5.1.1.210329 available (29th March)

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I've just posted the new NextPVR v5.1.1.210329 release.

For information on installing on the various platforms....
Windows: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59388
Linux: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
Mac: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59395
Docker: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59393

Please post any support questions in v5 support forum https://forums.nextpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=17.

Improved management of sessions, allowing them to survive restarts of the service
Improved support for downloading gzipped xmltv files during IPTV channel scan
Improved support for DVB EPG systems using Extended Event Descriptor
Improved resiliency for brief outages when streaming/recording from m3u8 streams
Now storing more information about recently deleted recordings (for better decision making in the future)
Updated version check APIs to use https
By default scanning is only available authenticated sessions (clients that have logged in), but there is a new check box on the Settings->Access screen to allow unauthenticated streaming (from VLC etc)
Improvements to UI Clients image compression.
Removed unnecessary logging
Added the ability to enable/disable a recurring recording in the web app.
Added a checkbox to control whether NextPVR will scan for new devices at startup.
Added support for SCTE stuffing tables, which was stopping playback of some channels working for a user
Added content-length and more accurate content-type reporting in stream HEAD request.
Added better logging for UI client
Added obfuscation on a couple of log messages that could leak IPTV credentials
Added the ability to disable DVB EPG collection from specific frequencies (for situations like you DVB network carries all the EPG on a single frequency), giving potentially faster EPG updates
Added the DigitalDevices CI checkbox for DVB-S device (previously was only showing up for DVB-T/DVB-C)
Added streaming support in api for playback of some media types not previously supported.
Added support for 'spread' mode across multiple directories on Linux/Mac
Added ability to run UI Clients at different resolutions.
Fixed issue with unexpected exceptions in event notification
Fixed issue with stutter on high bitrate ATSC channels in live TV in NextPVR.exe
Fixed issue with NScriptHelper.deps.json being missing
Fixed issue with mouse pointer going missing when viewing NextPVR.exe settings screen.
Fixed issue with some UI client events going to the wrong client (or all clients)
Fixed issue with Exit menu button with UI client
Fixed an issue with artwork clipping on Recordings page, for recordings that incorrect aspect ratio artwork
Fixed issue with CI checkbox not correctly loading it's state when the device popup was shown
Fixed issue with saving the EPG Scan Seconds in the DVB EPG settings
Fixed issue where year-based season numbers were not being treated as season numbers. (ie S2021E14)
Fixed a couple of minor api issues
Fixed issue with DVB/Teletext subtitles on linux.
Fixed tv guide title overlap with long show titles
Fixed issue with 'Exit' menu item sometimes not working from UI Clients
Fixed issue with web server sometimes failing to serve content because it was asking for read/write access to file, rather than just read only.
Fixed issue with backend api for showing device mappings in the web UI
Fixed issue with persisting session IDs
Fixed issue with a small number of UK TV listings splitting the description across title and description using '...' continuation characters