New Features
Added a /ready readiness endpoint with clear initializing, exhausted, and ready states.
Improved health-banner behavior for shared provider capacity, disabled providers, aliases, and idle fallback capacity.
Bug Fixes
Improved capacity calculations with shared provider grouping, overflow-safe totals, and empty-capacity handling.
Documentation
Documented liveness, readiness, and detailed status endpoints, including Docker and orchestrator usage.
feat: complete DVR and improve streaming, security, configuration, and UI
Complete the Digital Video Recorder subsystem and add a broad set of
reliability, security, streaming, configuration, processing, and Web UI
improvements across Tuliprox.
DVR:
* complete live recording and provider-aware VOD download support
* add recording queue, workers, scheduling, and recurring recording rules
* add conflict detection and capacity-aware scheduling
* add pause, resume, retry, edit, cancel, and delete workflows
* add recording quotas and configurable retention policies
* add crash recovery and startup reconciliation
* add durable lifecycle notifications with per-channel retries
* add DVR health monitoring and diagnostic tooling
* add secure access to recordings, thumbnails, and subtitles
* add WebSocket notifications for recording and rule changes
* add Web UI management for recordings, rules, progress, and task state
* add RBAC, configuration, documentation, and i18n support
Streaming and HLS:
* fix shared-stream idle handling and release dead provider streams correctly
* stop tee streams when both client and cache consumers are gone
* cancel provisioning probes when client streams terminate
* fix transient HLS origin work accounting and intermittent 503 responses
* make stream buffer byte limits configurable
* make shared subscriber idle timeout configurable
* make initial HLS manifest wait timeout configurable
* add configurable TS chunk packet count
* add configurable HLS refresh failure backoff
* centralize redirect limits and retry jitter handling
* improve provider DNS refresh behavior and failover tuning
* preserve UTF-8 characters in catchup templates
* improve stream history validation and persistence error handling
Security:
* use constant-time credential comparisons
* harden library and media path handling against traversal and symlink escapes
* only trust forwarded client IP headers from configured trusted proxies
* redact credentials and sensitive URL data from logs
* reject invalid authentication status-code configuration
* deny users with unresolved plans or invalid content filters
* improve authentication error handling across proxy and HLS endpoints
Configuration and reliability:
* prevent invalid api-proxy.yml reloads from terminating the running server
* fully validate API proxy configuration before persisting changes
* log configuration and EPG cleanup failures instead of silently discarding them
* keep the last valid configuration active after failed hot reloads
* align backend and shared media-server validation
* remove duplicated path and normalization logic
* improve DNS-store recovery and Windows rename fallback handling
* reject invalid duration, timestamp, and numeric conversions safely
* fix playlist bouquet save error handling
* fix provider record update detection
* fix cache boundary handling
* improve startup and persistence failure diagnostics
Filtering, search, sorting, and processing:
* add field-scoped playlist explorer search
* centralize shared stream-history search field definitions
* extend the filter DSL with string, set, and numeric operators
* add EPG ID, channel number, and detected quality as filterable fields
* add filter dry-run preview API with match statistics and samples
* report filter syntax errors with line and column information
* add natural numeric-aware sorting
* add quality-aware channel deduplication
* add accent-independent deduplication
* move natural sorting and quality detection helpers into shared code
* persist explorer search-field selection across reloads
User plans and content access:
* add reusable API user plans for capability tiers
* support inherited cluster and connection limits with per-user overrides
* add plan-level and user-level content filters
* enforce content filters across Xtream, M3U, direct playback, resource access,
stream info, short EPG, categories, and XMLTV
* add trial plans with automatic expiry and Trial status
* add plan selection and content filtering to the user editor
* add full plan management to the API configuration Web UI
* migrate the API user database to schema V7 with plan and filter persistence
Web UI and accessibility:
* add live logging console to the stats page
* improve login error handling and prevent duplicate authentication requests
* add keyboard navigation to tabs, menus, tables, and search
* add ARIA roles, labels, validation state, and live-region feedback
* add confirmation dialogs for destructive actions
* add unsaved-change warnings and Ctrl/Cmd+S shortcuts
* add loading, progress, empty, and in-flight states across views
* improve dropdown and single-selection behavior
* add clipboard and credential-copy helpers
* persist table pagination and explorer search preferences
* improve error recovery when UI context providers are unavailable
* remove multiple panic-prone unwrap and browser API paths
* replace remaining hardcoded UI strings with translation keys
Maintenance:
* resolve backend and frontend compiler and Clippy warnings
* update packages and test fixtures
* consolidate duplicated helpers and validation logic
* improve documentation for configuration, filters, plans, DVR, and REST APIs
* add and update tests for migrations, filters, deduplication, sorting,
configuration, streaming, and accessibility behavior
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.
* BPlusTree refactoring / optimization
New Features
- Added streaming JSON/CBOR “try” array responses that stop at the first failure, with coalesced HTTP chunking for smoother delivery.
- Introduced B+Tree v3 persistence (with v2→v3 migration) including verified atomic updates, snapshots, compaction, and batch operations.
- Updated playlist/index streaming to use sorted-index acceleration with corruption-safe fallback.
Bug Fixes
- Corrupt/unreadable Library databases now surface repository errors instead of appearing empty.
- Playlist/lineup/EPG/Xtream/M3U streaming now propagates per-entry failures correctly (including improved counting/early-stop behavior).
Documentation
- Updated README and changelog to reflect the B+Tree v3 format and migration behavior.
* Fixed issues with probe and resolve tasks
* hls and catchup session fixes
* fixed problem with grace and shared stream
- added fix for missing episode title
* - Refactored Shared-Stream hot path from Arc<Bytes> to Bytes (leveraging internal reference counting).
- Switched Metadata Trigger deduplication from Arc<Mutex<HashSet<_>>> to Arc<DashSet<_>> to reduce lock contention.
- Eliminated expensive key cloning in the InputMetadataUpdatesCompleted handler.
- Changed active_target_inputs to HashSet<Arc<str>> to avoid per-event to_string() allocations.
- Implemented bounded Cleanup-Queue (switched from unbounded to mpsc::channel(4096)) with a dedicated overflow path (try_send + async flush) to prevent uncontrolled memory growth.
- Optimized by_provider storage by switching from Vec<(addr, alloc_id)> to HashSet<(addr, alloc_id)>, reducing removal complexity from $O(n)$ to $O(1)$ average.
- Optimized ActiveConnectionInfo data layout by reordering fields (large fields first) to minimize padding and improve cache efficiency.
* Improve shared-stream reliability and align docs
- make shared connection registration fallible with rollback on failure
- guard shared broadcaster startup behind successful subscription
- optimize shared stream/provider key maps to Arc<str>
- add Tokio macros feature for runtime and dev dependencies
- harden build_resources.sh with fail-fast ffmpeg error handling
- clarify StreamError display messages with variant context
- sync README stream/custom-response sections with current behavior
* low_priority_preempted stream
* Keep custom TS timestamps monotonic across loops
- advance timestamp offset by stream duration on buffer wrap
- avoid resetting PTS/DTS to zero each cycle
- prevents players from treating looped custom streams as ended/corrupt
* low_priority_preemption custom video stream fix
* inc_version uses now main toml file
* Fixed some coderabbit issues
* Optimized build
* timeout secs for custom video response
* init custom video timeout on mode switch
* terminate immediately when custom video buffer is missing
* add provisioning missing-custom timeout regression test
* add missing-custom termination tests for all custom modes
* fix ts continuity handling for discontinuity and adaptation-only packets
* fix ts loop duration estimation to use min/max timestamps
* harden pes timestamp patching and normalize pid cc sequence
* Resource ffmpeg creation without B-Frames and short GOPs
* Discontinuity patch for transport stream buffer
* grace hold stream is now default true
* streaming fixes
* user connection priority over all aliases
* active client stream priority preemption
* Fixed paths override in read config
* Added custom video stream timeout settings
* Scheduler fix
* 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
New Features
Background probing for Live streams with configurable interval; new input options to trigger probing and toggle background resolution.
Configuration Changes
metadata_update reorganized into grouped sections: log, resolve, probe, ffprobe, tmdb.
FFprobe controls moved under ffprobe.* and now require explicit time/size units; new live ffprobe settings.
Added metadata_update.tmdb.cooldown (default 7d) and grouped TMDB settings.
Bug Fixes
TMDB no-match cooldown to prevent endless requeues.
Documentation
README and UI help updated to reflect grouped metadata_update fields and explanations.
Fixed m3u playlist with provider_config persistence as text file
Added probe_delay input option (default 2s); stream probing renamed “Stream Probing” and now covers live, VOD and series as a low‑priority background task.
Schedule Local library scan
New Features
Scheduler now supports Local Library scans alongside playlist updates; schedules can trigger either task type.
Each schedule can specify a Type: PlaylistUpdate or LibraryScan (defaults to PlaylistUpdate).
UI
Schedule editor: new Type selector and TYPE column; Targets field shown only for PlaylistUpdate.
* Fix all markdownlint errors on README.md
* Add markdownlint to ci and makefile
* Fix all markdownlint errors on CHANGELOG.md
* Fix all markdownlint errors on CONTRIBUTING.md
* Fix all markdownlint errors on TODO.md
* Fix all markdownlint errors on docker/README.md
* Fix all markdownlint errors on docker/debug/HOWTO.md
* Fix all markdownlint errors on .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md
* Remove TODO.md
**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
- Automatic provider failover & rotation across multiple provider URLs with a provider:// scheme and capped retries
- Configurable failover redirect patterns to influence retry/failover behavior
UI
- New interface to view and edit failover redirect patterns in reverse proxy configuration
- Expanded docs covering Provider Failover & Rotation and enriched messaging templating
Reliability
- Improved URL resolution, error reporting and logging for more robust provider handling
* Fixed series sort issues
* Playlist explorer copy to clipboard functons implemented
* Epg time fix
* grace period hold stream option added.
* Fixed group and mapper normalization
* Image cache validity for browsers set to 4 hours. Responding now last modified and cache header.
* New Features
Added for_each DSL construct for iterating over playlist item fields, with split() function support.
Added "genre" as a queryable and editable playlist item field.
Bug Fixes
Improved short EPG request handling with automatic default limits.
Fixed EPG timestamp formatting to use UTC consistently.
