2.9.0 RC 5

📦 RC Release

Changes since 2.9.0rc4

🚀 Features and enhancements

• Lastfm improvements (by @OzGav in #4148)
• Improve playlog for artists and albums (by @chrisuthe in #4149)
• ACoustID Switch to shared API key by default (by @OzGav in #4154)

🐛 Bugfixes

• AirPlay: fix mDNS cross-match when device name is substring of another device name (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4098)
• end of queue results in track being reported as played twice (by @chrisuthe in #4150)
• Fix sendspin unmute (by @OzGav in #4151)
• Cap concurrent MusicBrainz ISRC lookups in Last.fm recommendations (by @OzGav in #4155)
• Fix cache cleanup missing most records and skip needless startup vacuum (by @MarvinSchenkel in #4156)

🎨 Frontend Changes

• Add refresh top picks + Fix two shorcut bugs (by @stvncode in #1901)
• Add refresh top picks + Fix two shorcut bugs (by @stvncode in #1901)
• Add back redirect to album/artist... from genre (by @stvncode in #1900)

🧰 Maintenance and dependency bumps

• Use the standalone hue-entertainment library in the Hue Lights Sync plugin (by @marcelveldt in #4152)
• Fix guard_single_request type-var bound so media controllers don't need ignores (by @OzGav in #4153)
• ⬆️ Update music-assistant-frontend to 2.17.184 (by @music-assistant-machine in #4157)

🙇 Thanks to our contributors

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

@MarvinSchenkel, @OzGav, @chrisuthe, @marcelveldt, @stvncode