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The Jellyfin CDN: Mirrorbits for the masses

· 15 min read
Joshua Boniface
Project Leader

For many projects, distributing binary assets is easy: put the files on GitHub and you're done. It's not something many think about. But at Jellyfin, we needed something more robust, something able to handle our needs more elegantly than GitHub or a basic web server could. And both for those interested, and for those supporting other similar projects, I'd like to share how we do it.

Android app now on F-Droid

· One min read
Niels van Velzen
Core Team, Android Lead

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of the Android mobile app on the F-Droid store. The F-Droid version does not contain any proprietary libraries and builds are fully reproducible.

Plugin Repositories

· 6 min read
dkanada
Core Team

There have been several changes to plugins for the new release. Here's a quick post going over the biggest updates for developers and users alike.

Packaging Updates for 10.6.0

· 9 min read
Joshua Boniface
Project Leader

Packaging and building binaries for releases and testing has long been an issue for us. From fighting with duct-tape-and-coat-hanger scripts, to testing breaking changes, to massaging official releases, how we were doing things for the last year-and-a-half needed some improvements.

Luckily, today they are all completed. In this post, I'll detail the changes as well as what the entail for our users.

For a brief TL;DR: for most users of our stable releases, not much will change, and you will upgrade to 10.6.0 as you always have. For anyone using nightlies for testing, advanced setups, or who are just curious - read on!