2.9.0 NIGHTLY 2026060904

📦 Nightly Release

Changes since 2.9.0.dev2026060808

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Separate library artist views from per-provider artist listings (by @marcelveldt in #4039)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Only advertise extended ICY headers on flow stream when ICY metadata is requested (by @mcaulifn in #4105)
• Audio analysis: re-scan stale-version tracks in background scan (by @chrisuthe in #4123)
• Don't enqueue next track onto a stopped queue (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4127)
• Bump aiosendspin to 6.0.2 to fix spec conformance issues (by @maximmaxim345 in #4128)
• Fix volume jump when crossfade intro and body normalize differently (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4129)
• Adjust Chromecast playback defaults (HTTP Profile 3 + flow mode) (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4133)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Fix queue items disappearing in fullscreen player (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1874)
• Add translation key for now playing badge (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1889)
• Refactor heart icon and add it to the artist page (by @stvncode in #1891)
• Add back subtitle for discover page (by @stvncode in #1890)
• Bigger tiles on mobile (by @stvncode in #1887)
• Fix self-sustaining WebRTC reconnect storm in remote transport (by @MarvinSchenkel in #1888)
• Subtle placeholder for both dark and light mode (by @stvncode in #1886)
• Add built-in playlists for favorites and random tracks (by @OzGav in #1876)
• Single artist detail view with provider filter (by @marcelveldt in #1829)
• Single artist detail view with provider filter (by @marcelveldt in #1829)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

6 changes

• Bump stages on 2.9 release (by @OzGav in #3942)
• Pin Sendspin Cast app id to the frozen ma-2.9 channel (by @maximmaxim345 in #4131)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.181 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4132)
• Bump pyblu from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8 (by @dependabot[bot] in #4134)
• Bump lyricsgenius from 3.11.0 to 3.12.2 (by @dependabot[bot] in #4136)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.182 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4137)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @chrisuthe, @marcelveldt, @maximmaxim345, @mcaulifn, @stvncode