MusicBrainz Server update, 2024-07-22

Here is yet another summer release featuring mainly bugfixes and improvements, not to mention some refactoring behind the scenes.

We – Aerozol, bitmap, reosarevok and yvanzo – are very enthusiastic about the increasing number of volunteer contributions for this release; see the many acknowledgements below:

• Thanks to derat for fixing the layout of the sidebar after loading image, and for highlighting the fields changed by the guess case tool.
• Thanks to julian45 for adding improving support of e-onkyo links (~5k URLs currently in the database).
• Thanks to JadedBlueEyes for having further improved the display release titles when listed.
• Thanks to Freso, lazybookwyrm, sanojjonas, tommycrock, and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements.
• Thanks to bovirus, brtc, salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas, weeeeei, and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations.
• And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

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

The git tag is v-2024-07-22.0.

Fixed Bug

• [MBS-13538] – Removing all rows in the artist credit editor makes it disappear
• [MBS-13579] – Seeding release labels for an existing release is only rarely working
• [MBS-13644] – Cover art causes layout shift in release/RG sidebar
• [MBS-13667] – Can not remove a rating more than once in a page session
• [MBS-13676] – Release titles shouldn’t be indented when none have cover art
• [MBS-13683] – Related event dates are missing from API lookup results in JSON format

Improvement

• [MBS-8217] – Guess case should highlight changes
• [MBS-13668] – Support homonymous tables to generate database schema diagram
• [MBS-13675] – Separate history/timeline from the Statistics translation component
• [MBS-13679] – RYM URL cleanup improvements
• [MBS-13690] – Validate, autoselect, and sidebar e-onkyo URLs