# Mopidy-MPRIS 2.0 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-mpris-2-0-released/2922>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-mpris-2-0-released/2922 "2018-12-07T15:00:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/mopidy-mpris-2-0-released/2922/1 "2018-12-07T15:00:14Z")

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I’ve released [Mopidy-MPRIS](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-mpris) 2.0, the first major update to Mopidy-MPRIS in about 3.5 years.

Mopidy-MPRIS is a Mopidy extension that makes Mopidy controllable from other programs on the same machine through D-Bus. This makes it possible to control Mopidy from various widgets in GNOME/KDE/etc, as well as with keyboard media keys.

This release replaces the `python-dbus` D-Bus bindings with `python-pydbus` to modernize the code base and prepare it for the move to Python 3. It also wires up a lot of events so that various UI elements are immediately updated when the server state changes.

As part of the release, the [documentation](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-mpris/blob/master/README.rst) has been greatly extended, including a survey of some MPRIS clients and tips on how to run Mopidy-MPRIS on the system bus. Throughout the documentation I’ve added calls for help wherever something isn’t working perfectly and I haven’t figured the issues out yet. Even with these rough spots, this is easily the best Mopidy-MPRIS release so far.

For all the details, check out the [changelog](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-mpris/blob/v2.0.0/CHANGELOG.rst).

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Note: This is cross-posted from [my blog](https://jodal.no/2018/12/07/mopidy-mpris-2.0/).