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v4.0.0

  • Lavalink now requires Java 17 or higher to run
  • Removal of all websocket messages sent by the client. Everything is now done via REST
  • Update Lavaplayer to 2.0.4, which includes native support for artwork urls and ISRCs in the track info
  • Addition of full Track objects in following events: TrackStartEvent, TrackEndEvent, TrackExceptionEvent, TrackStuckEvent
  • Resuming a session now requires the Session-Id header instead of Resume-Key header
  • Reworked track loading result. For more info see here
  • Update to the Protocol Module to support Kotlin/JS
  • Removal of all /v3 endpoints except /version. All other endpoints are now under /v4
  • Add JDA-NAS support for musl (x86-64, aarch64) based systems (most notably alpine)
  • New config option to specify the directory to load plugins from. lavalink.pluginsDir (defaults to ./plugins)
  • Add Omissible#isPresent & Omissible#isOmitted to the protocol module
  • Fix null pointer when a playlist has no selected track
  • Added default plugin repository. Plugin devs can now request their plugin to be added to the default repository. For more info see here
  • Fixed error when seeking and player is not playing anything in
  • Allow setting user data on tracks in the REST API. For more info see here
  • Update to Koe 2.0.0-rc2
  • Enable request logging by default
  • Update docker ubuntu base image from focal(20) to jammy(22)
  • Remove default 4GB max heap allocation from docker image

Warning

Lavalink previously set the -Xmx flag to 4G in docker. This caused issues with some systems which had less than 4GB of RAM. We have now removed this flag and let the JVM decide the max heap allocation. On how to increase the max heap allocation, see here.

v4.0.0 - Betas ## v4.0.0-beta.5 * Update lavaplayer to [`2.0.3`](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/lavaplayer/releases/tag/2.0.2) - Fixed YouTube access token errors * Added default plugin repository. Plugin devs can now request their plugin to be added to the default repository. For more info see [here](../api/plugins.md#distributing-your-plugin) * Fixed error when seeking and player is not playing anything in ## v4.0.0-beta.4 * Update lavaplayer to [`2.0.2`](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/lavaplayer/releases/tag/2.0.2) - Support MPEG 2.5 and fixed some requests not timing out * Add `Omissible#isPresent` & `Omissible#isOmitted` to the `protocol` module * Fix null pointer when a playlist has no selected track ## v4.0.0-beta.3 * Update lavaplayer to [`2.0.0`](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/lavaplayer/releases/tag/2.0.0) - Fixed YouTube 403 errors & YouTube access token errors ## v4.0.0-beta.2 * Update lavaplayer to [`08cfbc0`](https://github.com/Walkyst/lavaplayer-fork/commit/08cfbc05953128f3cf727ea3bcbe41dabcd1c7db) - Fixed ogg streaming * Add JDA-NAS support for musl (`x86-64`, `aarch64`) based systems (most notably `alpine`) * New config option to specify the directory to load plugins from. `lavalink.pluginsDir` (defaults to `./plugins`) ## v4.0.0-beta.1 * New Lavalink now requires Java 17 or higher to run * **Removal of all websocket messages sent by the client. Everything is now done via [REST](../api/rest.md)** * Update to [Lavaplayer custom branch](https://github.com/Walkyst/lavaplayer-fork/tree/custom), which includes native support for artwork urls and ISRCs in the track info * Addition of full `Track` objects in following events: `TrackStartEvent`, `TrackEndEvent`, `TrackExceptionEvent`, `TrackStuckEvent` * Resuming a session now requires the `Session-Id` header instead of `Resume-Key` header * Reworked track loading result. For more info see [here](../api/rest.md#track-loading-result) * Update to the [Protocol Module](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/Lavalink/tree/master/protocol) to support Kotlin/JS * Removal of all `/v3` endpoints except `/version`. All other endpoints are now under `/v4` !!! warning This is a beta release, and as such, may contain bugs. Please report any bugs you find to the [issue tracker](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/Lavalink/issues/new/choose). For more info on the changes in this release, see [here](../api/index.md#v370---v400) If you have any question regarding the changes in this release, please ask in the [support server](https://discord.gg/ZW4s47Ppw4) or [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/lavalink-devs/Lavalink/discussions/categories/q-a) Contributors: [@topi314](https://github.com/topi314), [@freyacodes](https://github.com/freyacodes), [@DRSchlaubi](https://github.com/DRSchlaubi) and [@melike2d](https://github.com/melike2d)
Last update: December 3, 2023