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1.0 (2020-09-09)
----------------

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html

Dropped python 3.5 support [manual action required, non-docker only]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

With Funkwhale 1.0, we're dropping support for Python 3.5. Before upgrading,
ensure ``python3 --version`` returns ``3.6`` or higher.

If it returns ``3.6`` or higher, you have nothing to do.

If it returns ``3.5``, you will need to upgrade your Python version/Host, then recreate your virtual environment::

    rm -rf /srv/funkwhale/virtualenv
    python3 -m venv /srv/funkwhale/virtualenv

Increased quality of JPEG thumbnails [manual action required]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Default quality for JPEG thumbnails was increased from 70 to 95, as 70 was producing visible artifacts in resized images.

Because of this change, existing thumbnails will not load, and you will need to:

1. delete the ``__sized__`` directory in your ``MEDIA_ROOT`` directory
2. run ``python manage.py fw media generate-thumbnails`` to regenerate thumbnails with the enhanced quality

If you don't want to regenerate thumbnails, you can keep the old ones by adding ``THUMBNAIL_JPEG_RESIZE_QUALITY=70`` to your .env file.

Small API breaking change in ``/api/v1/libraries``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To allow easier crawling of public libraries on a pod,we had to make a slight breaking change
to the behaviour of ``GET /api/v1/libraries``.

Before, it returned only libraries owned by the current user.

Now, it returns all the accessible libraries (including ones from other users and pods).

If you are consuming the API via a third-party client and need to retrieve your libraries,
use the ``scope`` parameter, like this: ``GET /api/v1/libraries?scope=me``

API breaking change in ``/api/v1/albums``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To increase performance, querying ``/api/v1/albums`` doesn't return album tracks anymore. This caused
some performance issues, especially as some albums and series have dozens or even hundreds of tracks.

If you want to retrieve tracks for an album, you can query ``/api/v1/tracks/?album=<albumid>``.

JWT deprecation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

API Authentication using JWT is deprecated and will be removed in Funkwhale 1.0. Please use OAuth or application tokens
and refer to our API documentation at https://docs.funkwhale.audio/swagger/ for guidance.

Full list of changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Features:

- Allow users to hide compilation artists on the artist search page (#1053)
- Can now launch server import from the UI (#1105)
- Dedicated, advanced search page (#370)
- Persist theme and language settings accross sessions (#996)

Enhancements:

- Add support for unauthenticated users hitting the logout page
- Added support for Licence Art Libre (#1088)
- Broadcast/handle rejected follows (#858)
- Confirm email without requiring the user to validate the form manually (#407)
- Display channel and track downloads count (#1178)
- Do not include tracks in album API representation (#1102)
- Dropped python 3.5 support. Python 3.6 is the minimum required version (#1099)
- Improved keyboard accessibility (#1125)
- Improved naming of pages for accessibility (#1127)
- Improved shuffle behaviour (#1190)
- Increased quality of JPEG thumbnails
- Lock focus in modals to improve accessibility (#1128)
- More consistent search UX on /albums, /artists, /radios and /playlists (#1131)
- Play button now replace current queue instead of appending to it (#1083)
- Set proper lang attribute on HTML document (#1130)
- Use semantic headers for accessibility (#1121)
- Users can now update their email address (#292)
- [plugin, scrobbler] Use last.fm API v2 for scrobbling if API key and secret are provided
- Added a new, large thumbnail size for cover images (#1205
- Enforce authentication when viewing remote channels, profiles and libraries (#1210)

Bugfixes:

- Fix broken media support detection (#1180)
- Fix layout issue with playbar on landscape tablets (#1144)
- Fix random radio so that podcast content is not picked up (#1140)
- Fixed an issue with search pages where results would not appear after navigating to another page
- Fixed crash with negative track position in file tags (#1193)
- Handle access errors scanning directories when importing files
- Make channel card updated times more humanly readable, add internationalization (#1089)
- Ensure search page reloads if another search is submitted in the sidebar (#1197)
- Fixed "scope=subscribed" on albums, artists, uploads and libraries API (#1217)
- Fixed broken federation with pods using allow-listing (#1999)
- Fixed broken search when using (, " or & chars (#1196)
- Fixed domains table hidden controls when no domains are found (#1198)

Documentation:

- Simplify Docker mono-container installation and upgrade documentation

Contributors to this release (translation, development, documentation, reviews, design, testing, third-party projects):

- Agate
- Andy Craze
- anonymous
- appzer0
- Arne
- Bheesham Persaud
- Ciarán Ainsworth
- Creak
- Daniele Lira Mereb
- dulz
- Francesc Galí
- ghose
- mekind
- Puri
- Quentin PAGÈS
- Raphaël Ventura
- Simon Arlott
- Slimane Selyan Amiri
- Stefano Pigozzi
- Sébastien de Melo
- vicdorke
- Xosé M

0.21.2 (2020-07-27)
-------------------

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html

Enhancements:

- Added a new ?related=obj_id filter for artists, albums and tracks, based on tags
- Can now filter subscribed content through API (#1116)
- Support ordering=random for artists, albums, tracks and channels endpoints (#1145)
- Use role=alert on forms/toast message to improve accessibility (#1134)

Bugfixes:

- Fix embedded player not working on channel serie/album (#1175)
- Fixed broken mimetype detection during import (#1165)
- Fixed crash when loading recent albums via Subsonic (#1158)
- Fixed crash with null help text in admin (#1161)
- Fixed invalid metadata when importing multi-artists tracks/albums (#1104)
- Fixed player crash when using Funkwhale as a PWA (#1157)
- Fixed wrong covert art displaying in some situations (#1138)
- Make channel card updated times more humanly readable, add internationalization (#1089)

Contributors to this release (development, documentation, reviews):

- Agate
- Bheesham Persaud
- Ciarán Ainsworth

0.21 "Agate" (2020-04-24)
-------------------------

This 0.21 release is dedicated to Agate, to thank her, for both having created the Funkwhale project, being the current lead developer, and for her courage of coming out. Thank you Agate from all the members of the Funkwhale community <3

We are truly grateful as well to the dozens of people who contributed to this release with translations, development, documentation, reviews, design, testing, feedback, financial support, third-party projects and integrations… You made it possible!

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/upgrading.html, there are also additional operations you need to execute, listed in the changelog below (search "Manual action").

Channels and podcasts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Funkwhale 0.21 includes a brand new feature: Channels!

Channels can be used as a replacement to public libraries,
to publish audio content, both musical and non-musical. They federate with other Funkwhale pods, but also other
fediverse software, in particular Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica and Reel2Bits, meaning people can subscribe to your channel
from any of these software. To get started with publication, simply visit your profile and create a channel from there.

Each Funkwhale channel also comes with RSS feed that is compatible with existing podcasting applications, like AntennaPod
on Android and, within Funkwhale, you can also subscribe to any podcast from its RSS feed!

Many, many thanks to the numerous people who helped with the feature design, development and testing, and in particular
to the members of the working group who met every week for months in order to get this done, and the members of other third-party
projects who took the time to work with us to ensure compatibility.

Redesigned navigation, player and queue
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This release includes a full redesign of our navigation, player and queue. Overall, it should provide
a better, less confusing experience, especially on mobile devices. This redesign was suggested
14 months ago, and took a while, but thanks to the involvement and feedback of many people, we got it done!

Improved search bar for searching remote objects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The search bar now support fetching arbitrary objects using a URL. In particular, you can use this to quickly:

- Subscribe to a remote library via its URL
- Listen a public track from another pod
- Subscribe to a channel

Screening for sign-ups and custom sign-up form
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Instance admins can now configure their pod so that registrations required manual approval from a moderator. This
is especially useful on private or semi-private pods where you don't want to close registrations completely,
but don't want spam or unwanted users to join your pod.

When this is enabled and a new user register, their request is put in a moderation queue, and moderators
are notified by email. When the request is approved or refused, the user is also notified by email.

In addition, it's also possible to customize the sign-up form by:

- Providing a custom help text, in markdown format
- Including additional fields in the form, for instance to ask the user why they want to join. Data collected through these fields is included in the sign-up request and viewable by the mods

Federated reports
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's now possible to send a copy of a report to the server hosting the reported object, in order to make moderation easier and more distributed.

This feature is inspired by Mastodon's current design, and should work with at least Funkwhale and Mastodon servers.

Improved search performance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Our search engine went through a full rewrite to make it faster. This new engine is enabled
by default when using the search bar, or when searching for artists, albums and tracks. It leverages
PostgreSQL full-text search capabilities.

During our tests, we observed huge performance improvements after the switch, by an order of
magnitude. This should be especially perceptible on pods with large databases, more modest hardware
or hard drives.

We plan to remove the old engine in an upcoming release. In the meantime, if anything goes wrong,
you can switch back by setting ``USE_FULL_TEXT_SEARCH=false`` in your ``.env`` file.

Enforced email verification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The brand new ``ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_ENFORCE`` setting can be used to make email verification
mandatory for your users. It defaults to ``false``, and doesn't apply to superuser accounts created through
the CLI.

If you enable this, ensure you have a SMTP server configured too.

More reliable CLI importer [manual action required]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Our CLI importer is now more reliable and less prone to Out-of-Memory issues, especially when scanning large libraries. (hundreds of GB or bigger)

We've also improved the directory crawling logic, so that you don't have to use glob patterns or specify extensions when importing. As a result, the syntax for providing directories to the command as changed slightly.

If you use the ``import_files`` command, this means you should replace scripts that look like this::

    python api/manage.py import_files $LIBRARY_ID "/srv/funkwhale/data/music/**/*.ogg" "/srv/funkwhale/data/music/**/*.mp3" --recursive --noinput

By this::

    python api/manage.py import_files $LIBRARY_ID "/srv/funkwhale/data/music/" --recursive --noinput

And Funkwhale will happily import any supported audio file from the specified directory.

User management through the server CLI
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

We now support user creation (incl. non-admin accounts), update and removal directly
from the server CLI. Typical use cases include:

- Changing a user password from the command line
- Creating or updating users from deployments scripts or playbooks
- Removing or granting permissions or upload quota to multiple users at once
- Marking multiple users as inactive

All user-related commands are available under the ``python manage.py fw users`` namespace.
Please refer to the `Admin documentation <https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/commands.html#user-management>`_ for
more information and instructions.

Progressive web app [Manual action suggested, non-docker only]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

We've made Funkwhale's Web UI a Progressive Web Application (PWA), in order to improve the user experience
during offline use, and on mobile devices.

In order to fully benefit from this change, if your pod isn't deployed using Docker, ensure
the following instruction is present in your nginx configuration::

    location /front/ {
        # Add the following line in the /front/ location
        add_header Service-Worker-Allowed "/";
    }

Postgres docker changed environment variable [manual action required, docker multi-container only]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you're running with docker and our multi-container setup, there was a breaking change starting in the 11.7 postgres image (https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/pull/658)

You need to add this to your .env file: ``POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust``

Newer deployments aren't affected.

Upgrade from Postgres 10 to 11 [manual action required, docker all-in-one only]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

With our upgrade to Alpine 3.10, the ``funkwhale/all-in-one`` image now includes PostgreSQL 11.

In order to update to Funkwhale 0.21, you will first need to uprade Funkwhale's PostgreSQL database, following the steps below::

    # open a shell as the Funkwhale user
    sudo -u funkwhale -H bash

    # move to the funkwhale data directory
    # (replace this with your own if you used a different path)
    cd /srv/funkwhale/data

    # stop the funkwhale container
    docker stop funkwhale

    # backup the database files
    cp -r data/ ../postgres.bak

    # Upgrade the database
    docker run --rm \
        -v $(pwd)/data:/var/lib/postgresql/10/data \
        -v $(pwd)/upgraded-postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/11/data \
        -e PGUSER=funkwhale \
        -e POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS="-U funkwhale --locale C --encoding UTF8" \
        tianon/postgres-upgrade:10-to-11

    # replace the Postgres 10 files with Postgres 11 files
    mv data/ postgres-10
    mv upgraded-postgresql/ data

Once you have completed the Funkwhale upgrade with our regular instructions and everything works properly,
you can remove the backups/old files::

    sudo -u funkwhale -H bash
    cd /srv/funkwhale/data
    rm -rf ../postgres.bak
    rm -rf postgres-10

Full list of changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Features:

- Support for publishing and subscribing to podcasts (#170)
- Brand new navigation, queue and player redesign (#594)
- Can now browse a library content through the UI (#926)
- Federated reports (#1038)
- Screening for sign-ups (#1040)
- Make it possible to enforce email verification (#1039)
- Added a new radio based on another user listenings (#1060)
- User management through the server CLI

Enhancements:

- Added ability to reject library follows from notifications screen (#859)
- Added periodic background task and CLI command to associate genre tags to artists and albums based on identical tags found on corresponding tracks (#988)
- Added support for CELERYD_CONCURRENCY env var to control the number of worker processes (#997)
- Added the ability to sort albums by release date (#1013)
- Added two new radios to play your own content or a given library tracks
- Advertise list of known nodes on /api/v1/federation/domains and in nodeinfo if stats sharing is enabled
- Changed footer to use instance name if available, and append ellipses if instance URL/Name is too long (#1012)
- Favor local uploads when playing a track with multiple uploads (#1036)
- Include only local content in nodeinfo stats, added downloads count
- Make media and static files serving more reliable when reverse proxy X_FORWARDED_* headers are incorrect (#947)
- Order the playlist columns by modification date in the Browse tab (#775)
- Reduced size of funkwhale/funkwhale docker images thanks to multi-stage builds (!1042)
- Remember display settings in Album, Artist, Radio and Playlist views (#391)
- Removed unnecessary "Federation music needs approval" setting (#959)
- Replaced our slow research logic by PostgreSQL full-text search (#994)
- Support autoplay when loading embed frame from Mastodon and third-party websites (#1041)
- Support filtering playlist by name and several additional UX improvements in playlists modal (#974)
- Support modifying album cover art through the web UI (#588)
- Use a dedicated scope for throttling subsonic to avoid intrusive rate-limiting
- Use same markdown widget for all content fields (rules, description, reports, notes, etc.)
- CLI Importer is now more reliable and less resource-hungry on large libraries
- Add support custom domain for S3 storage
- Better placeholders for channels when there are no episodes or series
- Updated documentation for 0.21 release
- Improved performance and error handling when fetching remote attachments

Bugfixes:

- Added missing manuallyApprovesFollowers entry in JSON-LD contexts (#961)
- Fix issue with browser shortcuts such as search and focus URL not being recognised (#340, #985)
- Fixed admin dropdown not showing after login (#1042)
- Fixed an issue with celerybeat container failing to restart (#1004)
- Fixed invalid displayed number of tracks in playlist (#986)
- Fixed issue with recent results not being loaded from the API (#948)
- Fixed issue with sorting by album name not working (#960)
- Fixed short audio glitch when switching switching to another track with player paused (#970)
- Improved deduplication logic to prevent skipped files during import (#348, #474, #557, #740, #928)
- More resilient tag parsing with empty release date or album artist (#1037)
- More robust importer against malformed dates (#966)
- Removed "nodeinfo disabled" setting, as nodeinfo is required for the UI to work (#982)
- Replaced PDF icon by List icon in playlist placeholder (#943)
- Resolve an issue where disc numbers were not taken into consideration when playing an album from the album card (#1006)
- Set correct size for album covers in playlist cards (#680)
- Remove double spaces in ChannelForm
- Deduplicate tags in Audio ActivityPub representation
- Add support custom domain for S3 storage
- Fix #1079: fixed z-index issues with dropdowns (#1079 and #1075)
- Exclude external podcasts from library home
- Fixed broken channel save when description is too long
- Fixed 500 error when federation is disabled and application+json is requested
- Fixed minor subsonic API crash
- Fixed broken local profile page when allow-list is enabled
- Fixed issue with confirmation email not sending when signup-approval was enabled
- Ensure 0 quota on user is honored
- Fixed attachments URL not honoring media URL
- Fix grammar in msg string in TrackBase.vue
- Fix typo in SubscribeButton.vue

Translations:

- Arabic
- Catalan
- English (United Kingdom)
- German
- Hungarian
- Japanese
- Occitan
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian

Contributors to this release (translation, development, documentation, reviews, design, testing, third-party projects):

- Agate
- annando
- Anton Strömkvist
- Audrey
- ButterflyOfFire
- Ciarán Ainsworth
- Creak
- Daniele Lira Mereb
- dashie
- Eloisa
- eorn
- Francesc Galí
- gerhardbeck
- GinnyMcQueen
- guillermau
- Haelwenn
- jinxx
- Jonathan Aylard
- Keunes
- M.G
- marzzzello
- Mathé Grievink
- Mélanie Chauvel
- Mjourdan
- Morgan Kesler
- Noe Gaumont
- Noureddine HADDAG
- Ollie
- Peter Wickenberg
- Quentin PAGÈS
- Renon
- Satsuki Yanagi
- Shlee
- SpcCw
- techknowlogick
- ThibG
- Tony Wasserka
- unklebonehead
- wakest
- wxcafé
- Xaloc
- Xosé M

0.20.1 (2019-10-28)
-------------------

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html

Denormalized audio permission logic in a separate table to enhance performance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

With this release, we're introducing a performance enhancement that should reduce the load on the database and API
servers (cf https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/merge_requests/939).

Under the hood, we now maintain a separate table to link users to the tracks they are allowed to see. This change is **disabled**
by default, but should be enabled by default starting in Funkwhale 0.21.

If you want to try it now, add
``MUSIC_USE_DENORMALIZATION=True`` to your ``.env`` file, restart Funkwhale, and run the following command::

    python manage.py rebuild_music_permissions

This shouldn't cause any regression, but we'd appreciate if you could test this before the 0.21 release and report any unusual
behaviour regarding tracks, albums and artists visibility.

Enhancements:

- Added a retry option for failed uploads (#942)
- Added feedback via loading spinner when searching a remote library
- Denormalized audio permission logic in a separate table to enhance performance
- Placeholders will now be shown if no content is available across the application (#750)
- Reduce the number of simultaneous DB connections under some deployment scenario
- Support byYear filtering in Subsonic API (#936)

Bugfixes:

- Ensure password input doesn't overflow outside of container (#933)
- Fix audio serving issues under S3/nginx when signatures are enabled
- Fix import crash when importing M4A file with no embedded cover (#946)
- Fix tag exclusion in custom radios (#950)
- Fixed an issue with embed player CSS being purged during build (#935)
- Fixed escaped pod name displayed on home/about page (#945)
- Fixed pagination in subsonic getSongsByGenre endpoint (#954)
- Fixed style glitches in dropdowns

Documentation:

- Documented how to create DB extension by hand in case of permission error during migrations (#934)

Contributors to this release (translation, development, documentation, reviews, design):

- Ciarán Ainsworth
- Dag Stenstad
- Daniele Lira Mereb
- Eliot Berriot
- Esteban
- Johannes H.
- knuxify
- Mateus Mattei Garcia
- Quentin PAGÈS

0.19.1 (2018-06-28)
-------------------

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html

Enhancements:

- The currently playing track is now highlighted with an orange play icon (#832)
- Support for importing files with no album tag (#122)
- Redirect from / to /library when user is logged in (#864)
- Added a SUBSONIC_DEFAULT_TRANSCODING_FORMAT env var to support clients that don't provide the format parameter (#867)
- Added button to search for objects on Discogs (#368)
- Added copy-to-clipboard button with Subsonic password input (#814)
- Added opus to the list of supported mimetypes and extensions (#868)
- Aligned search headers with search results in the sidebar (#708)
- Clicking on the currently selected playlist in the Playlist popup will now close the popup (#807)
- Favorites radio will not be visible if the user does not have any favorites (#419)

Bugfixes:

- Ensure empty but optional fields in file metadata don't error during import (#850)
- Fix broken upload for specific files when using S3 storage (#857)
- Fixed broken translation on home and track detail page (#833)
- Fixed broken user admin for users with non-digit or letters in their username (#869)
- Fixed invalid file extension for transcoded tracks (#848)
- Fixed issue with French translation for "Start radio" (#849)
- Fixed issue with player changing height when hovering over the volume slider (#838)
- Fixed secondary menus truncated on narrow screens (#855)
- Fixed wrong og:image url when using S3 storage (#851)
- Hide pod statistics on about page if those are disabled (#835)
- Use ASCII filename before upload to S3 to avoid playback issues (#847)

Contributors to this release (commiters and reviewers):

- Ciarán Ainsworth
- Creak
- ealgase
- Eliot Berriot
- Esteban
- Freyja Wildes
- hellekin
- Johannes H.
- Mehdi
- Reg

0.19.0 (2019-05-16)
-------------------

Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/index.html

Edits on tracks, albums and artists
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Funkwhale was a bit annoying when it camed to metadata. Tracks, albums and artists profiles
were created from audio file tags, but basically immutable after that (unless you had
admin access to Django's UI, which wasn't ideal to do this kind of changes).

With this release, everyone can suggest changes on track, album and artist pages. Users
with the "library" permission can review suggested edits in a dedicated interface
and apply/reject them.

Approved edits are broadcasted via federation, to ensure other instances get the information
too.

Not all fields are currently modifiable using this feature. Especially, it's not possible
to suggest a new album cover, or reassign a track to a different album or artist. Those will
be implemented in a future release.

Admin UI for tracks, albums, artists, libraries and uploads
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As part of our ongoing effort to make Funkwhale easier to manage for instance owners,
this release includes a brand new administration interface to deal with:

- tracks
- albums
- artists
- libraries
- uploads

You can use this UI to quickly search for any object, delete objects in batch, understand
where they are coming from etc. This new UI should remove the need to go through Django's
admin in the vast majority of cases (but also includes a link to Django's admin when needed).

Artist hiding in the interface
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's now possible for users to hide artists they don't want to see.

Content linked to hidden artists will not show up in the interface anymore. Especially:

- Hidden artists tracks are removed from the current queue
- Starting a playlist will skip tracks from hidden artists
- Recently favorited, recently listened and recently added widgets on the homepage won't include content from hidden artists
- Radio suggestions will exclude tracks from hidden artists
- Hidden artists won't appear in Subsonic apps

Results linked to hidden artists will continue to show up in search results and their profile page remains accessible.

OAuth2 authorization for better integration with third-party apps
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Funkwhale now support the OAuth2 authorization and authentication protocol which will allow
third-party apps to interact with Funkwhale on behalf of users.

This feature makes it possible to build third-party apps that have the same capabilities
as Funkwhale's Web UI. The only exception at the moment is for actions that requires
special permissions, such as modifying instance settings or moderation (but this will be
enabled in a future release).

If you want to start building an app on top of Funkwhale's API, please check-out
`https://docs.funkwhale.audio/api.html`_ and `https://docs.funkwhale.audio/developers/authentication.html`_.

Better error handling and display during import
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Funkwhale should now be more resilient to missing tags in imported files, and give
you more insights when something goes wrong, including the specific tags that were missing
or invalid, and additional debug information to share in your support requests.

This information is available in all pages that list uploads, when clicking on the button next to the upload status.

Support for S3-compatible storages to store media files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Storing all media files on the Funkwhale server itself may not be possible or desirable
in all scenarios. You can now configure Funkwhale to store those files in a S3
bucket instead.

Check-out `https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/external-storages.html`_ if you want to use
this feature.

Prune library command
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Users are often surprised by Funkwhale's tendency to keep track, album and artist
metadata even if no associated files exist.

To help with that, we now offer a ``prune_library`` management command you can run
to purge your database from obsolete entries. `Please refer to our documentation
for usage instructions <https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/commands.html#pruning-library>`_.

Check in-place files command
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When using in-place import with a living audio library, you'll quite often rename or
remove files from the file system. Unfortunately, Funkwhale keeps a reference to those
files in the database, which results in unplayable tracks.

To help with that, we now offer a ``check_inplace_files`` management command you can run
to purge your database from obsolete files. `Please refer to our documentation
for usage instructions <https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/commands.html#remove-obsolete-files-from-database>`_.

Features:

- Added albums view. Similar to artists view, it's viewable by clicking on the "Albums" link on the top bar. (#356)
- Allow artists hiding (#701)
- Change the document title to display current track information. (#359)
- Display a confirmation dialog when adding duplicate songs to a playlist (#784)
- Improved error handling and display during import (#252, #718, #583, #501, #544)
- Support embedding full artist discographies (#747)
- Support metadata update on tracks, albums and artists and broadcast those on the federation (#689)
- Support OAuth2 authorization for better integration with third-party apps (#752)
- Support S3-compatible storages for media files (#565)

Enhancements:

- [Experimental] Added a new "Similar" radio based on users history (suggested by @gordon)
- Added a "load more" button on artist pages to load more tracks/albums (#719)
- Added a `check_inplace_files` management command to remove purge the database from references to in-place imported files that don't exist on disk anymore (#781)
- Added a prune_library management command to remove obsolete metadata from the database (#777)
- Added admin options to disable login for users, ensure related content is deleted when deleting a user account (#809)
- Added standardized translation context for all strings in the frontend to give accurate hints to translators.
- Added twitter:* meta tags to detect tracks and albums players automatically on more sites (#578)
  Improved responsiveness of embedded player
- Advertise the list of supported upload extensions in the Nodeinfo endpoint (#808)
- Better handling of follow/accept messages to avoid and recover from desync between instances (#830)
- Better workflow for connecting to another instance (#715)

  Changing the instance used is now better integrated in the App, and it is checked that the chosen instance and the suggested instances are valid and running Funkwhale servers.
- Bumped dependencies to latest versions (#815)
- Descriptions will now be shown underneath user libraries (#768)
- Don't store unhandled ActivityPub messages in database (#776)
- Enhanced the design of the embed wizard. (!619)
- Ensure the footer always stays at the bottom of the page
- Expose an instance-level actor (service@domain) in nodeinfo endpoint (#689)
- Improved readability of logo (#385)
- Keep persistent connections to the database instead of recreating a new one for each request
- Labels for privacy levels are now consistently grabbed from a common source instead of being hardcoded everytime they are needed.
- Merged artist/album buttons with title text on artist and album pages (#725)
- Now honor maxBitrate parameter in Subsonic API (#802)
- Preload next track in queue (#572)
- Reduced app size for regular users by moving admin-related code in a dedicated chunk (#805)
- Removed broken/instable lyrics feature (#799)
- Show remaining storage space during import and prevent file upload if not enough space is remaining (#550)
- The buttons displaying an icon now always show a little divider between the icon and the text. (!620)
- Use attributedTo instead of actor in library ActivityPub payload (#619)
- Use network/depends_on instead of links in docker-compose.yml (!716)

Bugfixes:

- Add missing command from contributing file (#754)
- Add required envvar for dev environment (!668)
- Added env variable to set AWS region and signature version to serve media without proxy (#826)
- Allow users with dots in their usernames to request a subsonic password (#798)
- Better handling of featuring/multi-artist tracks tagged with MusicBrainz (#782)
- Do not consider tracks as duplicates during import if they have different positions (#740)
- Ensure all our ActivityPub fetches are authenticated (#758)
- Ensure correct track duration and playable status when browsing radios (#812)
- Fixed alignement/size issue with some buttons (#702)
- Fixed an encoding issue with instance name on about page (#828)
- Fixed cover not showing in queue/player when playing tracks from "albums" tab (#795)
- Fixed crashing upload processing on invalid date format (#718)
- Fixed dev command for fake data creation (!664)
- Fixed invalid OEmbed URL when using a local FUNKWHALE_SPA_HTML_ROOT (#824)
- Fixed invalid required fields in Upload django's admin (#819)
- Fixed issue with querying the albums api endpoint (#356)
- Fixed non-transparent background for volume range on Firefox (#722)
- Fixed overflowing input on account detail page (#791)
- Fixed unplayable radios for anonymous users (#563)
- Prevent skipping on file import if album_mbid is different (#772)
- Use proper site name/domain in emails (#806)
- Width of filter menus for radios has been set to stop text from overlapping the borders

Documentation:

- Document how to use Redis over unix sockets (#770)

Contributors to this release (commiters and translators):

- Ale London
- Alexander
- Ben Finney
- ButterflyOfFire
- Ciarán Ainsworth
- Damien Nicolas
- Daniele Lira Mereb
- Eliot Berriot
- Elza Gelez
- gerry_the_hat
- gordon
- interfect
- jake
- Jee
- jovuit
- Mélanie Chauvel
- nouts
- Pierrick
- Qasim Ali
- Quentí
- Renon
- Rodrigo Leite
- Sylke Vicious
- Thomas Brockmöller
- Tixie
- Vierkantor
- Von
- Zach Halasz