New Features

• 360° image (jpg) and video (mp4) support
• 64 Bit Linux support

Improvements

• added support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec in MP4 audio tracks for Samsung TV H series and later

Bug fixes

• fixed crash when opening a dialog box about a missing license [Mac only]
• fixed multiple loading of the ini file if an unsupported language was configured
• fixed playback to AppleTV 2nd and 3rd gen
• fixed start failure when user path contains Umlauts or non-ASCII characters [Windows only]
• fixed that AVI was sent to Apple TV as that made it hang
• fixed that devices get an access denied if they are manually enabled in case auto-enable of new devices is turned off
• fixed that devices with 3 device description entries in the device db are not properly identified
• fixed that start menu entry was only created for user installing the server [Windows only]

Known issues

• "My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server
• UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles
• audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers
• beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work
• duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled
• error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted
• thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
• updating from 7.x to 8.x with preserve settings leaves some files in c:\
•  "Try Again" button in the web UI to re-check if the EMail has been verified, does not work if the email has been verified on another device. Workaround: restart the server
• new translation strings are missing for Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean
• playback to AppleTV 4th gen with tvOS 10.2 or later is not supported
  

Improvements

• Google support and play services libraries were updated to latest versions [Android only]
• added support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec in MP4 audio tracks for Samsung TV H series and later

Bug Fixes

• fixed initialization of MediaControlResult class [Android only]
• fixed issue in iOS LDMR that could cause that non-protected content can't be played after DTCP content.
• fixed issue that modified queue metadata sometimes got lost when beamed to remote renderers
• fixed issue where it was possible that same cast device was added to renderer list multiple times. [Android only]
• fixed issue where view switcher stops showing photos after corrupted photo
• fixed multiple loading of the ini file if an unsupported language was configured
• fixed playback to AppleTV 2nd and 3rd gen
• fixed sort by duration
• fixed that AVI was sent to Apple TV as that made it hang
• fixed that DTCP playback failed when TSDK was unable to get BSSID [Android only]
• fixed that devices get an access denied if they are manually enabled in case auto-enable of new devices is turned off
• fixed that devices with 3 device description entries in the device db are not properly identified
• fixed that timeouts were only considered after connection was established
• fixed image resolution when beaming photos to Chromecast

Known Issues

• Roku does not support seek for music
• Twonky Server interferes AirTunes playback with Denon AVR-4311, as workaround disabling AppleTV support with disable_dmr_plugins=1 solves this
• beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work
• cannot beam multiple items to Xbox One
• changes in twonky-startup.txt do not have any effect if application is upgraded [iOS only]
• only ASCII and Korean can be read from ASCII tagged MP3 metadata [Android only]
• Chromecast receiver app remains in loading state when beaming unsupported content.
• cloning queue with multi-user items to other DMR does not work
• playback to AppleTV 4th gen with tvOS 10.2 or later is not supported
• playing next item sometimes fails on ChromeCast
• thumbnail is not generated for photos downloaded from an ext server