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Release v0.24
Highlights
Programme guide, rebuilt
The M3U programme guide now follows your playlist's own channels and order, with groups and favorites one click away. Keep the player above the grid while you browse, click a channel to switch, or double-click to switch and close. Open the guide with G, hide channels without EPG and choose compact or comfortable rows. (#1560, closes #171)
Browse channels and episodes without leaving fullscreen
Press C or use the left edge of the video to open a searchable channel list. Series get season tabs and an episode list with artwork and watch progress too. With the default shared controls, switching channels, episodes or alternative movie sources keeps the player fullscreen. (#1519, #1620, #1509, closes #48)
See what is playing while it plays
The stream-info overlay shows resolution, frame rates, bitrates, audio details, buffer and dropped frames when the player can report them. Available in the built-in web players and experimental frame-copy Embedded MPV; unavailable values stay hidden. (#1578)
Nightly channel
Get builds from each merge through Settings → About → Update channel, or download them from the nightly repository. Stable remains the default.
27 features · 54 fixes · 1 performance improvement — including local XMLTV files, Xtream catch-up downloads, automatic reconnects for embedded MPV, season artwork and recovery for sources missing after an older upgrade.
Read the 📝 release story on the blog, the full CHANGELOG, or the changes since v0.23.0.
Before updating, back up your playlists and important data. Desktop startup applies database updates and clears outdated metadata matches; allow the preparation screen to finish and avoid downgrading an upgraded profile.
Thanks
Thank you to @Bpl5966 for MPV reconnects and extra options (#1515), @mark-jardine for the EPG time offset (#1489), and @larsemig for stream information (#1578).
Thank you also to @thejdubb02 for the original zoom-persistence, Turkish-search and Xtream EPG-refresh fixes (#1613, #1612, #1610). This work was incorporated and extended in #1617, #1640 and #1647, with his co-authorship preserved.
A warm thank-you to everyone who reported issues, tested builds, helped in the Telegram community, or supported development. 💙
❤️ If IPTVnator is useful to you, you can help keep it moving through GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi
All features, fixes and performance improvements
Features
- collections — A live channel you watch from Favorites or Recently viewed now says which playlist it belongs to: a chip with the playlist name sits in the programme panel next to the channel, and clicking it (or "Open in " in the channel's right-click menu) jumps to that channel inside its own playlist. Works for Xtream and M3U sources. (#1634)
- collections — "Open in " for live channels in Favorites and Recently viewed now works for Stalker portals too: the chip in the programme panel and the channel's right-click menu jump to that channel inside its portal's Live TV, with its category selected and the channel playing. Radio stations keep the existing behaviour. (#1639)
- dashboard — The dashboard no longer labels every title with "Xtream · Series" or "Stalker · Movie": the hero shows only the source name, and Continue Watching cards show the episode you are on plus the minutes left. Stalker shows filed under Movies now get that S·E badge, the progress bar, and a working "Resume episode" that opens the show at the saved episode. (#1646)
- dashboard — On the desktop app, favourite and recently watched Xtream and Stalker channels on the dashboard now show what is on air, with the programme's time and progress. Each card asks its portal only once it scrolls into view and fills in on its own, so a slow portal never holds up the page or the other cards. (#1638)
- downloads — Download completed Xtream catch-up programmes as TS files from Live TV programme details. Find them in Downloads with the channel and broadcast date and play them offline. Interrupted archive downloads restart from the beginning. (#1572)
- embedded-mpv — The embedded MPV player now reloads a live stream that drops mid-playback on its own, with increasing delays and an "attempt N of 6" line instead of a dead error screen; a new Settings > Playback toggle turns this off. The same section gains an advanced field for extra libmpv options (one key=value per line) that applies on every engine, with a short network timeout on by default. (#1515)
- epg — Copy a catch-up programme’s URL from its EPG details in Xtream and supported M3U sources, including Favorites and Recent, without interrupting playback. The link can be used in an external player or download tool. (#1569)
- epg — EPG settings now include a display-only time offset, making it easy to correct provider feeds with missing or incorrect timezone information without re-importing the guide. (#1489, closes #50)
- epg — EPG sources no longer have to be URLs: point Settings → EPG or a playlist's EPG list at an XMLTV file on your computer, by absolute path,
file://link, or the new folder button. Plain.xmland gzip.xml.gzboth work. A typed path is confirmed once in a native dialog before it is read; the settings page spells out the accepted formats with examples. (#1600) - epg — The programme guide now shows your playlist's own channels in their order, with the current group or favorites one click away. Click a channel to switch playback while the player stays on screen above the grid; double-click switches and closes. Open it from the new Guide button, the header, the command palette, or the G key. Hide channels without EPG and pick comfortable or compact rows. (#1560, closes #171)
- epg — The EPG timeline toolbar is more compact: "Now" is an icon button, and the zoom slider is replaced by a single button that cycles day overview → by hour → detailed. Ctrl/⌘ + scroll (or a trackpad pinch) over the timeline zooms smoothly around the cursor. The channel and programme title now use all the space the controls free up. (#1557)
- packaging — AppImage builds now include an update source for AppManager, allowing it to discover new GitHub releases and download full application updates without manually configuring the repository. (#1559)
- playback — Playback errors now explain confirmed access and DRM license failures, with stream codecs, DRM systems and failure stages in the details. Copy diagnostics creates a support report without stream URLs or credentials. No extra requests are made to your provider. (#1574)
- playback — Rest the mouse on the left edge (tap it on touch) or press C while a live channel plays fullscreen: the channel list (M3U all/groups/favorites/recent, Xtream, Stalker, global favorites) slides over the video with search, so you can zap without leaving fullscreen. Nothing covers the video while it is closed. M3U playlists also zap with PageUp/PageDown. (#1519, closes #48)
- playback — Series playback now has the slide-in list in fullscreen too: rest the mouse on the left edge, click it, or press C to see the season tabs and episodes with stills, runtimes, descriptions and watch progress, and jump to another episode without leaving fullscreen. Works for Xtream and Stalker series with any built-in player. (#1620)
- playback — The player overlay now shows stream information: resolution, playback and source frame rates, stream and codec bitrates, audio details, buffer and dropped frames. Available in built-in web players and experimental frame-copy Embedded MP...
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Release v0.23.0
Highlights
Download manager with offline library
Downloads now separate active transfers from a grouped offline library, move missing files to Needs attention with Download again, and open movies and series in focused offline details with saved metadata. Series show only local episodes; View in portal returns to provider playback when the source can be recovered. Completed-file checks stay responsive on slow or unavailable storage. (#1313)
New player controls by default
The new player controls are now the default for the built-in web players — one consistent bar with quality selection, external subtitles, subtitle delay and styling, speed, and picture-in-picture. They are touch-friendly too: tapping the video shows or hides the controls instead of pausing, and narrow players get a two-row layout. Prefer the old look? Switch back in Settings > Playback. (#1485, closes #1408)
Alternative sources for movies
Movies that exist in several of your playlists now show a "Sources" chip on the detail page. Switch playlist mid-film and playback continues from the same timecode, pin a preferred source per movie, and when a stream dies the error screen offers the alternatives instead of a dead end. Optional auto-switching is off by default. (#1286)
Catalogs scroll without pages
Xtream movie, series, and live catalogs now load continuously as you scroll instead of flipping through pages — more items appear automatically as you near the bottom, and taller windows fill themselves on open. Opening a title and going back returns you to the exact spot in the list. In-category search and the in-portal search results follow the same continuous style. (#1392)
46 features · 76 fixes · 4 performance wins in this release — the full story is in the 📝 release notes on the blog and in the CHANGELOG.
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- dashboard — Continue Watching cards on the dashboard now open the detail page on click, just like movie cards — no more accidental episode playback. Resuming the saved episode moved to a new ⋮ menu on each card, next to "Mark as Watched" and "Remove from history". (#1469, closes #1441)
- dashboard — Dashboard source cards now warn when a portal subscription is about to lapse: an amber "Expires in N d" chip appears within a week of the expiry date, and an "Expired" chip once it has passed. Xtream expirations come from the same cached status check the playlist switcher uses; Stalker portals reuse the account info saved at import. (#1342)
- dashboard — The dashboard gains a "Because you watched" rail: TMDB recommendations seeded from your recently watched movies and series, showing only titles that actually exist in your imported libraries. It appears once at least five matches are found, can be turned off under Settings → Dashboard, and requires the TMDB metadata opt-in (desktop app only). (#1419)
- deps — Linux desktops with client-side decoration support now show native rounded corners on the IPTVnator window. Desktop builds now run on Electron 43. (#1414)
- downloads — The download manager got a visual cleanup: "Ready to watch" cards are compact poster cards — file actions live in the poster's ⋮ menu, and clicking any card (episodes included) opens its offline detail. Queue rows show one primary action (pause/resume/retry) with cancel and remove in the menu, and all sections share one heading style with item counts. (#1448)
- downloads — Live-TV recordings made with the Embedded MPV player now live in the download manager: an in-progress row with elapsed time and Stop, a Recordings library with channel logos and the programs captured from the EPG at recording time, a focused detail page, and Needs attention when a file goes missing. Recordings interrupted by a crash survive as playable partials. (#1452)
- downloads — Downloads now separate active transfers from a grouped offline library, move missing files to Needs attention with Download again, and open movies and series in focused offline details with saved metadata. Series show only local episodes; View in portal returns to provider playback when the source can be recovered. Completed-file checks stay responsive on slow or unavailable storage. (#1313)
- downloads — Downloads can be paused and picked up later. A paused transfer keeps what it already fetched and continues from that point instead of starting over, and downloads cut short by a crash or a closed app come back as paused rather than lost. (#1263)
- downloads — Series downloads now let you queue several episodes in a row or add every available episode from the selected season. Already queued, paused, or downloaded episodes are skipped without duplicates, and the app reports the batch result. (#1357)
- embedded-mpv — Experimental Embedded MPV can draw video inside the app window instead of into a separate layer pinned on top of it, so menus, dialogs and the player controls stop being swallowed by the picture. Available on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux x64; switching it on needs a restart. (#1263)
- epg — Channels whose guide never matched can be mapped by hand: right-click a channel in any list and pick "Map EPG channel" to attach it to a channel from your uploaded XMLTV guide. The mapping is remembered and used everywhere the guide is read — M3U playlists, Xtream and Stalker portals alike. (#1263)
- i18n — IPTVnator speaks Hungarian, its 19th language — contributed by @htibcsike. (#1263, closes #1192)
- m3u — MPEG-DASH channels play in the built-in player, ClearKey-encrypted ones included — the keys are read from the playlist's #KODIPROP lines, whether they sit above or below the channel entry. Streams locked with Widevine or PlayReady still cannot be played, but they now say so instead of failing silently. (#1263, closes #86, closes #614, closes #656, closes #733, closes #752)
- playback — The shared player controls' subtitle menu now loads external subtitle files (.srt/.vtt in the built-in web players, plus .ass in Embedded MPV), adjusts the subtitle timing offset in ±0.5 s steps, and sets the subtitle text size and color — size/color persist across sessions and are shared between engines. (#1471, closes #1408)
- playback — The built-in web players' shared controls gain a quality menu: multi-bitrate HLS and DASH streams can be pinned to a specific rendition ("1080p", "720p", …) or left on Auto, which keeps the player's adaptive selection. The menu appears only when the stream actually offers more than one quality, and the choice lasts for the current playback session. (#1470)
- playback — The new player controls are now the default for the built-in web players — one consistent bar with quality selection, external subtitles, subtitle delay and styling, speed, and picture-in-picture. They are touch-friendly too: tapping the video shows or hides the controls instead of pausing, and narrow players get a two-row layout. Prefer the old look? Switch back in Settings > Playback. (#1485, closes #1408)
- playback — An optional new set of player controls that looks and behaves the same in the HTML5, Video.js and ArtPlayer players, with picture-in-picture and, in fullscreen, the name of what you are watching. Enable it in Settings → Playback; left off, each of the three keeps its own controls exactly as before. (#1263)
- playback — The inline player on movie and series pages fills the whole content area like a theater: the video sits centered in black instead of leaving a strip of app background beside it. In the built-in web players, an optional ambient mode fills that space with a blurred, dimmed copy of the poster. (#1263)
- playback — A series playing inline on a wide window shows an "Up Next" rail beside the video: the rest of the season and the start of the next one, the current episode highlighted, watch progress on every card. Click one to jump straight to it. Built-in web players only; switch the rail off in Settings → Playback. ([#1263](#1263...
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Release v0.22.0
v0.22 is one of the biggest IPTVnator releases so far. The embedded MPV player expands from macOS to Windows and Linux, detail pages for movies and series got a full redesign, and the app can now enrich your VOD & series content with TMDB metadata — posters, cast, trailers and more. On top of that: a built-in desktop updater, global search across all your sources, and a reworked live EPG timeline.
✨ Highlights
- Embedded MPV player now available on Windows and Linux (experimental)
- TMDB metadata enrichment (opt-in): plots, cast, trailers, similar titles, actor pages
- Redesigned VOD & series detail pages with a browse ↔ watch layout and season tabs
- Desktop auto-updater — the app now updates itself from GitHub releases
- Global search across all sources, including M3U playlists
- Live EPG panel reworked into a timeline with an optional vertical list view
- Catch-up/archive playback improvements for Xtream
- Custom title bar with window controls on Windows and Linux
- Extensive Electron security hardening
🎬 Embedded MPV Player — now on Windows & Linux (Experimental)
The embedded MPV player introduced for macOS in v0.21 is now available on all three platforms:
- Windows: libmpv rendering directly inside the app window (bundled, no extra install)
- Linux: playback via the system
mpvplayer embedded into the app window (X11/XWayland; requiresmpvon PATH) - Series navigation (next/previous episode) inside the embedded player
- Switch to embedded MPV directly from the command palette
- Stability hardening across the board: EOF detection, safer polling, better error visibility, and the display no longer goes to sleep during playback
The macOS embedded player also received a round of fixes and polish based on v0.21 feedback.
🎞️ TMDB Metadata Enrichment (opt-in)
Movie and series detail pages for Xtream and Stalker portals can now be enriched with TMDB data:
- Plot, genres, ratings, director and cast with photos, artwork and YouTube trailers
- "Similar" rail: TMDB recommendations matched against your catalog — across all your portals
- Trending on the dashboard: a TMDB-powered trending rail with enriched hero artwork
- Real episode names, descriptions and stills for each season
- Actor pages: click any cast member to see their bio and filmography, linked back to your catalog or portal search
- Localized to your app language (falls back to the original language when a translation is missing), cached locally
Enrichment is off by default and requires a personal TMDB API key (free registration at themoviedb.org). Enter your key and enable the feature under Settings → Metadata (TMDB) — titles are sent to TMDB for matching.
📺 Redesigned Movie & Series Detail Pages
Detail pages now have two states:
- Browse: hero section with poster, metadata and actions, episodes below
- Watch: the hero collapses, the inline player takes the full content width, and details move below the episodes
- Season tabs with smart auto-selection (jumps to the season you're watching or resuming)
- Grid/list toggle for episodes, remembered across sessions
Escor "Close player" returns to browse without losing your place
🔄 Desktop Auto-Updater
- IPTVnator now checks GitHub releases and can update itself — no more manual downloads
- Release notes for the current version are shown in the settings
- Fixed a crash in the packaged updater (#1103)
🔎 Global Search
- New workspace-wide search across all your sources — Xtream, Stalker and M3U playlists
- Fixed live search (Ctrl+F) opening the wrong channel or category
🗓️ EPG & Catch-up
- Live EPG panel reworked into a horizontal timeline under the player
- New optional vertical list view for the live EPG panel
- EPG sources can now be scoped per playlist
- Compressed XMLTV responses are now decoded correctly
- Catch-up (Xtream): active archive playback state shown in the EPG, timeshift URL variants resolved automatically, stream output format auto-selected, active archive program highlighted
- Catch-up "Watch" button now works from the unified live tab, with clear errors when a stream can't be resolved
🏠 Dashboard
- Configurable dashboard rails — choose what you want to see
- New "Recently added" live channels rail
- New "Trending" rail powered by TMDB (when metadata enrichment is enabled)
- Faster startup and rail loading
📡 Xtream & Stalker
- Sort and filter the VOD/series catalog by IMDb rating
- New "all channels" grid for Live TV
- Improved compatibility with more portal variants
- Stalker: full playlist loading for authenticated routes
- PWA: Xtream connection details are now saved properly
🖥️ UI & Desktop
- Custom title bar with window controls on Windows and Linux
- Live channels sidebar no longer shares its width with the navigation panel
- Sources page visual polish
🔐 Security
- Extensive Electron hardening: stricter renderer isolation and navigation rules
- Scoped trust controls for EPG sources
- Blocked private-network redirects for portal probes
🧰 Under the Hood
- Large test-coverage push (unit + E2E) and CI now enforces lint and file-size limits on every PR
- Major internal refactorings: typed Electron bridge contract, split EPG/player services, dead code cleanup
- Dependency updates: Angular 21.2.17, axios 1.16.0
- Remote control: volume now applies to built-in M3U players
Full Changelog: v0.21.0...v0.22.0
Release v0.21.0
v0.21 focuses on quality-of-life improvements, performance, and playback experience improvements across the app.
This release also introduces one of the most requested features for macOS users: an experimental embedded MPV player built directly into the app — no additional installation required.
✨ Highlights
- Experimental embedded MPV player for macOS
- Toggleable Live TV sidebar and EPG panel
- Improved command palette
- Better Recently Viewed & Favorites experience
- Performance and loading time improvements
- Multiple Xtream, Stalker, and M3U fixes
🍎 macOS Embedded MPV Player (Experimental)
[macOS only]
IPTVnator now includes an experimental embedded MPV player directly inside the app.
No additional software required — just install and use IPTVnator.
This is an early experimental version and feedback is very welcome.
🧭 Layout & Navigation
- Toggleable sidebar panel for Live TV channels for a more focused viewing experience
- Toggle/collapse EPG panel
⚡ Command Palette Improvements
- Change player directly from command palette
- Added section with 5 recently used actions
⭐ Favorites & Recently Viewed
- Fixed issue where Live TV items appeared favorited by default
- Channels can now be favorited directly from Recently Viewed
- Remove individual channels from Recently Viewed via context menu
- Renamed "GLOBAL Favorites" to simply "Favorites"
📺 Playback & Playlist Management
- Fixed MPV/VLC custom path fallback handling
- Added manual refresh for playlists added from filesystem
- Fixed playlist refresh handling for file-based playlists
📦 Module Improvements
M3U
- Cover size setting (XL / L / M)
- Sorting for “All Channels”:
- by name
- by original playlist order
- Improved channel drag & drop ghost styling
Xtream
- Better unavailable portal handling
- Added clear button to playlist form
- Fixed search when no category is selected
Stalker
- Fixed “14 items” issue
🎨 UI & UX Improvements
- Improved category count badge styling
- Improved “No results found” screen styling
🚀 Performance & Internal Improvements
- Performance improvements to reduce loading times
- Database WAL improvements
- Favorites lookup optimizations
- Refactored settings component
- Additional facade/internal refactors
🌍 Localization
- Added missing translation strings for all supported languages
🛠 Other Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed loading screen issues in download manager
- Fixed reset Recently Viewed for M3U module
⬇️ Download
GitHub Releases:
https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases
💙 Support the project
If you like IPTVnator and want to support further development:
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/4gray
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/4gray
🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who donated and supported the project,
as well as contributors and all the people who tested the app,
provided feedback, reported issues, and shared ideas on how to improve it.
Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0
Release v0.20.0
v0.20 brings a major UI overhaul and improves the overall experience across all modules.
The app now features a unified design for M3U, Xtream, and Stalker, along with a new dashboard that shifts the focus from playlists to content. Navigation, favorites, and search have been reworked to be more consistent and intuitive.
💙 Support the project
If you like IPTVnator and want to support further development:
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/4gray
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/4gray
✨ Highlights
- Unified UI across all modules (M3U, Xtream, Stalker)
- New Dashboard as a content-first starting point
- Reworked Favorites & Recently Viewed
- New Command Palette (
Cmd/Ctrl + K)
🧭 Dashboard & Navigation
- New dashboard screen with basic widgets
- Content-oriented start instead of playlist-first approach
- Configurable:
- Can be disabled
- Choose startup view (default vs last opened)
- Consistent look & feel across all playlists
- Scope-aware search depending on current view
🎛 UI & Settings
- Reworked settings page
- App follows system theme by default
- New UI customization options:
- Toggle dashboard visibility
- Toggle external player bar
- External player bar:
- Control player directly from the app
- Can be hidden in settings
⭐ Favorites & History
- Reworked Favorites and Recently Viewed:
- Channel sorting
- Drag & drop support
- Integrated EPG view
- Fully integrated across all modules
📂 Playlist Management
- Reworked “Add Playlist” dialog:
- Unified dialog with tabs (M3U / Xtream / Stalker)
- Xtream: option to clear form
- Fixed drag & drop import for M3U files
🔎 Search & Discovery
- Consistent category search across all modules
- Xtream:
- Category search
- Preserve hidden categories after refresh
📦 Module Improvements
M3U
- Fully redesigned layout:
- Two-column layout for categories & channels
- Groups view replaces accordions
- Improved consistency:
- Sorting
- Category management
- Channel info dialog available via context menu
Xtream
- Improved account information dialog
Stalker
- EPG support for Live TV
- Channel sorting
⚡ System & Platform
- macOS version is now signed
- Fixed Flatpak version (Linux)
🛠 Other Improvements
- Fixed playback position saving when using VLC
- Fixed M3U drag & drop issues from file system
- Improved account information dialog (Xtream)
- General UI consistency improvements across modules
Full Changelog: v0.19.0...v0.20.0
v0.19.0
IPTVnator v0.19
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This is one of the biggest IPTVnator releases so far, with many fixes, refactorings, and features. A lot of reported issues were addressed in this version. I may still have missed something that was reported.
Thank you to everyone who contributed with ideas, bug reports, improvements, and PRs. Biggest kudos to everyone who supported the project with donations. Thank you!
Changes:
Home
- Added custom playlist sorting with drag-and-drop reordering.
- Added Global Search and Recent Items to the Home header.
- Improved Global Search:
- Enhanced UI with grouped and ungrouped views.
- Added option to include/exclude hidden categories.
- Improved globally recent items:
- Added Stalker support.
- Enhanced UI with grouped and ungrouped views.
- Update and sync Turkish translations by @hasanbeder
M3U
- Added lazy loading and improved handling for large playlists.
- Added Favorites button directly in lists, including group views.
- Added lazy loading in group view.
- Improved global favorites behavior.
- Restored EPG expired programs for catch-up/archive support.
- Added resizable sidebar.
Xtream
- Playback position is now persisted for started VOD and series content.
- Added Download Manager.
- Added sorting options for Live TV channels.
- Added search in VOD/series categories.
- Added sorting in VOD/series categories by name or date added.
- Improved search flow: when returning from results, search phrase and results are preserved.
- Added list view for series.
- Added resizable sidebar.
Stalker
- Playback position is now persisted for started VOD and series content.
- Added Download Manager.
- Added EPG support for Live TV channels.
- When no category is selected, all VOD/series categories are now shown.
- Added list view for series.
- Added resizable sidebar.
- Replaced “Load more” buttons with infinite scroll for Live TV channels.
Remote Control
- Added support for Xtream and Stalker portals.
- Added EPG info for the current program.
- Added channel switching by entering channel number.
Website & Blog
- Added a new landing page: https://4gray.github.io/iptvnator/
- Added a new blog: https://4gray.github.io/iptvnator/blog
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v0.18.0
v0.18 — Release Notes
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Changelog:
🧩 General
- feat: New playlist switcher UI — a unified and cleaner way to switch between playlists
- style: Global favorites moved to the header for quicker access
- style: Sort and filter options merged into a single header menu
📺 M3U
- feat: Improved EPG download and parsing to better handle large EPG files
- feat: Added a popup dialog showing EPG download progress
- fix: Restored quality selector for the Video.js player
🎬 Xtream & Stalker
- style: Improved look and feel of the details view for VODs and TV shows
- fix: Fixed opening favorite items with embedded players
📦 Xtream
- feat: Category management (hide/show categories)
- feat: Display item counts per category
- feat: New separate view for recently added items
- feat: Show recently added items when no category is selected
- fix: Fixed empty categories issue
- fix: Restored import progress counter
🛰️ Stalker
- feat: Added support for playlists that require device IDs and signatures
⚠️ Some playlists are still not supported — more testing data is needed
What's Changed
- refactor/merge-playlist-filter-and-sort-into-one-menu by @4gray in #694
- chore: improve player error handling by @4gray in #698
- feat(db): add shared database library with sql config by @4gray in #701
- refactor(electron-backend): split DB event handlers into modules by @4gray in #702
- refactor: move global favorites to header by @4gray in #703
- refactor/streaming-sax-epg-parser by @4gray in #706
- chore: update nx dependencies by @4gray in #708
- feat/improve-stalker-support by @4gray in #709
- style/visual-improvements-in-vod-and-serials-view by @4gray in #710
- feat/epg-improvements by @4gray in #711
- feat: enhance favorites button and series view with loading states and improved styling by @4gray in #712
- Feat/category management xtream by @4gray in #715
- e2e smoke tests by @4gray in #717
- feat/introduce-playlist-switcher by @4gray in #721
- fix/stalker-favorites by @4gray in #725
- refactor/store-refactoring by @4gray in #724
- fix/pre-release-fixes-v0-18 by @4gray in #726
- ci: run workflows on master branch instead of nx by @4gray in #729
- fix(vjs-player): replace HLS quality plugin and add plugin guards by @4gray in #730
Full Changelog: v0.17.1...v0.18.0
Contributors
Assets 16
v0.17.1
Bugfix Release 🛠️
- Fixed macOS ARM build issues
- Use filename as channel title when importing from file
- Improved readability of playlist metadata line
- Keyboard hotkeys are now ignored while searching for channels
- Restored context menu (cut / copy / paste / select all) for input fields
- Resolved Linux sandbox startup issues (added troubleshooting section to README)
v0.17.0
IPTVnator v0.17.0 🚀
This release brings a fresh look, smoother navigation, and several improvements across M3U, Xtream/Stalker, and the general UI. Plus, a major internal restructuring that sets the stage for faster development in the future.
What's Changed
M3U Improvements
- Display of the current EPG program directly inside the channel list
- Updated look & feel for the EPG sidebar
- Completely reworked UI for multi-EPG view
- Visual refinements to the remote control mode
- Ability to switch channels by typing the channel number on your keyboard
Xtream Codes / Stalker Portal
- Unique look & feel for Stalker (STB) and Xtream Codes (XC) interfaces
- More compact sidebar → more space for channels and categories
- Added option to refresh the Xtream playlist
General Updates
- New empty start page with a redesigned header
- Auto-refresh status indicator in playlist overview
- New option to reuse a single MPV instance when switching channels (faster zapping & less resource usage)
Under the Hood
A lot changed behind the scenes to make future development easier and more stable:
- Fully restructured repository into a monorepo, which is an important foundation for upcoming features
- Updated dependencies across the project
- Improved i18n and translation structure
Note: PWA and Docker images will follow shortly in separate builds.
❤️ Support the Project
IPTVnator was never meant to become anything commercial, it started as a hobby project, and over the last 5 years it became something many people rely on. A lot of time, effort, and love goes into maintaining and improving it.
If you enjoy using IPTVnator and want to support its development, your help would mean a lot:
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Thank you for being part of this journey 🙏
v1.0.0-beta.7
What's Changed
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Reworked Stalker Portal functionality to better align with the Xtream API
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Improved the Favorites view in both Stalker and Xtream UIs
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Favorites in M3U playlists now remain saved after refreshing the playlist
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Added a new video player: ArtPlayer
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Updated dependencies and applied various small fixes and improvements under the hood
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feat; add japanese language support i18n by @kiwamizamurai in #519
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Update README.md (add homebrew install by @whitewatercn in #495
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Update Turkish (tr) translation by @hasanbeder in #516
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feat: add Arabic and Moroccan Arabic language support by @ryanhrh in #535
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Add Dutch language support by @djrobo1989 in #536
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Longwaiting AC3 support by @Kif-Fando in #547
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Adding Belarusian and Polish language. by @Kif-Fando in #545
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Group sorting logic by @Kif-Fando in #553
New Contributors
- @kiwamizamurai made their first contribution in #519
- @whitewatercn made their first contribution in #495
- @ryanhrh made their first contribution in #535
- @djrobo1989 made their first contribution in #536
- @Kif-Fando made their first contribution in #547
- @p20f made their first contribution in #538
See the assets to download this version and install.
