📦 Nightly Release
Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082603
⚠ Breaking Changes
- Retire the local audio provider in favor of the Sendspin add-on (by @chrisuthe in #5965)
🚀 Features and enhancements
- Show fuller descriptions for BBC Sounds podcasts and shows (by @OzGav in #5924)
- Improve local album and artist folder matching (by @marcelveldt in #5939)
- Add per player HEOS playback transition configuration (by @Tommatheussen in #5978)
- Faster seeking on Spotify tracks played through Soloist (by @marcelveldt in #6000)
- Keep the home page in step when played state changes (by @OzGav in #6005)
- Add an icon for the
sendspin_sourceprovider (by @maximmaxim345 in #6023) - Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #6028)
- Remove the retired local audio provider on installs that never played through it (by @chrisuthe in #6029)
- Give the server a configurable name and external URL (by @marcelveldt in #6031)
- Approve new Sendspin devices with a single click (by @maximmaxim345 in #6035)
🐛 Bugfixes
- 'Play next' now really plays the chosen track next on a dynamic queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5950)
- Add dark theme icon for MilkDrop Visualizer (by @jozefKruszynski in #6007)
- Spotify Connect no longer disappears when a different account connects (by @marcelveldt in #6019)
- Selecting a source no longer takes five seconds to start playing (by @marcelveldt in #6021)
- Cancel in-flight finalizes before freeing analysis models (by @chrisuthe in #6024)
- Retry Sonic Analysis when a track loses its CLAP windows (by @chrisuthe in #6034)
🎨 Frontend Changes
- Surface retired providers correctly in the settings UI (by @chrisuthe in #2644)
- Show the full menu on discover page items (by @OzGav in #2624)
- Translate the provider stage badge (by @chrisuthe in #2629)
- Fix permission popups on cast dashboards (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2655)
- Replace butterchurn with maintained fork (by @jozefKruszynski in #2654)
- Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2630)
- Show pairing codes as dedicated input boxes (by @marcelveldt in #2657)
- No more STABLE badge when adding a provider (by @marcelveldt in #2656)
- Show server name, addresses and remote access on the About page (by @marcelveldt in #2658)
- Show audio inputs and devices that need setup (by @maximmaxim345 in #2659)
🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps
25 changes
- Spread beat analysis over shorter steps so it stays out of playback's way (by @marcelveldt in #6001)
- Cleanup and small tweaks to the Spotify provider (by @marcelveldt in #6002)
- Stop leaving a subprocess running when closing it is cancelled (by @marcelveldt in #6006)
- Make the Smart Fades unloaded-model guards actually work (by @marcelveldt in #6008)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.201 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6009)
- Let a cancelled virtual player creation finish cleaning up (by @marcelveldt in #6010)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.202 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6011)
- Keep analysis models loaded while a track is still being analysed (by @marcelveldt in #6012)
- Keep the Smart Fades models as a single set (by @marcelveldt in #6013)
- Keep Spotify playing without a gap when a track repeats or the queue changes (by @marcelveldt in #6014)
- Stop logging an ordinary Spotify seek as a failure (by @marcelveldt in #6015)
- Don't stall cleaning up a virtual player that was already removed (by @marcelveldt in #6016)
- Free a cut Spotify channel's buffer as soon as nothing is reading it (by @marcelveldt in #6017)
- Add tests for where Spotify Soloist splits one track from the next (by @marcelveldt in #6018)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.292 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6020)
- Hide the Sendspin legacy clients option (by @maximmaxim345 in #6025)
- Set up Spotify Connect and AirPlay Receiver once and pick the players they serve (by @marcelveldt in #6026)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.203 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6027)
- Use the new Sendspin mark for the provider icon (by @MarvinSchenkel in #6030)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.293 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6032)
- Pairing texts now say 'pairing code' instead of 'PIN' (by @marcelveldt in #6033)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.204 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6036)
- Update base image versions to 1.6.3 (by @marcelveldt in #6037)
- Clean up snapcast mdns records when the provider unloads (by @marcelveldt in #6038)
- ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.294 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #6039)
🙇 Thanks to our contributors
Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:
@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @chrisuthe, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345