Category: Updates

October 14 schema change complete

We’ve just finished rolling out the fall schema change release. Apart from the /place/create endpoint failing, the site is back up in full read-write mode now.

Read on for the changes in this release — our next blog post will give instructions on how to upgrade your instances of MusicBrainz.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this release!

Bug

  • [MBS-2301] – Attach TOC to new release – TOC/DiscId is lost when based on existing release/tracklist
  • [MBS-4453] – Duplicate artist credits
  • [MBS-5624] – Release groups don’t show the yellow removal warning when empty
  • [MBS-5647] – Release header of a different release appears on the release duplicates tab of the release editor
  • [MBS-6067] – Internal server error when using query parameter with a lookup in the webservice
  • [MBS-6211] – Aliases are missing the “ended” flag
  • [MBS-6373] – Area names being incorrectly translated
  • [MBS-6518] – Wikidocs pages keep 404ing
  • [MBS-6703] – Type displays as (none) on remove cover art edits.
  • [MBS-6715] – Internal server error looking up non-existing ISWC
  • [MBS-6717] – Some false reports of possible Artist collaborations
  • [MBS-6736] – ISE when giving a non-integer to entity/mbid/annotation/
  • [MBS-6748] – Internal server error loading some edit relationship edits
  • [MBS-6765] – Documentation search doesn’t work over https in recent Firefox/Chrome
  • [MBS-6782] – Artist overview page still displaying release date that was removed
  • [MBS-6787] – edit search merge works edits : ISWC are duplicated

Improvement

  • [MBS-631] – Add support for deprecating a relationship
  • [MBS-6068] – Remove the _name tables
  • [MBS-6069] – Track MBID webservice changes
  • [MBS-6182] – Deleted editors should be marked in a real way, not just designated by lack of password/well-known username
  • [MBS-6392] – Display ISNIs with spaces
  • [MBS-6543] – Highlight specified edit note when using edit note fragment in URL
  • [MBS-6564] – Add disambiguation comments to areas
  • [MBS-6706] – Improve the relationship type documentation display
  • [MBS-6713] – Ensure IMDB links are added at the right level
  • [MBS-6767] – Remove the Creative Commons download relationships report
  • [MBS-6779] – INSTALL.md doesn’t mention that you need to apt-get install cpanminus before trying to run cpanm.

New Feature

  • [MBS-5701] – Add a way to mark recordings as containing video
  • [MBS-6200] – Add a “place” entity
  • [MBS-6683] – Add autoselect for ReverbNation URLs

Task

  • [MBS-6046] – Remove PUID support
  • [MBS-6669] – Update the Allmusic logo used in the sidebar
  • [MBS-6732] – Add neyzen.com to score whitelist
  • [MBS-6766] – Delete unused root/release/full.tt

You can check out this release with the following tag: v-2013-10-14 .

Schema change release tomorrow at 1700UTC

Tomorrow, Monday 14 October, 2013, 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) we’re going to release our next round of schema changes!

As it is typical with our fall schema changes, this one is a little simpler and more focused on cleanup, rather than massive new changes. This gives me hope that we will have smoother release than we did in the spring. šŸ™‚

We’re going to make the site read-only and run off our backup database server while we upgrade our primary database server. I suspect that we should be in read-only mode for about an hour. The exact start time is not quite known — we’ll start our release process at 17:00 UTC, but when we go to read-only is hard to tell. We’ll tweet and give a shout in IRC when we’re ready.

Server Update 2013-09-30

With the MusicBrainz summit happening just this weekend, and most work continuing on the upcoming schema change release – this server update is a tad on the light side! However, we do at least have something to show. Thanks to nikki for the main change in this release:

Bug

  • [MBS-6735] – ProcessReplicationChanges breaks with update packages that cross the limit boundary

New Feature

  • [MBS-5789] – Make links for HTTPS enabled sites use schema independent links

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-09-30.

Server Update 2013-09-16

Hello all. We’ve just pushed out another small little update to MusicBrainz. This release is small while we continue to focus on getting the upcoming schema change ready, so there are a handful of bug fixes and improvements. Thanks to Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen,Ā Michael Wiencek and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-2521] – Setting fields via query parameters blanks all default values (including auto-editor checkbox)
  • [MBS-6163] – Following INSTALL does not result in a runnable server
  • [MBS-6279] – /ws/2/discid/ ignores DB_READ_ONLY
  • [MBS-6281] – Logged in users can load /register
  • [MBS-6287] – Adding disc IDs ignores DB_READ_ONLY
  • [MBS-6291] – Adding releases to your collection via the webservice ignores DB_READ_ONLY
  • [MBS-6607] – Internal server error after logging in from search results page
  • [MBS-6689] – Pasting an MBID initiates a search
  • [MBS-6691] – Inline search for works should include localised name
  • [MBS-6695] – URL cleanup doesn’t catch/clean iTunes URLs containing +
  • [MBS-6700] – Internal server error displaying a relationship
  • [MBS-6707] – Internal server error trying to authenticate via the webservice if password needs resetting
  • [MBS-6716] – Tagger button doesn’t work when using https in some browsers
  • [MBS-6721] – beta: Internal server error in /ws/js/work
  • [MBS-6743] – URL cleanup doesn’t catch/clean iTunes URLs containing *

Improvement

  • [MBS-6419] – Don’t check any artist credits by default when editing artist names.

Task

  • [MBS-6702] – Add Rockipedia to the Other Databases whitelist
  • [MBS-6708] – Turn ISNI number into link

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-09-16.

Changes for upcoming schema change release: 2013-10-14

For our fall schema change release we’re going to fix the issues listed in this Schema change, 2013-10-14 fix version. This schema change, much like our previous fall schema changes, is going to be a little lighter than our spring changes. The two big changes that you should be aware of are:

  • MBS-6046: Remove PUID support. PUIDs have been deprecated for quite some time in favor of using AcoustID. This change completes our switchover to AcoustID.
  • MBS-6068: Remove _name tables. With NGS we introduced tables that isolated all of the name strings for a given table, in order to reduce duplicate strings in our database. Sadly, this proved to be more pain that gain, so we’re going to remove them. This will make writing queries for our schema much easier. Sadly, this means that if you use the MusicBrainz database directly, (as opposed to using our Web Service, which we recommend) then you will likely need to update your SQL queries.

The rest of the changes will have a much smaller impact: Adding a disambiguation column for areas, adding places, and adding the ability to mark a relationship as deprecated. We’re also making some minor changes to our non-replicated tables that will not be visible to our Live Data Feed users, but are more convenient to make during a schema change.

The scheduled date for this release is Monday, 14th October, 2013.

We’re going to take the HTTPS plunge!

Yesterday in our dev meeting we agreed to take the HTTPS plunge for all of our web site traffic in as little as 2 weeks time. This means that all web site traffic (not the web service) will be served over HTTPS; if you visit any MusicBrainz HTTP URL (e.g. http://musicbrainz.org ) you will be redirected to the equivalent HTTPS URL (e.g. https://musicbrainz.org ). This will not be applied to our web services, you’ll still be able to access those with HTTP. However, we do encourage all of our web service users to make use of HTTPS when possible.

We have one bug to address before we make this switch. And if we can find a sufficient fix for this in time, we’re going to make the HTTPS switch on 16 September 2013. If we can’t find an acceptable fix, we’ll have to postpone this switchover.

If for some reason you can see that switching all web site traffic to HTTPS is a bad idea, please leave us a comment ASAP.

Server Update 2013-09-02

We have a tiny release to kick off September, as we’ve been focusing quite heavily on tightening up the reliability and ease-of-maintenance of the servers themselves. However, we still have a few important bug fixes to release. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

  • [MBS-4730] – Sort names for artist search hint aliases are displayed, but cannot be edited.
  • [MBS-6218] – When a Person with a gender is merged into a Group, ModBot ISEs.
  • [MBS-6561] – End column empty in search results for ended artists with no end date
  • [MBS-6635] – Several reports not updated since May 15
  • [MBS-6690] – JSON web service ISE with inc=aliases
  • [MBS-6698] – Wiki excerpts truncated by mid-sentence initials (eg, of names) that are mistaken for periods ending a sentence.

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-09-02

Server Update, 2013-08-19

Another two weeks, another release! A variety of bug fixes, primarily, and some assorted improvements. For those of you using replication on resource-constrained servers, this release includes code to make ProcessReplicationChanges run in constant memory, which should hopefully be an improvement.

With help from Michael Wiencek and the rest of the MusicBrainz team, hereā€™s what weā€™ve done in the last fortnight:

Bug

  • [MBS-1549] – Guess Case: “Āæ” in sentence mode
  • [MBS-2151] – Editing Track Times should remove existing value
  • [MBS-2959] – Release-group XML first release date is using incorrect sorting logic for incomplete dates
  • [MBS-4389] – Editing artist credits shows “undefined” as disambiguation comment
  • [MBS-4788] – Editing ā†’ Add Release allows user to set release type even when existing release group has been selected
  • [MBS-5508] – Uploading cover art from https pages causes a warning about insecure pages
  • [MBS-5965] – Remove relationship edits store translated attributes
  • [MBS-6192] – Internal server error on ws query if offset is non-numeric
  • [MBS-6220] – tooltip (title) shows “&” instead of “&”
  • [MBS-6243] – “In x hours” is only shown for edit expiry times for the same day
  • [MBS-6418] – Relationship editor allows adding more relationships than the server can handle
  • [MBS-6546] – When the search server reports an internal server error the client receives a 400 status code
  • [MBS-6558] – Internal server error logging in with a Unicode username
  • [MBS-6570] – Removing relationship dates in the relationship editor fails
  • [MBS-6571] – Filename display in cover art edits is hardcoded to jpg
  • [MBS-6588] – “Direct database search” returns the same work as 2 different names
  • [MBS-6591] – JSON: Composer and release lookup
  • [MBS-6610] – Various Artist Alias and Tags should not be shown unless looking up Various Artist artist endpoint
  • [MBS-6622] – All log in pages are not served via HTTPS
  • [MBS-6628] – ModBot is unable to close some merge label edits
  • [MBS-6630] – Remove button when uploading covers is shown after the image has been submitted
  • [MBS-6632] – Relationship documentation examples don’t work with release groups
  • [MBS-6637] – http://musicbrainz.org/release/add doesn’t redirect to beta when desired
  • [MBS-6638] – ‘use beta site’ on main site will unset preference
  • [MBS-6650] – Editing a relationship type allows submitting the form with no changes
  • [MBS-6656] – Relationship editor fails when counting number of selected recordings
  • [MBS-6657] – Internal server error when using a negative limit
  • [MBS-6667] – Beta: No edit note field in the relationship editor
  • [MBS-6677] – Donations from random end users dropped to nearly nil.
  • [MBS-6679] – beta: ISE displaying artist edits

Improvement

  • [MBS-193] – Add open edit and cancelled edit stats to users
  • [MBS-1820] – Release search results should include more information
  • [MBS-2108] – More detail for works quicksearch
  • [MBS-3204] – Better name/explanation or warning for type “Pseudo-Release”
  • [MBS-6644] – ProcessReplicationChanges should be able to run in low memory environments

Search server release: 2013-08-14

Paul Taylor worked on the latest release of our search server — thanks for fixing these bugs, Paul! The following issues were addressed:

Release Notes – MusicBrainz Search Server – Version 2013-08-14

Bug

  • [SEARCH-306] – Advanced search can’t find areas by alias
  • [SEARCH-315] – REGRESSION:Recording index is not outputting Release artist credit when different to recoridng artist credit (i.e. Various Artist)

Server Update, 2013-08-05

It’s a new month, which means it’s time for a a new release of MusicBrainz! This week we’re releasing a new version of the Cover Art Archive uploader, which now lets you upload multiple files at once, and also supports more file formats (including PNG and GIF):

Uploading multiple files to the Cover Art Archive

Along with this, we’ve also solved a good selection of bugs, and have added a few little improvements along the way too. With help from NicolĆ”s Tamargo and the rest of the MusicBrainz team, here’s what we’ve done in the last fortnight:

Bug

  • [MBS-4669] – Webservice returns an ASIN that was added in a voted down edit
  • [MBS-4981] – Cover art in sidebar links to CAA /front when no front is available
  • [MBS-5625] – Date display problem in edit listings
  • [MBS-6148] – Adding a disc ID automatically fills in durations without creating an edit
  • [MBS-6262] – Release events section of the release editor is all over the place
  • [MBS-6395] – medium_index not updating on medium inserts
  • [MBS-6442] – robots.txt allows /login
  • [MBS-6446] – Internal server error trying to register the username “0”
  • [MBS-6469] – Selecting an example for a relationship type does not enable the “add example” button
  • [MBS-6490] – 404 error when accessing /browse
  • [MBS-6494] – Adding area of death should mark ended
  • [MBS-6496] – Add release > Release duplicates (1CD) as a starting point > Add medium (CD2)Ā : this CD2 gets CD1 recordingsĀ !
  • [MBS-6549] – Release Editor SeedingĀ : events.n.country = “JP” doesn’t work
  • [MBS-6563] – Text “Cover art from Amazon” not shown under cover art, when other (nonā€front) cover art have been uploaded to CAA
  • [MBS-6565] – mm.musicbrainz.org should redirect to musicbrainz.org
  • [MBS-6566] – Missing elements in webservice lookup
  • [MBS-6586] – HASH(0xe228218) displaying a move disc ID edit
  • [MBS-6596] – Release country showing as [removed] in edits
  • [MBS-6600] – Internal server error displaying track 404 page
  • [MBS-6604] – Unable to set up ANY recording-to-recording relationship in Relationship Editor
  • [MBS-6605] – HASH(hex_value) is being displayed on the ISRC page instead of ISRC value
  • [MBS-6606] – Edit relationship edits always apply even if the underlying relationship has changed
  • [MBS-6608] – Internal server error viewing split artist page when logged out
  • [MBS-6611] – Cover art uploader shows wrong/confusing filesizes
  • [MBS-6614] – No way to remove unrecognised file in the cover art uploader
  • [MBS-6615] – Cover art uploader allows selecting more images after starting upload
  • [MBS-6616] – Comment field is not hidden while/after uploading an image
  • [MBS-6618] – Cover art uploader ignores auto-edit checkbox
  • [MBS-6619] – Cover art uploader doesn’t seem to handle SlowDown errors
  • [MBS-6620] – Don’t accept unsupported images or files which aren’t images
  • [MBS-6623] – No way to resubmit form when cover art fails to upload
  • [MBS-6627] – Cover art uploader doesn’t correctly upload GIFs/PNGs

Improvement

  • [MBS-3618] – Force a check when adding a huge number of tracks
  • [MBS-3823] – Track Parser’s “Done” Button should not take any action other than hiding the track parser window
  • [MBS-4375] – Cover art archive: Upload multiple files at a time
  • [MBS-4376] – Image upload should use AJAX instead of an iframe.
  • [MBS-4442] – Be able to adjust position of new image without constantly having to move the mouse
  • [MBS-4645] – Improve error handling when uploads to the IA fail
  • [MBS-5587] – Release-group front cover art support : URL of image source is caa.org/release not caa.org/release-group/
  • [MBS-6256] – “Example relationships” for relationship documentation should use entity autocompletion
  • [MBS-6408] – Add a view for release events
  • [MBS-6612] – Show previews in the cover art uploader
  • [MBS-6613] – Improve display of “cancel” button in the cover art uploader

New Feature

  • [MBS-4849] – Drag & drop based file uploader for album artwork

Task

  • [MBS-6584] – Remove cruft from Controller::$Entity

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-08-05.