Universal Media Server 13.8.1

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

Changes in 9.8.3 from 9.8.2

• General:
  • Added option to allow symlinked files to be treat as their real target file (thanks, SurfaceS!)
  • Fixed handling of web streams while transcoding with VLC (thanks, fu2x!)
  • Fixed support for subtitles with some user and renderer config combinations
  • Fixed renderer configuration change-detection not always working (thanks, fu2x!)
  • Fixed various errors on the web interface (thanks, SurfaceS!)
  • Fixed all code lint and enforce it in GitHub Actions
  • Fixed sending empty MusicBrainz requests
  • Fixed sending unnecessary network requests
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Sony Bravia XF series
  • Improved support for Yamaha A/V receivers
  • Improved detection of VLC for desktop
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Chinese (Traditional) (100%)
  • Czech (100%)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump assertj-core from 3.18.0 to 3.18.1
  • Bump com.sun.xml.bind-version from 3.0.0-M5 to 3.0.0
  • Bump icu4j from 68.1 to 68.2
  • Bump maven-pmd-plugin from 3.13.0 to 3.14.0
  • Bump MediaInfo to 20.09
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.3.4 to 5.3.7
  • Bump saaj-impl from 1.5.2 to 2.0.0
  • Bump twelvemonkeys-imageio-version from 3.6 to 3.6.1

Operating system support:

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

Changes since 9.8.1

• General:
  • Improved filename prettifying for XviD and x265 videos
  • Improved support for WebP images
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Fixed duration of resume files via DLNA
  • Fixed incorrect resolution metadata if the renderer uses KeepAspectRatioTranscoding
  • Fixed not removing old JRE folders on Windows install
  • Updated links in documentation (thanks, xaitax!)
  • Fixed date on zip logs filename (thanks, Midhun R Nair!)
  • Save logs to desktop by default (thanks, dotslash21!)
• Renderers:
  • Improved support for Blu-ray and DVD subtitles on VLC for desktop
  • Improved detection of Microsoft Edge
  • Updated logo for Microsoft Edge
• Translation updates via Crowdin:
  • Chinese (Simplified) (100%)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (100%)
  • Dutch (92%)
  • Italian (100%)
  • Romanian (100%)
  • Serbian (Cyrillic) (86%)
• Dependencies:
  • Bump AdoptOpenJDK from 14.0.2 to 15.0.1+9
  • Bump assertj-core from 3.17.1 to 3.18.0
  • Bump commons-io from 2.7 to 2.8.0
  • Bump commons-lang3 from 3.7 to 3.9
  • Bump commons-text from 1.3 to 1.9
  • Bump git-commit-id-plugin from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3
  • Bump icu4j from 67.1 to 68.1
  • Bump junit5.version from 5.6.2 to 5.7.0
  • Bump junrar from 7.3.0 to 7.4.0
  • Bump maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1
  • Bump metadata-extractor from 2.14.0 to 2.15.0
  • Bump oshi-core from 5.2.5 to 5.3.4
  • Bump spotbugs-maven-plugin from 4.0.4 to 4.1.4

Notes:

• We fully support Windows 7+, and have limited support for Windows XP and Vista
• macOS 10.10+ is fully supported