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docs(website): restructure the v0.23 release post around highlights
The published post was the raw release-notes scaffold: 42 feature and 76 fix bullets in area-prefixed inventory form, with the four highlight sections buried after the feature list. Rework it into the v0.22 shape: a "What changed" table, the four highlights first and expanded, themed improved/fixed sections with one-line entries, and the long tail of fixes under a Spoiler. Every PR/issue reference from the original is preserved; open text drops from 6.7k to 3.4k words. Spoiler.astro sits inside `not-prose`, so lists rendered without markers and links in body colour; give its content list, link, strong and code styling so grouped lists inside it read like the rest of the post. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<div class="mt-3 border-t border-dashed border-surface-700/60 pt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-surface-300 [&_p]:my-2">
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<div class="mt-3 border-t border-dashed border-surface-700/60 pt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-surface-300 [&_p]:my-2 [&_ul]:my-2 [&_ul]:list-disc [&_ul]:pl-5 [&_li]:my-1.5 [&_li]:marker:text-surface-600 [&_a]:text-accent-400 [&_a:hover]:underline [&_strong]:font-semibold [&_strong]:text-surface-100 [&_code]:rounded [&_code]:bg-surface-800/50 [&_code]:px-1 [&_code]:font-mono [&_code]:text-accent-300">
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<slot />
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</details>
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draft: false
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---
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import Alert from '../../components/blog/Alert.astro';
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import BlogImageSlider from '../../components/blog/BlogImageSlider.astro';
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import ChangeTable from '../../components/blog/ChangeTable.astro';
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import LinkCards from '../../components/blog/LinkCards.astro';
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import ReleaseMeta from '../../components/blog/ReleaseMeta.astro';
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import Spoiler from '../../components/blog/Spoiler.astro';
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import StatusPill from '../../components/blog/StatusPill.astro';
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v0.23 is about watching on your own terms. Movies and episodes can now leave
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the stream behind: a full download manager keeps an offline library, records
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live TV, and survives flaky providers by pausing, resuming and reconnecting on
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its own. When you do stream, the built-in players finally share one set of
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controls — quality selection, external subtitles, picture-in-picture — turned
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on by default, and a film that exists in several of your playlists offers its
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alternative sources right where playback fails. Around all of that, browsing
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got calmer: catalogs scroll endlessly instead of flipping pages, series open on
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the season you would actually continue, and Stalker portals authenticate,
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recover and explain themselves far more like real set-top boxes do.
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IPTVnator **v0.23** is out — and by change count it's the largest release the project has shipped.
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v0.23 is about watching on your own terms. Movies and episodes can now leave the stream behind: a full **download manager** keeps an offline library, records live TV, and survives flaky providers by pausing, resuming and reconnecting on its own. When you do stream, the built-in players finally share **one set of controls** — quality selection, external subtitles, picture-in-picture — turned on by default, and a film that exists in several of your playlists offers its **alternative sources** right where playback fails. Around all of that, browsing got calmer: catalogs **scroll endlessly** instead of flipping pages, series open on the season you would actually continue, and Stalker portals authenticate, recover and explain themselves far more like real set-top boxes do.
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<ReleaseMeta
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version="v0.23.0"
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channels={['Desktop', 'PWA']}
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/>
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## What changed
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<ChangeTable
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rows={[
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{
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area: 'Downloads',
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change: 'A full download manager with an offline library, pause/resume, automatic reconnects, season downloads and Live-TV recordings.',
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impact: 'Watch without a stream',
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},
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{
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area: 'Player controls',
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change: 'One control bar shared by the built-in players — quality, external subtitles, picture-in-picture — now on by default.',
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impact: 'The same controls everywhere',
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},
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{
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area: 'Alternative sources',
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change: 'A movie found in several playlists offers its other copies — mid-film, pinned, or right on the error screen.',
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impact: 'Dead streams stop being dead ends',
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},
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{
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area: 'Catalogs',
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change: 'Xtream and Stalker catalogs load continuously as you scroll. Pagination is gone from the app.',
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impact: 'Calmer browsing',
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},
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{
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area: 'Stalker portals',
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change: 'Login/password portals, endpoint discovery, MAC checks, an account info dialog and a long list of compatibility fixes.',
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impact: 'Behaves like a real set-top box',
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},
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{
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area: 'Series & dashboard',
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change: 'Series open on the season you would continue, seasons can be marked watched, metadata chips are clickable, and the dashboard recommends from your history.',
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impact: 'Fewer clicks to resume',
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},
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{
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area: 'Settings & import',
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change: 'Settings became separate pages with a save bar, playlists can be auto-detected from pasted text, and .m3u files open from the file manager.',
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impact: 'Fewer lost edits, easier setup',
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},
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]}
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/>
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<BlogImageSlider
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images={[
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{
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]}
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/>
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## Features
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<Alert type="info" title="About the screenshots">
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The screenshots and posters shown here come from the project's own mock servers with fictional catalog data. IPTVnator is a pure media player — it does not provide, host, bundle, or distribute any streams, playlists, or media content. You bring your own sources; the app just plays them.
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</Alert>
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- **dashboard** — Continue Watching cards on the dashboard now open the detail page on click, just like movie cards — no more accidental episode playback. Resuming the saved episode moved to a new ⋮ menu on each card, next to "Mark as Watched" and "Remove from history". ([#1469](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1469), closes [#1441](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1441))
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- **dashboard** — Dashboard source cards now warn when a portal subscription is about to lapse: an amber "Expires in N d" chip appears within a week of the expiry date, and an "Expired" chip once it has passed. Xtream expirations come from the same cached status check the playlist switcher uses; Stalker portals reuse the account info saved at import. ([#1342](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1342))
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- **dashboard** — The dashboard gains a "Because you watched" rail: TMDB recommendations seeded from your recently watched movies and series, showing only titles that actually exist in your imported libraries. It appears once at least five matches are found, can be turned off under Settings → Dashboard, and requires the TMDB metadata opt-in (desktop app only). ([#1419](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1419))
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- **deps** — Linux desktops with client-side decoration support now show native rounded corners on the IPTVnator window. Desktop builds now run on Electron 43. ([#1414](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1414))
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- **downloads** — The download manager got a visual cleanup: "Ready to watch" cards are compact poster cards — file actions live in the poster's ⋮ menu, and clicking any card (episodes included) opens its offline detail. Queue rows show one primary action (pause/resume/retry) with cancel and remove in the menu, and all sections share one heading style with item counts. ([#1448](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1448))
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- **downloads** — Live-TV recordings made with the Embedded MPV player now live in the download manager: an in-progress row with elapsed time and Stop, a Recordings library with channel logos and the programs captured from the EPG at recording time, a focused detail page, and Needs attention when a file goes missing. Recordings interrupted by a crash survive as playable partials. ([#1452](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1452))
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- **downloads** — Downloads can be paused and picked up later. A paused transfer keeps what it already fetched and continues from that point instead of starting over, and downloads cut short by a crash or a closed app come back as paused rather than lost. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **downloads** — Series downloads now let you queue several episodes in a row or add every available episode from the selected season. Already queued, paused, or downloaded episodes are skipped without duplicates, and the app reports the batch result. ([#1357](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1357))
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- **embedded-mpv** — Experimental Embedded MPV can draw video inside the app window instead of into a separate layer pinned on top of it, so menus, dialogs and the player controls stop being swallowed by the picture. Available on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux x64; switching it on needs a restart. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **epg** — Channels whose guide never matched can be mapped by hand: right-click a channel in any list and pick "Map EPG channel" to attach it to a channel from your uploaded XMLTV guide. The mapping is remembered and used everywhere the guide is read — M3U playlists, Xtream and Stalker portals alike. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **i18n** — IPTVnator speaks Hungarian, its 19th language — contributed by @htibcsike. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1192](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1192))
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- **m3u** — MPEG-DASH channels play in the built-in player, ClearKey-encrypted ones included — the keys are read from the playlist's #KODIPROP lines, whether they sit above or below the channel entry. Streams locked with Widevine or PlayReady still cannot be played, but they now say so instead of failing silently. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#86](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/86), closes [#614](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/614), closes [#656](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/656), closes [#733](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/733), closes [#752](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/752))
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- **playback** — The shared player controls' subtitle menu now loads external subtitle files (.srt/.vtt in the built-in web players, plus .ass in Embedded MPV), adjusts the subtitle timing offset in ±0.5 s steps, and sets the subtitle text size and color — size/color persist across sessions and are shared between engines. ([#1471](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1471), closes [#1408](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1408))
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- **playback** — The built-in web players' shared controls gain a quality menu: multi-bitrate HLS and DASH streams can be pinned to a specific rendition ("1080p", "720p", …) or left on Auto, which keeps the player's adaptive selection. The menu appears only when the stream actually offers more than one quality, and the choice lasts for the current playback session. ([#1470](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1470))
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- **playback** — An optional new set of player controls that looks and behaves the same in the HTML5, Video.js and ArtPlayer players, with picture-in-picture and, in fullscreen, the name of what you are watching. Enable it in Settings → Playback; left off, each of the three keeps its own controls exactly as before. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **playback** — The inline player on movie and series pages fills the whole content area like a theater: the video sits centered in black instead of leaving a strip of app background beside it. In the built-in web players, an optional ambient mode fills that space with a blurred, dimmed copy of the poster. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **playback** — A series playing inline on a wide window shows an "Up Next" rail beside the video: the rest of the season and the start of the next one, the current episode highlighted, watch progress on every card. Click one to jump straight to it. Built-in web players only; switch the rail off in Settings → Playback. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **playlist** — The Add playlist dialog has a new "Auto-detect" method: paste whatever your provider sent you — links, Xtream credentials, a MAC address with device IDs — and IPTVnator recognizes the source type and fills the matching import form for you to review. Detection runs entirely inside the app; nothing you paste is sent anywhere. ([#1445](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1445))
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- **playlist** — M3U entries that are movie files now open in the same movie detail view the portals use: playback starts immediately with plot, cast, rating and artwork from TMDB below the player instead of the empty program guide, and closing the player reveals the full poster page. Requires TMDB metadata to be enabled; a toggle in Settings → Metadata (TMDB) turns recognition off. ([#1420](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1420))
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- **portals** — Year, genre, and country on movie and series detail pages are now clickable (with TMDB metadata enabled): each chip opens a Discover page of popular titles for that facet, marked with what's already in your library — matches jump straight to their detail page, the rest open the portal search. Works in Xtream and Stalker, like the existing actor and director chips. ([#1453](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1453), closes [#1449](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1449))
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- **portals** — Movie and series details opened from the dashboard, global favorites, history, or a portal's favorites/recent tabs now offer a "View in portal" button below the main actions. It jumps straight to the title inside its own portal, with the matching category selected in the sidebar. ([#1422](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1422))
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- **portals** — Opening a series now lands on the season you'd actually continue: the earliest season with unwatched episodes, or the latest season once everything is watched — instead of always starting at season 1. ([#1469](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1469), closes [#1441](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1441))
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- **portals** — Series detail pages can now mark a whole season as watched (or unwatched) in one click — the new button next to "Download season" works for both Xtream and Stalker portals. Handy when you start a show mid-way: mark the earlier seasons watched and the Play button jumps straight to your next unwatched episode. ([#1447](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1447), closes [#1442](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1442))
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- **portals** — The series pages' season header now has a ⋮ menu that marks the WHOLE series as watched (or unwatched) in one click, for both Xtream and Stalker portals. On Ministra portals that load seasons lazily, the app first fetches the remaining seasons and then marks everything — so catching up on a show you started mid-way is a single action. ([#1451](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1451), closes [#1442](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1442))
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- **portals** — The movie page's Sources popup now always fits on screen — only the source list scrolls, and it flips below the button in short windows — and gains All / Available / HD+ / language filters ("Available" checks every source on first use). Expanded copies show the stream title with only what differs, availability results are remembered, and Favorites/Download became icon buttons with live progress. ([#1359](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1359))
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- **remote-control** — The mobile remote now works in live TV favorites and recently viewed — per-portal and global — for M3U, Xtream and Stalker: channel switching, number select, and now-playing status follow the on-screen list. The remote no longer shows a channel as playing after leaving the player, Stalker radio reports its status, and volume buttons grey out when an external player owns the audio. ([#1399](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1399))
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- **settings** — Settings sections are now separate pages with shareable URLs and a floating Save/Discard bar that appears only when you have unsaved changes; leaving settings with pending edits asks whether to save, discard, or keep editing. The EPG panel's "Open EPG settings" button now jumps straight to the EPG settings page. ([#1384](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1384))
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- **settings** — A new setting drops the country prefix from live channel names, turning "UK - BBC One" into "BBC One" in lists, the guide and the player. Movie and series titles are left alone, and names that only look like a prefix — "Sky - Sports F1" — stay intact. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **stalker** — Stalker portals now have an Account info dialog — subscription status, tariff plan, expiry date with a days-left counter, login, and portal details. Open it from the header playlist menu, the dashboard source card, or the command palette, same as for Xtream. If the portal is unreachable, the data saved when the portal was added is shown instead. ([#1330](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1330))
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- **stalker** — Stalker portals that ask for a login and password now work: the import dialog gained username/password fields and the app completes the portal's do_auth step. When a portal refuses access, its own explanation is shown instead of a generic error, saved sessions resume without re-authenticating, and the keep-alive ping follows the portal's cadence. ([#1354](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1354))
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- **stalker** — Stalker portals now check the MAC address as you type it and fix hyphens or lowercase for you, with a warning when it sits outside the range most portals accept. Device IDs can optionally be generated from the MAC the way StbEmu does, and a portal that already has a different device ID on file finally says so instead of reporting damaged hardware. ([#1370](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1370), closes [#927](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/927), closes [#860](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/860))
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- **stalker** — Stalker movie and series catalogs now load continuously as you scroll — portal pages append into one seamless list, tall windows fill themselves, and a failed page keeps what's loaded and offers a retry. The Live TV "all channels" grid and portal search follow the same style, and search can page past its first hundred results. Pagination is gone from the app entirely. ([#1395](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1395))
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- **stalker** — The Live TV section loads its full channel list up front: search covers every channel instead of only the page you are on, genres show how many channels they hold, and Live TV opens on a grid of all channels. Guide data for the visible rows loads in bulk, so it shows up without playing a channel first. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **stalker** — Stalker setup now accepts hosts or `/c`, discovers the working API endpoint and authentication mode, and rechecks edited connection details. Canceled or failed edits leave saved and active sessions unchanged. Completed edits reject old configuration requests and late responses. Timed-out authentication stays fenced until its transport settles. ([#1391](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1391))
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- **tmdb** — Settings → Metadata (TMDB) now shows how many entries the metadata cache holds and how much space they take, with a button to empty it. Clearing costs nothing but the next few lookups — enrichment refetches on demand. ([#1244](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1244))
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- **tmdb** — Series pages show whether a show has ended or is still returning, so you know before committing to it. Directors and creators became clickable avatar chips like the cast — they open the person's page, where directing credits now sit alongside acting ones. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **ui** — Live channel rows now stack their action buttons vertically — favorite on top, programme info below — so the extra button costs no horizontal space. The programme-info button is now also available in the Xtream and Stalker channel sidebars, and its slot stays reserved while EPG data loads, so buttons never jump. ([#1341](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1341), closes [#1128](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1128))
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- **ui** — On phone-sized screens the categories and filters panel no longer sits stacked above the content — it is now a slide-in drawer, opened from a new button in the header and closed by picking an entry, tapping outside it, or pressing Escape. The content gets the whole screen while browsing. ([#1332](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1332), closes [#1100](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1100))
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- **xtream** — Catch-up is available from Favorites and Recent, not just Live TV, so an archived programme is reachable wherever the channel is. The programme currently on air can also be restarted from the beginning. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1138](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1138))
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- **xtream** — Live channels with provider catch-up now show a small archive badge — in the channel sidebar next to the channel name, on the "all channels" grid cards, and in the favorites and recently-viewed lists (including global favorites). Hovering it shows the catch-up window in days. ([#1341](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1341), closes [#1128](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1128))
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- **xtream** — Continue Watching resumes a series where you left it: opening one from the dashboard starts the exact episode at its saved position, and the series page offers "Play episode N" instead of always starting at the first one. Episodes launched in MPV or VLC count towards this too. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
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- **xtream** — The movie sources popover now recognizes more language tags: prefixes with Unicode pipes, brackets or dashes ("EN │ …", "[EN] …", "EN - …"), Cyrillic tags ("РУС | …") and MULTI. It also reads the language off category names ("EN | Netflix"), and a tag welded to a title ("EN|Movie") no longer hides that copy from the other playlists' copies of the same movie. ([#1417](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1417))
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## Download manager with offline library
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### Download manager with offline library
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<StatusPill type="new" />
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Downloads now separate active transfers from a grouped offline library, move missing files to Needs attention with Download again, and open movies and series in focused offline details with saved metadata. Series show only local episodes; View in portal returns to provider playback when the source can be recovered. Completed-file checks stay responsive on slow or unavailable storage. ([#1313](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1313))
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The download manager grew from a queue into a proper **offline library**. Active transfers sit at the top; everything already fetched is grouped below into compact poster cards — movies, series with their episodes, and now Live-TV recordings. A card opens a focused offline detail with the metadata saved at download time; play, show-in-folder and remove live in the poster's ⋮ menu. A file that goes missing moves to *Needs attention* with a one-click *Download again*, and *View in portal* jumps back to provider playback whenever the source can still be reached.
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### New player controls by default
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Transfers are far more resilient too:
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The new player controls are now the default for the built-in web players — one consistent bar with quality selection, external subtitles, subtitle delay and styling, speed, and picture-in-picture. They are touch-friendly too: tapping the video shows or hides the controls instead of pausing, and narrow players get a two-row layout. Prefer the old look? Switch back in Settings > Playback. ([#1485](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1485), closes [#1408](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1408))
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- **Pause and resume.** A paused download continues from where it stopped, and downloads cut short by a crash or a closed app come back paused rather than lost.
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- **Automatic reconnects.** Providers that drop long connections used to kill downloads with a bare "aborted". The app now reconnects and continues — even on servers that send no ETag or Last-Modified, by verifying a 256 KiB overlap against the saved partial first. Xtream downloads also carry the playlist's User-Agent and Referer, so providers that check them no longer refuse the file.
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- **Season downloads.** Queue several episodes at once or every available episode of a season; anything already queued, paused or downloaded is skipped.
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- **Live-TV recordings** made with the Embedded MPV player appear as an in-progress row with a Stop button, then land in a Recordings library with channel logos and the programmes captured from the EPG at recording time. A recording interrupted by a crash survives as a playable partial.
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### Alternative sources for movies
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Desktop only. Tracked across [#1313](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1313), [#1448](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1448), [#1452](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1452), [#1357](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1357), [#1446](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1446) and [#1329](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1329), closing [#897](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/897) and [#1289](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1289).
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Movies that exist in several of your playlists now show a "Sources" chip on the detail page. Switch playlist mid-film and playback continues from the same timecode, pin a preferred source per movie, and when a stream dies the error screen offers the alternatives instead of a dead end. Optional auto-switching is off by default. ([#1286](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1286))
|
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## New player controls by default
|
||||
|
||||
### Catalogs scroll without pages
|
||||
<StatusPill type="new" />
|
||||
|
||||
Xtream movie, series, and live catalogs now load continuously as you scroll instead of flipping through pages — more items appear automatically as you near the bottom, and taller windows fill themselves on open. Opening a title and going back returns you to the exact spot in the list. In-category search and the in-portal search results follow the same continuous style. ([#1392](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1392))
|
||||
The HTML5, Video.js and ArtPlayer players now share **one control bar** that looks and behaves the same in all three — and it is on by default:
|
||||
|
||||
## Fixes
|
||||
- **Quality menu.** Pin multi-bitrate HLS and DASH streams to a rendition ("1080p", "720p", …) or leave them on *Auto*. It appears only when the stream offers more than one quality.
|
||||
- **Subtitles, properly.** Load external `.srt`/`.vtt` files (`.ass` too in Embedded MPV), nudge the timing in ±0.5 s steps, and set the text size and colour, which persist across sessions and engines.
|
||||
- **Picture-in-picture**, playback speed, and — in fullscreen — the name of what you are watching.
|
||||
- **Touch-friendly.** Tapping the video shows or hides the controls instead of pausing, and narrow players reflow into two rows.
|
||||
|
||||
- **backup** — Backups carry hidden Xtream categories correctly. An export used to lose which categories you had hidden, and restoring such a backup then hid every category of that kind. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1017](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1017))
|
||||
- **components** — Confirmation dialogs are wider by default, so their action buttons sit side by side instead of wrapping into a vertical stack with longer translated labels. ([#1448](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1448))
|
||||
- **dashboard** — The dashboard hero now shows the same backdrop as the detail page. Stalker movies and series reuse the artwork saved when you opened them, and the metadata lookup behind the hero uses the release year and original title instead of the bare title — so titles TMDB knows more than once ("Холод") no longer come up empty. ([#1362](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1362))
|
||||
- **dashboard** — Movies and series you have opened before now show their artwork, rating and genres on the dashboard far more reliably, and seed the recommendations rail. Previously the dashboard searched TMDB by title alone, so common titles like "Inside Out" matched nothing — it now reuses what the detail page already found. ([#1423](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1423))
|
||||
- **dashboard** — Trending cards, the "Similar" rail and actor filmographies no longer show a title as missing from your library when your playlists hold several versions of it. A catalog with both "Dune 1984" and "Dune 2021" used to keep whichever came first, so the other one lost its link even though you had it. ([#1425](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1425))
|
||||
- **database** — SQLite diagnostics now record only statement types, preventing playlist credentials and other private values from appearing in trace logs. ([#1315](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1315))
|
||||
- **deps** — Database workers now use updated SQLite bindings that avoid a crash during worker shutdown. ([#1415](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1415))
|
||||
- **downloads** — Downloads from portals that cut long connections no longer die with "aborted": the app now reconnects automatically and continues from where the transfer stopped. Resume also works on servers that send no ETag/Last-Modified — the app re-checks a 256 KiB overlap against the saved partial before appending, and only gives up after repeated reconnects make no progress. ([#1446](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1446))
|
||||
- **downloads** — Xtream movie and episode downloads now keep their provider-compatible identity from the first request through legacy retries after source removal. Recoverable connection drops retain validated partials and show a credential-safe code; Retry resumes only with ETag or Last-Modified, otherwise it safely restarts. ([#1329](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1329), closes [#897](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/897), closes [#1289](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1289))
|
||||
- **electron-backend** — Cancelling a large Xtream import now stops database work even while it is running at full speed, instead of letting the import finish before processing the cancel request. ([#1295](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1295))
|
||||
- **electron** — The desktop remote-control server now blocks crafted static paths from escaping bundled web files on Windows. ([#1267](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1267))
|
||||
- **embedded-mpv** — Opening the volume, audio, subtitle, speed or aspect menu in the Embedded MPV player no longer makes the video jump or leave a black bar above the controls: the menus now unfold inside the control bar instead of floating over the video. ([#1339](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1339), closes [#1139](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1139))
|
||||
- **embedded-mpv** — On Windows and Linux displays scaled above 100%, the Embedded MPV video was drawn toward the top-left corner at a fraction of its size, in windowed and fullscreen mode alike. The video now fills the player area correctly at any display scale and page zoom, with no need for a high-DPI compatibility workaround. ([#1339](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1339), closes [#1139](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1139), closes [#1145](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1145))
|
||||
- **epg** — A database error while looking up manual EPG channel mappings no longer breaks the request that triggered it. Searching for a channel in the "Map EPG channel" dialog, or saving and removing a mapping, now degrades gracefully instead of failing outright. ([#1291](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1291))
|
||||
- **epg** — A database error while reading or saving a manual EPG channel mapping no longer surfaces as a failed request. Looking up, saving, deleting, and searching mappings now fall back quietly, so a transient storage hiccup can no longer take down the EPG panel or the "Map EPG channel" dialog. ([#1279](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1279))
|
||||
- **favorites** — Favorites stop losing changes. The custom drag-and-drop order of an Xtream playlist's own favorites is saved again, and two favorites or history entries added at almost the same moment no longer quietly overwrite each other. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1137](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1137))
|
||||
- **i18n** — Translations across the app are clearer and more consistent in supported languages. ([#1390](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1390))
|
||||
- **m3u** — When a channel plays in MPV, VLC or the embedded MPV player, the custom User-Agent, Referer and Origin saved on the M3U playlist now reach the player. Per-channel `#EXTVLCOPT` headers still win; the playlist values only fill the gaps. VLC now also sends the Origin value as a real HTTP header, as MPV already did. ([#1397](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1397), closes [#1221](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1221))
|
||||
- **m3u** — Playlists with very long stream URLs — Pluto TV style lists that carry a session token in every link — import in full again instead of collapsing into a single channel. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1189](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1189))
|
||||
- **matching** — Movies whose name is a short abbreviation — AKA, RRR, IO, VFW, Y2K — are no longer mistaken for a language tag and filed under their release year alone. They now match their own copies in your other playlists, so alternative sources, recommendations and pinned sources land on the right film instead of an unrelated one that happens to share that year. ([#1426](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1426))
|
||||
- **packaging** — Snap packages now launch correctly with the desktop runtime scripts required by their generated startup command. ([#1406](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1406))
|
||||
- **playback** — Unavailable streams no longer appear as unsupported codecs. When Video.js exposes a server error such as HTTP 404, the player shows that status; otherwise ambiguous source errors remain unidentified instead of guessing. ([#1314](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1314), closes [#1159](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1159))
|
||||
- **playback** — The embedded MPV video no longer drifts out of its frame when the layout shifts around it — for example when the channel sidebar or the EPG panel finishes loading after playback has started. The player now notices such moves and snaps the video back into place within half a second. ([#1476](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1476), closes [#1428](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1428))
|
||||
- **playback** — MPV and VLC recovery actions now stay available, show precise opening, started, playing, and failure feedback, and prevent overlapping launches. The dock keeps Stop available when teardown is still needed and lets terminal errors be dismissed. ([#1388](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1388))
|
||||
- **playback** — The screen no longer dims or goes to sleep while a built-in player is playing video — including on Linux desktops, where the system idle timer used to ignore the app. Pausing or stopping hands control back to the system immediately, and radio playback deliberately leaves the display free to sleep. Works in both the desktop app and the PWA. ([#1405](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1405), closes [#1095](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1095))
|
||||
- **playback** — Playback keyboard shortcuts now work with the default player setup: Space/K (play/pause), F (fullscreen), ←/→ (seek 5s in VOD), ↑/↓ (volume), and M (mute) act on the built-in HTML5, Video.js, and ArtPlayer players without turning on shared player controls — matching what the in-app shortcut list already promised. ([#1398](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1398))
|
||||
- **playback** — Switching the video player — from the command palette or the settings page — now takes effect immediately on an already-playing Xtream or Stalker stream instead of waiting for the player to be reopened. Playback also starts with the saved player right away, without briefly mounting the default engine first. ([#1437](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1437))
|
||||
- **playback** — MPEG-TS playback is now more reliable on newer Safari versions when streams contain audio timestamp gaps. ([#1412](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1412))
|
||||
- **playback** — External MPV and the embedded MPV frame-copy engine no longer truncate HTTP headers that contain commas — most notably the Stalker MAG user agent. Strict portals validated that header and rejected live streams with HTTP 400, so channels that only worked in VLC now also play through MPV. Completes the same fix that landed for the native embedded MPV view. ([#1323](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1323), closes [#910](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/910))
|
||||
- **playback** — When playback fails, IPTVnator now ranks useful next steps from the reported error, including another compatible built-in player, MPV/VLC, Retry, or another source. Trying a built-in recommendation affects only the current item and does not change the saved player setting. ([#1374](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1374), closes [#1159](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1159))
|
||||
- **playback** — Playback recovery now removes old error actions as soon as a new source or player starts, even while Electron prepares stream headers. Stalker series playing inline now picks up refreshed episode names and navigation, and safely disables episode commands if the playing episode disappears. ([#1374](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1374))
|
||||
- **playback** — DASH playback now resets a failed media buffer before switching variants, avoiding repeated append failures and crashes on affected platforms. ([#1411](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1411))
|
||||
- **playback** — Playback recovery no longer crosses into a different selected channel, movie, or exact Stalker episode. Switching content while a stream resolves no longer restores stale playback or shows an error from the previous selection. ([#1374](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1374), closes [#1159](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1159))
|
||||
- **playback** — Stalker streams that require the portal session now play in the built-in players (HTML5, Video.js, ArtPlayer), not only in VLC/MPV: the player's requests carry the portal cookie and token, scoped to that stream and dropped when the player closes or the channel changes. VOD, series and radio get the same headers live TV had — also from Favorites and Recently Viewed. ([#1335](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1335), closes [#849](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/849), closes [#910](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/910), closes [#732](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/732))
|
||||
- **playback** — HLS failures now use confirmed player evidence such as the failed stage, timeout, and HTTP status. Recoverable retries stay silent, and technical details no longer include raw provider error payloads. ([#1316](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1316))
|
||||
- **playback** — MPEG-TS playback errors now show exact engine evidence, including HTTP status, without exposing provider response details. Format, codec, truncated-stream, and MediaSource failures now produce more accurate fallback guidance. ([#1327](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1327), closes [#1159](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1159))
|
||||
- **playback** — Shaka playback errors now use exact engine evidence, including subtitle parsing, preserve external-player fallback when browser prerequisites are missing, keep recoverable retries non-terminal, and omit provider URLs, credentials, and response data from technical details. ([#1318](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1318))
|
||||
- **playback** — The default web player now reports safer, more accurate streaming errors: confirmed network and encrypted-segment failures keep structured details, while ambiguous Video.js errors remain unknown instead of suggesting the wrong cause. ([#1317](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1317))
|
||||
- **playback** — The "Show subtitles" setting now works in the built-in players: turning it off hides subtitles a stream switched on by itself, and the preference finally applies on Xtream and Stalker pages too. Previously it only reached the M3U player, and even there Video.js and ArtPlayer ignored it. The player's own subtitle menu still overrides the setting for the current stream. ([#1269](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1269), closes [#1155](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1155))
|
||||
- **playback** — Video.js now shows its own control bar (play/pause, seek, volume, quality, fullscreen) on Live TV channels. Previously live streams played with no visible controls at all, because switching to a live source rebuilt the video element and the controls never came back. ([#1385](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1385))
|
||||
- **playlist** — Opening an .m3u/.m3u8 file from the command line or by double-clicking it now actually imports the playlist — previously nothing happened at all. Opening a playlist while IPTVnator is already running works too, and on macOS the file arrives through the system "open with" event. ([#1299](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1299))
|
||||
- **playlist** — IPTVnator now registers itself with the operating system as a handler for .m3u and .m3u8 files, so Finder, Explorer and Linux file managers offer it in "Open with" and a double-click actually opens the playlist. Installing or updating the app is enough — no manual file-type setup. ([#1301](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1301))
|
||||
- **playlists** — One unreachable playlist no longer holds up the rest. Refreshes give up after 30 seconds and run a few at a time, so your other playlists still update, and the message on startup names how many actually failed instead of always claiming success. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#931](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/931))
|
||||
- **portals** — Importing an Xtream backup now restores all preferred VOD sources together. If restoration or cleanup fails, the catalog stays retryable and remains blocked until the parked state is safely consumed, preventing stale replay from overwriting newer choices. ([#1311](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1311))
|
||||
- **portals** — Greek titles now match no matter which sigma the provider typed. A word-final `ς` and a medial `σ` at the end of a word are treated as the same letter, so finding a film in your other playlists, the "Similar" rail, actor filmographies and TMDB enrichment no longer miss a Greek movie purely because two catalogues spelled its last letter differently. ([#1310](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1310))
|
||||
- **portals** — In the self-hosted web version, a provider that accepted a connection and then went silent could hang a request until the operating system gave up, with no way to cancel it. Requests now time out on the same schedule as the desktop app, and a host that fails to answer twice is skipped for a short while instead of stalling every following request. ([#1424](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1424))
|
||||
- **portals** — Going back from a Stalker title you reached with "View in portal" now returns you to exactly where you were — the same favorites or history tab, with the title still open — instead of dropping you on the Live TV tab. ([#1435](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1435))
|
||||
- **portals** — Refreshing an Xtream source keeps your favorites, watch history, hidden categories and playback positions. Starting the same refresh twice at once — from the header and from the sources page — used to wipe them, because the second run saved an already-emptied catalog over the first run's copy. ([#1431](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1431))
|
||||
- **pwa** — The self-hosted web backend now gives each provider connection attempt enough time to fall back from an unreachable IPv6 route to working IPv4 — common behind VPN containers like Gluetun — instead of failing with a bare "Bad Gateway". Provider errors now name the underlying network code (for example ETIMEDOUT) in the app and in the container logs. ([#1404](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1404), closes [#1400](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1400))
|
||||
- **pwa** — Self-hosted web backends started without `CLIENT_URL` now allow the documented `http://localhost:4333` origin instead of the retired public demo URL, so a manual (non-Docker) deployment no longer fails every provider request with a CORS error. ([cb37f62](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/commit/cb37f628ed9d63673d365923828ce7a793192459))
|
||||
- **pwa** — The self-hosted web app now talks to Stalker portals exactly like the desktop app: MAG User-Agent, full STB cookie, serial-number header, and the `JsHttpRequest` marker every real client sends — so portals that worked only in the desktop app now work in the PWA too. Portal credentials (MAC and session token) no longer travel in the portal request URL, keeping them out of server logs. ([#1348](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1348))
|
||||
- **search** — The search box no longer loses what you are typing when the page updates its address at the same moment — switching a downloads filter and immediately typing used to wipe the term, and fast typing could snap back to an earlier word. ([#1432](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1432))
|
||||
- **search** — Searching for names that carry punctuation inside them — "A&E", "X-Men", "L'Equipe" — finds them anywhere in a title, including channels the provider prefixes, like "US: A&E". ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1161](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1161))
|
||||
- **search** — Typing a space in the portal search box and pausing briefly no longer deletes the space — continuing to type "Bein Sports" no longer collapses into "BeinSports". ([#1474](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1474), closes [#1338](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1338))
|
||||
- **settings** — Launching IPTVnator a second time now brings the running window to the front instead of starting a rival copy that could not save anything — a common reason settings appeared to reset on restart. If saving or loading settings does fail, the app now says so instead of silently showing defaults. ([#1272](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1272), closes [#1156](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1156), closes [#102](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/102))
|
||||
- **settings** — Unsaved settings edits no longer vanish silently when you close the window, quit the app, or reload the page. The desktop app now asks whether to save, discard, or keep editing — the same dialog in-app navigation shows — and only closes once your choice is applied; a failed save keeps the window open. In the browser, the native leave-page warning appears instead. ([#1394](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1394))
|
||||
- **stalker** — A Stalker portal is no longer re-probed and reclassified because something in front of it — a proxy or firewall, not the portal — answered with a short "Access denied" page. Only the portal's own authorization replies count now. ([#1358](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1358))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker portals now receive channel commands exactly as a real set-top box sends them: already-encoded parts of a channel's `cmd` are no longer double-encoded, so strict portals and reseller panels that compare the command literally work again. Playing Stalker channels from Favorites or global collections now also handles portals that answer with relative stream paths. ([#1334](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1334))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Series opened from Favorites, Recent or the dashboard show their current episodes. One saved back when a single episode existed used to keep showing that one episode forever; the list is refreshed from the portal in the background instead. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker portals are no longer classified by their URL shape: importing probes the real API endpoint (`portal.php` vs `server/load.php`) and checks whether the portal actually requires authentication. Canonical Ministra URLs finally load content, `…/c` addresses resolve correctly, and misclassified existing portals repair themselves on first failure — keeping favorites and history. ([#1344](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1344), closes [#850](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/850), closes [#686](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/686), closes [#755](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/755))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker Live TV now shows the currently airing programme even on portals whose bulk EPG only lists upcoming shows: channel rows fall back to a per-channel short-EPG lookup, and the EPG panel merges "what's on now" into the schedule instead of showing future programmes only. ([#1386](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1386))
|
||||
- **playback** — Stalker live TV plays again in the embedded MPV player. The MAG250 user agent contains a comma (`KHTML, like Gecko`), which MPV splits in its comma-separated `--http-header-fields` list, truncating `X-User-Agent` so strict portals reject the stream with HTTP 400. Commas and backslashes in header values are now escaped on the Windows/Linux and macOS embedded-MPV paths. ([#1321](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1321))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker portals whose server redirects to https or to another port no longer lose their session mid-request. Since 0.22 such redirects silently dropped the portal's MAC cookie and auth token, so categories failed to load and streams never reached any player. Downgrade redirects from https to plain http still strip credentials, so a secure session is never sent in cleartext. ([#1322](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1322), closes [#1158](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1158))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker VOD series now report progress correctly when portals return boolean series flags, keep episode progress separate between shows, and resume positions saved by earlier versions. ([#1315](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1315))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Stalker channels that the portal serves directly now start without an extra link request to the portal, so they open faster and no longer fail when that request does. Channels the portal does proxy still get their temporary link, and radio stations the portal proxies now get one too instead of playing a URL the portal never meant to serve. ([#1364](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1364))
|
||||
- **tmdb** — Movies whose provider ships a dead or wrong TMDB id are enriched again. The id is weighed against the title and release year: a dead one falls back to the title search, a stale one that clearly points at another film loses to it, and a working id is no longer thrown away just because the provider spells the title differently. ([#1239](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1239))
|
||||
- **tmdb** — Series detail pages now list the cast of the whole show instead of only its newest season, so actors who left partway through stop disappearing from long-running shows — while people who joined for the current season still show up. ([#1242](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1242))
|
||||
- **tmdb** — Titles that providers dress up with language or quality tags — "|ALB| Fallout", "4K-DE - The Pitt (2025)", "Breaking Bad-eng" — now match against TMDB, so they get artwork, plot and cast like the rest of the catalog. Shows split into one entry per season also pull the season that entry really contains. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
|
||||
- **ui** — IPTVnator is usable on a phone again. The navigation bar no longer sits off screen, category and channel lists take the full width instead of squeezing the content into a sliver, the video keeps a usable share of the screen, and the M3U channel list can be reopened after hiding it. ([#1326](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1326), closes [#1100](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1100))
|
||||
- **ui** — Narrow EPG channel rows now keep the current programme, progress, and enabled channel actions visible instead of dropping useful context. ([#1312](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1312))
|
||||
- **window-controls** — On Windows, the minimize, maximize and close buttons disappeared for good after leaving fullscreen video playback — the only way to get them back was to restart the app. They now reappear as soon as you exit fullscreen, and the maximize button no longer gets stuck on the wrong icon afterwards. ([#1178](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1178))
|
||||
- **workspace** — The playlist dropdown in the header shows a "Playlist info" entry for the active playlist again, next to "Account info" and "Add playlist" — it had disappeared when playlist actions moved into the per-row menu. ([#1328](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1328))
|
||||
- **workspace** — The playlist sync overlay no longer shows a bare "Syncing playlist" card when an Xtream playlist is loaded from the local library. Reading the saved catalog from this device now reports its own phase, so the overlay always shows a source badge and explains what is happening — remote fetch or local read. ([#1345](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1345))
|
||||
- **xtream** — Portals sitting behind Cloudflare or a similar firewall connect again. Those setups answered the app with a challenge page instead of data, so "Test connection" failed on portals that worked fine in every other player; requests now identify themselves the way an ordinary IPTV player does. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
|
||||
- **xtream** — Series pages no longer show a raw image link under the season tabs when the provider fills the season description with a cover URL. URL-only descriptions are dropped, and with TMDB metadata enabled the missing season description is filled from TMDB instead. ([#1382](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1382))
|
||||
- **xtream** — Xtream movies remain playable when a portal omits extended VOD metadata, using catalog stream details to build the playback URL. ([#1303](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1303))
|
||||
Prefer the old look? Switch back under **Settings → Playback**; each player then keeps its own controls exactly as before. Embedded MPV and external MPV/VLC are unaffected.
|
||||
|
||||
Around the inline player on movie and series pages, the video now fills the whole content area like a **theater** — centred on black, with an optional *ambient mode* that fills the leftover with a blurred copy of the poster — and a series playing on a wide window shows an **Up Next rail** with the rest of the season and watch progress on every card. Both are for the built-in web players and can be switched off under Settings → Playback.
|
||||
|
||||
Shipped in [#1485](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1485) (closing [#1408](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1408)), [#1470](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1470), [#1471](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1471) and [#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263).
|
||||
|
||||
## Alternative sources for movies
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="new" />
|
||||
|
||||
If the same film sits in more than one of your Xtream playlists, its detail page now shows a **Sources** chip. Open it to see every copy the app found, switch playlist mid-film and keep the timecode, or pin a preferred source so *Play* always starts from it. When a stream dies, the error screen offers the alternatives instead of a dead end, and an optional **auto-switch** (off by default) can jump to the next working copy on its own.
|
||||
|
||||
The popover always fits on screen, gets *All / Available / HD+ / language* filters — *Available* checks every source once and remembers the result — and reads language tags in the forms providers actually use ("EN │ …", "[EN] …", "РУС | …", MULTI, or category names like "EN | Netflix"). Short titles such as *AKA* or *RRR* are no longer mistaken for a tag.
|
||||
|
||||
Desktop only, Xtream movies for now. Shipped in [#1286](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1286), refined in [#1359](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1359), [#1417](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1417) and [#1426](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1426).
|
||||
|
||||
## Catalogs scroll without pages
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="new" />
|
||||
|
||||
Pagination is gone from the app entirely. Xtream movie, series and live catalogs load more items as you approach the bottom, taller windows fill themselves on open, and opening a title and going back returns you to the exact spot in the list. In-category search and the in-portal search results follow the same continuous style.
|
||||
|
||||
Stalker catalogs do the same on top of the portal's own paging: pages append into one seamless list, a failed page keeps what is loaded and offers a retry, and portal search can finally page past its first hundred results. The Live TV "all channels" grid follows suit.
|
||||
|
||||
Shipped in [#1392](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1392) and [#1395](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1395).
|
||||
|
||||
## Movies, series and the dashboard
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- **Series open on the season you would actually continue** — the earliest with unwatched episodes, or the latest once everything is watched — and Continue Watching resumes the exact episode at its saved position, MPV/VLC launches included ([#1469](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1469), [#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1441](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1441)).
|
||||
- **Mark a season watched** with the button next to *Download season*, or the whole series from the ⋮ menu in the season header; Ministra portals fetch the remaining seasons first ([#1447](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1447), [#1451](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1451), closes [#1442](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1442)).
|
||||
- **Year, genre and country chips are clickable** with TMDB on: each opens a Discover page of popular titles for that facet, marked with what is already in your library ([#1453](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1453), closes [#1449](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1449)).
|
||||
- **"View in portal"** on details opened from the dashboard, global collections or a portal's favorites/recent tabs jumps to the title inside its own portal ([#1422](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1422)).
|
||||
- **M3U movie files open in the same detail view** the portals use, with plot, cast, rating and artwork from TMDB below the player ([#1420](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1420)).
|
||||
- Series show whether they have **ended or are still returning**, directors and creators are clickable chips, and the cast covers the whole show rather than only its newest season ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), [#1242](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1242)).
|
||||
- **More titles get metadata**: names with language or quality tags — "|ALB| Fallout", "4K-DE - The Pitt (2025)" — now match TMDB, and a provider's dead or wrong TMDB id is weighed against the title and year instead of trusted blindly ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), [#1239](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1239)).
|
||||
- **Dashboard.** Continue Watching cards open the detail page on click; resume, *Mark as Watched* and *Remove from history* moved to a ⋮ menu ([#1469](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1469)). A *Because you watched* rail recommends titles from your history that exist in your libraries (desktop, TMDB required — [#1419](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1419)), and source cards warn a week before a portal subscription expires ([#1342](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1342)).
|
||||
- Settings → Metadata (TMDB) shows the cache size with a button to empty it ([#1244](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1244)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Xtream
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- **Portals behind Cloudflare or a similar firewall connect again** — requests now identify themselves the way an ordinary IPTV player does, so "Test connection" no longer gets a challenge page ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
- **Refreshing a source keeps your favorites, history, hidden categories and playback positions**; starting the same refresh twice used to wipe them ([#1431](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1431)).
|
||||
- **Catch-up from Favorites and Recent**, the current programme can be restarted from the beginning, and channels with catch-up show an archive badge everywhere they appear ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), [#1341](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1341), closes [#1138](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1138) and [#1128](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1128)).
|
||||
- Movies stay playable when the portal omits extended VOD metadata ([#1303](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1303)), and a season "description" that is just a cover URL is dropped or filled from TMDB ([#1382](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1382)).
|
||||
- Backups carry hidden categories correctly ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1017](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1017)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Stalker portals
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
The biggest under-the-hood effort of this release. IPTVnator now treats a Stalker/Ministra portal the way a real MAG box does — from the first probe to the last stream header — and a long tail of "works in every other player" reports is closed as a result.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Portals that ask for a login and password work.** The import dialog gained username/password fields and completes the portal's `do_auth` step; a refusal shows the portal's own explanation, saved sessions resume without re-authenticating, and the keep-alive ping follows the portal's cadence ([#1354](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1354)).
|
||||
- **Setup discovers the real endpoint** instead of guessing from the URL: paste a bare host or a `/c` address and the app probes `portal.php` versus `server/load.php` and checks whether authentication is required. Canonical Ministra URLs finally load content, misclassified portals repair themselves on their first failure, and edited connection details are rechecked before they are saved ([#1344](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1344), [#1391](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1391), closes [#850](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/850), [#686](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/686) and [#755](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/755)).
|
||||
- **MAC address help.** Hyphens and lowercase are fixed as you type, device IDs can be derived from the MAC the way StbEmu does, and a portal that has a different device ID on file now says so instead of reporting "damaged hardware" ([#1370](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1370), closes [#927](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/927) and [#860](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/860)).
|
||||
- **Account info dialog** — subscription status, tariff, expiry with a days-left counter — from the playlist menu, the source card or the command palette ([#1330](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1330)).
|
||||
- **Live TV loads the full channel list up front**: search covers every channel, genres show counts, Live TV opens on a grid of all channels, and the currently airing programme shows even where the bulk EPG lists only upcoming shows ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), [#1386](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1386)).
|
||||
- **Sessions survive redirects** to https or another port, which since 0.22 silently dropped the MAC cookie and token so nothing loaded ([#1322](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1322), closes [#1158](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1158)).
|
||||
- **Streams that need the portal session play in the built-in players** — not only VLC and MPV — for live TV, VOD, series and radio, and MPV no longer truncates the MAG user agent at its comma, so strict portals that answered HTTP 400 accept the stream ([#1335](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1335), [#1321](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1321), [#1323](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1323), closes [#849](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/849), [#910](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/910) and [#732](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/732)).
|
||||
- **Commands are sent exactly as a set-top box sends them**: no double-encoded `cmd`, directly served channels start without an extra link request, and a proxy's "Access denied" page no longer gets a portal reclassified ([#1334](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1334), [#1364](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1364), [#1358](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1358)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Live TV, EPG and M3U
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- **Map EPG channels by hand.** Right-click a channel in any list, pick *Map EPG channel* and attach it to a channel from your XMLTV guide; the mapping is used everywhere the guide is read ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
- **MPEG-DASH channels play in the built-in player**, ClearKey-encrypted ones included via the playlist's `#KODIPROP` lines. Widevine and PlayReady still cannot play, but now say so ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#86](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/86), [#614](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/614), [#656](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/656), [#733](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/733) and [#752](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/752)).
|
||||
- **A new setting drops the country prefix** from live channel names — "UK - BBC One" becomes "BBC One" — while names that only look like a prefix, such as "Sky - Sports F1", stay intact ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
- Channel rows stack favorite and programme-info buttons vertically, and the programme-info button reaches the Xtream and Stalker sidebars ([#1341](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1341)).
|
||||
- **The mobile remote works in favorites and recently viewed** for M3U, Xtream and Stalker, and no longer shows a channel as playing after you leave the player ([#1399](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1399)).
|
||||
- The User-Agent, Referer and Origin saved on an M3U playlist now reach MPV, VLC and embedded MPV ([#1397](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1397), closes [#1221](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1221)).
|
||||
- **Favorites stop losing changes**: drag-and-drop order is saved again, and two entries added at almost the same moment no longer overwrite each other ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1137](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1137)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Settings, import and the desktop app
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- **Settings are separate pages** with shareable URLs and a floating Save/Discard bar. Leaving with pending edits — by navigation, closing the window, quitting or reloading — asks whether to save, discard or keep editing ([#1384](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1384), [#1394](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1394)).
|
||||
- **Auto-detect import.** Paste whatever your provider sent you — links, Xtream credentials, a MAC with device IDs — and the Add playlist dialog prefills the matching form. Nothing you paste leaves the app ([#1445](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1445)).
|
||||
- **.m3u and .m3u8 files open from the file manager.** IPTVnator registers as a handler with the OS, and opening a playlist from the command line or by double-click actually imports it — previously nothing happened at all ([#1299](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1299), [#1301](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1301)).
|
||||
- **A second launch brings the running window to the front** instead of starting a rival copy that could not save anything — the usual reason settings appeared to reset on restart ([#1272](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1272), closes [#1156](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1156) and [#102](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/102)).
|
||||
- **Usable on a phone again**: the navigation bar stays on screen, lists take the full width, and the categories panel became a slide-in drawer ([#1326](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1326), [#1332](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1332), closes [#1100](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1100)).
|
||||
- **Embedded MPV** gains an experimental *frame-copy* engine that draws the video inside the app window, so menus, dialogs and controls stop being swallowed by the picture (macOS Apple Silicon, Windows and Linux x64; needs a restart — [#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
- IPTVnator speaks **Hungarian**, its 19th language, contributed by [@htibcsike](https://github.com/htibcsike) ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1192](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1192)); desktop builds run on Electron 43 with native rounded corners on Linux ([#1414](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1414)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Playback
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="fixed" />
|
||||
|
||||
Playback errors got a rework. Instead of guessing "unsupported codec", the built-in players report what the engine actually saw — an HTTP 404, a timeout, a failed segment — and rank useful next steps: another built-in player, MPV or VLC, Retry, or another source. Trying a recommendation never changes your saved player, and provider URLs and credentials stay out of the technical details ([#1374](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1374), [#1314](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1314), [#1316](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1316), [#1317](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1317), [#1318](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1318), [#1327](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1327), closes [#1159](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1159)).
|
||||
|
||||
- **Keyboard shortcuts work with the classic controls too**: Space/K, F, ←/→, ↑/↓ and M, as the in-app shortcut list already promised ([#1398](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1398)).
|
||||
- **The screen no longer sleeps while a built-in player plays video**, Linux included; radio deliberately leaves the display free ([#1405](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1405), closes [#1095](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1095)).
|
||||
- **The "Show subtitles" setting finally works** in all built-in players and on portal pages ([#1269](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1269), closes [#1155](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1155)).
|
||||
- Video.js shows its control bar on live channels again ([#1385](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1385)), and switching the video player takes effect immediately on a playing stream ([#1437](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1437)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Self-hosted web version
|
||||
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- Behind VPN containers like Gluetun, provider connections get enough time to fall back from an unreachable IPv6 route to IPv4 instead of failing with "Bad Gateway", and errors name the network code ([#1404](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1404), closes [#1400](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1400)).
|
||||
- The PWA talks to Stalker portals exactly like the desktop app — MAG User-Agent, full STB cookie, serial header — so portals that only worked on desktop work in the browser, and credentials no longer travel in the request URL ([#1348](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1348)).
|
||||
- A provider that goes silent after accepting a connection now times out on the desktop schedule instead of hanging until the OS gives up ([#1424](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1424)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Performance
|
||||
|
||||
- **m3u** — Importing large M3U playlists is faster because IPTVnator no longer rewrites the entire playlist when loading saved favorites. ([#1232](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1232))
|
||||
- **m3u** — Cancelling a large M3U refresh now stops its background worker before parsed channels can be copied or saved, keeping the interface responsive and leaving the existing playlist unchanged. ([#1268](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1268))
|
||||
- **portals** — Unreachable Xtream and Stalker portals no longer cost a 30-second wait per request. After a host fails to answer twice, further requests to it fail immediately for 30 seconds, so browsing a dead portal stops filling the screen with long spinners. Retrying, testing the connection, or editing the portal address contacts it again right away. ([#1421](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1421))
|
||||
- **stalker** — Detail pages for anything that is not a series — a movie, a live channel, a VOD item that only looks like a series — no longer fire an episode-list request before they can show anything, so they open faster on every route in, from browsing and search to Favorites, Recent and the dashboard. ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263))
|
||||
<StatusPill type="improved" />
|
||||
|
||||
- **Dead portals stop costing 30 seconds per request.** After two unanswered requests a host fails immediately for 30 seconds; retrying or editing the address contacts it again right away ([#1421](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1421)).
|
||||
- **One unreachable playlist no longer holds up the rest**: refreshes give up after 30 seconds, run a few at a time, and the startup message names how many failed ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#931](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/931)).
|
||||
- Large M3U imports are faster ([#1232](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1232)), and cancelling a large M3U refresh or Xtream import stops the background work at once ([#1268](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1268), [#1295](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1295)).
|
||||
- Stalker detail pages for non-series items no longer fire an episode-list request first ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Everything else
|
||||
|
||||
That is the part worth reading in one sitting. The rest of the release — another forty-odd fixes across the dashboard, search, Stalker, playback and the desktop shell — is below, one line each.
|
||||
|
||||
<Spoiler title="Show the remaining fixes">
|
||||
|
||||
**Dashboard and metadata**
|
||||
|
||||
- The dashboard hero shows the same backdrop as the detail page, and its lookup uses the release year and original title, so titles TMDB knows more than once ("Холод") no longer come up empty ([#1362](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1362)).
|
||||
- Titles you have opened before show artwork, rating and genres far more reliably and seed the recommendations rail — the dashboard reuses what the detail page already matched instead of searching by bare title ([#1423](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1423)).
|
||||
- Trending cards, the Similar rail and actor filmographies no longer mark a title as missing when your playlists hold several versions of it, such as "Dune 1984" and "Dune 2021" ([#1425](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1425)).
|
||||
- Greek titles match regardless of which sigma the provider typed ([#1310](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1310)).
|
||||
- Importing an Xtream backup restores all preferred VOD sources together, and a failed restore stays retryable ([#1311](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1311)).
|
||||
|
||||
**Search**
|
||||
|
||||
- The search box no longer loses what you are typing when the page updates its address at the same moment ([#1432](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1432)).
|
||||
- Names with punctuation — "A&E", "X-Men", "L'Equipe" — are found anywhere in a title, including provider-prefixed channels like "US: A&E" ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1161](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1161)).
|
||||
- Typing a space in the portal search box and pausing no longer deletes it ([#1474](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1474), closes [#1338](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1338)).
|
||||
|
||||
**Stalker**
|
||||
|
||||
- Series opened from Favorites, Recent or the dashboard refresh their episode list from the portal instead of forever showing the episodes saved at the time ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263)).
|
||||
- VOD series report progress correctly when portals return boolean series flags, keep episode progress separate between shows, and resume positions saved by earlier versions ([#1315](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1315)).
|
||||
- Going back from a title reached with "View in portal" returns to the same favorites or history tab with the title still open, instead of dropping you on Live TV ([#1435](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1435)).
|
||||
|
||||
**Playback and players**
|
||||
|
||||
- Old error actions disappear as soon as a new source or player starts, and recovery no longer crosses into a different channel, movie or episode when you switch content while a stream is still resolving ([#1374](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1374)).
|
||||
- DASH playback resets a failed media buffer before switching variants ([#1411](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1411)), and MPEG-TS is more reliable on newer Safari versions ([#1412](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1412)).
|
||||
- MPV and VLC recovery actions stay available, show precise opening/started/playing/failure feedback and never launch twice ([#1388](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1388)).
|
||||
- Embedded MPV menus unfold inside the control bar instead of shifting the video, the video is sized correctly on displays scaled above 100%, and it snaps back into its frame after layout shifts such as the sidebar finishing to load ([#1339](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1339), [#1476](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1476), closes [#1139](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1139), [#1145](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1145) and [#1428](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1428)).
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**Playlists and EPG**
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- Pluto TV-style playlists with a session token in every link import in full again instead of collapsing into one channel ([#1263](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1263), closes [#1189](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/issues/1189)).
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- A database hiccup while looking up, saving or searching a manual EPG mapping degrades quietly instead of taking down the EPG panel or the mapping dialog ([#1279](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1279), [#1291](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1291)).
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- Narrow EPG channel rows keep the current programme, progress and channel actions visible ([#1312](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1312)).
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**Desktop app and shell**
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- Windows: the minimize, maximize and close buttons reappear after leaving fullscreen video instead of vanishing until the next restart ([#1178](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1178)).
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- Confirmation dialogs are wider, so their buttons sit side by side even with longer translated labels ([#1448](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1448)).
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||||
- The header playlist dropdown shows "Playlist info" for the active playlist again ([#1328](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1328)).
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||||
- The playlist sync overlay says whether it is fetching from the provider or reading the saved catalog from this device ([#1345](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1345)).
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- Translations across the app are clearer and more consistent ([#1390](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1390)).
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- Snap packages launch correctly with the desktop runtime scripts their startup command requires ([#1406](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1406)).
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||||
- Updated SQLite bindings avoid a crash during database worker shutdown ([#1415](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1415)), and SQLite trace logs record only statement types, never playlist credentials ([#1315](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1315)).
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||||
- The desktop remote-control server blocks crafted paths from escaping the bundled web files on Windows ([#1267](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/pull/1267)).
|
||||
- A self-hosted backend started without `CLIENT_URL` allows the documented `http://localhost:4333` origin instead of the retired demo URL, so a manual deployment no longer fails every request with a CORS error ([cb37f62](https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/commit/cb37f628ed9d63673d365923828ce7a793192459)).
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</Spoiler>
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||||
|
||||
<Alert type="warning" title="Before updating">
|
||||
Please back up your playlists, credentials, URLs, and other important data before installing a new release. There are no breaking schema migrations in v0.23 — new tables and columns are added automatically on first launch — but it's a good habit.
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</Alert>
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## Thanks
|
||||
|
||||
This release is shaped by the Telegram group, GitHub issues, and the people who keep the project sustainable. Thank you to everyone who sponsored or donated — it's a small group, and it's the reason this project gets real time rather than spare minutes — and to everyone who tested builds against their own portals, reported the "works in every other player" cases that make up half of this changelog, contributed translations, or answered other people's questions. 💙
|
||||
|
||||
If IPTVnator is useful to you, the easiest way to keep it moving is [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/4gray) or [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/4gray).
|
||||
|
||||
## Download
|
||||
|
||||
<LinkCards
|
||||
links={[
|
||||
{
|
||||
label: 'Download v0.23.0',
|
||||
href: 'https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases/tag/v0.23.0',
|
||||
hint: 'Official binaries for macOS, Windows and Linux.',
|
||||
icon: 'download',
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
label: 'Full release notes',
|
||||
href: 'https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases/tag/v0.23.0',
|
||||
hint: 'Every one of the 120+ entries, in full, on GitHub.',
|
||||
icon: 'github',
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
label: 'Full Changelog',
|
||||
href: 'https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/compare/v0.22.0...v0.23.0',
|
||||
hint: 'Every commit between v0.22.0 and v0.23.0.',
|
||||
icon: 'github',
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
label: 'Telegram group',
|
||||
href: 'https://t.me/iptvnator',
|
||||
hint: 'Announcements, help and where most of this feedback comes from.',
|
||||
icon: 'telegram',
|
||||
},
|
||||
]}
|
||||
/>
|
||||
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