What changed, release by release.

Playback

• A missing file says so when you start it

Liked tracks and profiles

• The Liked tracks count follows your hearts
• Switching profiles shows the new profile's music

Covers

• An empty front cover no longer hides the real one

A new interface

• Fluid is the new default
• Five materials on that layout
• Coming from 1.9, you open where you were
• Visual effects: Automatic, Full or Reduced
• Your own accent colour
• Theater mode

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Seventeen languages, read by native speakers

• Every language was read by a native speaker
• In Arabic, the whole interface reads right to left

The audio engine

• 5.1 and 7.1, on the speakers they name
• WavPack and Monkey's Audio
• Speed without the chipmunk
• AutoMix
• Balance and stereo width
• Test your output

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Library

• WebDAV and SMB shares as library folders
• A Quality tab
• Replace a file with a better copy
• Analysis reads more of the music
• An album page names its missing tracks
• The scanner stops guessing wrong

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Tags, enrichment and Release Radar

• Library enrichment
• Release Radar is built in
• Adding a cover or longer tags to a FLAC works

Lyrics

• A lyrics editor rebuilt from scratch
• Share a lyrics excerpt
• The extension store can be searched
• When LRCLIB is unreachable, the other providers are asked
• Chinese and Japanese lines timed per character no longer get a space between each one

Playlists, connections and system

• Import a playlist
• Global shortcuts
• DLNA
• MPD
• Updates are read from two places
• The extension store has a second source too

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Since the beta

• Every language read by a native speaker
• The lyrics editor's Save and Export buttons no longer run over the destination picker
• The extension store falls back to the download mirror
• Fedora and RHEL get an .rpm again
• Dependencies brought up to date. (#1058, #1059, #1061)

A new interface

• Fluid is the new default
• Five materials on that layout
• Coming from 1.9, you open where you were
• Visual effects: Automatic, Full or Reduced
• Your own accent colour
• Theater mode

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The audio engine

• 5.1 and 7.1, on the speakers they name
• WavPack and Monkey's Audio
• Speed without the chipmunk
• AutoMix
• Balance and stereo width
• Test your output

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Library

• WebDAV and SMB shares as library folders
• A Quality tab
• Replace a file with a better copy
• Analysis reads more of the music
• An album page names its missing tracks
• The scanner stops guessing wrong

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Tags, enrichment and Release Radar

• Library enrichment
• Release Radar is built in
• Adding a cover or longer tags to a FLAC works

Lyrics

• A lyrics editor rebuilt from scratch
• Share a lyrics excerpt
• The extension store can be searched
• When LRCLIB is unreachable, the other providers are asked
• Chinese and Japanese lines timed per character no longer get a space between each one

Playlists, connections and system

• Import a playlist
• Global shortcuts
• DLNA
• MPD
• Updates are read from two places
• Safer underneath

Performance

• WaveFlow no longer keeps your CPU and GPU busy when idle

Audio

• The ReplayGain pre-amp, the fallback gain and the playback speed are saved again

Linux

• The Linux downloads start again on Ubuntu 24.04, Linux Mint 22.x, Zorin OS 18, Pop!_OS 24.04 and Debian 13

Playback

• The end of a track is no longer cut off

Lyrics

• Lyrics files in encodings other than UTF-8 now show up

Library

• Legacy-encoded .m3u playlists now import correctly

Playback

• No more crackling in exclusive mode while the interface is busy
• Following a track's sample rate no longer reopens the output twice
• FLAC files with a few stray bytes after their last frame now end normally

Library

• The playing row turns green again after a double-click

Linux

• New setting: Run through XWayland

Fixed

• The cover stored in a file is its front cover
• A cover cut short is no longer kept

New

• Being told a new version is out
• A second place to download from

Security

• A crafted WAV can no longer carry nested chapter frames past the check
• A file that cannot be read through is refused

Fixed

• Large files that nest nothing are no longer refused
• A refusal says what it is
• A full rescan keeps the track of a refused file

Not verified

• No process was crashed through the new path. The measurements stop at the tag reaching the parser.
• Every file measured was built for the purpose. None came from a real library.
• No read failure was provoked on a real disk. The tests fail a read through a reader built for that.
• The check follows the tag reader as it is today, lofty 0.25.5. The tests read through that reader, so a later version that walks a file differently fails them rather than passing unnoticed.
• The sweep of malformed files covers the shapes its generator builds, and that no file passed is evidence over those files, not a proof.
• Upgrading a library that holds a file 2.1.1 refused was not run end to end.

Security

• A file whose ID3v2 chapter frames nest no longer crashes the server

Known limit: a large file refused by mistake

• a WAV or an AIFF that carries a chunk of odd length ahead of its audio;
• a file that is neither, with the letters RIFF or FORM in its first 64 KiB, such as a FLAC that keeps the chunks of the WAV it was made from (flac --keep-foreign-metadata).

New

• An archive for each system, with nothing to install
• Transcoding profiles
• Seven more languages in the web client
• An open tab follows the library
• The transcoding state in the administration
• waveflow-server health

Changed

• The image runs on Debian 13 (trixie)
• curl has left the image

New

• HTTPS with Caddy, ready to copy

Fixed

• A server that never asked for Last.fm no longer warns about it at every boot

New since 2.0.0-beta.1

• Artist pages
• The real quality of your files
• Your library, your way
• Smart playlists
• Discovery
• Playlists and sharing

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Fixed

• DSub
• A removed track
• An album whose files have all gone
• iPhone players
• Search
• A genre written twice in one file no longer stops a whole scan batch.

Known limitations

• Juliet
• No 32-bit ARM image
• The image needs FFmpeg, which it carries; a binary run outside Docker needs FFmpeg and ffprobe on PATH or beside it.

New

• WavPack (.wv) and Monkey's Audio (.ape)
• An icon per format on Windows
• QuickPlay in Settings › Default apps on Windows
• Format icons on macOS

Known limitations

• Some WavPack and Monkey's Audio files
• Already made QuickPlay your default player on Windows?
• On macOS
• Linux
• A .deb, an .rpm and a copy run from a read-only place (the disk image itself, or an app macOS runs from a translocated copy because it was not moved to Applications) are never replaced by QuickPlay:…

New

• Linux on Arm
• A second home for updates

Fixes

• --register from an AppImage

Security

• An AppImage takes only its own architecture's update

Known limitations

• The Arm packages were tested on GitHub's Arm build machines
• An unreachable host delays the update by up to 30 seconds
• A .deb, an .rpm and a copy run from a read-only place (the disk image itself, or an app macOS runs from a translocated copy because it was not moved to Applications) are never replaced by QuickPlay:…

New

• M3U playlists
• In the menus

Security

• Network shares in a playlist

Known limitations

• Playlists are read up to 16 MiB
• One hand-over carries up to 10 000 files
• Pinned on Wayland
• A .deb, an .rpm and a copy run from a read-only place (the disk image itself, or an app macOS runs from a translocated copy because it was not moved to Applications) are never replaced by QuickPlay:…
• On macOS, Finder has no per-app menu entries, so there is no Add to QuickPlay playlist there; Open With replaces the queue, as Play with does on Windows.
• Continue in WaveFlow

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New

• Live bitrate
• DSD bitrate
• Explorer hands the whole selection to one QuickPlay

Fixed

• A large selection no longer opens dozens of windows
• A launch tried twice is queued once
• Single instance with a long temporary directory
• A restart that lost its state says so

Known limitations

• One hand-over carries up to 10 000 files
• Pinned on Wayland
• A .deb, an .rpm and a copy run from a read-only place (the disk image itself, or an app macOS runs from a translocated copy because it was not moved to Applications) are never replaced by QuickPlay:…
• On macOS, Finder has no per-app menu entries, so there is no Add to QuickPlay playlist there; Open With replaces the queue, as Play with does on Windows.
• Continue in WaveFlow
• The output device is the system default, opened in shared mode.

New

• Automatic updates
• Pinning works through XWayland in Wayland sessions
• WaveFlow's new logo

Fixed

• Headphones in or out no longer stop playback on macOS
• Next after deleting the current track
• Stop, Clear and removing the playing track stay that way
• A device that cannot be opened
• Resuming a track paused in its last second
• The spectrum keeps moving

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Changed

• The licence is GPL-3.0-only, as Cargo.toml and the packages already said; the README no longer offers "any later version".
• An unknown --option on the command line is logged and ignored instead of being opened as a file.

Known limitations

• Pinned on Wayland
• A .deb, an .rpm and a copy run from a read-only place (the disk image itself, or an app macOS runs from a translocated copy because it was not moved to Applications) are never replaced by QuickPlay:…
• On macOS, Finder has no per-app menu entries, so there is no Add to QuickPlay playlist there; Open With replaces the queue, as Play with does on Windows.
• Continue in WaveFlow
• The output device is the system default, opened in shared mode.

New

• macOS app
• Repeat and shuffle
• Continue in WaveFlow
• Long lyric lines keep up with the song
• A shorter title bar

Fixed

• DSD conversion no longer adds a steady hiss
• Explorer menu order
• A brief audio stall no longer stops the track
• A slow file no longer freezes the controls

Known limitations

• On macOS, Finder has no per-app menu entries, so there is no Add to QuickPlay playlist there; Open With replaces the queue, as Play with does on Windows.
• Continue in WaveFlow
• On Wayland the playlist window opens where the compositor places it and does not follow the player; the protocol does not let an application position its windows.
• The output device is the system default, opened in shared mode.

What it does

• Plays every format WaveFlow plays
• Opens in a quarter of a second
• Two sizes
• A playlist window docked to the player
• Synced lyrics
• One instance per user

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Known limitations

• On Wayland the playlist window opens where the compositor places it and does not follow the player; the protocol does not let an application position its windows.
• The output device is the system default, opened in shared mode.