added node "music/date", which groups music into era (like 60s, 70s, ...)
added node "music/format", which lists music by file extension, sample frequency and bits per sample
WebUI with mobile-specific features
fullscreen slideshows on Android and improved on iOS
fullscreen video playback on mobile devices and tablets
twonkyserver.twonky.com auto redirects to the locally installed Twonky Server. No need anymore to know the IP address and port of the device running Twonky Server. If there is more than one Twonky Server installed, a list will be provided.
Improvements
DSD and FLAC scanner extended to scan bits per sample and channels
added .ini option to expose any mounted music CD in "Music/CD" instead of "Music/By Folder"
added .ini option to have "music/format" in advanced navigation tree
added .ini option x_dsf_mimetypes to set distinct mimetypes for .dsd, .dsf and .dff music items
improved .ini option disable_dmr_plugins to also toggle Chromecast support
improved Sharp Aquos device adaptation
improved Twonky Server to pre-cache the picture thumbnails for the web ui
improved Windows Media Player device adaption
improved support for long paths (more than 256 characters) on Windows
increased shutdown and restart speed
updated music file scanners to never use filesystem metadata for dc:date property
Bug fixes
fixed DTCP-IP key handling
fixed Oppo device adaptation
fixed a problem with special characters in Lynx account password
fixed download crash with DTCP download after DTCP playback [Android only]
fixed mpeg parser for H264 with AC3
fixed retrieval of saved custom trees in the navigation tree builder
fixed wrong duration parsing in mpeg file scanner
improved compatibility with Platinum UPnP stack
no longer lists unsupported AppleTV models 4 and later
Known issues
translations for new texts are missing for Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Korean
"My Russound" app does not show the correct album art when used with Twonky Server
Roku does not support seek for music
Twonky Server interferes AirTunes playback with Denon AVR-4311, as workaround disabling AppleTV support with disable_dmr_plugins=1 solves this
UPnP inspector gets confused when Twonky Server provides multiple artist tags with different roles
audiobooks can not be aggregated by other Twonky Servers
beaming media from Mediatomb to Samsung TV D series does not work
cannot beam multiple items to Xbox One
duration calculation of MPEG2TS files is not accurate if timeseek generation is disabled
error in Mac OS logs for filedb-delete is actually only a warning; operation is not impacted
playback to AppleTV 4th gen with tvOS 10.2 or later is not supported
thumbnails of some rotated images do not show up correctly in webUI
updating from 7.x to 8.x with preserve settings leaves some files in c:\
