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</a> </div> </header> <div id="content" class="site-content"> <div id="primary" class="content-area"> <main id="main" class="site-main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Month: <span>March 2021</span></h1> </header> <article id="post-8762" class="post-8762 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-musicbrainz category-picard tag-beta-release tag-picard tag-release tag-tagger"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/30/picard-2-6-released/" rel="bookmark">Picard 2.6 released</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.6 is now available. This release fixes issues where the user interface could freeze and contains many new features, bugfixes and improvements. </p> <p>Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.</p> <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/30/picard-2-6-released/#more-8762" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Picard 2.6 released”</span></a> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/phwolfer/">phwolfer</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/30/picard-2-6-released/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-03-30T11:24:53+00:00">March 30, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2022-05-25T07:40:44+00:00">May 25, 2022</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/picard/" rel="category tag">Picard</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/beta-release/" rel="tag">beta release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/picard/" rel="tag">Picard</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/release/" rel="tag">release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/tagger/" rel="tag">tagger</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/30/picard-2-6-released/#comments">1 Comment<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Picard 2.6 released</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-8754" class="post-8754 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-musicbrainz category-picard tag-beta-release tag-picard tag-release tag-tagger"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/20/picard-2-6-beta-3/" rel="bookmark">Picard 2.6 Beta 3</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.6 Beta 3 is now available. We decided to do a third beta after the recent <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/06/picard-2-6-beta-2/">Beta 2 release</a> as there have been additional changes that required updates to packaging and translations.</p> <p>Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Download</h2> <p>Picard 2.6 Beta 3 can be downloaded from Picard website <a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/downloads/">Downloads</a> section.</p> <p>For macOS users there are now two separate builds available. If you are using macOS Mojave 10.14 or later, including macOS 11.0 Big Sure, please use the download for macOS 10.14+. If you are still on macOS Sierra 10.12 or macOS High Sierra 10.13 you should use the download for 10.12+ instead.</p> <p>Only the 10.14+ builds support the macOS dark mode. This build also uses newer versions of Qt5 and Python and is hence recommended, but won’t run on macOS before 10.14.</p> <p>Linux users might want to install the beta version using Snap. If your Linux distribution supports Snap you can install Picard from the beta channel using:</p> <pre class="wp-block-preformatted">snap install --beta picard</pre> <p>Please report any issue through our <a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/projects/PICARD">bug tracker</a> and give us feedback on this beta release on the <a href="http://community.metabrainz.org/c/picard/">Community Forums</a>.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What’s new?</h2> <p>Apart of some bug fixes this release improves handling of dark UI on Windows and macOS. This is the first official release of Picard which supports the dark mode in macOS Mojave 10.14 and later. Please note that you need to use the Picard app build for macOS 10.14 or later for this feature to work (see above).</p> <p>On both macOS and Windows it is now possible to switch to dark or light UI independent of the system setting. By default Picard will follow your system settings. Special thanks to Gabriel Ferreira for his work to enable this.</p> <p>Below is a complete list of changes since Picard 2.5.6.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bugfixes</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2135">PICARD-2135</a>] – Tags “license” and “website” cannot be deleted and get duplicated on update for ID3</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2136">PICARD-2136</a>] – macOS: File browser does not use user’s home folder by default</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2138">PICARD-2138</a>] – macOS: After saving options the toolbar style changes</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Improvements</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1357">PICARD-1357</a>] – Support dark mode on macOS Mojave 10.14 and later</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2095">PICARD-2095</a>] – Allow the user to choose between light or dark theme on Windows and macOS</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Helping out</h2> <p>The easiest way to help us getting a great Picard 2.6 release is using and testing this beta release. Please report bugs on the <a href="https://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD">Picard issue tracker</a> and provide feedback in the <a href="https://community.metabrainz.org/c/picard/">community forums</a>.</p> <p><strong>Please also help translate Picard.</strong> There have been changes to the user interface and inline scripting documentation and existing translations need to be updated for the final 2.6 release. Translating is easy and can be done online: Head over to <a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/">MusicBrainz’s translation page on Transifex</a> and click on “Help Translate MusicBrainz”.<br>Once you have registered an account on Transifex you can start translating. For Picard the primary resource to translate is “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard/">picard</a>“, but there is also the “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard_appstream/">picard_appstream</a>” resource, which is used for providing descriptions for various Linux software-center applications, and “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard_installer/">picard_installer</a>”, which contains the translations for Picard’s Windows installer.</p> <p>If you are a software developer you are very welcomed to provide fixes and features. Picard is free software and the source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/picard">GitHub</a>. See <a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/development/">Developing</a> on the Picard website to get started.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/phwolfer/">phwolfer</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/20/picard-2-6-beta-3/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-03-20T19:45:07+00:00">March 20, 2021</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/picard/" rel="category tag">Picard</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/beta-release/" rel="tag">beta release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/picard/" rel="tag">Picard</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/release/" rel="tag">release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/tagger/" rel="tag">tagger</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/20/picard-2-6-beta-3/#respond">Leave a comment<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Picard 2.6 Beta 3</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-8722" class="post-8722 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-musicbrainz category-schema-change-release tag-schema-change"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/17/schema-change-release-may-17-2021/" rel="bookmark">Schema change release: May 17, 2021</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We’re having a schema change release on May 17, mostly to make small changes that will make our queries more efficient, ensure better constraints, and make some hardcoded options editable without schema changes in the future. We are also upping the required versions of both Perl and Node.js to 5.30 and 16.0 respectively (see the “Minimum version requirements” section below.)</p> <p>Here’s our <a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MBS%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22Schema%20change%2C%202021%20Q2%22">list of tickets for the Spring 2021 schema change</a>, with descriptions of what’s being changed:</p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Schema changes</h3> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-1424">MBS-1424</a>: <em>Add a “first release date” field to recordings.</em> A very popular request for years, this allows requesting the date of the first ever release a recording appeared on. This adds materialized tables <code>recording_first_release_date</code> and <code>release_first_release_date</code> which are updated via triggers whenever the earliest date changes. The change was released as an optional extension to the main MusicBrainz server schema on Dec 16, 2020, but it will be added to the main schema during this schema change. </li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10208">MBS-10208</a>: <em>Allow merging collections.</em> Users who decide two of their collections should be joined into a larger one should be able to do so without having to move all the entities in the collection manually. This requires adding a <code>editor_collection_gid_redirect</code> table (equivalent to other existing <code>x_gid_redirect</code> tables) to ensure the old collection links redirect to the one they have been merged into.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10566">MBS-10566</a>: <em>Convert <code>allowed_series_entity_type</code> and <code>allowed_collection_entity_type</code> to tables to allow for additions without schema changes.</em> The constraints <code>allowed_series_entity_type</code> and <code>allowed_collection_entity_type</code> specify which types of entity can be used in series and collections, respectively. As such, if we want to add the possibility to create series of artists, we need to modify the constraint during a schema change. For ease of use, we are moving the constraints to be their own tables instead, allowing us to update them as needed in the future outside of a schema change release.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10647">MBS-10647</a>: <em>Add [no label] to <code>b_del_label_special</code> trigger for labels.</em> The <code style="font-size:16px;">b_del_label_special</code> trigger ensures that any attempt to remove a special purpose label fails. Currently it only checks the special case “Deleted label”, but since “<a href="https://musicbrainz.org/label/157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176">[no label]</a>” is also a special purpose label that should never be deleted, we will add its ID to the trigger check.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10821">MBS-10821</a>: <em>Remove orphaned recordings from collections for deletion.</em> Replaces a single function, <code>delete_orphaned_recordings()</code>, to add a new clause that makes it so that recordings referenced <em>only</em> in collections (but not linked to anything else in the database) can be deleted as orphans. This was released on the main MusicBrainz servers on June 15, 2020, but it will be added to the main schema during this schema change.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10962">MBS-10962</a> / <a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11460">MBS-11460</a> – <em>Add materialized tables and indexes to fetch releases and release groups by artist or track artist.</em> These tickets will address performance issues on our current artist pages. They do not modify any existing tables, but as mentioned, add some new tables (to be updated via triggers) and indexes.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11097">MBS-11097</a>: <em>Support PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) by OAuth clients.</em> Adds two new columns to the <code style="font-size:16px;">editor_oauth_token</code> table. This feature is opt-in, but allows public OAuth2 clients to <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7636">mitigate auth code interception attacks</a>. The change was released as an optional extension to the main MusicBrainz server schema on Sep 21, 2020, but it will be added to the main schema during this schema change.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11431">MBS-11431</a>: <em>Speed up <code>/ws/js/check_duplicates</code>.</em> Adds new indexes only (on the artist, label, place, and series tables, plus their respective alias tables). Improves some slow queries in the editing interface related to duplicate checking, i.e. finding other entities with the same name. Since this is a non-breaking change, it was released on the main MusicBrainz servers on Mar 15, 2021, but it will be added to the main schema during this schema change.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11451">MBS-11451</a>: <em>Support ratings for places.</em> Places can be reviewed in <a href="https://critiquebrainz.org/">CritiqueBrainz</a> yet cannot be rated in MusicBrainz. This is a strange state of affairs: clearly, if they are worth reviewing in depth, they also deserve the option to rate them. As such, we will add <code>place_rating_raw</code> and <code>place_meta</code> tables, in the same way we have for other ratable entities.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11453">MBS-11453</a>: <em>Change <code>entity0_cardinality</code>, <code>entity1_cardinality</code> to <code>SMALLINT</code></em>. The cardinality columns of the <code>link_type</code> table are used to indicate whether the entity on each side of the relationship is expected to have only a few uses of the relationship type in question, or many (too many to comfortably display/edit). This is what stops every single recording of a work showing up in an edit work page, for example. At the moment we allow only two values for cardinality, 0/1. While it is possible that we will want to allow a few other values in between what is effectively “do not show anywhere ever” and “show all the time”, it is clear we will not need more than 32.000 values. As such, we are moving these columns from <code>INTEGER</code> to <code>SMALLINT</code> to reduce table size.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11456">MBS-11456</a>: <em>Add MBIDs and redirect tables for artist credits</em>. Adds a <code style="font-size:16px;">gid</code> column to the <code style="font-size:16px;">artist_credit</code> table, and a new <code style="font-size:16px;">artist_credit_gid_redirect</code> table. The MBIDs will allow public identification of artist credits outside of MusicBrainz, and open the door to useful features in the future.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11457">MBS-11457</a>: <em>Drop series <code>ordering_attribute</code>.</em> This column was added back when we were expecting to have different types of ordering attributes for series, but we have never used it. We are planning to just drop the column.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11459">MBS-11459</a>: <em>Add a script to create <code>edit_data_type_info</code></em>. <code>edit_data_type_info</code> is a function used for development that we added in 2020 and we will now add to mirrors as well, both for consistency and for anyone who uses their mirror for development and just wants to use it.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11463">MBS-11463</a>: <em>Add view to easily access medium track lengths.</em> Our current way of finding the length of a medium is to either load all its tracks, then sum the durations, or to use the duration of its disc ID when present. The first of these requires a lot more processing than just getting the durations straight from the database, while the second ignores any data tracks not on the CD TOC. This adds a <code>medium_track_durations</code> view that allows easy access to the duration of the track lengths for any medium.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11464">MBS-11464</a>: <em>Drop <code>statistics.log_statistic</code></em>. We added the <code>statistics.log_statistic</code> table for a Google Summer of Code project back during a 2012 schema change, but the work never got finished and implemented. We are not planning to implement it anymore, so this table is useless and we will be dropping it.</li><li><a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11466">MBS-11466</a>: <em>Change <code>language.frequency</code> and <code>script.frequency</code> to <code>SMALLINT</code>.</em> The <code>frequency</code> column of a language or script indicates how often it’s used and lets us sort the most frequently used entries at the top of our lists. But we don’t store an exact count, just a number from 0-4 indicating “frequently used,” “hidden,” or “other.” Like MBS-11453 above, we don’t expect to need a full <code>INTEGER</code> type to store these columns at any point in the future, so can safely move them to <code>SMALLINT</code>.</li></ul> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Minimum version requirements</h3> <p>We’re raising the minimum required version for Node.js to v16 (which is the next LTS release coming in April 2021). Our current required version, v10, is hitting the end of its life cycle in April, and given there shouldn’t be a particular difficulty installing the current Node.js LTS on any system, it makes sense to just upgrade to the most recent LTS by the time of the schema change day.</p> <p>We’re also raising the minimum required version for Perl to 5.30. The latest version is 5.32, but the current Ubuntu LTS (20.04), which is likely to be the next base image for our Docker containers, only provides 5.30. Our current required version, 5.18, was released all the way back in 2013, so moving to 5.30 is already a fairly significant improvement.</p> <p>We’ll post final details about this release just prior to the release and shortly after we complete it, including instructions on how you can update your own copy. If you have any questions, please do leave a comment below or on the linked JIRA tickets!</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/reosarevok/">reosarevok</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/17/schema-change-release-may-17-2021/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-03-17T16:38:41+00:00">March 17, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-19T15:00:06+00:00">March 19, 2021</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/updates/breaking-changes/schema-change-release/" rel="category tag">Schema Change Release</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/schema-change/" rel="tag">schema change</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/17/schema-change-release-may-17-2021/#respond">Leave a comment<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Schema change release: May 17, 2021</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-8719" class="post-8719 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-development category-musicbrainz category-server category-updates category-virtual-machine tag-changelog tag-musicbrainz"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/15/musicbrainz-server-update-2021-03-15/" rel="bookmark">MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-03-15</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This week we have a lot of small fixes and improvements, including a patch that should fix to the elusive bug where some recording pages would sometimes fail to load with a type error. The fix for that issue involved a large change in how we move data around behind the scenes, and in turn caused a few new issues that were reported and fixed during the beta testing period (even more thanks than usual to all testers!). If you happen to find any small errors that might still have remained undetected during the beta testing period, please do let us know.</p> <p>A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the <a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker/releases/tag/v-2021-03-15">release notes</a> for update instructions.</p> <p>Thanks to babelfisch, CatQuest, chaban, Cyberskull, Cyna, Freso, HibiscusKazeneko, jacobbrett, jesus2099, kellnerd, Kid Devine, salo.rock, uLuGaBi and Yurim for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, Jesús Heriberto López Cisneros, mfmeulenbelt, salo.rock, SpearDog, stevemarsan and SustReal for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the <a href="https://beta.musicbrainz.org/">beta version</a>!</p> <p>The git tag is <code><a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/releases/tag/v-2021-03-17-hotfixes">v-2021-03-19-hotfixes</a></code>.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Fixed Bug</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-8232">MBS-8232</a>] – Guess case lowercases after U+201C (left double quotation mark)</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-8621">MBS-8621</a>] – Inconsistent result between track and release guess case after apostrophe</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9581">MBS-9581</a>] – Event locations (areas/places) don’t use relationship credits in lists</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10004">MBS-10004</a>] – JSON-LD MBID URIs should be HTTP</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10866">MBS-10866</a>] – TypeError was shown for a recording page</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10976">MBS-10976</a>] – Unicode Private Use Area characters are stripped during edit process</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11384">MBS-11384</a>] – Some (release) countries are untranslated</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11385">MBS-11385</a>] – Country names untranslated in indexed search results</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11407">MBS-11407</a>] – Errors that go directly through Controller->error expect .tt templates</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11409">MBS-11409</a>] – Recurring warning in server logs for recording’s page</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11410">MBS-11410</a>] – Edit could not be created while at the same time approving another one had a time-out</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11420">MBS-11420</a>] – “Paste Credits” function doesn’t apply artist credit if it matched existing name</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11423">MBS-11423</a>] – Beginner editors report doesn’t show any data</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11424">MBS-11424</a>] – Release seeding landing page joins multiple values into one</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11426">MBS-11426</a>] – Track URL links open wrong medium when medium position is not aligned with CD numbers</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Improvement</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9836">MBS-9836</a>] – Guess Case: stop uppercasing “the” in artist names</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9866">MBS-9866</a>] – Add some info of what IPI and ISNI are on add forms</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9871">MBS-9871</a>] – Display all non-part-of series relationships for a series on pages for entities in the series</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9884">MBS-9884</a>] – Use “Created” as label for the begin date of character-type artist</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9987">MBS-9987</a>] – JSON-LD: Use “Concept URI” for Wikidata IRIs in the sameAs relation</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10012">MBS-10012</a>] – Treat HTTP & HTTPS versions of a link as identical in the entity editor</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10076">MBS-10076</a>] – Give a friendlier error when trying to delete an attribute that has children</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10416">MBS-10416</a>] – Prevent entering control character in annotation</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10487">MBS-10487</a>] – Allow adding instruments and areas from inline search for users with the right privileges</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11398">MBS-11398</a>] – Add Qobuz links to sidebar</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11402">MBS-11402</a>] – Block smart links: many.link</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11405">MBS-11405</a>] – Don’t show ended URL rels in “deprecated relationships” reports</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11408">MBS-11408</a>] – Clarify Edit Note Author edit search options</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11419">MBS-11419</a>] – Show YouTube Music links on the sidebar</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11422">MBS-11422</a>] – Block smart links: gate.fm</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11427">MBS-11427</a>] – Add new fields to release editor seeding testing page (seed-love-bug)</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11431">MBS-11431</a>] – Speed up /ws/js/check_duplicates</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11433">MBS-11433</a>] – Add Mp3tag to the Products header menu and main page tagger list</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">React Conversion Task</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11403">MBS-11403</a>] – Convert attribute in use page to React/JSX</li></ul> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/reosarevok/">reosarevok</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/15/musicbrainz-server-update-2021-03-15/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-03-15T12:45:54+00:00">March 15, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-19T07:53:22+00:00">March 19, 2021</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/" rel="category tag">Development</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/server/" rel="category tag">Server</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/updates/" rel="category tag">Updates</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/virtual-machine/" rel="category tag">Virtual Machine</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/changelog/" rel="tag">changelog</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/musicbrainz/" rel="tag">MusicBrainz</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/15/musicbrainz-server-update-2021-03-15/#respond">Leave a comment<span class="screen-reader-text"> on MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-03-15</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-8704" class="post-8704 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-musicbrainz category-picard tag-beta-release tag-picard tag-release tag-tagger"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/06/picard-2-6-beta-2/" rel="bookmark">Picard 2.6 Beta 2</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.6 Beta 2 is now available. This is a pre-release to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.6 release.</p> <p>Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.</p> <p>If you wonder why this is beta 2 and there was no announcement of beta 1: We had prepared beta 1 for release last week. But then AcoustID got into serious technical trouble. Asking for wider testing of a new Picard release when such an important service was unavailable seemed not a good option, so we decided to delay the announcement. But since <a href="https://community.metabrainz.org/t/acoustid-downtime/522087/10">AcoustID has now recovered</a> we are now ready for testing the beta version, and we even could get some improvements in over last week’s beta.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Download</h2> <p>Picard 2.6 Beta 2 can be downloaded from Picard website <a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/downloads/">Downloads</a> section.</p> <p>For macOS users there are now two separate builds available. If you are using macOS Mojave 10.14 or later, including macOS 11.0 Big Sure, please use the download for macOS 10.14+. If you are still on macOS Sierra 10.12 or macOS High Sierra 10.13 you should use the download for 10.12+ instead.</p> <p>Functionality wise both are the same, but the 10.14+ build uses newer versions of Qt5 and Python and is hence recommended, but won’t run on macOS before 10.14.</p> <p>Linux users might want to install the beta version using Snap. If your Linux distribution supports Snap you can install Picard from the beta channel using:</p> <pre class="wp-block-preformatted">snap install --beta picard</pre> <p>Please report any issue through our <a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/projects/PICARD">bug tracker</a> and give us feedback on this beta release on the <a href="http://community.metabrainz.org/c/picard/">Community Forums</a>.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What’s new?</h2> <p>This release fixes Picard becoming unresponsive on some systems, especially when editing or adding tags to multiple selected items. This issue has been around since Picard 2.0 and we are happy to have it now fixed.</p> <p>Apart of that there are also several new features and improvements, such as support for original release date per track, support for a new “director” tag, WebP support for cover art images, improvements to the script editor and the script documentation and more.</p> <p>Below is a complete list of changes since Picard 2.5.6.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bugfixes</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1528">PICARD-1528</a>] – “Search for similar albums” causes crashes if the selection includes clusters and files</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1689">PICARD-1689</a>] – Freezes when adding tags to large album</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1747">PICARD-1747</a>] – macOS: Tearing when scrolling list of plugins</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1926">PICARD-1926</a>] – “Show changes first” in tag preview window leads to freeze</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2088">PICARD-2088</a>] – Picard hangs when adding new tag to multiple tracks in an album</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2091">PICARD-2091</a>] – Loading images from cover art via drag and drop from browser only loads PNG and JPEG images</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2097">PICARD-2097</a>] – Crash with zh_CN locale</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2113">PICARD-2113</a>] – Script can change title of “Unclustered files” special cluster</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2127">PICARD-2127</a>] – “Lookup in browser” in metadata box does not pass tagger port</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2131">PICARD-2131</a>] – Tagger button reacts slow in Firefox</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">New Features</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-204">PICARD-204</a>] – Support for track-level original release date</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1998">PICARD-1998</a>] – Add “director” (for videos) tag</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2089">PICARD-2089</a>] – Support WebP images for cover art</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2124">PICARD-2124</a>] – Add MB release annotation field as %_releaseannotation% variable</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Tasks</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-715">PICARD-715</a>] – Chrome to block browser access to localhost</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-1950">PICARD-1950</a>] – Fix macOS builds with PyQt > 5.13.2</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Improvements</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2084">PICARD-2084</a>] – Use TLS for AcoustID web service requests</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2090">PICARD-2090</a>] – Reenable TIFF support for cover art images</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2092">PICARD-2092</a>] – Improve script editor function/variable auto completion</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2105">PICARD-2105</a>] – Improve script function popup descriptions</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2110">PICARD-2110</a>] – Add %originaldate% and %originalyear% to file naming examples</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2114">PICARD-2114</a>] – Show disambiguation comment in CD Lookup popup window</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2125">PICARD-2125</a>] – Enable CAA Release Group cover art provider by default</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2126">PICARD-2126</a>] – Allow cross origin access to browser integration</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2130">PICARD-2130</a>] – Restructure cover art options to make them easier to understand</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Helping out</h2> <p>The easiest way to help us getting a great Picard 2.6 release is using and testing this beta release. Please report bugs on the <a href="https://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD">Picard issue tracker</a> and provide feedback in the <a href="https://community.metabrainz.org/c/picard/">community forums</a>.</p> <p><strong>Please also help translate Picard.</strong> There have been changes to the user interface and inline scripting documentation and existing translations need to be updated for the final 2.6 release. Translating is easy and can be done online: Head over to <a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/">MusicBrainz’s translation page on Transifex</a> and click on “Help Translate MusicBrainz”.<br>Once you have registered an account on Transifex you can start translating. For Picard the primary resource to translate is “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard/">picard</a>“, but there is also the “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard_appstream/">picard_appstream</a>” resource, which is used for providing descriptions for various Linux software-center applications, and “<a href="https://www.transifex.com/musicbrainz/musicbrainz/picard_installer/">picard_installer</a>”, which contains the translations for Picard’s Windows installer.</p> <p>If you are a software developer you are very welcomed to provide fixes and features. Picard is free software and the source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/picard">GitHub</a>. See <a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/development/">Developing</a> on the Picard website to get started.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/phwolfer/">phwolfer</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/06/picard-2-6-beta-2/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-03-06T19:54:33+00:00">March 6, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-08T07:56:57+00:00">March 8, 2021</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/picard/" rel="category tag">Picard</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/beta-release/" rel="tag">beta release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/picard/" rel="tag">Picard</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/release/" rel="tag">release</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/tag/tagger/" rel="tag">tagger</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/06/picard-2-6-beta-2/#respond">Leave a comment<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Picard 2.6 Beta 2</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-8699" class="post-8699 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-development category-musicbrainz category-server category-updates category-virtual-machine tag-changelog tag-musicbrainz"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/01/musicbrainz-server-update-2021-03-01/" rel="bookmark">MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-03-01</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Welcome to another MusicBrainz release! This time we have a fair amount of small bugs and improvements both newly requested and recovered from the ancient times of… well, a few years ago, because we spent quite a bit of time looking at older tickets.</p> <p>A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the <a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker/releases/tag/v-2021-03-01">release notes</a> for update instructions.</p> <p>Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, Freso, HibiscusKazeneko, kellnerd, Lucas Werkmeister, pmepepnoute, Psychoadept, salorock, Sotho Tal Ker and Trevor for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to mfmeulenbelt, Remko de Keijzer, salorock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the <a href="https://beta.musicbrainz.org/">beta version</a>!</p> <p>The git tag is <code><a href="https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/releases/tag/v-2021-03-01">v-2021-03-01</a></code>.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Fixed Bug</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10117">MBS-10117</a>] – Password length error message does not indicate correct password length</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10744">MBS-10744</a>] – Gender of editors is not translatable</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11378">MBS-11378</a>] – Artist gender in artist overview is untranslated</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11387">MBS-11387</a>] – “instrument:” attribute name is untranslated when editing relationships</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11390">MBS-11390</a>] – Editor profile added entities: Incorrect count when there are pre-NGS release adds</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11395">MBS-11395</a>] – muziekweb.nl links not shown on sidebar</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11396">MBS-11396</a>] – CollectionType/SeriesType admin page shows entity_type rather than type of allowed entities</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11397">MBS-11397</a>] – Place-Series relationship does not show on series page</li></ul> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Improvement</h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9095">MBS-9095</a>] – Add Recochoku and mora links to the sidebar</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9706">MBS-9706</a>] – Normalize OCRemix URLs (including HTTPS)</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10195">MBS-10195</a>] – Block Google Amp links & prompt user to get canonical link instead</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10227">MBS-10227</a>] – Display entity count on collection page</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10343">MBS-10343</a>] – Display a placeholder for darkened images</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10452">MBS-10452</a>] – Implement tagger links for releases on recording pages</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10470">MBS-10470</a>] – Rename “IRC” link in footer to “Chat (IRC)”</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10557">MBS-10557</a>] – Normalize Recochoku URLs to use HTTPS</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11287">MBS-11287</a>] – Add Apple Touch icon to the MusicBrainz website</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11389">MBS-11389</a>] – Top-align edit medium Tracklist tables</li><li>[<a href="https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11394">MBS-11394</a>] – Don’t try to load cover art for darkened releases</li></ul> <p></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span> <a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/author/reosarevok/">reosarevok</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/2021/03/01/musicbrainz-server-update-2021-03-01/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-03-01T20:02:08+00:00">March 1, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-01T20:12:07+00:00">March 1, 2021</time></a></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/" rel="category tag">Development</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz/" rel="category tag">MusicBrainz</a>, <a href="https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/development/server/" rel="category tag">Server</a>, <a 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