memby/CHANGELOG.md

0.2.51 — 2026-08-11

• Improved: For You now begins loading after Home arrives, so its personalised rows are usually ready before you open it.
• Fixed: Frequent screen updates can no longer repeat network requests, navigation, analytics, timers or other background work.
• Fixed: Cancelled Home, For You, Search, detail and screensaver requests can no longer replace newer results or show a stale error.
• Fixed: App updates now keep one download and installer attempt across screen and activity recreation instead of starting again.
• Fixed: Settings choices are saved even when you leave Settings immediately after making them.
• Fixed: Delayed D-pad focus, long-press, pagination, retry and permission actions now use the current screen state rather than an older callback.
• Improved: Screen data is now collected with the active lifecycle, avoiding unnecessary work while a screen is stopped.

0.2.50 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: Playback reports are now serialised, and final stop positions are protected from out-of-order requests.
• Fixed: Home, preferences, themes and detail screens now recover automatically with bounded retries.
• Fixed: Retries can no longer cause request storms, duplicate media requests or repeated alert actions.
• Fixed: Useful cached content remains visible when refreshes or later result pages fail.
• Fixed: Network requests now have explicit loading, success, empty and failure states, with retry actions where appropriate.
• Fixed: HTTP 429 responses now respect the server's Retry-After delay.
• Fixed: Malformed and partially populated objects are safely filtered before reaching the interface.
• Fixed: Rate limits, partial payloads and durable playback stops now have regression coverage.
• Fixed: Resuming playback now cancels delayed background stop work before reporting the session as active again.
• Fixed: Refreshed streams and subtitle-driven stream changes now close superseded playback sessions and start their replacements in order.
• Fixed: Cancelled or stale stream, retry and subtitle requests can no longer overwrite a newer playback attempt.
• Fixed: Enabling burned-in subtitles no longer lets the hidden video continue and then jumps back to an earlier position when the stream is ready.
• Fixed: Playback now waits for a slow next-episode lookup, and auto-advance resets subtitle, preview, intro, credits, artwork and session state for the new episode.
• Fixed: Player construction and synchronous media preparation failures now show recoverable Retry and Exit actions instead of closing the player.
• Fixed: The pre-roll player remains idle while the main programme is playing, avoiding a second prepared decoder after hand-off.
• Fixed: Repeated screensaver Play presses are gated, and a new single-task player intent now deliberately replaces the current playback.
• Fixed: Playback position, stream identity, selected tracks and episode details now survive activity and process recreation.
• Fixed: Natural playback completion now returns to the screen that launched the player instead of clearing the task back to Home.

0.2.49 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: D-pad focus now stays visible and predictable across My Shows, Settings, profile management, the TV calendar, detail pages and changing home rows.

0.2.48 — 2026-08-11

• Improved: The TV calendar is now a modern weekly guide with artwork, title logos and clear season-premiere and finale labels.
• Added: Home-screen metadata now shows the sound profile, including mono, stereo, 5.1 and 7.1.

0.2.47 — 2026-08-11

• Fixed: A television signed out because its version has been retired now stays on the update screen — across a restart, and while the server is slow to answer — instead of falling back to a welcome and sign-in it could never get past.

0.2.46 — 2026-08-11

• Added: A TV calendar on the navigation rail — the month ahead as a grid, with the focused day's episodes beside it, so you can see when a show comes back.
• Added: A television signed out because its version has been retired now goes straight to the update screen, instead of showing a sign-in that could never succeed.
• Improved: In Settings, pressing Up at the top of a page returns to the page list rather than doing nothing.
• Fixed: The home screen could close itself when a row or a card arrived twice from the server. The same fault could close the cast list, search results, similar titles and episode lists.
• Fixed: Pressing down through the rows on Home and TV Shows could stop part way and refuse to go any further until you left the page.
• Fixed: Play could stop responding for the rest of the session if starting a title failed early, with nothing on screen to say why.
• Fixed: A title the server could not supply a stream for now says so, instead of flickering and returning to where you were.
• Fixed: Back now leaves the "starting playback" screen, rather than waiting out a server that has stopped answering.
• Fixed: Dismissing one of your alerts takes effect immediately, so a slow connection no longer invites a second press.
• Improved: Genre and search shelves no longer stop loading further pages when the server repeats a title across a page boundary.
• Improved: Memby uses less memory on a television left on for weeks at a time.

0.2.45 - 2026-08-10

• Bug fixes

0.2.43 — 2026-08-10

• Fixed: App no longer crashes.
• Fixed: Manual surround-sound choices now reliably override the automatically detected audio output.

0.2.42 — 2026-08-10

• Added: Memby's own opening clip now plays while the app is starting up.
• Added: Surround sound passthrough for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos, DTS, DTS-HD and TrueHD, with automatic detection and manual receiver overrides.
• Improved: Unsupported surround tracks are decoded to PCM on the TV, and audio conversion no longer makes Emby re-encode otherwise compatible video.
• Fixed: Colour schemes now repaint the whole app. The home screen, Settings, Search and the opening screen only followed a theme in part.
• Improved: A far wider range of welcome lines and opening messages, so the same one comes round much less often.
• Improved: The opening screen is no longer rebuilt as Memby moves between start-up steps.

0.2.40 — 2026-08-10

• Improved: Video playback recovers more reliably from decoder failures and prolonged buffering.
• Improved: Memby's short pre-roll is prepared in advance for faster playback starts.
• Added: A libmpv compatibility fallback for videos Media3 cannot decode or read.
• Fixed: Shows opened from the upcoming schedule now resume from the viewer's latest episode progress.

0.2.39 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: HEVC playback performance
• Added: Cast panels now mark deceased performers and open biographies and filmographies.
• Added: An optional confirmation before the Back button closes Memby.
• Improved: Reviewed D-pad navigation across the Android TV experience and documented follow-up work.
• Fixed: Continue Watching now keeps its saved position and shows Resume instead of Play.

0.2.38 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Ratings are larger and easier to read.
• Improved: Genre cards now use the same poster format as home-screen rows.
• Improved: The Memby rail logo now animates when opening every section.
• Improved: The user switcher now shows each profile's initials.
• Added: The About screen now shows the connected Emby gateway version.
• Changed: The genre browser is now controlled by the server and is off by default while its layout is refined.
• Fixed: The automatic home-screen artwork setting no longer reverts to posters.
• Fixed: Watched changes now appear on posters immediately, just like favourite changes.

0.2.37 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Browse films and TV shows from colourful genre cards with clearer, consistent categories.
• Improved: Genre pages now keep their place and show Favourite changes immediately after returning from a title.
• Improved: App updates now show a brief confirmation instead of a full-screen release-notes panel.
• Fixed: Episodes without their own cast information now use the series cast in the player.

0.2.36 — 2026-08-09

• Improved: Browse all movies or TV shows alongside individual genres, with clearer navigation and paging.

0.2.35 — 2026-08-09

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.34 — 2026-08-09

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.33 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.32 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.
• Backend improvements.

0.2.31 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.30 — 2026-08-08

• General bug fixes and improvements.

0.2.29 — 2026-08-07

• Fixed: A small bug with new seek previews.
• Fixed: Skip Intro and Outro Credits were not appearing in some cases.

0.2.28 — 2026-08-07

• Added: Skip outro credits
• Added: Themes for Halloween, Christmas and Easter.

0.2.27 — 2026-08-06

• Added: Skip Intro button
• Fixed: Player improvements & bug fixes
• Fixed: Gateway bug fixes & improvements
• Fixed: Homepage hero relevancy
• Fixed: Related titles showing up empty often
• Fixed: You can add another user to the television again, from Manage users

0.2.26 — 2026-08-05

• Improved: Ratings are more accurate and easier to read.
• Fixed: Continue Watching now keeps the right order as you watch.
• Fixed: Film and show pages no longer display incorrectly.
• Fixed: The loading screen no longer appears when you skip forward or back.

0.2.25 — 2026-08-05

• Added: Left and right on the remote skip back and forward while you watch.
• Added: You can choose whether one press skips 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
• Added: You can search for and add subtitles without leaving what you are watching.
• Added: A cast button in the player shows who is in the scene.
• Added: Episode lists now show when each episode aired.
• Improved: Ratings now show the IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd and TMDb logos.

0.2.24 — 2026-08-05

• Fixed: The centre button on the remote pauses straight away instead of taking two presses.
• Fixed: Reinstalling Memby on a television replaces it in your devices list instead of adding another one.
• Fixed: Removing a television from Devices now clears it from Emby as well.
• Improved: The subtitle menu is quicker to read and easier to move around.

0.2.23 — 2026-08-04

• Added: Turning subtitles off, and the language you pick, are saved to your account.
• Added: Tags showing whether a show is continuing, has ended, or is still in cinemas.
• Improved: Settings is simpler, darker and easier to read.
• Fixed: The Play button on the Home screen is no longer squashed by long titles.

0.2.22 — 2026-08-04

• Fixed: Updates no longer fail with a warning about an untrusted release key.
• Fixed: Updates now install on televisions where they previously did nothing.
• Added: Memby asks for permission to install updates while you are setting up.
• Added: Instructions for televisions that have no install permission screen.
• Improved: You are now told clearly when an update fails.

0.2.20 — 2026-08-04

• Added: A warning appears when Memby cannot reach your Emby server.
• Added: Your settings are saved to your account and restored on any television you sign into.
• Added: Title logos, auto-play and the ten-minute reminder are saved for each person.

0.2.17 — 2026-08-03

• Added: Episodes in Continue Watching now open their own page.
• Improved: Resume buttons show which episode you are up to.

0.2.16 — 2026-08-03

• Added: You can rename or sign out televisions from Settings → Devices.
• Added: Optional ratings on film pages.
• Added: A version history in About, so you can see what changed.
• Improved: The navigation rail stays visible while you are in Settings.

0.2.0 — 2026-05-01

• Added: Instant search with an on-screen keyboard.
• Added: Alerts for newly added titles, library updates and server outages.
• Added: Personalised "Why you might enjoy it" suggestions on film and show pages.
• Improved: Film and series pages now share one layout.
• Improved: Home screen rows can change without updating the app.