music-assistant/server 2.8.0.dev2026022518

2.8.0 NIGHTLY 2026022518

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📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.8.0.dev2026022505

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Add generic short code authentication system (by @apophisnow in #3078)
• Expand PIN based auth in airplay 2 (by @hmonteiro in #3165)
• Update Alexa player provider (by @alams154 in #3167)
• Add API to handle playback speed (by @andykelk in #3198)
• Airplay2-configurable-latency (by @bradkeifer in #3210)
• Bandcamp: validate login on init when credentials are configured (by @teancom in #3215)
• Clear internal HEOS queue before playing (by @Tommatheussen in #3219)
• Add genre icons and SVG handling to imageproxy (by @MarvinSchenkel in #3223)
• feat(genres): add merge genres functionality (by @jozefKruszynski in #3236)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Gracefully skip files/folders with emoji names on SMB mounts (by @OzGav in #3183)
• Fix DSP not applying for AirPlay and Sendspin players (by @maximmaxim345 in #3191)
• Validate queue item ID in Sonos pause path (by @rjbutler in #3194)
• OpenSubsonic: Use server provided version tag if present (by @khers in #3200)
• Fix group mute for protocol-synced players (by @scyto in #3205)
• Fix HEOS source switching back to Local Music after starting stream (by @Tommatheussen in #3206)
• Fix Sonos S2 announcement 404 error on cloud queue context endpoint (by @Copilot in #3208)
• Snapcast: Fixes for hard switching of group leaders (by @gnumpi in #3209)
• Fix inverted track_number condition in Bandcamp converter (by @teancom in #3211)
• Use ImageType.THUMB for Bandcamp artwork images (by @teancom in #3212)
• Fix Radioparadise image URL (by @OzGav in #3220)
• Allow user-configured shairport-sync instances on the same host to be discovered as AirPlay players (by @Copilot in #3221)
• Fix language and genre mapping for Spotify podcasts and audiobooks (by @OzGav in #3231)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Save current queue to playlist feature (by @chrisuthe in #1456)
• Show ADD TO PLAYLIST for podcast episodes and audiobooks (by @OzGav in #1474)
• feat(genres): Genre frontend implementation (by @jozefKruszynski in #1459)
• feat(genres): add descriptions to translations (by @jozefKruszynski in #1497)
• Separate UI-only config entries from API schema; inject DSP link via UI entry helpers (by @gnumpi in #1384)
• Add genre filter for pages (by @stvncode in #1496)
• Feat/genre-merge (by @jozefKruszynski in #1494)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@Copilot, @MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Tommatheussen, @alams154, @andykelk, @apophisnow, @bradkeifer, @chrisuthe, @gnumpi, @hmonteiro, @jozefKruszynski, @khers, @maximmaxim345, @rjbutler, @scyto, @stvncode, @teancom