MusicBrainz Server update, 2021-04-19

Hi! We’re back with another (fairly small) release. Perhaps the most noticeable new thing, other than a few squashed bugs, is that we’re finally officially linking to the 1200px thumbnails of Cover Art Archive images. While these were being generated for new images already for quite a while, we didn’t want to start linking to them until we figured out how to ensure they were also generated for all the images already there. Thankfully, our user (and recent new auto-editor) ROpdebee got in touch with the right people in the Internet Archive and basically made all the efforts needed to ensure this happened. So, we officially have 1200px thumbnails now! That’s some big thumbnails for you.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to yyoung for improving Bandcamp and DNB URL cleanup. Thanks to CatQuest, chaban, kepstin, Lotheric, navap, selflessself, synthicalist13 and xplt for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to ROpdebee for helping us get all the 1200px thumbnails generated. Thanks to Mellthas, mfmeulenbelt, salorock and SistemaRayoXP for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2021-04-19.

Fixed Bug

• [MBS-11500] – “Add cover art” edits link to no longer existing release
• [MBS-11563] – Cache makes newly linked recordings not show in work rels table
• [MBS-11564] – Niconi Commons “download for free” links blocked by Nicovideo cleanup
• [MBS-11569] – Collection created from entity sidebar does not restrict entity type
• [MBS-11581] – Release Group still shows cover art despite Release being darkened
• [MBS-11582] – Instrument alias sortname guess button breaks page

Improvement

• [MBS-9631] – Add 1200px to available sizes under cover art images, in release’s Cover Art tab
• [MBS-9833] – Link relationship style guide within release edit relationships tool
• [MBS-10534] – Handle both DNB permalinks and DNB search links
• [MBS-11524] – Disallow *.bandcamp.com/ URLs at release and recording level
• [MBS-11527] – Block smart links: music.indiefy.net
• [MBS-11533] – Block smart links: snd.click
• [MBS-11542] – Update Classical Archives URL format
• [MBS-11552] – Add validation for Classical Archives links
• [MBS-11566] – Ensure consistent ordering of appearances sections

Task

• [MBS-11514] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in the sidebar
• [MBS-11515] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in header/footer/menus
• [MBS-11516] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in entity lists
• [MBS-11517] – Move from passing $c to using React.useContext in MergeHelper