Version 7.6.0 released
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 12:28 pm
General:
You can download it from the front page.
This is a big release with code contributions from 13 developers, and involvement from many more people for pre-release testing, translations, etc.
It adds support for Samsung native resuming feature, major improvements to the web interface accessibility, speed, stability, format support, and more!
Soon we will be start our 8.0.0 pre-release cycle, which usually involves releasing alpha/beta versions so we can get feedback on the new features and any bugs before the full release.
This one will be centered around web feeds like podcasts and web streaming.
We will continue to release 7.x.x builds in parallel with bugfixes and minor updates, so please continue to report any bugs you find. We are really focusing on stability lately and will continue to.
Changes since 7.5.0:
Compatibility notes:
These releases work on all versions of Java 7 onwards.
The Windows releases work on Windows Vista onwards.
You can download it from the front page.
This is a big release with code contributions from 13 developers, and involvement from many more people for pre-release testing, translations, etc.
It adds support for Samsung native resuming feature, major improvements to the web interface accessibility, speed, stability, format support, and more!
Soon we will be start our 8.0.0 pre-release cycle, which usually involves releasing alpha/beta versions so we can get feedback on the new features and any bugs before the full release.
This one will be centered around web feeds like podcasts and web streaming.
We will continue to release 7.x.x builds in parallel with bugfixes and minor updates, so please continue to report any bugs you find. We are really focusing on stability lately and will continue to.
Changes since 7.5.0:
- General:
- Started to release installer wizard for macOS (thanks, js-kyle!)
- Started to use the "Album Artist" field for better audio file browsing of compilations (thanks, maciekberry!)
- Improved network connection stability (thanks, reorder!)
- Improved the web interface's accessibility and support for remote controls (thanks, acanive!)
- Removed the broken whitelist functionality (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Removed the broken plugins functionality (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Improved the Docker configuration (thanks, atamariya!)
- Improved the speed of our automated testing suite
- Improved automated testing of filename prettifying (thanks, stasinos!)
- Improved our default folder sharing stability (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Improved support for aspect ratio and scan order (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Improved file scanning/parsing speed
- Fixed tsMuxeR on macOS (thanks, onon765trb!)
- Fixed burning picture subtitles when other filters are also used in FFmpeg
- Fixed FFmpeg not enabling the GPU configuration toggle
- Fixed thumbnails not persisting to the database unless TRACE logging is enabled
- Fixed binaries not being picked up from the PATH on Linux (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Fixed support for Java 10+ on Linux
- Added build documentation to BUILD.md
- Updated documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md and STYLEGUIDE.md
- Improved code formatting (thanks, drakulis!)
- Formats/Codecs: (thanks, Sami32!)
- Added recognition of video codecs: ASF, FFV1, RLE, S4UD, TGA and VRO
- Added recognition of audio formats: CAF
- Added recognition of audio codecs: CELP, MACE, Nellymoser and QCELP
- Fixed parsing of framerates via MediaInfo
- Improved recognition of AAC, FLV and WMA
- Renderers:
- Added support for Bush Freeview (thanks, atamariya!)
- Added support for the built-in "Resume" functionality on Samsung TVs (thanks, drakulis!)
- Improved support for H.264 codec and SRT subtitles on PS4 (thanks, fgimenezm!)
- Languages:
- Updated translations via Crowdin:
- Arabic translation updated
- Bulgarian translation updated
- Catalan translation updated
- Chinese Simplified translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated
- Croatian translation updated
- Czech translation updated
- Danish translation updated
- Dutch translation updated
- Finnish translation updated
- French translation completed and validated
- German translation updated
- Greek translation updated
- Hungarian translation updated
- Italian translation updated
- Japanese translation updated
- Korean translation updated
- Norwegian translation updated
- Persian translation updated
- Polish translation completed and validated
- Portuguese translation updated
- Portuguese (Brazilian) translation updated
- Romanian translation updated
- Russian translation updated
- Slovak translation updated
- Slovenian translation updated
- Serbian (Cyrillic) translation updated
- Spanish translation completed
- Swedish translation updated
- Turkish translation updated
- Updated translations via Crowdin:
- Dependencies:
- Added commons-text 1.3 (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Updated Cling to 2.1.2
- Updated commons-io to 2.6 (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Updated commons-lang3 to 3.7
- Updated JUnrar to 1.0.1 (thanks, Nadahar!)
- Updated Seamless to 1.1.2
- Updated sevenzip jbinding to 9.20-2.00beta
- Updated tsMuxeR on macOS to 2.6.11
Compatibility notes:
These releases work on all versions of Java 7 onwards.
The Windows releases work on Windows Vista onwards.