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Audiobookshelf

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

Alternative to: audible, overcast, pocket-casts

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About Versions (104)

v2.36.1

2026-09-16

Important: New authentication system was added in v2.26.0. See https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/discussions/4460 for details.

Fixed

  • Collapse series not working when filters are enabled #2807 #3049 by @schummar in #5280
  • Podcast rescan emitting stale episodes on item_updated by @mikiher in #5409
  • Updating or deleting a narrator in one library applying the change to all libraries
  • Author endpoints not checking user can access the author’s library
  • Share endpoints not sending 404 status
  • Upload endpoint not handling directory creation errors
  • sqlite3 bindings not installing when using npm v12 #5412 by @Vito0912 in #5429

Updated

  • Comic book extractor file path sanitization by @Vito0912
  • Auth settings PATCH sanitizes authLoginCustomMessage HTML
  • API: Settings PATCH endpoint only accepts a fixed set of general settings (auth settings must go through the auth-settings endpoint)
  • API: Cover endpoints only allow webp, jpeg and png as optional format param
  • API: Library item media update no longer accepts ebookFile, chapters and audioFiles in request body
  • More strings translated
    • Belarusian by @pavel-miniutka
    • Bengali by @ShamiaAkterShanta
    • Chinese (Simplified Han script) by @FiendFEARing
    • Chinese (Traditional Han script) by @JBlond @violawang0401-cloud
    • Croatian by Igor Dobrača
    • Czech by @kuci-JK
    • Danish by Kim Josefsen
    • Dutch by @Kwintenc
    • Finnish by @JBlond
    • French by Charlie, J. Lavoie
    • German by @VoltKraft; J. Lavoie, Zarakkas
    • Greek by J. Lavoie
    • Hungarian by @ugyes
    • Italian by @lollos78; J. Lavoie
    • Lithuanian by @Haya25 @PovilasID
    • Polish by @MarcinKlejna @TheMatrixan
    • Portuguese (Brazil) by @AgenteGabrielofc
    • Russian by @vmakeev

Internal

  • Restore the mount prefix when handing requests to Next.js by @mikiher in #5507
  • Github workflow to generate translator credits for release notes by @nichwall in #5558

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/compare/v2.36.0…v2.36.1