A bracketed, parenthesized or regional group in the middle of a channel name no longer glues its
neighbours together. The same defect fixed for quality tags in v1.26.2241315, in a different
pattern list of the same method: the loop that removes regional feed markers, geographic tags and
parenthesized groups replaced each match with an empty string, and the regional and parenthesis
patterns also consume the whitespace flanking the match, so a group in the middle of a name joined
the words either side of it. Big Ten Network (Southern California) Alternate became
Big 10 NetworkAlternate, Penthouse (TEN) On Demand became PenthouseOn Demand, and
Spectrum News (New York) Rochester became Spectrum NewsRochester. A glued name matches nothing,
and a user ignore tag, which is applied with a word boundary, cannot reach the glued word either.
The loop now substitutes a space, and the rule that strips a leading The is anchored ^\s*The\s+
so it still fires when a removed prefix leaves a leading space. A group at the start or end of a
name leaves an edge space, which the existing whitespace cleanup removes.
The shared matcher component received the same correction on 2026-08-16 and this release also
carries that re-vendored copy, but the component's version never runs here: this plugin overrides
normalize_name outright, so the fix had to be made in this plugin's own code. This release fixes
the copy that actually executes.
Measured over all 32,603 distinct channel, stream and guide names in a live Dispatcharr database:
2,438 normalize differently, every one a pure space insertion, zero letter changes, and zero names
newly normalizing to nothing. The count is large because the parenthesis pattern removes every
mid-name parenthesized group, including callsigns such as (KMOV).