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The MusicBrainz Picard team has just released a third beta for the upcoming Picard 2.9. This addresses issues and feedback we got after the beta 2 release. See the section “What’s new?” for details.

Picard 2.9 Beta 3 is supposed to be the final pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.9 release.

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

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After our first beta release for Picard 2.9 we had some improvements, but also did an unusual amount of additional refactoring for parts of the code. Especially the code webservice requests module and handling of locale settings got some important improvements.

Hence we decided to do a second beta for the upcoming Picard 2.9. This is a pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.9 release.

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

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The Picard team is happy to announce the availability of the first beta release for the upcoming Picard 2.9. This is a pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.9 release.

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback. This release contains contributions by Laurent Monin, Philipp Wolfer, Bob Swift, David Kellner, Tushar Rohith, Aerozol and certuna.

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We have decided to put out another release candidate Picard 2.8.0rc2 for the upcoming Picard 2.8. We got some valuable feedback and fixed some new bugs as well as some older ones that just got detected while testing the first release candidate. Thanks a lot to everyone who reported those issues.

This is a pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.8 release. Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

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The Picard team is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming Picard 2.8. This is a pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.8 release.

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback. This release contains code contributions by Philipp Wolfer, Bob Swift, Laurent Monin, jesus2099, Adam James, cybersphinx and Aerozol.

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The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.7 Beta 1 is now available. This is a pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.7 release. There are many new features in this release, which might or might not work for you as expected. If you prefer stability we recommend you use the stable version Picard 2.6.4 which we released yesterday.

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

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The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.6 is now available. This release fixes issues where the user interface could freeze and contains many new features, bugfixes and improvements.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

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The Picard team is happy to announce that Picard 2.6 Beta 3 is now available. We decided to do a third beta after the recent Beta 2 release as there have been additional changes that required updates to packaging and translations.

Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.

Download

Picard 2.6 Beta 3 can be downloaded from Picard website Downloads section.

For macOS users there are now two separate builds available. If you are using macOS Mojave 10.14 or later, including macOS 11.0 Big Sure, please use the download for macOS 10.14+. If you are still on macOS Sierra 10.12 or macOS High Sierra 10.13 you should use the download for 10.12+ instead.

Only the 10.14+ builds support the macOS dark mode. This build also uses newer versions of Qt5 and Python and is hence recommended, but won’t run on macOS before 10.14.

Linux users might want to install the beta version using Snap. If your Linux distribution supports Snap you can install Picard from the beta channel using:

snap install --beta picard

Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.

What’s new?

Apart of some bug fixes this release improves handling of dark UI on Windows and macOS. This is the first official release of Picard which supports the dark mode in macOS Mojave 10.14 and later. Please note that you need to use the Picard app build for macOS 10.14 or later for this feature to work (see above).

On both macOS and Windows it is now possible to switch to dark or light UI independent of the system setting. By default Picard will follow your system settings. Special thanks to Gabriel Ferreira for his work to enable this.

Below is a complete list of changes since Picard 2.5.6.

Bugfixes

• [PICARD-2135] – Tags “license” and “website” cannot be deleted and get duplicated on update for ID3
• [PICARD-2136] – macOS: File browser does not use user’s home folder by default
• [PICARD-2138] – macOS: After saving options the toolbar style changes

Improvements

• [PICARD-1357] – Support dark mode on macOS Mojave 10.14 and later
• [PICARD-2095] – Allow the user to choose between light or dark theme on Windows and macOS

Helping out

The easiest way to help us getting a great Picard 2.6 release is using and testing this beta release. Please report bugs on the Picard issue tracker and provide feedback in the community forums.

Please also help translate Picard. There have been changes to the user interface and inline scripting documentation and existing translations need to be updated for the final 2.6 release. Translating is easy and can be done online: Head over to MusicBrainz’s translation page on Transifex and click on “Help Translate MusicBrainz”.
Once you have registered an account on Transifex you can start translating. For Picard the primary resource to translate is “picard“, but there is also the “picard_appstream” resource, which is used for providing descriptions for various Linux software-center applications, and “picard_installer”, which contains the translations for Picard’s Windows installer.

If you are a software developer you are very welcomed to provide fixes and features. Picard is free software and the source code is available on GitHub. See Developing on the Picard website to get started.