2026.05.01

[tsirysndr]

[2026.05.01]

Added

• Bluetooth button in the GPUI mini-player — shown when Bluetooth is available; opens the device picker and fetches paired devices on toggle
• Cover URLs in GPUI now follow the active server via get_covers_base() instead of the hardcoded http://localhost:6062/covers/ base

Changed

• HTTP server (crates/server) migrated from a custom request/response layer to Actix-web — handlers now accept web::Data, web::Path, and web::Query and return actix_web::Result<HttpResponse>; blocking C FFI work is offloaded to web::block
• Tokio runtimes for the controls and MPD servers are now shared via OnceLock instead of being created per-thread, reducing overhead and avoiding nested-runtime panics
• RLIMIT_NOFILE is raised to 4 096 at startup on Unix to accommodate large music libraries

Fixed

• Audio stop and pause are now non-blocking — they use audio_queue_post so they can safely be called from any OS thread; audio_hard_stop posts Q_AUDIO_STOP with data=2 and the audio thread frees audiobuf_handle itself, preventing cross-thread frees
• Blocking C FFI calls in playlist handlers run on web::block threads to avoid starving Actix worker threads and prevent nested tokio/reqwest blocking contexts
• Live metadata lookups are skipped for HTTP tracks; Rockbox's own UPnP renderers are excluded from the UPnP device list
• Bluetooth availability check uses fetchGlobalStatus() (gRPC GetGlobalStatus) instead of getDevices() to avoid spurious UNIMPLEMENTED errors on probe
• Bluetooth availability is now polled in a background task and updated via std::sync::mpsc to avoid cross-runtime waker issues when bridging Tokio → GPUI
• observe_global registrations in GPUI now call .detach() instead of silently dropping the subscription handle
• RFC3339 datetime migration — a SQL migration normalises NULL/blank and YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS timestamps in the library database to RFC3339 so SQLx DateTime<Utc> decoding no longer fails
• Favourites queries now use INNER JOIN and filter out empty-string IDs, excluding bogus entries from results
• mDNS scanning now prefers IPv4 addresses (192.168 → 10 → others) and selects the best non-loopback/link-local address so multiple records for the same host coalesce correctly
• println!/eprintln! diagnostics in crates/controls and crates/mpd replaced with tracing::error!
• macOS app listens for server-change notifications and restarts streaming, re-fetches settings, device state, and Bluetooth state on server switch

Full Changelog: 2026.04.31...2026.05.01

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