DVR Pre-Release Notes

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v2024.01.03.1321

• FIXED: Movies were being mixed in with Episode results on the Content Picker and Cirtual Channels

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v2024.01.03.1906

• IMPROVED: Better separation of Shows and Video Groups for content picking and Smart Rules
• FIXED: JS error when deleting the last Playlist
• CHANGE: Show Name has been removed from the Smart Rules. It was confusing and was not very useful. Please use the Content Picker to add a show to a Show Collection or Virtual Channel. NOTE: If any of your Smart Rules were using this, it will fall back to the Advanced Editor now. Manually remove the name query to get back to the Simple Editor.

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v2024.01.03.2116

• IMPROVED: Speed up the system endpoint on Windows

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v2024.01.03.2154

• NEW: Add a remote connection check to the Remote settings on the DVR to see if remote access and port forwarding are properly enabled

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v2024.01.04.0406

• IMPROVED: The IP address displayed when Remote Streaming is set to Manual is now the IP of the highest priority network interface
• UPDATED: Internal refactoring of bonjour code

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v2024.01.04.1347

• NEW: Collections and Playlists now have a Sort Name (like TV Shows and Movies) allowing you to specify the words used when sorting alphabetically

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v2024.01.04.1438

• FIXED: Video results were not showing in the Smart Rule editor

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v2024.01.04.1909

• FIXED: Movies would have incorrect queued state on On Later views

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v2024.01.04.1920

• FIXED: Dragging Passes down to re-order them would not work.

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v2024.01.05.0541

• FIXED: Videos section was showing flat videos and not Video Groups

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v2024.01.05.0720

• IMPROVED: shutdown procedure for local content scanner

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v2024.01.05.2044

• SECURITY FIX: This enables added security for servers run via Docker that are using bridged networking. You may be required to use authentication when connected to your server locally now. Read the forum post to learn what you need to do to access it the way you used to.

Read more here:

⚠️ Security Resolution Incoming ⚠️

Hey everyone. We're getting ready to roll out an update that has a big change that closes an existing hole in security for your Channels DVR Server. We aren't going to detail it until we've released the update, but we wanted to give you a heads up. Once the update is out, we'll release a post about it in more detail. Read below to see if you're effected and how to fix it. Am I affected? If you are NOT running Channels DVR Server via Docker, you are NOT affected. You can ignore this po…

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v2024.01.06.1939

• IMPROVED: Perform proxy check on DVR launch to identify misconfiguration

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v2024.01.06.2024

• FIXED: Respond with a 403 status code instead of 200 for authentication page

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v2024.01.06.2129

• FIXED: Panic that could happen when DVR was not enabled

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v2024.01.06.2200

• IMPROVED: Provide troubleshooting for when DVR is disabled
• IMPROVED: Log a message when the DVR has been disabled due to subscription issues

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v2024.01.07.0028

• Attempt to provide a way to input Google CAPTCHA text

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v2024.01.08.0122

• FIXED: Javascript exception when toggling Server Enabled
• IMPROVED: Don’t show Windows directory name example in non-Windows directory picker

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v2024.01.08.1431

• IMPROVED: Collections and Playlists are sorted correctly via their SortName in the inclusion dropdown for Shows and Movies
• FIXED: Content would not get added to empty Collections or Playlists via the dropdown if they were empty

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v2024.01.08.1431 released as stable