Bug

• [SEARCH-198] – The artist is getting a lowered score on MBS
• [SEARCH-199] – Search includes empty annotations
• [SEARCH-200] – Search on release giving to much boost to matches on CatalogNo
• [SEARCH-201] – explain option doesnt work if search results contain non ISO-8859-1 characters
• [SEARCH-216] – Null pointer exception when building freedb

Improvement

• [SEARCH-157] – Be able to search for a track by its metadata OR its puid
• [SEARCH-186] – Search Server has hard coded redirect URL
• [SEARCH-187] – Update Junit Test from 3 to 4
• [SEARCH-202] – Allow searching for RGs based on their releases’ status
• [SEARCH-204] – Upgrade codebase to Lucene 3.6
• [SEARCH-214] – Add release group ID to the web service indexed search results for recordings

New Feature

• [SEARCH-205] – Search server should return multiple ISWCs for works
• [SEARCH-207] – Changes due to introduction of ISO-3 language code
• [SEARCH-208] – Chnages due to Split release group attributes into two types Schema Change
• [SEARCH-209] – Support for Multiple IPI Artists
• [SEARCH-211] – Support for new Track ‘Number’ field in a track
• [SEARCH-212] – Add abiility to index, display and search works by lyrics language as part of schema change
• [SEARCH-213] – Changes due to MBS-1385:Support unknown end dates

Task

• [SEARCH-192] – Update Maven 2 to Maven 3

– Fix LMB-32 – Correctly ignore unrecognised nodes
– Don’t compile using -Werror when building from tarball

The releases are available:

libmusicbrainz-4.0.3.tar.gz
(MD5 checksum: 19b43a543d338751e9dc524f6236892b)

libmusicbrainz-5.0.1.tar.gz
(MD5 checksum: a0406b94c341c2b52ec0fe98f57cadf3)

Documentation for the new version is available under

http://metabrainz.github.com/libmusicbrainz/

Apologies to all for the need to make this release so soon after the last one.

Andy

This release contains 9 new features and improvements that take advantage of the new schema. These are:

• More social user profiles which can now have Gravatars, languages (and the users proficiency) age and country.
• More expressive aliases for artists, labels and works. Aliases can now have types, sort names and multiple aliases may be used per a locale, along with the ability to mark one alias as ‘primary’ for that locale.
• Release group types have been separated into primary and secondary types. A release group now has 1 primary type and may have multiple secondary types. This allows us to have ‘remix compilation albums’, for example
• Works may have multiple ISWCs
• Artists, labels and relationships may be marked as ‘ended’ to indicate that they have ended, but the exact date is not known
• Vinyl style/free text track numbers are now supported.
• Works may have a lyrics language associated with them
• Artists and labels may have multiple IPIs
• We have moved to use ISO 639-3 for our language table. While not all languages are exposed at the moment, this gives us a lot more flexibility going forward.

Many thanks to nikki for going way beyond our expectations for testing (and patience!); to Ian McEwan for his continued work on statistics; and to the MusicBrainz team for making this all happen.

If you have a replicated instance of MusicBrainz, please follow these instructions to get your server running on the new schema:

1. Take down the web server running MusicBrainz, if you’re running a web server.
2. Turn off cron jobs if you are automatically updating the database via cron jobs.
3. Make sure your REPLICATION_TYPE setting is RT_SLAVE
4. Switch to the new code with git fetch origin followed by git checkout v-2012-05-15-schema-change
5. Run carton install --deployment. If you have not switched your installation to using carton, please read INSTALL.md on how to do this.
6. Run carton exec -- ./upgrade.sh from the top of the source directory.
7. Set DB_SCHEMA_SEQUENCE to 15 in lib/DBDefs.pm
8. Turn cron jobs back on, if needed.
9. Restart the MusicBrainz web server, if needed.

If you are running a mbslave mirror, check out the latest code and read the upgrade instructions in the README file.

Bug

• [MBS-3189] – Remove unused ref_count column and related functions
• [MBS-4616] – Add work language statistics
• [MBS-4629] – /cover-art page shows no collections
• [MBS-4637] – Timeline graph won’t graph anything without an entry in statistics/view.js
• [MBS-4640] – Clicking cover art opens box with "����" (4 U+FFFD)
• [MBS-4642] – Thickbox CSS interferes with MB CSS
• [MBS-4647] – Cover art page allows submitting edit with no cover art when JS is off
• [MBS-4648] – Changing cover art type from "other" to unset causes Internal Server Error
• [MBS-4678] – upgrade.sh is not ready for testing
• [MBS-4679] – Internal server error adding secondary types to a release

Improvement

• [MBS-1485] – Alias types
• [MBS-1798] – Lyrics language for works
• [MBS-1799] – Add ISO 639-3 language codes to the database
• [MBS-1981] – Add blog feed to the home page
• [MBS-2240] – Aliases: certain locale can be used only once in the list of aliases
• [MBS-2532] – Allow more than one IPI per artist
• [MBS-2851] – Timeline graph events should be in the database
• [MBS-2885] – Allow more than one ISWC per work
• [MBS-3646] – Split release group attributes into two types
• [MBS-3788] – Alias improvements
• [MBS-4625] – Improve wording of cover art tab when cover art comes from relationships
• [MBS-4676] – Do not allow people entering deprecated relationships

New Feature

• [MBS-842] – Allow vinyl style track numbers and sides
• [MBS-1385] – Support unknown end dates
• [MBS-3704] – Allow adding sort names to artist aliases
• [MBS-4337] – Make user profile more social: add (optional) fields avatar, gender, birth year, country

Hi,

I am pleased to announce two new versions of libmusicbrainz:

libmusicbrainz-4.0.2 has been updated to take account of changes made to the server on 15th May 2012. Some interfaces are now marked as deprecated, as they have been extended during the work.

Full documentation is available here:

http://metabrainz.github.com/libmusicbrainz/4.0.2/

The release can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/downloads/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz/libmusicbrainz-4.0.2.tar.gz

(MD5 checksum 5ff62abeca00fdad1bb3a8f99065ae61)

libmusicbrainz-5.0.0 has been introduced to enable the library to be more easily included in Debian due to a conflicting package name. It is identical to libmusicbrainz-4.0.2, with the following exceptions:

1. All include files are now in the musicbrainz5 directory

2. You should now link against libmusicbrainz5 (-lmusicbrainz5)

3. All previously deprecated functions have been removed.

Please note that all future work is likely to only occur on the 5.x library, so this should be used wherever possible.

Full documentation is available here:

http://metabrainz.github.com/libmusicbrainz/5.0.0/

The release can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/downloads/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz/libmusicbrainz-5.0.0.tar.gz

(MD5 checksum 3396e0c66cfacfa1f32abc7cfdbcbe13)

As ever, please report any issues in JIRA at

http://tickets.musicbrainz.org

under the project ‘libmusicbrainz’.

If you have any questions, please post them in the musicbrainz-devel mailing list. I will also attempt to be available on the #musicbrainz-devel IRC channel on Freenode.

To accomplish this, I’ve stopped index updating and created a separate database that will allow me to build some indexes that will be a few hours out of date when we release tomorrow. They will be slightly old, but at least we will have indexes that work.

I expect the indexes to be up to date about 3 hours of the release is complete. If you find the indexed search out of date, please use the direct search in the meantime.

Sorry for any inconveniences this may cause.

Sorry for inconvenience that this may cause you.

This is a huge step for MusicBrainz — in the past the labels didn’t even acknowledge our existence and now they are using our data.

Thanks James Cowdery & crew over at Universal in London!

• Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike ver. 2
• An old public domain dedication, similar to this deprecated mark, from the CC Public Domain Dedication.

I propose that we move to:

• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
• Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication

The move to the CC license version 3 allows us to use the latest and most robust version of the Creative Commons license. If you’d like lots more detail on what this change means, please read the CC version 3 license “brief” explanation.

The CC0 grant improves a number of aspects of our old Public Domain dedication, especially in jurisdictions outside the US. Our current dedication isn’t sufficient to renounce any copyright over the data in some countries. The CC0 grant is an improved version that maximizes the global coverage of our rejection of copyright for our data.

Summary in plain english: We’d like to move to updated, more robust licenses. We are not changing what data is available under which license, nor are we taking away any rights that end users already have.

If you have questions or comments, please post them here. If there are no objections to this change, I will make it effective with our May 15th release.

UPDATE: Fixed an incorrect link that Mike from the Creative Commons pointed out. Thanks Mike!

As a reminder, here are the tickets that will change our schema and here are all the tickets scheduled for the 15th.

Auf Deutsch!

What’s expected of liaisons:

1. Willing to be pestered occasionally, by me or other developers, about language-specific concerns: when adding new features, and thus adding new strings, we’d like to be able to ensure nothing’s added that will need to be changed before it can be translated into a given language.
2. Willing to file bugs for strings already in the database that are untranslatable, should you find them.
3. Be on the musicbrainz-i18n mailing list; this will be the main venue for organization and communication about i18n issues.
4. Ideally, to be an active translator for your language – but this isn’t a requirement, because I’d like to get the widest global coverage I can; even if a language doesn’t currently have a translation, we don’t want to unintentionally sabotage future translators with untranslatable strings!

日本語

I’ll also be determining a (related) list of “target languages” for the summer, with the intention of releasing translation on musicbrainz.org with these languages at the end of the summer. I’ll consider for inclusion on this list languages that are both in active translation on Transifex and have language liaisons.

If you’re interested in being a language liaison, please contact me: ianmcorvidae (at) musicbrainz (dot) org, editor ianmcorvidae, or ianmcorvidae on IRC, and join the mailing list.

If you’re interested in i18n generally,  please join the musicbrainz-i18n list. For more information on my project and musicbrainz-server i18n, see the server internationalization wiki page, my post on my personal blog, and my official proposal, or come ask about it on IRC or the mailing list!

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