# CHANGELOG

## Ampache 4.4.3-release

### Added

* Catalog::update_counts to manage catalog changes
* Gather more art files from your tags
* Allow RatingMatch plugin to rate Album->Artist (Originally Song->Album->Artist)

### Changed

* Calculate MP3 stream length on transcode to avoid cutting it off early

### Removed

* Don't apply an album artist when it isn't distinct

### Fixed

* CVE-2021-32644
* Identifying a distinct album_artist query wasn't great
* Don't return duplicate art while searching file tags
* SQL query in random::advanced_sql was ambiguous
* Filtering random and search page type element
* NowPlaying stats would be overwritten when they didn't need to be
* SubSonic:
  * getNowPlaying was unable to return playing media or the correct time
  * createShare would not set the object_id correctly and ignored expires value

### API 4.4.3

**NO CHANGE**

## Ampache 4.4.2-release

### Added

* Larger artist images when you don't have a text summary available
* Expanded artist, album and podcast thumbnails to reduce blank space
* Update album tags first when you update artist tags

### Changed

* Simplify flagging/rating multi-disk albums
* SubSonic
  * just send getmusicfolders music folders
  * When calling createPlaylist, assume that the list needs to be empty first
  
### Fixed

* Require a valid database hostname instead of assuming localhost
* A valid transcode_cmd is required to transcode media
* SubSonic
  * Clients might send you a file path of Artist art instead of the id
  * Strings don't need json conversion checks
  * Send the cover art id for playlists
  * Check for artist and podcast prefixes on art id's
  * Bugs when converting between SubSonic id and Ampache id
  * Assign roles based on preferences (fixes jukebox, podcast and share roles)
  * CreateUser could overwrite admin access level
  * UpdateUser didn't write the access level
  * don't return null Genre counts
  * fix getting artist indexes for large libraries
* Don't get null playlist objects from the DB
* Using 'Save Track Order' would not apply the offset 
* Vorbis/Ogg comments use 'organization' for publisher and 'track_number' for track
* Automated Label creation when updating from tags
* Grouped album downloads and rightbar actions
* Preference::get_by_user was caching into a single value
* A user who owned a playlist was unable to reorder (but could still save the order)
* When creating shares, don't allow secret to be longer than database limit (20)
* Album full name wasn't being used in some places
* Tag::get_tag_objects was not grouping albums
* Return integers for tag counts
* rmccue/requests CVE: CVE-2021-29476
* PHPMailer/PHPMailer CVE: CVE-2020-36326

### API 4.4.2

### Fixed

* API::indexes Artist albums were being added incorrectly for XML
* Send back the full album name in responses

## Ampache 4.4.1-release

### Added

* If you have an MBID in your artist, use that for last.fm queries

### Changed

* Updated composer dependencies
* Default podcast_keep and podcast_new_download preferences are set to 0 (unlimited)

### Removed

* Delete 'concerts_limit_past' and 'concerts_limit_future' database settings.

### Fixed

* Grid View shouldn't change the artist image
* Catalog Update -u (gather last.fm info) wasn't getting an ID list correctly
* Album::get_random_songs not returning id's
* Bookmark::get_bookmarks typo for get_bookmark_ids
* Sorting album browses by artist name could fail with mysql
* SubSonic: getPlaylists should always send a user
* Album browsing SQL didn't include Artist name in grouping
* CVE-2021-21399: Unauthenticated SubSonic backend access in Ampache

### API 4.4.1

### Fixed

* API::stats would not offset recent calls

## Ampache 4.4.0-release

Keep an eye on the incoming changes to develop at [Ampache-Next-Changes](https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/Ampache-Next-Changes)

### Added

* Write metadata to mp3, flac and ogg files. Requires metaflac and vorbiscomment installed on Linux.
* Write images to mp3 and flac files. Also requires metaflac on linux.
* File tags can be updated from catalog management page.
* Configurable settings for "Gather Art".
* Configurable art search limit.
* User selectable artist and year filter for Spotify album searches
* User selectable limit for art searches.
* Generate rsstokens for each user allowing unique feed URLs
* Allow setting custom database collation and charset without overwriting your changes
  * rsstoken: Identify users by token when generating RSS feeds
* Run garbage collection after catalog_update.inc 'clean' or 'verify'
* Add duration to the table headers when browsing playlists and smartlists
* Add time and duration to albums, artists instead of calculating from songs each time
* Allow setting a custom background on the login page
* Musicbrainz search icon on Artist, Album and Song pages
* Update missing album artists on catalog add
* Add R128 Gain adjustments
* Persist replaygain setting as a cookie
* Support for image per song
* Format XML output using DOMDocument
* SubSonic - shift the current track start time when you pause/resume
* Config version 49
* NEW config options
  * hide_ampache_messages: We sometimes need to talk and will show a warning to admin users. Allow hiding this
* NEW search options (also available in Api::advanced_search)
  * last_skip (artist, album, song)
  * last_play_or_skip (artist, album, song)
  * played_or_skipped_times (song)

### Changed

* Stop logging auth/passphrase strings
* Add Y scrolling to the current playlist box (rightbar)

### Fixed

* Escape filepaths when removing from database
* Regex in config for additional_genre_delimiters
* Grid View option was backwards
* Replaygain issues in the webplayer
* Per disk actions for grouped albums (e.g. play just that disk)
* Catalog removal needs to run garbage collection
* Recognize opus when reading tags
* Regex in config for additional_genre_delimiters
* SQL query for smartlists not joining the OR correctly
* Searching with bad rules will return no results instead of everything
* Check the 'unique_playlist' option in more places
* When you haven't set an active localplay nothing was picked
* Set time for artists that are only albums
* Don't hide rss generation when you haven't got a key
* Podcast episode durations that use seconds were converting into crazy lengths
* Playlist and Smartlist check sql simplified
* SubSonic - Json clients need their playlist entry to always array (single item lists)

### API 4.4.0

### Added

* NEW API functions
  * Api::users (ID and Username of the site users)
* Api::localplay added new options to 'command' ('pause', 'add', 'volume_up', 'volume_down', 'volume_mute', 'delete_all', 'skip')
* Api::localplay added parameters:
  * 'oid' (integer) object_id to add //optional
  * 'type' (string) Default: 'Song' ('Song', 'Video', 'Podcast_Episode', 'Channel', 'Broadcast', 'Democratic', 'Live_Stream') //optional
  * 'clear' (integer) 0|1 clear the current playlist on add //optional
* Api::playlist_edit added new parameter 'sort': (0,1) sort the playlist by 'Artist, Album, Song' //optional
* Api::get_indexes
  * New type options: 'album_artist', 'podcast', 'podcast_episode', 'share', 'video'
  * Added parameter 'include': (0,1) (add the extra songs details if a playlist or podcast_episodes if a podcast)
* Api::rate - Added types 'playlist', 'podcast', 'podcast_episode', 'video', 'tvshow', 'tvshow_season'
* Api::flag - Added types 'podcast', 'podcast_episode', 'video', 'tvshow', 'tvshow_season'
* Add time to artist and album objects. (total time of all songs in seconds)
* Add songcount, albumcount to artist objects. (time in seconds)
* Add songcount to album objects. (time in seconds)
* Add type (release_type) to album objects
* Add disk to song objects
* Add time to video objects. (time in seconds)
* Add title, mime, catalog to podcast_episodes
* Api::advanced_search Add 'playlist', 'user' and 'video' to search types
* Api::handshake added extra total counts to the response
  * users, tags, podcasts, podcast_episodes, shares, licenses, live_streams, labels
* Api::ping match the handshake response (excluding the auth token)

### Changed

* get_indexes: 'playlist' now requires include=1 for xml calls if you want the tracks
* Make filter optional in shares
* Api::podcast_episodes
  * "url" is now a play url (instead of a link to the episode)
  * "public_url" is now the old episode link

### Fixed

* Api::podcast_edit wasn't able to edit a podcast...
* Api::democratic was using action from localplay in the return responses
* get_indexes for XML didn't include podcast indexes
* Set OUTDATED_DATABASE_OK on image.php, play/index.php and share.php to stop blocking requests
* Don't limit sub items when using a limit (e.g return all podcast episodes when selecting a podcast)

### Deprecated

* Dropped in API 5.0.0
  * Api::get_indexes; stop including playlist track and id in xml by default
  * Album objects: "tracks" will only include track details. Use "songcount"
  * Artist objects: "albums", "songs" will only include track details Use "albumcount" and "songcount"

## Ampache 4.3.0-release

This version of Ampache seeks to bring in some of the great changes going on in develop while we work on v5.
There also a few API changes to enable a bit better control for older clients.

### Added

* Check limits on democratic playlists (> 0 && < 3000000000)
* Show an error for out of range democratic cooldowns
* SubSonic - Force a default format (xml) instead of none
* Added back the agent string in recently played (for admins)
* Replace 'Admin' icon with padlock in sidebar when access check fails. (Hide this new icon with 'simple_user_mode')
* Disable API/Subsonic password resets in 'simple_user_mode'
* New option -m 'move_catalog' added to catalog_update.inc
* More default preferences to the refill/check functions
* More functions to search (album artist, mbid)
* Config version 46
* NEW config options
  * hide_search: If true do not include searches/smartlists in playlist results for Api::get_indexes, Api::playlists
* NEW plugin:
  * 'Personal Favorites'. Show a shortcut to a favorite smartlist or playlist on the homepage
  * 'RatingMatch'. Raise the minimum star rating (and song loves) of artists and albums when you rate/love the song

### Changed

* Scrobble plugins fire after stat recording
* Split art search by 5 instead of 4
* Increase autoupdate check time and don't force it on each logon
* Updated CSS and separated mashup covers from other types
* Don't use mail_enabled for registration checks
* WebUI - Browse by album_artist instead of single artists
* Better sorting for playlists using sort_tracks
* Don't allow duplicate podcast feeds
* Updated the gather art process
* Searches will order by file/name instead of id (unless random)
* Updated amapche.sql
* Updated composer requirements
* Default false config option text changed to true (no more typing, just uncomment!)
* Compressed PNG and JPG images

### Removed

* Disabled the jPlayer fullscreen shortcut (ctrl + f)
* Remove system preferences from the user that aren't classified as a system preference
* Stop setting open_basedir from fs.ajax
* Concert/Event pages (dead Last.fm API)
* Don't run reset_db_charset on DB updates
* Disabled browse_filter for new user accounts

### Fixed

* Speed up the playlist dialog boxes (Add to playlist)
* Fix SQL query for Stats::get_newest_sql
* Session cookie creation
* Multiple auth attempts in the same second would not return a session
* Mail auth was not checked correctly
* Gather art correctly for update_file.inc
* set bitrate correctly if using a maxbitrate in play/index
* MP3's would not get a waveform without editing the config
* Recently played respects your privacy settings
* Graph class sql grouping
* **MAJOR** UPnP fixes
* Upload catalog rename logic

### API 4.3.0

### Changed

* Api::record_play
  * Make 'user' parameter optional
  * Allow 'user' to the be user_id **or** the username string
  * Add 'date' parameter (optional)
  * Require 100 (Admin) permission to record plays for other users
* Api::get_indexes
  * Add 'hide_search' parameter (optional)
* Api::playlists
  * Add 'hide_search' parameter (optional)
* Setting a limit of 'none' would slice away all the results

## Ampache 4.2.6-release

### Changed

* Ignore ALL tagged releases (e.g. 4.2.6-preview 4.2.6-beta)
* Don't check the times in save_mediaplay plugins
* Plugins should only have 1 category
* Update Composer requirements

### Removed

* Some system preferences were added as user preferences

### Fixed

* Search original_year query
* Replaygain was missing from the webplayer
* Check albumartist in get_album_suite queries
* Recently played queries check for privacy options
* Headphones plugin fix for missing mbid's
* Duplicate downloads recorded in play/index
* Subsonic video HLS stream and json values
* Block more password resets when using simple_user_mode
* Upload catalog rename logic

### API 4.2.6

**NO CHANGE**

## Ampache 4.2.5-release

### Added

* Use _add_urls when building a stream playlist

### Changed

* Removed the forced random from search
* Put the browse header at the top above plugins
* Make the webplayer class a bit faster at deciding what to transcode

### Fixed

* Ampache Debug, cron.lib.php missing from init
* Slow playlist creation when inserting a large amount of items
* Stream_URL properties were inconsistently applied
* Fix streaming when play_type is Democratic
* Save your limit and random settings when creating a smartlist

### API 4.2.5

**NO CHANGE**

## Ampache 4.2.4-release

### Added

* "Random" tickbox added to search pages

### Changed

* Searching 'original_year' will now fall back to 'year' if no release year is present

### Fixed

* User was being created but you were told it isn't
* The search pages remember your limit correctly
* PHP exception when < 7.1
* Correct "Recently Added", "Recently Updated" searches
* Check that song can be inserted before inserting the remaining rows
* Logic in stat recording when skips occur
* Don't query for null tag ids

### API 4.2.4

**NO CHANGE**

## Ampache 4.2.3-release

### Added

* Subsonic: Generate errors for objects missing art

### Changed

* Don't mark short songs as skipped
* Subsonic: Stop converting strings to ints in JSON responses

### Fixed

* User registrations
* Workaround null values for new columns in search table
* Check release_type length before inserting into the database
* Ensure Album Artist is set correctly on songs
* Subsonic: Fix callbacks for similarSongs2 and artistInfo2
* Subsonic: getCoverArt fixes

### API 4.2.3

**NO CHANGE**

## 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

## 4.2.1-release

**NOTICE** Ampache 5.0.0 will require **php-intl** module/dll to be enabled.

### Added

* Numeric ('1 Star'-'5 Stars') searches now include '0 Stars' to show unrated objects
* Ajax refresh localplay "Now Playing" same as the index "Now Playing" section
* Add 'has not rated' to "Another User" searches
* Add higher bitrates (640, 1280) to search to allow for lossless files
* Put strings ('1 Star', '2 Stars', etc) back into numeric searches for ratings
* When using a string title for numeric searches use the order of the items starting with 0
* NEW files
  * Include API docs from the wiki. (API.md, API-JSON-methods.md, API-XML-methods.md, API-advanced-search.md)
* 'Filters' added to each sidebar tab if enabled (previously only 'Home' and 'Admin')

### Changed

* Use binary (.mo) translation files to speed up translation processing
* Don't show 'Generate new API key' if you don't have access
* QR Code in account page is now just the API Key (redundant link removed too)
* Require minimum version of Ampache 3.8.2 to upgrade database
* Added an icon to webplayer to go to album. Clicking on song title now directs to song

### Fixed

* Waveform config option 'get_tmp_dir' was ignored if set
* Rightbar: 'Add to New Playlist' not adding on new playlists
* Translate preference subcategories and status
* 'podcast_new_download' logic fix
* Filters box would show up in the Admin tab if you disabled 'browse_filter'
* Update album when 'release_type' changes
* Parse 'Release Type' from tags in a less terrible way

### API 4.2.1

No functional changes from 4.2.0

### Fixed

* Filter in "playlist" and "playlist_songs" fixed

## 4.2.0-release

The API changelog for this version has been separated into a new sub-heading below to make it easier to follow.

### Added

* Added Spotify art searches for both album and artist images.
* Updated component installer and php-cs-fixer package.
* Translation updates (April 2020, May 2020, July 2020)
* Added declare(strict_types=0); to lib/* and lib/class/* (requires more work before it can be enabled)
* Add 250 for search form limits in the web UI. (Jump from 100 to 500 is pretty big)
* Add Recently updated/added to search rules
* Add regex searching to text fields. ([<https://mariadb.com/kb/en/regexp/>])
  * Refer to the wiki for information about search rules. (<http://ampache.org/api/api-advanced-search>)
* When labels are enabled, automatically generate and associate artists with their publisher/label tag values.
* Enforced stat recording for videos. (podcasts and episodes to be added later)
* Add tags (Genres) to "Anywhere" text searches.
* 10 second redirect on "Access Denied" to the default web_path
* Allow "Update from tags" for multi-disk album and artist pages
* show and hide the rightbar (playlist) using the minimize button in the header
* Tag->f_name (New property on tag that was being set hackily)
* Add "Album" to Find Duplicates in admin/duplicates.php.
* "Local Image" added to Artist & Album search. Find out whether you have art stored in Ampache
* PHP_CodeSniffer checks and settings added to Scrutinizer. (phpcs --standard=.phpcs.xml lib/class)
* NEW database options
  * cron_cache: Speed up the interface by allowing background caching of data
  * show_skipped_times: Add "# skipped" to the UI. (disabled by default)
  * custom_datetime: Allow you to format your date strings your way.
  * unique_playlist: Force unique playlists by ignoring existing songs
* NEW config options
  * skip_timer: Add Skip Timer Threshold to the config
  * artist_art_folder: Specify a local folder to search for artist images using name/title
  * rating_file_tag_user: Set ratings to this user ID when importing ratings from file tags
  * spotify_client_id: Allows Spotify art search
  * spotify_client_secret: Allows Spotify art search
* NEW files
  * server/json.server.php & lib\class\json_data.class.php: JSON API!
  * bin/compute_cache.inc: Cache object_count data to speed up access
  * bin/cron.inc: Perform garbage_collection functions outside of main functions (includes compute_cache.inc)
* NEW examples
  * docs/examples/ampache_cron.service
  * docs/examples/ampache_cron.timer

### Changed

* Change license string from AGPLv3 to AGPL-3.0-or-later
* Update Composer requirements
* Allow searching play times without requiring UI option
* Stop showing the average rating in the web interface as stars. (show an average when available as text separately)
* When you don't have a config file redirect to installer
* Change to numeric searches: Renamed 'is' => 'equals' and 'is not' => 'does not equal'
* Allow negative track numbers; reducing the maximum track number to 32767.
* Localplay volume control moved to the playlist (rightbar)
* Podcast_Episode::check_play_history Podcast_Episode::set_played (match song.class versions for stat recording)
* Video::check_play_history Video::set_played (match song.class versions for stat recording)
* php_cs rules for line endings
* Simplify play history checks and code a bit more
* Tag (Genre) searches compare each item (e.g Pop) rather than the whole string (Pop,Rock,etc)
* Replace "Browse Library" buttons with a search header allowing faster browsing of other types
* Share secrets are generated by generate_password instead of a separate function
* inet_ntop may not convert some binary IP addresses (like ::1) these now show up as "Invalid" in the ip history.
* Searches using numeric rules must use an integer. ('1 Star' => 1, '2 Stars' => 2, etc)
* bin/delete_disabled.inc require -x to execute. (previously you needed to edit the file)

### Deprecated

* Horde_Browser::getIPAddress(). Use Core::get_user_ip() instead.

### Removed

* bin/migrate_config.inc (This was used to migrate the config file from php4 to php5)
* EchoNest api/song previews
* User::update_user_stats (used in play index only and useless)
* Share::generate_secret; use generate_password instead
* Song::get_cache_count (unused)
* Ampache Debug check for 'safe_mode'

### Fixed

* Fixed a lot of incorrectly typed function calls and code documentation
* Gravatar Plugin: Make sure https is used when force_ssl is configured
* Truncate strings to match database limits when strings go over
* Add User php warnings
* Channel authentication
* IP checks when sending null proxy values
* Gather art page layout
* Read vorbis rating correctly
* Search rules in UI failing to load with custom_metadata
* Warn correctly when inserting art fails
* Insert missing user preferences on login
* When you had beautiful_urls enabled tracks would not parse in localplay making them all Unknown
* Podcast durations aren't always correct format, prep the time before trying to insert it
* Subsonic playlist add/remove removing incorrect songs
* Search/Smartlists need to have results to be used in lists
* Auth issues with stats for recording and localplay
* Stream_urls were generated with a typo when downloading
* Respect album grouping using of the moment plugin
* Filter album title with grouping enabled. (seriously deadmau5, stop with the <> everywhere)
* Share playback without a UID would fail to start
* Set a default popular_threshold if unauthenticated or unset
* play/index would record democratic streams as a download
* Make sure the default preferences table has all the preferences in them
* Beets catalog bug; date_diff expecting a datetime but given a string
* Searches using user data like ratings has been split in the SQL correctly
* Flagged playlists never had their flag deleted
* offset and limit were incorrectly used for top/recent searches

### Security

* Fix: CVE-2020-13625 in phpmailer

### API 4.2.0

**API versions will follow release version and no longer use builds in the integer versions (e.g. 420000)**
API 5.0.0-release will be the first Ampache release to match the release string.

#### Added

* JSON API now available!
  * Call xml as normal:
    * [<http://music.com.au/server/xml.server.php?action=handshake&auth=APIKEY&version=420000>]
  * Call the JSON server:
    * [<http://music.com.au/server/json.server.php?action=handshake&auth=APIKEY&version=420000>]
  * Example XML and JSON responses available [here](https://github.com/ampache/python3-ampache/tree/master/docs)
* NEW API functions
  * get_similar: send artist or song id to get related objects from last.fm
  * shares: get a list of shares you can access
  * share: get a share by id
  * share_create: create a share
  * share_edit: edit an existing share
  * share_delete: delete an existing share
  * podcasts: get a list of podcasts you can access
  * podcast: get a podcast by id
  * podcast_episodes: get a list of podcast_episodes you can access
  * podcast_episode: get a podcast_episode by id
  * podcast_episode_delete: delete an existing podcast_episode
  * podcast_create: create a podcast
  * podcast_edit: edit an existing podcast
  * podcast_delete: delete an existing podcast
  * update_podcast: sync and download new episodes
  * licenses: get a list of licenses you can access
  * license: get a license by id
  * catalogs: get all the catalogs
  * catalog: get a catalog by id
  * catalog_file: clean, add, verify using the file path (good for scripting)

#### Changed

* Bump API version to 420000 (4.2.0)
* All calls that return songs now include ```<playlisttrack>``` which can be used to identify track order.
* ```<playcount>``` added to objects with a playcount.
* ```<license>``` added to song objects.
* Don't gather art when adding songs
* Added actions to catalog_action. 'verify_catalog' 'gather_art'
* API function "playlist_edit": added ability to edit playlist items
  * items  = (string) comma-separated song_id's (replace existing items with a new object_id) //optional
  * tracks = (string) comma-separated playlisttrack numbers matched to items in order //optional
* Random albums will get songs for all disks if album_group enabled

### Deprecated

* API Build number is depreciated (the last 3 digits of the api version)
  * API 5.0.0 will be released with a string version ("5.0.0-release")
  * All future 4.x.x API versions will follow the main Ampache version. (420000, 421000, 422000)
* total_count in the XML API is depreciated and will be removed in API 5.0.0.
  * XML can count objects the same was as a JSON array [https://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.count.php]
* Genre in songs is depreciated and will be removed in API 5.0.0.
  * Use tag instead of genre, tag provides a genre ID as well as the name.

#### Fixed

* Extra text in catalog API calls
* Don't fail the API calls when the database needs updating

## 4.1.1

### Added

* Extend Shouts to 2000 characters; Labels to 250
* Add a status icon to the channel list pointing to the channel/ID/status.xsl

### Changed

* Hide localplay in the sidebar when you disable all the plugins

### Removed

* Remove non-free lib/composer.* files.
  * You can enable c-pchart with (composer require szymach/c-pchart "2.*")
* Remove shoutcast table and preferences. (Dead code)

### Fixed

* Musicbrainz Art search
* tmp_playlist bug removing items
* Dropbox catalog errors when using a small library
* some bugs getting invalid time/date when reading tags

### API 4.0.0 build 004

Bump API version to 400004 (4.0.0 build 004)

#### Added

* Add Api::check_access to warn when you can't access a function

#### Fixed

* Fix parameters using 0
* Get the correct total_count in xml when you set a limit
* Fix many XML formatting issues

## 4.1.0

### Added

* December translation update from Transifex
* Add playlist into main search page. (Songs, Albums, Artists, Playlists, Videos)
* Add docs/examples/channel_run.service for running background processes as a service
* New search option "Another User" allows searching other user ratings and favorites
* Updates to support php7.4 (Ampache supports 7.1-7.4)
* Checks in Subsonic/WebUI for recording repeated plays
* composer & php-cs-fixer updates
* Add github package guide for docker to RELEASE-PROCESS.md

### Changed

* Update channel status pages (/channel/$CHANNELID/status.xsl)
* Update ListenBrainz plugin for empty additional info. (API says remove this section from json)

### Removed

* Roll back mysql8 workarounds. (Orace MySQL supported on php7.4+ only)
* Revert changes in 4.0.0 and allow manual choices for artist/album on upload again.

### Fixed

* Fix comparison bugs found during static type testing
* Fix enable/disable song ajax
* Typo in login page HTTP_REFERER
* Fix bin\*.inc text issues with newline
* Fix bug in UI when enabling/disabling songs
* Fix smartlists when searching sub-lists (Ampache was trying to create one giant query that didn't scale well)
* Fix "Add New..." in album edit
* Subsonic return json errors when requesting json format (previously errors were always xml)

### API 4.0.0 build 003

Bump API version to 400003 (4.0.0 build 003)

#### Added

* user_numeric searches also available in the API. ([<http://ampache.org/api/api-xml-methods>])

#### Changed

* Api::playlist - filter mandatory
* Api::playlist_edit - filter mandatory. name and type now optional
* Api::user - Extend return values to include more user fields
* Playlist::create - Return duplicate playlist ID instead of creating a new one
* Do not limit smartlists based on item count (return everything you can access)
* Api/Database - Add last_count for search table to speed up access in API

#### Removed

* Artist::check - Remove MBID from Various Artist objects

#### Fixed

* Fix Song::update_song for label
* Fix Api issues relating to playlist access

## 4.0.4

Finalize release procedure to make these updates a bit smoother

### Added

* Reduce the time for repeated track playback (Song length - 5 sec)

### Changed

* Filter playlists in API, Web and Subsonic correctly for regular users vs admins
* Hide some lines from the mashup to make it a bit nicer

### Removed

* Remove the old logo from the main install page

### Fixed

* Fix album count for Artists when the album is missing data
* Fix searches / searchbox for MYSQL8
* Fix some invalid returns in lib/*
* Send the correct function in ajax.server when deleting from playlist

### Security

* None

## 4.0.3

### Changed

* Filter playlists by access in subsonic
* Fail check_php_verison() when using less than php7.1

### Fixed

* Fixes for Api::get_indexes, Api::playlists, Api::playlist, Api::playlist_songs
* Fix Access::check to allow all public lists
* Fix global user connecting through the API with an API key.

## 4.0.2

### Changed

* Bump API version to 400002 (4.0.0 build 002)
* Extend Api::playlist_generate (add new mode 'unplayed')
* Translate typo in show_test.inc
* Trim massive year, time and track when importing new songs

### Fixed

* Fix API playlist commands and access checks relating to playlists
* Access::check should be passing user id from the API
* SQL query fixes for Album, Playlist methods
* Remove spaces from play url extensions (Should help nginx users)
* Set play_type correctly in preferences pages

## 4.0.1

### Added

* Added 'file' to Song::find

### Fixed

* Bug fix that would cause albums to be recreated in Album::check

## 4.0.0

Notes about this release that can't be summed up in a log line

### Added

* JavaScript and Ajax updates
* Code documentation and bug hunting
* Added SVG support to the theme engine.
* Default to disk 1 instead of 0 (db updates to handle existing albums)
* Add Barcode, Original Year and Catalog Number to Album table
* New Plugin - Matomo.plugin. [<https://matomo.org/>]
* New Plugin - ListenBrainz.plugin [<https://listenbrainz.org/>]
* Add bin/clean_art_table.inc to clean art that doesn't fit your min or max dimensions.
* Default fallback user avatar when none found
* Added a $_SESSION['mobile'] variable to allow changing pages for mobile devices.
* Viewport settings for mobile devices
* Use a random cover for playlist art
* Add now_playing.php to allow badges for currently track and fall back to last played if none. (thanks @Rycieos)
* Add Now Playing icon to each user page if enabled.
* Add year information and links to the data rows and interface
* Add debugging in song.class.php when the file may be corrupt
* Allow the main sidebar to be reordered using CSS (.sb2_music, .sb2_video, .sb2_*)
* Subsonic: Update api to 1.13.0 [<http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp>]
* Subsonic: Allow token auth using API Key instead of password.
* Subsonic: New Method: updateUser
* Subsonic: New Method: getTopSongs
* Config Version 40
  * Add: mail_enable - Enable or disable email server features otherwise, you can reset your password and never receive an email with the new one
  * Add: rating_browse_filter, rating_browse_minimum_stars - filter based on a star rating.
  * Add: send_full_stream - allow pushing the full track instead of segmenting
  * Add: github_force_branch - Allow any official Ampache git branch set in config
  * Add: subsonic_stream_scrobble - set to false to force all caching to count as a download.
    This is to be used with the subsonic client set to scrobble. (Ampache will now scrobble to itself over subsonic.)
  * Add: waveform_height, waveform_width - customize waveform size
  * Add: of_the_moment - set custom amount of albums/videos in "of the moment areas"
  * Add: use_now_playing_embedded, now_playing_refresh_limit, now_playing_css_file - Show a user forum tag "Now playing / last played"

### Changed

* Don't allow lost password reset for Admin users
* Don't allow emails until mail_enable is true
* Don't allow last.fm queries to overwrite existing art
* Stop trying to insert art when present during catalog update
* Move some $_GET, POST, $_REQUEST calls to Core
* HTML5 doctype across the board. (DOCTYPE html)
* Lots of HTML and UI fixes courtesy of @kuzi-moto
* If you are using charts/graphs there has been a change regarding c-pchart
  * [chart-faq](https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/chart-faq)
* Numerous catalog updates to allow data migration when updating file tags meaning faster tag updates/catalog verify! (Updating an album would update each file multiple times)
  * UserActivity::migrate, Userflag::migrate, Rating::migrate, Catalog::migrate,
  * Shoutbox::migrate, Recommendation::migrate, Tag::migrate, Share::migrate
* Rework user uploads to rely on file tags ONLY instead of allowing manual choices.
* Extend bin/sort_files.inc & catalog patterns to handle new fields
* Updated bin/sort_files.inc for a smoother experience that actually works
* Add -u to bin/catalog_update.inc This function will update the artist table with bio, image, etc as well as update similar artists.
* Update the CSS theme colors and structure.
* Light theme updated.
* Format the input fields. (you get a datetime picker on mobile!)
* Login/lostpassword moves the logo to the bottom on mobile like cockpit does! (makes typing easier on a touch screen)
* Load webplayer hidden to stop popup preferences hiding the window
* Hide video in search/stats if not enabled
* Lots of code tweaks to make things more uniform and readable.
* Default to mashup for artists and albums
* Remove '[Disk x]' when grouped from all UI areas by enforcing the group setting.
* Subsonic: Enable getChatMessages, addMessage allowing server chat

### Removed

* Drop PHP 5.6 support for 7.1+
* Remove all Plex code
* Remove message of the day
* No video, no channels in new installs
* Remove plex and googleplus plugins

### Fixed

* Fix import_playlist code. Do not recreate existing playlists and don't imports existing songs.
* Allow cli tools to use system settings for plugins.
* Fix MySQL8 installation using mysql_native_password with caveats ([<https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/mysql-faq>])
* Catalog Manager can now access catalog areas correctly
* Filter zip names in batch so they are named correctly by the download
* Fixed setting button requiring two single clicks to open. (Thanks for this 2016 pull @AshotN)
* Make test.php, init.php & install.php show an error page instead of blank screen. (gettext)
* Fix slideshow creating black screen when using web player
* Fixed QRCode views
* Subsonic: Don't ignore group settings with id3 browsing
* Subsonic: Fix cover art for playlists and albums
* Subsonic: Api fixes for podcast playback, Ultrasonic/Dsub workarounds

### Security

* Resolve NS-18-046 Multiple Reflected Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Ampache 3.9.0
* Resolve CVE-2019-12385 for the SQL Injection
* Resolve CVE-2019-12386 for the persistent XSS

### API 4.0.0 build 001

* Bump API version to 400002 (4.0.0 build 001)

#### Added

* Documented the Ampache API [<http://ampache.org/api/api-xml-methods>]
* Include smartlists in the API playlist calls.
* Authentication: allow sha256 encrypted apikey for auth
  * You must send an encrypted api key in the following fashion. (Hash key joined with username)
  * $passphrase = hash('sha256', $username . hash('sha256', $apikey));
* Added artist_tag to song searches
* flag: allows flagging object by id & type
* record_play: allows recording play of object without streaming
* catalog_action: allow running add_to_catalog|clean_catalog
* playlist_edit: allow editing name and type of playlist
* goodbye: Destroy session
* get_indexes: return simple index lists to allow a quicker library fill.
* check_parameter: error when mandatory inputs are missing
* stream: Raw stream of song_id
* download: Download, not recorded as a play
* get_art: Raw art file like subsonic getCoverArt
* user_create: 'user' access level only!
* user_update: update user details and passwords for non-admins
* user_delete: you can't delete yourself or and admin account!
* update_from_tags: updates a single album, artist, song from the tag data instead of the entire library!
* update_art: updates a single album, artist, song running the gather_art process
* update_artist_info: Update artist information and fetch similar artists from last.fm
* playlist_generate: Get a list of song xml, indexes or id's based on some simple search criteria. care of @4phun

#### Changed

* Authentication: Require a handshake and generate unique sessions at all times
* advanced_search
  * 'is not' has been added shifting values down the list.
    (0=contains, 1=does not contain, 2=starts with, 3=ends with, 4=is, 5=is not, 6=sounds like, 7=does not sound like)
  * rule_1['name'] is depreciated. Instead of multiple searches for the same thing rule_1'name'
    has been replaced with 'title' (I have put a temp workaround into the search rules to alleviate this change)
* stats
  * allow songs|artists|albums (instead of just albums)
* playlists
  * allow return of smartlists as well as regular playlists (set a 5000 limit on unlimited smartlists)
* playlist_add_song
  * Added check boolean to skip duplicate songs
* playlist_remove_song
  * Allow uid of song instead of the track id from the playlist

## 3.9.1

* Fixed Beets catalog creation and updating.
* Autoupdate now ignores pre-release (preview) versions.
* Fixed various command ine utilities in bin folder.
* Fixed XML api syntax for logging in with user name.
* Fixed newline display in xml data returned in playlist, etc.

## 3.9.0

* Video details now correctly displayed for personal video.
* XML API now fully accepts user's API key. Session will be extended if it exists; Otherwise it's replaced.
* Artist name added to Lastfm track.getsimilar query.
* Catalog_update.inc now includes switches for catalog name and catalog type.
* Added Beets catalog to Composer autoload.
* Performance improved with playlist display and search.
* General translation Updates.
* Documented php module requirement for FreeBSD.

## 3.8.9

* Improved display of artist summary on web page.
* Fixed uploading of avatar.
* DSub now writes the correct extension when the ampache config switch `encode_player_api_target` is enabled.
* Artist info now properly displayed.

## 3.8.8

* Subsonic API now removes illegal characters before returning text.
* Removed hardcoded access level to allow guests to stream audio.
* Guest accounts can now access songs and public playlists.
* Fixed bug in subsonic API which caused DSub not to create folders or
  add file extensions when caching.

## 3.8.7

* Better able to clean up image extentions when gathering art from remote sites.
* Check for B.O.M. (\xff\xfe) only in mp3 composer tag and remove.
* Added .ogv encoding target for more efficient streaming of mkv files.
* Top menu appearance more reader friendly for translations.
* Additional fixes to update_remote_catalog function.
* Enabled similar songs when clicking on radio icon in DSub.
* Repaired problem with removing "empty" albums.
* Can now access XML-API when default ACL(s) are removed.
* 'Find Duplicates' tool now works.
* Cleaning now checks for mounted path before removing empty albums/missing files.
* Starring album and artist now work via Subsonic client.
* Modified "Gather Art" debug message to remove confusion from "Image less than 5 chars...".

## 3.8.6

* Updated Subsonic Remote Catalog Module to version 2.
* Subsonic Catalog now grabs artwork directly from the subsonic server.
* Various fixes to Subsonic Catalog and Subsonic API.
* Release package now downloads from release update alert.
* Develop package downloads from develop update alert.
* Fixed album Search.

## 3.8.5

* Added search capability for user's own ratings option for Song, Artist, Album search.
* Clean process now removes empty albums.
* Further translation updates and fixes.
* Updated Subsonic API to increase compliance with Subsonic json API specs.
* Added starred date to album list and song and formatted per Subsonic spec.
* Now compatible with latest Ultrasonic client (json transfer).
* Fixed ability to edit/save smartplaylist name without setting 'random'.
* Search/smart playlist now includes favorite artists and albums.
* Modified SQL statement to not offend default SQL_MODE of ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY on server versions after 5.7.6.
* Set redirect to false for streaming types.

## 3.8.4

* Subsonic catalog now displays album art and artist bio.
* Artist info now displays in Ampache's installed language.
* Updated translations.
* Composer tag changes now saved to database.
* Seafile catalog module added.
* Dropbox catalog updated to V2 API.
* ip6 addresses now added to user history.
* Updated api.class.php
* fix for web_path auto configuration for subdirectory installation
* Composer tag changes now written to database
* Fixed catch null reference
* Changes to make translation easier
* Smart Playlist can now be edited/saved without 'random' set.

## 3.8.3

* Fixed upload problem
* Fixed charting problem
* Updated composer dependencies
* Fixed ipv6 issue
* Improved Opus transcoding
* Fixed localization chart
* Improved Subsonic API
* Improved ID3v2.3 and v2.4 to better handle multivalued lists
* Added sort by disc numbers
* Song comments are now editable
* Fixed composer column in iTunes
* Many typos fixed
* Fixed field types in modules and Localplay
* Fixed timeline function
* Activated jplayer "preload" option
* Fixed missing submit button on options page
* Increased info on DSub failing via Subsonic API
* Fixed Group actions in private message page causing JavaScript error
* Fixed some info lievel issues in Codacy
* Apply trim on dropbox parameters
* Added Prompt for user to change secret_key during install
* Enabled use of cache in PHPCs
* All files now use UTF8 without BOM
* Now require Exact catalog name match on catalog update
* Port 443 removed from play url
* Now test all images found to select the one with the good dimensions
* Rewrote LDAP class
* Song count in handshake now matches the number returned from songs
* Blocking of webplayer when transcoding fixed
* Cover art is added to live stream
* Added browse filter and light sidebar options
* Updated gettext, zipstream, react and sabre dependencies
* Fixed Subsonic scrobble submission check

## 3.8.2

* Fixed potential security vulnerability on smartplaylist search rule and catalog management actions (thanks Roman Ammann)
* Fixed song comparison issue on arrays (genre ...) when updating from tag
* Fixed song insertion issue if track year is out of range
* Fixed unexpected artist summary autoupdate
* Improved generated playlist filename (thanks yam655)
* Fixed user avatar upload (thanks vader083)
* Fixed waveform temporary file deletion issue if GD library is unavailable
* Fixed max number of items returned from Subsonic getStarred.view (thanks zerodogg)
* Fixed video update from tags (thanks stebe)
* Reverted PHP 5.5.9 dependency to PHP 5.4
* Added video playlist support (thanks SurvivalHive)
* Added preference subcategory
* Added prompt for new playlist name
* Fixed page refresh when canceling album art change (thanks EvilLivesHere)
* Added /play htaccess rewrite rule to avoid default max limit redirection
* Fixed Subsonic artist/album/song name JSON parsing if the name is numeric only
* Added ignored articles and cover art to Subsonic getArtists.view function
* Fixed MySQL requests to support ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY mode
* Fixed Ajax art refresh after changing it (thanks gnujeremie)
* Fixed playlist creation from smartplaylist (thanks stebe)
* Added SQL unique constraint on tag map
* Fixed Subsonic genres with JSON format
* Added Bookmarks feature on Subsonic API
* Fixed thumb art regeneration if entry found in database without data (thanks s4astliv)
* Added Podcast feature
* Added large view / grid view option on artist and albums collection
* Moved from php-gettext to oscarotero/Gettext
* Added `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` header on Subsonic images & streams
* Fixed Subsonic item identifier parsing
* Added logic for external plugin directories (ampache-*)
* Added Discogs metadata plugin

## 3.8.1

* Fixed PHP7 Error class conflict (thanks trampi)
* Fixed user password with special characters at install time (thanks jagerman)
* Moved Ampache project license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3
* Added Ampache specific information on Subsonic API getAlbum using a new `ampache` parameter (thanks nicklan)
* Added 'album tag' option in song search (thanks DanielMaly)
* Added Message of the Day plugin to display MOTD
* Moved AmpacheApi class to a separate ampacheapi-php git repository
* Added timeline / friends timeline feature
* Fixed disabled song display to regular users (thanks shangril)
* Fixed random albums art size (thanks Bidules079)
* Moved tag cloud to artist browsing by default
* Fixed utf8 BOM empty string on song comparison
* Improved Recently Played and user stats queries performance (thanks thinca)
* Renamed SAMPLE_RATE to TRANSCODE_BITRATE on transcoding
* Fixed tag deletion sql error (thanks stebe)
* Moved to PNG default blank image instead of JPG (thanks Psy-Virus)
* Fixed temporary playlist initial position when scrolling down (thanks RobertoCarlo)
* Added Radio stations to UPnP backend
* Fixed Subsonic API art to use album art if song doesn't have a custom art (thanks hypfvieh)
* Fixed Subsonic API search when object count parameter is 0 (thanks hypfvieh)
* Fixed UPnP UUID to be based on host information
* Moved to Composer for dependencies management
* Fixed catalog action when not using Ajax page loading (thanks Razrael)
* Fixed unrated song default value (thanks Combustible)
* Added custom metadata support from files (thanks Razrael)
* Improved Subsonic API getArtists performance (thanks nicklan)
* Fixed theme color setting behavior
* Moved audioscrobbler API to v2
* Added m3u8 playlist import
* Fixed utf8 id3v2 comments support
* Added write_playlists script to export playlists to file
* Fixed Tvdb and Tmdb plugins (thanks wagnered)
* Improved Video filename parsing (thanks wagnered)
* Fixed non scalar settings value printing on debug page
* Improved Subsonic API getAlbumList error handling
* Fixed user login with browser used during the installation
* Fixed iTunes 12 browsing when using DAAP (thanks Chattaway83)
* Moved http_port user preference to ampache.cfg.php
* Upgraded last.fm and libre.fm scrobbling to latest API version (thanks nioc)
* Added missing space between track and album in Localplay playlist (thanks arnaudbey)
* Added check fo mbstring.func_overload support before using id3 write functionality (thanks anonymous2ch)
* Fixed file size calculation when using id3v2 tag (thanks hypfvieh)
* Added rating from id3 tag (thanks nioc)
* Added track number on streaming playlist (thanks Fondor1)
* Fixed catalog export (thanks shellshocker)
* Fixed file change detection
* Improved XML API with more information and new functions
  * (advanced_search, toggle_follow, last_shouts, rate, timeline, friends_timeline)
* Fixed 'Next' button when browsing start offset is aligned to offset limit (thanks wagnered)
* Fixed stream kill OS detection (thanks nan4k7)
* Fixed calculate_art_size script to support storage on disk (thanks nan4k7)
* Fixed sql script semicolon typo (thanks jack)
* Added support for .opus files (thanks mrpi)
* Fixed podcast owner xml information
* Fixed ldap filter parameter check (thanks ChrGeiss)
* Fixed 'Add to existing playlist' link for regular users (thanks Niols)

## 3.8.0

* Added Portuguese (Brasil) language (thanks Ione Souza Junior)
* Updated PHPMailer version to 5.2.10
* Fixed user stats clear
* Added user, followers and last shouts XML API functions
* Fixed transcoded process end on some systems (thanks nan4k7)
* Added ogg channel streaming support (thanks Deathcow)
* Fixed sql connection close before stream (thanks fufroma)
* Added support for several ldap filters (thanks T-Rock)
* Fixed 'Add to existing playlist' button on web player (thanks RyanCopley)
* Added 'add to existing playlist' link on album page (thanks RyanCopley)
* Added option to hide user fullname from other users
* Added playlist track information in Apache XML API (thanks RyanCopley)
* Fixed playlist remove song in Apache XML API (thanks RyanCopley)
* Fixed Subsonic API ifModifiedSince information
* Added Podcast links to albums / artists
* Added Piwik and Google Analytics plugins
* Added Apache 2.4 access control declaration in htaccess files
* Fixed performance issues on user preferences
* Added artist search by year and place
* Fixed search by comment (thanks malkavi)
* Added Paypal and Flattr plugins
* Added .maintenance page
* Fixed captcha
* Added private messages between users
* Fixed Subsonic API rating information on albums and songs
* Added latest artists and shouts RSS feeds
* Fixed tag cloud ordering
* Added Label entities associated to artists / users
* Added WebDAV backend
* Fixed Subsonic API requests with musicFolderId parameter (thanks dhsc19)
* Added footer text edition setting
* Added uploaded artist list on user page
* Added custom Ampache login logo and favicon support
* Added edition support on shared objects (thanks dhsc19)
* Fixed share feature on videos (thanks RobertoCarlo)
* Removed album year display from album name if unset
* Fixed Subsonic API Album/Artist song's link (thanks dhsc19 and daneren2005)
* Added mysql database socket authentication support on web setup (thanks AsavarTzeth)
* Fixed artist art url for mobile use (thanks dhsc19)
* Added Shoutbox home plugin
* Added catalog favorites home plugin
* Fixed search by rating (thanks iamnumbersix)
* Added UPnP Localplay (thanks SeregaPru)
* Changed preferences to return the global value if preference is missing for the searched user
* Fixed special chars in songs names and tags (thanks SeregaPru)
* Fixed Subsonic API playlist edition/delation (thanks dhsc19)
* Fixed integer default value in Apache XML API
* Fixed image thumb on webplayer and search preview (thanks RobertoCarlo and eephyne)
* Fixed proxy setting on all external http requests (thanks brendankearney)
* Added QRCode view of user API key
* Fixed http status code on Subsonic API streams when using curl (thanks nicklan)
* Added Server-Sent Events on catalog actions
* Added option to enable/disable channel and live stream features
* Removed official PHP 5.3 support
* Added option to show/hide footer statistics (thanks brownl)
* Added delete from disk option on user uploaded files
* Added installation type and players helper at installation process
* Added tv_episode tag on quicktime files (thanks wagnered)
* Added new option to disable deferred extended metadata, e.g. artist details
* Added Subsonic API getAvatar function
* Fixed unsynced lyrics tags
* Fixed ldap_filter setting deactivation on ampache.cfg.php update (thanks Rouzax)
* Added Subsonic API similar artists & songs functions
* Added Subsonic API getLyrics function
* Fixed disk number and album artist metadata on quicktime files (thanks JoeDat)
* Fixed Ampache API playlist_add_song function
* Added ability to store images on disk
* Added new setting to define album art min and max width/height
* Fixed Subsonic API getAlbum returned artist id on songs
* Fixed Subsonic API cover art when PHP-GD unavailable
* Fixed Localplay playlist refresh on volume changes (thanks essagl)
* Fixed web player equalizer option if visualizer is not enabled (thanks brownl)
* Fixed asx file mime type (thanks thinca)
* Added song genre parsing options (thanks Razrael and lotan)
* Added sort on languages list (thanks brownl)
* Added placeholder text to search box (thanks brownl)
* Added web player Play Next feature (thanks tan-ce)
* Fixed Plex backend administration page uri (thanks a9k)
* Fixed expired shared objects clean (thanks eephyne)
* Added missing artist search results (thanks bliptec)
* Fixed song genre id parsing (thanks lotan)
* Added Scrobble method to Subsonic API
* Added an option to add tags to child without overwriting
* Added image dimension info to image tables (thanks tsquare66)
* Replaced ArchiveLib by StreamZip-PHP to avoid temporary zip file
* Added Year field in song details and edition
* Added Subsonic API create/delete user, jukebox control and search auto suggestion
* Added few optional install tests
* Improved Share features with modal dialog choices
* Added new action on playlists to remove duplicates
* Fixed playlist addition to another playlist (thanks kszulc)
* Fixed Various Artist link on album page (thanks Jucgshu)
* Added session_destroy call when a session should be destroyed
* Added HTML5 ReplayGain track feature
* Added display and mandatory user registration fields settings
* Added .htaccess IfModule mod_access.c directives
* Fixed SmartPlayer results per user (thanks nakinigit)
* Fixed XSS vulnerability CVE-2014-8620 (thanks g0blin)
* Fixed playlist import setting on catalog update to be disabled by default (thanks DaPike)
* Added ability to browse my tags other library items than songs
* Added Stream Control plugins
* Added transcode settings per player type
* Added ability to write directly the new configuration file when it version changed
* Added `quick play url` to have permanent authenticated stream link without session
* Fixed unresponsive website on batch download (thanks Rouzax)
* Added batch download item granularity
* Fixed 'guest' user site rendering
* Added Aurora.js support in webplayer
* Added Google Maps geolocation analyze plugin
* Added statistical graphs
* Added user geolocation
* Added 'Missing Artist' search
* Fixed Ampache installation with FastCGI
* Added a new RSS Feed plugin
* Added a new 'display home' plugin type
* Added Favorite and Rating features to playlists
* Added user feedback near mouse cursor on democratic votes
* Changed header page position to be fixed
* Added external links on song page details
* Fixed Subsonic API getAlbumList2 byGenre and byYear order (thanks rrjk)
* Added html5 desktop notification
* Added album group order setting
* Fixed unwanted album merge when one of the album doesn't have mbid
* Changed video player to go outside the footer
* Added ip address in authentication failure for fail2ban scripts (thanks popindavibe)
* Added parameter to hide directplay button if number of items is above a limit
* Added Tag split (thanks jcwmoore)
* Fixed album/artist arts and stats migration on rename (thanks jcwmoore)
* Fixed get lyrics from files (thanks apastuszak)
* Fixed verify local catalog (thanks JoeDat)
* Removed Twitter code
* Added optional cookie disclaimer for the EU Cookie Law
* Replaced catalog action links to action dropdown list (thanks Psy-Virus)
* Fixed `remember me` feature (thanks ainola)
* Added email when registered user must be enabled by administrators
* Fixed local catalog clean on Windows (thanks Rouzax)
* Added Subsonic API maxBitRate parameter support (thanks philipl)
* Fixed Subsonic API special characters encode (thanks nan4k7)
* Added Beets local and remote catalog support (thanks Razrael)
* Fixed XML error code returned with invalid Ampache API handshake (thanks funkygaddafi)
* Replaced iframe to Ajax dynamic page loading
* Changed `Albums of the Moment` to not necessarily have a cover
* Added Plex backend items edition support
* Added hls stream support
* Added X-Content-Duration header support on streams
* Removed Toogle Art from artist page
* Fixed track numbers when removing a song from playlist (thanks stonie08)
* Added Plex backend playlist support
* Added gather art from video files (thanks wagnered)
* Added Plex backend movie / tvshow support
* Added release group on albums
* Added Smart Playlist songs list
* Added zlib test
* Removed old Ampache themes
* Fixed Subsonic API lastModified element (thanks bikkuri10)
* Disabled `beautiful url` on XML-API for retro-compatibility
* Fixed image resource allocation (thanks greengeek1)
* Added setting to write id3 metadata to files (thanks tsquare66)
* Added check for large files manipulation
* Added video subtitle support
* Fixed Google arts to use real arts and not the small size preview
* Added Tmdb metadata plugin
* Added Omdb metadata plugin
* Added Music Clips, Movies and TV Shows support
* Added media type information on catalog
* Fixed get SmartPlaylist in XML-API (thanks opencrf)
* Added beautiful url on arts
* Improved browse list header (thanks Psy-Virus)
* Fixed user online/offline information on Reborn theme (thanks thorsforge)
* Added UPnP backend (thanks SeregaPru)
* Added DAAP backend
* Added sort options on playlists (thanks Shdwdrgn)
* Fixed XML-API tag information (thanks jcwmoore)
* Fixed multiple broadcast play (thanks uk3gaus)
* Added SmartPlaylists to Subsonic API
* Added limit option on SmartPlaylists
* Added random option on SmartPlaylists
* Added 'item count' on browse
* Added direct typed links on items tags
* Fixed Subsonic API compatibility with few players requesting information on library -1
* Added license information on songs
* Added upload feature on web interface
* Added albumartist information on songs (thanks tsquare66)
* Fixed errors on sql table exists check
* Fixed play/pause on broadcasts (thanks uk3gaus)
* Added donation button
* Added democratic page automatic refresh
* Fixed distinct random albums
* Added collapsing menu (thanks Kaivo)
* Added 'save to playlist' feature on web player (thanks Kaivo)
* Added tag merge feature
* Fixed democratic vote with automatic logins (thanks M4DM4NZ)
* Added git pull update from web interface for development versions
* Fixed http-rang requests on streaming (thanks thejk)
* Improved installation process
* Improved French translation (thanks arnaudbey)
* Improved German translation (thanks Psy-Virus and meandor)

## 3.7.0

* Added Scrutinizer analyze
* Fixed playlist play with disabled songs (reported by stebe)
* Improved user auto-registration to optionally avoid email validation
* Fixed date.timezone php warnings breaking Ampache API (reported by redcap1)
* Fixed playlist browse with items > 1000 (reported by Tetram67)
* Fixed Amazon API Image support (thanks jbrain)
* Fixed id3v2 multiples genres (reported by Rouzax)
* Improved democratic playlist view to select the first one by default
* Improved German translation (thanks Psy-Virus)
* Fixed playlist view of all users for administrator accounts (reported by stonie08)
* Added option to regroup album disks to one album view
* Changed Ampache logo
* Fixed email validation on user registration (reported by redcap1)
* Added local charset setting
* Improved installation steps and design (thanks changi67)
* Improved Recently Played to not filter songs to one display only
* Fixed Subsonic transcoding support
* Fixed Subsonic offline storage file path (reported by Tetram76)
* Added optional top dock menu
* Added html5 web audio api visualizer and equalizer
* Added `Play List` to Localplay mode
* Fixed encoding issue in batch download
* Added pagination to democratic playlists
* Added an option to group albums discs to an unique album
* Added alphabeticalByName and alphabeticalByArtist browse view in Subsonic API
* Fixed album art on xspf generated playlist
* Added stats, playlist and new authentication method to Ampache XML API
* Added responsive tables to automatically hide optional information on small screen
* Added song action buttons (user favorite, rating, ...) to the web player
* Added sortable capability to the web player playlist
* Added Growl notification/scrobbler plugin
* Added artist slideshow photos plugin from Flickr
* Added setting to change Ampache log file name
* Added playlists to Quick and Advanced search
* Added pls, asx and xspf playlist file format import
* Fixed playlist import with song file absolute path (reported by ricksorensen)
* Fixed playlist import with same song file names (reported by captainark)
* Added shoutcast notification at specific time when playing a song with a waveform
* Added Tag edit/delete capability
* Added several search engine links
* Added myPlex support on Plex API
* Added cache on LastFM data
* Added custom buttons play actions
* Added artist pictures slideshow for current playing artist
* Added Broadcast feature
* Added Channel feature with Icecast compatibility
* Replaced Muses Radio Player by jPlayer to keep one web player for all
* Added missing artists in similar artists for Wanted feature
* Added concerts information from LastFM
* Added tabs on artist information
* Added 'add to playlist' direct button on browse items
* Added avatar on users and Gravatar/Libravatar plugins
* Fixed playlist visibility (reported by stonie08)
* Added OpenID authentication
* Fixed m3u import to playlist on catalog creation (reported by jaydoes)
* Improved missing/wanted albums with the capability to browse missing artists
* Added share feature
* Updated French translation
* Added options per browse view (alphabetic, infinite scroll, number of items per page...)
* Fixed several Subsonic players (SubHub, Jamstash...)
* Added option to get beautiful stream url with url rewriting
* Added check to use a new thread for scrobbling if available
* Added confirmation option when closing the currently playing web player
* Added auto-pause web player option between several browse tabs
* Fixed similar artists list with disabled catalogs (reported by stebe)
* Improved Shoutbox (css fix, real time notifications...)
* Fixed iframe basket play action reload
* Fixed wanted album auto-remove
* Fixed MusicBrainz get album art from releases
* Added Waveform feature on songs
* Added AutoUpdate Ampache version check
* Added auto-completion in global Ampache search
* Added option to 'lock' header/sidebars UI
* Fixed catalog export when 'All' selected
* Fixed XBMC Local Play (reported by nakinigit)
* Fixed artist search
* Fixed Random Advanced (reported by stebe)
* Changed song preview directplay icons
* Added Headphones Automatic Music Downloader support as a 'Wanted Process' plugin
* Updated PHPMailer to version 5.2.7
* Updated getID3 to version 1.9.7
* Added 'Song Preview' feature on missing albums tracks, with EchoNest api
* Added 'Missing Albums' / 'Wanted List' feature
* Upgraded to MusicBrainz api v2
* Replaced Snoopy project with Requests project
* Added user-agent on Recently Played
* Added option to show/hide Recently Played, time and user-agent per user
* Updated French language
* Added option for iframe or popup web player mode
* Improved Song/Video web player with jPlayer, Radio player with Muse Radio Player
* Added 'add media' to the currently played playlist on web player
* Added dedicated 'Recently Played' page
* Added enable/disable feature on catalogs
* Fixed Config class conflict with PEAR
* Improved recommended artists/songs loading using ajax
* Added a new modern 'Reborn' theme
* Improved Subsonic api backend support (json, ...)
* Added Plex api backend support
* Added artist art/summary when using LastFM api
* Added 'all' link when browsing
* Added option to enable/disable web player technology (flash / html5)
* Fixed artist/song edition
* Improved tag edition
* Added song re-order on album / playlists
* Replaced Prototype with jQuery
* Added 'Favorite' feature on songs/albums/artists
* Added 'Direct Play' feature to play songs without using a playlist
* Added Lyrics plugins (ChartLyrics and LyricWiki)
* Fixed ShoutBox enable/disable (reported by cipriant)
* Added SoundCloud, Dropbox, Subsonic and Google Music catalog plugins
* Improved Catalogs using plug-ins
* Added browse paging to all information pages
* Fixed LDAP authentication with password containing '&' (reported by bruth2)
* Added directories to zip archives
* Improved project code style and added Travis builds
* Added albums default sort preference
* Added number of times an artist/album/song was played
* Fixed installation process without database creation
* Removed administrative flags

## 3.6-FUTURE

* Fixed issue with long session IDs that affected OS X Mavericks and possibly
  other newer PHP installations (reported by yebo29)
* Fixed some sort issues (patch by Afterster)
* Fixed Fresh theme display on large screens (patch by Afterster)
* Fixed bug that allowed guests to add radio stations
* Added support for aacp transcoding
* Improved storage efficiency for large browse results
* Fixed unnecessary growth of the tmp_browse table from API usage (reported
  by Ondalf)
* Removed external module 'validateEmail'
* Updated PHPMailer to 5.2.6

## 3.6-alpha6 *2013-05-30*

* Fixed date searches using 'before' to use the correct comparison
  (patch by thinca)
* Fixed long-standing issue affecting Synology users (patch by NigridsVa)
* Added support for MySQL sockets (based on patches by randomessence)
* Fixed some issues with the logic around memory_limit (reported by CableNinja)
* Fixed issue that sometimes removed ratings after catalog operations (reported
  by stebe)
* Fixed catalog song stats (reported by stebe)
* Fixed ACL text field length to allow entry of IPv6 addresses (reported
  by Baggypants)
* Fixed regression preventing the use of an existing database during
  installation (reported by cjsmo)
* Fixed operating on all catalogs via the web interface
  (reported by orbisvicis)
* Added support for nonstandard database ports
* Updated getID3 to 1.9.5
* Improved the performance of stream playlist creation (reported by AkbarSerad)
* Fixed "Pure Random" / Random URLs (reported by mafe)

## 3.6-alpha5 *2013-04-15*

* Fixed persistent XSS vulnerability in user self-editing (reported by
  Jean-Lou Hau)
* Fixed persistent XSS vulnerabilities in AJAX object editing (reported by
  Jean-Lou Hau)
* Fixed character set detection for ID3v1 tags
* Added matroska to the list of known tag types
* Made the getID3 metadata source work better with tag types that Ampache
  doesn't recognise
* Switched from the deprecated mysql extension to PDO
* stderr from the transcode command is now logged for debugging
* Made database updates more robust and verified that a fresh ## 3.## 3.## 3.5 import
  will run through the updates without errors
* Added support for external authenticators like pwauth (based on a patch by
  sjlu)
* Renamed the local auth method to pam, which is less confusing
* Removed the Flash player
* Added an HTML5 player (patch by Holger Brunn)
* Changed the way themes handle RTL languages
* Fixed a display problem with the Penguin theme by adding a new CSS class
  (patch by Fred Thomsen)
* Made transcoding and its configuration more flexible
* Made transcoded streams more standards compliant by not sending a random
  value as the Content-Length or claiming that ranged requests are
  supported
* Changed rating semantics to distinguish between user ratings and the
  global average and add the ability to search for unrated items
  (< 1 star)
* Updated Prototype to git HEAD (4ce0b0f)
* Fixed bug that disclosed passwords for plugins to users that didn't
  have access to update the password (patch by Fred Thomsen)
* Fixed streaming on Android devices and anything else that expects to
  be able to pass a playlist URL to an application and have it work
* Removed the SHOUTcast Localplay controller

## 3.6-Alpha4 *2012-11-27*

* Removed lyric support, which was broken and ugly
* Removed tight coupling to the PHP mysql extension
* Fixed an issue with adding catalogs on Windows caused by inconsistent
  behaviour of is_readable() (reported by Lockzi)

## 3.6-Alpha3 *2012-10-15*

* Updated getID3 to 1.9.4b1
* Removed support for extremely old passwords
* Playlists imported from M3U now retain their ordering
  (patch by Florent Fourcot)
* Removed HTML entity encoding of plaintext email (reported by USMC Guy)
* Fixed a search issue which prevented the use of multiple tag rules
  (reported by Istarion)
* Fixed ASF tag parsing regression (reported by cygn)

## 3.6-Alpha2 *2012-08-15*

* Fixed CLI database load to work regardless of whether it's run from
  the top-level directory (reported by porthose)
* Fixed XML cleanup to work with newer versions of libpcre
  (patch by Natureshadow)
* Fixed ID3v2 disk number parsing
* Updated getID3 to 1.9.3
* Added php-gettext for fallback emulation when a locale (or gettext) isn't
  supported
* Fixed pluralisation issue in Recently Played
* Added support for extracting MBIDs from M4A files
* Fixed parsing of some tag types (most notably M4A)
* Corrected PLS output to work with more players (reported by bhassel)
* Fixed an issue with compound artists in media with MusicBrainz tags
  (reported by greengeek)
* Fixed an issue with filename pattern matching when patterns contained
  characters that are part of regex syntax (such as -)
* Fixed display of logic operator in rules (reported by Twister)
* Fixed newsearch issue preventing use of more than 9 rules
  (reported by Twister)
* Fixed JSON escaping issue that broke search in some cases
  (reported by XeeNiX)
* Overhauled CLI tools for installation and database management
* Fixed admin form issue (reported by the3rdbit)
* Improved efficiency of fetching song lists via the API
  (reported by lotan_rm)
* Added admin_enable_required option to user registration
* Fixed session issue preventing some users from streaming
  (reported by miir01)
* Quote Content-Disposition header for art, fixes Chrome issue
  (patch by Sébastien LIENARD)
* Fixed art URL returned via the API (patch by lotan_rm)
* Fixed video searches (reported by mchugh19)
* Fixed Database Upgrade issue that caused catalog user/pass for
  remote catalogs to not be added correctly
* Added the ability to locally cache passwords validated by external
  means (e.g. to allow LDAP authenticated users to use the API)
* Fixed session handling to actually use our custom handler
  (reported by ss23)
* Fixed Last.FM art method (reported by claudio)
* Updated Captcha PHP to 2.3
* Updated PHPMailer to 5.2.0
* Fixed bug in MPD module which affected toggling random or repeat
  (patch from jherold)
* Properly escape config values when writing ampache.cfg.php
* Fixed session persistence with auth disabled (reported by Nathanael
  Anderson)
* Fixed item count retention for Advanced Random (reported by USAF_Pride)
* Made catalog verify respect memory_cache
* Some catalog operations are now done in chunks, which works better on
  large catalogs
* API now returns year and bitrate for songs
* Fixed search_songs API method to use Search::run properly
* Fixed require_session when auth_type is 'local'
* Catalog filtering fix
* Toggle artwork with a button instead of a checkbox (patch from mywindow)
* API handshake code cleanup, including a bugfix from postfuturist
* Improved install process when JavaScript is disabled
* Fixed duplicate searching even more
* Committed minor bugfixes for Penguin theme
* Added Fresh theme
* Fixed spurious API handshake failure output

## 3.6-Alpha1 *2011-04-27*

* Fixed forced transcoding
* Fixed display during catalog updates (reported by Demonic)
* Fixed duplicate searching (patch from Demonic)
* Cleaned up transcoding assumptions
* Fixed tag browsing
* Added new search/advanced random/dynamic playlist interface
* byterange handling for ranges starting with 0 (patch from uberbrady)
* Fixed issue with updating ACLs under Windows (reported by Citlali)
* Add function that check ampache and php version from each website.
* Updated each ampache header comment based on phpdocumentor.
* Fixed only admin can browse phpinfo() for security reasons on /info.php
* Added a few translation words.
* Updated version ## 3.6 on docs/*
* Implemented ldap_require group (patch from eliasp)
* Fix \ in web path under Apache + Windows Bug #135
* Partial MusicBrainz metadata gathering via plugin
* Metadata code cleanup, support for plugins as metadata sources
* New plugin architecture
* Fixed display charset issue with catalog add/update
* Fixed handling of temporary playlists with >100 items
* Changed Browse from a singleton to multiple instances
* Fixed setting access levels for plugin passwords
* Fixed handling of unusual characters in passwords
* Fixed support for requesting different thumbnail sizes
* Added ability to rate Albums of the Moment
* Added ability to edit/delete playlists while they are displayed
* Fix track numbers not being 0 padded when downloading or renaming.
* Rating search now allows specification of operator (>=, <=, or =)
  and uses the same ratings as normal display.
* Add -t to catalog_update.inc for generating thumbnails
* Generate Thumbnails during catalog art operations
* Fixed transcode seeking of Flacs by switching to MM:SS format for
  flacs being transcoded
* Change album_art_order to art_order to reflect general nature of
  config option
* Fix PHP warning with IP History if no data is found.
* Add -g flag to catalog update to allow for art gathering via cmdline
* Change Update frequency of catalog display to 1 second rather then
  %10 reduces cpu load due to javascript excution (Thx Dmole)
* Add bmp to the list of allowed / supported album art types
* Strip extranious whitespace from cmdline catalog update (Thx ascheel)
* Fix catalog size math for catalogs up to 4TB (Thx Joost.t.Hart@planet.nl)
* Fix httpQ not correctly skipping to new song
* Fix refreshing of Localplay playlist when an item is skipped to
* Fix missing Content-Disposition filename= on non-transcoded songs
* Fix refresh of Localplay playlist when you delete a track from it
* Added ability to add Ampache as a search descriptor (Thx Vlet)
* Correct issue with single song downloads
* Removed old useless files
* Added local auth method that uses PHP's PAM module
* Correct potential security issues due to misuse of REQUEST for write
  operations rather then POST (Thx Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>)
* Finished switching to Dba::read() Dba::write() for database calls
  (Thx dipsol)
* Improved File pattern matching (Thx october.rust)
* Updated Amazon Album art search to current Amazon API specs (Thx Vlet)
* Fix typo that caused song count to not be set on tag xml response
* Fix tag methods so that alpha_match and exact_match work
* Fix limit and offset not working on search_songs API method
* Fix import m3u on catalog build so it does something
* Fix inconsistent view during catalog operations
* Sort malformed files into "Unknown (Broken)" rather then leaving
  them in "Unknown (Orphaned)"
* Fix API democratic voting methods (Thx kindachris)
* Add server version to API ping response
* Fix Localplay API methods (Thx thomasa)
* Improve bin/catalog_update.inc to allow only verify, clean or add
  (Thx ascheel)
* Fix issue with batch download and UNC paths (Thx greengeek)
* Added config option to turn caching on/off, Default is off
* Fix issue where file tag pattern was ignore if files have no tag structure
* Add TDRC to list of parsed id3v2 tags
* Added the rating to a single song view
* Fix caching issue when updating ratings where they would not
  display correctly until a page reload
* Altered the behavior of adding to playlists so that it maintains
  playlist order rather then using track order
* Strip excessive \n's from catalog_update (Thx ascheel)
* Fix incorrect default ogg transcode target in base config file
* Fix stream user preferences using cached system preferences
  rather then their own
* Fixed prevent_multiple_logins preventing all logins (Thx Hugh)
* Added additional information to installation process
* Fix PHP 5.3 errors (Thx momo-i)
* Fix random methods not working for Localplay
* Fixed extra space on prefixed albums (Thx ibizaman)
* Add missing operator on tag and rating searches so they will
  work with other methods (Thx kiehnet@netscape.net)
* Add MusicBrainz MBID support to uniqly identify albums and
  also get more album art (Thx flowerysong)
* Fix the url to song function
* Add full path to the files needed by the installation just to
  make it a little clearer
* Fixed potential endless loop with malformed genre tags in mp3s
  (Thx Bernhard Weyrauch)
* Fixed web path always returning false on /test.php
* Updated Man Page to fix litian problems for Debian packaging
* Fixed bug where video was registering as songs for now playing
  and stats
* Add phpmailer and change ampache.cfg.php.dist
* Fixed manpage (Thx Porthose)

## 3.5 *2009-05-05*

* Added complete Czech translation (Thx martin hason)
* Add the AlmightyOatmeal-Sanity check to prevent a clean from
  removing all songs if your mount failed, but is still
  readable by ampache
* Make the Lang Install page prettier
* Added Check for hash,inet_pton,windows PHP Version to init so
  that upgrades without pre-reqs are handled correctly
* Allow mms,mmsh,mmsu,mmst,rstp in Radio Stream URLs
* Fixed a problem where after adding a track to a saved playlist
  there was no UI response upon deleting the track without
  a page refresh
* Fix an issue where the full version of the album art was never
  used even when requested
* Fix maxlength on acl fields being to small for all IPv6 addresses
* Add error message when file exists but is unreadable do not
  remove unreadable songs from catalog
* Fixed missing title tag on song browse for the title
  (Thx flowerysong)
* Fix htmlchar'd rss feed url
* Fix Port not correctly being added to URL in most cases
  even when defined in config

  v.## 3.5-Beta2 04/07/2009
* Fix ASX playlists so more data shows up in WMP (Thx Jon611)
* Fix dynamic playlist items so they work in stream methods again
* Fixed Recently Played so that it correctly shows unique songs
  with the correct data
* Fix some issues with filenames with Multi-byte characters
  (Thx Momo-i)
* Add WMV/MPG specific parsing functions (Thx Momo-i)
* Add text to /test.php for hash() and SHA256() support under PHP
  section
* Fix SHA256 Support so that it references something that exists
* Fix incorrect debug_event() on login due to typo
* Remove manage democratic playlist as it has no meaning in the
  current version
* Run Dba::reset_db_charset() after upgrade in case people are playing
  hot potato with their charsets.
* Move Server Preferences to Admin menu (Thx geekdawg)
* Fixed missing web_path reference on radio creation link
* Fixed remote catalog_clean not working
* Fixed xmlrpc get image. getEncoding wasn't static

## 3.5-Beta1 *2009-03-15*

* Add democratic methods to api, can now vote, devote, get url
  and the current democratic playlist through the api
* Revert to old Random Play method
* Added proxy use for xmlrpcclient
* Added Configuration 'Wizard' for democratic play
* Fixed interface feedback issues with democratic play actions
* Add extension to image urls for the API will add to others as
  needed due to additional query requirement. Needed to fix
  some DLNA devices
* Fixed typo that caused the height of album art not to display
* Modified database and added GC for tmp_browse table
* Added get lyrics and album art using http proxy server #313 + username,
  password patch
* Added lyricswiki link Ticket #70
* Updated README language
* Updated getid3 library 2.0.0b4 to 2.0.0b5
* Make the Democratic playlist be associated with the user
  who sends it to a 'player'
* Fixed missing page headers on democratic playlist
* Show who voted for the sogns on democratic playlist
* Increase default stream length to account for the fact that movies
  are a good bit longer then songs
* Correct Issues with multi-byte characters in Lyrics (Thx Momo-i)
* Added caching to Video
* Added Video calls to the API
* Remove redundent code from Browse class by making it extend
  new Query class
* Update Prototype to 1.6.0.3
* Add Time range to advanced search
* Add sorting to Video Browse
* Changed to new Query backend for Browsing and Dynamic Playlists

## 3.5-Alpha2 *2009-03-08*

* Fixed caching of objects with no return value
* Fixed updating of songs that should not be updated during catalog
  verify
* Added default_user_level config option that allows you to define
  the user level when use_auth is false. Also allows manual
  login of admin users when use_auth is false.
* Fix Version checking and Version Error Message on install (Thx Paleo)
* Moved Statistics to main menu, split out newest/popular/stats
* Fixed bug where saved Thumbnails were almost never used
* Fixed Localplay httpQ and MPD controls to recognize Live Stream
  urls.
* Added Localplay controls to API
* Added Added/Updated filters to API include the ability to specify
  a date range using ISO 8601 format with [START]/[END]
* Changed API Date format to ISO 8601
* Fixed Incorrect Caching of Album records that caused the
  Name + Year + Disk to not be respected
* Added Lyrics Patch (Thx alister55 & momo-i)
* Fixed password not updating when editing an httpQ Localplay
  instance
* Added Video support
* Fixed normalize tracks not re-displaying playlist correctly
* Fixed now playing now showing currently playing song
* Fixed now playing clear all not correctly refreshing screen
* Fixed adding object to playlist so that it correctly shows the
  songs rather then an empty playlist
* Added User Agent to IP History information gathering
* Added Access Control List Wizards to make API interface
  setup easier
* Added IPv6 support for Access Control, Sessions, IP History
* Fixed sorting issue on artist when using search method
* Updated flash player to 5.9.5
* Fixed bug where you admins couldn't edit preferences of
  users due to missing 'key' on form
* Added Mime type to Song XML

## 3.5-Alpha1 *2008-12-31*

* Fixed sort_files script so that it properly handles variable
  album art file names in the directories
* Fixed issue where small thumbnails were used for larger images
  if gd based resizing was enabled in the config
* Fixed catalog_update.inc so it doesn't produce errors
* Made democratic play respect force http play
* Make installation error messages more helpful
* Added Swedish (sv_SE) translation (Thanks yeager)
* Allow Add / Verify of sub directories of existing catalogs
* Prevent an fread of 0 bytes if you seek to the end of a file
* Added require_localnet_session config that allows you to exclude
  IP(s) from session checks, see config.dist
* Added Nusoap (<http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/>) library
  for use with future lyrics feature
* Fixed problem with flash player where random urls were not being
  added correctly
* Fixed problem with user creation using old method (Thx Purdyk)
* Switched to SHA256() for API and passwords
* Added check for BADTIME error code from Last.FM and correctly
  return the error rather then a generic one
* Fix http auth session issues, where every request blew away the
  old session information
* Many other minor improvements (Thx Dipsol)
* Fixed warnings in caching code (Thx Dipsol)
* Massive text cleanup (Thx Dipsol)
* Fixed tag searching and improved some other search methods to
  prevent SQL warnings on no results
* Improved Test page checks to more accuratly verify putENV support
* Make network downsampling a little more sane, don't require
  access level
* Added caching to Playlist dropdown
* Fixed double caching on some objects
* Added base.css and 4 tag 'font' sizes depending on weight/count
* Fixed inline song edit
* Updated registration multi-byte mail.
* Fixed vainfo.class.php didn't catch exception for first analyze.
* Fixed iconv() returns an empty strings (Thx abs0)
* Updated getid3 for multi-byte characters, but some wrong id3tags
  have occurred exception error.
* Fixed use_auth = false not correctly re-creating the session if
  you had just switched from use_auth = true
* Add links to RSS feeds and set default to TRUE in config.dist
* Fixed Dynamic Random/Related URLs with players that always send
  a byte offset (MPD)
* Added Checkbox to use existing Database
* Updated language code and Fixed catalan language code
* Added Emulate gettext() from upgradephp-15
  (<http://freshmeat.net/p/upgradephp>)
* Fixed Test.php parse error.
* Updated multibyte character strings mail.
* Fixed To send mail don't remove the last comma from recipient.
* Updated More translatable templates.
* Removed merge-messages.sh and Add LANGLIST (each languages
  translation statistics).
* Fixed If database name don't named ampache, can't renamed tags
  to tag.
* Fixed count issue on browse Artists (Thx Sylvander)
* Fixed prevent_multiple_logins, preventing all logins (Thx hugh)
* Fixed Export catalog headers so it corretly prompts you to download
  the file
* Add ability to sort by artist name, album name on song browse
* Implemented caching on artist and album browse, added total
  artist time to the many artist view
* Fixed test config page so it bounces you back to the test page
  if the config starts parsing correctly
* Fixed browsing so that you can browse two different types in two
  windows at the same time
* Improved gather script for translations (Thx momo-i)
* Added paging to the Localplay playlist
* Updated German Translation (Thx Laurent)
* Fixed issue where Remote songs would never be removed from
  the democratic playlist
* Fixed issue where user preferences weren't set correctly
  on stream (Thx lorijho)
* Added caching of user preferences to avoid a SQL query on load
  (Thx Protagonist)
* Fixed home menu not always displaying the entire contents
* Fixed logic error with duplicate login setting which caused it
  to only work if mysql auth was used
* Changed passwords to SHA1 will prompt to reset password
* Corrected some translation strings and added jp_JP (Thx momo-i)
* Ignore filenames that start with . (hidden) solves an issue
  with mac filesystems
* Fix tracking of stats for downloaded songs
* Fix divide by 0 error during transcode in some configurations
* Remove root mysql pw requirement from installer
* Added Image Dimensions on Find Album Art page
* Added Confirmation Screen to Catalog Deletion
* Reorganized Menu System and Added Modules section
* Fix an error if you try to add a shoutbox for an invalid object
  (Thx atrophic)
* Fixed issue with art dump on jpeg files (Thx atrophic)
* Fixed issue with force http play and port not correctly specifying
  non-standard http port (Thx Deathcrow)
* Remember Starts With value even if you switch tabs
* Fixed rating caching so it actually completely works now
* Removed redundent UPDATE on session table due to /util.php
* Added Batch Download to single Artist view
* Added back in the direct links on songs, requires download set
  to enabled as it's essentially the same thing except with
  now playing information tied to it
* Bumped API Version to 350001 and require that a version is sent
  with handshake to indicate the application will work
* Removed the MyStrands plugin as did not provide good data, and does
  not appear to have been used
* Added Catalog Prefix config option used to determine which prefixes
  should not be used for sorting
* Merged Browse Menu with Home
* Added checkbox to single artist view allowing you to enable/disable
  album art thumbnails on albums of said artist
* Added timeout override on update_single_item because the function
  is a lie
* Fix translations so it's not all german
* Genre Tag is now used as a 'Tag', Browse Genre removed
* Ignore getid3() iconv stuff doesn't seem to work
* Improved fix_filenames.inc, tries a translation first then strips
  invalid characters
* Fixed album art not clearing thumbnail correctly on gather
* Fixed Localplay instance not displaying correctly after change
  until a page refresh
* Fixed endless loop on index if you haven't played a song in
  over two years
* Fixed gather art and parse m3u not working on catalog create
  also added URL read support to m3u import
* Upped Minimum requirements to Mysql 5.x
* Add codeunde1load's Web 2.0 style tag patch
* Fixed typo in e-mail From: name (Thx Xgizzmo)
* Fixed typo in browse auto_init() which could cause ampache to not
  remember your start point in some situations. (Thx Xgizzmo)