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New features
- added dynamic transcoding, time seek and version check to media file plugin API
- added support for .thm files as video thumbnails
Improvements
- improved performance of view creation
- improved server scanning performance (iOS)
- "by Date" containers now show items sorted by "dc:date"
- "by Folder" containers now show items sorted by "dc:title" or filename with/without extension
- AAC file scanner can now calculate the duration for VBR files
- API changes
- "disablemf" no longer available as ini parameter - "disablemf=1" to be replaced with "enablereporting=0"
- "info_connected_clients" now contains device type
- MPEG video files with .mpv extension are now also scanned
- added several file extensions to already supported content formats
- alpha grouping now works with Japanese characters
- database will now be reused after a minor version update
- inotify watcher is no longer added if the folder is in the ignoredir list
- multiuser db is recreated in case current multiuser db could not be read
- server managed directories are by default created in the user's home directory on Linux systems
- server now accepts upper and lower case file extensions for .ifo files as used for CTT testing
- updated client adaptation for Naim devices
Bug fixes
- fixed login for multi user access
- fixed seeking to the very beginning of a DTCP file
- UpdateObject
- now works for user "admin" when multi-user is enabled
- now works when upload is disabled
- CTT fix: Twonky Server has no longer DASH_MPD in ProtocolInfo when no dash content is shared
- LG TV set can now display subtitle files with capital letters for extension
- Fixed plugin directive from import files
- pv:lastUpdated sort property restored as described in our API documentation
- Twonky Server no longer creates a backup of db.info if it is terminated before initial scan is completed
- Twonky Server no longer registers on api.twonky.com when enablereporting=0
- added rpc/stat?initial_scan_time for performance measurements
- container update event ids are now reset when server is started
- fixed DLNA_PN property for DTCP protected files
- fixed broken album art when installing Twonky Server 8.0.1 with "preserve settings" over 7.2.8
- fixed compatibility of Twonky Library on Mac OS with Yosemite update
- fixed issue with duplicated items in views when a share is deleted while Twonky Server is offline
- fixed multi-user login to webUI
- fixed possible buffer overflow during view-creation
- fixed scheduled scan time with absolute dates
- fixed that DTCP live streams were aborted when live media buffers were partially filled
- fixed that the views cache was inconsistent when predefined and custom views were changed while the server was not running
- fixed uninitialized memory access detected by valgrind
- ionice support was not correctly initialized and therefore not working
- items were not sorted correctly in smart playlists last played, last viewed and recently added
- fixed that multi-user/shares differed from sharing/shares
- playcount and lastplayed time for pictures are now correct
- removed broken links in web config pages for Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
- some audio files with .asf extension were treated as video content
- sometimes views got corrupted after content was deleted on disk
- the location appdata/shared is no longer disabled after a restart
- webUI: local renderer can now be reopened for control
Known issues
- nested folders can cause issues with multi-user setup
- restricted permission to multi-user content is signaled as no content shared
- some audio files with .asf extension were treated as video content
- sometimes content from USB drive is not indexed by Twonky Server unless the server is restarted
- sometimes servers available for aggregation are not discovered
- audio album art is broken when installing Twonky Server 8.0.1 with "preserve settings" over 7.2.8 on Windows
- multi-user
- container album art for multi-user content is broken
- duplicate removal in multi-user mode does not work as expected
- nested folders can cause issues with multi-user setup
- restricted permission to multi-user content is signaled as no content shared
- webUI
- playing or beaming a container in By Date navigation results in "container empty" message
- thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
- sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails
QA information
CTT 2.0.03.05 8 passed
MCVT 23.0.03.3 7 passed
UPnP CTT 2.0.51 59 passedLPTT 1.22.4 passed
LPTT CVP 2.0.16 passed