Changelog - v0.3.0 (from v0.2.1)

Major Features & Architectural Changes

• Parallel Stream Checking: Added parallel processing for significantly faster checks.
  • New Setting: enable_parallel_checking (boolean, defaults to True).
  • New Setting: parallel_workers (number, defaults to 2).
• Advanced FFprobe Analysis: The stream check engine is completely rebuilt for deeper analysis.
  • New Setting: ffprobe_flags allows customization of ffprobe commands (e.g., -show_frames, -show_packets).
  • New Setting: ffprobe_analysis_duration controls how long to analyze streams for bitrate/frame data.
  • check_stream now parses codec, bitrate, frame counts, and packet data.
• Improved UI & Job Control:
  • Stream checks (check_streams_action) now start in a background thread, returning control to the UI immediately.
  • Added validate_settings action to test API credentials and group names.
  • Added view_progress action to see live progress with an ETA calculation.
  • Added cancel_check action to stop a running check.
• Plugin State & Caching:
  • The plugin now uses a single shared instance (_plugin_instance) to correctly maintain state (progress, caching) across actions, fixing a major bug.
  • Added API token caching (1 hour) to reduce login requests.
  • Added version check caching (24 hours).

New Features & Enhancements

• Version Checking: Automatically checks for new plugin versions on GitHub and displays the status on the settings page (_get_latest_version).
• Enhanced CSV Exports:
  • Exports now include a detailed header with run statistics (total/alive/dead, format distribution, avg. framerate) and the settings used for the check.
  • All new ffprobe_data (codec, bitrate, etc.) is flattened into new columns in the CSV.
  • Added a clear_csv_exports action to delete old results.
• Flexible Renaming:
  • Replaced dead_prefix and dead_suffix with a single dead_rename_format setting (e.g., {name} [DEAD]).
  • Replaced low_framerate_prefix and low_framerate_suffix with low_framerate_rename_format.
• Improved Logging:
  • All log messages are now prefixed with [IPTV Checker] using a PluginNameFilter.
  • check_stream logs the exact ffprobe command and detailed results (success or failure) at the INFO level for easier debugging.

Fixes & Changes

• Terminology: Replaced "4K" with "UHD" in stream format detection (_get_stream_format) and default settings.
• Error Handling: check_stream now has more robust categorization for common ffprobe errors (e.g., Timeout, 404, 403, Invalid Stream).
• load_groups_action now provides a more accurate time estimate based on whether parallel mode is enabled.

Removals

• Removed the remove_bracket_tags action.
• Removed the user-facing get_status_update action (now handled by view_progress).
• Removed the get_results action (replaced by view_results).