Summary

This release adds detection of many Samsung TVs, Blu-ray players and home theater systems, re-adds the Windows 64-bit installer, fixes YouTube channel and video support, and more!

We have started work on v15 now, so look for updates and pre-releases in the near future.

Changes

General

• Made the taskbar tooltip use the custom server name
• Extended UPnP CreateObject / ImportUri support
• Fixed various x86_64 Windows installer problems
• Fixed database update bugs
• Fixed external subtitles not working since 14.6.0
• Fixed YouTube channel/video support
• Fixed saving API configuration via web settings
• Fixed setting selected renderers via web settings
• Fixed duplicate key setting via web settings
• Fixed support for long file paths (above 255 characters) on Windows

Media players

• Added streaming support for AAC (main) to LG TVs
• Added detection of Samsung D6400 TVs from Europe and North America
• Added detection of Samsung ES6100 TVs from Asia and North America
• Added detection of Samsung ES6595 TVs from Asia and North America
• Added detection of Samsung J55xx TVs from Asia and North America
• Added detection of more Samsung TVs, Blu-ray players and home theater systems from Asia
• Added detection of Samsung Q9 TVs from Asia and North America
• Added detection of Samsung 2018 QLED TVs (Q6, Q7 and Q8)
• Added detection of more Samsung 2019+ TVs of all types and locations
• Expanded support for Yamaha RN500 (thanks, jps92!)

Translation updates via Crowdin

• French (100%) (thanks, Fredo1650!)
• Spanish (66%) (thanks, MarcosHO!)

Dependencies

• Bump @mantine/core from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @mantine/dropzone from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @mantine/form from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @mantine/hooks from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @mantine/modals from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @mantine/notifications from 7.15.1 to 7.15.2 (#5210)
• Bump @types/lodash from 4.17.13 to 4.17.14 (#5228)
• Bump ch.qos.logback:logback-classic from 1.5.15 to 1.5.16 (#5227)
• Bump ch.qos.logback:logback-core from 1.5.15 to 1.5.16 (#5227)
• Bump com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle from 10.21.0 to 10.21.1 (#5209)
• Bump eslint-plugin-react-hooks from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0 (#5160)
• Bump eslint-plugin-react from 7.37.2 to 7.37.3 (#5229)
• Bump FFmpeg from 7.0.2 to 20250103 nightlies
• Bump jna-version from 5.15.0 to 5.16.0 (#5208)
• Bump MediaInfo from 24.06 to 24.12
• Bump youtube-dl from 2024.08.07 to 2025.01.01