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v0.6.0-beta - November 16, 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added Download tracking for media items. These will be included in filter options in future releases.
  • Added a best option for Video Resolution in Trailer Profiles to download the best available resolution. Removed 360p option. See Profiles for more details.
  • Video Info dialog in Media Details page will now show more details about the video, audio, and subtitle streams in the downloaded trailer file, along with YouTube information (if embedded in the video).
  • Added Trim Video option in Media Details page to open the video trim dialog. See Trimming Videos for more details.
  • Removed the Theme Toggle button from Top Navigation bar. Theme can now be changed from Settings > General > Theme and will be saved across sessions and devices.
  • Added a Logout button in Top Navigation bar to allow users to logout from the app.
  • Some of the Settings are now highlighted with warning and danger colors to indicate that changing them may have adverse effects on the app functionality. Please refer to the documentation before changing these settings.
  • Added warning messages in Profiles when incompatible format combinations are selected for File Format, Video Format, and Audio Format. See Profiles for more details.
  • Tasks page in Web UI will now have a link to view logs for each task. Click on the log icon next to the task name to view the logs related to that task.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Improved the Remove Silence feature to better detect silence at the end of the video. See Removing Silence for more details.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Refactored Connection and Media database managers to improve maintainability and readability.
  • Updated at field in Media object will now be updated only when certain fields of the media item are modified (title, year, media_exists, media_filename, folder_path, arr_monitored).
  • Improved performance of Frontend by reducing unnecessary API calls and optimizing data handling.
  • Logging system has been updated to use a context uuid (trace_id) to identify logs of an individual task. This will help in better tracking and debugging of tasks.
  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.11.12 and various other python libraries along with Deno installation required by yt-dlp for solvers.
  • Updated Angular to 20.3.11 and various npm packages.
  • Fixed some color contrast issues in Web UI for better accessibility, and made some minor UI improvements.

v0.5.6-beta - October 31 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Removed the Trailer Profile setting from Profiles as it was redundant and causing confusion. Use Stop Monitoring to control monitoring after download. Only the Profile with Stop Monitoring set to true will save the downloaded video id as the trailer id for the media and mark it as trailer.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Updated Download Missing Trailers task to fix infinite loop and improve logging. Fixes #371.
  • Fixed a bug that caused mp4 conversion to fail when srt subtitles are selected. Fixes #370.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated various npm packages.
  • Updated relevant documentation.

v0.5.5-beta - October 30 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added support for using multiple Profiles for downloading trailers with options: Trailer Profile, and Stop Monitoring. When multiple profiles match a media item, the profile with the highest priority will be used first. See Profiles for more details.
  • Added Custom Save Path option in Profiles to save trailers to a custom path instead of media folder. See Profiles for more details.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that caused FFMPEG conversion failed with exit code 254 error when converting trailers. Fixes #322, and #329.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the app from detecting the downloaded video (caused by yt-dlp downloading video in a different format than selected). Fixes #364.
  • Fixed silence detection to remove the detected silence only at end of video and if it is within the last 30 seconds. Fixes #316.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.10.22 and various other python libraries.
  • Updated FastAPI to 0.120.2 and various python dependencies.
  • Updated Angular to 20.3.7 and various npm packages.
  • Updated relevant documentation.

v0.5.4-beta - August 30 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added && and || logical operators, and media placeholders to Include Words and Exclude Words in Profile Search Settings. See Profile Search for more details. Fixes #304.
  • Requests to Radarr/Sonarr APIs will now include ssl=False to ensure compatibility with SSL and non-SSL endpoints.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that caused download to fail when srt is selected with mp4 as mp4 does not support srt subtitles. Those will be converted to mov_text now. Fixes #293.
  • Added the yt-dlp update process to the startup script to update when enabled.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Made the password reset env WEBUI_PASSWORD parsing more robust to detect improperly escaped quotes. Setting WEBUI_PASSWORD='' or WEBUI_PASSWORD="" will also work and reset the password to default (trailarr). Related to #291.
  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.8.27 and various other python libraries.
  • Updated relevant documentation.

v0.5.3-beta - August 27 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added options in yt-dlp and ffmpeg commands to override the existing files, if exists to prevent false download errors due to existing temporary files. Related to #293.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that raised an error after resetting Web UI password using WEBUI_PASSWORD='' Env variable. Fixes #291.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.8.22 that fixed some download issues. Updated various other python libraries.
  • Updated various scripts and documentation related to direct install (on debian based systems only). This is mostly complete. Terminal output during installation needs some work but the installation works.

v0.5.2-beta - August 20 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added a fallback option for moving trailer file to media folder without setting permissions and file attributes (created date, modified date, etc.). Fixes downloading multiple trailers when destination permissions are set to writable without modify. Fixes #285.
  • Added some fallback formats for yt-dlp search and download.
  • Added support for downloading all available subtitles by allowing the sub-langs option to be set to all, and updated the documentation to reflect this new capability. Related to #276.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug in trailer conversion that caused ffmpeg to convert subtitles to ass format when downloaded by providing extra yt-dlp options in profile and disabling subtitles. Now app will detect them and add -c:s copy. Fixes #286.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Search input in UI will now reset upon selecting a result or clearing the results. Fixes #287.
  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.8.20 that fixed some download issues.
  • Upgraded Angular version to 20.2.0.
  • Added scripts and documentation related to direct install (on debian based systems only). This is still a work in progress, improvements underway.

v0.5.1-beta - August 12 2025

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug in video conversion that caused ffmpeg to fail when hardware acceleration is enabled and downloaded video is already in required format. App will now skip conversion and copies the video stream without hardware acceleration.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated yt-dlp to 2025.8.11 that fixed some download issues.

v0.5.0-beta - August 09 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added Intel and AMD GPU hardware acceleration support using VAAPI (Video Acceleration API). 🚀
  • Individual GPU control settings in UI under Settings > General > Advanced. Can now enable/disable each GPU type (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) independently when detected. ⚙️
  • Hardware acceleration priority system: NVIDIA > Intel VAAPI > AMD VAAPI > CPU fallback, ensuring optimal performance based on available hardware. 📊
  • Enhanced container startup logging showing detected GPU hardware, device paths, and VAAPI capabilities for better troubleshooting. 📝
  • Added a check for YT-DLP version in Docker Update Check and display if an update is available in Settings > About. 🔄

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that raised an error when setting Monitor Interval from Web UI. Fixes #273. 🔧
  • Improved GPU device detection and permission handling to prevent access issues. 🔐
  • Fixed container user group configuration to ensure proper GPU hardware access. 👤
  • Fixed a bug that caused video conversion to faile, when subtitles format is set to vtt. 🗒️

Documentation: 📚

  • Updated hardware acceleration documentation with comprehensive setup instructions for Intel and AMD GPUs using VAAPI. 📖
  • Added host system setup requirements and user group configuration instructions for optimal GPU performance. 🏠
  • Enhanced troubleshooting guides with GPU detection commands and permission verification steps. 🔍

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Refactored container entrypoint scripts into modular componentsfor better maintainability and organization into separate functional components. 🏗️
  • Enhanced development container configuration with improved GPU support and package management. 🧪
  • Updated frontend build process and npm dependencies for better performance and security. 📦
  • Streamlined GPU detection logic with fallback mechanisms and robust error handling. 🔄
  • Improved GPU group management with automatic user group assignment for hardware acceleration access (render, video, and device-specific groups). 👥
  • Improved container startup performance through optimized script execution order. ⚡
  • Enhanced exception logging throughout the application for better debugging and error tracking. 🐛

v0.4.4-beta - July 26 2025

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that prevented videos inside a trailers folder as a trailer during Scan Disk for Trailers.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated yt-dlp to include curl_cffi package as it can affect some downloads.
  • Updated python and npm packages.

v0.4.3-beta - July 15 2025

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Refactored YT-DLP Download and FFMPEG Conversion methods to use subprocess.run instead of subprocess.popen to fix deadlocks. Fixes #253. 📂
  • Fixed a bug that was applying Audio Volume level even when it is set to 100.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Upgraded fastapi to version 0.116.1 and replaced the standard extra with standard-no-fastapi-cloud-cli.
  • Updated aiohttp to version 3.12.14.
  • Improved logging for subprocess output in YT-DLP download and FFMPEG conversion. All logs are consolidated into a single DEBUG log.
  • Health check endpoint used by Docker now looks for NVIDIA GPU (if enabled) once an hour!

v0.4.2-beta - July 15 2025

What's New: ✨

  • YouTube search now uses 1080 resolution as 2160 was causing some issues.
  • Logs are now stored in database instead of text files. All Logs are saved to database, change filters to see them. Helps with better handling and supports tying them to media items in future.
  • Logs are stored for 30 days. Old logs will be deleted as part of Cleanup task.
  • Updated frontend Logs section to use logs from database along with tracebacks for errors and above.

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that was reporting trailer download as failed even though download succeeded. Fixes #253. 📂
  • Fixed a bug with FilesHandler that scans for trailers.
  • Fixed a bug in Media Details page that sometimes would not refresh the changes loaded from server.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • All Scheduled Tasks are now async.
  • Normalized database defaults for alembic migrations and added ONDELETE relationships.
  • glightox version used in devcontainer has been corrected.
  • Separated SQLModel base for AppLogs and App models.
  • Corrected openapi path used in Docs from generator script.
  • Setup some PRAGMA options on database engine to make relationships work and improve performance.

v0.4.1-beta - July 06 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added extra delay between Trailer downloads to prevent account bans on new installs. New delays are as follows (along with an additional random delay of 0-60 seconds):

    Download No Delay
    1 - 9 2 mins
    10 - 49 4 mins
    50 - 99 6 mins
    100 - 199 7 mins
    200 - 499 9 mins
    1000+ 10 mins

  • Added a Refresh button on Media Library pages - Gets updated Media list from server.

  • Media Files in Media Details page are now loaded on demand. You now have to click on the Files section to display them. Saves some IO bandwidth!
  • Increased Session Timeout to 15 minutes (12 minutes + 3 minutes to extend).

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that added an incorrect end slash on Windows Path Mappings. Fixes #250. 📂
  • Updated Default login details in Docs to change password to trailarr, as it was incorrectly said admin. Related to #248.
  • Fixed a bug in Media Details page that sometimes would not refresh the changes loaded from server.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Added some extra details to Docs.

v0.4.0-beta - July 04 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Trailer download method has been updated to use the new download method by default. Old download method has been removed. Rewritten the other parts of download method that weren't updated in v0.3.0-beta. 🎉
  • If a trailer conversion fails, app will now try to convert it again without hardware acceleration. This will help in cases where hardware acceleration fails due to unsupported codecs or other issues. ✨
  • Trailer Profiles have been added for downloading trailers in different formats. Opening up new possibilities for downloading trailers in different formats. See Docs for more details. Fixes #79 and #218. 🎥
  • Download and Search buttons in Media Details now opens a dialog to select a Trailer Profile. 📥
  • Video and audio formats in Trailer Profiles can be set to copy to avoid re-encoding the video and audio streams. This will speed up the download and conversion process. Use with mkv file format for better compatibility. Fixes #204. 🎞️
  • Added a new setting in Profiles for Include Words to filter for certain words to exist in the trailer title. 📝
  • Added season_count to the Media object to indicate the number of seasons for a series. This will help in filtering series based on the number of seasons, and can be used to download Season specific trailers for a Series (does not work yet, need more changes to make this work). 📺
  • Updated Path Mappings to get root folders on connection validation and show a selection to select a path within container if it doesn't already exist!
  • Added a Getting Started section with detailed instructions on installing Trailarr along with Volume Mappings and Path Mappings. Various other sections in the Docs have been rewritten/updated to reflect changes in the app. 📚

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that caused the yt-dlp version in Settings > About to not show the correct version. 🔄
  • Fixed some bugs related to download method and setting media status. Fixes #177. 🐍
  • Updated the Docker Update Check task to use github release tag instead of Dockerhub tags, as Dockerhub API is rate limited and causes the task to fail. ♻️

  • Fixed a bug that caused episode files with trailer in the filename to be detected as trailers. Fixes #235. 📂 Trailarr will now only consider a file as trailer if meets the below criteria:

    • The file should have trailer in the filename.
    • The file is not an episode file (i.e., it does not have SXEX (X can be 0-99) in the filename).
    • The file is in the Media folder or a subfolder that matches one of the Trailer Folder Name from Profiles.
    • Fixed a bug that caused Download button in Media details page to not work in some cases. ⬇️

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Docker healthcheck has been updated to include a check for GPU availability (only if hardware acceleration is enabled). This will help detect if GPU becomes inaccesible from container. 🖥️ Tip: Set restart to always or unless-stopped in your docker-compose file to automatically restart the container becomes unhealthy. 🪫
  • Made internal changes to the Angular app (Web UI) to improve performance and make it more maintainable and reusable. 🚀
  • Updated Angular to v20.
  • Navigating to a new page in Web UI will now reset the scroll position to the top of the page. 📜
  • Added a new section for Trailer Profiles in Settings to manage the trailer profiles. 📂
  • Trailer related settings that are configurable from Trailer Profiles are removed from Settings > Trailer. 🎛️
  • Renamed the Settings > Trailer to Settings > General to better reflect the purpose of the settings. ⚙️
  • Updated various python and npm dependencies to their latest versions. 🔄
  • Swagger UI has been added to the Docs for ease of access. 📖

v0.3.3-beta - March 28, 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Updated yt-dlp to latest version 2025.03.27. 🔄
  • Added option to change the default username. Fixes #160. 🔑
  • Updated internal field options so that browsers can detect them as password fields for Current Password and New Password in Password Update Dialog under Settings > About. 🔑
  • Settings > About page will now show the current version of yt-dlp used by the app. 🔍

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed an issue with yt-dlp not updating on restart even if Update Yt-dlp is enabled. 🔄
  • Fixed a bug that reset the New Download Method setting to false on restart. 🔄

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Updated FastAPI from 0.115.11 to 0.115.12, npm from 11.1.0 to 11.2.0, Angular from 19.2.1 to 19.2.5 and various other python and npm dependencies.
  • Refactored Dockerfile to remove gosu package and use su command instead for switching to non-root user. This fixes many CVEs related to gosu package, improving security. 🐳
  • Moved scripts inside docker image from /app to /app/scripts to avoid conflicts with app files. 🗂️

v0.3.2-beta - March 09, 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Trailer filenames now support titles with non-ASCII characters. Restricted characters are <>:"/\\|?*\x00-\x1F. Fixes #106, #141 🌍
  • Additional options added to use in Youtube Search Query and Trailer Filename fields. See Docs for available options. Fixes #119 📝
  • Added Custom Filters to Home, Movies and Series pages. 📊
  • Added a delay (between 100 - 150 seconds randomly) between trailer downloads to avoid rate limiting from YouTube. Fixes #139 🕒

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that deletes all media items in database when Arr Data Refresh task fails to get data from an arr API. 🐍
  • Fixed a bug related to sorting with date values in Home, Movies and Series pages. 📅
  • Fixed some bugs related to data refresh for keeping Frontend and Backend in sync. 🔄
  • Fixed a bug related to URL_BASE setting not getting updated in the frontend. 🌐
  • Added a check to verify downloaded trailer duration is within specified limits. Fixes #128 🕰️

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Added extra attributes to the Media object for clean_title, studio, title_slug, media_exists, media_filename. 📝
  • Some routes and components are now lazy-loaded to improve performance. 🚀
  • Upgraded Angular from 19.1.4 to 19.2.1, FastAPI from 0.115.7 to 0.115.11 and various other python and npm dependencies. 🔄
  • Updated Docs for Youtube Search Query and Trailer Filename fields, added a note regarding use of YouTube cookies for new installations. 📝

v0.3.1-beta - February 08, 2025

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Fixed a bug that deletes all media items in database when Arr Data Refresh task fails to get data from an arr API. 🐍

v0.3.0-beta - February 06, 2025

What's New: ✨

  • Added support for Hardware Acceleration using NVIDIA GPUs. See Docs on how to enable! 🚀
  • Completely rewritten the trailer download and conversion process for better performance and reliability. Can be enabled in Settings > Experimental > New Download Method 🔄
  • Added batch edit in Movies and Series pages to quickly edit multiple items at once. Available options: Monitoring, Download, Delete 📦
  • Added option for Auto Search 🔍 trailer in Media Details page, along with a Save 💾 option to save the updated trailer id without downloading. 🕵️
  • Clicking on a file in Files section will now show options to ▶️ Play, ℹ️ Video Info, 🗑️ Delete and ✏️ Rename the file. 📁
  • Added a task to scan all root folders for trailers. 🔍
  • Trailer download status will be updated as they progress, instead of all at once in Download Monitored Trailers task. 🔄
  • av1 conversion has been disabled. If av1 is selected, app will try to download in av1 directly if available, else fallback to vp9. 🚫
  • pgs subtitles are no longer supported. 🚫
  • Remove SponsorBlock option has been removed. Use Remove Silence instead 🚫
  • Added a new setting Update Yt-dlp to update yt-dlp to the latest available version during container startup when enabled. 🔄
  • Added an experimental option to set URL Base for use with reverse proxies. 🔄

Bug Fixes: 🐛

  • Tasks will be run in a different thread than the main process to avoid blocking the UI. 🧵
  • Databse sessions will be retried if a write fails due to database being locked. 🗃️
  • Youtube Trailer Search will also use the cookies file if provided.
  • Trailers stuck on Downloading status will be reset during Files Scan task.
  • Updated the Arr URL field in Add/Edit connections to make it work with reverse proxy URLs.
  • Fixed a bug that ignored the Series trailers when Trailers Folder Series is disabled.

Other Changes: ⚡

  • Trailarr nightly builds are now available for testing. 🌙
  • Download trailer will show a [Debug] log for using cookies file.
  • Added [Debug] logs for Arr Data Refresh task.
  • Trailer Cleanup task will now run once a day instead of every 6 hours.
  • Updated the Arr Refresh Task to process media in chunks to speed up the process.
  • Updated the Movies and Series pages to keep them in sync with the server.
  • Settings > About page will not include the number of trailers available in media folders.
  • Silence Removal will now leave 2 extra seconds before trimming the video. 🎶
  • Clicking on API Key in Settings > About will now copy the key to clipboard. 📋
  • App will now use /app/tmp instead of /tmp as temporary directory for downloading and converting trailers. 📂
  • Updated Docs for downloading trailer in a specific language.
  • Added permanent invite link to Discord server.
  • Updated FastAPI from 0.115.6 to 0.115.7, npm from 10.9.1 to 11.1.0, Angular from 19.0.1 to 19.1.4 and various other python and npm dependencies.
  • Updated Common Issues with File Access Slowness and Workaround for Windows users, and Cookies file not working. 🐢
  • Updated various other sections in the Docs to reflect the changes in the app.