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FastChannels 5.3.0

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@kineticman kineticman released this 20 Sep 01:53

✨ New

  • Spectrum scraper — browser-driven login with automatic silent token refresh and re-login, DASH+Widevine playback via the FastChannels Player bridge, stream audit, and LRU session release so channel-surfing doesn't hit the 3-session cap.
  • Gracenote exclusion list to block known-bad station IDs.
  • Bridge page shows tested/supported sources.

🔧 Fixes

  • TVE: Spectrum sign-in fixes for AMCN and Discovery (mso_id honored, Cox falls through to the browser), FOX transient 424 retry, and MVPD auth failures now surface on the TVE status page.
  • FastChannels Player 5.2.9: fixes blank screen on playback errors, Vidaa DRM instability (cached license params, Media3 retry, real crash visibility), and Sling DASH content-block boundary freezes.
  • Worker-freezing unbounded file lock in config_store fixed; DirecTV AllChannels bad-node entitlement guard; Pluto UK region; NBC TVE Cox re-auth; Plex manifest 429 retry; custom-channel Detect button; Feeds modal layout.
  • Pillow bumped to 12.3.0 (CVE-2026-54058).

🗑️ Removed

  • YouTube TV scraper (playback couldn't be made to work; channel/EPG-only wasn't worth shipping).
  • Cox is flagged as sunsetting in the admin UI ahead of the Spectrum transition.

⬆️ Upgrading

No manual steps — pull the new image/tag. Bundled FastChannels Player APK is 5.2.9.