Zina Changelog - 2.0 Series (Beta)
Changelogs
2.0 | 1.0 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.9
Series Highlights
- Pure PHP templating system.
- Clean URL support.
- Flash player.
- Live search.
- Find lyrics and album art from the web.
- Tag editor with CDDB lookup (if on writeable filesystem)
- Better integration with CMSs like Drupal, Joomla, etc.
- Sitemap generation
- last.fm / twitter.com integration
- New language system
- IIS support
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict output
Upgrading from 2.0b13 and earlier
- WARNING: Joomla and Drupal users will need to resynch their databases and possible remove a stray menu item if upgrading from 2.0b13 and below.
- If using playlists and a database, you will need to import your playlists from Zina's Settings page if upgrading from 2.0b15 and below.
Upgrading from 1.0
- Your database can be upgraded within Zina.
- Your zina.ini.php might not work correctly.
- cron.php needs to be setup to run regularly (or you have to manually regenerate caches).
v2.0b22 (2010 June 15)
- NEW: Can now make some directory options via interface instead of actual file
- NEW: Can rename directories on writeable filesystems
- NEW: Performance tweaks
- NEW: Can return regular rss feeds instead of podcasts
- BUG: If using directory names from tags, will now use those to sort on
- BUG: Couldn't turn off all random options
- BUG-IE: Tag Editor greyed out fields weren't apparent
- BUG-CROME: Scrollbars would appear on flash player pop-up
- BUG: A few minor others
v2.0b21 (2010 June 2)
- NEW-CMSes: Option to assign permissions or allow "Editors" the ability to edit certain textual aspects of Zina (e.g. descriptions)
- NEW: Tag Editor option to skip errors and write tags anyway.
- BUG: Tag Editor wouldn't always merge existing tags
- BUG-Joomla: Zina submenus like Genres, Playlists, Statistics could disappear and not be easily recreated
v2.0b20 (2010 May 27)
- NEW: Title Case Option in Tag Editor
- NEW: Option to extract images from ID3 tags
- NEW: Will use lyrics if in ID3 tags
- NEW: Option to use Album names from ID3 tags
- UPDATED: German language file
- BUG[2848867]: Foreign characters near truncation
- BUG[1878728]: Statistics not updated on download album/selected
- BUG: PNG image resizing could fail
- BUG: Some strings not translatable
- BUG: Will use song titles from ID3 tags in stats
- BUGs: Tag editor (multiple issues)
- BUG-DRUPAL: Add taxonomy dependency
- BUG-WP: Zina could screw-up other pages page titles
- NEW: Database search will search artist-title if directory is flagged "various"
- NEW: Can delete files/directories (on writeable filesystems)
- NEW: Genre pages will respect genre hierarchy (if applicable)
- UPDATED: German language file
- BUG: Potential better language support
- BUG: Cron bug
- BUG: A few other ones
- NEW: Tag editor with cddb lookup (if on writeable filesystem)
- NEW: Minor tweaks to genre/year search
- BUG: IE play selected bombed on lots selected
- BUG: IE and flash player didn't always start on first click
- NEW: Podcast feeds for playlists
- BUG: Play by year requires certain options
- BUG: PHP5.3 renamed an option (JPG->JPEG)
- NEW: Playlist display/aesthetic changes (if using a database)
- NEW: Optional playlist statistics
- NEW: Play by year
- NEW-CMSes: Users can now optionally create their own saved playlists
- NEW-CMSes: Playlist statistics block
- BUG-WP: Zina should now honor Wordpress password protection.
- BUG-JOOMLA: A language file and lyric source file were missing
- REGRESSION/FIX: Possible apostrophe problems in file names
- NEW/FIX: New lyric source, removed one old, fixed one.
- FIX: A few flash player performance fixes.
- FIX: Session playlists were wonky
- NEW: Pop-up flash player should get focus
- NEW: Opt to sort files by ID3 track number
- NEW-LANG: Belorussian translation by M.Comfi
- UPDATED-LANG: Russian, German
- NEW/BUG: Language stuff
- NEW-JOOMLA: Better integration (each directory an article).
- NEW-DRUPAL: Better integration (each directory a node).
- FIX: Should play nice with mootools and other JS libraries
- NEW: Edit root directory text.
- NEW: More lyric sources
- FIX: Amazon images now require an amazon developer account (per amazon)
- Other things...
- BUG: Google album/artist images was broken
- BUG: Saving settings in CMSes may throw PHP notice errors
- NEW: Ability to override settings on a directory by directory basis
- NEW: Help/Support page for diagnosing common Zina setup issues
- BUG: More Podcast/RSS fixes
- NEW: Option to bias random song playlists towards unplayed songs
- NEW: Full page category view split alphabetically
- NEW: Option to include other files (e.g. PDFs) in podcasts
- NEW: Option to expand "various" directories in category pages
- BUG: sitemap didn't verify (non-Drupal)
- NEW: Optional addthis.com "Share" & "Feeds" buttons
- NEW/FIX: Improved RSS/Podcast feed handling
- NEW: Images in RSS Stat feeds
- BUG: Couldn't always download files
- BUG: Couldn't play songs from playlist view
- BUG-CMSes: Couldn't create playlists if not using clean urls
- BUG-JOOMLA: Blank page if too many songs
- BUG: Two PHP E_STRICT errors
- NEW: Option to set timezone
- BUG: Hardcoded table name in stats regeneration code
- BUG: Category ignore sort option didn't work on subdirs
- BUG-CMSes: Lyric and album image opts not shown in settings
- NEW: Option to set disposition of Other Media Files
- NEW: Larger Flash player "Silver" skins
- NEW-WP: Uninstall for WP 2.7
- BUG: MP3 File Info not found on 64bit systems
- BUG: Disabling the search box disabled the Flash player
- BUG-CMSes: Adding files to playlists broken
- BUG-WP: Hopefully, Zina won't take over front page on bad activation
- NEW: Option to display lyrics in Flash player
- NEW: Random Block
- NEW: Option to save lyrics locally
- NEW: Option to override locale setting
- NEW: More complete Brazilian translation
- BUG: Sub-dir image options were being ignored
- BUG: Use local paths option was broken
- BUG: Time based functionality was broken
- BUG: Typo in time based functionality example
- BUG: Flash player not in sockCrystal theme
- BUG: Badly named Lyric variable caused problems on some set-ups
- NEW: Option to find/display lyrics from external sites
- NEW: Option to find artist/album art from external sites
- NEW-CMSes: Option to display images in statistic blocks
- BUG: Flash player pop-up wouldn't start playing on first pop-up in non-Firefox browsers
- BUG: "Selected" Zip downloads would be sent to Flash player
- BUG: Album zip downloads would have a .lp appended
- BUG: Inline Flash player would be cut-off in IE
- BUG: Flash player had to load song before advancing
- NEW: Korean translation
- NEW: Option to set default directory sort order
- NEW: Won't try to clean up song titles from ID3 tags (can still override via theme functions)
- NEW: Flash player
- NEW: Read WMA & M4A tags
- NEW: Can optionally return playlists in xspf format
- BUG: Remote file plays will be logged in stats
- BUG: Some character problems may have been fixed
- BUG: Some RSS feed issues may have been fixed
- BUG: Streaming wma/ogg to Winamp with non-clean urls was broke
- BUG[2494622]: missing genre property
- BUG[2494617]: Index_rel
- BUG[2494611]: Other media types query parameter check
- BUG: Genres array_diff missing argument
- BUG-Wordpress: Can change permalink
- BUG-Drupal: Non-clean urls was broke
- BUG-Joomla: Joomla search link was broke
- NEW: Sort options on search results
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: mysqli support
- NEW: XHTML 1.0 Strict output
- BUG: "Use local paths" wouldn't
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: More information on search page (when using database)
- NEW: More flexible file directory transversal protection
- NEW: Genre descriptions
- NEW: Play "selected" random
- BUG: Wrong "Context" for non-database Live Search results
- BUG: Cron would update search index on every run
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: Live Search
- NEW: Improved Search
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: Clean urls should work with IIS & ISAPI Rewrite
- NEW: Optional/configable genre hierarchy for random playlists via genres
- NEW-CMSes: Settings will now be stored in the database
- NEW-CMSes: Zina's db should be automatically installed/updated/uninstalled per CMS's native mechanisms (if they exist)
- NEW: Option to use ID3 tags in blocks
- BUG-Wordpress: Couldn't override block theme
- BUG: Might not have been able to rename playlists
- BUG: Utilizing "Other media types" caused a problem
- NEW-Drupal: Sitemap integration with XML Sitemap module
- NEW-CMSes: Will now use CMS database for easier installation
- UPDATE: Albanian translation
- FIX: Genre text link in image view
- FIX: Genre lookahead on artist page was broke
- FIX: Fake songs included in Podcasts
- FIX-Drupal: Block links might have been broken
- FIX-Xoops: Using Blocks might have caused links to be screwy
- FIX: Running PHP under CGI should work
- FIX: Playlist sorting will honor song sorting
- FIX: RSS returned bad XML under certain conditions
- FIX-REGRESSION: Not finding some genres
- NEW: "Recently Added" Statistic
- NEW: Option to have image captions
- NEW-JOOMLA: Integrated component/module/plugin file with auto upgrade (hopefully)
- FIX: Hopefully, IIS Support will be complete.
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: Option to show artist images in category view
- NEW: Category view configurable on a per directory basis
- NEW: Optional genre images
- NEW: Options to sort files by date
- FIX-JOOMLA: Better admin page integration
- FIX: Alphabetic category page splits didn't work on subdirectories
- FIX: Hopefully, better IIS support
- NEW: Twitter.com support
- BUG: Introduced a bug with this mornings release.
- NEW: Statistics blocks for modules
- NEW: Statistics RSS feeds
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: Joomla 1.5 component
- NEW: Wordpress 2.6 plugin
- NEW: Xoops 2.3 module
- BUG: Genres not sorted
- BUG: Minor bug fixes
- NEW: Pure PHP templating system.
- NEW: Clean URL support.
- NEW: Better integration with CMSes.
- NEW: Sitemap generation
- NEW: last.fm integration
- NEW: Language system
- NEW: Logged in users can change their votes
- NEW: Categories can be split alphabetically
- NEW: Better RSS/Sitemap support
- NEW: Can now stay logged in
- NEW: Lots of other small things...
- NEW: Tons of code clean-up
v2.0b19 (2010 May 16)
v2.0b18 (2010 May 7)
v2.0b17 (2010 May 1)
v2.0b16 (2010 Apr 28)
If using playlists and a database, you will need to import your playlists from Zina's Settings page
v2.0b15 (2010 Apr 8)
v2.0b14 (2009 Aug 19)
WARNING: Joomla and Drupal users will need to resynch their databases and possible remove a stray menu item when upgrading to this release.
v2.0b13 (2009 Jun 8)
v2.0b12 (2009 May 18)
v2.0b11 (2009 May 3)
v2.0b10 (2009 Apr 24)
v2.0b9 (2009 Apr 3)
v2.0b8 (2009 Mar 22)
v2.0b7 (2009 Mar 15)
v2.0b6 (2009 Feb 17)
v2.0b5 (2009 Feb 16)
v2.0b4 (2009 Feb 9)
v2.0b3 (2009 Feb 8)
v2.0b2 (2009 Jan 11)
v2.0b1 (2008 Dec 9)
v2.0a12 (2008 Dec 4)
v2.0a11 (2008 Nov 28)
v2.0a10 (2008 Nov 23)
v2.0a9 (2008 Nov 15)
v2.0a8 (2008 Nov 5)
v2.0a7 (2008 Oct 26)
v2.0a6 (2008 Oct 22)
v2.0a5 (2008 Oct 17)
v2.0a4 (2008 Oct 10)
v2.0a3 (2008 Oct 10)
v2.0a2 (2008 Oct 5)
v2.0a1 (2008 Sept 27)
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