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

QA information

CTT 2.0.3.9 passed

MCVT 3.0.3.8 passed

UPnP CTT 2.0.60 passed