A bug fix release. If your podcast has download tracking enabled, this release fixes a defect that could cause Apple Podcasts to stop accepting new episodes and remove previously-published ones from your show.

Podcast download tracking broke Apple Podcasts compliance

When Track Downloads was enabled on a podcast, every episode's audio link in the RSS feed pointed to a tracking URL with no file extension (...&task=cwmpodcast.track&media_id=123) and could not itself answer the "byte-range" requests Apple's crawler uses to validate a show. Apple's own publishing guide states the file extension "determines whether or not content appears in the podcast directory" — on at least one production site this caused new episodes to stop appearing in Apple Podcasts, and earlier episodes to be shown as "no longer available."

This release fixes both issues:

• Tracked episode links now carry a real file extension (e.g. .mp3), routed through a new, cosmetic-only URL path that still resolves to the exact same tracking/counting logic as before.
• The tracking link itself now correctly answers Range and HEAD requests — the way Apple Podcasts and podcast apps check that streaming/scrubbing works — instead of only working after being redirected to the real file.

No action needed beyond updating. If your podcast previously stopped appearing correctly in Apple Podcasts, allow a few days after updating for Apple to re-crawl and restore it.

Podcast owner/identity fields were scattered and one was invisible

Author, Editor Name, Editor Email, Publisher, and Copyright — all fields describing who is behind a show — were spread across three different tabs with no indication of how they relate. The Copyright field was fully wired into the database and feed since 10.5.1 but had no visible form control at all, so it could only ever fall back to the site name. All five fields now live together in the Feed Owner tab, and Copyright is editable.

Changes

What's Changed

• fix(podcast): give tracked enclosure URLs a real file extension (#1424) by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1425

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.3...v10.5.4