2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082103

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082014

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Start the next track's crossfade audio while the current one is still playing (by @marcelveldt in #5866)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix play count going negative when marking an unfinished item as unplayed (by @chrisuthe in #5865)
• Keep shuffle on when you play something new (by @marcelveldt in #5867)
• Ensure gapless playback in MusicCast after security hardening (by @fmunkes in #5871)
• Don't empty the queue while loading what you picked next (by @marcelveldt in #5873)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Call the group picker's visualizers section "Screens" (by @marcelveldt in #2590)
• Show a readable player type on the player settings page (by @marcelveldt in #2596)
• Fix silent group members from line-in capture devices (by @marcelveldt in #2591)
• Fix provider icon spacing in the add provider and add group player dialogs (by @marcelveldt in #2593)
• Use one shared component for the player protocol chips (by @marcelveldt in #2595)
• Clean up leftovers in the players filter (by @marcelveldt in #2592)
• Remove an unused option from the provider icon component (by @marcelveldt in #2589)
• Fix provider icon spacing on the Discover shelf and settings screens (by @marcelveldt in #2587)
• Various improvements to the App startup tests (by @marcelveldt in #2586)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

5 changes

• Stop a library item a provider cannot read from being removed from the library (by @marcelveldt in #5861)
• Surface Spotify Connect queue and playback options from the Soloist engine (by @marcelveldt in #5874)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-models to 1.1.194 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5876)
• Stabilize Yandex login timeout tests (by @marcelveldt in #5879)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.282 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5884)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@chrisuthe, @fmunkes, @marcelveldt