-11564] – Niconi Commons “download for free” links blocked by Nicovideo cleanup
  • [MBS-11569] – Collection created from entity sidebar does not restrict entity type
  • [MBS-11581] – Release Group still shows cover art despite Release being darkened
  • [MBS-11582] – Instrument alias sortname guess button breaks page

Improvement

  • [MBS-9631] – Add 1200px to available sizes under cover art images, in release’s Cover Art tab
  • [MBS-9833] – Link relationship style guide within release edit relationships tool
  • [MBS-10534] – Handle both DNB permalinks and DNB search links
  • [MBS-11524] – Disallow *.bandcamp.com/ URLs at release and recording level
  • [MBS-11527] – Block smart links: music.indiefy.net
  • [MBS-11533] – Block smart links: snd.click
  • [MBS-11542] – Update Classical Archives URL format
  • [MBS-11552] – Add validation for Classical Archives links
  • [MBS-11566] – Ensure consistent ordering of appearances sections

Task

  • [MBS-11514] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in the sidebar
  • [MBS-11515] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in header/footer/menus
  • [MBS-11516] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in entity lists
  • [MBS-11517] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in MergeHelper

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-04-05

This time we have a lot of small bug fixes and improvements, and two changes that are likely to be more noticeable. The first one: the list of tags for a user is now paginated, and it shows the upvoted and downvoted tags separately. This is probably good news all around. The second one: long lists of relationships are also paginated. For example, the relationships page for the London Symphony Orchestra now only shows some of the orchestra relationships directly, with a link to “See all 17,303 relationships”. This change was needed, since these pages had become so big for some artists (and areas) that they were timing out since they took more than 30 seconds to load. This reduces the time for the largest pages to a few seconds – still a lot, but much more manageable. We understand that not having all the relationships shown at once might cause some issues with the workflow of some of our hardcore users. Sorry about that, but hopefully it won’t be too bad! If some use cases are very problematic, let us know and we will think about how to make it better.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, EndofLine, HibiscusKazeneko, jesus2099, kellnerd, Kid Devine, navap, Sophist and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-04-05.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-8477] – /user/<user>/tag/<tag> pages don’t distinguish between upvotes and downvotes
  • [MBS-8807] – Artist, Label and Series subscribers sub-page wrongly shows “You have no collections!”
  • [MBS-9543] – Seeding a string of “0” results in the field being blanked out
  • [MBS-11320] – When the “I don’t know the tracklist for this medium.” checkbox is unchecked on an existing release, the “Add medium” window pops up
  • [MBS-11321] – Strange things happen when adding the tracklist to a release with exactly 1 unknown medium
  • [MBS-11373] – Relationship merging in relationship editor no longer replaces empty dates
  • [MBS-11386] – Area containment missing from indexed area search results
  • [MBS-11442] – Entering a tag from the Add Cover Art page disables tagging and cover art submission
  • [MBS-11452] – Private user subscriptions tab shown on collection and subscribers page
  • [MBS-11454] – Can’t edit release with format/date clash even if error already existed
  • [MBS-11462] – Private subscriptions/tags/ratings user tabs uselessly shown to admins
  • [MBS-11473] – ISE when loading edit/open while logged out
  • [MBS-11508] – Qobuz favicon is missing
  • [MBS-11510] – Labels for arrows to move tracks up/down are not showing
  • [MBS-11531] – Filtering reports gives ISE
  • [MBS-11538] – Collections data missing in some sidebars

Improvement

  • [MBS-1178] – Relationship view needs paging.
  • [MBS-1870] – Showing a users tags should be paginated
  • [MBS-9310] – Link to created relationship type in Add Relationship Type edits
  • [MBS-9349] – Add Pinterest links to the sidebar
  • [MBS-10691] – Allow seeing tags the user has downvoted in user/tags
  • [MBS-10726] – Several release editor buttons say “disc” but really mean “medium”
  • [MBS-11429] – Don’t block editing if existing URL fails foul of later-added blocking rule
  • [MBS-11432] – Allow also linking places and works to Operabase
  • [MBS-11455] – Make linking of user statistics more consistent
  • [MBS-11467] – Use sort name to order lists of artists for tags
  • [MBS-11476] – Don’t show own open edits in /edit/open
  • [MBS-11485] – Allow irc(s):// links on expand2react
  • [MBS-11503] – Block smart links: trac.co
  • [MBS-11506] – Point home page ‘data’ link to ‘MB Database’

New Feature

  • [MBS-9851] – Add “is not edit author” option when searching for edits by “Edit Note Author”
  • [MBS-11222] – Add a report for releases with media without a tracklist

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10690] – Convert user tag list page to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-03-15

This week we have a lot of small fixes and improvements, including a patch that should fix to the elusive bug where some recording pages would sometimes fail to load with a type error. The fix for that issue involved a large change in how we move data around behind the scenes, and in turn caused a few new issues that were reported and fixed during the beta testing period (even more thanks than usual to all testers!). If you happen to find any small errors that might still have remained undetected during the beta testing period, please do let us know.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to babelfisch, CatQuest, chaban, Cyberskull, Cyna, Freso, HibiscusKazeneko, jacobbrett, jesus2099, kellnerd, Kid Devine, salo.rock, uLuGaBi and Yurim for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, Jesús Heriberto López Cisneros, mfmeulenbelt, salo.rock, SpearDog, stevemarsan and SustReal for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-03-19-hotfixes.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-8232] – Guess case lowercases after U+201C (left double quotation mark)
  • [MBS-8621] – Inconsistent result between track and release guess case after apostrophe
  • [MBS-9581] – Event locations (areas/places) don’t use relationship credits in lists
  • [MBS-10004] – JSON-LD MBID URIs should be HTTP
  • [MBS-10866] – TypeError was shown for a recording page
  • [MBS-10976] – Unicode Private Use Area characters are stripped during edit process
  • [MBS-11384] – Some (release) countries are untranslated
  • [MBS-11385] – Country names untranslated in indexed search results
  • [MBS-11407] – Errors that go directly through Controller->error expect .tt templates
  • [MBS-11409] – Recurring warning in server logs for recording’s page
  • [MBS-11410] – Edit could not be created while at the same time approving another one had a time-out
  • [MBS-11420] – “Paste Credits” function doesn’t apply artist credit if it matched existing name
  • [MBS-11423] – Beginner editors report doesn’t show any data
  • [MBS-11424] – Release seeding landing page joins multiple values into one
  • [MBS-11426] – Track URL links open wrong medium when medium position is not aligned with CD numbers

Improvement

  • [MBS-9836] – Guess Case: stop uppercasing “the” in artist names
  • [MBS-9866] – Add some info of what IPI and ISNI are on add forms
  • [MBS-9871] – Display all non-part-of series relationships for a series on pages for entities in the series
  • [MBS-9884] – Use “Created” as label for the begin date of character-type artist
  • [MBS-9987] – JSON-LD: Use “Concept URI” for Wikidata IRIs in the sameAs relation
  • [MBS-10012] – Treat HTTP & HTTPS versions of a link as identical in the entity editor
  • [MBS-10076] – Give a friendlier error when trying to delete an attribute that has children
  • [MBS-10416] – Prevent entering control character in annotation
  • [MBS-10487] – Allow adding instruments and areas from inline search for users with the right privileges
  • [MBS-11398] – Add Qobuz links to sidebar
  • [MBS-11402] – Block smart links: many.link
  • [MBS-11405] – Don’t show ended URL rels in “deprecated relationships” reports
  • [MBS-11408] – Clarify Edit Note Author edit search options
  • [MBS-11419] – Show YouTube Music links on the sidebar
  • [MBS-11422] – Block smart links: gate.fm
  • [MBS-11427] – Add new fields to release editor seeding testing page (seed-love-bug)
  • [MBS-11431] – Speed up /ws/js/check_duplicates
  • [MBS-11433] – Add Mp3tag to the Products header menu and main page tagger list

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11403] – Convert attribute in use page to React/JSX

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-03-01

Welcome to another MusicBrainz release! This time we have a fair amount of small bugs and improvements both newly requested and recovered from the ancient times of… well, a few years ago, because we spent quite a bit of time looking at older tickets.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, Freso, HibiscusKazeneko, kellnerd,  Lucas Werkmeister, pmepepnoute, Psychoadept, salorock, Sotho Tal Ker and Trevor for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt, Remko de Keijzer, salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-03-01.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-10117] – Password length error message does not indicate correct password length
  • [MBS-10744] – Gender of editors is not translatable
  • [MBS-11378] – Artist gender in artist overview is untranslated
  • [MBS-11387] – “instrument:” attribute name is untranslated when editing relationships
  • [MBS-11390] – Editor profile added entities: Incorrect count when there are pre-NGS release adds
  • [MBS-11395] – muziekweb.nl links not shown on sidebar
  • [MBS-11396] – CollectionType/SeriesType admin page shows entity_type rather than type of allowed entities
  • [MBS-11397] – Place-Series relationship does not show on series page

Improvement

  • [MBS-9095] – Add Recochoku and mora links to the sidebar
  • [MBS-9706] – Normalize OCRemix URLs (including HTTPS)
  • [MBS-10195] – Block Google Amp links & prompt user to get canonical link instead
  • [MBS-10227] – Display entity count on collection page
  • [MBS-10343] – Display a placeholder for darkened images
  • [MBS-10452] – Implement tagger links for releases on recording pages
  • [MBS-10470] – Rename “IRC” link in footer to “Chat (IRC)”
  • [MBS-10557] – Normalize Recochoku URLs to use HTTPS
  • [MBS-11287] – Add Apple Touch icon to the MusicBrainz website
  • [MBS-11389] – Top-align edit medium Tracklist tables
  • [MBS-11394] – Don’t try to load cover art for darkened releases

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-02-15

This is a fairly small release that brings a few bug fixes and some small improvements, while the team works on some background tasks.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to david-russo and jesus2099 for submitting patches. Thanks to hibiscuskazaneko, kellnerd and Trevor for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt and salorock for updating translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-02-15.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-9573] – Search for edits loses track of type criteria
  • [MBS-11354] – Recording edit view shows up/down arrows for recordings of a single work
  • [MBS-11366] – Harmful links not greyed out once they have been removed
  • [MBS-11368] – Regression: track title span.name-variation disappeared from Edit Medium edit

Improvement

  • [MBS-11329] – Return privileges as a number in internal editor JSON
  • [MBS-11352] – Add Starzik to the “malware domains” blacklist and isGreyedOut
  • [MBS-11359] – Add GeoNames to the sidebar
  • [MBS-11365] – Allow Resident Advisor /podcast URLs for releases
  • [MBS-11369] – Don’t use top vertical align data in tables for details
  • [MBS-11370] – Historic edit track length: display track lengths of 0 ms or -1 ms as unknown

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-02-01

This slightly delayed release brings with it more bugfixes, improvements, and React-converted templates than usual. A new data report created by loujin lists disc IDs that are attached to media but not applied to them. Also, the Italian localization of the website – that was available in beta only and is maintained by salorock – reached 100% and is now available for the main website, evviva!

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to loujin for updating data reports about CD releases. Thanks to Alex_, cam1170, CatQuest, chaban, chirlu, culinko, danbloo, flamingspinach, eloise_freya, Freso, ianmcorvidae, jesus2099, kellnerd, Lotheric, loujin, metrickstar, nikki, pmepepnoute, psychoadept, rafwuk, and selflessself for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt and salorock for updating translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-02-03.1-hotfixes.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-4782] – Cover art edits of merged releases display with broken release link and without image
  • [MBS-8028] – Can’t edit series type
  • [MBS-9674] – URLs with IDN domains not considered valid
  • [MBS-10187] – “Merge artists” edit is stuck
  • [MBS-10872] – Fix “colSpan” in “Edit Medium” edits
  • [MBS-10964] – The credited-as name in an artist credit cannot be empty
  • [MBS-11123] – Improve the “Added entities” table in the editor profile
  • [MBS-11289] – Can not add YouTube Music as external link
  • [MBS-11292] – United Nations flag inappropriate icon for worldwide
  • [MBS-11317] – Annotation trimming breaks initial <li> in release editor
  • [MBS-11328] – Regression: Approving an edit redirects to home page
  • [MBS-11332] – Ended recording-of rels in release inline view show “((ended))”
  • [MBS-11333] – Regression: Cover art edits of merged releases display incomplete filename
  • [MBS-11340] – Punctuation and diacritics not allowed in Spotify user URLs
  • [MBS-11353] – Regression: Image type can’t be unset
  • [MBS-11357] – Regression: Unable to link RateYourMusic to release groups (hotfixed)
  • [MBS-11358] – Regression: Alias sort name can’t be left blank (hotfixed)
  • [MBS-11360] – Regression: Can’t add/edit release group alias (hotfixed)
  • [MBS-11362] – Regression: Recent medium title edits look like they changed the tracklist (hotfixed)
  • [MBS-11363] – Regression: Bad request when cancelling a merge (hotfixed)

Improvement

  • [MBS-1459] – Only display links at bottom of artist overview when relevant
  • [MBS-4548] – Allow seeing all uses of an artist credit
  • [MBS-9840] – Add OVERTURE by DOREMUS to the other DBs whitelist
  • [MBS-10830] – Don’t display remove function in sidebar if an entity can’t be removed
  • [MBS-10915] – Add button to remove individual data tracks in presence of Disc ID
  • [MBS-11111] – Mark recordings merged from release merge as having pending edits
  • [MBS-11256] – Auto accept adding track listing to previously unknown medium
  • [MBS-11279] – Make ISWC and ISRC search in otherlookups consistent
  • [MBS-11288] – Drop decoda.com from lyrics whitelist
  • [MBS-11297] – Block adding Wikipedia/Wikidata links to releases
  • [MBS-11310] – Clarify when discid would cause subsecond changes
  • [MBS-11322] – Update Resident Advisor URL cleanup and add validation
  • [MBS-11324] – Trim input in the barcode search field
  • [MBS-11327] – Show CAA icons on release search page
  • [MBS-11336] – Don’t show ended rels in “URLs with deprecated relationships” report
  • [MBS-11344] – Use HTTPS for rateyourmusic URLs and add validation
  • [MBS-11346] – Lower threshold on report for discID with very long durations
  • [MBS-11351] – Sort instrument reports by name before type

New Feature

[MBS-11348] – New report for releases with attached discIDs that are not actually applied

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10995] – Convert Other Lookups form to React
  • [MBS-10996] – Convert search index to React
  • [MBS-11045] – Convert Edit medium edit to React
  • [MBS-11112] – Convert /main error pages to React
  • [MBS-11168] – Convert alias edit form and edit pages to React
  • [MBS-11277] – Convert Other Lookups results to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10999] – Make adding ISNIs and IPIs auto-edits for everyone
  • [MBS-11361] – Enable Italian localization for musicbrainz.org (hotfixed)

MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-01-11

To welcome this new year, we present a new release of MusicBrainz Server, which is mostly about fixing bugs and making small usability improvements, while continuing the React conversion. Beyond the website, the two most noticeable changes to API users are a bug fix in our OAuth implementation and the addition of recordings’ first release date to release lookup results.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to atj, chaban, cyberskull, darwinx0r, dragonzeron, drsaunde, fabe56, hibiscuskazaneko, jesus2099, loujin, nikki, salorock for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to francescoSardo, mfmeulenbelt, salorock, and Skyjaython for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-01-11.

Fixed Bug

  • [MBS-7752] – Clicking on Subscribe/Unsubscribe sends me to the MusicBrainz homepage
  • [MBS-10913] – Since-removed standalone recordings show as being created on “add” edit
  • [MBS-10954] – DiscID tab disabled on “remove disc ID” page
  • [MBS-11181] – Unable to add ended relationship when another relationship to the same target already exists
  • [MBS-11183] – Artist name not preserved as alias after merge
  • [MBS-11233] – Seeding capability was broken during lodash removal
  • [MBS-11237] – Wrong rel info loaded when seeding relationships with target MBID
  • [MBS-11240] – Wrong country detected for Amazon links
  • [MBS-11250] – JSON rating lookup returns the serialized entity instead of the rating
  • [MBS-11253] – JSON tag lookup returns the serialized entity instead of the tag
  • [MBS-11262] – Release sidebar status is untranslated
  • [MBS-11263] – Some valid beatport URLs are not allowed
  • [MBS-11264] – Guess Case > French mode > Chain of c combined with ‘ incorrectly convert it in uppercase
  • [MBS-11265] – Artist not always shown for reorder medium edits
  • [MBS-11275] – Recordings shown as deleted when moving disc ID
  • [MBS-11276] – Same barcode warning points to release being edited
  • [MBS-11278] – Ratings not listed despite rating average and count being present
  • [MBS-11281] – Relationship merge code ignores invalid date periods
  • [MBS-11285] – User rating style doesn’t stick in collections
  • [MBS-11291] – Wrong bootleg check in “ReleasesSameBarcode” report
  • [MBS-11313] – OAuth PKCE S256 verification implementation is not RFC compliant

Improvement

  • [MBS-6048] – Allow submitting edit note when adding ISRCs through the WS
  • [MBS-8141] – Link the disc ID on the remove disc ID page
  • [MBS-8169] – Add a link to the timeline for individual statistics
  • [MBS-11126] – Historic edits: display track lengths of 0 ms or -1 ms as unknown
  • [MBS-11221] – Normalize whosampled.com links to HTTPS
  • [MBS-11234] – Add validation for whosampled links
  • [MBS-11246] – Support for Amazon.SE ASINs
  • [MBS-11248] – Block smart links: li.sten.to
  • [MBS-11274] – Always show the timeline line if accessing via a direct stat link
  • [MBS-11304] – Add recordings’ first release date to API “release” lookup’s output
  • [MBS-11306] – Update CDJapan URL cleanup to use HTTPS + add them to the sidebar
  • [MBS-11309] – Block ToneDen smart links

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11228] – Convert Change Release Quality edit to React
  • [MBS-11229] – Convert cover art edits to React
  • [MBS-11235] – Convert Edit Instrument edit to React
  • [MBS-11239] – Convert historic Edit Release Events edit to React
  • [MBS-11243] – Convert first set of cover art forms and pages to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-11247] – Stop highlighting (discontinued) BBC Music relationships

MusicBrainz servers update, December 2020

Let’s end the year 2020 on a brighter note with new releases of both MusicBrainz Server and its companions for advanced indexed search.

The most urgent task was to lower the risk of leaking private data again (see previous incident) by reducing the scope of editor data passed to the renderer.

The most visible improvement of the website is the addition of instrument illustrations by IROM. Thanks to him for these very welcomed drawings. See sistrum for an example; we will keep adding illustrations to other instruments little by little.

The most useful improvements to the API are the addition of their first release date to recordings (both in lookup and search) and release groups (which were missing it in search results), and the addition of MBIDs for artists’ gender and releases’ status.

Advanced indexed search has also been improved to allow searching for releases by type of packaging, for recordings and release groups by first release date, and to simplify searching for releases by type of medium’s format.

Finally, a fair number of smaller bugs have also been fixed, and React conversion is being continued.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to amCap1712 for fixing a pair of bugs in outputting search API results, and jesus2099 for fixing a bug in seeding the release editor. Thanks to avilla, CatQuest, chaban, jgrmstr, jstranger, Lotheric, loujin, nikki, Psychoadept, and serg for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, mfmeulenbelt, and salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tags are v-2020-11-12 for MusicBrainz XML Metadata Schema, v-2020-12-14 for MusicBrainz Server, v-2020-12-24 for MusicBrainz Simple Solr Search Server Schema, v2.0.0 for Search Index Rebuilder, and v3.4.1 for MusicBrainz Solr Query/Response Writer.

Bug

  • [MBS-4555] – Seeding the release editor when logged out loses the seeded information
  • [MBS-8438] – The same event is displayed twice on an artist’s “Events” tab if they have multiple roles on it
  • [MBS-10664] – Regression: HTML tags are incorrectly displayed in editor’s bio
  • [MBS-11092] – Some issue with userscripts/plugins and beta site
  • [MBS-11169] – Artist credit doesn’t display properly in release pages when credits are at the bottom of the release instead of inline
  • [MBS-11207] – Error messages from DBI are badly encoded
  • [MBS-11212] – Incorrect quality attribute in “ws/2/release”
  • [MBS-11214] – Relationships with different link order not split on “see at bottom” medium rels display
  • [MBS-11220] – Release editor seeding is displayed in wrong language
  • [MBS-11223] – Releases with “unknown tracklist” on a medium failed to load in the “Edit Relationships” tab
  • [MBS-11227] – Unexpected URL used when removing release groups from merge queue
  • [SEARCH-623] – Gender ID is missing from JSON/XML artist search results
  • [SEARCH-624] – Status ID is missing from release in JSON/XML search results

Improvement

  • [MBS-1424] – Add a “First release date” field to recordings
  • [MBS-11188] – Block smart links: “album.link”
  • [MBS-11224] – Releases with no medium should show a clear message in the relationship editor
  • [MBS-11225] – Make “staticbrainz.org/irombook/” URLs autoselect for image relationship
  • [MBS-11271] – Reduce the scope of editor data passed to the template renderer
  • [SEARCH-319] – Add first release date to the results of indexed search for release groups
  • [SEARCH-574] – Make release’s format search field insensitive to spaces and separators

New Feature

  • [MBS-10590] – Allow displaying IROMBOOK instrument images on MusicBrainz
  • [MBS-11216] – Split report “InstrumentsWithoutWikidata” from “InstrumentsWithoutAnImage”
  • [SEARCH-218] – Add first release date to the fields and results of indexed search for recordings
  • [SEARCH-384] – Add first release date to the fields of indexed search for release-groups
  • [SEARCH-590] – Add packaging to the fields of indexed search for releases

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-11018] – Convert Add Relationship Type edit to React
  • [MBS-11211] – Convert the login page to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10634] – Rework the “Instruments without an image” report to only look at IROMBOOK images
  • [MBS-11210] – Allow more subpaths for “saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com”