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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)

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):

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 Nicolás 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) : this CD2 gets CD1 recordings !
• [MBS-6549] – Release Editor Seeding : events.n.country = “JP” doesn’t work
• [MBS-6563] – Text “Cover art from Amazon” not shown under cover art, when other (non‐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.

We’ve just finished deploying the second update to musicbrainz.org for July. Continuing the trend, this release is primarily bug fixes with a few new improvements. Notably, people should be happy to hear that the Cover Art Archive now supports PNGs and GIFs, ISRC editing has become easier, and the release and relationship editors should be a little bit more stable. Many thanks to Nicolás Tamargo along with the MusicBrainz team for their continued work on MusicBrainz. Here’s what’s changed:

Bug

• [MBS-3132] – Problems with track artist credits when seeding the release editor
• [MBS-5310] – Artist aliases should not be shown for work relations when doing a release lookup
• [MBS-5409] – Internal server error when artist begin year is 0
• [MBS-5637] – Regression: Recording merges can result in duplicate relationships
• [MBS-6058] – Artist Subscriptions overview page is contradicting itself
• [MBS-6194] – regression : drums release relationships were invisible as long as there was at least one recording drums relationship
• [MBS-6235] – Internal server error when using date of birth without century in profile
• [MBS-6273] – Country names are no longer shown in the sidebar or in edits
• [MBS-6275] – Diffs no longer work for release dates
• [MBS-6276] – Release dates are badly aligned in edits
• [MBS-6280] – Registering an account ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6282] – Uploading cover art ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6283] – Voting on edits ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6284] – Cancelling edits ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6285] – Verifying an email address ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6286] – Editing profile/preferences/password ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6288] – Adding ISRCs ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6289] – Editing CD stubs ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6290] – Removing subscriptions ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6354] – Possible to edit after unsetting email
• [MBS-6360] – Internal server error when trying to authenticate via digest auth with non-ASCII username
• [MBS-6369] – No link to area when editing an artist, a label or anything that has an area inline search
• [MBS-6401] – Regression: Default release group cover art is not (always?) the original release
• [MBS-6403] – Resetting password ignores DB_READ_ONLY
• [MBS-6410] – Internal Server Error
• [MBS-6413] – Areas’ releases tab should show "This area is not currently associated with any releases" if empty
• [MBS-6417] – JSON API does not return disc number information for media
• [MBS-6426] – ModBot unable to close old edit release edits that cleared both date and country
• [MBS-6454] – Pressing enter when editing a relationship type does not submit the form
• [MBS-6455] – Internal server error displaying edit relationship type edits
• [MBS-6468] – Relationship type documentation pages are not linked in appropriate places
• [MBS-6486] – ModBot no longer enters remove relationship edits when using "Split into separate artists"
• [MBS-6498] – Internal server error displaying an historic set track lengths edit
• [MBS-6531] – area/not_found.tt doesn’t exist
• [MBS-6536] – OAuth token expiration ISE
• [MBS-6569] – JSON file uploaded to the IA has the wrong file extensions for GIFs/PNGs
• [MBS-6578] – ModBot is unable to close Edit::Area::Merge edits

Improvement

• [MBS-2411] – Login page should be encrypted (SSL/TLS)
• [MBS-4114] – Cover art archive: Support .gif
• [MBS-4671] – Enter "Remove relationship" edits as the same editor instead of ModBot when splitting artists
• [MBS-5868] – Move ISRC editing to the edit recording page
• [MBS-6022] – Cover art archive: Support .png UI Changes
• [MBS-6414] – Wikidata URL cleanup should also remove the "fragment" part of the URL
• [MBS-6457] – Relationship editor deals confusingly with deprecated relationships
• [MBS-6575] – Provide more debugging information if the release editor fails to create edits

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-07-22.

We’ve just finished deploying the latest version of MusicBrainz on our servers. This release is again primarily a bug fix release, but as always we’ve got a couple of improvements in added too. Thanks to Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki and the MusicBrainz team for all their work on this release! Here’s a list of what’s changed:

Bug

• [MBS-5892] – Make wikidocs links always go to the server the user is on
• [MBS-5941] – Using the link to http://musicbrainz.org from beta.mb after starting to use the beta site redirects to beta.mb again
• [MBS-6020] – Work types in the relationship editor still don’t sort alphabetically
• [MBS-6272] – Countries are no longer linked in the release sidebar
• [MBS-6325] – Moving a release with a release date into an empty release group does not provide it with a date (sorting doesn’t work)
• [MBS-6327] – Development servers ask users to change passwords when logging in
• [MBS-6331] – Internal server error entering an existing ISO code
• [MBS-6384] – Internal server error looking up a disc ID in the JSON webservice
• [MBS-6404] – Regression: it is impossible to have a track without "track #" field empty (despite edit doing just that passes without problem)
• [MBS-6440] – Opening filter fails due to syntax error
• [MBS-6485] – Blocking of /ws/1 URLs should be done in MusicBrainz-Server, not nginx config
• [MBS-6491] – Editing an artist area should not be an auto-edit
• [MBS-6501] – Internal Server Error: "Wide character in subroutine entry" trying to create an account with Unicode characters in the username or password
• [MBS-6504] – Digest authentication is broken for new accounts until the password is changed
• [MBS-6519] – Recording index page column span is incorrect
• [MBS-6524] – Work type and lyrics language ordered differently for editing and display
• [MBS-6548] – ModBot is unable to close Edit::Relationship::Delete edits

Improvement

• [MBS-5487] – Edit search : Add the relationship type information to "remove relationship" edits
• [MBS-5835] – Report of recordings with tracks which vary a lot in length
• [MBS-6132] – Show filename in Add/Edit cover art edits as in removals
• [MBS-6226] – Use new page version in the wikidocs edit page form
• [MBS-6258] – Add accept/reject buttons to the edit search results pages on test servers
• [MBS-6350] – Merge release events where dates are equal but release country in one or more instances is unknown
• [MBS-6499] – Kill the nag

Task

• [MBS-6432] – lyricstatus.com→decoda.com
• [MBS-6526] – http://www.myspace.com/COUCOU → https://myspace.com/COUCOU
• [MBS-6527] – Update SoundCloud URL cleanup to use https

The Git tag for this release is v-2013-07-08.