New Features
Added target-specific bouquet filtering with whitelist and blacklist modes for Live, VOD, and Series groups.
Added an in-context bouquet editor with search, selection controls, status indicators, reset, and streaming previews.
Targets are managed by name, with saved selections available through the Source Editor.
Improved stream alias resolution and provider failover behavior.
Bug Fixes
Existing playlists are preserved when refreshes produce no usable items.
Empty playlists are no longer published.
Configuration changes now recover more safely from persistence failures.
Documentation
Updated feature and configuration documentation and added translations.
New Features
- Added first-class Stalker/Ministra portal support, including live, VOD, series, playback-link refresh, and bulk EPG ingestion.
- Added Stalker configuration and batch/CSV support in the Web UI.
- Added playlist preview and playback handling for Stalker inputs, with support for partial refreshes.
Shared HLS cache session feature and aligns the runtime, cache, provisioning, recovery, custom-response, and documentation paths with the new shared-session model.
* No template file not found error message
* Setup wizard improvmenets
* path improvements
* staged input fix
* path improvements
* Provider dns resolved ips now writing to a file instead of source.yml
* Playlist update hard kill after 1h
* matadata update tmdb fix
* Web UI fixes
* GeoIp update schedule
* batch:// prefix for aliases
**Description:**
This PR introduces a major overhaul of how streams are analyzed and connections are managed. It integrates `ffprobe` for deep stream analysis, adds a background task queue for metadata resolution to prevent UI blocking, introduces a connection priority system, and adds support for Live TV probing.
### 🚀 Key Features
* **FFprobe Integration & Live TV Probing**:
* Automatically probes streams (VOD/Series **and now Live TV**) to determine resolution, codecs (HEVC/AV1), dynamic range (HDR/DV), bit depth, and audio channels.
* **Safe Probing**: Probing strictly respects the provider's `max_connections` limit.
* Docker images now include static `ffmpeg/ffprobe` binaries.
* **Smart Connection Management (Priority System)**:
* Introduced a priority system for connections to manage provider limits intelligently.
* **Preemption**: Users with higher priority can preempt (kick) lower priority connections when provider slots are full.
* **Background Queue**: Metadata resolution and stream analysis run as background tasks (Priority 0). They only run when connection slots are idle and yield immediately if a real user needs to stream.
* **Enhanced Metadata Resolution**:
* **Fallback Logic**: If a provider is missing the TMDB ID or Release Date, the system resolves them via the TMDB API.
* **Smart Title Cleaning**: Implemented a centralized cleaner to strip common IPTV prefixes before attempting metadata matches or generating filenames, significantly improving match rates.
* **Improved Output**:
* **Quality Tags**: Filenames in STRM files now include detailed tags (e.g., `Movie - [4K HEVC HDR].strm`).
* **Flat Grouping**: `flat: true` now correctly groups multi-version movies into single folders based on TMDB ID.
* **Global Series Date**: Ensures consistent series folder naming even if episodes have different years.
New Features
Aliases can now be individually enabled or disabled to manage active sources.
Bug Fixes
Improved channel identification accuracy in XMLTV outputs.
Style
Disabled aliases display with strikethrough text for better visibility.
* New Features
Added series information display with episodes, cast, and metadata in playlist explorer
Introduced multi-cluster playlist endpoints (live, VOD, series) for flexible content retrieval
Added series info lookup and filtering capabilities
Implemented sidebar navigation for source editor with dedicated pages (Main, Options, Staged, Advanced, Alias)
Added filter state controls (All, Selected, Deselected) for playlist category management
Enabled Trakt configuration toggle to control integration
Performance Improvements
Optimized B+Tree indexing for faster queries
Reduced startup latency with disk-based operations and optional memory caching
Improved string memory handling through efficient reference-counted strings
UI Enhancements
Enhanced playlist explorer with series details and episode grouping by season
Added new UI icons (Options, Advanced, Staging, Alias, Trakt)
Improved form layouts with toolbar controls
Enhanced radio button group styling for better visual hierarchy
* New Features
Added series information display with episodes, cast, and metadata in playlist explorer
Introduced multi-cluster playlist endpoints (live, VOD, series) for flexible content retrieval
Added series info lookup and filtering capabilities
Implemented sidebar navigation for source editor with dedicated pages (Main, Options, Staged, Advanced, Alias)
Added filter state controls (All, Selected, Deselected) for playlist category management
Enabled Trakt configuration toggle to control integration
Performance Improvements
Optimized B+Tree indexing for faster queries
Reduced startup latency with disk-based operations and optional memory caching
Improved string memory handling through efficient reference-counted strings
UI Enhancements
Enhanced playlist explorer with series details and episode grouping by season
Added new UI icons (Options, Advanced, Staging, Alias, Trakt)
Improved form layouts with toolbar controls
Enhanced radio button group styling for better visual hierarchy
* New Features
Added series information display with episodes, cast, and metadata in playlist explorer
Introduced multi-cluster playlist endpoints (live, VOD, series) for flexible content retrieval
Added series info lookup and filtering capabilities
Implemented sidebar navigation for source editor with dedicated pages (Main, Options, Staged, Advanced, Alias)
Added filter state controls (All, Selected, Deselected) for playlist category management
Enabled Trakt configuration toggle to control integration
Performance Improvements
Optimized B+Tree indexing for faster queries
Reduced startup latency with disk-based operations and optional memory caching
Improved string memory handling through efficient reference-counted strings
UI Enhancements
Enhanced playlist explorer with series details and episode grouping by season
Added new UI icons (Options, Advanced, Staging, Alias, Trakt)
Improved form layouts with toolbar controls
Enhanced radio button group styling for better visual hierarchy
* New Features
Added series information display with episodes, cast, and metadata in playlist explorer
Introduced multi-cluster playlist endpoints (live, VOD, series) for flexible content retrieval
Added series info lookup and filtering capabilities
Implemented sidebar navigation for source editor with dedicated pages (Main, Options, Staged, Advanced, Alias)
Added filter state controls (All, Selected, Deselected) for playlist category management
Enabled Trakt configuration toggle to control integration
Performance Improvements
Optimized B+Tree indexing for faster queries
Reduced startup latency with disk-based operations and optional memory caching
Improved string memory handling through efficient reference-counted strings
UI Enhancements
Enhanced playlist explorer with series details and episode grouping by season
Added new UI icons (Options, Advanced, Staging, Alias, Trakt)
Improved form layouts with toolbar controls
Enhanced radio button group styling for better visual hierarchy
- Added new mapper function `pad(text | number, number, char, optional position: "<" | ">" | "^")`
- Added new mapper function `format`, it is very simple and only supports in text replacement like `format("Hello {}! Hello {}!", "Bob", "World")`
