Universal Media Server 13.8.1

Changes since 11.1.0:

• General:
  • Fixed failed database update for some users (#3051) (thanks, vrtlspd!)
  • Fixed Docker startup crash (#3050) (thanks, vrtlspd!)
  • Document HLS-MPEGTS-H264-AAC transcoding option
• Translation updates via Crowdin
  • Added Estonian (23%) (thanks, Junk Knuj and Tanel K!)
• Dependencies
  • Update dependency maven-enforcer-plugin to v3.1.0

Changes since 11.0.0:

• General:
  • Improved caching of web interface files
  • Added getServerPlaylists to playlist API
  • Fixed broken thumbnail-url for playlist folder resolved by DbIdResourceLocator
  • Added support for more language characters on web interface
  • Updated and removed old links on About tab
  • Fixed database fields truncating to less than the limit
  • Fixed rare and unpredictable bugs
• Translation updates via Crowdin
  • Catalan (99%) (thanks, Toni Grau i Quellos!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Dependencies
  • Update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.3
  • Update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin to v3.17.0
  • Update surefire-version to v3.0.0-M7
  • Bump com.sun.xml.bind-version from 3.0.2 to 4.0.0
  • Bump junrar from 7.5.1 to 7.5.2

Changes compared to v10:

• General:
  • Uses image backgrounds and logos for movies, TV series and episodes on the web interface
  • Web interface switches between dark and light themes in Media Library based on background images
  • Automatic quality adjustment on web interface, with optional manual settings
  • Improved video forward-backward positioning in videos via the web video player
  • Improved web interface design
  • Improved web video player design
  • Improved API metadata matches for TV series
  • Added HLS video option which may improve support for transcoding via some renderers like Philips TVs
  • Log splitting/zipping (#2608)
  • Implemented network state scanner
  • Show the addresses of servers on the Status tab (#2372)
  • Allow to set the log level of FFmpeg in its engine settings in the desktop UI (#2677)
  • Increased maximum memory limit on macOS to match Windows
  • Fixed Restart server when network interface becomes available (#2615)
  • Fixed Network Interface not found (#1485)
  • Fixed GetProtocolInfo not being recieved (#2338)
  • Fixed Font scaling issues on some elements of the GUI for some users (#2549)
  • Fixed UMS doesn't free DLNA ports after closing (#739)
  • Fixed Service wrapper for Windows doesn't work with 64 bit JVM (#767)
  • Fixed uninstallation does not remove autostart entry for wrapper.exe (#2343)
  • Fixed Attempt to remove medias.lock on install/startup (#2838)
  • Fixed Media Library no longer populated and startup scan slowness (#2826)
  • Fixed Cound not open the default web browser: The BROWSE action is not supported on the current platform! (#2725)
  • Added editable server-side playlist support
  • Prevent users from enabling startup scanning while the cache is disabled
  • Removed second toolbar on the web interface video page
  • Increased speed of API lookups
  • Improved video and TV series posters
  • Fixed some API metadata not updating
  • Fixed Resume videos on the web interface
  • Fixed API response handling
  • Backgrounds for TV series, episodes and movies fade in
  • Image backgrounds in Media Library without text are prioritized over ones with text
  • Match more TV series in API
  • Use markdown in changelog
  • Use main branch instead of master
  • Fixed audio files detected as video files
• Renderers
  • Samsung 2021 TVs use HLS transcoding
• Translation updates via Crowdin
  • Catalan (100%) (thanks, Toni Grau i Quellos!)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (97%) (thanks, wwj402_github!)
  • Czech (100%)
  • Danish (99%) (thanks, GurliGebis and NCAA!)
  • English (UK) (99%) (thanks, Pete Russell!)
  • Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos and Philippe P!)
  • Italian (100%) (thanks, Oscar Zambotti!)
  • Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Persian (34%) (thanks, Behzad Najafizad!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
  • Portuguese (100%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
  • Swedish (99%) (thanks, Lorien aka the First One (The1stOne)!)
  • Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
• Dependencies
  • Started using Renovate for dependency tracking
  • Added x64 windows service wrapper
  • Replaced Cling with JUPnP
  • Update actions/cache action to v3
  • Update actions/checkout action to v3
  • Update dependency com.github.spotbugs:spotbugs-maven-plugin to v4.7.0.0
  • Update dependency moment.js to v2.29.3
  • Update dependency pako to v1.0.11
  • Bump checkstyle from 9.3 to 10.2
  • Bump Jackson from 2.13.1 to 2.13.2.2
  • Bump JRE from 8u332 to 17.0.3
  • Bump metadata-extractor from 2.17.0 to 2.18.0
  • Bump Video.js from 7.13.3 to 7.19.2
  • Fixed support for latest Maven versions

This is our last v10 release. It improves miniseries parsing and fixes bugs.

General​

• Improved parsing of miniseries
• Fixed crash for users with cache disabled
• Fixed macOS build not installing for some users
• Reduced macOS build size

Translation updates via Crowdin​

• English (United Kingdom) (45%) (thanks, Sudeep James!)
• Slovenian (55%) (thanks, Blaž Kozlevčar!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

Dependencies​

• Bump junrar from 7.5.0 to 7.5.1
• Bump maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.2.2 to 3.3.0

Changes since 10.20.0:

• General:
  • Improved API matches for TV series
  • Language improvements (thanks, NCAA!)
  • Fixed database not recovering from serialization changes (#2874)
  • Fixed custom renderer configurations not being loaded (#2917)
  • Fixed MEncoder and MPlayer on Docker (thanks, Jille Timmermans!) (#2922)
  • Fixed config being overwritten when UMS closes (#2875)
  • Fixed setting directory as fully played when folder names are similar
  • Fixed peakaboo in status bar during scans
  • Fixed database upgrade bugs
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
  • Portuguese (100%) (thanks, RPargana!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump FFmpeg to latest
  • Bump h2 from 2.1.210 to 2.1.212
  • Bump icu4j from 70.1 to 71.1
  • Bump JRE from 8u322 to 8u332
  • Bump maven-antrun-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
  • Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.2 to 3.4.0
  • Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
  • Bump MediaInfo from 21.09 to 22.03
  • Bump oshi-core from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6
  • Bump surefire-version from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.0-M6

Changes since 10.19.0:

• General:
  • Added ability to update audio ID3 tags via MusicBrainz, disabled by default
  • Added ability to rate/like music via API
  • Added "My Albums" folder to the Media Library
  • Added support for UPnP sortOrder requests when using UPnP searching
  • Added dc:date UPnP attribute for renderers to optionally use
  • Allow API strings to be translated
  • Updated default podcasts and YouTube channels
  • Fixed slow browsing of the root and web folders
  • Improved responsiveness during startup scans
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Catalan (100%) (thanks, Toni Grau i Quellos!)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (95%) (thanks, Gene Wu!)
  • Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
  • Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
  • Italian (100%) (thanks, Oscar Zambotti!)
  • Japanese (99%) (thanks, was0914!)
  • Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
  • Portuguese (100%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
  • Spanish (100%) (thanks, Sergio Varela!)
  • Swedish (99%) (thanks, Lorien aka the First One!)
  • Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump jna from 5.10.0 to 5.11.0
  • Bump junrar from 7.4.1 to 7.5.0
  • Bump metadata-extractor from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0
  • Bump oshi-core from 6.1.4 to 6.1.5
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.5.3.0 to 4.6.0.0

Changes since 10.18.0:

• General:
  • Improved speed of video metadata lookups
  • Improved speed and drive use when browsing/scanning folders
  • Match more years in filenames for more accurate video metadata lookups
  • Fixed junk data at the end of transcoded videos (#2867)
  • Fixed the failed lookups table upgrade/creation (#2871)
  • Fixed TV series data versioning
  • Fixed redundant TV series lookups
  • Fixed response caching
  • Fixed failed video metadata caching
  • Fixed hanging API requests
• Dependencies:
  • Bump logback-version from 1.2.10 to 1.2.11

Changes since 10.17.1:

• General:
  • Fixed video metadata not writing to database
  • Fixed shared folder added via wizard not being saved
  • Fixed overwriting WEB.conf with defaults if UMS.conf is missing
  • Fixed initial shared folder not being monitored
  • Improved performance of database writes
• Renderers:
  • Added recognition of more LG Blu-ray players (thanks, OlliL!)
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Icelandic (18%) (thanks, Diðrik Valur Diðriksson!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump oshi-core from 6.1.3 to 6.1.4

Changes since 10.17.0:

• General:
  • Fixed not removing Windows service on uninstall (#2343)
  • Fixed broken database upgrade (#2838, #2826)
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Samsung 2021 TVs
  • Speed up video playback on Kodi (thanks, Dušan Kazik!)
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Ukrainian (30%) (thanks, Roman Malkov and rnglad!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump gson from 2.8.9 to 2.9.0
  • Bump maven-compiler-plugin from 3.9.0 to 3.10.0
  • Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2
  • Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.15.0 to 3.16.0
  • Bump maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2
  • Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.10.0 to 3.11.0
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.8.6 to 6.1.3
  • Bump slf4j from 1.7.21 to 1.7.36
  • Bump thumbnailator from 0.4.16 to 0.4.17
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.8.1 to 3.8.2

Changes since 10.16.0:

• General:
  • Added a new, experimental HTTP server (disabled by default)
  • Fixed occasional problems with playing TV stations via Tvheadend, and other web content (thanks, Premik!)
  • Web interface uses SSE instead of polling for greater efficiency
  • Added support for UPnP searching by MusicBrainz albums
  • Fixed broken UPnP searching
  • Performance improvements
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Significant refactoring
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Samsung 5300 Series
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Japanese (99%) (thanks, yanote!)
  • Swedish (99%) (thanks, Andy Catalui!)
  • Ukrainian (23%) (thanks, Pavlo Kuznietsov!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump checkstyle from 9.2.1 to 9.3
  • Bump h2 from 2.0.206 to 2.1.210
  • Bump jaudiotagger from 2.2.5 to 3.0.1
  • Bump JRE from 8u312 to 8u322
  • Bump junrar from 7.4.0 to 7.4.1