Changelog

[Secret Squirrel]

Added 'Sharp MZ' and 'NEC PC-6001' to the platform list.

[Illidan]

• Fixed tracklist submission not handling the ":" character correctly when it's included in a track name.
• Fixed incorrect role order for unit members credited under a different role.
• Fixed product order for products with unknown release month in organization and roles list.
• Fixed unintended "No valid submissions detected." error when editing certain barcodes.
• Added role alias "Display Name" field.
• Added row highlighting on mouseover for role aliases in "Edit Role".
• Improved "Multiple matches for role" warning when using Mass Add.

[Illidan]

• Albums now use the release display title if they're linked to only one specific release. Same for products reverse propagation.
• Added Brazil region/currency.
• Tweaked product order in franchises for unspecified dates. (https://vgmdb.net/product/7086)
• Organization assign will now correctly handle the "Org (Role)" format if it's used in the field.
• Fixed wrong "Credited works" count in artists with linked products.
• Fixed "Add to Artist Database" batch form not showing up with unlinked artists. Also added to product entries.
• Fixed unit sub-roles not being displayed correctly when both the unit and artist were also linked as another role. (https://vgmdb.net/product/1026)
• Fixed tri-state checkboxes in advanced search retaining their state when going back to the page despite appearing unselected.
• Added a staff page to change the parent role of a role alias without having to relink all the entries, and also preserving the role order in each entry.
• You can no longer delete a role if it's linked to at least one album or product.
• Deleting a linked role alias will give a warning and offer an option to change all the alias links to the main role.

[Illidan]

• Added a comment field to all new entry and edit pages. This field is required for non-trusted users but we also recommend everyone to use it.
  The comment is displayed on the history, and can contain source links. Clicking the "Discuss" link in the history will create a thread to discuss a specific group of changes.
• Submitted and edited links are automatically queued for archiviation on the Wayback Machine, preventing important data and sources from being lost forever.
  This also applies to links used in the comment field mentioned above.
• Added OpenGraph support to artists, organizations, products and releases.
• Editing an entry at the same time as someone else will now give a warning instead of silently overriding all the previous changes.
• Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon links are now automatically cleaned up from certain parameters and unneeded data.
  Also added a staff page to automatically clean existing links.
• Fixed entries appearing under the "Featured On" section of artists when they were set as featured to only some of the linked roles.
• Fixed related albums not working when using characters like < or " in the product field.
• Removed release platform from product list in albums when just one release is selected.
• The "Highest Rated Artist" statistic page and the "Weighted Album Rating" on artists were disabled due to performance reasons.

[Illidan]

• Added a list of blacklisted sources that can't be used in edit comments.
• Added a webarchive quick link next to all links added/edited after the last update. (thanks nextday!)
• Added edit arrow for new entries in the "Recent Updates" page, making it easier to check submit comments.
• Edited links are now archived even if the URL didn't change. Doing this on old links will add the webarchive quick link.
• Long links are now shortened when used in comments.
• Fixed quick album search matching a lot of partial barcodes when the search query is too short.
• Fixed organization assign not recognizing commas correctly.
• The comment is now required for everyone instead of just non-trusted users.
  For trusted+ there's a new "Allow Empty Comments" option in the usual gear icon on the top right that you can enable if you need to do some maintenance edits, or if you're just fixing some small things. Doesn't require a page reload so you can enable it while you're on the edit page after seeing the error.

[Illidan]

• Improved backend performance for album, artist and product pages.
• Greatly improved frontend performance for the artists assign page. The role search can now also find single-kanji roles like 歌.
• Added an option to artists mass add to handle different roles separated by a middle dot (作曲・編曲), rather than being part of the role name (レコーディング・エンジニア).
• Added a "Check for Missing Roles" button to artists mass add, can be used to check if all roles are in the database without actually linking the artists.
• Fixed translation search not returning the translation for subtracks.
• Added link support for DIVERSE DIRECT (thanks Fivda!), TANO*C store, Melonbooks and Toranoana (thanks nextday!)
• Improved the error message for deleted advanced search IDs.
• Discord feeds are now slightly delayed in order to give time to the submitter to add more information, or fix a wrong category.

[Illidan]

• Added Artist Drafts, allowing all users to submit linked artists to the moderation queue for a quicker and more accurate approval process.
  See this thread for more info on how to use this new system.
• Added new role system to albums.
  Removed the 4 legacy artist fields from albums (Composer, Arranger, Performer, Lyricist).
  Replaced the 4 fields in the advanced search with a more flexible search option for all roles.
• Added Artist History to album/product/release.
  This will track all the changes to the credits now that the old text fields are gone.
• Added "Original" field for unlinked artists names.
  This field should be used when romanizing an artist not added in the database, in order to preserve the original Japanese credit and help with linking the artist in the future.
• Added Education fields to artists: Major, Alma Mater and Graduation Year.
• Added more options for artist searches to Advanced Search, including all new roles.
• Added a maintenance search for legacy roles to album and product search.
• Added an "Add Alias" option to the Edit Artist menu to quickly create a new alias linked to that entry.
• "Alias" and "Unit Alias" pages now inherit all fields and the portrait from the parent entry.
  It's still possible to set fields on aliases (for example, a different twitter account or a different portrait), but they should usually be left empty.
• The unlinked artist suggestion box has been improved to handle the new "Original" name field.
  When the suggestion matches only 1 artist along with one or more of their aliases, the box will appear with a lighter shade of blue and the apply checkbox will be selected by default.
• Added a "Suggest Link" option to artists (available to trusted+) to quickly look up albums and products to link to new artists, searching the unlinked artist links, notes and legacy fields.
• The comment text is now required for everyone (including trusted+) when submitting a new album.
• Moved recent artist links in a separate Credits tab in the Recent Updates page. The product names are also now shortened when too long.
• Added the time an album was added to your collection when hovering on the disc image on the left. This only appears to you on your collection.
• Added Meiryo as a fallback font to fix the rendering of some character on Chrome/Windows. For example, 今 was rendered as a Chinese character.
• The submit Artist/Organization pages now have all the fields that are in the edit page.
• Links in the recent updates and modqueue from supported websites are now displayed the same way they are in albums.
• Links are now auto-archived for all categories.
• Added image zoom on the "Manage Covers" page.
• Image zoom on the Covers page now requires CTRL+mousewheel instead of just mousewheel.
• Improved artist suggestions when linking them as unit members.
• Mass Add can now set the original name and suffix for the artists in the format "name [original] (suffix)". There are two new options to disable this behavior.
• Improved Mass Add handling of "at" roles.
• Improved Mass Add role matching for roles with a Japanese alias.
• Fixed the Mass Add parser not picking up separators if they aren't lowercase.
• Fixed reject media edits messages not appearing in the history.
• Fixed history pages not showing the comment under certain conditions.
• Fixed page count for the collection list page.
• Fixed an issue when trying to set a unit for an unlinked artist.
• Fixed an issue with the credit count when linking an artist to the same role for BGM and Songs, but with a different role alias.
• Added missing Brazilian flag for product releases.
• Added AKIBA-HOBBY, akibaoo, Grep Shop, animate, BookMate, Gamers, Black Screen Records, Ship to Shore Media, The Yetee and MANDARAKE shop icons (thanks Fivda!)
• Improved the performance for the user profile pages.
• Added an internal linking system on artist and album pages. For example, [artist=1]ZUN[/artist] would link to ZUN (artist id 1). The [artist] link only works on artist pages and [album] only on album pages.
• Added a staff tool to search for albums with unassigned artists in the legacy fields.
• Added a staff tool to search for artist aliases with the same fields as the parent.

We've also opened an official Bug/Feature Request tracker on Github: https://github.com/vgmdb/tracker/issues

[Illidan]

• Unit members in credits can now be linked to the unit on a specific role, to solve issues when the unit is linked to multiple roles. (Issue #78)
• Added roles to Advanced Search. (Issue #75)
• Added original title to event pages. (Issue #54)
• Improved role matching when searching in the role dropdown. (Issue #64)
• Improved how artist aliases inherit the parent data. Now if one field is set on a multiple one (for example, just the birth year), the rest of the related fields aren't inherited.
• Fixed long japanese titles not getting shortened correctly. (Issue #57)
• Fixed draft -> draft copy not preserving role order. (Issue #80)
• Added link to the role request thread to the "Role not found" error. (Issue #74)
• Improved handling of "co., ltd." and similar formats in organizations and artists fields.
• Regular users can no longer submit incomplete tracklists (Issue #72)
• Added a warning when submitting a duplicate role alias.
• When using the "Add Alias" button for units, "Unit Alias" is now selected instead of just "Alias".
• Fixed mass add parser for roles starting with "by" or "at".
• Fixed mass add parser for suffixes containing a parenthesis.
• Added staff tool to move artist credits to aliases. (Issue #73)
• Greatly improved the user submissions page performance.
• Several small fixes and improvements to the new features from the last update.

Added 12/20

• Improved the role dropdown search. It's now faster, and relevant matches are moved to the top of the list.
• Improved the performance of the artists-assign page.

[Illidan]

• Improved the alias display for artists when aliases have the same name as the entry, or when the artist has multiple aliases with the same English name but different Original spelling. (Issue #82)
  Examples: Wataru Maeguchi, Gen Okamura
• Added new draft icons and the status of drafts in the user page. Thanks cal! (Issue #61)
• Added "Exact Match" option to album platform in Advanced Search. (Issue #40)
• The Mass Add parser will not automatically set certain roles (Original Composer, Original Lyricist) to featured automatically. (Issue #92)
• Added a new field for artists and organizations to set a death/stop date even if the year is unknown, for example Azusa Hara. (Issue #56)
• Renamed "Publisher" field for albums to "Organizations".
• Fixed album bbcode for releases not displaying in products. (Issue #90)

[Secret Squirrel]

Due to the challenges that arose from opening up for public submission of artist drafts, the maximum number of pending albums per submitter has been reduced to 10. Also, thanks to Illidan, we can now set this on a per-user basis, so a few good submitters are still at the old maximum.

[Illidan]

• When previewing a draft on a entry, you will now see a new Compare section detailing missing artists, new ones, and modified ones. (Issue #70)
  This will be improved in the future to add more checks, but we recommend everyone (including trusted+) to use this feature when updating artists on an existing entry.
• Added a warning for missing artists when submitting a draft to an existing entry. (Issue #117)
• Added artist disambiguation. (Issue #24)
• Moved drafts apply/reject to a different tab in Recent Updates. (Issue #116)
• Added drafts to user submissions page. (Issue #118)
• The apply checkbox is no longer checked for artists with 0 works under that specific role. (Issue #107)
• Drafts applied by trusted+ are auto-approved in the modqueue. (Issue #111)
• Greatly improved the role dropdown search and fixed several issues with it.
• Added warning for skipped lines to the mass add parser. (Issue #103)
• Added [role] internal linking to role descriptions. (Issue #102)
• Added a limit of 25 drafts per user (50 for trusted+), and made deleting a draft quicker.
• Added total album length and amount of tracks for multi-disc albums. (Issue #113)
• Added an icon to show wishlist items that are also included in your collection. (Issue #110)
• Added DLsite icon (thanks Fivda!)
• Fixed artist suffix not appearing when assigned to an unit on a different role (Issue #109)
• Improved artist matching when using the Original field. (Issue #106)
• Changed "Other Spellings" artists section to case insensitive. (Issue #105)
• Drafts can no longer be submitted to child albums.
• Added New Zealand country/currency.
• Several fixes and improvements to the drafts functionality.

[Illidan]

• Added a way to sort role/album links by modified date.
• It's now possible to click on a role alias in the role page to filter the list by that alias only.
• Added a trusted editor+ option at the bottom of Artists Assign to convert roles to their Japanese equivalent.
• Added LINE MUSIC and KKBOX link icons. (thanks Fivda!)
• Inactive album notes are no longer matched by the artist's Suggest Link tool.
• Tweaked product matching by ignoring the text in parentheses when it's too short, like (TV).
• Fixed duplicate edit comment on adding new media. (Issue #41)
• Fixed tab switching in products not appearing if one release has no artist links but different notes. (Issue #53)
• Fixed mass add parsing when using lines like "Role by : artist". (Issue #136)
• Fixed organizations field name on submission page. (Issue #154)
• Fixed role image "Set Default" when using multiple role images.
• Fixed advanced artist search not matching special characters like & correctly.
• Fixed deleted albums appearing as pending with no draft to regular users. (Issue #132)
• Fixed modqueue error with deleted websites. (Issue #124)
• Added Philippines country/currency. (Issue #131)

[Illidan]

• Added option to move albums from wishlist to collection. (Issue #136)
• Added product disambiguation to album pages. (Issue #147)
• Added sorting options in Manage Credits and Manage Products pages. (Issue #133)
• Added a count for how many apply checkboxes have been checked in the artists-assign page. (Issue #126)
• Added original and suffix fields to "Artist Link (Maintenance)" advanced search. (Issue #84, Issue #127)
• Fixed thumbnail size for tall images. (Issue #96)
• The draft name is autofilled when using the "Copy to Draft" functionality. (Issue #146)
• Improved mass add parser handling of duplicate artists. (Issue #123, Issue #129)
• Tweaked artist-assign to also match variations in the Original field while linking artists. (Issue #115)
• The alias moving tool now moves all 3 types of credits at once: albums, products and drafts. (Issue #125)
• Fixed future parting dates appearing as Former Units on artist pages. (Issue #155)

[Illidan]

• Changed the name of the "Featured" flag for artist links to "Referenced" to avoid confusion with feat. credits.
• Added an Uncredited flag for artist links. (Issue #69)
  This new flag should only be used when the artist is not credited on the release, but the credit can be found elsewhere like on social media, interviews, and other sources.
  If an artist is referenced and uncredited, both flags can be used.
  The uncredited links will have a yellow * with some hover text.
• Unlinked referenced artists will now have a dark blue * with some hover text instead of being just white text.
• The role order is now preserved when changing a linked artist to a different role. (Issue #112)
• Added a way to link artists directly from the Suggest Artist Links page. (Issue #161)
• Added "Artist: Role" parse option for Mass Add. (Issue #184)
• Added link to role page to the Multiple Matches warning from Mass Add. (Issue #181)
• Added organization original name on search results. (Issue #173)
• Added a maximum height to tall role images.
• Improved duplicate errors from the mass add parser. (Issue #168)
• Improved performance for credit lists on album, product and release pages.
• Fixed empty product names on albums when using disambiguations. (Issue #183)
• Fixed original role name not appearing when hovering the mouse on roles in Original language option. (Issue #177)
• Fixed the "Update Linked Artists" button count not updating when using the select/deselect all checkbox.
• Fixed mass add parser not handling empty roles correctly.
• Fixed the selected artist draft not being preserved when receiving an error on submit/edit.
• Fixed inactive albums counting in organization view entry number. (Issue #160)
• Fixed issue with artists not matching correctly when spaces are used in the Japanese name. (Issue #169)
• Fixed entry titles not being escaped in the Artist Suggest tool.
• Fixed email tags appearing in edit comments.
• Removed draft dropdown from new products page.
• Added The Orchard link icon. (thanks cal!)

[Illidan]

• Artist aliases with the same name are now hidden by default on discographies, like variations.
  Added an user option to re-enable them, as well as showing variations, or both. (Issue #128)
• Added an user option to set the Gallery display as default for album covers and release images. (Issue #9)
• Added an option to set song order (vocal/composer/arranger/lyricist) to the "Convert Legacy Roles" section. (Issue #149)
• Added more metadata to the image gallery popups. (Issue #212)
• Added support for more amazon domains: co.uk, es, fr, de, it. (Issue #207)
• Renamed 2 inconsistent fields in Advanced Search and user submission history. (Issue #198)
• Renamed "Alias" to "Variation" on artists-assignin order to be consistent with current usage. (Issue #217)

Fixed over the past few weeks:

• Fixed release not attached to any product displaying every album with unlinked products. (Issue #206)
• Fixed scan names including trailing spaces. (Issue #209)
• Fixed search query parameter when using quotes. (Issue #210)
• Fixed Other Spellings in artists with English-only names. (Issue #197)
• Fixed (intentionally romanized) appearing for artist aliases when the kanji field is not populated. (Issue #226)
• Discography tab in artists no longer includes featured credits. (Issue #213)
• Fixed modqueue applying drafts to deleted albums.
• Greatly improved the performance of role advanced search.

[Illidan]

• Removed public ratings from album pages by default. (Issue #245)
  Added a new "Show Ratings on Album Pages" option to show ratings from everyone, or to hide the feature completely.
  Also removed the "Most Popular Albums", "Least Popular Albums", "Most Frequently Rated Albums" and "Album Ratings" statistics pages. Renamed "Most Viewed Albums" to "Most Popular Albums" to be consistent with artists and organizations.
• Cover pages now fit the image to the window size instead of overflowing. (Issue #250)
  Added a new "Default Image Size When Viewing Scans" option to revert to the old behavior.
• Added "Most Popular Products" statistics page.
• Added descending sort for search results. (Issue #236)
• Added organization disambiguation to organization pages. (Issue #239)
• Added a link to the draft page to the maximum drafts error. (Issue #251)
• Added a check for linked members when changing an artist type from group to person. (Issue #244)
• Added a check for duplicate links when submitting one. (Issue #248)
• Added "In Collection" icon to Manage Wish List. (Issue #258)
• Added Yugoslavia country/currency. (Issue #252)
• Added ALICE BOOKS, ebten and GOG link icons. (thanks cal and Teezer!)
• Changed albums to display N/A when no organizations are linked. (Issue #247)
• Changed "(Fan) Arrange" to "(Fan) Arrangement" for album classifications in product pages for consistency.
• Fixed album tab on artists not appearing in certain cases. (Issue #246)
• Fixed quick searches for organizations containing "&" in the name. (Issue #229)
• Fixed product filter not appearing correctly for artists with only product credits. (Issue #201)
• Fixed role dropdown search not working with special characters. (Issue #255)
• Fixed misaligned artist history table with portrait edits. (Issue #257)
• Fixed artist, portrait, organization, product, release and role pages edits going through when editing no fields. (Issue #256)
• Fixed artist portraits metadata edits not going through the modqueue.
• Fixed modqueue not working correctly for artist portraits edits.
• Improved performance on "My Submissions" and "Recent Updates" pages.

[Secret Squirrel]

Added "Atari 8-bit" to platforms list.

[Illidan]

• Added a check to avoid linking an organization to iself. (Issue #263)
• Added a check for malformed barcodes and discids. (Issue #265)
• Added link date sorting to organization pages. (Issue #260)
• Removed the legacy assign artists form. (Issue #269)
• Removed the legacy "Add to Artist Database" feature from the album assign page.
• The day for dates (albums, artists, organizations, products, releases) is now set to unknown when the month is unknown. (Issue #273)
• The "Copy to Draft" functionality now works when used from an entry with no credits. (Issue #199)
• Improved the role parser with certain aliases that are added in multiple roles. (Issue #274)
• Fixed inconsistent sorting for album classification in products/releases. (Issue #268)
• Fixed inconsistent sorting for members in unit pages. (Issue #276)
• Fixed issue with media titles in Recent Updates tab. (Issue #262)
• Fixed linked variations not being matched correctly when using the original field. (Issue #187)
• Fixed Manage Credits not preserving role order when changing roles. (Issue #188)
• Fixed sorting by album name in Manage Credits page.
• Fixed Move Alias tool not preserving unit links correctly. (Issue #279)
• Fixed musically equivalent releases not displaying the correct image in organization and artist latest works. (Issue #176)
• Fixed wrong entry being displayed in Recent Updates when rejecting tracklist metadata edits. (Issue #266)
• Fixed disambiguation not being displayed for franchises in products. (Issue #270)
• Fixed media edit comments not being retained correctly. (Issue #261
• Fixed modqueue for artist portrait edit rejections. (Issue #272)
• Fixed "alternate spelling" text not appearing for units.

[Illidan]

• Organizations can now have multiple types instead of just one. (Issue #242)
• Added new organization types. (Issue #241, Issue #11)
  The old "Retailer / Distributor" type was also split into two distinct types.
• Added Middle Name fields to artists. (Issue #200)
• Added "Organization" artist type. (Issue #66, Issue #182)
  This can be linked to an organization, which will link the 2 pages together.
• Added "Studio Alias" and "Organization Alias" artist types. (Issue #221)
• Added organizations to advanced search. (Issue #243, Issue #233)
• Added artist type to Artist advanced search.
• Added a maximum height for logos. (Issue #208)
• Added parameter for specific types of searches. (Issue #275)
• Added a "Delete All Checked" button for unit members.
• Added a members section to the Organization edit page, allowing for unlinked members like units.
• Added a staff-only tool to transfer unit members to an organization.
• The "Title / Name Language" option now works on artists in the recent tabs.
  When using Default, the original Japanese name is also displayed next to the name. (Issue #254)
• All users can now view other users drafts as read-only. (Issue #278)
• Fixed an issue with collection when deleting folders that contained other folders. (Issue #280)
  Orphan folders/albums in the database were also cleaned up.
• Fixed an issue with the mass add parser matching Recording Studio by default when using "Recording: Artist".
• Fixed the Manage Covers delete button not appearing on mobile. (Issue #281)

[Illidan]

• Events are now independent from the forum calendar and they can be created/edited by staff like other entries. (Issue #55)
  The event pages now also have a history for future edits.
• Added twitter and links support to events, displayed on a sidebar. (Issue #249)
• Added icons to event badges in albums/orgs to show the album release type, and an hover text with the event's full name and date. (Issue #205)
• Events no longer take a while to appear in the event list after being added.
• Thanks and Special Thanks credits are no longer displayed in the normal discography, but in a separate section below it. (Issue #203)
• Referenced credits in discographies are marked with a blue * if the artist is also credited with a non-referenced or thanks role for the same entry.
• Changed the "Gender" artist field to "Gender Identity" and added a "Non-binary" option. (Issue #287)
• Fixed aliases not redirecting to the parent discussion thread. (Issue #289)

[Illidan]

• The database encoding was updated, in order to support characters that weren't previously available, like certain Chinese ones as well as emojis. (Issue #292)
• Added artists credited for composition or music to the calendar view for albums. (Issue #97)
• Added Marketing Company organization type. (Issue #327)
• Added middle name reading to history pages. (Issue #328)
• The old album fields (composer, arranger, performer and lyricist) are now completely removed and not used in any page of the site.
• The "Artist Age Statistics" page now support new roles.
• All the graph statistics now use a cache instead of generating the graph every time.

[Illidan]

• Added new currencies: Indonesian Rupiah (Issue #357), Thai Baht (Issue #358), Chilean Peso (Issue #295), Hungarian Forint (Issue #296).
• Added ISO-2022-JP support to the link title grabber. (Issue #367)
• Improved organization and product lookup for albums. (Issue #346, Issue #341)
• Increased the maximum length for the Assign Members textbox. (Issue #353)
• Changed albums to display "N/A" when no classification is selected. (Issue #317)
• Fixed missing dates in event hover text. (Issue #320)
• Fixed organization role (Owner/Member) switching from the organization page. (Issue #326)
• Fixed permission for posting new threads using the Discuss feature. (Issue #332)
• Fixed unicode characters being cut off when shortening links. (Issue #348)
• Fixed unescaped characters in page titles. (Issue #355)
• Fixed text not being escaped in the Recent Updates Media tab. (Issue #347)
• Fixed unit members ordering when using the text field. (Issue #345)
• Fixed inconsistent order for platforms in product organization list. (Issue #338)
• Fixed forum posts not caching 4-byte unicode characters correctly. (Issue #337)
• Fixed link redirects always downgrading the protocol to http. (Issue #335)
• Fixed artists with underscores in their name not detected for linking to organizations/units. (Issue #339)
• Fixed Blu-ray typo in media list. (Issue #310)
• Fixed product name not displayed correctly in Recent Updates Links tab when using a disambiguation. (Issue #308)
• Fixed ", inc.", ", llc" processing when using Mass Add and other features. (Issue #309)
• Fixed thanks credits now showing up in the credits list for artists with only thanks credits. (Issue #297)
• Fixed several inconsistencies in credits count/tab display for organization credits. (Issue #303, Issue #302, Issue #306)
• Fixed misaligned relation table in release pages, and removed the broken delete functionality. (Issue #362)
• Removed studios and organizations from the calendar's Artist Birthdays. (Issue #365)

Note: the submissions from regular users are currently more restricted than usual while we're coming up with better ways to moderate new entries and edits.

[Illidan]

• Reworked modqueue rejection to create a thread instead of sending a PM to the submitter. (Issue #71)
• Tracklist edits are now required to have a comment like album edits, displayed in the history. (Issue #47)
• Added draft submission comments in albums history. (Issue #352)
• Fixed several types of rejection not notifying the submitter correctly. (Issue #400)
• Fixed rejection message being cut off for New entry rejections.
• Fixed day/year not displaying correctly in product/release history.

The following changes were done over the past month but never made it to this thread:

• Improved album page titles to get around Google's automated titles editing in search results.
• Raised character limit on rejection messages. (Issue #359)
• Removed OpenGraph thumbnail when no image is available. (Issue #392)
• Fixed "closed" text not appearing for studios with an unknown closure date. (Issue #395)
• Fixed several double escaping issues. (Issue #389, Issue #385, Issue #384)
• Added EXTD field to cddb read response with album ID. (Issue #370)
• Changed "Labels" to "Organizations" in search results and recent updates tabs. (Issue #374)
• Fixed organizations display on products with no releases. (Issue #298)
• Fixed duplicated suggestions for products with the same name in product-assign. (Issue #316)
• Fixed composers order in calendar. (Issue #378)
• Fixed escaping for OpenGraph tags. (Issue #377)
• Fixed incorrect post count in edit history. (Issue #376)
• Fixed suggestions when assigning event albums.

[Secret Squirrel]

Added "Apple IIGS" and "Tandy TRS-80" to the list of platforms.

[Illidan]

• Added referenced composers to the calendar. (Issue #454)
• Added an error when trying to set a price value while the price is unknown. (Issue #455)
• Added an error when trying to set an artist entry as an alias of itself. (Issue #439)
• Added canonical links for all entry types other than albums.
• Improved "View Collections -> Owned by" list to not show the same user more than once. (Issue #449)
• Improved warning messages for multiple matches when using Mass Add. (Issue #445)
• Improved handling of deleted threads in history and discuss pages. (Issue #452)
• Improved URL recognition when using parentheses. (Issue #415)
• Inactive albums are no longer included in the role credit count. (Issue #442)
• Fixed missing/inconsistent page titles. (Issue #457)
• Fixed credits tab on organization missing when only Thanks credits are linked. (Issue #381)
• Fixed artist pages not defaulting to the products tab in certain cases. (Issue #446)
• Fixed artist delete from admin_linked not creating history entries. (Issue #431)
• Fixed artist suggest not differentiating between hiragana and katakana. (Issue #419)
• Fixed draft assign page being visible while not logged in. (Issue #412)
• Fixed units credited twice under different roles creating empty brackets under certain conditions. (Issue #456)
• Fixed issue with product lookups during linking. (Issue #447)
• Fixed issue with search terms containing quotes. (Issue #451)
• Fixed various escaping issues. (Issue #411, Issue #417, Issue #444, Issue #450)
• Fixed long load times caused by some externally hosted scripts. (Issue #418)
• Fixed hiragana and katakana being treated as the same by Mass Add. (Issue #458)
• Fixed broken HTTPS links in website modqueue. (Issue #399)
• Fixed history pages other than albums not checking if the entry exists. (Issue #396)
• Fixed reverse propagate organizations showing up when the field already matches. (Issue #312)
• Changed "Download Card" media type to "Download Code".
• Removed the unused linkback functionality that was causing the database to be slow when browing non-album pages.

[Illidan]

• The moderation queue has been refactored:
  • Submissions can now be put On Hold by a moderator, which will move the submission to a separate moderation queue page. It's possible to automatically post a comment when doing so, asking the submitter for more information.
  • Instead of having one page for every type of edits (album, tracklist, scans, website, etc) the moderation queue now has an Album and Artist page, and changes are grouped by entry.
  • Album and artist pages will feature an header if the entry is pending or has pending edits. (Issue #371)
    This view is different depending on the permissions of the user:
    - Guests just see an header mentioning there are pending changes.
    - Users see more details about the submitter and what fields were edited.
    - Moderators can see more details, including submission comments, and they're able to quickly moderate all edits with a button. The header is collapsed by default and can be expanded by clicking on it.
  • Default tracklist rejections are reverted correctly. (Issue #404)
  • Added a select all box to quickly moderate more edits at once. (Issue #305)
  • Deleting an entry will now clear the pending entries from the mod queue. (Issue #398)
  • Added edit groups for portrait/portrait edits. (Issue #435)
  • Added edit groups for scans/scan edits. (Issue #433, Issue #443)
  • Added edit groups for links/link edits. (Issue #434)
• Added an error when trying to stitch reprints with different products, categories, platforms or classifications. (Issue #174)
• Added link to edit history for new tracklist submissions. (Issue #422)
• Red select box/buttons now use a softer shade of red. (Issue #238)
• Fixed artist links on product not being detected by the Suggest Link feature. (Issue #469)
• Fixed tracklist edit groups not being picked up for album edits. (Issue #436)
• Removed legacy album/artist history RSS feeds.

[Illidan]

• Added random entry functionality for all types of entries. (Issue #517)
  • https://vgmdb.net/album/random
  • https://vgmdb.net/artist/random
  • https://vgmdb.net/org/random
  • https://vgmdb.net/product/random
  • https://vgmdb.net/release/random
  • https://vgmdb.net/event/random
• Removed page reload from explicit images toggle. (Issue #476)
• Buttons are disabled after a click to solve double-submit issues. (Issue #2)
• Improved Original language option to work on artist pages. (Issue #437)
• Improved consistency for deactivated albums in recent tabs. (Issue #491)
• Improved artist submit/edit to check non-person types for disallowed fields. (Issue #344)
• Improved release draft submission to check the parent type before applying the draft. (Issue #499)
• Improved org assign matching to check full name.
• Fixed romanized language option not working for products on album entries. (Issue #512)
• Fixed Original/Romanized language options not working on recent products. (Issue #301)
• Fixed drafts being applied when putting a submission on hold. (Issue #496)
• Fixed Apple Music link parsing, thanks nstz! (Issue #507)
• Fixed display issue on org artist aliases list. (Issue #314)
• Fixed HTTPS links in artist edit page. (Issue #522)
• Fixed empty Members section on units with only former members members. (Issue #521)
• Fixed artist history link in modq. (Issue #520)
• Fixed gender/education information showing up on certain artist types. (Issue #500)
• Fixed role order for draft preview on product/release. (Issue #523)
• Fixed modified date sorting for products in org/roles. (Issue #495)
• Fixed shop links undo in Recent links. (Issue #487)
• Fixed new portraits now showing up in modq. (Issue #481)
• Fixed various issues with the artist page filters. (Issue #382)
• Fixed total tracks information not appearing for tracklist with no track times. (Issue #424)
• Fixed reverse propagate organizations appearing when the text field already matches. (Issue #312)
• Fixed album history when displaying deleted tracklist data.