Hi! It’s been a while since our last release since we have been working on stability improvements for both website and search to better cope with all the load we are handling recently. The first related changes are part of this release, with more to come, including limiting searches to 500 results (if you need something further down the search, sorry but you probably need a better search!). Additionally, the very annoying bug that sometimes lost track times when parsing tracklists should hopefully be gone now (thanks dvirtz!), and a lot more aggregator and shortener links are now blocked; even when not yet blocked, remember to always add all the relevant destination links rather than redirects and aggregators if possible.
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, dvirtz, ibmibmibm and mib for having contributed to the code. Thanks to DenizC, derat, dvirtz, HibiscusKazeneko, j.rohr, outsidecontext, Raman Sinclair, rinsuki and salo.rock for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to AligFu, AndrejsD1718, BestSteve, blueday, Covium, Denatura, EmO686, Flavia Telcean, joao_over9k, Kolesteraw, Life4649, liilliil, mfmeulenbelt, naturbrilian, NorwayFun, Priit Jõerüüt, pXF, syntariavoxmortem, TheParaziT, Vaclovas Intas, vacuousVersifier and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!
The git tag is v-2026-09-21.0.
Fixed Bug
- [MBS-9526] – Parser removes times, despite “use track times” being unchecked
- [MBS-10767] – “more” and “less” on rel types list are not translatable
- [MBS-14386] – Series of series doesn’t show parts as a list, only on relationships section
- [MBS-14398] – Collection checkbox in header doesn’t work
- [MBS-14440] – Webservice requests can return authenticated data on unauthenticated requests
- [MBS-14448] – Memory leak in Data::Relationship::_new_from_row
Improvement
- [MBS-14192] – Require visiting tracklist tab when adding release
- [MBS-14399] – Accept new /a LibraryThing author URLs
- [MBS-14404] – Reject Facebook “share” URLs
- [MBS-14415] – Strip locale and mibextid in Facebook URL cleanup
- [MBS-14423] – Reject Google “share” URLs
- [MBS-14424] – Block Pinterest URL shortener
- [MBS-14439] – Block (yet) more smart links
- [MBS-14425] – Block smart links: drum.io
- [MBS-14426] – Block smart links: ffm.bio
- [MBS-14427] – Block smart links: social.tunecore.com
- [MBS-14428] – Block smart links: frontl.ink
- [MBS-14429] – Block smart links: gyro.to
- [MBS-14430] – Block smart links: paa.ge
- [MBS-14432] – Block smart links: linkin.bio
- [MBS-14433] – Block smart links: beacons.ai
- [MBS-14435] – Block smart links: fanbase.to
- [MBS-14436] – Block smart links: soundon.global
- [MBS-14437] – Block smart links: imusician.pro
- [MBS-14438] – Block smart links: musics.to
- [MBS-14443] – Support Boomplay’s new non-numeric URL format
- [MBS-14450] – Improve error / rejection messages for URL shorteners and aggregators
- [MBS-14455] – Limit the depth of search to 500 results
Task
- [MBS-14382] – Update the Amazon logo used in the sidebar