Version 8.1.0 released

[valib]

Thanks for the message. This was a bug I fixed in https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... /pull/1800 It will be implemented in the next release.

[valib]

This bug was reported and will be corrected in the next release.

[mxytplk]

Whitelist of folder(s) using IP addresses is not working for me on UMS v8.1.0. Is it known whether or not this feature tests successfully on v8.1.0?

I attempted to update to UMS v8.1.0 from v6.7.4, on a system that specified a whitelist for an ip-address to specify a folder (i.e, one that was not in the global shared folder list). More particularly: "192.168.x.xx.folders = {specified folder path, with doubled backslashes}"

The same whitelist statement was working fine on UMS v6.7.4. It failed on v8.1.0. I uninstalled v8.1.0 and tried a somewhat earlier version, v7.6.2. It also failed on v7.6.2. Each install was a clean install.

(I also made various other tests to see if I could isolate the problem. For brevity, I won't detail those tests in this post. However, I could not find any indication in the logs of UMS v8.1.0 and v7.6.2 that the folder identified by the whitelist actually was being processed. In particular, log lines that usually state "INFO Checking shared folder: {folder-path}" did not appear for the whitelisted folder on those UMS versions. It was as though the entire whitelist statement itself was being ignored on those UMS versions.)

TL;DR I suspect much of the per-device access/sharing is broken in 7.x as well, not just whitelisting.

I am on 7.6.2 and trying to successfully set up any kind of per-device shared folder list. I thought I was going crazy.

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192.168.X.X.folders = folder list 

simply does not work for me (placed in UMS.conf). Even more, "folders"and "folders_ignore" have no effect if placed in renderer conf files. If they are placed in UMS.conf, all renderers see the folders, if placed into renderer conf files, they have no effect. Renderer conf files work (detection via uuid) and I can actually manipulate server_name successfully, so each device sees different server name (which confirms that render-specific files are loaded and processed).

Can anyone confirm my observations and check if 8.x has same problems?

I can confirm that the "folders" statement fails within a renderer conf file (i.e., detected via uuid). That was among the various experiments I conducted to attempt to isolate (or circumvent) the problem. I determined that the stated failure within a renderer conf file existed both on v7.6.2 and v8.1.0. My guess was that all of these failures likely were symptoms of the same underlying problem and likely would have the same, perhaps trivial, fix.

Please note that I have opened an issue (#1801) on the "Whitelist of folder-list by IP address" symptom.
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... ssues/1801

You may wish to add your comments to that issue, and/or open a separate issue for the related problem(s) that you encountered.

[SubJunk]

Cool guide begleysm!
Maybe you can add it to our GitHub Wiki too?