Month: October 2025

Ensembling: Veena MiniVersion or Indian chordophones oh my!

Hello! It’s been a while! Well but good things come to those who wait..

Today we have exciting news about the long awaited Veena mini version!!

(Do you remember the Veenas? We started work on this a whopping 7! years ago, waay back in 2018, when we had Google Code-In students helping us, especially the finalist antara which did a lot of research for us on veena tickets!
As such we did actually resolve several of these already in 2019 and 2020, but it was hard, then stuff happened. Covid happened, genders happened, new computer, the the-whole-world-is-now-a-parody-of-itself timeline happened, lol 😭)

If you remember from way back in 2020 we also added a Indonesian rebab separate from the rebab we already had – this is because that, similar to the Veena, the Rebab is one heck of a complicated matter! (so complicated, in fact, that it and its brethren have gotten their own mini-version!). We’ll get to this one later.

Now things are as chaotic as ever, but after our summit in India last year, I decided there is no better time to finish up the remaining tickets in this version.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-10-13

Do you remember us? Late Summer and then our September summit has meant again a long break between releases – hopefully we’ll get back to a more consistent update schedule soon (releasing at least once a month if not biweekly).

Other than fixing a bunch of bugs, this release includes one significant new feature and a few noticeable improvements.

It’s now possible to use an API browse query to get all sub-events of a specific event. This means you can get all the events that are part of a specific festival: for example, all events from Wacken 2024 (and the same query including artist and event relationships).

When entering edits from the release relationship editor, the edit will include information about the release it was entered from (no more wondering about which release’s cover art that “See cover art” edit note refers to!).

After not running any captchas for a couple years since we turned off Google’s reCAPTCHA in 2023, we are now running MTCaptcha, a GDPR-compliant captcha. Hopefully this will limit the amount of spammers a bit.

Additionally, you can now select the language you want to receive emails in from your user preferences. This only affects emails that are using our new email service; for now, that is just messages sent to you by other editors.

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 dvirtz and Piper McCorkle for having contributed to the code. Thanks to angriestchair, chaban, dvirtz, Jade, KenParker_CN, Muxxer, Piper McCorkle, RandomMushroom128, Relaxo5, rinsuki, sanojjonas and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to aboettger, Beteix, djdhsjhshsh, Echelon, erykmichalak, KenParker_CN, Languages add-on, Libra, Ljcbaby, Manuela Silva, matecik, Metafono, mfmeulenbelt, MoeCaa, nitzanakrai, Philipp Wolfer, Poesty Li, Puyol, robertgarrigos, salo.rock, TefWw, tuba56, Vaclovas Intas, vacuousVersifier, vimutti, wileyfoxyx, yyb987 and לוכסן for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-10-13.0.

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