Universal Media Server 13.8.1

Changes since 10.15.0:

• General:
  • Improved detection of TV episodes and movies
  • Improved cache performance and resource use
  • Made shutdown more reliable
  • Made Resume files appear after the original file entry instead of before
  • Fixed filtering folder names (#2697)
  • Fixed frozen scanning when files can't be parsed (#1879)
  • Tweaked audio track sorting heuristics
  • Added configuration flag sort_audio_tracks_by_album_position
  • Significant code improvements (thanks, SurfaceS!)
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Catalan (100%) (thanks, Toni Grau i Quellos!)
  • Spanish (100%) (thanks, Carlos Suárez!)
  • Ukrainian (21%) (thanks, Mykola Petrivs'kyi!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump assertj-core from 3.21.0 to 3.22.0
  • Bump h2 from 2.0.204 to 2.0.206
  • Bump maven-compiler-plugin from 3.8.1 to 3.9.0
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.5.2.0 to 4.5.3.0
  • Bump thumbnailator from 0.4.15 to 0.4.16
  • Bump tsMuxeR from 2021-11-14 to 2022-01-13

Changes since 10.14.1:

• General:
  • Vast speed improvements
  • Added ability to overlay text under the renderer icon (thanks, SurfaceS!)
  • Web interface initially loads 3 seconds faster
  • Fixed network speed detection on Docker
  • Improved communicating changes with devices (like fully played status)
  • Fixed broken file playback, especially with large collections
  • Fixed undefined "Rated" field with some videos on web interface
  • Fixed media not marked as fully played if the file action failed
  • Fixed resume files not being created on the web interface
  • Fixed files marked as stopped when they are still playing on the web interface (#2766)
  • Fixed "not playable" message on web interface (#2258)
• Renderers:
  • Added detection of more Roku TVs
  • Added detection of Samsung Soundbars
  • Added detection of Sony X Series TVs
  • Added detection of TCL TVs
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
  • Italian (100%) (thanks, Oscar Zambotti!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump checkstyle from 9.2 to 9.2.1
  • Bump h2database from 1.4.197 to 2.0.204 (thanks, SurfaceS!)
  • Bump icu4j from 69.1 to 70.1
  • Bump logback-version from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10
  • Bump maven-site-plugin from 3.9.1 to 3.10.0
  • Bump rome from 1.16.0 to 1.18.0
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.8.0 to 3.8.1

• General:
  • Fixed broken logging characters with some languages (thanks, SurfaceS!)

• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
  • Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
  • Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
  • Portuguese (100%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
  • Slovak (93%) (thanks, Lukáš Praznovec!)
  • Swedish (97%) (thanks, Lorien aka the First One)
  • Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

• Dependencies:
  • Bump logback from 1.2.8 to 1.2.9
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.4.2.2 to 4.5.2.0

• General:
  • Added the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to reflect and inspire our ideals and practices (thanks, Shubham Rauthan!)
  • Added "Browse by album" feature to UPnP person/artist searches (thanks, ik666!)
  • Added a debug configuration for VS Code (thanks, A2va!)
  • Allow users to have no shared content (both remote or local), instead of setting defaults (thanks, Andy Griffiths!)
  • Fixed tsMuxeR not working on macOS, again (thanks, DetectiveKenobi!)

• Renderers:
  • Fixed support for H.264 level 5.x video on Panasonic VT60 TVs

• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Bulgarian (96%) (thanks, Radoslav Ignatov!)
  • Hungarian (96%) (thanks, Poliziotto!)
  • Persian (34%) (thanks, Aydin Noori!)

• Dependencies:
  • Bump checkstyle from 9.1 to 9.2
  • Bump doxia-module-docbook-simple from 1.10 to 1.11.1
  • Bump FFmpeg from 2021-07-22 to 2021-12-16
  • Bump JNA from 5.9.0 to 5.10.0
  • Bump junit5 from 5.8.1 to 5.8.2
  • Bump logback from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.8.5 to 5.8.6
  • Bump thumbnailator from 0.4.14 to 0.4.15
  • Bump tsMuxeR from 2021-09-02-01-59-46 to 2021-11-14-02-03-07
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0
  • Bump youtube-dl from 2021.06.06 to 2021.12.17

General:

• Improved matching and prettifying of TV episodes, especially anime and TV episodes
• Allow successful API matches to be updated via versioning, for more accurate results
• If a folder contains music tracks, music tracks will be sorted by track number (thanks, ik666!)
• Re-implemented UPnP searching (thanks, ik666!)
• Compact database on shutdown (thanks, ik666!)
• Fixed status line glitches while scanning
• Improved default network interface selection
• Fixed playlist folders not updating (thanks, ik666!)
• Fixed sorting when API result starts with a different letter than filename
• Parse files that have the short naming convention, where the parent directory is the real filename
• Fixed parsing of TV episodes in season 0
• Fixed crash when bumping database version
• Fixed memory leak after failed API lookup
• Fixed hanging process due to filewatcher not closing before shutdown
• Various web interface code improvements (thanks, Amir, Florian, and Kurtis Hanson)
• Code readability improvements (thanks, Christian Baer!)
• Protect against uncaught exceptions
• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed database thread-safety bugs
• Increased performance of some database queries
• Increased performance of filename prettifying
• Fixed sending API requests when external network is disabled
• Fixed process hanging if filesystem activity happens in a watched folder during shutdown

Renderers:

• Improved matching and transcoding on Samsung 4K+ TVs

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• Bengali (1%) (thanks, Bipul Dey!)
• Chinese (Simplified) (100%) (thanks, wwj402_github!)
• Chinese (Traditional) (96%) (thanks, Gene Wu!)
• Czech (100%)
• Danish (100%) (thanks, GurliGebis!)
• Hungarian (96%) (thanks, Hild György!)
• Japanese (100%) (thanks, Katsuhide.M!)
• Romanian (100%) (thanks, Bogdan!)

Dependencies:

• Bump assertj-core from 3.20.2 to 3.21.0
• Bump checkstyle from 9.0 to 9.1
• Bump gson from 2.8.8 to 2.8.9
• Bump junit5.version from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1
• Bump JRE from 8u302 to 8u312
• Bump logback from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7
• Bump maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.0.0-M3 to 3.0.0
• Bump MediaInfo from 21.03 to 21.09
• Bump oshi-core from 5.8.2 to 5.8.3
• Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.3.0 to 4.4.2.2

General:

• Increased performance and reduced memory use of startup scan
• Renderer configurations now have MediaInfo enabled by default
• Fixed files locking during or just after download
• Fixed process hanging on shutdown
• Made building the project faster
• Started using DeepSource for static code analysis

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
• German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
• Italian (100%) (thanks, Marco F. V. Baljet!)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
• Russian (96%) (thanks, Andrey Zhernovoy!)

Dependencies:

• Revert h2database from 1.4.199 to 1.4.197
• Bump JRE to 8u302+8 on macOS
• Bump junit5.version from 5.7.2 to 5.8.0
• Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
• Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.14.0 to 3.15.0
• Bump oshi-core from 5.8.1 to 5.8.2
• Fixed using x64 JRE on x86 (i586) Linux

General:

• Added link to changelog in auto updater (thanks, Patrick!)
• Fixed Dolby Vision video being detected as Digital Video (dv)
• Fixed browsing on some renderers
• Fixed tsMuxeR not working on macOS (thanks, justdan96!)

Renderers:

• Improved support for subtitles on LG OLED TVs

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• Chinese (Traditional) (95%) (thanks, Gene Wu!)
• Czech (99%)
• Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
• Dutch (97%) (thanks, Jos van der logt!)
• Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
• Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Portuguese (99%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
• Spanish (100%) (thanks, edwardalvarez2011!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz and Erdin Koc!)
• Ukrainian (19%) (thanks, Paul Furlet!)

Dependencies:

• Bump checkstyle from 8.45.1 to 9.0
• Bump JNA from 5.8.0 to 5.9.0
• Bump oshi-core from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1
• Bump tsMuxeR to 2021-09-02-01-59-46

Changes since 10.10.0:

• General:
  • Up to 4x browsing speed improvement (thanks, ik666!)
  • Disabled UPnP search while we fix problems with it
  • Fixed sending MusicBrainz info for non-audio files
  • Fixed the older HTTP engine
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for HDR and high bit depths on LG OLED TVs
  • Fixed support for OGG formats on LG EG910V TV
• Dependencies:
  • Bump gson from 2.8.7 to 2.8.8
  • Bump JRE to 8u302+8
  • Bump logback-version from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5

Changes since 10.9.0:

• General:
  • Added fully played overlay to TV series thumbnails in Media Library if all episodes are played
  • Fixes some renderers not reflecting content updates like fully played thumbnail changes
  • Fixed broken API matching for episodes from files with years in the series name
  • Fixed files locking during or just after download
  • Ignore incomplete files
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Romanian (100%) (thanks, FlorinT!)
  • Russian (90%) (thanks, Sergei Kotlar!)

General:

• Added option to download folder as playlist on web interface
• Added option to download media as playlist on web interface
• Changed macOS icon to match newer Apple design guidelines for Big Sur+ (thanks, Alex Gurr!)
• Made more room for media titles on web interfac
• Added recognition of MP1
• Improved support for Blu-ray (PGS), HDMV, DVB, WebVTT and EIA-608 subtitles
• Fixed crash on SUSE Linux
• Fixed chapter folders showing blank names

Renderers:

• Improved support for Google Chromecast Ultra
• Improved support for MXPlayer on Google Android
• Improved support for Windows Media Player
• Fixed support for OGG formats on Naim-Mu-So, Roku and Samsung devices

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• Chinese (Traditional) (100%) (thanks, Gene Wu!)
• Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
• English (United Kingdom) (43%) (thanks, MrSmithr!)
• Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
• French (100%) (thanks, Maxence Vary!)
• German (100%) (thanks, Peter Ollig and pipin!)
• Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
• Russian (89%) (thanks, Artem4ik!)
• Spanish (100%) (thanks, Diego Guerrero, edwardalvarez2011 and Gerardo Ruiz!)
• Thai (3%) (thanks, Surasak Namnongor!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

Dependencies:

• Bump checkstyle from 8.44 to 8.45.1
• Bump com.sun.xml.bind-version from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2
• Bump git-commit-id-plugin from 4.0.5 to 4.9.10