v10.5.0

If you publish a podcast, this release is worth taking. An audit of a live feed
found four faults that make podcast directories reject episodes or ignore their
details, and all four are fixed here. Alongside them, Proclaim can now re-read a
media file's size, type and length on demand — so records that were wrong, or
that went stale when you replaced a file, can be put right without editing them
by hand.

Your podcast feed now passes validation

Four faults, each invisible until a directory refuses the episode.

• Episode length is written correctly. A sermon of 27 minutes 7 seconds was
  published as 00:27:7 rather than 00:27:07. Apple's validator rejects that
  outright; several apps fall back to reading the length from the file, and some
  simply show nothing. Any episode whose seconds, minutes or hours were entered
  as a single digit was affected — in the feed we audited, one episode in eight.
• Episode files are described accurately. The file type published with each
  episode came from whatever had been stored on the record, and the fallback
  value Proclaim used — audio/mpeg3 — is not a real media type. Feeds were
  also declaring M4A files as MP3. The type is now worked out from the file
  itself, so it matches what subscribers actually download.
• Episode identity is declared as an identity. The tag podcast apps use to
  recognise an episode was being offered without saying what it is, which
  entitles an app to treat it as a web address and try to fetch it. It is now
  marked as an identifier, which is what it has been since 10.4.0.
• Addresses use https. On any site that had not changed the setting, every
  address in the feed — artwork, links, the episode files themselves — was
  written as http://. On a secure site that means a redirect for every one,
  and browsers may warn about the artwork. New installs and any site that never
  touched the setting now use https://.

Nothing needs doing to pick these up: rebuild your feed after updating and the
corrections are in it.

Correcting media file details

Size, type and length are detected when you add a media file. Until now, if a
detail was wrong — or the file was replaced later — there was no way to ask
Proclaim to look again.

• Re-detect Metadata. A button on the media file edit screen reads the size,
  type and length from the file again and replaces what is stored. This is the
  one to use when a file has been replaced but kept its name, where the stored
  details are stale rather than missing.
• Re-read every file. The Fix Missing Metadata tool, under Podcasts →
  Validate, gains a Re-read every file option that applies the same thing in
  bulk. It is off by default and says why: it reads every file, so it is slower,
  and on YouTube or similar it spends one API call per video.
• Clearing a detail asks for it again. Emptying the file size and saving now
  re-runs detection for it — the obvious thing to try, which previously did
  nothing at all.
• Mismatches are reported. Feed validation now tells you when a file's
  stored type disagrees with the file itself, and the fix button beside it
  corrects those records rather than passing over them as already set.

The sermons list

• The filter panel starts closed. It was opening on every visit, pushing the
  sermons themselves down the page. It now opens when you ask for it, or when a
  filter is actually applied — matching the rest of Joomla.
• Filtering is half the work it was. Each change of a filter was quietly
  asking the server for results twice. Now it asks once, so results arrive
  sooner on a busy site.

Smaller corrections

• Choose Playlist(s) no longer appears on media files whose server cannot
  hold playlists, where it could only ever be an empty box.
• Lengths entered by hand are stored properly, which also makes those
  records visible to the tools meant to repair them. A length typed as 7 was
  being read as "already set" by every repair and detection routine in Proclaim,
  so precisely the records that needed fixing were the ones being skipped.
• The file-type list no longer offers audio/mp3, which is not a registered
  type and was the only MP3 choice available — which is how feeds came to
  publish it in the first place. Existing records keep working; re-detect them
  when convenient.
• Caches are cleared after an update, and any third-party cache Proclaim
  cannot clear is named so you can clear it yourself. A page held in cache can
  otherwise point at script files the update replaced.

Changes

What's Changed

• chore(deps): update cwm/build-tools to v1.13.1 by @bcordis in #1379
• chore(ci): enable Dependabot version updates by @bcordis in #1380
• fix(site): sermons filter panel always open, and two AJAX requests per filter change by @bcordis in #1390
• fix(admin): hide Choose Playlist(s) for servers that cannot host playlists by @bcordis in #1393
• fix(podcast): four RSS/Apple spec defects in the generated feed by @bcordis in #1395
• ci: bump github/codeql-action from 4 to 4.37.3 in the actions-minor-and-patch group by @dependabot[bot] in #1384
• ci: bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1385
• ci: bump actions/checkout from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1386
• ci: bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1387
• ci: bump actions/cache from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #1388
• chore(deps): update Playwright and cwm/build-tools by @bcordis in #1398
• feat(install): clear caches after an update, and name what we cannot clear by @bcordis in #1378
• fix(media): correct the MIME catalogue and auto-fix types that contradict the file by @bcordis in #1399
• refactor: build queries with createQuery() instead of getQuery(true) by @bcordis in #1400
• ci: reject new getQuery(true) so the createQuery() sweep holds by @bcordis in #1401
• docs(changelog): add 10.5.0 and backfill three released versions by @bcordis in #1402
• Merge development into main for 10.5.0 by @bcordis in #1403
• docs(release): user-facing 10.5.0 notes by @bcordis in #1404
• chore(submodules): pin the scripture projects to their tagged releases by @bcordis in #1405

Full Changelog: v10.4.1...v10.5.0