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  v26.11.0 Stable

  timothy released this 2026-07-20 22:22:04 +02:00 | 637 commits to main since this release

  Fixes ~50% channel cold-start failures on Intel QuickSync hardware, unifies the channel logo with the on-screen bug, and hardens the Jellyfin scanner and remote-stream playback paths. 83 commits since v26.10.0.

  Upgrade note — a default changes. QsvPreferNativeDecoder ships ON, so every existing QSV FFmpeg profile switches to VA-API decoding on upgrade. This is the intended fix for #498; turn it off per-profile if you need the old strict-QSV decoder back.

  Hardware acceleration (#498)

  • QSV profiles now decode via VA-API while still encoding with QSV, mirroring Jellyfin's "Prefer OS native decoders". The strict QSV decoder failed on imperfect H.264 — measured at 3 fatal decoder-open failures across 6 channel cold-starts on an Intel i7-10700K.
  • New per-profile QsvPreferNativeDecoder field (default on) + a "Prefer native decoder" checkbox on QSV profiles, carried through the domain, FFmpeg pipeline, REST layer, and SPA.

  Channel logo / on-screen bug (#67)

  • One shared Channel Bug watermark preset drives both the channel listing logo and the on-screen bug — no more maintaining two images.
  • "Use logo as on-screen bug" toggle with a live geometry preview in the channel editor; the watermarks screen shows resolved bug geometry; new channels default to the preset.

  Jellyfin scanning

  • Support mixed-content libraries — one Jellyfin library holding more than one media kind (#489)
  • Resolve LibraryFolder from the DB so music-video scans stop throwing NullReferenceException (#488)
  • Reconcile removed music videos (#494) and music-video metadata collections (#497) on rescan

  Playback resilience

  • Probe media-server remote-stream URLs before handing them to ffmpeg; only a redirected 404 fails closed (#473)
  • Probe external-JSON remote-stream URLs the same way (#480)
  • Cascade FileNotFound from removed shows/seasons down to their descendants (#476)
  • Guard media-server library sweeps against successful-but-empty fetches — an empty 200 no longer nukes a library (#477)

  Scheduling & UI

  • Weighted distribution in the SPA — per-source weight inputs + WeightedShuffle playback order (#404)
  • Render real channel logos in the guide grid and channels list (#464)
  • Bound the schedules "Active schedule" selector so it stops overlapping the header (#463)

  Performance & instrumentation

  • Sub-split the HLS cold-start startup phase into honest buckets, with a stale-playlist guard (#472)
  • TTL-cache health-check results; ?refresh=true forces a fresh run (#431)

  CI / tooling

  • Format gate now uses dotnet format whitespace --folder: ~480s → ~0.5s (#469)
  • Sample true peak-anon memory in the test job rather than cache-inflated memory.peak (#412)
  • Deterministic functional-E2E for the playout-build lock 409 + isLocked projection (#444)

  Infrastructure

  • First release deployed to jazz (192.168.1.29) — the media transcoders moved off bumblebee on 2026-07-20 (server-management#633). docs/ci-cd.md now opens with a Hosts table and a name-reuse warning: jazz was an earlier name for the .99 host, so resolve hostnames by IP, not by name (#501, #507).

  Release process: cut on green main @ 601d855b; dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive clean across 15 projects; full local test gate green (3945 passed, 0 failed); carries a dual-provider EF migration (Add_FFmpegProfile_QsvPreferNativeDecoder, SQLite + MySQL); docs/decisions.md had no superseded entries to consolidate. Prod follows the floating :prod tag — promoted via Komodo DeployStack media-servers after the immutable :26.11.0 candidate passes scripts/security-scan.sh on jazz.

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