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Changelog — v0.27.x archive

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Releases v0.27.0–v0.27.2, covering 2026-10-17 → 2026-10-20. The current changelog (v0.28.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.27.2 — 2026-10-20

Added

  • Similar artists now include Deezer’s related artists alongside ListenBrainz’s.
  • Artists with no MusicBrainz id can now get similar artists from Deezer.
  • Among similar artists you have, and among those you don’t, ones both ListenBrainz and Deezer list come first.
  • Similar artists you don’t have that only Deezer lists open their Deezer page.
  • A new General setting, Similar Artists: Deezer, turns Deezer off so nothing is sent to Deezer.

Changed

  • Similar artists you don’t have now come first in the Artists panel and the Similar Artists popup.
  • Turning off Similar Artists: ListenBrainz now drops only ListenBrainz’s picks, not the whole similar artists list.
  • Hovering a similar artist in the Artists panel now also says whether ListenBrainz, Deezer or both listed them.
  • Each Similar Artists popup row now says whether ListenBrainz, Deezer or both listed that artist.
  • Changing a Similar Artists setting now refreshes the similar artists already on screen.

v0.27.1 — 2026-10-19

Added

  • Settings > General > Track Artwork can show each song’s own embedded cover instead of its album’s cover.

Fixed

  • With Accent From Album Art on, the current lyric line now stands out on black, white and grey covers.

v0.27.0 — 2026-10-17

Added

  • The Artists panel lists similar artists from ListenBrainz under the artist’s biography.
  • In that list, artists you have show as filled tags and the rest as outlined tags.
  • Clicking a similar artist you have jumps to that artist in Artists.
  • Clicking a similar artist you only have on other artists’ albums opens their songs in Songs.
  • Clicking a similar artist you don’t have opens their page on ListenBrainz.
  • Hovering a similar artist in the Artists panel says whether you have them, with MusicBrainz’s note when there is one.
  • A queue row’s right-click menu gains Similar Artists, a searchable popup of the same list for that track’s artist.
  • Album, song and artist rows across the library get the same Similar Artists menu entry.
  • Shift+R opens Similar Artists for the highlighted row’s artist.
  • Pressing Shift+R again closes the Similar Artists popup.
  • A new General setting, Similar Artists: ListenBrainz, switches the feature off so nothing is sent to ListenBrainz.

Fixed

  • After a session ends, nokkvi status reports stopped instead of a frozen playing track.
  • After a session ends, MPRIS reports stopped instead of a frozen playing track.
  • After a session ends, the tray reports stopped instead of a frozen playing track.
  • Live library updates keep arriving after two days of uptime.
  • Logging in no longer leaves a missing-parameter warning in Navidrome’s log.
  • A rejected server credential no longer marks every cover as missing artwork for the rest of the session.
  • Requests to a server that has gone away fail after eight seconds instead of about two minutes.
  • A search or sort typed while a background reload is out no longer gets replaced by the reload’s unfiltered rows.
  • Scrolling a browsing tab with the mouse now fetches one full-size cover at a time, like the main view.
  • Turning Lyrics or Cover Blur off releases the frosted cover from GPU memory.
  • The library picker now follows libraries an admin adds, removes or grants, without a rescan or re-login.
  • The clear-queue help line no longer claims it stops a playing radio station.
  • The library selection now belongs to the server and user it was made on, like the queue.
  • A queue-replacing play that fails while a station streams hands radio mode back from every view, not only from Albums.
  • The love and rating keys act on the highlighted row, not the row at the list’s center.
  • Get Info (Shift+I) shows the highlighted row’s details, not those of the row at the list’s center.
  • Ctrl+D removes the highlighted queue row, not the row at the list’s center.
  • Shift+arrow moves the highlighted queue row, not the row at the list’s center.
  • nokkvi selection and the nokkvi add-to-queue reply name the highlighted row.
  • Play with nothing loaded starts the highlighted queue row, as Enter does.
  • The Songs artwork panel shows the highlighted song’s cover, not the centered one’s.
  • The Similar tab’s artwork panel shows the highlighted song’s cover, not the centered one’s.
  • After a jump to an artist, the highlight and artwork panel stay on that artist instead of sliding to the middle row.