IPTV Tunerr v0.1.51

Released: 2026-04-20

What Changed

Sports feed probing now rejects HLS slate playlists correctly: the fast lineup probe now scans the HLS playlist before accepting it, so playlists that advertise #EXTM3U / #EXTINF but point media segments at provider placeholders such as black.ts / blank.ts are pruned before Plex sees them.
The live gateway now blocks placeholder HLS media at tune time: even if a stale cache or future provider change lets a bad row through, Tunerr rejects HLS playlists whose media lines point at known placeholder segments instead of relaying black video to Plex.

Sports placeholder guide rows are pruned without collapsing event coverage: added IPTV_TUNERR_GUIDE_POLICY=drop_placeholders, which removes channels that only have synthetic placeholder programme rows while keeping unlinked or no-programme event rows available for sports use cases.
Deferred guide-policy reapply no longer re-expands placeholder rows: sports guide pruning now stays stable after guide-health recomputes from the filtered guide, avoiding the earlier oscillation between filtered and unfiltered lineups.

Sports deployment uses fresh probe caches and placeholder-only guide pruning: the cluster sports manifest now uses the drop_placeholders policy and sports-lineup-probe-v2 cache files so old bad probe-pass results are not reused.

Source: docs/CHANGELOG.md section for v0.1.51.