polaris/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Polaris 0.14.0

General

• Changes are now documented in CHANGELOG.md instead of inside individual Github releases

Server

• API version is now 7.0
• ⚠️ Removed support for authentication via cookies (deprecated in Polaris 0.13.0)
• ⚠️ Removed support for authentication via the Basic scheme when using the HTTP Authorization header (deprecated in Polaris 0.13.0)
• Fixed a bug where all music sources would be deleted when trying to add sources with duplicate names
• Additional metadata fields are now indexed: lyricist, composer, genre and label (thanks @pmphfm)
• Endpoints returning thumbnail images or audio files no longer use HTTP content-encoding
• When indexing files with ID3v2 tags, the "Original Date Released" frame can now be used to populate the year associated with a song
• The /thumbnail endpoint now supports an optional parameter for small/large/native image sizing. (thanks @Saecki)
• Log file now contain more details about the cause of failed HTTP requests (3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
• Startup failures now generate clearer error messages

Web client

• Volume slider now applies non-linearly
• Artist names are now displayed in the Random Albums and Recent Albums pages

Polaris 0.13.5

Server

• Added support for AIFF and WAVE files (thanks @gahag)

Web Client

• Improved performance when scrolling large playlists
• Fixed display and playback issues when a song was used multiple times in a playlist
• Playlist duration can now display number of days
• Fixed a bug where the playlist panel could have blank space in very tall browser windows
• Major dependencies updates

Polaris 0.13.4

Server

Adjustments to logging behavior.

On Linux:

• Running without -f emits a log file
• Running with -f and no --log option does not emit a log file
• Running with -f and --log option emits a log file

On Windows:

• Running with UI feature (polaris.exe in releases) emits a log file
• Running without UI feature (polaris-cli.exe in releases) and no --log option does not emit a log file
• Running without UI feature (polaris-cli.exe in releases) and --log option emits a log file

Polaris 0.13.3

Server

• Fixed a bug where music that is no longer on disk was still considered in the collection, even after re-indexing
• On Windows, Polaris now creates a log file
• On Linux, Polaris now creates a log file, even when running with the -f option

Polaris 0.13.2

Web client

• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to view or edit which users have administrator rights
• Fixed a bug where, in some cases, drag and dropping a specific disc from an album would not queue the entire disc

Polaris 0.13.1

Server

• Fixed a bug where the Windows installer would create unusable installations. #122

Polaris 0.13.0

API changes

• Bumped API version number to 6.0.
• Added new endpoints to manage users, mount points and settings more granularly.
• Added support for authenticating via bearer tokens generated by the /auth endpoint. These token can be submitted via Bearer HTTP Authorization headers, or as a URL parameters (?auth_token=…).
• Authentication using cookies or Basic HTTP Authorization headers is deprecated and will be removed in a future revision.
• Authentication cookies no longer expire after 24 hours. The newly added bearer tokens also have no expiration date.
• Last.fm account linking now requires a short-lived auth token obtain from the newly added `lastfm/link_token' endpoint.

Server

• ⚠️Breaking change⚠️ If you use a config file, the reindex_every_n_seconds and album_art_pattern fields must now be in a [settings] section.
• ⚠️Breaking change⚠️ The installation process on Linux has changed a lot. See the README for updated installation instructions. A summary of the changes is available here.
• Embedded album art is now supported for mp3, flac and m4a files (thanks @Saecki).
• OPUS files can now be indexed and streamed (thanks @zaethan).
• APE files can now be indexed and streamed.
• The collection indexer has been rewritten for better performance. This also fixed an issue where on some machines, the web client would be unusable while indexing (thanks @inicola for the code reviews).
• Thumbnail generation is now slightly faster, and works with more pixel formats (notably RGBA16).
• Polaris now uses actix-web instead or rocket. This change fixes numerous performance and stability issues.
• Sqlite is now bundled by default when building Polaris and was removed from the list of prerequisites. This can be controlled with the bundle-sqlite feature flag when compiling Polaris.
• The default album art pattern now includes the jpeg extension in addition to jpg.
• Album art patterns are now case insensitive.

Web client

• ⚠️Breaking change⚠️ Your current playlist will appear broken after this update. Please clear the current playlist using the trash can icon. Saved playlists are not affected.
• Added a logout button.
• Reworked interface for managing user accounts.
• Added a shuffle button to randomly re-order the content of the current playlist.
• The total duration of the current playlist is now displayed.
• Audio output can now be toggled on/off by clicking the volume icon.
• Individual discs from multi-disc albums can now be dragged into the playlist.
• When browsing to an album, songs are now displayed and queued in filepath order.
• Fixed a bug where albums could not be dragged from the random or recent views.
• Fixed a bug where directories with a # sign in their name could not be browsed to.

Polaris 0.12.0

Server

• Library indexing speed is now significantly faster
• When indexing files that have malformed ID3 tags, information preceding the error will no longer be discarded
• Deleted users can no longer make requests using an existing session
• When using a config file, existing users, mounts points and DDNS settings are no longer removed before applying the configuration
• When using a config file to create users, blank usernames are now ignored
• Improved architecture and added more unit tests

API Changes

• API version number bumped to 4.0
• The auth endpoint now returns HTTP cookies instead of a JSON response
• Client requests to update Last.fm status no longer return an error if no Last.fm account is associated with the user
• The thumbnail endpoint now supports an option to disable padding to a square image

Web client

• The web client now uses Vue instead of Riot as its UI framework
• Added support for theming

Polaris 0.11.0

Server

• Compatible with current versions of the Rust nightly compiler
• Fixed a rare crash when indexing corrupted mp3 files
• On Linux, Polaris now notifies systemd after starting up
• Release tarball for Linux version now includes a top-level directory
• User sessions no longer break across server restarts (more improvements still to do on this: #36)
• ⚠️ Breaking change: due to improvements in Polaris credentials management, you will have to re-create your users and playlists after upgrading to this version. If you want to preserve your playlists, you can use a program like DB Browser for SQLite to back up your playlists (from db.sqlite within your Polaris installation directory) and restore them after you re-create users with the same names.

Web client

• Song durations are now listed when available
• Fixed a bug where clicking on breadcrumbs did not always work when the Polaris server is hosted on Windows
• Current track info now shows in browser tab title
• Fixed a semi-rare bug where indexing would not start during initial setup flow
• Improved handling of untagged songs
• Fixed a bug where playlist had padding in Chrome
• Fixed a bug where folder icons did not render on some systems

Thank you to @lnicola for working on most of the server changes!

Polaris 0.10.0

Server

• Polaris servers now ship with an interactive API documentation, available at http://localhost:5050/swagger
• When using a prefix URL in Polaris config files, a / will no longer be added automatically at the end of the prefix

Web client

• Automatically bring up player panel when songs are queued
• Fixed a bug where songs were not always correctly sorted by track number in browser panel
• Fixed a bug where some button hitboxes didn't match their visuals

Polaris 0.9.0

Server

• Rewrote all endpoints and server setup using Rocket instead of Iron
• Fixed a bug where special characters in URL to collection folders were not handled correctly (bumped API version number)
• Server API is now unit tested
• Fixed a bug where lastFM integration endpoints did not work
• ⚠️ Compiling Polaris now requires the nightly version of the Rust compiler

Web client

• Encode special characters in URL to collection folders

Polaris 0.8.0

Server

• Added new API endpoints for search
• Added new API endpoints for Last.fm integration
• Thumbnails are now stored as .jpg images instead of .png
• Duration of some audio files is now being indexed
• On Linux when running as a forking process, a .pid file will be written
• Fixed a bug where usernames were inserted in session even after failed authentication

Web client

• Added search panel
• Added settings tab to link Last.fm account

Polaris 0.7.1

Server

• Added support for prefix_url option in configuration files
• Improved performance of thumbnail creation

Polaris 0.7.0

Server

• Added support for the Partial-Content HTTP header when serving music, this fixes several streaming/seeking issues when using the web client (especially in Chrome)
• New API endpoints for playlist management
• New command line argument (-p) to run on a custom port (contribution from @jxs)
• New command line argument (-f) to run in foreground on Linux (contribution from @jxs)
• Fixed a bug where tracks were queued out of order
• Updated program icon on Windows

Web client

• Added support for playlists
• Added a button to to queue the current directory (thanks @jxs)

Polaris 0.6.0

Server

• Internal improvements to database management (now using Diesel)
• Configuration settings are now stored in the database, polaris.toml config files are no longer loaded by default
• Added API endpoints to read and write configuration
• User passwords are now encrypted in storage
• Fixed a bug where results of api/browse were not sorted correctly

Web client

• Settings can now be edited from the web UI
• Collection re-index can now be triggered from the web UI
• Added initial setup configuration flow to help set up first user and mount point
• Visual changes

Polaris 0.5.1

This is a minor release, pushing quite a bit of internal cleanup in the wild.

Server

• Removed OpenSSL dependency on Windows
• No longer send a HTTP cookie after authentication

Polaris 0.5.0

This releases adds Linux support and a variety of improvements to the web client.

Server

• Added Linux support
• Moved location of configuration file on Windows to %appdata%\Permafrost\Polaris\polaris.toml

Web client

• Performance improvements from upgrading RiotJS to 3.4.4 (from 2.6.2)
• Added support for browsing random and recently added albums
• Minor visual changes (colors, whitespace, etc.)
• Updated favicon
• Fixed a bug where songs containing special characters in their title would not play
• Persist playlist and player state across sessions

Polaris 0.4.0

This release adds new features supporting the development of polaris-android.

Server

• Added API endpoint to pull recently added albums
• Added support for the Authorization HTTP header (in addition to the existing /auth API endpoint)

Polaris 0.3.0

This release is an intermediate release addressing issues with the installation process and updating internals.

General

• Fixed missing OpenSSL DLL in Windows installer (fixes Issue #3)
• Split every file into an individual installer component

Server

• Added API endpoint to pull random albums
• Upgraded dependencies
• Added unit tests to indexing and metadata decoding

Web client

• Web interface playlist now displays more tracks (enough to fill a 4k monitor at normal font size)

Polaris 0.2.0

This release is focused on polish and performance, solidifying the basics that were put together in version 0.1.0. Here are the major changes:

General

• Polaris now has a project logo
• Windows installer now supports upgrading an existing install (from 0.2.0 to higher - versions)
• Added support for multi-disc albums

Server

• Major performance improvements to /browse and /flatten API requests (up to 1000x - faster for large requests)
• Added API endpoint for version number
• Album covers are now served as thumbnails rather than at source size
• Moved configuration file outside of /Program Files
• Added support for Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and APE metadata
• Fixed a bug where most albums didn't show an artist name
• Fixed a bug where uppercase extensions were not recognized
• Upgraded compiler to Rust 1.13

Web client

• Complete visual overhaul of the Polaris web client
• Performance improvements for handling large playlist in Polaris web client
• Added error messages when playing songs in unsupported formats

Polaris 0.1.0

This is the very first Polaris release, celebrating the minimum viable product!

Features in this release:

• Server application with Windows Installer
• Support for multiple users
• Support for serving custom music directories
• Support for custom album art pattern matching
• Support for broadcasting IP to YDNS
• Web UI to browse collection, manage playlist and listen to music