Universal Media Server 13.6.0

Changes since 10.6.0:

General:

• Improved detection of movies and anime episodes
• Increased default max memory on Windows machines with 8+ GB RAM
• Removed filename from entries inside the TRANSCODE folder
• Fixed upnp:class in UPnP search results (thanks, ik666!)
• Fixed the "Reset the cache" button not resetting API metadata too
• Fixed failed database upgrade for fully played statuses
• Fixed FFmpeg crash
• Fixed marking a directory as fully played not changing cached thumbnails

Renderers:

• Improved support for VLC on iPhone

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• Czech (100%)
• Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
• Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
• French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
• Hungarian (94%) (thanks, Zatamon!)
• Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Portuguese (99%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (96%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
• Romanian (100%) (thanks, FlorinT!)
• Russian (89%) (thanks, Dmitry Lavrentev!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

Dependencies:

• Bump assertj-core from 3.19.0 to 3.20.2
• Bump checkstyle from 8.43 to 8.44
• Bump commons-io from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0
• Bump doxia-module-docbook-simple from 1.9.1 to 1.10
• Bump git-commit-id-plugin from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5
• Bump jaudiotagger from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7
• Bump maven-idea-plugin from 2.2.1 to 2.3-atlassian-10
• Bump oshi-core from 5.7.4 to 5.7.5

Changes since 10.5.0:

• General:
  • Added support for UPnP searching (thanks, sf666!)
  • Removed broken New Media folder, as that functionality exists in the Media Library
  • Improved episode detection and prettifying
  • Fixed failed database connections with hanging processes
  • Fixed description of media library/cache settings
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Sony XBR OLED TVs
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Chinese (Simplified) (98%) (thanks, QI wolong!)
  • Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA and GurliGebis!)
  • Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
  • German (98%) (thanks, pipin!)
  • Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
  • Portuguese (99%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (96%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
  • Serbian (Cyrillic) (96%) (thanks, Slobodan Simić (Слободан Симић)!)
  • Spanish (100%) (thanks, edwardalvarez2011 and fafranco82!)
  • Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
  • Ukrainian (18%) (thanks, Paul Furlet!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump checkstyle from 8.42 to 8.43
  • Bump commons-io from 2.8.0 to 2.9.0
  • Bump FLAC on macOS to 1.3.3
  • Bump tsMuxeR (justdan96 release) on macOS to 2021-04-30-02-13-20
  • Bump gson from 2.8.6 to 2.8.7
  • Bump jna-version from 5.7.0 to 5.8.0
  • Bump junit5.version from 5.7.1 to 5.7.2
  • Bump maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.5.0 to 5.7.4

Changes since 10.4.0:

General:

• Added new option to mark a fully played video after moving it to a new folder
• Implemented external API to allow users to perform actions on their UMS instance from an authorized external source, please see docs at https://support.universalmediaserver.com/books/configuration/page/external-api (thanks, ikrahne!)
• Fixed TV series metadata not saving for some series
• Improved episode detection from filenames
• Optimized network use and handling of unimplemented UPnP actions for some renderers
• Fixed audio cover art extraction (thanks, ik666!)
• Fixed database upgrade for some users
• Fixed recognition of some renderers

Renderers:

• Improved support for H.264 on Panasonic VT60

Translation updates via Crowdin:

• Danish (99%) (thanks, NCAA and GurliGebis!)
• Finnish (99%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
• French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
• Italian (98%) (thanks, tiwi90!)
• Korean (99%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Portuguese (99%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (96%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
• Serbian (97%) (thanks, Slobodan Simić (Слободан Симић)!)
• Spanish (100%) (thanks, Gerardo Ruiz, fafranco82, Eduardo Martin, and manuel fernandez!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
• Ukrainian (17%) (thanks, Paul Furlet!)

Dependencies:

• Bump checkstyle from 8.41 to 8.42
• Bump com.sun.xml.bind-version from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
• Bump commons-lang3 from 3.11 to 3.12.0
• Bump icu4j from 68.2 to 69.1
• Bump JRE from 15 to 8u292
• Bump maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
• Bump MediaInfo from 20.09 to 21.03
• Bump metadata-extractor from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0
• Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3
• Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.6.4 to 3.7.0

Changes since 10.4.0:

• General:
  • Fixed broken transcoding for some users
  • Fixed file scanner freezing on some files with external subtitles
  • Fixed support for HEVC (H.265) via tsMuxeR
• Renderers:
  • Fixed detection of some Samsung 4K (UHD) TVs (thanks, jkl16!)
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Dutch (100%) (thanks, johnnygood!)
  • German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
  • Korean (99%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Norwegian (85%) (thanks, nhanssen88!)
  • Spanish (100%) (thanks, Julio Alberto García!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.2.0 to 4.2.2

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 10.3.0:

• General:
  • Added renderer config setting DisableUmsResume for renderers with their own resume support, like Samsung TVs
  • Improved speed of transcoding to H.264 by up to 3x
  • Fixed MEncoder crashing when trying to downmix 7.1 AAC to 5.1 AC-3
  • Fixed renderer SupportedVideoBitDepths setting
  • Improved memory use and speed when resume is disabled
  • Fixed renderer resolution and bitrate limiting
  • Fixed broken transcoding for some users since the previous release
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for VC1 codec on Sony Blu-ray UBP-X800M2 (thanks, thechrisgregory!)
  • Improved support for many filetypes on Kodi (thanks, thechrisgregory!)
  • Improved support for 12-bit video on VLC
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Estonian (24%) (thanks, Tanel K!)
  • Japanese (97%) (thanks, Katsuhide.M!)
  • Russian (91%) (thanks, Dmitry Lavrentev!)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump git-commit-id-plugin from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4
  • Rolled back FFmpeg

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 10.2.0:

• General:
  • Improved automatic maximum bandwidth setting and enabled it by default
  • Improved performance of browsing folders
  • Fixed being able to click the web interface button before it is browsable
  • Fixed matching and prettifying some TV episodes
  • Fixed binding to virtual network interfaces by default (can still be forced)
• Renderers:
  • Added support for foobar2000 mobile (thanks, jps92!)
  • Improved support for Apple TV 4K
  • Fixed audio support on Bravia EX 500
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Arabic (96%) (thanks, خليل مراطلة !)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (thanks, Austin Zhang!)
  • Czech (100%)
  • Danish (100%) (thanks, NCAA!)
  • Finnish (100%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
  • Italian (96%) (thanks, Roberto crescia and tiwi90!)
  • Korean (99%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Polish (100%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
  • Portuguese (100%) (thanks, mariopinto!)
  • Russian (91%) (thanks, Artem4ik and Dmitry Lavrentev!)
  • Slovak (96%) (thanks, Lukáš Praznovec!)
  • Swedish (100%) (thanks, Erik Karlsson!)
  • Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
• Dependency updates:
  • Bump checkstyle from 8.40 to 8.41
  • Bump FFmpeg to latest
  • Bump thumbnailator from 0.4.13 to 0.4.14
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.6.2 to 3.6.4

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 10.1.0:

• General:
  • Added option to skip the first-run wizard (thanks, Ahmed Adan!)
  • Improved speed of API lookups by up to 3x
  • Improved support for MusicBrainz (thanks, ik666!)
  • Fixed support for some languages, e.g. Arabic
  • Fixed and secured some URLs in the code and docs
• Renderers:
  • Added support for MediaPlayer by PeteManchester
  • Added support for nextCP/2
  • Fix auto loading for Sony UBP-X800
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Arabic (100%) (thanks, خليل مراطلة !)
  • Catalan (100%) (thanks, nikodeimos!)
  • French (100%) (thanks, Archaos!)
  • Hungarian (100%) (thanks, Viktor Kozma!)
  • Slovak (99%) (thanks, Dušan!)
  • Swedish (100%) (thanks, Erik Karlsson!)
• Dependency updates:
  • Bump CheckStyle to 8.40

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 10.0.1:

• General:
  • Added lastPlaybackPosition, lastPlaybackDate, and playbackCount to UPnP responses
  • Added bitsPerSample to UPnP responses (thanks, sf666!)
  • Fixed VLC transcoding bugs
  • Fixed SkipExtensions setting not supporting spaces (thanks, ik666!)
  • Fixed tsMuxeR on 64-bit Linux (including Docker) and macOS systems
  • Fixed MPlayer/MEncoder on macOS 10.15+
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Arabic (100%) (thanks,خليل مراطلة (meratkha)!)
  • Catalan (93%) (thanks, nikodeimos!)
  • Dutch (100%) (thanks, DJ_eMPe!)
  • Korean (99%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Serbian (Cyrillic) (100%) (thanks, Slobodan Simić (Слободан Симић) (slsimic)!)
• Dependency updates:
  • Bump junit5.version from 5.7.0 to 5.7.1
  • Bump maven-checkstyle-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
  • Bump MPlayer/MEncoder for macOS to SB67

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 10.0.0:

• General:
  • Added some UPnP properties for TV episodes
  • Added renderer config option SendDLNAOrgFlags
  • Reduced network traffic
  • Fixed error when parsing episode filenames without series titles
  • Fixed not recognizing TV episodes past episode 99
  • Fixed finding metadata for some TV episodes, especially anime
  • Fixed not showing some metadata for movies and episodes on the web interface
• Renderers:
  • Improved detection of LG OLED TVs
  • Improved support for Panasonic HZ1500
  • Improved support for Roku Ultra devices
  • Improved support for Sony Bravia XH Series TVs (thanks, SimpleUser!)
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Arabic (57%) (thanks, meratkha!)
  • German (100%) (thanks, pipin!)
  • Korean (99%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
  • Norwegian (88%) (thanks, lexmerlin!)
  • Romanian (100%) (thanks, FlorinT!)
• Dependency updates:
  • Bump assertj-core from 3.18.1 to 3.19.0
  • Bump JRE from 15.0.1 to 15.0.2
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.3.7 to 5.4.1
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.6.1 to 3.6.2

Operating system support:

• Windows 7+, and limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+
• Docker

Changes since 9.8.3:

• DLNA browsing:
  • When browsing a TV show in the Media Library, all videos across all seasons are visible.
  • There are two new folders within the Movies and TV Shows folders - Filter by Progress and Filter by Information.
  • Filter by Progress contains the Watched and Unwatched folders which used to sit within the Videos folder in the Media Library
  • Filter by Information lets you filter the videos by a new rich metadata set (actors, genres, country, director, genre, IMDb rating, release date).
  • Alongside that is a similar folder Filter by Information which lets you filter the videos by API metadata (actors, genres, etc.)
  • New folders Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played are in the Media Library
• Web interface:
  • Added breadcrumbs at the top of each page
  • When in the TV Shows area of the Media Library, the TV shows themselves are shown as thumbnails, with covers from the API
  • When browsing a TV show, a movie, or a TV episode, any API metadata is displayed along with a large cover image, including actors, awards, classification, country, directors, genres, plot, ratings, year, and total seasons.
  • On those pages above, the colors on the pages are based on the cover image
  • Clicking on an individual actor, country, director, genre, or start year, takes you to a list of other media that matches that metadata
  • The last few items in the Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played folders are displayed on the front page
  • Each TV show and movie has an IMDb icon and direct link if one is found
  • Folder and media covers are shown
  • Fixed bugs with the Back button
  • Version has moved to the settings menu
  • Minor design updates
• General:
  • API is enabled even without filename prettifying
  • Failed API lookups are debounced by 1 week to avoid network spam
  • Changed prettified season/episode number formatting from Series - 101 - Episode to Series S01E01 - Episode
  • Fixed some bugs with prettifying to support more files
  • Added support for audio playlist thumbnails (thanks, sf666!)
  • Playlist folders are correctly identified via UPnP (thanks, sf666!)
  • Fixed automatic file watching
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Sony Bluray UBP-X800M2 (thanks, thechrisgregory!)
  • Fixed UPnP pushing via Panasonic TVs and Samsung Q9 TVs
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Czech (100%)
  • Danish (100%)
  • English (United Kingdom) (32%)
  • Finnish (100%)
  • Greek (91%)
  • French (100%)
  • Japanese (99%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (100%)
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) (100%)
  • Romanian (99%)
  • Serbian (99%)
  • Turkish (100%)
• Dependency updates:
  • Bump jQuery from 1.12.0 to 3.5.1
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.1.4 to 4.2.0
  • Bump video.js from 7.2.3 to 7.10.1