# Audiobookshelf v2.34.0

- Product: Audiobookshelf (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/audiobookshelf)
- Vendor: advplyr
- Date: 2026-04-27
- Version: v2.34.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/releases/tag/v2.34.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/audiobookshelf/releases/v2.34.0

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- **added** — Japanese language and Japan as podcast search region
- **added** — Autocomplete attributes on login and setup fields for password manager support
- **fixed** — Recent episodes not updating from cache when media progress changes
- **fixed** — Error logging when a podcast's auto-download schedule has an invalid cron expression
- **changed** — Public media item shares use start time passed in query parameter for existing sessions
- **changed** — Podcast episode downloads use SSRF filtering on the HTTP request
- **changed** — Podcast create and update validate the auto-download schedule cron expression and sanitize the HTML description
- **changed** — Playlists, collections, and library item batch API routes enforce library and per-item access
- **changed** — More strings translated in Belarusian, Hungarian, and Japanese

###### Important: New authentication system was added in [v2.26.0](https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/releases/tag/v2.26.0). See https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/discussions/4460 for details.

###### Added

- Japanese language and Japan as podcast search region by @na3shkw in #5211
- Autocomplete attributes on login and setup fields for password manager support by @meek2100 in #5089

###### Fixed

- Recent episodes not updating from cache when media progress changes in #5159
- Error logging when a podcast's auto-download schedule has an invalid cron expression

###### Changed

- Public media item shares: use start time passed in query parameter for existing sessions by @pjkottke in #5163
- Podcast episode downloads use SSRF filtering on the HTTP request (matches other external requests)
- Podcast create and update validate the auto-download schedule cron expression and sanitizes the HTML description
- Playlists, collections, and library item batch API routes enforce library and per-item access
- More strings translated
  - Belarusian by @pavel-miniutka
  - Hungarian by @ugyes
  - Japanese by @na3shkw

###### Internal

- ApiCacheManager test coverage for recent-episodes cache invalidation

##### New Contributors
* @pjkottke made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/5163
* @meek2100 made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/5089
* @na3shkw made their first contribution in https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/pull/5211

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/compare/v2.33.2...v2.34.0