Improvements

• NMC RPC call "SetIniProperty" and "GetIniProperty" are now handled by Twonky Server to unify the security checks
• RSS feeds require now less memory
• SSDP module now checks for correct network more strictly to prevent server from answering incorrect SSDP messages.
• Twonky Server logfile is now located in the user's Twonky Library [Mac only]
• added INI option "enable_multihome" to configure multihome support
• added INI option "enablenmcwebapi" for support of "local access only" of the NMC RPC/RSS
• added ability to use 'AlbumArt_{GUID}_Small.jpg' from Windows Media Player as album art
• added client adaptation for Samsung TV K series
• added subtitle support for Oppo BDP-93 player
• added support for .hevc files
• added support for command-line arguments on Mac
• added support for ogg embedded album art
• added support for subtitles for Samsung Series J TV
• added the rpc call: "rpc/is_port_available" to verify if a TCP port is available, which is important to check, before the server is configured for a new port
• added user notification on restart when corrupt media file caused a server crash on Mac
• improved Interoperability with Audionet IOS control point
• improved Panasonic Viera device adaptation
• improved UTF-8 metadata handling in JPEG file scanner
• improved foreign character handling for mp3
• improved interoperability with LG 47LE550
• improved log messages shown during shutdown
• improved logging of network traffic
• improved write performance on filesystems using synchronous I/O
• playlist entries now match case insensitive on their file extension
• rpc "get_logfile" now opens the browsers FILE SAVE AS dialog
• specific albumart, which belongs to an individual file, now overrules generic albumart like folder.jpg
• the 'By Folder' navigation tree now uses primarily folder.jpg as container thumbnail
• the Windows installer option "install as system service" is now unchecked by default
• the appdata folder name has been changed from /var/Twonky/TwonkyServer to /var/Twonky/twonkyserver [Linux only]
• the trayapp is now more robust in finding the server on the system [Windows only]
• the web UI uses now the configured default navigation tree (instead of the Advanced View)
• twonky-config.html is no longer generated or used by Twonky Server

Bug fixes

• Denon AVR-3808 was not discovered correctly
• NLS and OPT header were missing in IPv6 SSDP-message
• Twonky Server no longer crashes on QNAP devices
• added parsing of the composer from the ID3v2 TCM-tag
• created new device description for Sonos
• duplicated media items appeared in database after aggregated server restarts
• enabled locations are always allowed to aggregate
• fixed a bug with IPv6-clients not beeing able to access the server. All IPv6-clients are now enabled by default
• fixed a wakeup/resume issue on WIndows 7
• fixed an issue where videos taken with Android 6 using the device camera were not shown in Ref App
• fixed bad database lookup entries after database re-organization
• fixed broken client adaptation for LG TV Series 5
• fixed crash when adding files through filescanner-extended-formats.txt
• fixed detection of Samsung TV F and J series
• fixed handling of content-directories when content-base is set
• fixed identification of Apple TV
• fixed increasing number of threads with Apple TV in the network [Mac only]
• fixed infinite spinning wheel on web config
• fixed license-key deactivation when experiencing network errors on MAC Mini with activated Wi-Fi
• fixed memory leak in iTunes import when imported items are not shared
• fixed memory leak in removable-media module
• fixed memory leak in scan_aac and scan_mp4
• fixed playlists which contain songs with accented characters
• fixed properties of the internal shared folder used for aggregation
• fixed sorting for albums with more than 255 tracks
• fixed that UDP listeners on 127.0.0.1 and port 1900 were not closed on network changes if disablelocalssdp is set
• fixed that adding an item to a paused queue caused the playback to start
• fixed that for remote access there were some credentials checked, even if these have not been set
• fixed that some devices were discovered as " -/- "
• fixed that the web UI after changing the httpport did not require a server restart.
• fixed that under some circumstances Twonky Server used 2-4% processing time continously
• fixed the date handling of the mp3 scanner
• for mp3 files sometimes the date was not parsed correctly and the file creation date was taken instead
• invalid MPEG files were not handled correct
• mp4 decoder was crashing on some AAC audio files
• new detected aggregation servers in the network are by default "enabled", i.e. they are allowed to aggregate this server.
• playlist items with URLs have not been visible in navigation tree
• removed misleading error messages from log about TCP/IP connection problems
• resolved problems when accessing the config-pages over IPv6 addresses
• resolved start-up problems of Twonky Server on some Windows 10
• upload and mirror folder names were not renamed on language change
• when pulling aggregated content, thumbnails were not displayed on Samsung D-series

Known issues

• under some circumstances audiobooks disappear upon reboot on QNAP
• "My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server
• audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers
• 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
• occasionally, Twonky license key input results in "invalid key" on Linux systems. (workaround: remove the appdata folder and try again)
• updating from 7.x to 8.0 with preserve settings leaves some files in c:\

• Internet Radio stations that serve .m3u playlists within .m3u files can not be streamed

• 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

Improvements

• NMC RPC call "SetIniProperty" and "GetIniProperty" are now handled by Twonky Server to unify the security checks
• RSS feeds require now less memory
• added DDKeyServiceControlURLPrefix to get service control URL [iOS only]
• added INI option "enable_multihome" to configure multihome support
• added INI option "enablenmcwebapi" for support of "local access only" of the NMC RPC/RSS
• added LDMR hook tm_ldmr_play_from_position_t
• added MDKeyWellKnownBookmark [iOS only]
• added NMC_DDKEY_SERVICE_CONTROL_URL_PREFIX to get service control URL
• added NMC_MDKEY_WELLKNOWN_BOOKMARK
• added SERVICECONTROLURLPREFIX metadata key to get service control URL [Android only]
• added a new local renderer class that uses AVFoundation framework [iOS only]
• added client adaptation for Samsung TV K series
• added connection timeout support to AndroidLocalRenderers class [Android only]
• added functions tm_nmc_invoke_soap_action[_async] to invoke arbitrary SOAP actions
• added invokeSoapAction APIs to invoke any SOAP action [iOS only]
• added loadMetadata API to RendererContext [Android only]
• added new methods invokeSoapAction[async] to invoke any SOAP action [Android only]
• added new playback related error code NMCResultPlayPreparation [iOS only]
• added new playback related error code PLAY_PREPARATION [Android only]
• added new renderer event onRendererPlaySpeedChanged [Android only]
• added new setUserAgent API in NMCMediaControl [iOS only]
• added setRendererPlaysAll to treat all content as being supported [iOS only]
• added support for empty metadata in SetAVTransportURI
• added support for playFromPosition hook in local renderer [iOS only]
• added support for playFromPosition hook in local renderer [Android only]
• added suppression of beaming unsupported GIF to Samsung TV
• added tm_queue_get_current_playindex to help to identify an invalid play index
• enabled Bitcode support [iOS only]
• flac can now be beamed to ChromeCast [Android and iOS]
• improved foreign character handling for mp3
• improved log messages shown during shutdown
• improved queue handling when deleting items from the queue [iOS only]
• improvement robustness of ChromeCast beaming [Android only]
• play invocation returns now transition not available error if renderer is busy
• refusing now most invocations on Samsung F and H series while preparing playback
• updated image scaler used by Twonky server to support new scale modes [iOS only]

Bug Fixes

• FireTV metadata was incomplete when Twonky DMR was already started during discovery
• FireTV metadata was missing when showing DIAL devices in renderer list was enabled after discovery was completed
• enabled IPv6 support by default for iOS & Android
• fixed a bug with IPv6-clients not beeing able to access the server. All IPv6-clients are now enabled by default
• fixed a deadlock when application creates server context in state callback [Android only]
• fixed an issue where Android Chromecast LDMR reports error when playback is started for the first time and anytime when playback is stopped [Android only]
• fixed an issue where Chromecast receiver app didn't close when beaming was stopped. [Android only]
• fixed an issue where LocalServer doesn't start on some Android devices [Android only]
• fixed an issue where MediaObjectMetadata was sometimes returning thumbnail image as direct media item for video or audio [Android only] 
• fixed an issue where deleting files with Japanese file names from the local server wasn't working [iOS only]
• fixed an issue where shared directory has improper path after upgrading app [iOS only]
• fixed crash upon network change because volume was fetched from a non connected device [Android only]
• fixed detection of Samsung TV F and J series
• fixed identification of Apple TV
• fixed license-key deactivation when experiencing network errors on MAC Mini with activated Wi-Fi
• fixed possible crash when cloning large audio queues
• fixed possible hang when changing networks containing Apple TV
• fixed possible longer delays when retrieving properties from Apple TV
• fixed possible longer delays when retrieving properties from Roku
• fixed race-conditions in asynchronous function handling
• fixed that test LDMR sometimes did not fire play speed events
• fixed that the user-agent of the application set before the start of the stack was not properly appended to the default user-agent
• fixed that tm_dmscp_get_scaled_image_url returned invalid URLs for AV items and that scales below the smallest available thumbnail were not available from Twonky Server, tm_nmc_get_best_thumbnail_uri uses an improved logic to find an appropriate thumbnail
• picture beaming to "Twonky at Fire TV" was broken after system restart
• resolved problems when accessing the config-pages over IPv6 addresses
• seek is now done when queue is moved to Chromecast [Android only]
• sometimes the LDMR could not be network enabled after restarting the stack [Android and iOS only]

Known Issues

• cloning queue with multi-user items to other DMR does not work
• 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
• changes in twonky-startup.txt does not have any effect if application is upgraded in place on iOS
• only ASCII and Korean can be read from ASCII tagged MP3 metadata [Android only]
• cannot beam multiple items to Xbox One

Twonky Ref App Android

Improvements

• added support for seeking from stopped state
• added user dialog in case of a critical error such as a missing license
• improved queue handling when deleting items from the queue
• improved support for Android 6.0 by adding new application permission that allows access to approximate location

Bug Fixes

• fixed an issue where changing logging settings didn't have any effect
• fixed an issue where folder thumbnails for images were shown in wrong aspect ratio
• fixed an issue where local renderer was lost during restart
• fixed an issue where local video was shown in wrong aspect ratio
• fixed an issue where videos taken with Android 6 using the device camera were not shown in Ref App
• fixed crash when loading images

Known Issues

• DTCP content playback stops when user performs seek
• DTCP content playback stops when user resumes paused playback
• indicator is missing which video is playing in the queue for premium video
• local renderer setting remains disabled after setting it private in general settings
• progress is not shown correctly for premium video
• seeking forward to the end of the song stops playback on Apple TV
• transferring back beaming to local device doesn't work for premium video
• user cannot resume to play the content after sleep

Twonky Ref App iOS

Improvements

• added example custom URI implementation for beaming HTTP URLs
• added support for playFromPosition hook in local renderer
• added user dialog in case of a critical error such as a missing license
• improved queue handling when deleting items from the queue

Bug Fixes

• fixed an issue where it took long time for UI to update after seeking
• fixed an issue where queue list is cleared when phone goes into sleep mode
• fixed an issue with local renderer property change notifications when renderer is enabled after being disabled
• fixed issue where loaded album art was of incorrect size
• fixed DMR control view state restoration

Known Issues

• DTCP content playback stops when user performs seek
• DTCP content playback stops when user resumes paused playback
• 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