New Features

• IPv6 support

Improvements

• RSS feeds no longer return pre-scaled but original sized album art
• Twonky Server can now extract FLAC album art
• added INI option "ssdp_beat_time" to prevent the Philips TV terminating the connection to Twonky Server after 30 minutes
• added client adaptation "CDS_NOUPLOAD_NOSEARCH" to avoid using CDS:Search and upload
• added ini option "minimum_picture_resolution" to set minimum resolution for pictures to appear in the navigation tree, defaults to 256,256
• added ini option "updateeventswhilescanning " to send update events during initial scan to enable control points to refresh the UI
• added support for LPCM-L files for PN-Param tests for CTT
• added thumbnail generation tool to the Twonky Server Linux packages for generating thumbnails for mp4 videos
• disabled check to prevent beaming items to renderers based on their protocol info, as this information is not reliable
• from now on feed /resources/rss is only available if "enabledeprecatedjsonandrssfeed" is set
• improved robustness of file scanner when terminating due to bad content
• improved rpc/client_change to enable/disable all clients on same IP
• video thumbnail creation is now done in background

Bug fixes

• fixed possible endless loop in XML parser in case of corrupted XML
• Twonky Server could not show album art on some mp4 video files
• Twonky Server did not start up under certain circumstances
• Windows won't list second Interface (USB wireless adapter)
• access to multi-user server is no longer denied on a device that has multiple DMRs
• deadlock in file-scanner fixed when terminated due to timeout
• embedded album art from some mp3 files could not be extracted
• fixed a playlist encoding regression when moving from 6.0.39 to 8.0.x
• fixed crash on parsing certain dsf audio files
• fixed extraction of embedded albumart for dsd files
• fixed problem where some bytes were missing at the end of embedded album art picture
• mp4 thumbnail generation is no longer broken
• music items with very similar metadata were still visible in views when the share containing these items was disabled
• removed duplicate translations from strings-XX.txt language files (causing bad XML encoding of special characters in UPnP root response)
• restricted contents are no longer returned in search-response without proper authorization
• sometimes the media scanner did not store the media item currently scanned
• when share is disabled, background-thumbnail and seek-table generation was still continuing
• wrong sort order in byFolder fixed if usefilenameinfolderview is set

Known issues

• "My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server
• Subtitle not working between Twonky and Oppo BDP-93
• interoperability issue with LG 47LE550
• playlists with web content are not visible in navigation tree
• pushing videos and photos to XBox one with OS 6.2.13332.0 is not possible
• valgrind reported memory leak in scan_aac and scan_mp4
• error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted
• audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers
• duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled
• UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles
• occasionally, Twonky license key input results in "invalid key" on Linux systems
• workaround: remove the appdata folder and try again
• webUI
  • sometimes webUI with Opera does not show any thumbnails
  • thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI

New Features

• IPv6 support
• support for DIAL devices and related APIs
• Android 6.0 support

Improvements

• added HTTP handlers for /resources and /images
• RSS feeds no longer return pre-scaled but original sized album art
• added DMRCP_IOCTL_RELOAD_HAS_TWONKY to reload installation status of Twonky on DIAL device
• added DMRCP_IOCTL_SHOW_DIAL_DEVICES to list DIAL devices
• added Roku lost detection when device is idle
• added option DMRCP_IOCTL_LAUNCH_TWONKY to wait for Twonky DMR when launched via DIAL
• added proxying of album art uri in tm_dmrcp_create_metadata
• disabled hostname resolution for direct URLs in tm_dmrcp_add_metadata as this screwed up beaming from services like AWS
• enhanced return code of RPC search API
• now friendlyname and model from Roku device description is used instead of fixed values
• added isStreamActive to query if server is streaming [Android only]
• added setRendererPlaysAll to treat all content as being supported [Android only]
• added showDialDevicesAsRenderers to list DIAL devices [iOS and Android]
• removed deprecated cache and managed list classes [Android only]
• updated image scaler used by Twonky server to support new scale modes [Android only]
• added getStreamActiveStatus for checking if local server is actively streaming [iOS only]
• added new renderer event for Play Speed change [iOS only]
• added support in LDMR for handling Play Ready initiator [iOS only]
• disabled check to prevent beaming items to renderers based on their protocol info, as this information is not reliable

Bug Fixes

• fixed possible endless loop in XML parser in case of corrupted XML
• fixed a deadlock in AirPlay and Roku communications
• fixed deadlock when device has DLNA DMR and ChromeCast [Android only]
• fixed issue where twonkylib did not start properly on mobile platforms
• fixed issue with running out of renderer contexts
• fixed skip while paused on Apple TV 2nd Gen in web UI
• fixed that multi-user content could not be beamed to remote Twonky renderer
• fixed issues with local playback due to deprecated player classes in iOS9 [iOS only]
• fixed that third party stop detection for Samsung TVs did not work reliably
• fixed that renderer lost events were not notified

Known Issues

• cloning multi-user content to other DMR does not work
• third party stop detection for Samsung TVs does not work reliable
• changes in twonky-startup.txt does not have any effect if application is upgraded in place on iOS
• 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 issues
  • beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work
  • cannot beam multiple items to Xbox One

Twonky Ref App Android

New Features

• beaming to Fire TV
• Android 6.0 support

Bug Fixes

• fixed deadlock when device has DLNA DMR and ChromeCast [Android only]
• app player screen crashed when going forth and back between player screen and browse screen
• downloaded DTCP content appeared greyed out in local servers library

Known Issues

• local renderer setting remains disabled after setting it private in general settings on Android
• local video is shown with wrong aspect ratio
• user cannot resume to play the content after sleep
• volume cannot be controlled when content is beamed to Samsung TV
• seeking forward to the end of the song stops playback on Apple TV

Twonky Ref App iOS

New Features

• beaming to Fire TV

Bug Fixes

• DLNA content duration did not update correctly
• disabled App Transport Security on iOS9 for Ref App [iOS only]
• fixed issues with local playback due to deprecated player classes in iOS9 [iOS only]
• state restoration was broken in iOS 8.3

Known Issues

• RefApp cannot restore state when coming back to foreground
• an empty string is displayed if a server has a emoji character in its name
• app crashes after video playback when waking up device
• app crashes when it downloads a content after sleep
• app displays wrong status for download after app resumes
• app freezes if user taps [Select All] and [Clear Queue] continuously
• seeking forward to the end of the song stops playback on Apple TV
• when iPhone goes to sleep queue list gets cleared