Zina Changelog - 2.0 Series (Beta)

Changelogs

2.0 | 1.0 [1] | 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

v2.0b19 (2010 May 16)

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

v2.0b18 (2010 May 7)

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

v2.0b17 (2010 May 1)

NEW: Podcast feeds for playlists
BUG: Play by year requires certain options
BUG: PHP5.3 renamed an option (JPG->JPEG)

v2.0b16 (2010 Apr 28)

If using playlists and a database, you will need to import your playlists from Zina's Settings page

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

v2.0b15 (2010 Apr 8)

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 [2]
UPDATED-LANG: Russian, German

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.

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...

v2.0b13 (2009 Jun 8)

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

v2.0b12 (2009 May 18)

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

v2.0b11 (2009 May 3)

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

v2.0b10 (2009 Apr 24)

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

v2.0b9 (2009 Apr 3)

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

v2.0b8 (2009 Mar 22)

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

v2.0b7 (2009 Mar 15)

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

v2.0b6 (2009 Feb 17)

BUG: Badly named Lyric variable caused problems on some set-ups

v2.0b5 (2009 Feb 16)

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

v2.0b4 (2009 Feb 9)

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)

v2.0b3 (2009 Feb 8)

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

v2.0b2 (2009 Jan 11)

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

v2.0b1 (2008 Dec 9)

NEW: Sort options on search results
BUG: Minor bug fixes

v2.0a12 (2008 Dec 4)

NEW: mysqli support
NEW: XHTML 1.0 Strict output
BUG: "Use local paths" wouldn't
BUG: Minor bug fixes

v2.0a11 (2008 Nov 28)

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

v2.0a10 (2008 Nov 23)

NEW: Live Search
NEW: Improved Search
BUG: Minor bug fixes

v2.0a9 (2008 Nov 15)

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

v2.0a8 (2008 Nov 5)

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

v2.0a7 (2008 Oct 26)

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

v2.0a6 (2008 Oct 22)

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

v2.0a5 (2008 Oct 17)

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

v2.0a4 (2008 Oct 10)

NEW: Twitter.com support
BUG: Introduced a bug with this mornings release.

v2.0a3 (2008 Oct 10)

NEW: Statistics blocks for modules
NEW: Statistics RSS feeds
BUG: Minor bug fixes

v2.0a2 (2008 Oct 5)

NEW: Joomla 1.5 component
NEW: Wordpress 2.6 plugin
NEW: Xoops 2.3 module
BUG: Genres not sorted
BUG: Minor bug fixes

v2.0a1 (2008 Sept 27)

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