12.15.1.1 - 2026-01-30

⛰️ Features

• Add a few items to the top of the grid's header context menu - (eb9cd8b)
• Add a newer FreetTDS library for Windows, from the last successful VS 2022 build on https://ci.appveyor.com/project/FreeTDS/freetds - (93bfda0)
• Make grid-highlight-same-text-color part of the predefined color schemes - (7854157)
• Switch color scheme from Tools main menu - (c8c3b23)
• Introduce global AppColorSchemes for managing SQL and grid colors, and sync both with the app's dark mode (still only on Windows) - (d313a59)
• Sync active line color and brace highlight with the app's dark or light mode - (3510728)
• Auto-switch to dark or light SQL colors in sync with the app's dark mode - (8a08e77)
• Support dark mode, using MetaDarkStyle from OPM, and provide the 3 known custom settings: automatic, light and dark - (3f9e867)
• Re-enable dropping files from file manager to "insert files to BLOB" dialog - (23fc9c0)
• Upgrade DPI awareness to Per-Monitor v2, add TMainForm.FormChangeBounds as a replacement for the missing OnAfter/OnBeforeMonitorDpiChanged events - (9eab28e)
• Re-enable menu item on list header context menu: "Toggle visibility of all columns" - (41169f7)
• Support European umlauts/accents as \w (word char) in some regular expression areas - (304cd26)
• Auto-uppercase keywords, data types and functions - (62cda84)
• Recreate previous state of trigger after realizing the user edited code has errors - (e7e5e11)
• Create a TSynEditMarkup descendant and use it for highlighting selected text occurrences - (8a667f2)
• Create custom setting so the user may define a terminal app himself, and auto-detect terminal app if the setting is yet empty - (613e207)
• Enable InnoSetup script for creating Windows installer - (317edcd)
• Re-enable codepage => charset mapping using GetACP from DelphiCompat unit - (79e4654)
• Re-enable ValidFilename function with platform specific lists of disallowed characters - (f3a0594)
• Re-enable support for hyperlinks in message dialogues, and use TTaskDialog again for simple messages on Windows - (15eb52b)
• Support portable mode with a portable.lock file in the app folder - (c528c5d)
• Re-enable hints on query result tabs - (88115ac)
• Show connection details as a hint over status bar - (e1ad5c3)
• Add missing LCL translations, compiled to .mo files with msgfmt from Poedit with support for msgctxt - (505e3ec)
• Use the more native MessageDlg on all platforms when we don't need additional dialog features - (8c0e61f)
• Show only mono-space fonts in SQL font selector - (3388d9f)
• Support compilation and usage on FreeBSD - (425d099)
• Include libssl 1.1 in macOS app bundle - (f51d2a9)
• Include libmysql plugins in macOS app bundle - (85a15f8)
• Provide libmariadb plugins in macOS app bundle - (2967ad2)
• Assign OK button to Enter and Cancel button to Esc - (3ea4a90)
• Add translation files to macOS app bundle - (08735bc)
• Provide libmariadb in macOS app bundle - (2a1c725)
• Support SynEdit hints when mouse is over function names, tables etc - (82ef10e)

🚀 Enhancements

• Turn two more TButtons into TBitBtn with icon - (9300cbc)
• Immediately show new log lines on heavy operations, enhancing user experience - (b100479)
• Turn export options button into TBitBtn and give it an arrow-down icon - (4864900)
• Indicate drop-down menu through arrow-down image on buttons - (288b346)
• Reduce width of left gutter in popup text editor - (4215aee)
• Hide grid cell border lines in most VirtualStringTree's - (b31f78a)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (ci) Get libqt6pas on ubuntu via 3rd party repo - (4205774)
• Remove MetaDarkStyle from the required packages, instead add a latest snapshot of the relevant files from https://github.com/zamtmn/metadarkstyle/ - (9f9cde0)
• ERangeError when editing text grid values which allow more than 2^31 chars, e.g. LONGTEXT - (42b5d52)
• Set default value for ThemeIsDark for cases where AppleInterfaceStyle does not exist (= light mode) - (26ca75e)
• Reload color scheme after auto-apply, reintroduce ThemeIsDark with a detection for Windows and macOS, use MetaDarkStyle units only on Windows - (b4afc3a)
• Invalid typecast in List.Add(BaseForm.Components[i]), when running debug builds - (38faf57)
• Wrong length of text detected (always 0) - (930a815)
• Crash in data grid when switching to an empty table on ArchLinux - (e9b6835)
• Next attempt to fix ERangeError crash in TBaseVirtualTree.UpdateVerticalRange - (c8e8bed)
• Wrong ModalResult on "Replace all" button - (2367ac6)
• Increase too tight node height - (60ad998)
• Auto fit columns in search-on-server results, taking the header caption into account - (4ce827b)
• Remove space eating gutter from SynEdit in search text dialog, disable scrollbars as long as not required - (7423aa3)
• Form dimensions reset to default values each time, and wrong check for empty SynEdit - (dab1cda)
• Confusion about modified default setting for DoubleClickInsertsNodeText, reset to old value - (f8dc796)
• Wrong BOM characters written to grid export files, when encoding is set to "UTF-8 BOM" for instance - (f951b78)
• Auto-uppercase when pressing Enter immediately after a keyword - (d34be7f)
• Missing selection highlighting and auto-uppercasing in data tab filter editor - (2e31c5e)
• Prevent triggers without quoted trigger name or table name from failing to be parsed (alexanderglueck) - (3028076)
• Convert usages of UnicodeString to String, in jsonregistry unit, and fix handling of Chinese characters - (39df339)
• Broken integers and floats after locale formatting on macOS - (fa1db76)
• Crash in file-picker with Windows path within Linux - (7f8dc30)
• Some more compiler warnings and hints - (3b24707)
• Missing top anchor control for new terminal edit box - (4271040)
• Missing SSHPASS environment variable when starting tunnel with sshpass -e - (6ce846b)
• Non working MySQL command line launcher, for all platforms - (d9b6f87)
• A few more compiler hints and warnings - (e18b3db)
• Crash at right-click on data grid header - (f88405b)
• Add missing dlls and MySQL plugin dlls for use on Windows, remove unused macOS dylibs - (287abde)
• Non working "Insert row" actions and its friends - (d1faf6b)
• Stretched preview image, and image metadata label too small - (20aded3)
• Ban Windows API code used in OnAdvancedHeaderDraw for painting column headers with sort chars - (485fb7d)
• Broken sort arrows in grid column header - (377d402)
• Fails to run netstat or netstat.exe on Windows, try a cross-platform socket approach - (633ee44)
• Fix various compiler hints and warnings - (f1ac6dc)
• Crash when switching between tables - (c054884)
• Bad anchors on edit-variable dialog, overlapping/hiding radio buttons - (3e77c0d)
• Conflicting grid edit shortcuts - (ad52dd3)
• Crash in grid initializing, likely due to a wrong node height - (4c6204a)
• Compile error on Linux due to "identifier not found: LoadStringW" - (7a73769)
• Translate button captions on TTaskDialog using LoadStringW on Windows - (9723210)
• Set MySQL plugins folder like in the classic branch - (eccf7b2)
• No locale influence and no scientific notation in JSON reformatter - (825447f)
• Bad anchors on "start" tab of session manager, plus add an info label for portable users - (a140b19)
• Set Screen.HintFont globally to what the editors use - (2b7d31b)
• Do not show ugly/solid grid lines on macOS and Linux - (c35a35c)
• Prevent host sub-tabs from getting disabled on macOS - (6f5a2d1)
• Missing control anchors on create-database dialog - (d26f128)
• Prevent editors from getting an empty font name - (74abc16)
• Show file modification time in about dialog - (50b6864)
• Skip harmless error when PG has no COLLATION_NAME in IS.COLUMNS - (eb3937a)
• Broken compiler conditionals - (556e4fb)
• Missing control anchors on copy-table dialog - (6cc530b)
• Set runtime search path for linker, so openssl finds libssl.1.1.dylib and we can access https pages now - (230ac8d)
• Missing control anchors on search/replace dialog - (c07b155)
• Missing control anchors and tab order on column selector - (f72156d)
• Wrong button positioning on macOS caused by differences of TButton/TBitBtn - (ba9442b)
• Search for translation files in the right folder within macOS app bundle - (52b065a)
• Prefer TBitBtn over TSpeedButton for native look on macOS - (bee61ec)
• Assign no Syn highlighter by default and call it "Text", in texteditor - (446d78c)
• Anchoring in about box - (3605706)
• Copy functions-*.ini files to the right folder, add iconset - (2f92db2)
• Sign and notarize exe file and dylibs on macOS, fix ini filenames - (c34bde3)
• Load libs from ../Frameworks on macOS - (8f6ba68)
• Remove dead code - (5f39a44)

🚜 Refactor

• Move grid null colors away from data types array to the new color scheme - (2bc36b4)
• Rename TSynEditHelper.TextIsEmpty to HasText - (ac095e4)
• Move macOS build to Makefile - (f41a6ff)

🎨 Styling

• Remove no longer needed and partly dead code for DpiChange detection - (23148e9)
• Remove dead code which is unlikely to get re-enabled in the future - (eb4a0b4)
• Remove non working context help button on session manager, we have a "general help" menu item in the "more" menu already - (b1122c5)
• Reduce borders around controls - (ff065ea)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump version to 12.15.1.1 - (cb03bec)
• Revert to using include-packages, now that it checks LazCompatibility to exclude outdated/incompatible package files from installation - (fcd45be)
• Attempt to fix compilation of unwanted and outdated package files - (04bee72)
• Attempt to fix broken dependency, use correct case of the package's DisplayName - (45e596c)
• Mention current Lazarus version in readme file, mention usage for macOS builds and plans for v13 - (93fdf77)
• Remove "Linux" from the Github release name, so I can have one release for all OS packages - (ab46fc5)
• Move translation source file from master to lazarus branch - (b211b44)
• Remove unused file extensions and add some others - (0b5ab25)
• Set release compiler option -WM10.15 identically to debug, relevant for macOS - (6144df2)
• Using the correct lazbuild - (c9c6be0)
• And I had to forget one more, right?!?! - (fc49d22)
• Windows executables have .exe extension!!! - (35d2ebd)
• Add Windows build to the matrix - (10776d6)
• Switch back to upstream setup-lazarus - (b2c049b)
• Add macOS - (6377e11)
• Test switching to forked setup-lazarus action - (dcdac1b)
• Debugging missing columns from IS.COLUMNS on PG v16 - (f65bd15)
• Remove dead code and calls: HasSizeGrip, FixControls, TranslateComponent, ConfirmIcon - (1527d35)
• Adding support for QT6 CI/CD - (c9d05e8)
• Dealing with end of line shenanigans - (d3fa0af)
• Remove Transifex integration, prefer precompiled .mo files in extra/locale/ - (4e5504f)
• Remove Wine hacks, now that we provide native Linux builds - (95df174)
• Remove notification for no longer created build updates - (5e2c8b5)
• Remove dead code - (fa4a14a)
• Set linker rpath for all build modes - (df80dbf)
• Notarize macOS bundle only with --notarize argument, include team id - (887a6cf)
• Apply trivial change to remaining units complaining about CR/LF mixup - (64cec90)

Contributors

• @ansgarbecker
• @gcarreno

New Contributors ❤️

• @D3SOX made their first contribution in #2356

12.14.1.1 - 2025-12-11

⛰️ Features

• Shell script for creating macOS app bundle - (af24108)
• Support XML formatting in grid popup text editor - (913fc9d)
• Switch to grayscale icons on inactive query tabs - (917e046)
• Support SSH tunnel configuration per commandline - (35a5225)
• Display some known file type icons in file open/save dialog - (b4c0566)
• Finalize keyboard shortcut customization in preferences - (637d2d6)
• Add new keyboard shortcut editors on preferences dialog - (cc4e6f1)
• Keep time fractions intact for CSV exports - (06322de)
• Use custom folder icons in tree on file dialogs, in non-Windows mode - (3094d79)
• Show NULL values in system variables listing - (06b44eb)
• Highlight same text in grids based on all selected rows - (afc9d8c)
• Support fractional UNIX timestamps in grids - (65c1472)
• Add "source table: xyz" hint to query result column headers - (2863a80)
• Support click on path parts on top label of file dialog - (98b796b)
• Convert all save/open dialogs to the new custom one - (4a8c53c)
• Create file-save dialog with linebreaks selector - (d5d34ad)
• Recreate basic TExtFileOpenDialog without OS owned dialog and room for customization - (bac0d7a)
• Full support for different icon packs, Silk and Icons8 - (dbca69d)
• Add 206 Silk icons into new TImageList - (769afa5)
• Require libsybdb5 in DEB package - (e1781f9)
• Mark MS SQL protocols like named pipe as unsupported, advise the user to change to TCP/IP - (b20f121)
• Dirty and basic support for MS SQL - (3df3673)
• Show more detailed backtrace in crash dialog - (bc0a7de)
• Support SSH passwords via sshpass - (f2b2dc3)

🚀 Enhancements

• Position session manager centered over main form, ignore position set by user - (571c671)
• Align bottom buttons on session manager - (ca7aad6)
• Set font style and color of size column in tree - (f987c81)
• Move RightEdge on SQL editors out of sight - (2a23e26)
• Light text color instead of ghosted/ugly icon for unseen tree nodes - (76aefb3)
• Disable tree option asDoubleClickInsertsNodeText by default - (1c9321c)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Connect MS SQL query to session transaction, run .ExecSQL - (59191da)
• Prevent SQL delimiter being set to PostgreSQL quotes - (a3acc04)
• Crash when grid-exporting without required key - (ff6050f)
• Delete CLI-created session settings from registry after disconnect - (8778d40)
• Another broken thousand separator - (24f3e36)
• New attempt to hide SynEdit caret when unfocused - (03f4a5f)
• A TSpeedButton connected to a TAction, and a TMenuItem were not auto-checking - (42abf46)
• Database icon in Icons8 list too small - (dda44be)
• Cannot save new table when added column was removed - (1fe709a)
• Compile without MS SQL support on macOS - (9a4d841)
• Query batch stops at second last query if it has errors but StopOnErrors is off - (6e40c62)
• Drag'n drop on Linux requires VT.DragType = dtVCL - (4fd646c)
• Enable drag'n drop in table editor and session manager - (9afc60f)
• Detected empty text DEFAULT value for table columns - (4c0617d)
• Append quick filter without linebreak - (8ea3b94)
• Wrong icon sizes, disable right-click select for column list so selection is kept - (a145fc5)
• Remove dead code, fix some compiler hints - (79bcd1d)
• Bad position of TEdit on TInplaceEditorLink - (8d119a0)
• Quick filter > "more values" submenu not created/shown - (8696e61)
• Empty KeyStrokes list on text editor - (db00c83)
• Broken caption on inline text edit button - (1730956)
• User queries not showing up in log panel - (222a386)
• Do not edit grid cell on right-click, and set HotCursor on DBtree - (0257867)
• Flashing main form in background after cancel session manager - (0563b4d)
• Work around empty space artifact in ShellListView - (cf9ed85)
• Move all Application event assignments to .lpr file - (64919d6)
• Confusion with (selected) folder icons - (b488ca2)
• Tree with keyboard actions shows wrong captions - (5e20c53)
• Binary result values displayed as 000... - (4322372)
• TMySQLQuery.TableName() returns wrong string, and introduce apphelpers.GetAppDir - (bb517d7)
• Crash in AnyGridPaintText with no query result - (59659f0)
• Error: (4004) Variable identifier expected - (13a0127)
• Crash in printer dialog with 0 printers available - (6eecdd8)
• Missing file for previous commit - (857cca8)
• Some remaining issues in the new file-open/save dialogs - (34e3f32)
• Work around out-of-view item in left tree after FormShow - (ec4c237)
• Navigate to directory of currently loaded file when user opens dialog for loading another file - (251f632)
• Broken support for non UTF-8 encoding - (fe65231)
• Prompt to overwrite only if file exists - (91de2fc)
• Add encoding selector to file-open dialog - (56b783d)
• Crash when app exits, with deleted TSynGutterSeparator - (00627ae)
• Optical stuff, add bookmark icons for SynEdit - (29d1abc)
• Use GetApplicationName in InitMoFile as well, plus documentation - (93bf989)
• Make LCLTranslator independent of executable filename - (0469dd9)
• Make GetAppConfigDir independent of executable filename - (9e2611e)
• Make translation filename independent of executable filename - (5d487bb)
• More painting related crashes on QT, this time in OperationRunning() - (fbe32db)
• Compiler warnings, re-enable active line background - (a1c84ae)
• Two crashes in QT caused by aggressive control repainting - (7650efe)
• Hide library files which ldconfig shows up but don't exist - (85cf230)
• Provide at least one libmysql for macOS, plus its dependencies - (1fbc2ab)
• Fix compiler errors on macOS, set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH run param to fix wrong path for libssl - (58b210a)
• Wrong integer size/type for ClientFlag in mysql_real_connect - (3213fe9)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump version to 12.14.1.1 - (1a2f1f3)
• Use Lazarus logo in readme - (aa49736)
• Remove now unused doc, written for converting to Lazarus - (b01e732)
• Fix generation of .deb - (e95aca8)
• Fix missing Package variable - (13c55ce)
• Using v4 of git-cliff-action - (81d613b)

Contributors

• @ansgarbecker
• @gcarreno

[12.13.1.1] - 2025-11-03

⛰️ Features

• Sort session folders at top per setting - (93dc936)
• Filter box in user manager - (b57b764)
• Add checkbox "Open file after creation" to grid export dialog - (613f4d8)
• Allow sorting columns in table designer - (8541eb4)

🚀 Enhancements

• Make file exit action OS friendly - (1f19d00)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• List procedures in PostgreSQL - (db902f7)
• Missing DELETE HISTORY privilege on MariaDB - (f7b80db)
• Prevent crash in auto-refresh action - (2c25e04)
• Bad message with no library selected - (f9a486b)
• Generate missing values for geometry columns - (eb1b5ea)
• Allow modify length of index with binary column - (173efeb)
• End global "edit function" mode for grid editing early - (5cac850)
• Take care for escaped ENUM definitions - (328fb72)
• Support return data type of stored function containing white spaces - (d7b1faa)
• Safety replacement for folder separator when renaming a session or folder - (18a21ef)
• Leave away schema when double-click table for inserting into query editor - (b72f259)
• Sticky empty-password warning after setting a non-empty one - (f2028e1)
• Support double dollar quotes on PostgreSQL - (caeae88)

📚 Documentation

• (CHANGELOG) Proper changelog - (79bb279)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bumping version to 12.13.1.1 - (bf23332)
• Using correct target of build-* - (16a54a5)
• Fixing some blantant mistakes - (76dfa98)
• New category: Enhancements - (dd1ad34)
• Removing unnecessary tx-push recipe - (d293d64)
• Forgot to copy .ini files on run-* - (c513e53)
• Completing run-gtk2, run-qt5 - (04650d9)
• Adding empty tx-push to Makefile - (3ceed39)
• Adjusting workflow to skip secrets detection - (14dd9ce)
• Adding usage of secrets.mk - (123a2e7)
• Forgot to change the output folder - (78f1415)
• First batch of changes - (2bee126)

New Contributors ❤️

• @gcarreno made their first contribution
• @ansgarbecker made their first contribution
• @ made their first contribution

Releases Notes for 29.3.6

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal
Linux - deb, AppImage or rpm

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• Uses electron 38.8.0.
• Updates to draw.io core 29.3.6. 29.3.6 are added in this build.

 The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.26/.27 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.

The Stable channel has been updated to 144.0.7559.109/.110 for Windows/Mac  and 144.0.7559.109 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Changes from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.81-3-g5d467

Changes:

• Expanded the debug logging functionality.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where player could get stuck on "Opening" when the graph worker thread malfunctioned. This happened on a few Windows 11 systems when opening files from Windows Search. We were unable to reproduce it, so root cause is unknown, likely an obscure Windows bug.
• Several small fixes and improvements.

The Stable channel has been updated to 144.0.7559.96/.97 for Windows/Mac  and 144.0.7559.96 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

This update includes 1 security fix. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

[3.0.2] - 2026-01-17

Added

• Added a Highlights screen showing your most played albums
• Added Composers, Conductor and BPM to tag editor.

Changed

• Updated the Turkish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed a crash that occurred when playing a song from the playback queue
• Fixed some album view issues
• Fixed an issue causing the wrong song to play when started from the Operating System

Added

• Added half-star rating support, expanding the song rating scale to a range of 0–10.
• Added song sorting options on the 'Folders' screen
• Added a button to toggle between the default expanded album view and Dopamine 2's compact album view
• Added the removable-media plug to the Snap configuration, allowing the Snap version of Dopamine to access /media.

Changed

• Updated the Kurdish translation
• Updated the Russian translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Swedish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• m3u8 playlists are not recognized
• Ratings are not read from files
• Developer console opens when pressing F12
• Crash when trying to play a deleted file
• Song length in right sidebar displays double the time of the real length
• Some issues with fetching of lyrics
• Folders context menu opens too much the left on the Folders screen
• Crash when the user has no Music directory
• Crash when trying to play ALAC M4A file. Those are not supported. Instead of a crash, the user is now informed why the file doesn't play.
• Crash when starting files from the operating system's file browser
• Issue where the Edit song dialog replaces '/' by ';' for artists containing a '/' in their name
• Linux Snap issue that caused file dialog text to appear as squares instead of readable characters

P.S.: if you enjoy Dopamine, please consider donating with PayPal or buying me a coffee. Thank you so much!

Dopamine 3 release blog post

[3.0.0] - 2025-11-06

First release!

Highlights:

• Multi-platform support - Dopamine now runs seamlessly on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Playlist folders - Organize your playlists into folders for better structure and easier navigation.
• Gapless playback - Enjoy smooth, uninterrupted transitions between tracks.
• Logarithmic volume control - Experience more natural and precise volume adjustments.
• Artist splitting - Automatically split multiple artists using customizable separators (e.g., “ft.”, “feat.”).
• Album grouping options - Choose how albums are defined and displayed for greater control over your library organization.
• Last.fm integration - Scrobble your music and download artist information directly from Last.fm.
• Lyrics support - Display offline or online lyrics while listening to your favorite songs.
• Discord integration - Show your currently playing track on Discord in real time.

Enjoy the music!

P.S.: if you enjoy Dopamine, please consider donating with PayPal or buying me a coffee. Thank you so much!

Dopamine 3 release blog post

[3.0.0-preview.40] - 2025-10-02

Added

• Added Arabic translation
• Added option to automatically scroll to the playing song
• Added audio visualization to mini player

Changed

• Images now have round corners
• Updated the Hebrew translation
• Updated the Russian translation
• Updated the Simplified Chinese translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where artists that are separated by a semicolon ';' were not indexed correctly
• Fixed a bug where the folders screen had an empty sorting button
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to remove a folder that is not displayed in the collection
• Fixed a bug where changing the album grouping settings had no effect on the collection
• Fixed a bug where unknown artists and genres were not displayed in the collection

Fix #776: Artists - Strange artist name bugs

[3.0.0-preview.39] - 2025-06-21

Added

• Added Ctrl-F shortcut to focus the search bar and ESC to clear it
• Added support for cover art images that have file name albumart.jpg, albumart.jpeg or albumart.png
• Added Turkish translation

Changed

• Slightly improved the look of the mini player
• Improved scaling of text on Now Playing screen for smaller screens
• Order selections are now menus instead of toggle buttons
• Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Updated the Spanish translation
• Updated the Turkish translation
• Updated the Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where a random song would start playing after the queue ended when using gapless playback.
• Fixed an issue where album lists were not refreshed after a search returned no results.
• Fixed an issue where progress was not reset to 0 when playback has finished
• Fixed an issue where a track that is longer than 4 minutes was scrobbled to Last.fm immediately after it started playing
• Fixed some sizing issues on the "Folders" screen
• Fixed search problems

[3.0.0-preview.38] - 2025-05-29

Added

• Added tagging support

Changed

• Updated Simplified Brazilian Portuguese translation
• Updated Simplified Russian translation
• Updated Simplified Spanish translation

Fixed

• Fixed more problems with Discord Rich Presence
• Fixed unexpected resume when skipping while paused
• Fixed audio not playing when starting from double-clicking a file in file manager in mini player mode
• Fixed a bug where any image residing in the same directory as the audio file was used as cover art

[3.0.0-preview.37] - 2024-12-09

Fixed

• Fixed problems with Discord Rich Presence

[3.0.0-preview.36] - 2024-12-08

Changed

• Updated Bulgarian translation
• Updated Italian translation
• Updated Russian translation
• Updated Simplified Chinese translation
• Updated Vietnamese translation

Fixed

• Fixed many issues with gapless playback
• Fixed Windows media overlay disappearing after a few seconds
• Fixed skipping multiple songs causing a crash

[3.0.0-preview.35] - 2024-10-20

Added

• Added gapless playback
• Added back support for .tiff cover images after having to break it in order to fix other problems
• Added Italian translation

Fixed

• Fixed missing tray icons on all operating systems
• Fixed slow performance on folders screen when opening folders containing a lot of files
• Fixed sorting of songs by album when there are more than 9 songs in a multi-disc album
• Fixed albums being shown under the wrong artist due to splitting of artists on separators
• Fixed problems while transitioning between full and cover player on macOS

Below are development builds for testing purposes.

Latest development build: 2.6.0.21 (January 23rd 2026)

Latest stable release build: 2.6.0.0
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.6.0

Beta 2 Changes

• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 causing buttons in the Audio Mixer to no longer display when changing font size [Warchamp7]
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where some tooltips were missing from the Audio Mixer [Warchamp7]
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where the dialogs spawned from the Audio Mixer on the Classic theme would be sized incorrectly [Warchamp7]
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where changing themes would sometimes not update the Audio Mixer appearance [Warchamp7]
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where the resolution and aspect ratio could be missing from the Video Format description for PipeWire Camera sources [pobrn]
• Fixed an issue that could cause OBS to become unable to change profiles or video settings [exeldro]
• Fixed an issue that could cause transitions to become locked [Warchamp7]

32.1 New Features

• Added new Audio Mixer [Warchamp7]
• Added new Add Source dialog [Warchamp7]
• Added WebRTC Simulcast Support [Sean-Der]
• Added missing undo/redo actions for scene items [cg2121]
  • Scale filtering, blending mode, blending method, deinterlacing mode and deinterlacing field order

32.1 Changes

• Removed "Source" from source names [Warchamp7]
• Updated the Edit Transform dialog [Warchamp7]
• Changed copying a scene item to copy all properties [cg2121/Warchamp7]
• Disabled dock animations [Warchamp7]
• Moved transition preview button to button box [exeldro]
• Rearranged default dock positions [Warchamp7]
• Increased media source playback slider update rate [Warchamp7]
• Enabled palette for Light theme audio mixer [Warchamp7]
• Changed default bitrates to 6000 kbps [mihawk90]

32.1 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where projector resolutions had decimals [Warchamp7]
• Fixed sync of Preview/Program size and positioning [Warchamp7]
• Refactored OBSBasic::Save to only save frontend canvas scenes/groups [dsaedtler]
• Fixed NAL type for HEVC caption/BPM SEIs [dsaedtler]
• Fixed an issue where video scaling could be incorrect in multivideo encoder scenarios [dsaedtler]
• Fixed an issue with chapter markers having incorrect time when using file splitting [garyholmes]
• Fixed an issue where some recordings could have black thumbnails [derrod]
• Fixed an issue where the NVIDIA Blur and Background Blur could have banding or look splotchy [pkviet]
• Fixed an issue where macOS Screen Capture would select an item for capture by default [jcm93]
• Fixed an issue with PipeWire when capturing a device that does not require a framerate [tytan652]

Checksums

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32.1 New Features

• Added new Audio Mixer [Warchamp7]
• Added new Add Source dialog [Warchamp7]
• Added WebRTC Simulcast Support [Sean-Der]
• Added missing undo/redo actions for scene items [cg2121]
  • Scale filtering, blending mode, blending method, deinterlacing mode and deinterlacing field order

32.1 Changes

• Removed "Source" from source names [Warchamp7]
• Updated the Edit Transform dialog [Warchamp7]
• Changed copying a scene item to copy all properties [cg2121/Warchamp7]
• Disabled dock animations [Warchamp7]
• Moved transition preview button to button box [exeldro]
• Rearranged default dock positions [Warchamp7]
• Increased media source playback slider update rate [Warchamp7]
• Enabled palette for Light theme audio mixer [Warchamp7]
• Changed default bitrates to 6000 kbps [mihawk90]

32.1 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where projector resolutions had decimals [Warchamp7]
• Fixed sync of Preview/Program size and positioning [Warchamp7]
• Refactored OBSBasic::Save to only save frontend canvas scenes/groups [dsaedtler]
• Fixed NAL type for HEVC caption/BPM SEIs [dsaedtler]
• Fixed an issue where video scaling could be incorrect in multivideo encoder scenarios [dsaedtler]
• Fixed an issue with chapter markers having incorrect time when using file splitting [garyholmes]
• Fixed an issue where some recordings could have black thumbnails [derrod]
• Fixed an issue where the NVIDIA Blur and Background Blur could have banding or look splotchy [pkviet]
• Fixed an issue where macOS Screen Capture would select an item for capture by default [jcm93]
• Fixed an issue with PipeWire when capturing a device that does not require a framerate [tytan652]

Checksums

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OBS-Studio-32.1.0-beta1-Windows-x64-PDBs.zip: 4af2d8cc4941cddb96c123a3e77c021e7fac37490a39416f50a7c6ddc5474afd
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OBS-Studio-32.1.0-beta1-macOS-Apple-dSYMs.tar.xz: ca85696df7b7fa4f222fa1f9ec02fdcd09e85ded882ab94be4e5057bdd1c367d
OBS-Studio-32.1.0-beta1-macOS-Apple.dmg: 858a3fc88f623903d02f2683898be9ff52a705ca37ae543f7dc6686d901a2864
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OBS-Studio-32.1.0-beta1-macOS-Intel.dmg: fb09045cd2eea7b063b56ffa1b171ad227c202edcc47be73ab4043b8f4b537dc

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 144 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 144.0.7559.59 (Linux) 144.0.7559.59/60 Windows/Mac contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 144.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Fix issue #463: Don't add a missing XML declaration on save.
Fix issue #460: Remove formatting for XML elements that are not allowed to contain whitespace (XSD Schema content model is Empty, Mixed, or TextOnly).

Releases Notes for 29.3.0

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal
Linux - deb, AppImage or rpm

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• #2306 , #2307
• Uses electron 38.7.2. Support for macOS 11 is now end of life.
• Updates to draw.io core 29.3.0. 29.3.0 are added in this build.

Releases Notes for 29.2.9

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal
Linux - deb, AppImage or rpm

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• #1745 , #1229
• Uses electron 38.7.2. Support for macOS 11 is now end of life.
• Updates to draw.io core 29.2.9. All changes from 29.0.4 to 29.2.9 are added in this build.

Releases Notes for 29.0.3

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal
Linux - deb, AppImage or rpm

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• Uses electron 38.7.0. Support for macOS 11 is now end of life.
• Updates to draw.io core 29.0.3. All changes from 29.0.0 to 29.0.3 are added in this build.

Releases Notes for 28.2.7

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• #2219 , #2190 , #2176 , #2214 , #2209
• Uses electron 37.7.1
• Updates to draw.io core 28.2.7. All changes from 28.2.6 to 28.2.7 are added in this build.

Releases Notes for 28.2.8

Windows Installer
Windows No Installer (zip)
macOS - Universal

Windows intel x32 releases are marked -ia32-

ChangeLog:

• #2233 , #2221 , #2227
• Uses electron 38.4.0. Support for macOS 11 is now end of life.
• Updates to draw.io core 28.2.8. All changes from 28.2.8 are added in this build.