- **New Features**
- Added assertions for verifying which provider account handled the latest request.
- Enabled provider-affine playback to fall back to another available provider when the pinned provider is unavailable.
- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved provider fallback handling, origin request tracking, and session updates.
- Preserved session headers when fallback stream setup fails and refreshed them after successful fallback.
- **Tests**
- Added coverage for provider-pool failover, account reuse, limits, rejection handling, and eviction behavior.
* **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.
