Version 8.5.0

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 8.4.x

Server Changes:

Remove all dependency on MySqueezebox.com.
Remove warning about "incompatible" Radio firmware version 7.*.
#1003 - Add alarm information to player "status" query.

Bug Fixes:

#998 - Fix Sounds & Effects playback when password protection is enabled.
#1007 - Fix track favorite links in album listings (thanks darrell-k!).

Version 8.4.1

Server Changes:

Improve Release Type readout in Ogg and WMA files.

Bug Fixes:

Don't fail http caching due to extended characters in the URL.
Playing all items from a genre might fail under certain circumstances.
Use valid sorting arguments if sort order "albums" is requested when queuing up items.
Fix Last.fm scrobbling issue with some streaming service tracks.

Version 8.4.0 - 2024-02-08 (e225575dc)

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 8.3.x

New Features:

#879 - Add support for Release Types (see eg. on MusicBrainz).
New "Advanced Tag View" plugin allows you to show more information in the Track Info menu, without the need to drill down to "View Tags"
Allow editing of a favourite's icon.
Add plugins for ClassicalRadio.com, DI.fm, JazzRadio.com, RadioTunes.com, RockRadio.com, ZenRadio.com.
Add an optional artist albums view which groups albums by release type and contribution. (thanks darrell-k!)
Add an option to import playlists from online music services.
#987 - Add OggFlac support (thanks philippe44!)

Server Changes:

Improve integration of the external image resizing helper daemon.
Improve built-in imageproxy: don't proxy image if original size is requested, re-direct instead; add support for custom headers when using external image proxy.
Updated Dutch translation - thanks blackfiction!
Updated French translation - thanks thanks Frank-Berry & philippe317!
Improve rendering of links in the web UI menus (comments, file download, etc.)
Sort tracks in "title" sort order by artist and album, too, if they're part of the result set.
Add option to check for updates every hour.
Optionally don't remove online duplicates from library views.
#846 - Improve display of multiline lyrics and comments in the web UI (thanks mw9!)
Move persist.db out of the cache folder - it's music data which can't be restored from the music files.
Log warning if the server's time seems to be off (only if MySqueezebox integration is enabled).
Re-implement Sounds & Effects plugin to not depend on MySqueezebox for the navigation and content selection.
Report actual replay gain value for the currently playing track in "status" query.
Add "Q" tag to songinfo, status queries etc. to return lossless flag for tracks (thanks AF-1!).
#862 - Make lyrics on Default skin songinfo page collapsible (thanks AF-1!)
#868 - Populate the release year ('year') attribute for remote tracks in the player queue (thanks SamInPgh!)
#956 - Add raw AAC (ADTS) file support (thanks philippe44!)
#964/#985 - Handle case where user moves/adds/removes tracks in a playlist while the next track is already fully streamed (thanks philippe44!)
#986 - Add a 'V' query that will return the maximum seek point in seconds within the current track duration for a 'live' radio stream (thanks expectingtofly & philippe44!)
Fix Napster playback on community firmware players

Platform Support:

Tweak Apple OS Architecture discovery: use the "arm64" string rather than the CPU's name (eg. "Apple M1")
Add Perl 5.38 support for Linux x86_64.
Add experimental support for Windows 64-bit - requires installation of Strawberry Perl 5.32!
Update Windows installer to use latest InnoSetup 6 - dropping support for Windows XP, 2003 Server, and Windows Home Server.

Bug Fixes:

#212 - Unicode sorting for Browse Music Folder broken (thanks kimmot!)
#622 - __requestRE should only match words provided to Slim::Control::Request::subscribe. (thanks earlchew!)
#799 - Update IO::String to latest, fixing some odd Perl version check.
#829 - Don't override a content type set by a page handler.
#905 - Browsing in to playlists is extremely slow.
#911 - Don't shut down the server on "restartserver" when we actually can't restart it.
#939 - Player can't be switched from MySqueezebox.com to LMS
#962 - Fix album_contributor updates in New & Changed scan (thanks darrell!)
#979 - New and changed contributor scanning improvements (thanks darrell!)
Respect a contributor's Musicbrainz ID to separate artists of the same name.
#969 - Add utf-8 guess decoding on Ogg metadata - thanks philippe44!
Try harder to avoid duplicate (but empty) album entries on singles.
Clear the Various Artists ID when a scan has finished.
Don't remove online libraries from library views unless there really is a local copy of the same album.
Fix Deezer SmartRadio track duration calculation.
Allow pausing Deezer Flow.
Fix resizing with a defined background color.

Other:

Simplify plugin and server update repository handling.

Version 8.3.2

Platform Support:

#891 - Add Perl 5.36 support for Linux aarch64, armv7.

Bug Fixes:

#874 - Fix shuffling when starting off with an empty playlist (thanks robho!)
#918 - Fix browsing down to album favorites etc.
Add CPAN/auto/5.14 to lib search path for Windows builds to include Font::FreeType.
Fix another absolute path to a stylesheet in the Default skin.
Fix an issue where registering a pre-cache resolution would cause a subsequent LMS start to fail.

Version 8.3.1 - 2023-02-17 (026019bb7)

Server Changes:

Make log viewer template (log.html) skinnable by including skin.css.

Platform Support:

Update Audio::Scan to 1.06 for certain platforms (thanks ralphy, robho, slartibartfast!)
#826 - Add Perl 5.36 support for Linux x86_64.
Add Perl 5.34 support for Linux aarch64.
Add signed version of our custom Perl build for macOS.

Bug Fixes:

#827 - Fix installation of plugin updates - honour user's choice (thanks mw9!)
Don't use our custom Perl build on macOS 10.x - these versions come with a still working Perl 5.18.
#834 - Fix no-transcoding playback of m4a audio (thanks philippe44!)
#835 - Improve Alarm reliability - prevent accidental/random alarm stops.
#843 - HTTPSocks.pm - Binary OR used by mistake - Logical OR needed (thanks mw9!).
Remove support for "deflate" encoding type in SimpleHTTP requests: it must have been broken for over a decade!
#852 - No result return while using Chinese Keyword in Fulltext Search.
#857 - Fix changing MySB credentials using the "setsncredentials" command.

Version 8.3.0 - 2022-11-04 (4e15dbdff)

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 8.2.x

New Features:

Add support for macOS 13 Ventura

Server Changes:

Remove support for media types other than audio (video, pictures). Let's make "M" music again.
#651 - Updated French translation - thanks Frank-Berry!
Added British English translations - thanks expectingtofly!
Updated Czech translation - thanks mipa87!
Updated Dutch translation - thanks blackfiction!
Add support for TIDAL replay gain.
Dramatically improve Fulltext Search indexing for large playlists (thousands of tracks).
Improve security of LMS <-> mysqueezebox.com communication: don't store credentials, but only a session token.
Clean up legacy JavaScript support: update PrototypeJS and Scriptaculous to their latest builds, remove some legacy code.
#678 - Fix up character encoding issues in Web UI Scanner progress reporting and Web UI log display (thanks mw9!)
#708 - Update to MP3, FLAC, Ogg and WMA Formats to use BPM tags - thanks kwarklabs!
#751 - Shuffle tracks added with "playlist loadtracks" for a given year (thanks philchillbill!)
#758 - Allow selection of regional language (eg. ZH_CH or EN_GB) through JSONRPC (thanks expectingtofly!)
#785 - Improve adding albums as favorites: don't rely on the album title alone, but use the artist to identify the album, too.
#817 - Fix JavaScript integration in settings pages for Classic/Light (and thus Material) skins.
Remove more legacy plugins: Amazon, MP3Tunes, Orange, YALP

Platform Support:

#673 - Add aarch64 Linux and 64-bit macOS binaries for Monkey's Audio (APE) files (thanks ralphy!)
#684 - Updated Solaris Binaries for alac, flac, sox, faad, wvunpack, mac (thanks urknall!)
#715 - Remove I18N::LangTags - it's outdated and has been part of core Perl since 5.12.
Added native support for Apple Silicon
Update Audio::Scan to 1.05 for certain platforms (thanks ralphy, slartibartfast!)
#773 - Update flac to 1.3.4 (macOS, Linux i386, x86_64, armhf, aarch64)
Added custom Perl 5.34 build for macOS 10.15+, in preparation for Apple's removal of Perl from macOS
Remove support for the embedded MySQL server. We've been using SQLite for about a decade.
Remove support for PowerPC and i386 on macOS.
#810 - Remove the 'deprecate' pragma vom CGI::Util to improve compatibility with newer Perl versions.

Bug Fixes:

Allow seeking in mp4 files with samplerates > 65535 (32 bits) on some platforms (thanks philippe44 & ralphy)
Improve Deezer metadata lookup when adding albums/playlists through the CLI.
(Audio::Scan) #9 - For some WavPack DSD file the song_length_ms is incorrect (thanks aeeq & ralphy!)
(Audio::Scan) #12 - ID3: Fix v2.4 extended header handling (thanks mw9 & ralphy!)
#406 - Crossfading fails with very short tracks
#410 - Rescan button for individual music folders does not work in Classic (and hence Material) skin.
#473 - Broken playback functionality in Album/More
#535 - some CLI commands duplicate comment tag info
#547 - duplicate albums after adding tracks while renaming album
#668 - Podcasts: Pre-caching image and more-info data can bring the server to a crawl #668 (thanks mw9!)
Fix image transformation if a cover requested using /current/cover is pointing to a local file.
#699 - Improve resume behaviour (thanks philippe44, maniac103 & mw9
#700/#718 - High CPU load during playback of certain radio streams (thanks philippe44!)
#704 - changed artist names remain in database after quick rescan
#705 - changing upper and lower case in file name results in double entries
#746 - Windows 11: PreventStandby doesn't prevent standby any more
#749 - fix mp4 streams where audio offset comes from STCO (thanks philippe44 && bpa!)
#754 - improve reliability of "what's new" podcast search (thanks philippe44!)
#767 - fix compatibility with standards compliant cometd libraries (thanks lynniemagoo!)
#95 - update faad helper binaries to fix a crash when the decoder call fails (thanks ralphy!)
#777 - When syncing with disconnected player through CLI, random player is synced
#802 - Log is flodded with callback warnings "Can't call method "display" on an undefined value"
Prevent a server crash while re-building the fulltext search index with huge collections.
Don't show online only artists when a virtual library view tells us to do so.
Fix IO::Socket::SSL initialization in the scanner's sync http lookup code.
#797 - Fix Power off/Power on behaviour - Player would resume playback of stale track when reconnecting, although nothing to be resumed.

Version 8.2.1

Server Changes:

Platform Support:

Added Perl 5.34 modules for Linux x86_64

Bug Fixes:

#646 - Fix streaming compatibility with SliMP3 (thanks philippe44!).
#647 - Fix podcast "Play from last position" and skip back trackinfo item (thanks mw9 and philippe44!).
#656 - Correct start time for streams with range offset (thanks philippe44!).
Fix resizing images with a dash in the name.
Define $::cachedir in the scanner, too, as many parts of the code rely on it.
#760 - Fix various XSS possibilities in settings pages etc.

Version 8.2.0 - 2021-08-03 (1ec16032b)

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 8.1.x

New Features:

Try to group online artists with local artists by ignoring slightly different spelling (eg. "The Beatles" vs. "Beatles", "Amy Macdonald" vs. "Amy MacDonald").
#510 - Add (optional) "balanced" track shuffling method, which is less random, but hopefully more pleasing to the listener.
#537 - Add audio option to combine channels to build a mono signal (whether player is synchronized or not).
#538 - Add Balance setting for players which support it (thanks philippe44!).
#621 - Add Search feature to the Podcasts plugin (thanks philippe44!).
#630 - Add parsing of remote OPML list.
#627 - Allow explodePlaylist to return an OPML list, not just an array or urls.
Enable basic track statistics (play count, last played, ratings) for online tracks imported into the library.
#581, #591 - Create new player protocol to buffer http streams to disk or re-establish dropped connections to improve reliability (thanks philippe44!).

Server Changes:

When an online scan doesn't return any track, but previously had some, do not remove tracks from library. The empty new list is likely due to a scan failure.
Try to improve backwards compatibility with eg. Erland's plugins, which sometimes struggle with the remote tracks.
#411 - Transcoder conversion rules: Support resampling for Ogg/Flac streams (thanks bpa/mw9!)
#598 - Shuffle tracks added with "playlist loadtracks" and certain search filters (thanks philchillbill!)
Added hook for 3rd party plugins to tell DSTM not to kick in.

Platform Support:

#18 - Add a systemd service file for Debian based systems (thanks mw9 & tomscytale).
#22 - Add systemd service configuration for RPM based systems (thanks JohanSaaw!)
#25 - Add weak dependency on perl IO::Socket:SSL in RPM (thanks JohanSaaw!)
#526 - Add Perl 5.32 and 5.30 support for Linux aarch64 platform. (thanks clivem!)
Remove Font::FreeType from Linux distributions. It's easy enough to install it using the system's package manager, and it would conflict on system where we don't provide the binary.

Bug Fixes:

#554 - Long current playlist disappears from UI during wipe and rescan.
#601 - "icon" for URL="file://..." entries does not work in favorites.ompl.
#629 - Set SO_KEEPALIVE for cli socket so they auto-close when peer disappears.
#632 - Keep shall in foreground when startTime is required and bitrate is missing.
#617 - Handle volatile redirected url, retry from original one if failed after resume.
#612 - Ask PH if _currentHandler shall be rewritten (HTTP->HTTPS upgrade).

Other:

#528 - On Unix-like platforms, we now ensure that plugins are installed in such a way that none of their files are writable by users other than the user running LMS, even if theyʼre stored that way in the plugin ZIP file.
No longer include the firmware images for ip3k based players (Classic, Boom, Receiver, Transporter) with the installation packages. Logitech Media Server can download them when needed. But after about a decade without updates it's unlikely anybody would still have to update anyway.

Version 8.1.2

Server Changes:

#522 - add new --advertiseaddr startup parameter to tell LMS what user facing IP address to use (in case of NATed setups, like with load balancers or Kubernetes etc.) - thanks fuero!
Don't sync favorites from mysqueezebox.com when prefs syncing is disabled.

Bug Fixes:

Don't poll the Deezer library if the user doesn't have a premium subscription.
Open App Gallery item in new window/tab - fix some regexes where we'd only accept http instead of https.
Make sure we get the mysqueezebox.com based app menu even for players which are not registered there.
#508 - Don't include the port when using default ports in host header for http requests.
#521 - Fix http redirection on HTTPS protocol handlers (thanks philippe44!)
#523 - Fix http redirection when redirect URL is missing the protocol (thanks philippe44!)
#531 - Player's library view setting and Random Mix preference conflict with each other.
#536 - When an album list is filtered by contributor role, the contributor's name sometimes isn't shown with the album.
#545 - Under certain circumstances 3rd party plugins could be hidden on non-Squeezeplay based players.
#559 - Deleting favourite via CLI using URL deletes others (thanks CDrummond!)
#585 - mp4 parser for trailing header must keep original request fields (thanks philippe44!)
#593 - Handle redirect with processors (eg. mp4 => aac) (thanks philippe44!)

Version 8.1.1 - 2021-01-14 (dd356a423)

Server Changes:

#489 - Enable Deezer flac seeking for ip3k players.
#490 - Enable "Defeat Touch To Play" for all players.

Platform Support:

Restore Perl 5.18 support in the x86_64 .deb file.

Bug Fixes:

Fix Ogg Opus on Windows.
Fix advanced genre replacement in Online Music Library Integration plugin.
#485 - HTTP range request is last byte not size.
#486 - When using internal transcoding only, the container format must be set.
#488 - When resampling FLAC, add targeted $RESAMPLE$,not only the source sample rate.
#501 - Fix logging in Deezer and TIDAL importers.
#506 - Fix Napster streaming.

Version 8.1.0 - 2020-12-23 (effae8494)

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 8.0.x

New Features:

Deezer HiFI! Stream lossless music from Deezer if you have a Deezer HiFi subscription.
Add support for lyrics stored in the UNSYNCEDLYRICS tag in FLAC files.
Optionally allow installation of plugins which were targeted at Logitech Media Server 7.*.

Server Changes:

Improve transcoding framework to allow protocol handlers to force transcoding (eg. TIDAL)
Increase the default maximum playlist length for systems with more memory.

Platform Support:

Improved compatibility with macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon (M1 CPU).
Remove (buggy) support for Perl 5.8 - we broke compatibility already a while back.
Remove support for ReadyNAS - we broke compatibility already a while back (using Perl 5.8).

Bug Fixes:

#475 - Socket leaks when pipeline is used.

Version 8.0.1

Bug Fixes:

#437 - New Music doesn't respect the library_id parameter.
#459 - Library items like artists (db:contributor.name=...) favorites don't return the URL in the CLI.
#460 - Retrieving a genre by ID using the CLI is not possible.
PR #474 - Ignore non-compliant CUE sheets (thanks oleg-kuh!)
Make sure we only poll music services for changes in the library which we actually have configured.
Fix album separation of multi disc sets from online services when grouping is disabled.
Don't offer direct firmware download if players can't handle it lack of https support.

Version 8.0.0 - 2020-11-20 (e0eee9c29)

Upstream fixes from Logitech Media Server 7.9.3

New Features:

Online music library integration: list your collection of albums vetted in your favorite streaming service as part of your "My Music" collection.
Improved support for Audio Books: automatically create library views and browse modes dealing with Audio Books and Authors.
Paste TIDAL or Deezer weblinks in to the Tune In field to play albums/playlists/tracks (thanks mavit!)
Keep track of recently played podcasts (thanks philippe44!)

Server Changes:

PR #367 - Improved parsing of HTTP header allows for new features (eg. AAC transcoding) and fixes some issues with streaming remote files. Thanks a lot philippe44!
PR #305 - use ORIGINALYEAR in FLAC files to override YEAR (thanks jcbodnar!)
PR #267 - HTTPS certificates are now validated when LMS acts as a client. HTTPS connections to plugin repositories are no-longer retried over HTTP when they fail. The old insecure behaviour can optionally be re-enabled, although, instead, we recommend working out why HTTPS is broken in your environment and fixing that if possible.
PR #308 - Update faad binaries to fix several CVE-2017 security issues (thanks ralphy!)
PR #324 - Implement documented, but non-functional search in "favorites" query.
PR #346 - Update Audio::Scan on Windows to 1.02 (thanks ralphy!)
PR #355 - Improved metadata handling in the xPL plugin (thanks keynet!)
PR #429 - Hide library folders from scanning with a sentinel file (thanks sciurius!)
PR #434 - Support for multiple FILE commands in CUE sheets (thanks oleg-kuh!)
PR #448 - Add support for TIDAL over HTTPS and seeking (thanks philippe44!)
Improved Dutch translation (thanks blackfiction!)
Read Conductor tag from m4a etc. files.
Persist some web browser side preferences like artwork mode, expanded menus etc. on the server. Safari would regularly "forget" them.
Improve cache purging to reduce startup time and the risk of locking up other initialization tasks.
Updated LWP module and dependencies to improve compatibility with newer Perl versions.
Support import of DSD in WavPack files (requires additional DSDPlay 3rd party plugin).
Add 'wav wav' rule which keeps headers.
Add 'aif pcm' rule and change 'aif aif' rule to keep header except for "legacy" SB.
Add 'H' tag in convert.conf to strip wav/aiff headers.

Platform Support:

Logitech Media Server now is available as a Docker image lmscommunity/logitechmediaserver (thanks snoopy86, terual, pascalberger!).
Added Perl 5.32 modules for Linux x86_64

Bug Fixes:

#277 - add new flac binaries to fix seeking within remote flac streams in some locales (thanks ralphy!).
#313 - Advanced Search for albums returns emtpy "Song Info ()" link.
#327 - "playlist loadalbum" command is case sensitive and otherwise fragile.
#366 - Fix gapless PCM Playback on Squeezebox1 (thanks michaldie!).
#388 - Fix sorting of index bar in the web UI.
Always strip BOM from M3U files, not only if the first line is a comment.
Support wav/aif remote streams (direct and proxied).
Check that destination (not source) codec is supported in direct streaming.
Pass all seed tracks, using one API call, to MusicIP mix when used for "Dont Stop The Music".
Re-build Fulltext Search Index for modified playlists after they've been saved.

Other:

Updated translations: Swedish (thanks Johan!)