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* feat(playback): forward portal Cookie/Authorization to built-in players The web players (HTML5/hls.js, Video.js, ArtPlayer, Shaka) could only ever receive User-Agent/Referer/Origin, so any Stalker stream gated on the portal session cookie or Bearer token played exclusively in external MPV/VLC — the long-running "only VLC works" cluster (#849, #910, #732). - request-header-overrides.service: the scoped override now carries Cookie and Authorization, attached only to requests on the exact stream origin, in-memory only, dropped on replace/clear. Unscoped (playlist-level) calls drop credentials fail-closed; control characters in header values are rejected. Chosen over session.cookies.set(): jar cookies attach only to credentialed requests, which would force withCredentials into every engine and break against the Access-Control-Allow-Origin:* IPTV panels send, and jar scoping is port-blind. - WebPlayerViewComponent is now the single owner of the scoped override for every built-in player: it extracts the full header set from the resolved playback, configures the override BEFORE handing the source over (players render only once the source exists), and clears the scoped layer on destroy. HtmlVideoPlayerComponent's own three-header call is removed — it would overwrite the credentialed override. - Stalker VOD, series episodes and radio now build the same portal header set ITV already had (they previously carried no portal headers at all); same-origin playback sends the real User-Agent alongside X-User-Agent. - Stream classification is host-based via one shared predicate (isStalkerStreamCredentialSafe): same-host port changes and scheme upgrades keep the portal profile (the #1158 class), a foreign host or https->http downgrade keeps the credential-free KSPlayer profile. The main-process fallback context uses the same predicate so isStalkerDirectStreamProfile can no longer discard renderer headers. - setUserAgent bridge gains an optional credentials parameter; preload, ipcMain handler and ElectronBridgeApi updated together. - stalker-mock-server: gated-stream scenario (MAC 00:1A:79:00:00:09) whose create_link returns a local /stream/gated/video.mp4 that 403s without the mac cookie + current Bearer token; new Electron e2e proves a built-in player actually plays it (and that the gate refuses bare requests). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(playback): apply header override to Stalker radio, redact mock cookie log Address Codex review feedback on #1335: - The radio branch of the Stalker live layout renders the dedicated audio player, never WebPlayerViewComponent, so the resolved portal headers were built but never applied — an auth-gated radio stream still 403'd. The override sync is extracted into ElectronStreamHeadersService (single owner of the scoped override slot, with clear-only-while-owning semantics so a destroyed consumer cannot wipe a newer consumer's override), applied by WebPlayerViewComponent for video players and by the radio branch before the audio element gets its URL. The service feature-detects the bridge method so partial bridges behave like the PWA instead of throwing. - The gated-stream mock no longer logs the raw Cookie header on 403 — presence only, matching the Authorization logging. - The gated scenario now serves an audio fixture for radio create_link and the Electron e2e covers the radio path end-to-end (bare request 403s, built-in audio player advances past the gate). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(playback): claim radio header ownership before awaiting the IPC Codex round-2 P2: leaving the radio route while the header IPC was still in flight left the portal cookie/token installed — ngOnDestroy saw a null scope URL (it was recorded only after the await) and could not clear the override. Ownership is now claimed synchronously before awaiting, destroy invalidates the pending playback continuation, and the apply's stillCurrent verdict is honored. Regression test covers destroy-during-pending-IPC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(playback): carry portal headers into collection playback Codex round-3 P1: Stalker channels opened from Favorites/Recently Viewed resolved through StreamResolverService.resolveStalker(), which returned no portal headers — the video path handed the header owner an empty set and collection radio bypassed it entirely, so auth-gated streams still 403'd from collections. - resolveStalker() now builds the same profile as the live layout via the shared classifier: portal-owned streams get mac cookie/Bearer token/MAG UA/portal Origin+Referer, foreign hosts keep the credential-free KSPlayer profile (both create_link results and direct radio URLs). - UnifiedLiveTabComponent applies the scoped override for radio before the audio element gets its URL (ownership claimed before awaiting the IPC, round-2 lesson), and clears it on close and destroy. - Regression tests: resolver header profiles for portal-host and foreign streams; unified tab radio apply-then-clear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(playback): release the radio override when a new selection mounts no player Codex round-4 P2: after radio installed its credentials, selecting an item that never mounts a player surface (external video playback, failed resolution) left the old Cookie/Authorization installed — no WebPlayerViewComponent, close, or destroy cleanup runs on that path. Both radio hosts (unified collection tab and the Stalker live layout, which has the identical hole) now release the previously owned radio scope at the start of every new selection; the slot-ownership semantics keep this a no-op when another playback already owns the override. Regression test in the live-layout spec pins the failed-selection path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(playback): state the exact override release points Codex round-5 P2 flagged that the media 'ended' event does not clear the scoped override while the player stays mounted. That is deliberate, not a gap: a mounted player still owns the session — replay or a seek into an unbuffered range must keep working against a gated stream, and clearing on 'ended' would 403 exactly the streams this PR fixes. The credentials only ever travel to the exact origin that issued them, and every dismount path (channel/source change, player close/destroy, radio close, playerless selection) releases them. The security doc and the release note now say precisely that instead of the ambiguous "cleared when playback ends". Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(playback): fit the release note back under the 400-character cap Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Release notes (.changes/)
Every PR with a user-visible change drops one file here describing that change
in plain language. At release time
tools/release/build-release-notes.mjs turns the accumulated files into the
GitHub release body, the CHANGELOG.md section, and a blog-post scaffold for
the website — then deletes them.
The point is to write the note while the context is still fresh, instead of reconstructing three months of work from commit titles at release time.
File
Name it <area>-<short-slug>.md, e.g. .changes/playback-up-next-rail.md.
---
type: feature
area: playback
issues: [1187]
screenshot: up-next-rail
---
Series now show an "Up Next" rail beside the player on wide windows: the rest
of the current season, watch progress, and click-to-play inline.
| Field | Required | Value |
|---|---|---|
type |
yes | breaking, feature, fix, perf, or internal |
area |
yes | lowercase slug, same as the conventional-commit scope |
issues |
no | issue numbers this closes — [1187] or 1187 |
screenshot |
no | slug from tools/release/screenshots.manifest.json |
There is no version field. The release version is chosen deliberately at release time, not derived from these files.
You never write a PR number: the generator resolves it from the commit that added the file.
Writing the body
One to three sentences, present tense, written for a user, not a reviewer. The body is capped at 400 characters — depth belongs in the blog post.
-
❌ "Refactor
WebVideoControlsAdapterto hoist volume state into the session" -
✅ "The player now remembers volume between episodes"
-
❌ "Fix off-by-one in
resolveEnrichmentSeasonNumber" -
✅ "Series whose title carries a season marker no longer show the wrong season"
type: internal records invisible maintenance. Internal notes stay collapsed in
CHANGELOG.md, are omitted from the blog scaffold, and are removed from the
authored public GitHub body by
extract-changelog-section.mjs --public. GitHub's generated commit list remains
separate. An internal-only release can therefore have an empty authored body.
When a note is not needed
The gate auto-exempts website, E2E and mock-server apps, *.spec.{js,ts},
*.e2e.{js,ts}, snapshots, any /testing/ path, and Markdown. For other
test-only, documentation, CI/workflow, or pure-refactor changes under
apps//libs/, apply no-release-note when no user-visible note is warranted.
Commands
pnpm run release:notes:validate
pnpm run release:notes:github
pnpm run release:notes:changelog
pnpm run release:notes:blog
node tools/release/build-release-notes.mjs --consume
The release version comes from the root package.json — bump it first, then
generate. --version 0.24.0 overrides it to preview a release before the bump:
pnpm run release:notes:github --version 0.24.0
A bare -- separator is accepted and ignored, so the npm habit of
pnpm run release:notes:github -- --version 0.24.0 works too: pnpm forwards
that separator to the script rather than consuming it the way npm does.
--validate and --format github only read and print. --format changelog
and --format blog write their target file (rerunning changelog for the same
version replaces that section rather than duplicating it). Only --consume
deletes anything.
The release sequence is: bump the version → release:notes:changelog →
release:notes:blog → --consume → commit → tag → push. The tag build then
extracts the new CHANGELOG.md section into the GitHub release body
(tools/release/extract-changelog-section.mjs) and fails the release if
the section is missing — a tag cut without the changelog step cannot silently
ship PR-title-only notes.
The website publishes one post per minor version (v0-18 … v0-22), and
release screenshots live under the matching blog/v0-24/ directory. A patch
release therefore edits the existing post rather than generating a new one, so
--format blog refuses to overwrite unless you pass --force.
Screenshots
pnpm run release:screenshots captures every manifest shot in dark and light
against the built app plus the Xtream mock server — never a real account.
The run is fail-closed: it proves the real ~/.iptvnator/databases directory
(including the SQLite WAL sidecars, checked after Electron exits) was not
touched, launches the app with an allowlisted environment, records and blocks
all non-localhost traffic, scans every frame for external resources and
credential-shaped text, and asserts TMDB enrichment stays disabled. Frames are
staged outside the repository and published only once every shot and every
guard has passed.
Adding a shot for a new feature = one entry in
tools/release/screenshots.manifest.json (plus, if navigation is new, one
named action in tools/release/capture-navigation.ts).
pnpm nx run electron-backend:build-e2e # once, before capturing
pnpm run release:screenshots # all shots, both themes
pnpm run release:screenshots -- --only dashboard --theme dark
pnpm run release:screenshots -- --release v0-24