v1.4.0

Highlights

• The new Activity page shows active and completed plays, source delays, provider contributions, recovery activity, and Plex playback context without treating successful fallback as a viewing failure.
• Playback now detects silent or truncated article bodies, retries stalled sequential and pipelined reads on healthy connections, and protects provider capacity for playback while preparation or health checks are busy.

Fixes

• Troublesome NZBs now receive a bounded provider-coverage probe before full verification. Releases that cannot be verified fail promptly with the full reason and time-to-fail visible in Watchdog, while healthy providers retain the fast bulk path.
• Preparation skips files that cannot contribute useful media or recovery metadata, reducing unnecessary first-article work and avoiding delays from irrelevant payloads.
• Health checks preserve completed work when a pipelined provider stalls, grow useful provider capacity on demand, and avoid assigning normal bulk work to providers that failed qualification.
• Multi-volume and season-pack RAR preparation now handles boundary volumes and sparse metadata more reliably.
• Runtime dependencies now use patched releases for recently disclosed web-server, archive, API-schema, and SQLite security issues.

Improvements

• Read-ahead is now configured in MiB instead of article count, providing predictable buffering and memory use across NZBs with different article sizes while automatically adapting the number of prefetched articles per stream.
• Watchdog includes provider probing in the Health and total timings, keeps detailed probe and bulk measurements in the expanded statistics, and presents failure reasons without requiring the statistics panel.
• Queue, Watchdog, activity navigation, and playback status use denser layouts that remain readable on narrow screens.
• Plex connection testing and playback attribution provide clearer evidence about scans, imports, direct play, transcoding, and viewer impact.