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Ampache v4.2.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-02 // over 3 years ago

  • (MD5SUM d5c37a0889f8e4a79d11458a89a8bc19) ../ampache-4.2.2_all.zip

    🚀 Ampache 4.2.2-release

    DATABASE CHANGES You can now force a default collation and charset on your database.
    If you choose to use utf8mb4; Ampache will convert your table engine to InnoDB to handle the extra bytes.

    ➕ Added

    • Numeric 'Played/Skipped ratio' added to search. (Set using (stream/skip)*100.)
      • > 0 & < 100: Skipped more than played
      • 100: Equal plays and skips
      • > 100: Played more than skipped
    • ➕ Add 'Original Year', 'Release Type' to Album searches
    • 👍 Allow setting custom database collation and charset without overwriting your changes
    • Video search added to random.php
    • 'samesite=strict' on JS cookies
    • ⚡️ Translation updates (August 2020)
    • Put 'Labels' into search, browse headers and sidebar when enabled
    • 🆕 NEW config options (config_version 45)
      • database_charset: Set a default charset for your database
      • database_collation: Set a default collation for your database
      • simple_user_mode: Don't allow users to edit their account values (used for demo sites that allow login)
    • 🆕 NEW files
      • bin/update_file.inc: Update your catalog when individual files are changed using inotifywait.sh
      • bin/update_db.inc: Update your database collation, charset and table engine from the cli
      • docs/examples/inotifywait.sh: script to use inotifywait and update_file.inc to update as file changes happen
      • docs/examples/inotifywait.service: systemd example service for inotifywait.sh

    🔄 Changed

    • stats.php: Show total 'Item Count' on Statistics page instead of trying to shoehorn songs/videos/etc into different columns
    • ⚡️ ampache.sql updated after about 4 years... no more updates on install!
    • Searching by "Rating (average)" now ignores private/public and always returns the average.
    • Hide searches for '# Skipped' and 'Played/Skipped ratio' when 'Show # skipped' is Off
    • Search items rearranged to try to match each other
    • Sort 'Playlist' and 'Smart Playlist' browse pages by name
    • Display the blankuser avatar in now playing if missing
    • Swap 'Random' and 'Playlists' in the sidebar (CSS order numbers)
    • Don't hide artist art when you disable lastfm_api_key in the config
    • Hide 'Metadata' search when 'enable_custom_metadata' is disabled

    🗄 Deprecated

    • 🚀 Drop version number from the release string in develop. ('4.3.0-develop' => 'develop')
      • This should stop a bit of confusion when removing / adding requirements
    • 🚀 The '-release' suffix in version number will be dropped for Ampache 5.0.0

    ✂ Removed

    • ✂ Remove stat recording from channels
    • ⚡️ Don't reset the database charset and collation after each db update

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed a few issues on the Statistics page
      • Report 'Catalog Size' correctly for podcasts
      • Report 'Item Count' correctly for podcasts and video catalogs
    • Searching albums for artist name
    • Mashup 'Newest' would incorrectly apply an offset missing the newest items
    • 🛠 Search by 'Smart Playlist' rules fixed when added with other rules
    • 👉 Use LEFT JOIN instead of HAVING for search rules to allow more complicated lists
    • 👍 Logic searching 'My Rating' includes unrated (0 Stars) in a better way
    • Captcha was not generated for registration
    • Enforce lowercase codec for live streams
    • 📜 Parsing integer search rules was overwriting index values
    • 🖐 Handle empty XML on similar artist requests to last.fm

    🔒 Security

    🛠 Fix CVE-2020-15153 - Unauthenticated SQL injection in Ampache

    API 4.2.2

    🛠 Minor bugfixes

    ➕ Added

    • Api::advanced_search added parameter 'random' (0|1) to shuffle your searches

    🔄 Changed

    • ✂ Remove spaces from advanced_search rule names. (Backwards compatible with old names)
      • 'has image' => 'has_image'
      • 'image height' => 'image_height'
      • 'image width' => 'image_width'
      • 'filename' => 'file' (Video search)

    🗄 Deprecated

    • 🚚 Search rules 'has image','image height', 'image width', 'filename'. (Removed in Ampache 5.0.0)

    🛠 Fixed

    • Api::stream, Api::download Api::playlist_generate 'format' parameter was overwritten with 'xml' or 'json'
    • Produce valid XML for playlist_generate using the 'id' format in XML