Month: July 2024

MusicBrainz Server update, 2024-07-22

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Here is yet another summer release featuring mainly bugfixes and improvements, not to mention some refactoring behind the scenes.

We – Aerozol, bitmap, reosarevok and yvanzo – are very enthusiastic about the increasing number of volunteer contributions for this release; see the many acknowledgements below:

  • Thanks to derat for fixing the layout of the sidebar after loading image, and for highlighting the fields changed by the guess case tool.
  • Thanks to julian45 for adding improving support of e-onkyo links (~5k URLs currently in the database).
  • Thanks to JadedBlueEyes for having further improved the display release titles when listed.
  • Thanks to Freso, lazybookwyrm, sanojjonas, tommycrock, and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements.
  • Thanks to bovirus, brtc, salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas, weeeeei, and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations.
  • And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

The git tag is v-2024-07-22.0.

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Happy Birthday to us: 25 years of MusicBrainz and 20 years of Picard!

Hello!

Today is the 25th anniversary of me registering the musicbrainz.org domain. I told the story of how that happened two years ago, if you’re curious about that story. 25 years is a long time for sure and I had zero ideas that this little project would end up so enormous with users from literally all over the world.

Thanks to everyone who had/has a part in it. ❤️

Also, let’s talk about the 20th anniversary of the Picard Tagger! The beginning of Picard has a less clear starting point — at least not one that is easily Googleable 20 years on. At least ChatGPT suggests that Picard came into this world as vaporware on Februrary 9th, 2004 when the Real Networks sponsored Helix Community made a number of grants to support several open source projects.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2024-07-11

Keep enjoying your summer with this refreshing release dessert, mainly fixing bugs and making improvements after the large two-course meal that was the database schema change and the addition of event art.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to chaban, Piotr, Relaxo5, salo.rock, and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to ApeKattQuest/MonkeyPython, Aszazin, Early6431, Felipe Silva, Lunae_XD, salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas, wileyfoxyx, WorldPioneerXXX, yyb987, and yyoung for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-07-11.0.

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