🚀 XC_VM v2.5.0

✨ Major Features

Added a complete Smart Activation Codes system for generating and managing pre-generated subscriber vouchers.
Added automatic companion line creation with activation delayed until the code is first used.
Added admin and reseller management, including generation wizard, batch management, mass editing and exports.
Added an activation portal and public activation API.
Added transactional credit handling and audit logging for reseller-generated codes.
Added support for dedicated activation-code access routes and portal configuration.

Added configurable encoder supervision by xc_fanout, allowing the daemon to run and monitor live encoders instead of spawning a PHP watchdog for every stream.
Added the fanout_supervise setting with a safe default of disabled for existing installations.
Synchronized the supervision setting into the daemon configuration.
Added automatic reconciliation of supervised streams back into the panel.
Added health policies, source forcing and daemon-side supervision handling.
Added stream command tracking that clearly identifies whether a stream is running under xc_fanout or local FFmpeg supervision.
Added stream management safeguards so stop, force and rogue-process cleanup correctly account for daemon-owned streams.

Added IngestFeeder for reliable delivery of MPEG-TS data from PHP producers into xc_fanout.
Prevented short non-blocking socket writes from silently dropping or tearing TS packets.
Added buffered retry handling and reconnects after daemon restarts.
Added packet-aligned recovery when an ingest connection fails mid-packet.
Added bounded backlog management that drops complete old packets instead of blocking the producer.
Added support for carrying HLS encryption key/IV information into the daemon ingest path.

Improved daemon delivery for delayed, LLOD and loopback channels.
Added proper feed handling for PHP-based producers through the daemon ingest socket.
Added enforcement of connection limits and viewer kicks for daemon-managed streams.
Fixed VOD and catch-up HTTP byte ranges and seeking behavior.
Fixed catch-up routing, proxy-only authentication checks and adaptive variant handling.
Fixed live HLS playlists so segment numbers are not unnecessarily renumbered when segment durations exceed 10 seconds.
Fixed on-demand startup waits to respect the configured on_demand_wait_time instead of using a fixed delay.
Fixed stale PID and monitor state left behind by failed previous runs.
Improved HLS sequence handling and stream state initialization.
Added support for identifying the producer responsible for each live stream and preventing remuxing through an outdated daemon.

Improved stream monitoring with FPS-drop based restarts.
Improved priority backup source ordering and handling of failed probes.
Added fanout health policy and supervision reconciliation.
Fixed stream supervision state synchronization between the panel and daemon.
Improved stream information population for supervised streams.
Added producer, CPU and memory information to the admin streams page.
Fixed connection limiting so the correct client connection/IP is used consistently.
Improved cleanup of stale process state and asynchronous file operations.
Fixed an asynchronous file-cache TTL bug that could keep stale data for far longer than intended.
Fixed inotify waits that could block indefinitely when a file never appeared.

Added Fanout Encoder Supervision to the admin Streaming settings.
Moved On-Demand Probe Size configuration into the Streaming section.
Improved stream management visibility by showing each stream's producer and resource usage.
Fixed duplicate per-page selectors on mass delete/edit pages.
Added safeguards preventing update and rollback operations from being executed without root privileges.
Simplified value retrieval in sourceContext.

Error logs now record the panel version at the exact time the error occurred, making version-specific troubleshooting much easier.
Improved stream diagnostics by explicitly recording whether a process belongs to xc_fanout or local FFmpeg execution.
Added documentation covering daemon feeds, viewer kicks, HLS keys and byte ranges.
Added documentation for stream supervision and the native remuxer.

Added a shared test stream generator with a common TS encoder and keyframe-aligned joins.
Added launcher support for synthetic stream testing.
Added stronger assertions to fanout configuration tests.
Expanded tests around encoder supervision and reliable daemon ingest.
Removed obsolete DTS audio test helper scripts after consolidating the test-stream tooling.

Added the required database migration for fanout_supervise.
Updated stream process handling and related supervision paths.
Integrated upstream/community changes from pull requests #186 and #187.
Cleaned up configuration and source-context handling across the affected streaming components.