MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-01-13

Welcome to the first release of 2025! This includes a lot of small improvements and fixes, and one larger change: using primary aliases for more entities and in more places.

Primary aliases for all entities except instruments (which can be translated directly) will be displayed after the entity name when they exist, just like a disambiguation comment. This extends the existing feature for artists written by derat a few months ago (thanks derat!). If you find some places where the aliases should be displayed, but aren’t, please let us know with a ticket!.

Keep in mind aliases will only be shown if they are marked as primary for the language you are browsing MusicBrainz in (you won’t see English aliases if browsing in French, for example). If you see an entity is missing an alias in your language that would help people more easily understand what it is, add it!

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 derat and dvirtz for having contributed to the code. Thanks to Aszazin, chaban, derat, dvirtz, Freso, HibiscusKazeneko, Lotheric, Raman Sinclair, sammyrayy, ThunderMite42, Vac31. and vaibhav for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, chaban, Crowbardoctor, dirt3009, guardiansock, imgradeone, liilliil, Peter69, poromies00, salo.rock and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-01-13.0.

Fixed Bug

• [MBS-9063] – ISE when changing from reltype with dates to reltype without them
• [MBS-13591] – “Enter edit” button greyed out but no error shown when pasting Bandcamp user account link
• [MBS-13749] – Right-to-left credit rendering doesn’t work for multiple artists
• [MBS-13801] – Tag list/cloud gives false numbers because of limiting
• [MBS-13850] – Cleanup breaks or rejects Ticketmaster FR/PE event links
• [MBS-13858] – Email message IDs should be unique
• [MBS-13865] – Release annotation emptied – history gone with it?
• [MBS-13888] – Wikidocs does not convert ‘/page’ relative links to use /doc
• [MBS-13891] – dribbble.com URLs are wrongly blocked

Improvement

• [MBS-12792] – Hide ratings by spammer users
• [MBS-13170] – Add auto-select and cleanup for Bluesky links and show on sidebar
• [MBS-13416] – Link from MB entities to their LB pages
• [MBS-13561] – Show alias next to entity name in tag pages
• [MBS-13571] – Show alias next to entity name in subscriptions
• [MBS-13580] – Display primary aliases in artist credits
• [MBS-13795] – Update 初音ミクWiki database validation and cleanup
• [MBS-13802] – Use “Created (in)” as label for characters everywhere
• [MBS-13818] – Display primary aliases for related entities
• [MBS-13825] – Display primary aliases in edits
• [MBS-13837] – Update the Juno Download logo used in the sidebar
• [MBS-13854] – Reword release label edit failure message to make it more clear
• [MBS-13855] – Threads: clean up useless URL parameters after ‘?’
• [MBS-13883] – Use quebecinfomusique.com instead of qim.com
• [MBS-13885] – Use jaxsta.io instead of jaxsta.com
• [MBS-13887] – Threads: support @user/post/X thread format

New Feature

• [MBS-13780] – Also show primary alias next to name for non-artist entities

React Conversion Task

• [MBS-12593] – Convert cdtoc/attach_filter_release to React