NeXroll v1.11.0-beta.8 Release Notes

Release Date: March 3, 2026

Changes in Beta.8

Custom User-Agent Header

All outbound HTTP requests to the community preroll server now include a NeXRoll/{version} User-Agent header
Uses a shared COMMUNITY_USER_AGENT constant and _community_headers() helper for consistency across all 10 request locations

Server URL Fix

Fixed the community servers endpoint URL — was incorrectly pointing to test.prerolls.uk instead of prerolls.uk

Server Load Protections

Index building now requires Fair Use Policy acceptance and uses a global lock (only one build at a time)
Downloads are rate-limited to one every 10 seconds per IP and require Fair Use acceptance
Server list (servers.json) responses are cached for 10 minutes
Top 5 featured prerolls are cached for 30 minutes
Random preroll fallback scrape now includes 200ms delays between requests and early bailout at 50 files
Removed unused debug/test-scrape endpoint

Calendar View

Added a new Calendar tab to the Upcoming Items page alongside Movies and TV Shows
Full monthly grid layout (Sun–Sat) showing all upcoming movies and TV shows on their release dates
Color-coded items: blue for movies (🎬), teal for TV shows (📺), green for "Available Now!"
Navigate between months with left/right arrows and jump back with the "Today" button
Today's date is highlighted with a purple border
Shows up to 3 items per day with a "+N more" overflow indicator
Hover tooltips display the full title for truncated items

Sync Timestamp Fix

Fixed "Last synced" displaying a future time — the scheduler was storing UTC timestamps but the frontend displayed them as local time
Both manual and auto-sync now consistently use local time (datetime.now()) for sync timestamps

Next Sync Display

The Radarr and Sonarr connection cards now show when the next auto-sync will occur
Displays as "Last synced: [date] · Next sync: [date]" based on last_sync + auto_refresh_hours
Only shown when auto-sync is enabled and a previous sync exists

Auto-Regen Fix

Fixed Coming Soon List videos not updating after auto-sync
Root cause: stale database session after sequential Radarr/Sonarr sync calls consumed the session across event-loop boundaries
Auto-regen now uses a fresh SessionLocal() database session and explicit asyncio.new_event_loop() with proper cleanup
Added full traceback logging on regeneration errors

TV Show "Available Now!" Fix

Fixed TV shows incorrectly showing as "Available Now!" when only their trailer had been downloaded
The check now correctly uses only Sonarr's hasFile status (whether the actual episode exists in your library)

Coming Soon List Grace Period Fix

Fixed movies/shows appearing as "Available Now!" in generated Coming Soon List videos long after they should have been removed
Both manual generation and auto-regeneration now respect the user's "Available Now!" grace period setting
Items past the configured grace period (default: 1 day) are now properly excluded from the generated video

Preroll Path URL Encoding Fix

Fixed a critical bug where # characters in preroll filenames (e.g., Twister on VHS TV Spot #2 HD.mp4) caused the path to be silently truncated when sent to the Plex API
The # was interpreted as a URL fragment delimiter, cutting off everything after it — resulting in prerolls failing to apply with no visible error
All Plex API endpoints that set CinemaTrailersPrerollID now properly URL-encode the preroll path using urllib.parse.quote()
Path separators (:/\;, ) are preserved as safe characters; only problematic characters (#, &, ?, etc.) are encoded
This fix resolves the issue reported by users with large preroll libraries containing special characters in filenames

Server Name Input Width

Adjusted the Coming Soon List Generator "Server Name" input field width from 100% to 80%

See RELEASE_NOTES_v1.11.0-beta.7.md for Beta.5–Beta.7 changes.

See CHANGELOG.md for the complete v1.11.0 feature list.