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):
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.
