Status of Jellyfin 10.9 support

[nielsvanvelzen]

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Current status: Jellyfin 10.9 is compatible starting from 0.16.8

You can try and use the app but there might still be small problems when your server is using Jellyfin 10.9. If you encounter any issues, please report them so we can make sure the app is working correctly. Optionally downgrade back to 10.8.13 and restore a backup.

Please refrain from commenting on this issue, open a separate issue to report problems not listed here.

[nielsvanvelzen]

Started work on updating the SDK in jellyfin/jellyfin-sdk-kotlin#888. This is the code that talks with the Jellyfin API and needs to be updated for each Jellyfin release. 10.9 being as big as it is this will take some time, the initial changes are not sufficient nor ready for a release.

At the same time I'm analyzing the API changes to find any backward-compatible breaking changes. These will need to be fixed in the server. This way all current installs of the apps can still work with 10.9.

[nielsvanvelzen]

It is not possible to login with the current unstable build right now. I've found the issue causing this and it made a bugfix for the server. It should be included with the next unstable build.

[nielsvanvelzen]

It is not possible to use media with lyrics right now. Trying to play such media may fail or crash the app. Some other functionality that retrieves item lists (like browsing/searching/system integration) may also stop working.

It is also possible the app might crash/fail to show TV series with the newly added "unreleased" status. The likelihood of this happening is low as none of our metadata plugins currently provide this status.

I'm working on a solution for both of these problems. This solution is most likely going to be an update of our SDK and a (patch-)release of the app.

[nielsvanvelzen]

We still have many moving parts in the server and the API changes are not 100% ready yet. I'm waiting until we can freeze the API state before releasing the patched versions of our SDK and app to fix the previously mentioned issues (lyrics and "unreleased" potentially crashing the app in some cases).

The login issue is now fully fixed, but due to some build issues in our packaging repositories this fix is not available for all platforms (yet).