# Strawberry 1.2.28 — Strawberry 1.2.28

- Product: Strawberry (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/strawberry)
- Vendor: Jonas Kvinge
- Date: 2026-08-26
- Version: 1.2.28
- Original notes: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry/releases/tag/1.2.28
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/strawberry/releases/1.2.28
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

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- **fixed** — Fixed playback randomly pausing itself, caused by concurrent GStreamer state changes being applied in a different order than they were requested
- **fixed** — Fixed GStreamer errors while fingerprinting, by decoding straight through from the start and stopping once enough audio has been collected
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash on exit caused by device listers being deleted while their own threads were still running
- **fixed** — Fixed quitting through MPRIS, or asking to quit a second time, skipping the normal shutdown and leaving subsystems to be torn down while still running
- **fixed** — Fixed thread-safety issues with the audio fader that could crash or leave the volume at the wrong level when one fade replaced another
- **fixed** — Fixed a thread-safety issue with playlist items shared between the playlist model and the playlist backend
- **added** — Added sort options (ascending, descending and clear sorting) to the playlist column header context menu
- **changed** — Sorting the playlist can now be undone, and clicking an already sorted column cycles on to unsorted instead of only toggling the direction
- **changed** — Playlist changes are now written to the database by updating only the affected items instead of saving the entire playlist
- **changed** — Updating a playlist's last played time no longer rewrites the entire playlist
- **changed** — Reuse the network access manager for Subsonic requests instead of creating a new one for every request
- **added** — Added a test for smart playlist search

#### Bugfixes:
- Fixed playback randomly pausing itself, caused by concurrent GStreamer state changes being applied in a different order than they were requested (#2008)
- Fixed GStreamer errors while fingerprinting, by decoding straight through from the start and stopping once enough audio has been collected (#2284)
- Fixed a crash on exit caused by device listers being deleted while their own threads were still running
- Fixed quitting through MPRIS, or asking to quit a second time, skipping the normal shutdown and leaving subsystems to be torn down while still running
- Fixed thread-safety issues with the audio fader that could crash or leave the volume at the wrong level when one fade replaced another
- Fixed a thread-safety issue with playlist items shared between the playlist model and the playlist backend

#### Enhancements:
- Added sort options (ascending, descending and clear sorting) to the playlist column header context menu
- Sorting the playlist can now be undone, and clicking an already sorted column cycles on to unsorted instead of only toggling the direction
- Playlist changes are now written to the database by updating only the affected items instead of saving the entire playlist
- Updating a playlist's last played time no longer rewrites the entire playlist
- Reuse the network access manager for Subsonic requests instead of creating a new one for every request
- Added a test for smart playlist search

Linux AppImage, macOS and Windows release is available on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/jonaskvinge/posts/strawberry-1-2-167772415