Version 5.0.0 is released
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:18 pm
General:
You can download it from the front page.
We've been working hard on this release since July last year and we are proud to announce the final version of 5.0.0! Thanks to everyone who helped us with testing and contributions to code and language translations., and a huge thanks to my fellow developers - SharkHunter, valib and infidel - who have put a lot of hard work into this, and our amazing moderator Optimus_prime who contributes code, builds the releases and maintains the forums. You guys are the best
This release adds a major redesign of the Status tab, support for UPnP connections and playback, IMDB information with filename prettifying, HTML5 video support in the web interface, xmb playlist folders, support for more renderers, fixes bugs and more!
Changes since 4.4.0:
You can download it from the front page.
We've been working hard on this release since July last year and we are proud to announce the final version of 5.0.0! Thanks to everyone who helped us with testing and contributions to code and language translations., and a huge thanks to my fellow developers - SharkHunter, valib and infidel - who have put a lot of hard work into this, and our amazing moderator Optimus_prime who contributes code, builds the releases and maintains the forums. You guys are the best

This release adds a major redesign of the Status tab, support for UPnP connections and playback, IMDB information with filename prettifying, HTML5 video support in the web interface, xmb playlist folders, support for more renderers, fixes bugs and more!
Changes since 4.4.0:
- General:
- Added support for UPnP connections and playback
- Added the option to use info from IMDB with filename prettifying
- Added HTML5 video support to the web interface
- Create custom per-device configuration files to override any general renderer or UMS setting
- Major redesign of the status tab to show per-renderer information
- Minor tweaks to the GUI
- Improved player control
- Includes the possibility to allow UMS to control renders automatically
- Web player can also be controlled
- Automatic reloading of external files
- Documentation updates
- New xmb playlist folders with optional automatic starting, looping, and saving, editable from web or xmb
- A dynamic xmb playlist for on-the-fly playlist creation from web or xmb
- Better bump/gui player playlists with optional automatic looping
- Push playback support for chromecast and web browsers
- Changed the interface for enabling/disabling renderer configurations
- Changed the default setting for wrap_dts_into_pcm to false
- Made sure files are always directly streamable via the Transcoding folder
- Added the UMS_MAX_MEMORY variable to UMS.sh
- Fixed audio downsampling
- Fixed a bug with parsing formats from MediaInfo
- Removed the database compacting method that was never recommended
- Fixed a startup error
- Minor bugfixes and code optimizations
- Renderers:
- Added support for Panasonic DMP-BDT360 devices
- Added support for Samsung H6500 Blu-ray Disc players
- Added support for Telefunken TVs
- Improved support for Chromecast (cast from UMS webui/gui)
- Improved support for Panasonic Viera AS650 series TVs
- Improved support for Samsung C6600 series TVs
- Improved support for Sony Blu-ray Disc players
- Improved support for Sony Bravia W series TVs
- Improved file compatibility on non-PS3 renderers
- Fixed detection of some Samsung renderers
- Languages:
- Updated Czech translation
- External Components:
- Updated h2database to 1.4.185
- Updated Maven Assembly Plugin to 2.5.2
- Updated Maven Compiler Plugin to 3.2
- Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.11
- Updated Maven Source Plugin to 2.4
- Updated Maven Surefire plugins to 2.18
- Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.71, which:
- Improves folder population time
- Improves detection of many formats
- Fixes bugs
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB63, which:
- Fixes support for DVD audio
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- General:
- Changed the interface for enabling/disabling renderer configurations
- Changed the default setting for wrap_dts_into_pcm to false
- Made sure files are always directly streamable via the Transcoding folder
- Added the UMS_MAX_MEMORY variable to UMS.sh
- Using info from IMDB with filename prettifying works for anime
- Minor improvements to the web interface
- Fixed audio downsampling
- Fixed a bug with parsing formats from MediaInfo
- Fixed a startup error
- Minor bugfixes and code optimizations
- Removed the database compacting method that was never recommended
- All changes from 4.3.1 and 4.4.0
- Renderers:
- Added support for Panasonic DMP-BDT360 devices
- Added support for Samsung H6500 Blu-ray Disc players
- Added support for Telefunken TVs
- Improved support for Panasonic Viera AS650 series TVs
- Improved support for Samsung C6600 series TVs
- Improved support for Sony Blu-ray Disc players
- Improved support for Sony Bravia W series TVs
- Improved file compatibility on non-PS3 renderers
- Fixed detection of some Samsung renderers
- Languages:
- Updated Czech translation
- External Components:
- Updated Cling to 2.0.1
- Updated h2database to 1.4.185
- Updated Maven Assembly Plugin to 2.5.2
- Updated Maven Compiler Plugin to 3.2
- Updated Maven Git Commit ID Plugin to 2.1.11
- Updated Maven Source Plugin to 2.4
- Updated Maven Surefire plugins to 2.18
- Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.71, which:
- Improves folder population time
- Improves detection of many formats
- Fixes bugs
- Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB63, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- Updated Seamless to 1.1.0