Release 4.2.0 RC #1

This version is an early release candidate.

• User-facing Changes

  • Better handling of when the program is already running. It should help prevent some weird crashes.
  • Error logging for when wikimedia attempts to continue but the program doesn't handle it.
  • A few minor template changes.
  • Twitch scope has changed and may request new permissions.
  • Twitch scope is no longer saved in the configuration to allow for a future update to the Twitch code.
  • Better error handling for when the Twitch token check fails.
  • New discord link.
  • Better support for limiting how long to look for additional information about tracks.
  • Better crash recovery when parts of the system fail due to bad input from external services.
  • Some external services got a speed-up.
  • MusicBrainz lookups should be a tad smarter.
  • Date calculations should more accurately reflect the original release date.
  • In some cases, metadata wasn't being read from certain file types. That should be improved now.

• Internal changes:

  • Upgrade to Python 3.11.
  • Ability to read multiple covers and store them in a slightly revamped imagecache.
  • Imagecache DB is now v2 to reflect the front cover cache.
  • TinyTag pre-2.0 is now vendored again.
  • Many, many dependency updates which fix various bugs and security problems.
  • Support attempting to build on older macOS releases.
  • Switch from coveralls to codecov.
  • Rework unit tests to use some mocks and env vars.
  • DB now keeps tracks of watchers and will kill watchers if it gets unallocated.
  • Switch to use aiohttp AppKey.
  • Add internals to webserver to help debugging.
  • Code coverage and testing setup rework.
  • Simplify some requirements.
  • Better exception logging for some subsystems.
  • Some of the metadata DB schemas have changed.

Known Bug List

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