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3.11.2 out now

Hey Everyone, We recently released 3.11.1 to fix a few issues with the playback prioritization and missing additional available HTTP/HTTPS endpoints for the meta-player. However just as we were releasing another important issue surfaced. li

Balder Viëtor July 24, 2026

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3.11 Stable release, out now! Best practices to update

Hey everyone, MistServer 3.11 is now available! You can find a fill release log here: https://releases.mistserver.org/changelog With the release there's several exciting new features like the new webcodecs player, however how should one upd

Balder Viëtor July 13, 2026

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New MistServer.com website live!

Hey Everyone, We've finally updated our main website to something that matches modern standards and more importantly, visitors now finally have access to the blog posts we've been publishing for the last half year. So all over great news! M

Balder Viëtor July 5, 2026

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MistServer at IBC2026 (11-14 September)

Hey Everyone, If you're planning to visit IBC2026 be sure to drop by the MistServer booth, whether it's to talk projects, hang out or steal some of our chocolates you're always welcome. This year we'll be demoing some fun new additions to o

OptiMist Team June 27, 2026

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NLnet NGI0 Commons grant approved!

Hey Everyone, Exciting news for MistServer. We've send in a request for a grant from NLnet's NGI0 Commons and have been accepted. You can find the project here We'll be updating our VoD support within MistServer, which has been quite neglec

OptiMist Team June 21, 2026

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An all in one Docker image - MistServer bootstrap

Hey everyone, We've been working on this image for a while, so it's not necessarily big news. However it's still probably best to report on it sooner than later. For a while we've been thinking that while our Dockerhub images are nice, they

OptiMist Team June 7, 2026

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Sponsoring the In The Groove Eurocup 2026

Hey Everyone, Some on our team are quite fans of Arcade machines in general and especially rhythm games. A combination of a few local arcades was going to host the community driven In The Groove Eurocup event, so we figured it would be fun

Balder Viëtor May 24, 2026

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Documentation getting updated

Hey everyone, We're finally close to releasing our first documentation update. Sadly the full documentation of MistServer was slightly too big to do at once. Instead we've started updating the documentation in parts. First up is the introdu

Balder Viëtor May 16, 2026

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Webcodec player making it to 3.11

Hey everyone, We'll be adding our Webcodec player to MistServer 3.11. We're excited for this protocol as it is not build on Media Source Extensions (MSE) , but a layer deeper on WebCodecs . This allows much more control on how the media is

OptiMist Team May 9, 2026

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