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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.

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This release includes only small changes and features, including a fix for a regression in the new email system (thanks Jade for the continued work on this).

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 Jade Ellis and Suvid Singhal for having contributed to the code. Thanks to chaban, Lotheric, outsidecontext and practik for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to KenParker_CN, Peter69, salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas, wileyfoxyx and yyb987 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-12-09.0.

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Image editing has been re-enabled after being down for the past month, so it’s now time to upload your backlog of scanned artwork if you haven’t already done so on the beta site! The rest of the changelog is short, but we’ll give a special mention to JadedBlueEyes, whose GSoC project is now being used for sending emails between editors. You’ll notice that a newer, fancier email template is now used for such messages. We hope to convert the rest of the emails we send out to use the new service soon, in future server releases.

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 JadedBlueEyes for having contributed to the code. Thanks to Xythium, jlks82, and roman412 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to ApeKattQuest/MonkeyPython, KenParker_CN, and yyb987 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-11-18.0.

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This week we offer you a bunch of bug fixes and improvements before the team flies to India for the 2024 MetaBrainz summit. Especially noteworthy is another derat contribution, fulfilling a very popular improvement request to try and help editors reuse existing release groups instead of adding duplicates. Thanks derat. Therat.

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 for having contributed to the code. Thanks to chaban, Cyberskull, DenizC, ernstlx, Vac31., Victini and wileyfoxyx for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Dibou, Echelon666, n26, salo.rock, Vaclovas Intas and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-09-17.0.

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While the team has been taking it slow in August, the volunteer derat has not! This is a small update with only four improvements, of which the biggest three are his work, including a way to reorder artists inside an artist credit.

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

Thanks again to derat for having contributed to the code. Thanks to yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to 4irefall, Early6431, Echelon666, KenParker_CN, Libra, MØĐĪ, Nom d’utilisateur, salo.rock, tanio, thephy, tkusano and Vaclovas Intas for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-09-02.0.

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Today’s release features some new edit search conditions, minor editing improvements, and refactoring related to editor privileges. We also now fancily display recent event artwork additions on the homepage. ✨

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 for fixing a guess case annoyance related to the roman numeral “MIX” (MBS-12523).
• Thanks to julian45 for fixing another special case of e-onkyo links (PR #3335).
• Thanks to danBLOO, santiagofn, jesus2099, and chaban for having reported bugs and suggested improvements.
• Thanks to ApeKattQuest/MonkeyPython, outsidecontext, brtc, koukei07, mfmeulenbelt, nkm01, weeeeei, wileyfoxyx, and xiaole_0714223 for updating the translations.
• And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-08-12.0.

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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.

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