Server update, 2014-08-04

Another fortnight, another release. This one includes the usual bug fixes as well as some improvements. For editors, sort names are no longer required on alias pages (they’ll default to the name if left blank). For web service clients, it’s also now possible to do fuzzy TOC searches for non-CD mediums by passing a media-format=all option to the /ws/2/discid endpoint.

Thanks to chirlu, nikki, and the MetaBrainz team for their hard work on today’s release.

The git tag is v-2014-08-04.

Bug

  • [MBS-7739] – Release group type not properly displayed in RG search results
  • [MBS-7744] – ws/2 not returning correct Area alias type
  • [MBS-7763] – Cannot edit band membership
  • [MBS-7771] – Textarea fields don’t escape HTML special characters
  • [MBS-7774] – ISE when changing series relationship number attribute
  • [MBS-7775] – Initial order is ignored when creating a manually ordered series
  • [MBS-7783] – Empty link phrase section after removing relationship

Improvement

  • [MBS-6833] – Display a map on the places page
  • [MBS-6896] – Stop requiring users to enter sortnames for non-artist entities
  • [MBS-7757] – Add a media-format=all option to the /ws/2/discid endpoint
  • [MBS-7758] – Do not require a discid argument if a TOC is supplied
  • [MBS-7764] – _generic_link MACRO is really slow
  • [MBS-7786] – Long URL cleanup regexes should be split into separate ones
  • [MBS-7787] – Annotation edit types should share a single template

Task

  • [MBS-7756] – Make use of %ENTITIES in (yet) more places

Server update, 2014-07-21

A small release this week, as a lot of work has been happening on larger things in progress and on other projects. Still a few various bugs and some improvements aimed at improving the performance of the release and relationship editors. Thanks to chirlu, bitmap, and ianmcorvidae for their work on this release.

The git tag for this release is v-2014-07-21.

Full ticket list.

Bug

  • [MBS-7594] – Changing a track’s recording doesn’t properly clear the old recording from cache
  • [MBS-7680] – Add relationship dialog prepopulated with too many attributes
  • [MBS-7717] – Discogs URL cleanup doesn’t remove trailing dash
  • [MBS-7720] – Release group ratings disappeared from release sidebar
  • [MBS-7736] – "Merge release" edit not closing
  • [MBS-7747] – Missing/duplicate results in inline direct search
  • [MBS-7748] – Merging areas doesn’t update places

Improvement

  • [MBS-7135] – Remove "view" part from Discogs master URLs
  • [MBS-7689] – mini-relationship-editor UI is unbearably slow when there are many items
  • [MBS-7741] – Reordering tracks/mediums in the release editor can be slow

About next stable Picard release

Picard team decided to release a new stable version of Picard before the end of the summer.
To help us, advanced users, translators and developers are encouraged to:

Exact release date is not yet known, and features aren’t yet frozen, but the only important change we’ll try to get in before final release is OAuth support (PICARD-305), we still accept minor patches until feature freeze is announced.

Since Picard is now using some translation resources from MusicBrainz project, translators should make sure following resources are up-to-date:

A simplified list of changes made since 1.2 can be read there.

Be aware that downgrading from 1.3 to 1.2 may lead to configuration compatibility issues, better save your configuration before using 1.3 branch if you intent to go back to 1.2.

 

 

Server update, 2014-07-07

Another fortnight, another release. A bit quiet this time for the summer and some vacations and holidays, but a few bugfixes, some refactoring, and the addition of browse by area in /ws/2. navap also found a security issue which allowed editing of collections by any user, which is not listed below. Thanks to nikki, bitmap, navap, and chirlu for their work on this release!

The git tag for this release is v-2014-07-07.

Bug

  • [MBS-7617] – Changing a URL’s link type on a series edit page doesn’t trigger any validation
  • [MBS-7672] – Relationship type dropdown is not ordered correctly
  • [MBS-7673] – Entity types are inconsistently ordered when adding a relationship
  • [MBS-7684] – Spurious closing </span> tags
  • [MBS-7691] – OZON.ru URLs are automatically edited to add partner=musicbrainz
  • [MBS-7696] – “This attribute type is only used for grouping, please select a subtype” when editing works
  • [MBS-7698] – Release editor asks for confirmation to leave even if there are no changes (but the release has URL relationships)
  • [MBS-7700] – Work attribute types are not sorted alphabetically
  • [MBS-7703] – Unused urls in l_series_url are not removed
  • [MBS-7707] – Work attributes are not sorted in the sidebar
  • [MBS-7713] – Percent signs not escaped in Wikipedia extract link to Wikipedia

Improvement

  • [MBS-7694] – link areas to other entities in the webservice

Task

  • [MBS-7702] – Reduce the duplication in link_* macros
  • [MBS-7704] – Factor out entity treeness into a role

New autumn schema change date: 17 November, 2014

Due to two conflicting summits in (our own and the GSoC Summit) around our usual schema change release date, we’ve decided to move the autumn schema change to 17 November, 2014. This will ensure that our developers are properly rested before attempting a hard task such as a schema change.

We hope this won’t cause too much trouble for everyone downstream.

Server update, 2014-06-23

It’s that exciting time again: another release of bug fixes and improvements. User-visible changes include a menu showing recently-used entities in autocomplete lookups (previously only available in the relationship editor), plus the display of other identities/legal names on artist pages. Thanks go to the MetaBrainz team and chirlu and nikki for their hard work on this release!

The git tag is v-2014-06-23.

Here’s the complete changelog:

Bug

  • [MBS-3537] – Add a unique constraint on medium (release, position)
  • [MBS-7149] – Relationship editor AR popup: only previously used *artists* are remembered
  • [MBS-7303] – Missing recordings in release (after updating the release)
  • [MBS-7405] – Inline search claims there are no results when the search returns an error
  • [MBS-7578] – Regression: Work types list is no longer sorted alphabetically
  • [MBS-7605] – Release editor allows invalid characters to sneak into the database
  • [MBS-7649] – Edit alias edits don’t display properly if the alias has since been removed
  • [MBS-7651] – Alias edits show no value for various fields
  • [MBS-7652] – edit_series_fk_edit and edit_series_fk_series are missing
  • [MBS-7653] – MB.utility.joinList should use the same logic/strings as the comma_list MACRO
  • [MBS-7665] – annotation edit changelog shows object reference ARRAY(0xa190008) instead of actual input text
  • [MBS-7666] – DBDefs.pm.sample is still at schema version 19
  • [MBS-7667] – GenerateSQLScripts doesn’t check for the existence of CreateTables.sql
  • [MBS-7669] – Whitespace not trimmed for series number in the relationship editor

Improvement

  • [MBS-1943] – Reorganize the sidebar to show the most important information first
  • [MBS-2474] – Display artist legal/performance name more prominently
  • [MBS-2602] – Show recent labels/artists in lookup popups
  • [MBS-6277] – Move release group relationships section for releases to the overview tab
  • [MBS-6731] – Add link to doc/Release/Format from Tracklist tab
  • [MBS-7668] – Add a stat for number of MBIDs known.

Server update, 2014-06-09

A day late in actually releasing it, but we have a new server release! Assorted bug fixes, improvements, and refactoring make up this release. Thanks to the MetaBrainz team and supplementary work from chirlu, reosarevok, and nikki. The git tag for this release is v-2014-06-09. The full list of fixed tickets:

Bug

  • [MBS-4669] – Webservice returns an ASIN that was added in a voted down edit
  • [MBS-5526] – Diff highlighting messes up descriptions in edit relationship type edits
  • [MBS-7455] – ISE for /ws/js/edit/preview: Error: Could not create MusicBrainz::Server::Edit::Release::DeleteReleaseLabel edit
  • [MBS-7552] – Entering a Series that requires disambig. changes the part of-numbering
  • [MBS-7574] – Regression. Can’t fill release group field by pasting URL
  • [MBS-7583] – Nonfunctional relationship page for instruments
  • [MBS-7584] – Double “Relationships” heading on label relationships page
  • [MBS-7585] – Missing series in subscriptions page
  • [MBS-7588] – ARRAY(0x1987d1c8) shown on add work edit
  • [MBS-7589] – Edit types in edit search are sorted in ASCII order
  • [MBS-7590] – Search results for instruments should strip markup from the description
  • [MBS-7604] – Whitespace+invalid character at the end of a string causes an ISE
  • [MBS-7608] – Internal server error looking up CD TOC with too large offsets
  • [MBS-7609] – “Refine this search” links breaks for entities with no entity filter in the edit search
  • [MBS-7611] – Internal server error loading annotation revision
  • [MBS-7614] – Relationship attributes are validated against the old link type
  • [MBS-7615] – Changes to URLs only are treated as no change
  • [MBS-7624] – Possible to create edits which add two unknown country release events
  • [MBS-7633] – l(‘Series’) is ambiguous
  • [MBS-7636] – Regression + data corruption: edit page swaps the direction of relationships

Improvement

  • [MBS-1377] – Turn relationships with multiple instrument/vocal attributes into multiple relationships
  • [MBS-7541] – Add Series to the statistics
  • [MBS-7542] – Add instruments to statistics
  • [MBS-7595] – Discid edits should show release artist
  • [MBS-7618] – fullexport generation must complete before replication packets are copied, resulting in temporary but several-hour gaps in the available replication packets
  • [MBS-7621] – Treat non-free-text work attribute types with no options as grouping types
  • [MBS-7631] – Make instrument relationships link back to the instrument entity pages

New Feature

  • [MBS-4825] – Normalize blogspot URLs

Task

  • [MBS-7499] – Add vkdb.jp to the otherdbs whitelist
  • [MBS-7571] – Factor out lists of entities in the code

May 2014 virtual machines released

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just released the May 2014 Virtual Machine images of the MusicBrainz server!

If you’d like to direct download or BitTorrent download these images, head on over to our Server Setup page.

There have been no real changes to the setup of the VM images — we still publish a VirtualBox and a VMWare image. The instructions for using the VMs haven’t changed; the latest data and the May 26th version of the software are loaded on these images.

Have fun!

Server update, 2014-05-26

We’re back with another release on the heels of our schema change. This release includes some fixes that were hot-fixed to the production servers late the other week as well as some that have gone through the usual beta process. As such, most of the changes have to do with new or changed features of that release, plus some assorted refactoring and other bugfixes. Thanks to chirlu, nikki, and the rest of the MetaBrainz team for their hard work on this release!

Happy series editing!

The git tag for this release is v-2014-05-26.

The full list of fixed tickets, as usual:

Bug

  • [MBS-6181] – Deleted editors may be nominated for auto-editorship
  • [MBS-6309] – Search results don’t have a score column anymore after a few pages
  • [MBS-7354] – Internal Server Error in mini relationship editor when a relationship has been removed
  • [MBS-7513] – Uploading PDF cover art requires the user to switch to the “All files” filetype in the file selection dialog
  • [MBS-7514] – New accounts may be called “Deleted Editor #nnn”
  • [MBS-7516] – Age of 0 not displayed in user profiles
  • [MBS-7519] – “PDF file” labels displayed on top of image previews
  • [MBS-7530] – Caught exception in MusicBrainz::Server::Controller::Series->add_alias “The edit could not be created.
  • [MBS-7532] – ISE: Undefined value when relating Release Groups to an ordered Series
  • [MBS-7533] – Can’t create a new series from inline search
  • [MBS-7538] – Regression: Not possible to edit URL relationship attributes
  • [MBS-7539] – series. numbering elements is not auto-edit while setting automatic is
  • [MBS-7543] – “Cancel” does not cancel changes made in mini-relationship-editor for instrument-performer ARs
  • [MBS-7544] – Grouping link types are selectable in the release editor
  • [MBS-7545] – Release editor creates empty URL edits if you just change the release name
  • [MBS-7548] – Automatic series ordering doesn’t work correctly
  • [MBS-7549] – Regression: Release Editor URL seeding does not work anymore
  • [MBS-7550] – Regression: Editor search is broken
  • [MBS-7555] – ISE when changing series order numbering
  • [MBS-7556] – URL cleanup broken on edit URL pages
  • [MBS-7558] – Relationship-editor shows “The end date cannot preceed the begin date” incorrectly
  • [MBS-7559] – Sort name guess case is missing from series alias pages
  • [MBS-7561] – Relationship editor doesn’t show the count of selected recordings
  • [MBS-7562] – Regression: Error trying to unset a label in “edit release label”
  • [MBS-7563] – Multiple failures on “edit label”
  • [MBS-7570] – Add series and instruments as linkable entities in annotations
  • [MBS-7576] – Not possible to add relationships to a non-label from a label edit page
  • [MBS-7579] – Error while trying to add a release
  • [MBS-7593] – Regression: Seeding URLs to mini-relationship editor is broken
  • [MBS-7597] – Replacing recording-work relationship in relationship editor fails
  • [MBS-7599] – Relationship editor doesn’t load relationships for some recordings
  • [MBS-7600] – Firefox: “Edit Note” does not show Add Release Label if the annotation gets removed
  • [MBS-7603] – Replication trigger missing for link_attribute_text_value table

Improvement

  • [MBS-7493] – Redirected MBID pages, slave/beta servers, and non-preferred scheme should use rel=canonical to link to the main site
  • [MBS-7517] – Deleted editors should appear as “deleted”, not as “Limited User”
  • [MBS-7567] – Provide “copy/sort” bubble for all alias sortnames
  • [MBS-7575] – Support creating/editing URL relationships with the /relationship-editor endpoint
  • [MBS-7596] – The relationship editor dialog should work on a copy of the relationship until the dialog is accepted
  • [MBS-7619] – admin/config.sh means configuration is split between files (and since checked-in complicates customization)

Task

  • [MBS-7547] – Remove MAC authentication for WS