Syncplay 1.7.0 RC1

If you find any issues created by this version then please create an issue and note that you are using RC1.

Release page: https://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-7-0-release-candidate-1/

Known issues:

• On macOS it might give an error about not being able to check for updates. We'll try to get a v2 for the macOS release to fix this issue.

Headline additions

• Add room permanence option to server (#434 by @Assistant with additional work in #487 by @Et0h and #492 by @odrling)
• Add dark mode support for Windows (#483) by @Et0h
• Syncplay now supports five more languages:
  • French (#455 by @sosie-js)
  • Simplified Chinese (#500 by @lryanner) - Thanks also to @Zhaodaidai for separately working on a Chinese translation
  • Esperanto (by @Tirifto)
  • Finnish (#561 by LINUX-SAUNA with additional work in #563 by @Mikaela)
  • Korean (#591 by @MarongHappy)
• Add playlist-related commands (https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues/472 by @Et0h and #518 by @rtix):
  • /qa [file/url] - add file or url to bottom of playlist
  • /qas [file/url] - add file or url to bottom of playlist and select it
  • /ql - show the current playlist
  • /qs [index] - select given entry in the playlist
  • /qn - select next entry in the playlist
  • /qd [index] - delete the given entry from the playlist

Tweaks and bug fixes

• If LANG parameter is set in setup, don’t show language dialog (#460 by @atagulalan)
• Trusted Domains: Allow trusting a domain regardless of HTTP basic auth credentials (#437 by @Tremolo4)
• Allow playlists to be played from network (#419 by @zeroeightysix)
• Fix room name case sensitivity UI issue (#403 by @Et0h)
• Remove redundant help button from dialogs (#403 by @Et0h)
• macOS build: upgrade to Python 3.9 and PySide2 5.15.2 (@albertosottile)
• Remove Encoding from .desktop files as it’s depreciated now and add Keywords entry to .desktop files. (@daniel-123)
• Console: Document setting offset in help (#453 by @luke-jr)
• Add deprecation notice for offset help (#435 by @Et0h)
• Add Windows Store mpv.net path support (#494 by @Et0h)
• Update PT-BR translation (#497 by @nipkownix)
• Fixed server argument max-username-length not working (#506 by @powerjungle)
• Fix disconnected monitor bug (#505 by @Et0h fixing #504 raised by @Zefferis)
• Print timestamp when pausing (#521 by @Kansattica)
• Add Windows Store mpv.net path support (issue #494 raised by @soredake and resolved by @Et0h)
• Correct persistence argument type (#496 by @modwizcode)
• Remove mpv fallback warning spam (@Et0h)
• Fixed permanent rooms on Windows servers (#526 raised by @haz429 and resolved by @Et0h)
• Fixes converting lines to array (#515 by @danfai)
• Made Hungarian chars usable from MPV: ő and ű (#515 by @hunbernd)
• Typo fixes (#540 and #541 by @ViktorOn)
• Linux: Fix dark mode detection by moving to darkdetect v0.7.1 (#557 raised by @ExTBH and resolved by @albertosottile)
• macOS: bundle PySide6, create a universal2 app; and explicitly exclude tkinter (@albertosottile)
• Explicitly pass certifi as trustRoot for Twisted (#554 raised by @BODZy resolved by @albertosottile)
• Don’t detect SMPlayer as mplayer2 (#584 raise by @nikgtasa and resolved by @Et0h)
• Fix localhost connection breaking mpv chat (#545 raised by @Abu-AM and resolved by @Et0h)
• More verbose connection error messages (#565 / #553 raised by @Someone7un7 and resolved by @Et0h)
• Fix mpv quit message (#571 / #578 raised by @jiang-yuan and resolved by @Et0h)
• Log –debug as UTF-8 to fix charmap mapping (#586 by @Et0h)
• Add/fix wildcard matching of trusted subdomains (#587 / #588 raised by @name-snrl and resolved by @Et0h)
• Restore server-side playlist on reconnect (#567 / #590 raised by @soredake and resolved by @Et0h)