* **New Features**
* Added an opt-in runtime liveness watchdog with diagnostics, health status, and optional automatic restart.
* Added configurable stream cleanup capacity and eviction re-entry protection.
* Expanded configuration and UI access for users with playlist or user permissions, with safer data sanitization.
* Added testkit scenarios and reporting for playback, admission, provider limits, sharing, and VOD behavior.
* Added support for experimental-branch Docker builds.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved provider prioritization, shared playback capacity, cleanup, reconnect handling, and concurrent client behavior.
* Fixed playlist parsing for declared media types.
* Release links now use the configured destination.
- Add Makefile to simplify installing required tools
- Add CONTRIBUTING.md welcome new contributors
- Add fmt, lint, test tasks to makefile and update CONTRIBUTING.md
- Add CI workflow
- Log with local date
- Added logic to prepare Docker tags for the master and develop branches, allowing for versioned and latest tags on master, and a dev tag on develop.
- Streamlined the image building process by using the prepared tags in the Docker build command.
- Updated caching strategy in the GitHub Actions workflow to include additional paths and keys for cargo tools, dependencies, and frontend resources.
- Modified the build script to check if resources are already built before executing the build process, improving efficiency.
- Implemented cache handling for frontend builds and cross-compilation tools to optimize build times.
- Adjusted Dockerfile to improve layer caching by copying dependency files first and creating dummy source files for pre-building dependencies.
- Introduced a new stage in the Dockerfile to select binaries based on target architecture.
- Updated the build script to copy architecture-specific binaries for multi-platform support.
- Merged master and develop build jobs into a single `docker-build` job.
- Updated steps for installing Rust and caching cargo registry.
- Introduced a new script `build_docker.sh` for building and pushing Docker images.
- Removed obsolete scripts `build_github_docker_aarch64.sh` and `build_github_docker_beta.sh`.
