v2.10.0

[giuseppe99barchetta]

This release introduces a new recommendation approval workflow, automated Trakt recommendation jobs, per-user request visibility, and more flexible Seerr configuration.

It also adds new recommendation filters, significantly reduces TMDb requests, and improves the internal database architecture and test coverage.

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✅ Recommendation Approval

• Added an optional approval workflow before recommendations are submitted to Seerr
• Added global approval configuration with per-job overrides
• Added support for approving, rejecting, blacklisting, and retrying recommendations
• Added bulk operations for managing multiple pending recommendations
• Added automatic job pausing while recommendations are awaiting approval
• Added automatic rejection after a configurable number of days
• Added blacklist handling to prevent unwanted titles from being suggested again
• Added support for retrying failed or previously rejected recommendations ([REQ]I don't want it to download anything, I dont want it to delete anything. Any way to just get suggestions? #373)

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🔄 Trakt Recommendations

• Added dedicated automated jobs for Trakt recommendations
• Added support for running Trakt recommendation jobs for individual media users
• Added dedicated filters and request configuration for Trakt jobs
• Preserved the correct media-user context during recommendation processing
• Fixed Seerr identity handling for Trakt-generated requests

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👥 Media Users & Request Visibility

• Added request visibility for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby accounts ([REQ] View recommendations per Plex/Jellyfin account #125)
• Added request filtering by media user
• Added per-user request isolation
• Preserved the originating media user throughout the recommendation and request workflow
• Added support for selecting the Seerr identity used to submit requests ([REQ] New approach for handing off requests to Seerr #261)

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⚙️ Per-Job Request Configuration

• Added per-job server selection
• Added per-job quality profile selection ([REQ] I want to be able to select quality profiles and the default path for the user the auto requests the content #269)
• Added per-job root folder selection ([REQ] I want to be able to select quality profiles and the default path for the user the auto requests the content #269)
• Added per-job Seerr user identity selection
• Improved Seerr profile validation before job execution

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🔍 Recommendation Filters

• Added filters for including only selected genres ([REQ] 'Genres to Include' #255)
• Added an option to suggest only the first movie from a collection ([REQ] Provide an option to only request the first movie of a series #189)
• Added an option to pause jobs when previous suggestions remain unwatched ([REQ] Prevent New Suggests If the User does not watch a suggested content #119)

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🖼 TMDb Cache & Backgrounds

• Added configurable TMDb caching
• Added an endpoint for manually clearing the TMDb cache
• Added two-hour reuse of the backdrop catalog
• Stopped backdrop requests while the browser tab is hidden
• Improved background rotation to reuse locally cached results
• Significantly reduced unnecessary TMDb traffic (high amount of unnecessary requests to TMDB #396)

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🏗 Internal Architecture

• Split DatabaseManager into smaller domain-specific components and mixins
• Preserved the existing public database interface
• Improved separation of database responsibilities
• Reduced the size and complexity of the original database manager
• Improved maintainability for future database changes

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🛠 Fixes

• Fixed Seerr login when the configured URL ends with / ([BUG]Seerr User Login Fails With Correct Details #392)
• Updated cron weekday handling to use standard weekday numbering ([BUG] Crontab implementation is not standard #395)
• Added a Jellyfin fallback from VirtualFolders to MediaFolders
• Fixed Seerr profile validation
• Fixed media-user and request context handling for Trakt jobs
• Improved pending approval, rejection, and retry handling

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🧪 Testing

• Added native Node-based frontend tests
• Added frontend coverage for Requests, Jobs, and approval workflows
• Expanded backend tests for recommendation approvals
• Added coverage for media-user request visibility
• Added coverage for Trakt jobs and per-job Seerr configuration

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📚 Documentation & Interface

• Updated the README with the new recommendation and approval workflows
• Updated the Requests interface
• Updated the Jobs interface
• Updated the Advanced settings interface
• Improved configuration descriptions for approval settings and recommendation filters

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📦 Dependencies

• Updated multiple Python dependencies
• Updated Font Awesome
• Updated GitHub Actions workflows

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🧹 Misc

• General maintenance, internal cleanup, and stability improvements
• Improved request workflow reliability across automatic and manually approved recommendations

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This discussion was created from the release v2.10.0.