Tag: changelog

Server update, 2017-12-21

Winter has arrived! And so did the latest release of the MusicBrainz server, bringing updates (React 16.2.0 and Lodash 4.17.4), code refactoring, and a bunch of bug fixes. Thanks to navap for updating the documentation search and to reosarevok for adding La Boîte aux paroles to the Lyrics whitelist. The git tag is v-2017-12-21.

Bug

  • [MBS-9525] – Database dump sometimes fails to sync to FTP
  • [MBS-9540] – Release lookup does not return user ratings in json ws
  • [MBS-9542] – New default iTunes link format (without “id” characters) is denied
  • [MBS-9547] – ModBot leaves note with broken unicode
  • [MBS-9570] – Email header fields with non-ASCII characters are not correctly encoded
  • [MBS-9577] – Google custom search engine (WikiDocs) is out of date

Task

  • [MBS-9560] – Add http://laboiteauxparoles.com/ to the lyrics whitelist

Improvement

  • [MBS-9575] – Make “Enable vinyl track numbers” opt-in for new users

Server update, 2017-10-31

Boo! Release cycle was interrupted during the MetaBrainz Summit 17 and is now back to the usual period of two weeks. This release contains a lot of code refactoring, some admin tooling, and a few fixes. Optimizations were made to parts of the web service, particularly for JSON and browse requests. Anti-spam measures taken in July have been relaxed, as well as the period of time allowed for auto-editing newly added entities. The git tag is v-2017-10-31.

Bug

  • [MBS-9313] – Adding first release event should be an auto-edit
  • [MBS-9513] – User interface locales with country code are not working

Task

  • [MBS-9488] – Rename “limited user” to “new user”
  • [MBS-9519] – Hide biography, homepage, and collections description of limiter users from not-logged-in users

Improvement

  • [MBS-9496] – Modbot “ac being changed because of name change” edit note is confusing
  • [MBS-9505] – Extend time period to edit your own entries to 1 day
  • [MBS-9515] – Block adding Wikipedia relationships to anchors

Server update, 2017-09-18

This release enables relationship credits for areas and places, contains more URL cleanup & auto-select fixes, and changes the behavior of the artist-merge option to rename credits to only rename those that match the original artist names.

The git tag is v-2017-09-18.

Bug

  • [MBS-9380] – ReverbNation URLs are not correctly cleaned up
  • [MBS-9394] – Upper case CD Baby URLs are blocked as “not allowed or incorrectly formatted”
  • [MBS-9446] – PartialDate is missing a TO_JSON method
  • [MBS-9455] – “Performance of” attributes not showing if rel is orderable
  • [MBS-9471] – Relationship editor breaks if two link attribute types have the same name

New Feature

  • [MBS-9469] – Add autoselect for VIAF for places

Task

  • [MBS-9316] – Add Operabase to the otherDBs whitelist
  • [MBS-9353] – Do not show collections or user profiles to people not logged in

Improvement

  • [MBS-9019] – Extend relationship credits to places
  • [MBS-9303] – Add support for Facebook’s fb.com domain
  • [MBS-9334] – Enable URL cleanup for Recochoku artist URLs
  • [MBS-9435] – Update Rock.com.ar URL format
  • [MBS-9444] – Update the YouTube logo used in the sidebar
  • [MBS-9457] – Update the Patreon logo used in the sidebar
  • [MBS-9458] – “Rename artist and relationship credits” should only rename matching credits
  • [MBS-9459] – Enable relationship credits for Areas
  • [MBS-9467] – Add support for fallback Patreon user URLs with numeric ID

 

Server update, 2017-09-04

We’ve been focusing on finishing up some overdue schema change features (alternative tracklists, for one) and doing various refactorings/making some under-the-hood changes, which is why there hasn’t been a release in a while. But here’s a few small fixes that have accumulated.

The git tag is v-2017-09-04.

Bug

  • [MBS-9409] – Error merging mediums with and without pregap tracks

Task

  • [MBS-9416] – wikidata url format redirect addition

Improvement

  • [MBS-9434] – “stream for free” YouTube URL linked to a release should show as “stream on YouTube” instead of “watch on YouTube”

Server update, 2017-07-17

In order to deter spammers, bios and homepages can no longer be set by limited users (accounts less than 2 weeks old, or with less than 10 accepted edits).

Thanks to ferbncode, Sophist, and yvanzo for their work on the tickets below.

The git tag is v-2017-07-17.

Bug

  • [MBS-9342] – InitDb.pl fails to import data with DBD::Pg 3.6.0
  • [MBS-9372] – Revoking editing/voting editor rights also renders them unable to write edit notes
  • [MBS-9392] – JSON-LD schema.org structured data broken
  • [MBS-9401] – SQL generation fails for release groups (script/dump-entities-sql.pl)
  • [MBS-9403] – position attribute is missing in the json api output for media > track

Task

  • [MBS-9355] – Do not allow an editor to set bio/link if the user is limited
  • [MBS-9391] – Retry downloading dumps in docker container (for creating and importing dumps)

Improvement

  • [MBS-9323] – Artist web page with long wikipedia entry looks bad

Server update, 2017-06-19

This release mainly fixes some bugs around reorganized lyrics languages for work, and includes a few small improvements. Thanks to Zastai for fixing events browsing for area.

The git tag is v-2017-06-19.

Bug

  • [MBS-8757] – Error browsing events by area
  • [MBS-9338] – Can’t add languages to existing works that have none set
  • [MBS-9341] – “0 field is required” if work language is selected, then blanked
  • [MBS-9345] – Can’t batch-add works without a language set
  • [MBS-9347] – Regression: “- MusicBrainz” is appended to homepage title instead of others
  • [MBS-9362] – Work language edits preceding schema change are not applied

Task

  • [MBS-9354] – Block /collection as per robots.txt

Improvement

  • [MBS-8640] – Make adding work attributes auto-edits
  • [MBS-9311] – Add autoselect and validation of CD Baby Artist-URL relationship
  • [MBS-9348] – Update CD Baby URLs normalization and sidebar display
  • [MBS-9350] – Add autoselect/sidebar for Big Cartel URLs

Schema change release, 2017-05-15 (including upgrade instructions)

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2017 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.

Currently, the only visible change for editors is the ability to add multiple lyrics languages to works. We’ve also modified the schema to support dynamic attributes for entities other than works, but the UI for that won’t be complete for another release or two.

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 rest of the instructions here assume an in-place upgrade.

  1. Make sure DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE is set to 23 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 #24, but the database is currently at #23.”
  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. Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2017-05-15-schema-change.
  6. Run cpanm --installdeps --notest . (note the dot at the end) to ensure your perl-based dependencies are up to date.
  7. Downgrade DBD::Pg by running cpanm TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-3.5.3.tar.gz (version 3.6.0 breaks things currently).
  8. Run ./upgrade.sh (it may take a while to vacuum at the end).
  9. Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 24 in lib/DBDefs.pm as instructed by the output of ./upgrade.sh.
  10. Turn cron jobs back on, if applicable.
  11. 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 npm install followed by ./script/compile_resources.sh.

For those curious, here’s the list of resolved tickets (excluding MBS-8393):

Bug

New Feature

  • [MBS-9271] – Prevent usernames from being reused

Task

  • [MBS-9273] – Fix the a_ins_edit_note function in older setups to not populate edit_note_recipient for own notes
  • [MBS-9274] – Fix the edit_note_idx_post_time_edit index in older setups to handle NULL post_time

Improvement

  • [MBS-5452] – Support multiple lyric language values for works

Picard 1.4.2 released

Official MusicBrainz cross-platform music tagger Picard 1.4.2 is now out.

This is mainly a bugfix release, the only notable improvement is related to TOPE/TOAL tags.

Users can get Windows and MacOSx packages from Picard website downloads section.

Bug

  • [PICARD-1053] – Picard does not stop analyzer while moving
  • [PICARD-1055] – picard hangs with: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp
  • [PICARD-1070] – The “Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII” function only works in certain tags
  • [PICARD-1077] – ID3v2.4 text encoding settings are not saved correctly

Improvement

  • [PICARD-969] – Search dialog webservices get queued behind matched album requests
  • [PICARD-1034] – Picard not seeing TOPE and TOAL

Server update, 2017-04-10

This release brings feature parity with the pre-NGS edit search, thanks to work by yvanzo.

Note: The “My Vote” search condition has been replaced by “Voter,” with sub-condition “is me.”

The git tag is v-2017-04-10.

Sub-task

  • [MBS-2673] – Filter by voter
  • [MBS-3362] – Filter out own edits
  • [MBS-3665] – Inform users of appropriate formats to use for expired/created/closed time or edit/Id ranges
  • [MBS-3914] – Filter edit queue by subscribed editors
  • [MBS-5681] – Filter by vote

Bug

  • [MBS-9088] – Search for editor edits fails

Improvement

  • [MBS-9295] – Allow Baidu Baike URLs using current format

Picard 1.4.1 released

Official MusicBrainz cross-platform music tagger Picard 1.4.1 is now out, it contains few fixes and enhancements, plus few extra features that didn’t make it to 1.4.

As usual you can get Windows and MacOSx packages from Picard website downloads section.

Most notable changes are the fix of a regression concerning drag-n-drop on MacOSx and improved cover art box, with better visual feedback about changes in cover art images.Capture du 2017-04-01 14:40:58

Thanks to all contributors who helped on this release: Antonio Larrosa, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen, Laurent Monin, Lukáš Lalinský, Sambhav Kothari, Sophist, tungol, Ville Skyttä, Wieland Hoffmann.

And to all of our translators!

To report any issue about this release, please use our bug tracker. As usual you can also get help on the forum or on IRC (freenode, #musicbrainz).

We’ll now focus on 2.0, which will be mostly a port of 1.4.x to Python 3 and Qt5.
It will open the way to UI improvements, and improved overall performance.

Bug

  • [PICARD-953] – Album shown matched even if extra unmatched files
  • [PICARD-972] – Removing album with saves pending does not remove pending saves
  • [PICARD-973] – Pending log messages not flushed to stderr on quit
  • [PICARD-988] – Drag & Drop not working
  • [PICARD-990] – Picard violating ID3 standard for TXXX frames
  • [PICARD-996] – Disabling the cover art box and enabling it again doesn’t bring it back
  • [PICARD-998] – Disabling the action toolbar sometimes doesn’t work
  • [PICARD-1005] – If a cluster is moved to the album side of the main window it gets moved to unmatched files
  • [PICARD-1006] – Drag and drop for cover arts doesnt work on OSX
  • [PICARD-1010] – Unsetting View/Cover Art doesn’t work permanently
  • [PICARD-1011] – Toolbar tab order incorrect after PICARD-908
  • [PICARD-1014] – Number of images in release info is calculated incorrectly
  • [PICARD-1015] – Artwork tab of the Track Info DIalog doesn’t show changes anymore
  • [PICARD-1018] – CoverArtBox doesn’t show new/removed images after unmatched files are added/removed to the album
  • [PICARD-1023] – Directory persistence for Add Directory needs tweaking
  • [PICARD-1029] – Fix ~artists_sort metadata variable
  • [PICARD-1042] – Missing import for PICARD_APP_NAME

New Feature

  • [PICARD-258] – Visual feedback for changes to artwork in before-after pane.
  • [PICARD-1000] – Implement artwork diff for albums

Task

  • [PICARD-943] – Remove monkey patching of file write methods in picard formats
  • [PICARD-1041] – Replace Ok button text by Make It So! in Options dialog

Improvement

  • [PICARD-223] – Remove should work when Unmatched Files is selected
  • [PICARD-666] – Drop MP3 tagging support
  • [PICARD-951] – Always use HTTPS for musicbrainz.org
  • [PICARD-952] – Use Cover Art Archive over HTTPS
  • [PICARD-961] – Mention AcoustID on Scan button too
  • [PICARD-980] – Drag&drop cover art doesn’t work for images from amazon/google images/https links
  • [PICARD-1012] – Buttons on the “User Interface” and “Scripting” pages are smaller than buttons in other places
  • [PICARD-1016] – Multiple images in related tracks confusing
  • [PICARD-1021] – Picard loads all pending files before quitting
  • [PICARD-1024] – Allow specifying a configuration file path
  • [PICARD-1030] – Allow to add/replace cover art images and keep existing cover art