This version brings a comprehensive Artwork overhaul, with per-disc cover art, artist image uploads, animated image preservation, and a faster image pipeline powered by WebP encoding. You can now upload custom artwork for playlists, artists, and internet radios directly from the UI, and multi-disc albums will automatically pick up disc-specific cover images.
Search has been completely rebuilt on top of SQLite FTS5 with two-phase BM25 ranking, delivering faster and more accurate results across your entire library.
Transcoding is now fully server-managed: Navidrome detects client codecs, applies format-aware bitrate defaults, and implements the OpenSubsonic Transcoding extension, so clients no longer need to guess what format to request.
The Plugin System continues to mature with new host services for HTTP requests, persistent task queues, lyrics providers, and key-value storage with TTL support, giving plugin developers more tools to build powerful integrations.
Security
- Bump
golang.org/x/imageto v0.38.0 to address CVE-2026-33809. (#5268) - Add ownership checks to share Delete and Update operations, preventing unauthorized access to other users' shares. (#5189 by @deluan)
- Clear server-managed fields in savePlaylist to prevent field injection via REST API. (f102036dc by @deluan)
⚠️ Breaking Changes
- Remove built-in Spotify integration. The
Spotify.IDandSpotify.Secretconfiguration options are no longer supported. Use the Last.fm or Deezer agents, or a plugin for similar functionality, like the new Apple Music Plugin. (#5197 by @deluan)
Configuration Changes
| Status | Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| New | EnableArtworkUpload
| Enable uploading custom artwork for playlists and artists. (#5110, #5198) | true
|
| New | EnableM3UExternalAlbumArt
| Enable fetching album art URLs from #EXTALBUMARTURL directives in M3U playlists. (#5131)
| false
|
| New | DiscArtPriority
| Priority list for disc-level cover art sources. (#5182) | disc*.*, cd*.*, cover.*, folder.*, front.*, discsubtitle, embedded
|
| New | ArtistImageFolder
| Folder name to search for artist images within the library. (#5198) | — |
| New | Search.Backend
| Search backend to use (fts for FTS5 full-text search). (#5079)
| fts
|
| New | ExtAuth.LogoutURL
| URL to redirect to when logging out with external authentication. (#5074) | ""
|
| New | Subsonic.AppendAlbumVersion
| Append album version/edition to album names in Subsonic API responses. (#5111) | true
|
| New | UISearchDebounceMs
| Debounce delay for the UI search field. (#5079) | — |
| Changed | CoverJpegQuality → CoverArtQuality
| Renamed for clarity. Old name still works. (#5181) | 75
|
| CHanged | SearchFullString
| Use Search.FullString instead. (#5079)
| — |
| Removed | Spotify.ID, Spotify.Secret
| Spotify integration has been removed. (#5197) | — |
For a complete list of all configuration options, see the Configuration Options documentation.
Artwork
- Add per-disc cover art support, with configurable
DiscArtPriority. (#5182 by @deluan) - Add artist image uploads and image-folder artwork source. (#5198 by @deluan)
- Preserve animated image artwork (GIF, APNG, animated WebP) during resize. (#5184 by @deluan)
- Improve image serving performance with WebP encoding and optimized pipeline. (#5181 by @deluan)
- Increase cover art size to 600px and use CatmullRom scaling for sharper images. (cb396f3db by @deluan)
- Fallback mediafile cover art to disc artwork before album. (#5216 by @deluan)
- Refresh stale artist image URLs on expiry. (#5267 by @deluan)
- Validate ffmpeg pipe before returning in cover art fallback. (420d2c8e5 by @deluan)
- Search parent folders for album cover art in multi-disc layouts. (#5157 by @deluan)
UI
- Add custom playlist cover art upload. (#5110 by @adrbn)
- Add cover art support for internet radio stations. (#5229 by @deluan)
- Add Dracula theme. (#5023 by @Saulimedes)
- Add Nutball theme. (#4544 by @cafecitopuro)
- Add tooltips for long playlist and album names. (#5070 by @sfredo)
- Add download link for config TOML and disable clipboard copy when unavailable. (#5035 by @kgarner7)
- Add
pathfield as optional column in library list for desktop view. (4e34d3ac1 by @deluan) - Integrate server-managed transcoding decisions into web player. (#5155 by @deluan)
- Improve browser codec detection. (#5171 by @deluan)
- Allow
DefaultTheme="Auto"from config. (#5190 by @trek-e) - Fix search focus after clearing search field. (#4932 by @borisrorsvort)
- Fix "Play Next" from restarting playback at top of queue. (#5049 by @alannnna)
- Fix toggle switches not visible in Gruvbox Dark theme. (#5064 by @deluan)
- Fix delete button contrast in AMusic theme. (51c48bcac by @deluan)
- Cancel in-flight image requests on pagination, cache across remounts. (#5249 by @deluan)
- Prevent mobile touch events from triggering playback after lightbox close. (197d357f0 by @deluan)
- Prevent duplicate getCoverArt requests on artist page. (549b81263 by @deluan)
Search
- Implement FTS5-based full-text search for faster and more accurate results. (#5079 by @deluan)
- Improve FTS queries with two-phase BM25 ranking for Subsonic's
search3endpoint. (#5086 by @deluan)
Transcoding
- Implement server-managed transcoding. (#4990 by @deluan)
- Add player MaxBitRate cap, format-aware defaults, and browser profile filtering. (#5165 by @deluan)
- Improve transcoding failure diagnostics and error responses. (#5227 by @deluan)
- Use ADTS for AAC transcoding. (#5167 by @deluan)
- Implement fallback to DefaultDownsamplingFormat for unknown formats. (5ecbe31a0 by @deluan)
- Prevent raw file being returned when explicit transcode format is requested. (053a0fd6c by @deluan)
Subsonic API
- Implement OpenSubsonic
transcodingextension. (#4990 by @deluan) - Append album version to names in Subsonic API responses. (#5111 by @deluan)
- Add coverArt to internetRadioStation response. (03608d3ee by @deluan)
- Add per-disc cover art support. (#5182 by @deluan)
- Never omit duration for AlbumID3. (#5217 by @kgarner7)
- Always return required playqueue fields. (#5172 by @kgarner7)
- Always include mandatory title field in Child responses. (a887521d7 by @deluan)
- Restore
publicattribute for playlists in XML responses. (0c3cc8653 by @deluan)
Scanner
- Add MKA/Matroska audio file support via TagLib 2.2. (#5071 by @deluan)
- Exclude Vorbis VERSION from albumversion tag mapping. (#5194 by @trek-e)
- Widen WASM panic recovery to cover tag/property reading. (#5223 by @deluan)
- Prevent duplicate tracks when multiple missing files match same target. (#5183 by @deluan)
- Prevent ScanOnStartup when scanner is disabled. (1cf3fd916 by @deluan)
- Increase watcher channel buffers to prevent dropped filesystem events. (0790f6662 by @deluan)
Playlists / Smart Playlists
- Support
#EXTALBUMARTURLdirective and sidecar images for playlist cover art. (#5131 by @deluan) - Add percentage-based limits to smart playlists. (#5144 by @deluan)
- Make album and artist fields available to smart playlist queries. (#4927 by @ulfurinn)
- Add
averageRatingas a smart playlist field. (#5092 by @Lokke)
Server
- Add ExtAuth logout URL configuration. (#5074 by @deluan)
- Accept
ND_-prefixed environment variable names in config files. (#5258 by @deluan) - Add syslog priority prefixes for systemd-journald. (#5192 by @trek-e)
- Require additional variable to enable systemd logging. (#5222 by @kgarner7)
- Add crontab(5) random
~syntax support for schedule expressions. (#5233 by @deluan) - Preserve
created_atwhen moving songs between libraries. (#5055 by @deluan) - Increase SSE writeTimeout to exceed keepAlive period. (#5054 by @rcatolino)
- Use
http.TimeFormatfor Last-Modified header. (#5219 by @SimonTeixidor) - Return correct scanType in startScan response. (#5159 by @deluan)
- Return 404 instead of 500 for non-existent playlists. (b64d8ad33 by @deluan)
- Normalize timestamps and fix recently added album sorting. (#5176 by @deluan)
Plugins
- Add HTTP host service for plugin HTTP requests. (#5095 by @deluan)
- Add TaskQueue host service for persistent background task queues. (#5116 by @deluan)
- Add lyrics provider plugin capability. (#5126 by @deluan)
- Add TTL support, batch operations, and hardening to kvstore. (#5127 by @deluan)
- Allow mounting library directories as read-write. (#5122 by @deluan)
- Change websockets Data field type to
[]bytefor binary support. (6fd044fb0 by @deluan) - Clear plugin errors on startup to allow retrying. (27a83547f by @deluan)
Translations
- Add Slovak language translation. (#5231 by @JRoshthen1)
- Update Chinese Simplified translation. (#5025 by @fxj368)
- Update Basque translation. (#5038 by @xabirequejo)
- Update Hungarian translation. (#5041, #5263 by @ChekeredList71)
- Update Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Galician, Portuguese (BR), Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Chinese (Traditional) translations. (#5044, #5039, #5218, #5260)
New Contributors
- @cafecitopuro made their first contribution in #4544
- @Saulimedes made their first contribution in #5023
- @fxj368 made their first contribution in #5025
- @rcatolino made their first contribution in #5054
- @sfredo made their first contribution in #5070
- @adrbn made their first contribution in #5110
- @trek-e made their first contribution in #5190
- @SimonTeixidor made their first contribution in #5219
- @JRoshthen1 made their first contribution in #5231
Full Changelog: v0.60.3...v0.61.0
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