New: Startup notification when a component is known not to cooperate correctly with this version of foobar2000.

New: “Library Viewer Selection” playlist, compatible with Album List and Media Library Search.

New title formatting functions: $stripprefix(), $swapprefix(), $year(), $month(), $day_of_month(), $date(), $time().

New extensions to the search query syntax.

Album List: faster refresh when using the built-in search box.

ReplayGain scanner: applying ReplayGain to MP3 data no longer chokes on noncompliant ID3v2 tags with false MPEG sync words.

ReplayGain scanner: new services allowing third-party components to perform ReplayGain analysis.

No longer compatible with components using metadb_display_hook API.

Changed component DLL loading logic - only “components” subdirectory along with its subdirectories is processed if it exists.

Playback queue index is now displayed in the “Playing” column of Default UI / Playlist View; it can be also accessed using %queue_index%.