Another year starts, and another MusicBrainz update that brings with it small improvements and fixes a bunch of bugs! In addition to a good amount of URL handling improvements, we have found the tables of contents for our documentation which had decided to play hide and seek over the holidays.

Additionally, we have blocked submitting tags that include commas via the API. Tags with commas were never supposed to be supported (commas are generally our tag separator character), and their existence broke in-site tag handling, but the API would until now accept them without complaints. From now on they will be rejected and you will be asked to try again without the commas.

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

Thanks to helpimnotdrowning, kellnerd, Shreeshanth Shetty and SuperSaltyGamer for having contributed to the code. Thanks to chaban, helpimnotdrowning, HibiscusKazeneko, ivoireshi, jesus2099, kellnerd, SuperSaltyGamer, wileyfoxyx and yomo12 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to -alex., Besnik, KenParker_CN, NorwayFun, Philipp Wolfer, dumbbird, gaahmua, imgradeone, liilliil, salo.rock, wileyfoxyx and yyb987 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2026-01-19.0.

• [MBS-14220] – Internal server error when trying to blank a series’ disambiguation
• [MBS-14221] – Transcluded docs pages lost their TOC
• [MBS-14225] – mora.jp links are not validated and are cleaned improperly
• [MBS-14231] – API tag submission should not accept tags with commas

• [MBS-13687] – Autopopulate search box when adding recording-work relationship
• [MBS-13874] – Clean YouTube /live/<id> and /shorts/<id> to standard /watch?v=<id>
• [MBS-14211] – Add Naver Vibe to sidebar
• [MBS-14215] – Display primary alias for recordings/works on ISRC/ISWC pages
• [MBS-14232] – Update the Songkick logo used in the sidebar

• [MBS-13257] – Autoselect and clean up hoerspielforscher.de URLs
• [MBS-14224] – Add MyAnimeList to Other Database whitelist
• [MBS-14230] – Add AniList to Other Database whitelist

• [MBS-14213] – Drop handing of pomus.net links
• [MBS-14229] – Drop handling of (now closed) Jaxsta links