Improvements

• improved interoperability with future Samsung TVs
• added option to show filenames with or without file extension in folder view
• dc:date now delivered in long format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss for all DTCP items
• derive dc:date in long format from modificationtime if required by client
• enhanced 'filename_in_folderview' ini-option to show filenames with or without extension
• performance improvement for items in Twonky Server's file cache
• performance improvement when accessing audio file's album art
• use duration provided by external source or secure storage header for MPEG2TS content

Bug fixes

• Twonky Server now preserves users and roles when installing with preserve settings
• dc:date provided in long format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss if available
• enable "fast aggregation" for 8.x servers
• fixed "Invalid license" problem when upgrading from Twonky 7 --> Twonky 8 and APPDATA inside DBDIR
• fixed a number of problems around imported media items
• fixed a problem where user selected navigation tree and client selection was not stored upon server restart
• fixed album art not showing on certain devices (e.g. ONKYO TX-NR 809) because album art URI exceeded 127 characters
• fixed occasional UPnP upload failures during UPnP certification tests
• fixed occasional endless loop when AirPlay device was found in the network
• fixed stack overflow while aggregating Plex server
• hide internal containers in navigation tree builder
• webUI: beam/play icon is only shown if there is at least one item in the container

Known issues

• UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles
• Xbox One has problems displaying photos from aggregated servers
• duration attribute is not returned in CreateObject response
• occasionally, moving DTCP content from DiXiM's PC server may fail (sent RST packet before ack received)
• some new messages are not available in all translated languages and will show up in English
• updating from 7.x to 8.x with preserve settings leaves some files in c:\
• occasionally, Twonky license key input results in “invalid key” on Linux systems
  • workaround: remove the appdata folder and try again
• multi-user
  • container album art for multi-user content only works for Guest account
  • duplicate removal in multiuser mode inconsistent for duplicates with different permissions
• webUI
  • thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
  • sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails