5.1.2.210601 available (1st June)

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I've just posted the new NextPVR v5.1.2.210601 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.

Changes

Added support for VOD for IPTV users. This is accessible via the new VOD menu option in the web app. On the VOD page you can either click an item to watch it, or click download and it'll download it as a recording.
Added support for VOD Extras, for extendable on-demand content from elsewhere
Minor skin improvement to make horizontal menu look better with Direct2D rendering.
Updated versions .net core and dependencies
Minor improvements to date display in search page
Minor improvements to the Settings->Channels page, and group management
Fixed issue with editing existing manual recording in web app
Fixed issue with 'resume' in web app opening a new browser window/tab
QAM channel scan now defaults epg source to 'none', and no longer prompts for EPG update when scanning QAM channels
Fixed bug with QAM channels creating a unique group for every channel
Improvements to CORS support in the web server
Fixed issue with NScriptHelper -rename
Added method=channel.xmltv api for getting listings from NextPVR
Added directoryID to recordings returned from API
Added support different DVB scan file directory on Linux using NEXTPVR_DVBDIR environment variable
Fixed issue with overriding User-Agent on IPTV services that use redirects
Added the ability to force treating a xmltv url as gzipped, by adding &contentType=application%2Fgzip to the url
Improved logging on digital tuners
Fixed a couple of bugs with SAT>IP support
Fixed issue with auto transcode feature
Fixed issue with web server stream seeking behavor
Added new config setting <ScheduleWakeups>, that can be set to 'false' to disable any OS wake up requests
Fixed issue with RollingFile logging, which could cause a scary error message in the log, even though nothing was wrong
Fixed issue with device priority
Fixed issue with channel names that had trailing spaces in channel metadata
Added verbose logging around looking for missing files, to help diagnose issues
Minor tweaks to tuning strings used for DVB-S2 with SAT>IP
Added system.remove.missing api, which can be used from NScriptHelper, to trigger the application to remove missing recordings from the database (when files no longer exist on disk)
Fixed issue with running NScriptHelper on some platforms