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The persisted subtitle preference only ever had an owner behind the default-off shared web-controls flag, so with the shipping controls it did nothing: Video.js never read it, ArtPlayer declared the input but never used it, and the HTML5 player only ran a one-shot pass after play() resolved — before hls.js had added its text tracks. No portal host bound the input at all, so it never reached Xtream or Stalker pages either. Extract the source-local track controllers into the adapter-free WebVideoSourceTracks and have WebVideoSourceControlsBridge wrap it, so both controls modes apply the preference through the same code. The preference-off players bind it directly (VjsLegacyTracks for Video.js), and WebPlayerViewComponent reads the preference from SettingsStore instead of an input so every host inherits it. The preference means different things depending on who renders the caption UI: shared controls stay authoritative for the session, while vendor chrome is source-default — the preference seeds each new source and is released once the media reports playing, so the engine own caption menu keeps working. Mode selection is an optional playbackStarted probe passed to the HLS, native and Shaka helpers; in that mode the HLS helper deselects the track rather than hiding it, since subtitleDisplay would silently override the vendor menu. Closes #1155
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 is for changes with no user-visible effect that are still worth
recording (dependency bumps with behaviour risk, packaging moves). They stay out
of the release body and blog post, and land collapsed in CHANGELOG.md.
When a note is not needed
Skip the note — and apply the no-release-note label — for test-only changes,
docs, CI/workflow plumbing, and pure refactors with no behaviour change.
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 for a dry run before the bump.
Only --consume deletes anything; every other mode is a safe dry run.
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