* **New Features**
* Catch-up streams can now auto-detect whether to serve direct video or an HLS playlist.
* Added archive-aware HLS session/identity handling and improved upstream user-agent propagation for manifests.
* Enhanced M3U timeshift/archiving, including nested handling and native Flussonic archive support; Short EPG can advertise archive availability.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Provider session headers now persist across retries and deferred-open scenarios.
* Legacy HLS routing is now cache-aware; seek detection improvements.
* Stalker errors now better redact sensitive URL details.
* Fix: Preserve VOD client range requests
* **Tests**
* Expanded coverage for probing, archive/timeshift resolution, header overlay rules, and related routing.
* **New Features**
* Added **Force MPEG-TS** / `disable_hls_streaming` for Xtream live streams, rewriting live `.m3u8` requests to `.ts`.
* Added UI controls and option indicators, with localized labels in English, Arabic, and Russian.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified MPEG-TS behavior and added an Xtream example configuration.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved live-stream playback routing/extension handling and related permission-failure responses.
* Refined provider allocation and grace-period handling for more consistent connection admission.
* **New Features**
* Added configurable mapping stages for `mapping.yml`: `processing` (default) and `after_epg`.
* `after_epg` mappings now run after EPG enrichment and can react to enriched EPG fields.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Stage-aware playlist mapping: if no mappings match, the source is left unconsumed.
* Mapping directory merges now reject conflicting stages for the same mapping id and report both files clearly.
* **Documentation**
* Updated mapping DSL and target `processing_order` docs to describe stage timing and guarantees.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for stage-restricted mapping behavior, merge conflicts, and AfterEpg timing.
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.
* Fix: Copy url in frontend does not resolve provider://
* Fix: Filter editor on demand validation
* Fix: redirect to login screen if auto logout happens
