This version brings a comprehensive Artwork overhaul, with per-disc cover art, artist image uploads, animated image preservation, and a faster image pipeline powered by WebP encoding. You can now upload custom artwork for playlists, artists, and internet radios directly from the UI, and multi-disc albums will automatically pick up disc-specific cover images.

Search has been completely rebuilt on top of SQLite FTS5 with two-phase BM25 ranking, delivering faster and more accurate results across your entire library.

Transcoding is now fully server-managed: Navidrome detects client codecs, applies format-aware bitrate defaults, and implements the OpenSubsonic Transcoding extension, so clients no longer need to guess what format to request.

The Plugin System continues to mature with new host services for HTTP requests, persistent task queues, lyrics providers, and key-value storage with TTL support, giving plugin developers more tools to build powerful integrations.

Full changelog: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/releases