v5.3.0

5.3.0 (2026-08-19)

Features

• filters: score releases by NZB size, age and grabs (f65ff3f)
• metadata: full-quality landscape backgrounds on catalogs and metas (a379767)
• stremio: smarter Because You Watched seeding, paging, and dedup (7718df3)
• unpack: play obfuscated releases by recovering names from PAR2, yEnc and content signatures (da40796)

Bug Fixes

• history: report short-circuited searches instead of a bare no-results (f65ff3f)
• indexer: apply global indexer proxy changes without a restart (f65ff3f)
• playback: tier missing articles instead of stalling a full-length 206 (64284ba)
• search: gate unaired episodes on real air times, per stream (f65ff3f)
• unpack: treat a compressed archive as a definitive bad-release verdict (e63f7e5)

Performance Improvements

• loader: give direct playback the deep read-ahead window (eff9c45)
• usenet: fetch articles in one round trip and decode in one pass (42792ce)