2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026080604

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026080504

🚀 New Providers

• Add ABC Radio Network music provider (by @OzGav in #5321)

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Follow-up fixes and enhancements to author and narrator support (by @fmunkes in #5062)
• Make radio M3U export/import survive its own round trip (by @chrisuthe in #5289)
• Smarter crossfade choices for quiet tails and backing vocals (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5357)
• Ask Music Quiz Trivia release year questions about compilation tracks (by @marcelveldt in #5373)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix AirPlay Receiver losing startup metadata events (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4787)
• Handle remote storage going away during a library sync (by @OzGav in #5076)
• Allow multiple sessions in Audiobookshelf - fixes autoplay behavior (by @fmunkes in #5275)
• Ensure login providers endpoint doesn't crash when HA provider has no config URL (by @OzGav in #5304)
• Remove phantom concurrent task sliders (by @OzGav in #5317)
• Fix Sendspin setup flow (by @arturpragacz in #5318)
• Only show library sync deletions setting for providers with library sync (by @OzGav in #5320)
• Sonos speakers now recover on their own after a network interruption (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5322)
• Bring a bridged AirPlay speaker back into its group after a failed start (by @marcelveldt in #5323)
• Recover a local audio device when its output stream dies (by @marcelveldt in #5325)
• Fix AirPlay volume changes being lost around stream start (by @marcelveldt in #5328)
• Make the Mono output channels option work on all players (by @marcelveldt in #5329)
• Apple Music: recover from throttled requests in ~1s instead of stalling playback (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5333)
• Use original release years for Trivia questions (by @marcelveldt in #5350)
• Fail unconfirmed AirPlay starts and wait for every speaker's clock (by @marcelveldt in #5352)
• Fix bridged AirPlay speakers going silent or double-started (by @marcelveldt in #5354)
• Fix mute command failing on group players (by @marcelveldt in #5364)
• Deepen the AirPlay buffer for LinkPlay devices instead of dropping PTP (by @marcelveldt in #5369)
• Keep a mono sound effect at the same volume as a stereo one (by @marcelveldt in #5376)
• Fix guests keeping access after party guest access is switched off (by @marcelveldt in #5380)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Fix the media session progress bar throwing on every position update (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2267)
• Remove the AI Radio playlist mode from the UI (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2263)
• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #2257)
• Reject in-flight API commands when the connection drops (by @MarvinSchenkel in #2228)
• Fix the progress bar in the OS media notification for audiobooks and podcasts (by @marcelveldt in #2261)
• Keep progress in sync for audiobooks and podcasts at non-1x speed (by @marcelveldt in #2254)
• Add test coverage for the router navigation guards (by @marcelveldt in #2262)
• Add test coverage for the remote connection startup gate (by @marcelveldt in #2252)
• Adapt fe and icon picker with the new icon set (by @stvncode in #2264)
• Show the party guest now-playing marker on the track that is playing (by @marcelveldt in #2278)
• Fix settings that stay editable while their dependency is off (by @marcelveldt in #2273)
• Keep progress indicators in sync with the play state they follow (by @marcelveldt in #2266)
• Make the app startup tests fast and reliable (by @marcelveldt in #2276)
• Read config entry dependencies from one shared helper (by @marcelveldt in #2275)
• Take the lyrics position from the active queue only (by @marcelveldt in #2272)
• Hide status labels and alerts whose dependency is not met (by @marcelveldt in #2270)
• Confirm when a settings action button has run (by @marcelveldt in #2260)
• Read the playback speed from one shared helper (by @marcelveldt in #2265)
• Label the mono downmix in the stream details panel (by @marcelveldt in #2269)
• Fix skip forward/backward in the OS media notification (by @marcelveldt in #2271)

Other Changes

• Name FFmpeg channel layouts in one place (by @marcelveldt in #5367)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

46 changes

• Add an Automated PR Review bot (manual pilot) (by @chrisuthe in #5185)
• Bump aiohttp from 3.14.1 to 3.14.3 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5274)
• Advertise all server addresses for Snapcast and Sendspin discovery (by @marcelveldt in #5293)
• Turn guest access into a normal on/off setting (by @marcelveldt in #5298)
• Remove duplicated config stub from the player controller tests (by @marcelveldt in #5307)
• Stop logging spurious errors when an artwork request is cancelled (by @marcelveldt in #5308)
• Stop AI Radio and Smart Playlist from hanging on a stalled AI engine (by @marcelveldt in #5310)
• Stop AirPlay speaker starts from logging a false warning (by @marcelveldt in #5312)
• Keep grouped AirPlay speakers on the same clock (by @marcelveldt in #5313)
• Update documentation links (by @OzGav in #5314)
• Add how to contribute documentation link to PR template (by @OzGav in #5315)
• Follow-up fixes for the AirPlay status contract and solo starts (by @marcelveldt in #5316)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.180 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5319)
• Apply a changed stream server address without a restart (by @marcelveldt in #5324)
• Wait for a full audio pipe to drain instead of erroring out (by @marcelveldt in #5326)
• Keep AirPlay speakers on the same clock when they start at different times (by @marcelveldt in #5327)
• Show the right address when the SSL certificate can't be loaded (by @marcelveldt in #5330)
• Report the address the webserver actually bound to (by @marcelveldt in #5332)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.256 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5334)
• Publish the address the streamserver is actually bound to (by @marcelveldt in #5335)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.8 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5336)
• Keep the Character index intact when the server stops during a refresh (by @marcelveldt in #5337)
• Don't start an AirPlay session that is already outdated (by @marcelveldt in #5338)
• Run the test suite in parallel (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5341)
• Update auntie-sounds requirement to version 2.0.3 (by @OzGav in #5342)
• Remove an unused internal URL from the webserver helper (by @marcelveldt in #5343)
• Make the discovery tests independent of the host platform (by @marcelveldt in #5344)
• Only rewrite the settings file on shutdown when something changed (by @marcelveldt in #5345)
• Don't remember a mute that never happened (by @marcelveldt in #5347)
• Protect the cached Home Assistant entity list and reduce its memory use (by @marcelveldt in #5348)
• Show the real SSL status in the webserver settings (by @marcelveldt in #5349)
• Prevent short server freezes when similarity indexes are saved (by @marcelveldt in #5351)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.257 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5358)
• Keep the settings file safe when a save is cancelled on shutdown (by @marcelveldt in #5360)
• Bump CodSpeedHQ/action from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 (by @dependabot[bot] in #5361)
• Fix mono audio playing too quietly and stalling some players (by @marcelveldt in #5362)
• Fix surround sound sources being misread as stereo (by @marcelveldt in #5363)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.10 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5366)
• Look for a caller's own audio filter graph in every argument list (by @marcelveldt in #5368)
• Use less memory for the cached Home Assistant entity registry (by @marcelveldt in #5371)
• Update airplay-cli to v0.4.11 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5372)
• Make the group mute command work on any player (by @marcelveldt in #5374)
• Only refetch the Home Assistant entity registry when a change can affect it (by @marcelveldt in #5378)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.258 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5381)
• Keep a protocol's own setting dependencies when shown on a player (by @marcelveldt in #5382)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.259 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5387)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

Special thanks to the following contributors who helped with this release:

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @arturpragacz, @chrisuthe, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt, @stvncode