This release includes several mid-sized improvements requested by multiple editors, in addition to the usual URL cleanup changes, bug fixes, and smaller improvements.
We have extended the filtering tools already available on artist pages so that they will also work on label pages, allowing users to filter the releases from that label according to several different conditions.
We have separated artist-work relationships not related with authorship so that they will no longer appear under the “writers” section of works lists (now renamed to “authors”). This allows to distinguish a lot more easily whether a an artist is related to a work as an author or in another, generally more minor way.
Finally, a newly added set of last-year editor stats aim to give editors who are motivated by leaderboards but have not already been active for an eternity (and as such would be hard-pressed to ever get into the “top editors/voters of all time” leaderboards) an achievable goal which rewards consistency more than the current weekly stats do.
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, ernst-roux-dice and Maxr1998 for having contributed to the code. Thanks to Gary Young, KenParker_CN, Maxr1998, mr_maxis, salo.rock, UltimateRiff, yindesu and yomo12 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to delamons, EmO686, KenParker_CN, percylee, PS123 and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!
The git tag is v-2025-02-24.0.
Fixed Bug
- [MBS-6502] – Catalog number search breaks with spaces and separators
- [MBS-13925] – Supporting instrument relationship displays specific instrument name instead of “instruments”
Improvement
- [MBS-8500] – Add “not by me” filter for collection edit lists
- [MBS-13914] – Gracefully reject invalid vote arguments for edit search
- [MBS-13917] – Rename work “writers” to “authors”
- [MBS-13928] – Use jaxsta.com instead of jaxsta.io
- [MBS-13938] – Don’t reject VIAF links including a language code
- [MBS-13939] – Don’t reject BnF links including a language code
New Feature
- [MBS-8328] – Properly differentiate authors and other related artists for works
- [MBS-11916] – New report: Recordings marked both karaoke and instrumental
- [MBS-13597] – Add release filter to label index pages
- [MBS-13763] – Add past year stats to the editors statistic page
- [MBS-13922] – Add cleanup for Naver Vibe links and automatically mark with correct types
- [MBS-13929] – Add Spotify songwriter pages to the other databases whitelist
- [MBS-13930] – Add Rockit to the Other Databases whitelist