Spotube

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• Oct 30, 2026 6.0.0-beta.0
  ## Spotube V6 Beta is here 🎉🚀 ### 🔥Highlights - Migration from Flutter to Compose Multiplatform, [learn why we did it](https://spotube.cc/blog/compose-multiplatform-migration/) - UI redesign, introducing [Millennium](https://github.com/team-spotube/millennium/) UI. 2000s look and feel with 2026's modernity - Jam session integration, play music with friends and family - Full Android Auto integration. Browse, Library, Search all are there now, not just queue - Migration from hetu_script to Kotlin for plugin development. Powered by [Zipline by Cashapp](https://github.com/cashapp/zipline/) - More extensibility, plugin support for Lyrics provider and Scrobbling providers

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  - Native Android APK, with reduced apk size, performance improvements and more native android integrations. - Relicensed from BSD-4-Clause to AGPL-3.0-or-later for a more Open Source friendly licensing. And for preventing distribution of closed source and maliciously modified Spotube. ### 💫 Features - Migration to Compose Multiplatform - Add ChipTab component and refactor SearchScreen to use it - Add AutocompleteTextField component and integrate it into SearchScreen - Enhance AutocompleteTextField with focus management and dropdown behavior - Enhance AppSidebar with improved button interactions and visual feedback - Implement endless playback recommendations in DeviceAudioPlayerQueue - Add GhostIconButton component and enhance button interactions in TrackList - Replace IconButton with GhostIconButton in AppExpandedPlayer and AppLargePlayer for improved visual consistency - Replace IconButton with GhostIconButton in PlayerQueueContent and PlayableCard for visual consistency - Enhance UI components with LocalBaseUITheme for consistent styling and improved interactions - Enhance button styles and interactions in Buttons and Theme components for improved UI consistency - Simplify highlight implementation in UI components for improved readability and maintainability - Add genre selection and tabs to HomeScreen for improved content navigation - Implement artist overview screen with loading, error handling, and pagination for albums, related artists, and featured playlists - Add genre and featured browsing capabilities to MediaBrowseHelper - Implement playlist creation and editing functionality with UI components - Add 'Add to Playlist' functionality with UI components and dialogs - Add Toggle component and update UI to use it in place of Switch - Implement settings section cards for updates, desktop, language, caching, and plugins - Update icons in settings sections to use Iconsax library for improved UI consistency - Replace FeatherIcons with Iconsax in PluginCard and PluginPermissionsDialog for improved UI consistency - Refactor PluginPermissionsDialog to use custom UI components for improved consistency and readability - Enhance UI with shared element transitions and improve state management in album and playlist screens - Integrate Uniffi for audio metadata reading and writing with Lofty library - Replace FeatherIcons with Iconsax in window controls and update sidebar with better design - Implement haze effect and UI enhancements in AppLargePlayer and AppShell - Enhance haze effect integration in AppShell and AppSidebar for improved UI experience - Add adaptive dialog bottom sheet component and enhance plugin installation UI - Enhance AdaptiveDialogBottomSheet with dismiss icon and improve plugin screen layout - Implement CollectionView component and refactor Album, Playlist, SavedTracks screens for improved UI consistency - Add current time management in AudioPlayer for improved playback control - Simplify playback control logic in AudioPlayer by removing redundant state checks - Introduce AudioPlayerInterface and refactor AudioPlayer implementations for better abstraction - Update skipToNext and skipToPrevious methods in AudioPlayer for improved media item management - Refactor LyricsViewModel to use AudioPlayerInterface for improved abstraction - Add Discord Rich Presence integration for enhanced media playback visibility - Implement System Tray integration for window management and media controls - Add hover effect to menu items in System Tray for improved user experience - Add SSH debug session setup on failure for improved troubleshooting - Implement blacklist functionality for tracks and artists with UI updates - **systemtray**: Self-manage tray lifecycle via Koin DI - **plugin_interfaces**: Update Maven publishing configuration and add GitHub Actions workflow - **plugin_discovery**: Implement GitHub plugin discovery and add logo support in UI - **plugin_discovery**: Implement GitHub plugin discovery and add logo support and information dialog in UI - **plugin_install**: Add plugin installation dialog and release fetching functionality - Update dependencies and configure compose hot reload settings - Improve NewPipe video rank matching - Integrate Nucleus framework for enhanced window management and webview support - Implement system tray functionality with Compose Native Tray integration - **mediacontrol**: Implement SystemMediaControlService for OS media integration - **devices**: Add device discovery and remote control features - **deeplinks**: Implement deep link handling for jam sessions - **remote-control**: Implement remote playback functionality and UI components - **remote-control**: Enhance queue management and player state synchronization - **remote-control**: Enhance remote playback functionality with new commands and UI integration - **webrtc**: Update ICE server configuration and enhance logging for peer connection events - **jam-session**: Add connection state management and update UI feedback for session status - **jam-session**: Enhance jam session functionality with improved playback synchronization and error handling - **remote-control**: Refactor service registration and cleanup logic for improved reliability - **jam-session**: Integrate MQTT broker configuration and enhance jam session settings - **jam-session**: Implement track addition to jam session and enhance UI feedback for jam state - **jam-session**: Enhance guest functionality with track addition and participant moderation options - **release**: Add support for Linux ARM64 builds and artifact uploads - **player-options**: Add PlayerOptionsViewModel and enhance player UI with options menu - **player-options**: Enhance options menu with localized strings and icons - **jam-settings**: Implement JamSettings screen and view model for broker configuration - Refactor track source management to support plugin-specific caching and retrieval - Implement shuffle play functionality for albums, playlists, and saved tracks - **navigation**: Refactor sidebar and bottombar navigation structure with new tab and group models - **search**: Enhance LazyRow with drag scrolling functionality - **autocomplete**: Simplify focus management and remove unused key event handling - **update**: Implement update checker with dialog for available updates - **update**: Refactor update checking mechanism and implement new dialog for app and plugin updates - **scrobble**: Implement ScrobbleManager to handle track scrobbling and integrate with audio player - **welcome**: Implement onboarding flow with multiple pages and donation options - **previews**: Add comprehensive previews for UI components including sliders, toggles, checkboxes, and text fields - **settings**: Add 'About' section and improve header visibility in settings sections - **surface**: Implement Frutiger-Aero themed surfaces with glass and acrylic styles - **ui**: Replace Scaffold with BaseScaffold for consistent surface theming across screens - **ui**: New custom surface integration on all components - **onboarding**: Enhance welcome screen with structured guide steps and improved layout - **player**: Add content descriptions for play, pause, and add to queue actions - **support**: Implement support reminder dialog and donation options - **player**: Refactor artist display and improve search field labels - **search**: Enhance search functionality with recent search suggestions and improved UI components - **sidebar**: Adjust spacing in sidebar and setting cards for improved layout - **jam**: Implement group jam functionality with UI components and state management - **library**: Enhance library UI with new tab titles, filtering options, and improved state management - **library**: Add Library screen list mode beside grid mode, Local Track, Download screen, Local Library folders dialog visual improvement - **ui**: Integrate LocalTextStyle for dynamic tinting in player controls and UI components - **navigation**: Add custom navigation transition specifications for push and pop actions - **i18n**: Replace hardcoded strings with localized resources across multiple components - **plugin**: Implement MetadataPluginGuard to manage plugin dependencies and user prompts - **ui**: Replace IndeterminateProgress with new loading components and enhance dialog structures - **ui**: Update MillenniumModalBottomSheet with compact padding and spacing adjustments - **plugin**: Add login prompt for metadata plugin access and implement authentication view model - **user-agents**: Implement dynamic user agent fetching and caching mechanism - **lyrics**: Implement SyncedLyricsList component and enhance LyricsViewModel for better state management - **server**: Implement port fallback mechanism for playback proxy server - **window**: Implement window state persistence and restoration - Enhance Android build configuration with stable/nightly flavors and update launcher icons - **graalvm**: Enable GraalVM native image support and update packaging configurations - **local-tracks**: Implement LocalFolder screen and view model for folder navigation - **navigation**: Implement fade-through and stack transition animations for navigation - **remote**: Redesign remote control and devices screens, fix connection issues - Download diagnostics, live connect status, remote settings on devices screen - Enhance loading states for various UI components and update dependencies - **packaging**: Flathub, AUR, WinGet and Chocolatey publishing - **plugin**: Implement automatic plugin updates and enhance JSON parsing ### 🪲 Bug Fixes - **newpipe**: Fallback to muxed streams if no audio stream is available - Dismiss search dropdown and keyboard on submission - Custom image helper null exception - **plugin**: Reload Zipline service on same-version replace - Convert buildCurrentMediaItemList to a suspend function for coroutine support - Enhance Discord RPC connection management with cooldown and error handling - Cached track audio not being invalidated causing alternative track source to not being played - Play next not working - Update pendingNextIndex when playing a track from the playlist - **webview**: Linux webview crashing the app - Add mavenLocal() to plugin and dependency resolution management - **plugin**: Handle service closure exception during authentication check - **sidebar**: Add spacer to AppSidebar for improved layout - **remote-control**: Update connection handling and improve logging for remote control events - Add window insets to top bar and bottom navigation bar, queue sheet - **stream-proxy**: Stream upstream audio instead of buffering the whole track - **newpipe**: Fall back through multiple searches when ISRC search misses - **audio-api**: Enhance fallback mechanism for text search results in YouTube - **audio-player**: Android shuffle wasnt working - **stream-proxy**: Improve logging for cache timeout and handle disconnection scenarios - **macos**: Add GraalVM runtime dependency and initialize GraalVm in main function - **android**: Create intermediate directories for Rust targets to prevent runtime errors - **android**: Update sharing functionality to use chooser intent with new task flag - **android**: Simplify service start logic for PlaybackService to avoid crashes on background playback - **android**: Update playback state management to ensure guests follow host's play state - **android**: App stuck on splash screen from main-thread string loading - **downloads**: Respect download format/quality and never save manifests or video - **ios**: Run Zipline on an 8 MiB stack thread - **server**: Don't crash when the proxy port is still in use - **ios**: Stream formats AVPlayer can play - **gradle**: Restore VFS watch setting and clean up properties - **build**: Restore version catalog lost in dev merge - **ios**: Make the login WebView identify as Mobile Safari ## New Contributors * @tomasalias made their first contribution in https://github.com/team-spotube/spotube/pull/2919 * @Akshat-104 made their first contribution in https://github.com/team-spotube/spotube/pull/3032 * @henrik242 made their first contribution in https://github.com/team-spotube/spotube/pull/3136 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/team-spotube/spotube/compare/v5.1.1...v6.0.0-beta.0