MusicBrainz Server update, 2020-06-02 | MusicBrainz Blog

Now that PostgreSQL has been upgraded to version 12 (see earlier instructions), regular improvements, bugfixes, and React/JSX template refactoring are back on the menu. The most noticeable improvement is probably that we are now able to display more specific error messages in the URL relationship editor when a link is not allowed, instead of always giving a generic “not good”-style message. There are even new features, for admins only, that will allow them to spot and delete sock-puppets and to temporarily disable edit notes from editors who continue to be disrespectful to others without having to delete their accounts outright.

In news not directly connected to the MusicBrainz website, the public search endpoint has been moved from the old search server to the Solr-based search server. This can be used by slave servers if they do not need, or can not afford, to host their own search indexes.

And while talking about slave servers, a new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available. It follows this update of MusicBrainz Server and fixes a regression that affects servers with live indexing. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to Cyna for converting more edits’ display to React, to KamranMackey and navap for updating external links’ icons. Thanks to alastairp, BestSteve, chaban, chirlu, cyberskull, Freso, hibiscuskazeneko, jesus2099, and Kid Devine for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to eduardomariohs, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, salorock, and stich94 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2020-06-02.

Bug

• [MBS-9010] – Alerts about new edit notes are separate for production and beta
• [MBS-10613] – Version info footer is shown on some pages in production
• [MBS-10732] – Internal Server Error: Adding a collaborator to a collection without selecting from autocomplete dropdown
• [MBS-10839] – “Add selected recordings for merging” missing in standalone-only overview
• [MBS-10849] – Add release group preview on RE shows “This entity has been removed”
• [MBS-10850] – Bad Amazon URLs report doesn’t ignore “streaming page” relationship
• [MBS-10855] – Historic track edit involving since-removed entity doesn’t show recording
• [MBS-10863] – “Edit barcode” edit doesn’t show barcode

New Feature

• [MBS-10834] – New account flag for disabling ability to write edit notes
• [MBS-10845] – Tool to allow account admins to look up accounts by e-mail

Improvement

• [MBS #1516] – Update Facebook, Google Play, and Spotify icons
• [MBS-7822] – Update OverClocked ReMix favicon
• [MBS-8412] – Align number of edits per page
• [MBS-9516] – Display specific error messages depending on URL validation rules
• [MBS-9963] – Update Genius link format and logo
• [MBS-10412] – Update URL cleanup for Niconico URLs, specifically channel links for artists
• [MBS-10727] – Deny kasi-time.com URLs for lyrics
• [MBS-10789] – Add validation for Genius links
• [MBS-10813] – Update the Bandcamp logo used in the sidebar
• [MBS-10831] – Allow niconico channel links for other entities than artist
• [MBS-10840] – Capitalise “in key” info correctly in English guess case
• [MBS-10841] – Add “Guess case” per-medium
• [MBS-10842] – Remove report user link from deleted editor profiles
• [MBS-10853] – Link to overview page for edits by subscribed editors in subscription email

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-10397] – Convert Edit Event edit to React
• [MBS-10399] – Convert Edit Recording edit to React
• [MBS-10793] – Convert historic Move Release edit to React
• [MBS-10799] – Convert historic Move Release to RG edit to React
• [MBS-10817] – Convert Edit Label edit to React

Other Task

• [MBS-7781] – Merge duplicate artist credits
• [MBS-10785] – Remove link to FreeDB Gateway documentation
• [MBS-10822] – Change tableColumns tables to use named parameters
• [MBS-10860] – Merge the production and beta Redis stores
• [MBS-10878] – Convey search queries from slave servers to Solr

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