14.0.1

Summary

This release fixes some important bugs related to v14, improves transcoding speed and seeking in transcoded videos on Samsung TVs

This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.

Changes

General

• Improve speed of HLS transcoding with hardware acceleration (#4534)
• Fixed broken directory access on some hardware architectures and devices (#4650 and #4653)
• Fixed broken Crowdin string on About tab (#4668)
• Fixed broken media push-to-device feature (#4682)

Renderers

• Fixed seeking in transcoded videos on Samsung UHD TVs (#4272) (thanks, Alexey Borzov!)

Translation updates via Crowdin

• Danish (62%) (thanks, GurliGebis!)
• French (100%) (thanks, Fredo1650!)
• Hungarian (49%) (thanks, Benedek Tóth!)
• Korean (100%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Portuguese (61%) (thanks, paulo santos!)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (75%) (thanks, Mauro.A!)
• Russian (100%) (thanks, Олег Лойко!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

Dependencies

• Bump @playwright/test from 1.43.1 to 1.44.0 (#4678)
• Bump @testing-library/jest-dom from 6.4.2 to 6.4.5 (#4629)
• Bump @types/lodash from 4.17.0 to 4.17.1 (#4632)
• Bump @types/node from 18.19.31 to 18.19.33 (#4646)
• Bump @types/react-dom from 18.2.25 to 18.3.0 (#4631)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 7.7.1 to 7.9.0 (#4628, #4676)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 7.7.1 to 7.9.0 (#4628, #4676)
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind from 2.16.1 to 2.17.1 (#4627)
• Bump com.github.oshi:oshi-core from 6.5.0 to 6.6.0 (#4626)
• Bump com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj:saaj-impl from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 (#4674)
• Bump commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.16.0 to 1.17.0 (#4623)
• Bump junit5.version from 5.10.1 to 5.10.2 (#4625)
• Bump react-dom from 18.2.0 to 18.3.1 (#4631)
• Bump react-router-dom from 6.23.0 to 6.23.1 (#4679)
• Bump version from 18.2 to 18.3 (#4631)
• Bump video.js from 8.10.0 to 8.12.0 (#4677)

14.0.0

After 10 months of development and testing, we are releasing v14 into the wild. The set of changes is huge, even since the public beta.

The general theme for the changes is security and privacy. You now have control over who gets access to which media, with the ability to assign content and renderers to users who each get their own fully played tracking.

For more information about these features, please see What's New in v14, which is already translated into several languages thanks to our wonderful Crowdin community.

There are two lists of changes for this release:
List of changes since v13
List of changes since v14-b1

Thank you to all of the developers, translators and testers involved in v14. This is one of our most ambitious releases, and we did it! 🥳

13.10.1

Summary

This release fixes a number of bugs on all renderers, particularly Samsung QLED and LG OLED TVs and Sony PlayStation 4.

We have finally reached the end of the known v14 bugs so this is very likely to be the last v13 release. Thank you for your patience and support!

This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.

Changes

General

• Fixed MP4 and WMV transcoding
• Fixed MKV detection on some renderers
• Fixed detection of Dolby Vision hvc1 variant
• Fixed FFmpeg not remuxing E-AC3 when supported
• Fixed videos being incorrectly marked as fully played

Renderers

• Improved support for MP4 files on Samsung QLED TVs
• Improved detection of Samsung QLED TVs
• Fixed playback of H.264 videos over level 4.2 on PS4

Dependencies

• Bump @testing-library/react from 14.2.1 to 15.0.2 (#4583)
• Bump @types/lodash from 4.14.202 to 4.17.0 (#4569)
• Bump @types/node from 18.19.28 to 18.19.31 (#4597)
• Bump @types/react-dom from 18.2.23 to 18.2.25 (#4596)
• Bump @types/react from 18.2.64 to 18.2.79 (#4582, #4598)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 7.4.0 to 7.7.1 (#4581, #4603)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 7.4.0 to 7.7.1 (#4581, #4603)
• Bump axios from 1.6.7 to 1.6.8 (#4568)
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 (#4585)
• Bump JRE from 17.0.10 to 17.0.11
• Bump logback-version from 1.5.3 to 1.5.6 (#4584, #4599)
• Bump org.apache.commons:commons-text from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 (#4600)
• Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 2.0.12 to 2.0.13 (#4586)
• Bump tar from 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 (#4575)
• Bump typescript from 5.4.3 to 5.4.5 (#4570, #4595)

13.10.0

Summary

This release adds the ability to transcode video to MP4, improves transcoding and file parsing speed, audio quality, and more!

Changes

General

• Added MP4-H265-AC3 transcoding output option
• Allow FFmpeg to mux Dolby Vision streams if the renderer supports it
• Improved transcoding speed
• Improved speed of parsing MP4/MOV files
• Remux non-AC-3 audio regardless of AC-3 setting
• Updates to INSTALL.txt (#4409) (thanks, @easleydp!)
• Fixed broken transcoding when scaling (#4507) (thanks, @future-figs!)

Dependencies

• Bump @emotion/react from 11.11.3 to 11.11.4 (#4538)
• Bump @playwright/test from 1.40.1 to 1.42.1 (#4397, #4416, #4449, #4519)
• Bump @testing-library/jest-dom from 6.2.0 to 6.4.2 (#4417, #4423, #4455)
• Bump @testing-library/react from 14.1.2 to 14.2.1 (#4488)
• Bump @types/jest from 29.5.11 to 29.5.12 (#4482)
• Bump @types/node from 18.19.4 to 18.19.28 (#4462, #4490, #4502, #4540, #4558)
• Bump @types/react-color from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12 (#4518)
• Bump @types/react-dom from 18.2.18 to 18.2.23 (#4469, #4550, #4561)
• Bump @types/react from 18.2.47 to 18.2.64 (#4392, #4468, #4505, #4530)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 6.17.0 to 7.4.0 (#4376, #4391, #4464, #4479, #4495, #4516, #4527, #4537, #4548, #4557)
• Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 6.17.0 to 7.4.0 (#4365, #4419, #4459, #4479, #4495, #4516, #4527, #4537, #4548, #4557)
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#4400)
• Bump axios from 1.6.4 to 1.6.7 (#4349, #4434)
• Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.15.1 to 2.16.0 (#4562)
• Bump dorny/paths-filter from 2 to 3 (#4429)
• Bump eslint from 8.56.0 to 8.57.0 (#4503)
• Bump express from 4.18.2 to 4.19.2 (#4552)
• Bump FFmpeg from 6.1 to 2024-02-22
• Bump follow-redirects from 1.15.4 to 1.15.6 (#4535)
• Bump ip from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 (#4498)
• Bump JRE from 17.0.9 to 17.0.10
• Bump logback-version from 1.4.14 to 1.5.3 (#4484, #4525)
• Bump MediaInfo from 23.10 to 24.01.1
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.7.1 (#4526, #4545)
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.12.1 to 3.13.0 (#4547)
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.3 to 3.2.5 (#4371)
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.2.0 (#4504)
• Bump org.eclipse.angus:angus-activation from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#4514)
• Bump org.mockito:mockito-core from 5.8.0 to 5.11.0 (#4426, #4515)
• Bump org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter from 5.8.0 to 5.11.0 (#4388, #4425, #4513)
• Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 2.0.10 to 2.0.12 (#4364, #4450)
• Bump react-movable from 3.0.4 to 3.2.0 (#4517)
• Bump react-router-dom from 6.21.1 to 6.22.3 (#4380, #4408, #4465, #4485, #4549)
• Bump videojs-contrib-quality-levels from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 (#4560)
• Bump web-vitals from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 (#4435)
• Bump webpack-dev-middleware from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4 (#4543)

13.9.0

Summary

This release adds the ability to shut down the computer from web settings, improves support for 2023+ LG TVs, adds detection of DTS:X and its IMAX variant, fixed detection of DTS-HD, fixes connection problems, and other important bugfixes.

Thank you everyone for your feedback on the v14 beta so far. We will do another beta release soon. Please keep the feedback coming, the more we get, the more confidence we will have to do a final release.

Changes:

General

• Added ability to shut down computer from web settings (thanks, wolfhaus!)
• Added detection of DTS:X including the IMAX variant
• Fixed incorrectly detecting some sports events as movies
• Fixed various documentation typos (thanks, luzpaz!)
• Fixed detection of DTS-HD
• Fixed auto updater
• Removed broken access control that crept in from v14, whoops
• Improved performance of CI

Renderers

• Improved support for LG 2023+ TVs

Dependencies

• lock file maintenance
• update actions/setup-java action to v4
• update dependency @emotion/react to v11.11.3
• update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v6.2.0
• update dependency @testing-library/user-event to v14.5.2
• update dependency @types/node to v18.19.4
• update dependency @types/react to v18.2.46
• update dependency @types/react-dom to v18.2.18
• update dependency @types/react-color to v3.0.11
• update dependency axios to v1.6.3
• update dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to v2.16.1
• update dependency com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin to v1.15.0
• update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.10
• update dependency com.ibm.icu:icu4j to v74.2
• update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.12.7
• update dependency eslint to v8.56.0
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin to v3.12.1
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin to v3.2.3
• update dependency org.slf4j:slf4j-api to v2.0.10
• update dependency react-router-dom to v6.21.1
• update dependency stylis to v4.3.1
• update dependency web-vitals to v3.5.1
• update jna monorepo to v5.14.0
• update logback-version to v1.4.14
• update mockito monorepo to v5.8.0
• update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.17.0

14.0.0-b1

Overview

The first public beta for V14 is finally here!

It contains major new features based on what our users have asked for. We have been working on this version for the last 11 months, and it represents a giant leap forward for the project in many ways.

The biggest changes involve the ability to control access to your content. This includes improvements to user accounts like avatars and playback status per user, as well as the ability to display different content to different devices.

There have also been many updates to the web settings and player interfaces, including adding the ability to mark sets of files (e.g. TV series) as fully played, and automatic detection of your system dark/light mode preference.

We also took the opportunity to bump major versions of some of our dependencies, including Mantine v7, NSIS v3, Yarn v4, and the generator of our Knowledge Base, Docusaurus v3.

Lastly, we have thrown in hundreds of bugfixes and performance improvements, and refactored a lot of code to be easier to work on, as well as improved our testing frameworks to prevent future bugs.

New features

Block/allow renderers and network devices

You can now block and allow access based on the renderer or the network device, from the Home screen on the settings area.

Allow or block renderers or network devices by default:

You can now choose the default strategy for renderers and network devices. Previously, there was only one strategy possible - either allow everything, or deny everything with an allowlist. Now you can allow or deny by default, with denylists and allowlists, for complete control.

This makes UMS much more flexible for shared living situations or wide/low-trust local networks. It is also useful for those of you using powerline adapters for your network since that can result in unwanted access from neighbors.

Link person to renderer

You can now link user accounts to renderers/devices, allowing you to have independent playback tracking. For example, if you have a TV in the living room and another in your bedroom, the living room TV doesn't need to be affected by what you watch in your bedroom.

Restrict shared content to certain groups

You can now choose to share directories or online content with certain groups. For example, if you have a person (or a device that is assigned to a person) who is a child, you can assign them to the "Kids" group, and give that group access to the "Family" directory, but not the "Horror" or "Adult Only" ones. Or give them access to the Kurzgesagt web feed, but not the history podcasts.

Avatars

People can have avatars to make them easier to see at a glance. You can set them on the user settings page along with the user groups

Direct TMDB integration

You can now link your TMDB account with UMS in the General Settings area.

Doing this allows you to edit metadata based on search results from TMDB:

More

For a full list of all changes in v14, see the full changelog.

Migration

There are no special migration instructions for going from v13 to v14.

As with any major update, if you want to have the ability to go back to your current version before updating, you can make a backup of your profile directory, which contains your configuration and local database. You can find the location of that directory near the top of your program logs. Look for Profile directory: [some page]/UMS.

13.8.1

Summary

This release fixes transcoding for some devices and bumps our major dependencies like FFmpeg and MediaInfo, as well as many others.

It is possibly our last v13 release, as our preview builds for v14 have been very stable and are feature-complete now. We are essentially in bug-fixing mode for that version, and now maintenance mode for this version.

Changes:

General

• Fixed transcoding on renderers with MediaInfo=false
• Added ability to add end-to-end web browser tests on Chrome, Firefox and Safari via Playwright
• Improved logging detail and test coverage (thanks, @Priyanka-GD!)
• Made server tests not run when only front-end code has changed

Translation updates via Crowdin

• English (UK) (49%) (thanks, Pete Russell!)
• Estonian (13%) (thanks, Avernys!)
• French (100%) (thanks, @Fredo1650!)
• Romanian (48%) (thanks, Bogdan Ungureanu!)
• Spanish (61%) (thanks, Diego León Giraldo Gómez!)

Dependencies

• Bump FFmpeg to 6.1
• Bump Java to 17.0.9+11
• Bump MediaInfo to 23.10
• lock file maintenance
• update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v6.1.5
• update dependency @testing-library/react to v14.1.2
• update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.11
• update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.202
• update dependency @types/node to v18.18.13
• update dependency @types/react to v18.2.40
• update dependency @types/react-color to v3.0.10
• update dependency @types/videojs-hls-quality-selector to v1.1.3
• update dependency axios to v1.6.2
• update dependency ch.qos.logback:logback-classic to v1.4.12
• update dependency com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor to v2.19.0
• update dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to v2.16.0
• update dependency com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin to v1.14.2
• update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.8
• update dependency com.ibm.icu:icu4j to v74
• update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.12.5
• update dependency com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj:saaj-impl to v3.0.3
• update dependency com.zaxxer:hikaricp to v5.1.0
• update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.15.1
• update dependency eslint to v8.54.0
• update dependency org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 to v3.14.0
• update dependency org.apache.commons:commons-text to v1.11.0
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin to v3.3.1
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin to v3.2.2
• update dependency org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin to v3.1.1
• update dependency react-router-dom to v6.20.1
• update junit5 monorepo to v5.10.1
• update react monorepo
• update twelvemonkeys-imageio-version to v3.10.1
• update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.12.0
• update yarn to v3.7.0

13.8.0

Summary

This release changes the system tray icon when there is an update and fixes a lot of bugs, including for Samsung and Android-based devices.

This release is available via our Patreon page, and will be available here when the next release happens.

Changes:

General

• System tray icon indicates when an update is available (thanks, Ty Lovejoy!)
• Faster playback start and seeking via tsMuxeR
• Fixed broken language parsing for locale-specific variants, like "en (US)" or "fr (CA)"
• Fixed incorrect DLNA.ORG_PN values for transcoded video
• Fixed deferring to tsMuxeR when video codec is not supported
• Fixed settings changes not saving
• Fixed using MPEG-2 DLNA.ORG_PN value for H.265 videos
• Fixed some Android-based renderers being incorrectly detected as Pigasus
• Fixed order of results in Media Library when sorted by date (thanks for reporting, stnnzp!)
• Fixed migration of IP Filter settings from v12 (thanks, dytlzl!)
• Fixed UPnP search responses
• Fixed Live Subtitles folder showing in front page of web player (#3669) (thanks, Priyanka Ghosh Dastidar!)

Renderers

• Fixed video support on some Samsung TVs (thanks, Fredo1650!)

Dependencies

• lock file maintenance
• update actions/checkout action to v4
• update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v6.1.4
• update dependency @testing-library/user-event to v14.5.1
• update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.6
• update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.200
• update dependency @types/node to v18.18.6
• update dependency @types/react to v18.2.22
• update dependency @types/react-color to v3.0.9
• update dependency @types/videojs-hls-quality-selector to v1.1.2
• update dependency axios to v1.5.1
• update dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind to v2.15.3
• update dependency com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin to v1.14.0
• update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.6
• update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.12.4
• update dependency com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl to v4.0.4
• update dependency commons-io:commons-io to v2.14.0
• update dependency eslint to v8.51.0
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin to v3.4.1
• update dependency org.slf4j:slf4j-api to v2.0.9
• update dependency react-router-dom to v6.16.0
• update mantine monorepo packages to v6.0.21
• update react monorepo
• Update tsMuxeR to 2023-09-20-01-52-31
• update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.7.5
• update yarn to v3.6.4

13.7.0

Summary

Here we have fixed many bugs reported by users and improved security. We are really closing in on v14 with access control now!

Changes:

General

• Fixed security vulnerabilities
• Fixed unnecessary transcoding in some situations
• Fixed sending incorrect colorDepth for some videos
• Fixed check for external subtitles format support
• Fixed Windows 11 sleep delay time
• Fixed Fully Played feature not working on certain devices (#3947) (thanks, @Fredo1650!)
• Fixed bugs with video playback on web player

Renderers

• Fixed EAC3 (Dolby Digital Plus) support on some Samsung TVs (#4039) (thanks, @Fredo1650!)

Translation updates via Crowdin

• Catalan (57%) (thanks, Ramon Fonts Oliveras!)
• English (United Kingdom) (47%) (thanks, Pete Russell!)
• German (100%) (thanks, Da Ma and Marco Kubitza (Kubi)!)
• Hungarian (57%) (thanks, Zan1456!)
• Italian (67%) (thanks, sisar4!)
• Norwegian (40%) (thanks, Fredrik Sk!)
• Turkish (100%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)

Dependencies

• Bump JRE to 17.0.8.1+1
• lock file maintenance
• update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v6
• update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.4
• update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.197
• update dependency @types/node to v18.17.13
• update dependency @types/react to v18.2.21
• update dependency axios to v1.5.0
• update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.5
• update dependency com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle to v10.12.3
• update dependency eslint to v8.48.0
• update dependency eslint-plugin-react to v7.33.2
• update dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin to v3.4.0
• update dependency react-router-dom to v6.15.0
• update dependency typescript to v5.2.2
• update dependency video.js to v8.5.2
• update logback-version to v1.4.11
• update mantine monorepo packages to v6.0.19
• update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.5.0
• update yarn to v3.6.3

13.6.0

Summary

We have added support for automatic muxing of HDR streams for better video quality (e.g. Dolby Vision in MKV on LG TVs), done other improvements to device support, and fixed a TON of bugs!

We believe we are now the only DLNA media server that allows LG TVs to play Dolby Vision in MKVs, which has been a big source of frustration for LG TV owners looking to make the most of their TVs. We have more related improvements to come.

Changes since 13.5.0:

General

• Added support for automatic muxing of HDR streams for better video quality (e.g. Dolby Vision in MKV on LG TVs)
• Improved parsing of SDTV filenames
• Improved FFmpeg engine performance
• Improved support for video playback on Safari
• Fixed H.265 muxing via tsMuxeR
• Fixed support for latest MediaInfo versions
• Fixed recognition of renderers by UUID
• Fixed name of playing file not showing up on old status tab
• Fixed security vulnerabilities
• Fixed thumbnail generation bugs (thanks, @coobird!)
• Fixed deferring to tsMuxeR when FFmpeg can mux the video
• Fixed frozen media browsing
• Fixed RTL language support in web settings
• Added logging of subtitles default and forced details

Renderers

• Added support for Dolby Vision in MKV on LG TVs
• Fixed detection of VLC for macOS
• Fixed native Opus audio support on LG TVs
• Fixed native AVI/XviD support on Fetch TV, LG TVs, Panasonic DMR, and Sony TVs

Translation updates via Crowdin

• Removed inconsistent trailing dot (thanks, Paul Furlet!)
• Afrikaans (13%) (thanks, HencoSmit!)
• Bulgarian (49%) (thanks, Dremski!)
• Catalan (57%) (thanks, Antoni Grau i Quellos!)
• Czech (82%)
• Danish (64%) (thanks, GurliGebis!)
• Finnish (64%) (thanks, Esko Gardner!)
• Korean (63%) (thanks, VenusGirl!)
• Polish (62%) (thanks, Karol Szastok!)
• Portuguese, Brazilian (66%) (thanks, Mauro.A and Vyctor Oliveira!)
• Russian (77%) (thanks, Олег Лойко!)
• Turkish (87%) (thanks, Burak Yavuz!)
• Ukrainian (20%) (thanks, Paul Furlet!)

Dependencies

• lock file maintenance
• Bump FFmpeg and tsMuxeR to latest
• Bump MediaInfo to 23.06
• Bump semver from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1
• update dependency @testing-library/jest-dom to v5.17.0
• update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.3
• update dependency @types/lodash to v4.14.196
• update dependency @types/node to v18.17.1
• update dependency @types/react to v18.2.17
• update dependency com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin to v1.13.4
• update dependency com.github.junrar:junrar to v7.5.5
• update dependency com.github.oshi:oshi-core to v6.4.4
• update dependency eslint to v8.46.0
• update dependency eslint-plugin-react to v7.33.0
• update dependency org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 to v3.13.0
• update dependency org.jupnp:org.jupnp to v2.7.1
• update dependency react-router-dom to v6.14.2
• update dependency web-vitals to v3.4.0
• update junit5 monorepo to v5.10.0
• update mantine monorepo packages to v6.0.17
• update react monorepo
• update typescript-eslint monorepo to v6.2.0
• update dependency video.js to v8.5.1
• update yarn to v3.6.1