Release v1.79

Changes in this release

• Add background selection fix to the v1.79 changelog (23563e0)
• Fix background selection showing the wrong image (Enigma2 pixmap cache) (4591d63)
• Bump version to 1.79 (e2381b5)
• Splash screen: stop the progress bar from silently desyncing from its text (5dd5119)
• Speed up EPG matching and lookup, fix an unvalidated temp-cache trust bug (ecfcd99)
• Run the update check on every plugin launch, not just the first one (b661e54)
• Update translations via workflow (ac17d84)
• Apply auto PEP8 aggressive fixes (72bd82c)
• Fix EPG alias matching being entirely dead, and a thread-safety bug (638523e)
• Fix EPG "ID not found" for UK channels (gb vs uk country code mismatch) (25b4a84)