Lume 3.0.0

✨ New Features

• Lume Cloud: an optional, end-to-end encrypted sync service alongside iCloud. It keeps profiles, watch progress, favorites and playlists in sync, including with Lume for Android
• Choose how to sync your library on first launch: iCloud, Lume Cloud or Don't Sync
• Sync Now button in Settings › Sync
• Watched badges on posters and episode rows

⚡ Improvements

• Switching to Lume Cloud now explains that your other Apple devices follow once they run the latest Lume
• Poster cards stay aligned when a title wraps onto two lines

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skip Intro stays reachable after the player controls appear
• Newly listed episodes show their synced watch state right away
• Fixed favorites, category order and other settings that could go missing or come back after being removed with Lume Cloud
• Lume Cloud now recovers by itself when its sync state goes stale
• Fixed a crash in iCloud sync after a Mac wakes from sleep
• Without Lume Pro, only your first playlist is usable, including playlists synced from other devices

🔧 Under the Hood

• Sideload builds now include the Simkl and MDBList integrations
• Updated UI and unit tests, plus localization catalog upkeep

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v3.0.0

Lume 2.8.0

✨ New Features

• Chromecast support on iPhone and iPad
• Dispatcharr can now be used as a recording server
• MDBList watched sync and watchlist integration
• Jellyfin shows are organized by season, with a source picker for multiple versions
• Keyboard shortcuts in the player on macOS and iPadOS
• Opt-in quality switch for live channels
• Sports game cards reopen on the last channel you watched
• Cast warns you when a video's audio won't play on the receiver

⚡ Improvements

• The Cast screens are now translated into Arabic

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Your resume point is saved when the app is closed during playback
• Resuming asks again where to continue and marks the source you last used
• Player controls stay visible while a player menu is open
• An expired OpenSubtitles session renews instead of showing you as signed out
• Xtream live channels now cast correctly
• The Home hero fits the screen and its artwork extends into the side safe areas
• Top Shelf lists recently watched series like Home does and drops removed items
• Add Language is now available in macOS settings

🔧 Under the Hood

• The Top Shelf extension now declares arm64 support (fixes tvOS upload validation)
• Version bumped to 2.8.0 (build 34)

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.8.0

Lume 2.7.0

✨ New Features

• Home Screen widgets for Continue Watching, Favorites and On Now on iPhone and iPad
• tvOS Top Shelf with Continue Watching and Favorites, configurable as rows or a carousel, and picking a title opens its detail screen
• Silo supported as a media-server source
• Arabic localization with a full right-to-left layout
• Release year shown on movie and series detail screens

⚡ Improvements

• Redesigned tvOS Settings with the Live TV-style sidebar, backdrop and smoother focus
• Lume Pro settings laid out in two columns on Apple TV

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Live TV channel rail on Apple TV keeps its focus when you scroll fast
• Top Shelf channel logos render as clean tiles, and Top Shelf content loads reliably on a real Apple TV

🔧 Under the Hood

• Version bump and project file housekeeping

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.7.0

Lume 2.6.0

✨ New Features

• Catch-up and replay for M3U playlists that declare an archive per channel
• Watch from Start for a programme that's currently airing, from the guide and programme details
• Customizable subtitle styles (size, font, colour, background, edge, position) with a live preview
• Optional landscape rotation on iPhone while the player is open
• Option to hide live TV channels from the Recently Watched row on Home

⚡ Improvements

• Smarter recovery when a Lume Engine stream fails: auth errors refresh the link, overloaded servers get a gentler retry, missing streams stop right away
• Fewer "403" errors on channel switches for accounts with a connection limit
• Tapping a live programme in the guide still plays it live, with Watch from Start offered beside it

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Downloaded movies and episodes play offline again after an app update
• On iPhone, the player turns back to portrait before it closes

🔧 Under the Hood

• Faster worktree setup for development

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

Lume 2.5.0

✨ New Features

• Volume and mute control in the macOS player, with Cmd+Up/Down and Cmd+Option+Down shortcuts
• Optional Downloads row on Home, with See All
• Option to hide Favorites and Recently Watched from the Live TV rail, synced over iCloud

⚡ Improvements

• No changes in this category.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the tvOS category rail jumping back to the top on fast scrolls
• Fixed blank tabs (such as Sports) when opened from the iPhone "More" list

🔧 Under the Hood

• README: App Store badge on its own row, GitHub Sponsors badge
• Release version bump

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0

Lume 2.4.0

✨ New Features

• Record live TV to your own self-hosted LumeRecorder server (Lume Pro)
• Schedule upcoming programmes from the guide and browse a Recordings library
• Setup guide for LumeRecorder linked from Recording Server settings (a QR code on Apple TV)
• New Live TV settings category with layout, recording server and sidebar options
• iPhone, iPad and Mac guide now uses the same programme cards as Apple TV
• Long-press (or right-click) a programme to watch, record or see details
• Optional Recordings and Multi-View toolbar buttons that fold into one menu when space is tight

⚡ Improvements

• Unpair and Remove for recording servers merged into a single "Remove Server"
• Removed the playback Live Activity; the system Now Playing controls remain

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Streams keep playing when automatic Picture in Picture starts on iOS
• Closing the Picture in Picture window now ends playback cleanly

🔧 Under the Hood

• Sideload builds pinned to LumeEngine v0.3.2 and LumeRecorder v0.1.1
• Live TV navigation title cleanup
• README badge and release version bump

Full Changelog: v2.3.1...v2.4.0

Lume 2.3.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Channel previews in the Guide and Multi-View no longer switch your TV's display mode, so the screen stops blacking out when you change channels with Match Content on
• Clearer Multi-View description: each tile can come from a different playlist, which helps when your provider allows only one connection per account

🔧 Under the Hood

• Reorganized shared interface components (no behavior change)
• Reverted unrelated translation file churn

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.3.1

Lume 2.3.0

✨ New Features

• Live channel preview in the tvOS Guide
• Redesigned tvOS Live TV screen built around the live preview
• Channel switches hold the last frame instead of flashing to black
• tvOS Guide preview now defaults to Small; "Regular" is renamed "Large"
• Cleaner poster cards without the redundant Live badge

⚡ Improvements

• No changes in this category.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Live channels now play on Xtream accounts that only allow certain stream formats
• tvOS Live TV glow picks up colour from bright logos and updates on every channel switch
• tvOS category sidebar opens on its first category without a flash
• tvOS category sidebar stays inside its panel
• tvOS Guide rows spaced as designed
• Removed the extra border around channel logos in the EPG
• tvOS 18 Guide: you can leave the category rail again, and the Guide opens at the current time

🔧 Under the Hood

• LumeEngine updated to v0.3.1
• A LumeEngine tvOS audio-route change was tried and reverted
• Updated the tvOS EPG screenshot

Full Changelog: v2.2.2...v2.3.0

Lume 2.2.2

✨ New Features

• No changes in this category.

⚡ Improvements

• Smoother app with large catalogs: tabs you haven't opened for a minute stop updating in the background
• The iOS Home hero carousel uses much less CPU while it's on screen
• Deleting a large playlist is faster and no longer risks running out of memory, especially on Apple TV
• Stalker portals no longer re-save the whole catalog on every sync when nothing changed
• The image cache is capped at 500 MB instead of growing without limit
• Sports screens find the matching channels much faster and show the next day and a half first

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash on launch on iOS 18, macOS 15 and tvOS 18 introduced in 2.2.0

🔧 Under the Hood

• Release v2.2.2 (build 27)

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.2.2

Lume 2.2.1

⚡ Improvements

• Much less time behind the sync screen: Xtream refreshes skip catalog sections that haven't changed
• Catalog downloads from Xtream and Stalker are processed off the main thread, so the app stays responsive while syncing
• Smoother channel surfing: zapping no longer saves on every channel switch
• Faster channel up/down in the player
• Trakt and Simkl history imports no longer freeze the UI
• Faster opening and resuming, with fewer iCloud writes when switching apps
• Faster Sports matching and recommendations on large catalogs
• More efficient network connections

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Lume being closed in the background by iOS (the long-standing background-kill crash since 1.9.0)
• The TV Guide no longer goes blank while it refreshes
• Titles your provider removed are now actually cleaned up during sync
• Typing with the iPhone Remote keyboard in tvOS Search no longer deletes letters
• Faster, glitch-free typing in tvOS Search
• The Search field now always shows on iPhone and iPad, without opening the keyboard by surprise
• tvOS — Categories & Channels in Settings stays open instead of jumping back to Profiles
• tvOS — Moving down from the Settings tab now lands in the sidebar

🔧 Under the Hood

• LumeEngine (beta) updated to v0.3.0
• Performance benchmark updates and documentation

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.2.1