MusicBrainz Picard full changelog

Bugfixes
PICARD-3477 - Setup Wizard: Checkbox description text not fully shown
PICARD-3496 - "Grouping" tags cannot be deleted from MP3s
PICARD-3498 - Disabling plugin purges cover art provider configuration from picard.ini
PICARD-3499 - Reinstalling local in-place plugin and switching to git fails
PICARD-3509 - Crash when switching themes
PICARD-3510 - Newly added custom column renders with solid white background on tracks while built-in columns do not
PICARD-3511 - Right-pane artwork replacement silently fails to embed in FLAC files
PICARD-3513 - Blocking album task that is completed forever blocks UI operation
PICARD-3514 - Cover Art Archive "Exclude" types list does not override the "Include" list
PICARD-3515 - If many files for a given track are found and additional fields are enabled, metadata is wrong in the Album Pane
PICARD-3516 - Article-insensitive column sort is non-deterministic (QCollatorSortKey lacks working equality)
PICARD-3517 - Built-in player prevents file write access
PICARD-3518 - Cover art saved as external files ignores CAA "front" flag when naming files
PICARD-3519 - Picard unable to save metadata for WAVE files with data size not matching actual data
PICARD-3521 - Picard crashes when loading a release from ISRC lookup for files already matched to a track
PICARD-3527 - Track match indicator is inconsistent
PICARD-3528 - Uses alias sort name even if artist credits matches artist name
Improvements:
PICARD-3507 - Scripting documentation function/tag search: Enter key to proceed to next match
PICARD-3508 - Gross track-length mismatch does not prevent a false-positive recording match on Lookup
PICARD-3526 - format_isrc does not normalize lowercase or unhyphenated valid ISRCs

Bugfixes:
PICARD-3484 - Hardcoded link styling in Audio Player options
PICARD-3485 - Sticky grey background in metadata pane
PICARD-3490 - Program crash after wizard if build with --disable-autoupdate
PICARD-3491 - Text color issues in dark mode in metadata pane and placeholder texts
PICARD-3494 - Plugin manager "View Repository" fails silently when remote is a local path

Bug fixes:
PICARD-3475 - Windows Store release blocked by "unvirtualizedResources" capability
PICARD-3478 - picard-cli crashes with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'picard.cli.completions' in packaged builds
PICARD-3480 - Picard won't launch after upgrade from v2 with error in config migration

Bugfixes:
PICARD-2172 - Using "Use original values" on a large number of recordings will skyrocket memory usage
PICARD-2530 - Extremely high CPU usage and slow performance working on standalone recordings
PICARD-3455 - Headers on Preferred Releases page not translated
PICARD-3456 - "Trusted" on plugin details page not translated
PICARD-3457 - High memory use and low performance when saving many files
PICARD-3458 - Context menu key isn't always handled, and/or context menu doesn't appear where it should
PICARD-3459 - Memory for "Other versions" in the release context menu not freed
PICARD-3461 - Cover art composition when multiple albums are selected is replaced by placeholder
PICARD-3463 - Setup wizard has cropped text on macOS
PICARD-3464 - Metadata options page greys out on click after upgrading from Picard 2.13.3
PICARD-3466 - Selecting a track shows an empty metadata panel after upgrading from Picard 2 when the naming script uses a missing plugin function
PICARD-3468 - macOS dock shows different app icon when Picard is running
PICARD-3473 - Input placeholder text hard to read in light theme
PICARD-3474 - Can't unregister a hidden script variable from a plugin
Improvements:
PICARD-3472 - Cluster matching picks the wrong release when the correct one has a placeholder catalog number, or when a wrong-artist release shares the album title

Bugfixes:
PICARD-428 - Plugins body gets executed when picard starts, even if plugin is disabled
PICARD-1498 - Allow uninstalling plugins that cannot be loaded
PICARD-1616 - Windows: File currently played in internal player cannot be saved
PICARD-2003 - Picard installed via pip cannot find locales
PICARD-2657 - "Open in Player" unclear in meaning
PICARD-2675 - On GNOME Wayland the file chooser dialog is not transient to the main window
PICARD-2678 - Wrong configuration and plugins path opened/shown in MSIX install
PICARD-2782 - Extremely small font in dialogs and toolbar on Windows with display scaling
PICARD-2826 - After saving the file info does not update
PICARD-2829 - macOS: multi directory selection dialog does not allow access to external drives
PICARD-2847 - Switching option profiles does not update menu items
PICARD-2857 - Picard returns non-zero when loading files on the command line
PICARD-2863 - Barcode sometimes not shown in "other versions" context menu
PICARD-2878 - Crash in cover art when scan triggers recursion beyond python limits (e.g. 1000)
PICARD-2879 - macOS: Chosen starting directory might not be used in file browser
PICARD-2954 - Cannot scroll up while dragging items on Wayland
PICARD-2990 - Disabled format plugins will still be used
PICARD-3016 - Logging relative path broken on Windows with Python 3.13
PICARD-3019 - Switching option profiles in application menu is not persisted and does not update menu quick options
PICARD-3029 - Deleted Record Label field from m4a file persists in file
PICARD-3038 - edittagdialog.py:271: IndexError: list assignment index out of range (dumped core)
PICARD-3043 - Impossible to delete performer tag in ID3
PICARD-3045 - Copying the value of "length" tag crashes if multiple files are selected
PICARD-3056 - Picard crashes and closes if cover art is not provided in the file picker
PICARD-3065 - $rsearch fails if matching pattern contains a group that didn't match
PICARD-3067 - Dot rema

Bugfixes:
PICARD-3030 - Crash when right-clicking on multi-selection of new tag values

Bugfixes:
PICARD-2989 - Endless recursion when reading settings after script editor dialog was opened
PICARD-2991 - File naming options inaccessible on permission errors to target path
PICARD-3000 - Children's Music is shown as "Children'S Music" in Picard
PICARD-3001 - Picard requires charset-normalizer < 3.4.0
PICARD-3008 - Poorly formatted date tags crash Picard with uncaught Overflow Exception
PICARD-3012 - Wrong disc numbers when submitting release
PICARD-3013 - Case only renaming broken on case-insensitive filesystems
PICARD-3014 - Sorting on macOS does not sort empty values as expected
Tasks:
PICARD-3002 - Update Windows code signing certificate
PICARD-3018 - Drop support for Python 3.7
PICARD-3022 - Support Python 3.13
PICARD-3027 - Fix PyPI packaging task
Improvements:
PICARD-736 - Avoid manual copying of authentication token
PICARD-2882 - Support PKCE for OAuth2 authorization
PICARD-2886 - OAuth2: Implement token revocation on the server
PICARD-3021 - Add context menu action to metadata box to merge original and new values

Bugfixes:
Hovering over unmatched files shows a tooltip with the PO translation file header for the active locale
Replacement for directory separators can itself be set to a directory separator

Bugfixes:
PICARD-2953 - Windows: Incorrect sort order in list views and search result

PICARD-2914 - macOS: Crash when opening options with Spanish UI
PICARD-2939 - Crash when loading release with genre filters resulting in empty genre list
PICARD-2940 - Possible bug with locking in Metadata.__iter__
PICARD-2946 - Fix display length value in AppStream metadata