Audiobookshelf

Note: New required binary added for unicode support in sqlite (auto-downloaded on server start) (source: sqlean). See #3199

Added

• Player setting to set the skip forward/backward time #1995 by @glorenzen in #3113
• Player “End of chapter” option for sleep timer #2059 by @glorenzen in #3151
• Progress percentage for book m4b merge and metadata embed tools #1986 by @mikiher in #3182
• Random sort for book/podcast library and series #3166
• Support for accent-insensitive search #2678 by @mikiher in #3199
• UI/UX: Book library setting to show subtitles on book cards (in toolbar context menu) #2774 by @mikiher in #3117

Fixed

• Filter data not populated when opening item page directly #3209 by @mikiher in #3212
• Podcast episode match not encoding search query #3177
• Series and collection RSS feeds maintaining book order #3137
• Server crash on duplicate series in OPF #3123 by @mikiher in #3152
• M4B merge and embed tools check folder permissions #3143 by @mikiher in #3182
• M4B merge and embed tools stripping file permissions #3146 by @mikiher in #3204
• Switching libraries while on search page losing search query
• Backups not restoring properly (ensure metadata paths exist before restoring) #2904 by @nichwall in #3186
• Series & collection RSS feeds not setting cover image #3193
• Media item shares unable to be set more than 24 days duration #3164
• Debian/PPA re-downloading ffmpeg/ffprobe on every reinstall #633
• UI/UX: Changelog not shown when opening from settings page #3232
• UI/UX: Series bookshelf row padding when using ignore prefixes setting #3169

Changed

• Debian package downloads dependencies when necessary on server start (instead of Debian preinstall)
  • Debian/PPA: The old location of ffmpeg/ffprobe at /usr/lib/audiobookshelf-ffmpeg is no longer used and can be removed
• Global library search includes genres #2937 by @mikiher in #3185
• OPML import now runs in the background to prevent timeouts #3118
• Fetch more home page items on wide screens #2518 by @glorenzen in #3160
• Backup settings allow for unlimited size with “0” #3157 by @ajyey in #3163
• NFO metadata parser now supports language by @ajvgwu in #3170
• Improved epub scanner to pull the correct cover image and parse OPF metadata #3201
• M4b merge tool persist advanced encoding settings by @faush01 in #3214
• Log when an ebook is downloaded #3215 by @ic1415 in #3217
• Replace default session memorystore with stable memorystore #2538
• UI/UX: Match tab supports clicking on current value to set it #3200
• UI/UX: Simplify ItemSearchCard component logic by @mikiher in #3195
• UI/UX: Format numbers in user stats page based on language locale #3187
• UI/UX: Library stats page moved to library siderail (also stayed in the settings nav for now) #3134
• UI/UX: Update material icons font to material symbols by @glorenzen in #3138
• More strings translated
  • Dutch by @lodesmets
  • Finnish by @spetke
  • German by @JBlond @valenbar @Vito0912
  • Hebrew by @orizaruk
  • Italian by @burghy86
  • Polish by @ahetek @mcnpl
  • Ukrianian by @cor-bee

Internal

• Add: workflow to close issues on release by @nichwall in #3208
• Move cypress to optionalDependencies #3183 by @brendans-bits in #3184
• OpenAPI schema updates by @nichwall in #3139 #3140 #3179
• devcontainer dev.js defaults to not skip binaries anymore
• Removed all references to the Matrix server

New Contributors

• @glorenzen made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3138
• @ajyey made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3163
• @ajvgwu made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3170
• @brendans-bits made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3184
• @faush01 made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3214
• @ic1415 made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/3217

Full Changelog: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/compare/v2.11.0…v2.12.0