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This release brings a relatively short list of changes, but several of them were requested quite often and will hopefully lead to better editing.

Derat has been doing a lot of work in the release editor to help beginners understand the different fields and point them towards the basic guidelines. For example, we can now detect some of the most common English prepositions and point the user towards the English guidelines if they are uppercased.

We are bringing back the option we had many, many years ago to also merge the containing release groups while entering a release merge. This should hopefully help more editors do the right thing and also merge release groups (saving their MusicBrainz IDs) rather than leaving them empty to be autoremoved.

Finally, the API now shows artist countries everywhere (when the artist has an area assigned). This has been requested fairly often for a multitude of purposes, so hopefully it will make a bunch of you quite happy!

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 chaban, Cyberskull, derat, HibiscusKazeneko, Lotheric, salo.rock, yindesu and yomo12 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, BestSteve, Kori Syusetu, Libra, Marc Riera, ninjum, nzure, salo.rock and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-04-14.0.

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This is a fairly small release, mostly consisting of minor improvements, but it includes a couple of bug fixes for very annoying bugs. This includes a long-standing issue which prevented editing release events for releases that were part of large series such as Apple Digital Masters.

Additionally, we are adding a new option to the API that allows doing a lookup by resource (the URL itself) for up to 100 URLs at once. See the updated documentation and the expanded examples.

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 finalsummer, kellnerd, mr_maxis, Nicolas ANCEAU, salo.rock and yomo12 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to BenjaBarcos1, Besnik, delamons, eigenric, ferocity12, joaodtx, KenParker_CN, koukei07, Michal77, nzure, 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-2025-03-24.0.

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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.

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This is a small release that mostly includes URL display improvements. Additionally, it further improves RTL display and adds a new report for lonely pseudo-releases (poor them, please go help them).

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 dvirtz and Maxr1998 for having contributed to the code. Thanks to dvirtz, HibiscusKazeneko, Maxr1998, raelthelamb, UltimateRiff and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to KenParker_CN, Peter69, Ral Hole and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-02-10.0.

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This release includes, among the usual small bug fixes and improvements, two small changes worth mentioning specifically.

The first is an improvement that has been requested often: it is now possible to filter all versions of an artist’s index page. That means non-official and various artists release groups can be filtered using the same tools previously available for the standard official groups view. Enjoy, live bootleg lovers!

The second is that account administrators can now immediately accept or reject any edit (even ones that cannot normally be approved). This is an anti-vandalism measure, and the plan is to use it only in cases where spam and vandalism should be removed as soon as possible, rather than waiting for a specific number of days and/or votes. When used, a new type of vote “Admin approval” / “Admin rejection” will be indicated on the edit votes list.

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 Aszazin, chaban, Griomo, MonkeyPython, otringal, phantomenlister, UltimateRiff and wileyfoxyx for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Besnik, guardiansock, KenParker_CN, Peter69, poromies00, salo.rock and Vaclovas Intas for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-01-27.0.

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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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