music-assistant/server 2.8.0.dev2026032508

2.8.0 NIGHTLY 2026032508

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📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.8.0.dev2026032405

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Fix artist name splitting with semicolons and Vorbis multi-field handling (by @OzGav in #3390)
• Global genre exclusion (by @jozefKruszynski in #3453)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix provider rename not refreshing in frontend without browser reload (by @apophisnow in #3447)
• Standardise radio provider library behaviour across all sources (by @OzGav in #3459)
• Fix audio stream memory leaks on playback cancellation (by @maximmaxim345 in #3461)
• Fix merged player protocol reparenting (by @marcelveldt in #3463)
• Fix Cast autoplay (by @OzGav in #3464)
• Fix infinite loop on builtin playlists (by @marcelveldt in #3466)
• Fix provider-based resume position in multi-user setups (by @fmunkes in #3467)
• Fix single artist in ARTISTS tag with semi-colon in name (by @OzGav in #3468)
• Fix (user created) builtin playlists migration (by @marcelveldt in #3472)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #1635)
• Global genre exclusion (by @jozefKruszynski in #1620)
• Fade icon for play button (by @stvncode in #1639)
• Refacto list icon size and gap with text (by @stvncode in #1638)
• Play button and volume slider now listen to album art cover color (by @stvncode in #1637)
• Change default library view to panel_compact (by @jozefKruszynski in #1636)
• Add missing Radio Browser strings (by @OzGav in #1640)
• Reduce size of lyrics in queue and scale it (by @stvncode in #1641)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @Yipsh, @apophisnow, @fmunkes, @jozefKruszynski, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @stvncode