7 Version 10 Release Notes
SubJunk edited this page 2020-12-23 10:58:55 +13:00

Introduction

This page contains a list of the major changes in version 10 of Universal Media Server.

Download/install it from our download page

For more detailed but less pretty changes you can see our regular changelog file.

Quick feature preview

overview

The short video above shows some of the features added in this release - dynamic video metadata including TV series posters, web interface design updates, recommendations for the current movie or TV series, filtering by information like genre...

More details

Here is a list of the most visible changes in this release

DLNA browsing

  • When browsing a TV show in the Media Library, all videos across all seasons are visible (in v9, you had to go into a season folder first). You can still choose a season to filter to a specific one.
  • There are two new folders within the Movies and TV Shows folders - Filter by Progress and Filter by Information.
    • Filter by Progress contains the Watched and Unwatched folders which used to sit within the Videos folder in the Media Library
    • Filter by Information lets you filter the videos by a new rich metadata set (actors, genres, country, director, genre, IMDb rating, release date).
  • Alongside that is a similar folder Filter by Information which lets you filter the videos by API metadata (actors, genres, etc.)
  • New folders Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played are in the Media Library

Web interface

  • Added breadcrumbs at the top of each page
  • When in the TV Shows area of the Media Library, the TV shows themselves are shown as thumbnails, with covers from the API
  • When browsing a TV show, a movie, or a TV episode, any API metadata is displayed along with a large cover image, including actors, awards, country, directors, genres, plot, ratings, start year, and total seasons.
  • On those pages above, the colors on the pages are based on the cover image
  • Clicking on an individual actor, country, director, genre, or start year, takes you to a list of other media that matches that metadata
  • The last few items in the Recently Added, Recently Played, In Progress and Most Played folders are displayed on the front page
  • Each TV show and movie has an IMDb icon and direct link if one is found
  • Folder and media covers are shown
  • Fixed bugs with the Back button
  • Version has moved to the settings menu
  • Minor design updates

General

  • API is enabled even without filename prettifying
  • Failed API lookups are debounced by 1 week to avoid network spam
  • Changed prettified season/episode number formatting from Series - 101 - Episode to Series S01E01 - Episode
  • Fixed some bugs with prettifying to support more files
  • Added support for audio playlist thumbnails (thanks, sf666!)
  • Playlist folders are correctly identified via UPnP (thanks, sf666!)

Dependency updates

  • Bump jQuery from 1.12.0 to 3.5.1
  • Bump video.js from 7.2.3 to 7.10.1