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Picard 2.3.2 released

Picard 2.3.2 has been released and is available for download. This is mainly a bug-fix release with few minor improvements, see below for a full list of changes.

This release contains code changes by zas, rdswift, outsidecontext, RaysDev and new contributors Undearius and Gabrielcarvfer, who also is working on some interesting changes regarding UI responsiveness.
Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

Download

Picard 2.3.2 is available for download from the download page.

Changes

Below is a list of all changes since Picard 2.3.1. If you are upgrading from an older version you might want to read previous release post.

Breaking change:

$find script function now returns “” rather than -1 on not found, for the sake of consistency. You may want to review your scripts.

Notable improvements:

Picard was trying to guess the file format based on file content. This was very IO expensive and in many cases not needed. So we decided to change the logic to:

  • Try guessing the format by file extension first
  • If no extension or no matching file extension is available, guess by file content
  • If format was guessed by extension and loading the file with mutagen fails with an exception, retry with guessing by file content. Retry loading if the newly guessed format is different from the format guessed by extension.

Also notable, On Windows 10, support for fractional scaling was implemented.

The complete list of changes is the following:

Bug

  • [PICARD-1775] – $firstwords function doesn’t catch IndexError
  • [PICARD-1776] – $datetime crashes when invalid format specified
  • [PICARD-1781] – Have $find return “” rather than “-1” on not found
  • [PICARD-1783] – Deleting performer, comment or lyrics tag fails for some cases in ID3, Vorbis, MP4 and Apev2 tags
  • [PICARD-1784] – Host not found error when downloading PDF artwork
  • [PICARD-1785] – $delete(_id3:TXXX:foo) does not delete the ID3 frames
  • [PICARD-1786] – Deleting tag stored in ID3 TIPL frame only removes first occurrence
  • [PICARD-1787] – Deleting case-insensitive TXXX frames does not delete anything
  • [PICARD-1788] – Saving ID3 tags marked as case-insensitive causes duplicated TXXX frames
  • [PICARD-1790] – Crash when selecting plugin that can be updated
  • [PICARD-1791] – Network access is disabled error under VPN service
  • [PICARD-1795] – iTunes tags not removable (reappear after being deleted)
  • [PICARD-1801] – List index out of range when saving Vorbis file
  • [PICARD-1803] – Instrument EWI is rewritten “e w i”

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1777] – Support fractional scaling on Windows 10
  • [PICARD-1800] – Simplify Unicode ‘Bullet’ to ASCII ‘Hyphen-minus’
  • [PICARD-1809] – Optimize format detection logic

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-04-27

A large variety of issue types have been addressed in today’s release!

As a new feature, search indexes are now dumped and made available along with database dumps under the FTP directory search-indexes. They are mainly intended to be loaded on a MusicBrainz slave server to start a mirror with search.

Among improvements, a noticeable one is to lighten the area’s overview page that was heavily crowded with all sorts of relationships that have been scattered over more specific tabs.

As for bugfixes, the major one secures user/admin forms against CSRF attacks.

Thanks to atj for contributing code to support Traxsource URLs. Thanks to alex_s7, chaban, danbloo, Lotheric, murdos, Skeebadoo for reporting issues. Thanks to kellnerd, Jormangeud, mfmeulenbelt, salorock for updating the translations in German, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, respectively. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-27.

Bug

  • [MBS-10359] – Guess feat. artists from track titles do not give expected result
  • [MBS-10677] – Place type shown as null on WS event place rels
  • [MBS-10717] – Cookie attributes must be adjusted to work with with new behavior in browsers
  • [MBS-10719] – “remove PUID” edit doesn’t load
  • [MBS-10742] – “Show more” country miscount
  • [MBS-10756] – Inconsistent default sort order for recordings on Works page
  • [MBS-10778] – User/admin forms are prone to CSRF attacks

New Feature

  • [MBS-10546] – Dump MB Solr data along with MB DB full export

Improvement

  • [MBS-1921] – Display edit link under annotations
  • [MBS-9086] – Move most relationships away from area overview
  • [MBS-10666] – Collapse work artists when there are too many on merge pages
  • [MBS-10741] – Make “relationship [attribute] in use” pages consistent
  • [MBS-10755] – Add entity type restrictions for musik-sammler.de URLs
  • [MBS-10781] – Add support for Traxsource URLs

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10740] – Convert /relationship static pages to React
  • [MBS-10751] – Convert Remove PUID edits to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-04-13

No Easter egg in today’s update but rather a dozen or so of small bugfixes and convenient improvements.

Thanks Rotab for the pair of bugfixes he submitted, to CatQuest, chaban, chirlu, FSpy, HibiscusKazeneko, JesseW, KRSCuan, MichelV, wcw1966 for issues they reported, to salorock for the Italian translation he updated, and to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-04-13.

Bug

  • [MBS-7465] – Tag cloud isn’t updated
  • [MBS-9169] – Inconsistent locale identifiers
  • [MBS-9728] – Recently-added Unicode emojis can’t be used in titles
  • [MBS-9894] – Timeline shows future date
  • [MBS-10360] – Whitelist User-Agent header in CORS Preflight requests
  • [MBS-10640] – Incorrect donation status in “Donation Check” tab
  • [MBS-10688] – Attaching a CDTOC that already exists on the medium gives a cryptic error
  • [MBS-10718] – Duplicate series “part of” relationships which got grouped are harder to detect
  • [MBS-10730] – Recording is displayed twice in artist overview when credited multiple times

Task

  • [MBS-10735] – Remove (discontinued) CD Baby links from the sidebar

Improvement

  • [MBS-5641] – Show release language/script in reports ReleasesWithUnlikelyLanguageScript, NoLanguage and NoScript
  • [MBS-10679] – Link to the JSON WS from the Details tab
  • [MBS-10680] – Link to WS docs from the Details tab
  • [MBS-10724] – Make sorting options (area, date, artist) consistent
  • [MBS-10747] – Change wording/phrasing of status description for open edits
  • [MBS-10753] – Use artist sort names for artist collection ordering

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-31

This time we have a couple bugfixes, a couple of small improvements, and continued changes to simplify the React table code.

Thanks to chaban, kellnerd, Kid Devine, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-31.

Bug

  • [MBS-10704] – Relationships header shown for works with no rels to be displayed
  • [MBS-10707] – Open Add DiscID edit already adds discID, cancelling does not remove it
  • [MBS-10712] – ISE when trying to load “merge release” edit

Improvement

  • [MBS-10669] – Restrict “Metal Archives” album links to release
  • [MBS-10699] – Remove “medley” from Guess Case when at the end of a title

Task

  • [MBS-10365] – Refactor display of entity list/table
  • [MBS-0401] – Replace handshaking protocol with bit mask

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-16

Mostly bugfixes today, along with a new data report, plus usual small improvements, React conversion and refactoring. We also blocked ratings for unverified users, since a specific artist was getting hundreds of ratings by people creating many accounts per person just for that (people, please be nice!).

Thanks to andrybo6, chaban, cyna, dimpole, dseomn, gioele, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, nikki, outsidecontext, panos, sophist, sothotalker, yindesu, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-03-16.

Bug

  • [MBS-7835] – [No lyrics] works showing up as “No linguistic content” in old edit summaries
  • [MBS-9359] – Web service shows “mul” languages, but all single languages are duplicates
  • [MBS-9651] – Top voters overall includes more edits than editor profile’s yes+no+approve
  • [MBS-10628] – [no label] should not be editable
  • [MBS-10633] – Can’t change capitalization on username
  • [MBS-10661] – Recording-work rel not showing pending edits on release page
  • [MBS-10683] – Map doesn’t focus on new marker when creating a new Place
  • [MBS-10684] – Message over Place’s map is misleading
  • [MBS-10685] – Place maps: Zooming by clicking doesn’t follow the cursor
  • [MBS-10693] – Artist merge submission page doesn’t show any error message if you attempt to merge a special purpose artist

Improvement

  • [MBS-4090] – Report for recordings with a single track but with different spellings
  • [MBS-10607] – Give context to translations of “unknown” / “(unknown)”
  • [MBS-10676] – Add MD5/SHA256 checksum files for JSON data dumps
  • [MBS-10695] – Show full language names on work lists

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10618] – Convert Edit work edit to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10671] – Block ratings for unverified users
  • [MBS-10689] – Update MapBox API calls
  • [MBS-10692] – Change React imports to “import * as React”

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-03-02

It’s now possible to find genres through the web service with a new /ws/2/genre lookup endpoint. Additionally, this update fixes some bugs and refactors a lot of stuff behind the curtains, including the continued conversion to React of edit display pages.

Thanks to chaban, cyna, jesus2099, kellnerd, and speardog who contributed through issue reporting, code changes, translation updates, and beta testing.

The git tag is v-2020-03-02.

Bug

  • [MBS-10515] – Weird display of recording info on release merge pages
  • [MBS-10593] – “Edit release label” edit fails to load if country name is undef
  • [MBS-10594] – “Add annotation” edits are stuck
  • [MBS-10649] – Release label edit shows [removed] if label is deselected
  • [MBS-10659] – “Edit relationship” edit not showing credits if they don’t change

New Feature

  • [MBS-10166] – Add genre lookup to the web service

Improvement

  • [MBS-9654] – Show expanded artist credits in “Merge recordings” edits
  • [MBS-10643] – Autoselect relationship type for CPDL artist URLs

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10058] – Convert entity merge edits to React
  • [MBS-10617] – Convert “Add work” edit to React

Picard 2.3.1 released

Picard 2.3.1 has been released and is available for download. This is mainly a bugfix release, but also some smaller improvements and features made it into this version. Notable changes are the addition of the $sortmulti and $reversemulti scripting functions, overall better handling of releases with multiple release countries and some fixes for the AcoustID fingerprinting. See below for a full list of changes.

This release contains code changes by zas, rdswift, outsidecontext and new contributor RaysDev, who also is working on some interesting changes for the next release. Thanks a lot again to everybody who contributed to this in release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback. The Picard 2.3 release already was well received, but it is thanks to you all that we can provide a sizeable list of improvements just 10 days later.

Download

Picard 2.3.1 is available for download from the download page.

Changes

Below is a list of all changes since Picard 2.3. If you are upgrading from an older version you might want to read what is new in Picard 2.3.

Bug

  • [PICARD-1745] – Packaged libdiscid is not compatible with macOS 10.12
  • [PICARD-1748] – Many release events can cause the versions context menu to overflow
  • [PICARD-1750] – Existing acoustid_fingerprint tags are not considered for AcoustID submission
  • [PICARD-1754] – DEL always removes release or file from main window
  • [PICARD-1756] – Plugin update fails to compare plugin versions with double digit versions
  • [PICARD-1757] – Crash on loading a release if $div(n,0) is used in a script
  • [PICARD-1760] – Prevent duplicates in top tags editor
  • [PICARD-1762] – Dropping a PDF file on cover art image box doesn’t work
  • [PICARD-1765] – Adding uppercase tags to preserved tags list is not handled correctly
  • [PICARD-1772] – Unexpected results with $num function
  • [PICARD-1773] – Untrapped error on $mod with zero input
  • [PICARD-1774] – $lenmulti with missing name returns “1”

New Feature

  • [PICARD-1743] – Add script functions $sortmulti and $reversemulti to sort and reverse multi-value variables
  • [PICARD-1751] – Provide a %_releasecountries% variable

Improvement

  • [PICARD-1746] – Change Generate AcoustID Fingerprints shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Y / ⌘⇧Y
  • [PICARD-1752] – Use preferred release countries to select a matching release country if there are multiple
  • [PICARD-1755] – “Supported Languages” on Microsoft Store shows only English (United States)
  • [PICARD-1759] – Make editing tags in top tags list more intuitive
  • [PICARD-1771] – Completely ignore release types set to zero in preferred releases

 

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-02-18

Today’s release brings a fair amount of small bug fixes and improvements to the website. Notably, it changes the way we display relationships to group ones that are similar (such as different instruments by the same performers) and makes editing history (but not editors and edit notes!) available to visitors without needing to log in.

Thanks to chaban, chirlu, cyberskull, cyna, dimpole, hibiscuskazeneko, jeandeaual, kellnerd, lotheric, mfmeulenbelt, murdos, nikki, rdswift, salorock, supersandro2000, v6lur, and all others who submitted patches, reported issues, tested beta version, or contributed to translations!

The git tag is v-2020-02-18.

Bug

  • [MBS-2436] – “Edit medium” edits don’t link to new recordings
  • [MBS-10209] – Error parsing URL when entering Instagram link on artist’s page
  • [MBS-10223] – ArtistRoles lists don’t use relationship credits
  • [MBS-10329] – URL cleanup breaks Amazon Music URLs
  • [MBS-10576] – Medium merge error messages with links are not properly formatted
  • [MBS-10583] – Event dates displayed twice in event lists
  • [MBS-10586] – Release duplicates tab shows [missing media] when medium format is simply unknown
  • [MBS-10587] – Medium counts broken in Release Duplicates list
  • [MBS-10588] – Medium formats untranslated in Release Duplicates list

New Feature

  • [MBS-3873] – New Report: Release groups with name not matching release’s name
  • [MBS-10331] – Add new URL cleanup/autoselect/sidebar for Amazon Music URLs
  • [MBS-10620] – Add the Discography of American Historical Recordings to the otherdbs whitelist

Improvement

  • [MBS-4326] – Add “Add discid” edits in release artist(s) editing history
  • [MBS-7678] – Combine display of multiple relationships to the same entity
  • [MBS-9164] – Show edit history (but not edit notes) when not logged in
  • [MBS-10308] – Cleanup maniadb URLs
  • [MBS-10584] – Collapse work artists when there are too many
  • [MBS-10623] – Automatically add US store country-code to iTunes URLs missing it
  • [MBS-10625] – Block even more smart links

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-9917] – Convert the instrument public pages to React
  • [MBS-10401] – Convert Edit Series edit to React

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-02-04

This release includes a new feature: if you find a mystery MBID (such as “69755ab1-409e-3ad7-902f-3a839042799c”) and you don’t know what it might be for, you can use https://musicbrainz.org/mbid/69755ab1-409e-3ad7-902f-3a839042799c to find out without having to specifically select the entity type. Keep in mind some MBIDs for non-entities (such as packaging types) won’t work with this method!

If you’re a user of our JSON web service and use begin or end area information on artists, please be aware of MBS-10072! Starting with this release, we’re resolving a long-standing bug whereby the mentioned properties have been incorrectly outputted as begin_area and end_area, while search requests correctly outputted them as begin-area and end-area (using hyphens in line with the rest of the format). The interim fix released today is to output both sets of properties for at least 6 months, and then remove the underscored variants from the response. Please update any code you have that accesses begin_area or end_area on artists to use begin-area and end-area instead!

Today’s chunk of React conversion has been made by Cyna, so thanks to him for his dedication! Thanks also to SuperSandro2000 for updating our PostgreSQL collate extension with ICU configuration changes. And finally, thanks to chaban, jesus2099, mfmeulenbelt, roboron, and all others who reported issues or tested beta version or translated today’s release!

The git tag is v-2020-02-04.

Bug

  • [MBS-10072] – In the JSON WS, artist nodes use begin_area, end_area except search responses which use begin-area, end-area
  • [MBS-10366] – Medium edits removing pregap when disc ID is attached are not rejected
  • [MBS-10579] – Regression: The es-ES and el-GR translations are broken

New Feature

  • [MBS-6539] – Redirect musicbrainz.org/mbid/$mbid to the appropriate entity page

Improvement

  • [MBS-5460] – Add shift-click multi-(de)select to the release editor’s Recordings tab
  • [MBS-5572] – Add shift-click multi-(de)select to the edit artist ACs
  • [MBS-9477] – Disable Discid tab for releases that can’t have a discid
  • [MBS-10568] – Show number of discIDs on discID tab
  • [MBS-10569] – If no mediums on a release can have discIDs, say so on its discID tab

React Conversion Task

  • [MBS-10390] – Convert Add Place edit to React
  • [MBS-10392] – Convert Add Series edit to React
  • [MBS-10398] – Convert Edit Place edit to React

Other Task

  • [MBS-10322] – Convert fabfile (Fabric 1) to shell scripts (Bash 3)

MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-01-20

This release mostly fixes small bugs. Please note that the display code for release lists (for area, artist, collection, instrument, label and series) has been reworked too.

Thanks to chaban for continuously reporting issues, hibiscuskazeneko for paying attention to external links, rotab who fixed a couple of bugs, and all others who reported issues or helped test or translate today’s release!

The git tag is v-2020-01-20.

Bug

  • [MBS-10492] – Regression: When minute component starts with 0 (zero) it’s omitted
  • [MBS-10501] – Collaborator avatars missing from collection page
  • [MBS-10522] – Subscribers not transferred after entity merge
  • [MBS-10531] – Invalid requests are sent to maps service when access token is not set
  • [MBS-10536] – Release group link “see all versions of this release” has span.name-variation
  • [MBS-10553] – User report reason is sent to admins translated
  • [MBS-10560] – Regression: release edits display abbreviated rather than full country names in their release events
  • [MBS-10565] – Can’t add a new type for series
  • [MBS-10567] – Only show allowed series entity types when creating series types
  • [MBS-10571] – Localized ModBot notes are not properly formatted when sent via email
  • [MBS-10572] – Pages that display release events trigger an error when a non-English UI language is selected: “Domain `countries` was not found.”

Improvement

  • [MBS-10552] – Add Deezer links to the sidebar