v0.3.0
Altmount v0.3.0
This release focuses on streaming performance, import reliability, health monitoring, Stremio integration, and Windows support, along with dozens of bug fixes and usability improvements.
🚀 Performance & Streaming
Streaming performance has been significantly improved:
- Faster playback startup times (reduced time-to-first-byte).
- New async read-ahead buffering for smoother video playback.
- Lower memory usage in the FUSE layer (up to ~56% reduction).
- Reduced Usenet round-trips during imports and metadata processing.
- Improved Blu-ray ISO playback support.
- Background loading of segment cache catalogs to speed up startup.
- Automatic balancing of import connections to prioritize active streams.
📥 Importer Improvements
The importer received a major reliability overhaul:
- Better handling of obfuscated and multi-volume RAR releases.
- Support for additional legacy archive naming schemes.
- Improved PAR2 recovery handling.
- Detection and rejection of files with missing yEnc segments to avoid corrupt imports.
- Configurable NZB compression and retention.
- Faster import validation and segment checking.
- Improved queue prioritization and import scheduling.
- Better support for Windows paths and cross-device file moves.
- Improved ARR integration and import stability.
🩺 Health Monitoring & Repair
Health checking has become much more powerful:
- Completely redesigned Health dashboard.
- Provider health scores and historical telemetry.
- Automated provider speed tracking.
- More accurate corruption detection.
- Improved repair workflows and conflict handling.
- Streaming failure masking controls.
- Playback impact classification for missing video segments.
- Bulk operations and filtered selection support.
- Better Windows path handling.
- Automatic ARR metadata discovery for repairs.
🎬 Stremio Integration
Stremio support saw major upgrades:
- Instant mount support.
- API key authentication.
- NZB-by-URL support.
- Episode selection for season packs.
- Improved season pack discovery.
- Better duplicate prevention.
- Active stream visibility in the dashboard.
- Improved release-name detection.
🤖 ARR Ecosystem
Expanded support and better integration with ARR applications:
- Added support for:
- Lidarr
- Readarr
- Whisparr
- Sportarr
- More reliable webhook processing.
- Improved blocklisting and metadata matching.
- Better retry behavior and queue cleanup.
- Faster re-searches after failed imports.
- More accurate handling of Radarr movie re-additions.
🌐 User Interface & Dashboard
Numerous usability improvements:
- Progressive Web App (PWA) support.
- Queue sorting preferences are now remembered.
- Bulk queue priority changes.
- Improved Activity Hub information.
- Health page metadata badges.
- Provider and indexer health consolidated into the dashboard.
- Better configuration screens and setup flows.
- Dynamic configuration updates without restarting Altmount.
- Dynamic log-level changes without restart.
🔌 Providers & Networking
New controls for providers and network traffic:
- Configurable User-Agent headers for NNTP providers and indexers.
- Download quota tracking, limits, usage statistics, and automatic resets.
- HTTP/HTTPS proxy support for NZB traffic.
- Automatic NNTP pipeline tuning.
- Improved provider monitoring and diagnostics.
🪟 Windows Improvements
Native Windows support received substantial improvements:
- Long-path support in the CLI.
- Improved watch directory handling.
- Better library synchronization.
- Optional symlink support.
- Improved mount handling and recovery.
- Numerous path normalization fixes.
🔧 SABnzbd & WebDAV
- Improved SABnzbd compatibility and queue synchronization.
- Better history handling and timeout recovery.
- Improved category mapping support.
- More reliable WebDAV error handling and diagnostics.
- Better support for gzipped NZB files (.nzb.gz).
🐛 Reliability Fixes
This release includes dozens of fixes across:
- FUSE streaming
- RClone integration
- SQLite database maintenance
- Metadata storage
- WebDAV
- NZBDAV
- Queue processing
- ARR integrations
- Stremio
- Windows compatibility
- Provider health tracking
🙌 New Contributors
Welcome to our first-time contributors:
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Compare releases:
https://github.com/javi11/altmount/compare/v0.2.0…v0.3.0
