2.10.0 NIGHTLY 2026082516

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.10.0.dev2026082503

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5963)
• Support next/previous controls on Google Cast devices (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5970)
• Show bit-perfect playback for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #5983)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix slow player response after pausing an external source (by @marcelveldt in #5961)
• Announcements use the speaker's own announcement feature first (by @marcelveldt in #5974)
• Fix mid-track silence on AirPlay receivers that need an explicit progress anchor (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5976)
• Fix announcement volume and mute handling on AirPlay speakers (by @marcelveldt in #5977)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Show audio quality for external sources (by @marcelveldt in #2628)

Other Changes

• Lokalise translations update (by @github-actions[bot] in #5966)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

8 changes

• Fix flaky AirPlay announcement timing tests (by @marcelveldt in #5967)
• Bump hass-client to 1.3.1 (by @MarvinSchenkel in #5969)
• Speed up the slowest AirPlay announcement test (by @marcelveldt in #5971)
• Let audio analysis notice players that are not served over HTTP (by @marcelveldt in #5972)
• Keep tracks of the same album gapless when crossfade is on (by @marcelveldt in #5973)
• Tidy up process cleanup code (by @marcelveldt in #5980)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.289 (by @musicassistant-bot[bot] in #5982)
• Count album plays started from a streaming service's own listings (by @marcelveldt in #5984)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @marcelveldt