This PR hardens the release/changelog generation pipeline so ReST ->
Markdown conversion produces stable, correctly formatted links and
inline code.
- Fix broken rendering of generated references by ensuring RST
`~`-shortened forms like ``` `:class:`~beetsplug._utils...``` are
converted into real Markdown links.
- Updates `extra/release.py` to generate clearer link text for CLI
command refs (e.g., `list-cmd` becomes 'list command') while keeping the
same documentation targets.
- Simplifies the Markdown post-processing step by removing the redundant
`MD_REPLACEMENTS` layer, reducing ad-hoc formatting logic in the release
script.
- Standardizes changelog section header structure in
`docs/changelog.rst` (and the release template) to align with
Sphinx/ReST conventions and avoid ambiguous colon-based headers.
- Strengthens CI by extending `lint-docs` in `pyproject.toml` to fail on
single-backtick inline literals in `.rst`, enforcing double-backtick
literals so `pandoc` does not emit meaningless `<span
class="title-ref">...` output that breaks Markdown rendering.
Net effect: more predictable release notes output, fewer conversion edge
cases, and earlier detection of docs formatting that would render
incorrectly downstream.
Fixes#6355
- Fix `plugins/musicbrainz` handling of very large MusicBrainz releases
by passing the missing `limit` and `includes` kwargs to
`mb_api.browse_recordings`.
Fail the docs lint task when single-backtick inline literals are used.
This is required because `pandoc` converts:
`$playlist` -> <span class="title-ref">\$playlist</span>
Where this `span` element has no meaning in markdown context, and
`$playlist` loses its formatting. On the other hand, double backticks
are converted appropriately:
``$playlist`` -> `$playlist`
Use a case-insensitive sort key when ordering Markdown changelog bullet
points to produce stable ordering regardless of capitalization.
Diff for the last release:
diff --git a/before b/after
index 51303c65f..d88eda894 100644
--- a/before
+++ b/after
@@ -4,3 +4,2 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
-- Added support for Python 3.13.
- [Convert Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/convert.html): `force` can be passed to override checks like no_convert, never_convert_lossy_files, same format, and max_bitrate
@@ -23,2 +22,3 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
- [Titlecase Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/titlecase.html): Add the [Titlecase Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/titlecase.html) plugin to allow users to resolve differences in metadata source styles.
+- Added support for Python 3.13.
@@ -26,9 +26,2 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
-- Errors in metadata plugins during autotage process will now be logged but won't crash beets anymore. If you want to raise exceptions instead, set the new configuration option `raise_on_error` to `yes` 🐛 (#5903), 🐛 (#4789).
-- Fix a bug introduced in release 2.4.0 where import from any valid import-log-file always threw a "none of the paths are importable" error.
-- Handle potential OSError when unlinking temporary files in ArtResizer. 🐛 (#5615)
-- Running <span class="title-ref">beet --config \<mypath\> config -e</span> now edits <span class="title-ref">\<mypath\></span> rather than the default config path. 🐛 (#5652)
-- Sanitize log messages by removing control characters preventing terminal rendering issues.
-- When hardlinking from a symlink (e.g. importing a symlink with hardlinking enabled), dereference the symlink then hardlink, rather than creating a new (potentially broken) symlink 🐛 (#5676)
-- When using [FromFilename Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/fromfilename.html) together with [Edit Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/edit.html), temporary tags extracted from filenames are no longer lost when discarding or cancelling an edit session during import. 🐛 (#6104)
- [Command-Line Interface](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/cli.html): Fix 'from_scratch' option for singleton imports: delete all (old) metadata when new metadata is applied. 🐛 (#3706)
@@ -44,4 +37,11 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
- [Spotify Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/spotify.html): Updated Spotify API credentials. 🐛 (#6270)
-- [Web Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/web.html): repair broken <span class="title-ref">/item/values/…</span> and <span class="title-ref">/albums/values/…</span> endpoints. Previously, due to single-quotes (ie. string literal) in the SQL query, the query eg. <span class="title-ref">GET /item/values/albumartist</span> would return the literal "albumartist" instead of a list of unique album artists.
- [update](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/cli.html#update-cmd) [Edit Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/edit.html) fix display formatting of field changes to clearly show added and removed flexible fields.
+- [Web Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/web.html): repair broken <span class="title-ref">/item/values/…</span> and <span class="title-ref">/albums/values/…</span> endpoints. Previously, due to single-quotes (ie. string literal) in the SQL query, the query eg. <span class="title-ref">GET /item/values/albumartist</span> would return the literal "albumartist" instead of a list of unique album artists.
+- Errors in metadata plugins during autotage process will now be logged but won't crash beets anymore. If you want to raise exceptions instead, set the new configuration option `raise_on_error` to `yes` 🐛 (#5903), 🐛 (#4789).
+- Fix a bug introduced in release 2.4.0 where import from any valid import-log-file always threw a "none of the paths are importable" error.
+- Handle potential OSError when unlinking temporary files in ArtResizer. 🐛 (#5615)
+- Running <span class="title-ref">beet --config \<mypath\> config -e</span> now edits <span class="title-ref">\<mypath\></span> rather than the default config path. 🐛 (#5652)
+- Sanitize log messages by removing control characters preventing terminal rendering issues.
+- When hardlinking from a symlink (e.g. importing a symlink with hardlinking enabled), dereference the symlink then hardlink, rather than creating a new (potentially broken) symlink 🐛 (#5676)
+- When using [FromFilename Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/fromfilename.html) together with [Edit Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/edit.html), temporary tags extracted from filenames are no longer lost when discarding or cancelling an edit session during import. 🐛 (#6104)
@@ -71,2 +71,4 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
+- [BPD Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/bpd.html): Raise ImportError instead of ValueError when GStreamer is unavailable, enabling `importorskip` usage in pytest setup.
+- dbcore: Allow models to declare SQL indices; add an `items.album_id` index to speed up `album.items()` queries. 🐛 (#5809)
- Finally removed gmusic plugin and all related code/docs as the Google Play Music service was shut down in 2020.
@@ -76,3 +78 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
- Updated color documentation with `bright_*` and `bg_bright_*` entries.
-- [BPD Plugin](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/bpd.html): Raise ImportError instead of ValueError when GStreamer is unavailable, enabling `importorskip` usage in pytest setup.
-- dbcore: Allow models to declare SQL indices; add an `items.album_id` index to speed up `album.items()` queries. 🐛 (#5809)
This specifically fixes v2.6.0 changelog:
diff --git a/before b/after
index dc9a2ecd2..51303c65f 100644
--- a/before
+++ b/after
@@ -51,3 +51,3 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
-- Added a reusable requests handler which can be used by plugins to make HTTP requests with built-in retry and backoff logic. It uses beets user-agent and configures timeouts. See `~beetsplug._utils.requests.RequestHandler` for documentation.
+- Added a reusable requests handler which can be used by plugins to make HTTP requests with built-in retry and backoff logic. It uses beets user-agent and configures timeouts. See [beetsplug.\_utils.requests.RequestHandler](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/generated/beetsplug._utils.requests.RequestHandler.html#beetsplug._utils.requests.RequestHandler) for documentation.
@@ -62,3 +62,3 @@ Beets now requires Python 3.10 or later since support for EOL Python 3.9 has bee
- See `~beetsplug._utils.musicbrainz.MusicBrainzAPI` for documentation.
+ See [beetsplug.\_utils.musicbrainz.MusicBrainzAPI](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/generated/beetsplug._utils.musicbrainz.MusicBrainzAPI.html#beetsplug._utils.musicbrainz.MusicBrainzAPI) for documentation.
Fixes#6347
- Fixed MusicBrainz Lucene query formatting in
`MusicBrainzAPI.format_search_term()` (lowercase + trim + escape Lucene
special chars).
- Fixed `plugins.musicbrainz:extra_tags` support by mapping `alias` and
`tracks` into MusicBrainz search fields.
- Adjusted logging to make MusicBrainz API logs visible under the shared
`beets` logger (and removed an unused per-module logger in
`beetsplug.bpd`).
Fixes#6332
- Promotes `packaging` from a release-only dependency to a required
runtime dependency by moving it into `pyproject.toml`'s main
dependencies.
- Updates `poetry.lock` to pick up patched versions of vulnerable
libraries, notably `brotli` (`1.1.0` → `1.2.0`), `urllib3` (`2.5.0` →
`2.6.3`), `werkzeug` (`3.1.3` → `3.1.5`), and `filelock` (`3.20.2` →
`3.20.3`).
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe70475e-0163-4d45-b1e4-362008669c00"
/>
Fixes#6291
I think it does not hurt if the imported_items() method returned an
empty list instead of an throwing an exception if there is nothing in
it!
When a metadata plugin raises an exception during the auto-tagger
process, the entire operation crashes. This behavior is not desirable,
since metadata lookups can legitimately fail for various reasons (e.g.,
temporary API downtime, network issues, or offline usage).
This PR introduces a safeguard by adding general exception handling
around metadata plugin calls. Instead of causing the whole process to
fail, exceptions from individual plugins are now caught and logged. This
ensures that the auto-tagger continues to function with the remaining
available metadata sources. I used a proxy pattern here as this
seems like an elegant solution to me.
This replaces the efforts from #5910
- Update the MusicBrainz integration to read the release group's
canonical `'primary-type'` field instead of the legacy `'type'` field
when deriving `info.albumtype`.
Noticed that `albumtype` was missing from the metadata when I did some
imports in my library.
