General:

The main window saves its size and position
Fixed DTS-HD being detected as regular DTS
Fixed the use of UMS profiles
Made automatic updater more stable
Improved detection of write permissions
Improved plugin installation support
Made profile a possible command line argument
Improved speed when reading shared folders
Fixed several bugs

Renderers:

Disabled folder thumbnails on Apple iOS apps
Improved support for VLC for iOS
Panasonic TVs use higher-quality thumbnails

External Components:

Updated FFmpeg for Windows to 7c8fcbb, which increases transcoding quality and speed
Updated h2database to 1.4.190
Updated Maven Assembly plugin to 2.6
Updated Maven Eclipse plugin to 2.10
Updated Maven Surefire plugin to 2.19
Updated MediaInfo for Windows to 0.7.78, which improved file parsing speed
Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB64, which increases transcoding quality and speed
Updated Netty to 3.10.5

General:
Window state is saved when maximized
Improved font-scaling on high-DPI displays
Improved file permissions checks
Improved filename prettifying
Fixed Linux not finding FFmpeg (thanks, Oxalin!)
Renderers:
Added detection of the Edge browser
Fixed support for subtitles on Samsung J series TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with Crowdin
External Components:
Updated icu4j version to 56.1
Updated JGoodies Looks to 2.7.0
Updated JNA to 4.2.1

General:
Added "Fully played action" setting to control what UMS does with media that has been fully played. The options are:
Do nothing
Add an overlay to the thumbnail (default)
Hide the file
Move the file to a different folder
Move the file to the recycle/trash bin
Added "Thumbnails" renderer config option, to specify whether the renderer can display thumbnails
The Status tab updates when media is fast-forwarded or rewound
Audio and image thumbnails are output at consistent dimensions
Renderers:
Improved Status tab display for Panasonic TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with Crowdin

Changes since 5.3.1:

General:
Added splash screen, disabled by default
Improved support for subtitles in FFmpeg
Improved headless support on Windows
Improved support for unrecognized filetypes
Improved speed and accuracy of the filename prettifying feature
Fixed support for 3D subtitles
Fixed the saving of window size
Renderers:
Added support for AnyCast
Added support for Miracast M806
Added support for Sony Bravia NX800 TVs
Improved playback support for several renderers
External Components:
Updated Cling to 2.1.0
Updated FFmpeg
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.80

Changes since 6.0.0-a1:

General:
Added SquareAudioThumbnails and SquareImageThumbnails renderer configuration options
Improved support for thumbnail generation
Improved detection of the position of media while playing
Improved logging
All changes from 5.4.0

General:

These releases improve support for non-English languages, display on Retina screens, support for subtitles, iOS apps, fixes many bugs and more!

Download 5.5.0:

You can download it from the front page. https://www.universalmediaserver.com

Download 6.0.0-b2:

Windows https://sourceforge.net/project....ownload
Linux https://sourceforge.net/project....ownload
OS X https://sourceforge.net/project....ownload

Note: 6.0.0-b2 is for versions of Java from 7 upwards, but we will continue to release all stable versions in Java 7 and 8 variations.

General:

Added "Fully played action" setting to control what UMS does with media that has been fully played. The options are:
Do nothing
Add an overlay to the thumbnail (default)
Hide the file
Move the file to a different folder
Move the file to the recycle/trash bin
Added "Thumbnails" renderer config option, to specify whether the renderer can display thumbnails
The Status tab updates when media is fast-forwarded or rewound
Audio and image thumbnails are output at consistent dimensions
Added SquareAudioThumbnails and SquareImageThumbnails renderer configuration options
Improved support for thumbnail generation
Improved detection of the position of media while playing
Improved logging
Improved headless support
Fixed font size of subtitles
Improved filename prettifying
Fixed transcoding to LPCM
Added and updated tooltips
Stability improvements
Fixed and improved automatic cover downloading
Fixed OS X version

Renderers:

Improved Status tab display for Panasonic TVs
Improved VLC for iOS support
Improved Panasonic VT60 support

Languages:

Synchronized translations with crowdin

External Components:

Updated Google gson to 2.5
Updated h2database to 1.4.191
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.81

Changes since 6.0.0:

General:
Added a back link to the web interface
Improved logging
Squashed lots of bugs
Stopped systems from using installed versions of JNA
Thumbnails are unpadded by default
Improved speed of parsing subtitles
Improved filename prettifying speed and stability
Filename prettifying uses more information from Open Subtitles
Fixed FFmpeg not using custom fonts (thanks, Tiago!)
Fixed seeking with FFmpeg when embedded picture-based subtitles
Use FFmpeg by default to transcode embedded picture-based subtitles
Stop MediaInfo from using the network
Renderers:
Added ThumbnailPadding option
Improved Panasonic VT60 support
Improved Panasonic CX700 support
Improved Samsung PL51E490 support
Languages:
Synchronized translations with crowdin
External Components:
Updated FFmpeg
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.82

General:
Use image instead of text in thumbnail overlays
Improved the web interface
Added support for using Open Subtitles credentials
Improved filename prettifying
Fixed bump support on mobile devices
Renderers:
Improved Panasonic VT60 support
Improved Samsung J55xx support
Fixed duplicate subtitles on Samsung TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with crowdin
External Components:
Updated Apache Commons Collections to 3.2.2
Updated l10n Maven plugin to 1.4
Updated logback to 1.1.5
Updated Maven Project Info Reports plugin to 2.8.1
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.83
Updated slf4j to 1.7.16

Changes since 6.2.0:

General:
Added more tooltips
Fixed DTS-HD being detected as DTS
Fixed support for embedded ASS subtitles in FFmpeg
Fixed minor bugs
Renderers:
Improved support for Panasonic ST60 TVs
Improved support for Samsung J6200 TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with crowdin
External Components:
Updated chromecast-java-api-v2 to 0.9.1
Updated FFmpeg
Updated Google gson to 2.6.2
Updated jai-imageio-core to 1.3.1
Updated jmustache to 1.12
Updated JNA to 4.2.2
Updated logback to 1.1.6
Updated slf4j to 1.7.19

Changes since 6.2.1:

General:
Improved support for subtitles in FFmpeg
Improved support for custom fonts
Improved general performance
Added renderer config setting KeepAspectRatioTranscoding
Fixed FFmpeg not using the TranscodedVideoAudioSampleRate renderer config setting
Fixed detection of 3D videos
Fixed filenames starting with "The" being listed first
Fixed link to musicbrainz (thanks, Utano!)
Fixed automatic subtitles language detection overruling manual detection
Put the database in the profile directory on non-Windows operating systems
Renderers:
Improved support for Panasonic TVs
Improved support for Sony TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with crowdin
External Components:
Updated icu4j to 57.1
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.84

General:
Added renderer config setting VideoFormatsSupportingStreamedExternalSubtitles
Added renderer config setting StreamSubsForTranscodedVideo
Ignore the article "a" by default, along with "the"
Improved support for 3D subtitles
Improved support for streaming external subtitles
Defer to FFmpeg for transcoding VobSub subtitles
Fixed header animation delay on web interface
Renderers:
Added support for Yamaha RXV500D (thanks, newbietux!)
Improved support for Miracast M806
Improved support for Panasonic Viera GT50 TVs (thanks, pcjco!)
Improved support for Panasonic Viera TXL32V10E TVs
Languages:
Synchronized translations with crowdin
External Components:
Updated FFmpeg
Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.85
Updated MPlayer/MEncoder for Windows to SB65