2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026080803

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026080704

🚀 Features and enhancements

• More accurate release years for much reissued songs (by @marcelveldt in #5442)
• Drop the entity dropdown from the Home Assistant settings (by @marcelveldt in #5446)
• Show the real reason when AirPlay pairing fails (by @marcelveldt in #5486)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix cast dashboards freezing for players with reserved characters in their id (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5415)
• Fix playback stopping after an AI Radio announcement (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5416)
• Fix Sonos S1 speakers no longer reacting instantly after a network hiccup (by @marcelveldt in #5432)
• Fix Sonos connections lingering after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5433)
• Show player settings in your own language again (by @marcelveldt in #5447)
• Keep simulated-mute speakers muted when the group volume changes (by @marcelveldt in #5449)
• Remove the last spurious error log entries for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5453)
• Fix a stray error in the log when a Cast speaker fails to join a group (by @marcelveldt in #5470)
• Play announcements on muted speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5474)
• Fix the OpenAI Compatible provider failing to load (by @marcelveldt in #5487)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Search for a Home Assistant entity to use as a player control (by @marcelveldt in #2316)
• Add artist name sorting to library views (by @dmoo500 in #2268)
• Add support for authors and narrators (by @fmunkes in #2000)
• user config wrong bg colors fix (by @stvncode in #2306)
• Update release notes config to the supported category format (by @marcelveldt in #2331)
• Align the PR label check with the labels the repo has (by @marcelveldt in #2315)
• Drop null checks on data the server always sends (by @marcelveldt in #2327)
• Match the API types to what the server actually sends (by @marcelveldt in #2326)
• Keep the audio processing player type in sync with the player model (by @marcelveldt in #2325)
• Move device type detection into the device helper (by @marcelveldt in #2322)
• Tidy up how output protocols are checked (by @marcelveldt in #2323)
• Explain why protocol settings skip the player-control plumbing (by @marcelveldt in #2320)
• Add tests for the player visibility helpers (by @marcelveldt in #2319)
• Move shared value and device helpers into their own modules (by @marcelveldt in #2321)
• Split router and player logic out of the shared utils helper (by @marcelveldt in #2318)
• Remove a redundant computed in the fullscreen player (by @marcelveldt in #2317)
• Tidy up leftover dynamic imports of the auth plugin (by @marcelveldt in #2308)
• Show what a settings action did instead of redrawing the form (by @marcelveldt in #2303)
• Stop the lyrics timer from running in the background (by @marcelveldt in #2289)
• Complete the workflow token permissions cleanup (by @marcelveldt in #2313)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

49 changes

• Search Home Assistant entities to use as player controls (by @marcelveldt in #5271)
• Keep group players up to date regardless of who triggers the update (by @marcelveldt in #5393)
• De-duplicate the metadata controller test fixture (by @marcelveldt in #5398)
• Show what a settings action did instead of redrawing the form (by @marcelveldt in #5402)
• Make player test config mocks behave like the real config (by @marcelveldt in #5422)
• Catch vulnerabilities a dependency update pulls in indirectly (by @marcelveldt in #5424)
• Stop tests crashing at random on a shared compile cache (by @marcelveldt in #5426)
• Tidy up where the Music Quiz AI limits live (by @marcelveldt in #5428)
• Share playlist track requests again on Yandex Music and KION Music (by @marcelveldt in #5430)
• Report Sonos S1 grouping failures as proper player errors (by @marcelveldt in #5431)
• Load the AcoustID fingerprinting library only when it is needed (by @marcelveldt in #5434)
• Stop providers from reloading twice after a lost connection or settings change (by @marcelveldt in #5435)
• Keep all members of a cached tuple value intact (by @marcelveldt in #5437)
• Keep the PR label in sync when the description changes (by @marcelveldt in #5441)
• Clean up unused leftovers in the Sonos S1 player (by @marcelveldt in #5443)
• Clean up unused code in the Sonos S1 error handling (by @marcelveldt in #5445)
• Share the Music Quiz AI limit checks between quiz types (by @marcelveldt in #5448)
• Fix wrong playback position and track length for HEOS players (by @marcelveldt in #5450)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the controller tests (by @marcelveldt in #5451)
• Tidy up duplicated fixtures in the provider tests (by @marcelveldt in #5452)
• Fix failing cache controller test on dev (by @marcelveldt in #5456)
• Correct the cache docs on what single_flight=False does (by @marcelveldt in #5457)
• Limit the length of AI-written smart playlist descriptions (by @marcelveldt in #5458)
• Tidy up the duplicated Tidal test fixtures (by @marcelveldt in #5459)
• Tidy up the API value parser (by @marcelveldt in #5460)
• Keep a playback position of zero instead of treating it as unknown (by @marcelveldt in #5461)
• Stop the dependency check from blaming a PR for a vulnerability it did not introduce (by @marcelveldt in #5462)
• Remove duplicated code around waiting for shared work (by @marcelveldt in #5463)
• Share My Wave and My Mix track requests between listeners (by @marcelveldt in #5464)
• Keep a muted speaker working normally after it leaves a group (by @marcelveldt in #5465)
• Make the Tidal ISRC lookup test check the real API URL (by @marcelveldt in #5466)
• Show which vulnerability findings the dependency check set aside (by @marcelveldt in #5467)
• Tidy up the helper order in the API helpers module (by @marcelveldt in #5468)
• Stop confusing an unknown DLNA position or volume with zero (by @marcelveldt in #5469)
• Name the argument in dictionary parse errors (by @marcelveldt in #5471)
• Fix volume changes when unmuting a speaker (by @marcelveldt in #5473)
• Make shared-request deduplication reliable for media item arguments (by @marcelveldt in #5475)
• Fix pre-commit hooks failing when committing from a git worktree (by @marcelveldt in #5476)
• Fix DLNA players reporting a position that runs ahead of the audio (by @marcelveldt in #5477)
• Stop Sonos S1 discovery from freezing the server (by @marcelveldt in #5478)
• Prevent Sonos S1 speakers from reconnecting after a provider reload (by @marcelveldt in #5479)
• Clean up pending Sonos speaker setups when the provider is removed (by @marcelveldt in #5480)
• Stop Sonos S1 from scanning for speakers after it is turned off (by @marcelveldt in #5481)
• Keep speaker grouping correct for every user (by @marcelveldt in #5482)
• Clean up disabled players when a player provider is unloaded (by @marcelveldt in #5483)
• Add test coverage for removing a player provider (by @marcelveldt in #5485)
• Use consistent line endings in the pre-commit config file (by @marcelveldt in #5488)
• Tidy up the Sonos S1 error handling helper (by @marcelveldt in #5491)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.261 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5496)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @dmoo500, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt, @stvncode