Changelog
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Change improve loading speed of shows at startup.
Change improve main execution loop speed.
Add force cast update to view show page.
Add person view.
Add character view.
Add characters, person to clean-up cache (30 days).
Add reload person, character images every 7 days.
Add suppress UI notification for scheduled people updates during show updates and during switching ids.
Add resume support of switched shows after restart that switched id but not finished updating.
Add failed TV info switches to show tasks page.
Add remove item from queue and clear queue test buttons to mange/show-tasks and manage/search-tasks.
Change improve show update logic.
Add to view-show page a notification message if a show fails to switch.
Add check for existing show with new id pair before switching.
Change prioritize first episode start year over the start year set at the tv info source.
Change delete non existing episodes when switching indexer.
Change "exists in db" link on search results page to support any info source.
Add TMDB person pics as fallback.
Add use person fallback for character images.
Add logic to add start, end year in case of multiple characters per person.
Change improve speed getting list in the import view.
Add abort people cast update when show is deleted, also remove show from any queued show item or search item
Support list of names to search for in show search.
Change assist user search terms when the actual title of a show is unknown.
Add support URLs in search.
Change remove year from search term ... year is still used for relevancy order.
Add updating show.nfo when a cast changes.
Change use longest biography available for output.
Add UI requests of details for feb 28 will also return feb 29 in years without feb 29.
Add fetch extra data fallback from TMDB for persons.
technical commit messages (combined commits)
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Add tmdb get_trending, get_popular, get_top_rated, discover to tvinfoapi.
Add home/get_persons ajax endpoint, currently supports: birthday, deathday, names.
Change daily-schedule to new get_episode_time - More TODO
Change view-show to use get_episode_time.
Add get show updates list in show updater.
Add get_episode_time to network_timezones.
Add airtime for episode and show to get_episode_time.
Small ep obj load performance improvement.
Add handle special episodes and assign numbers based on airdate.
Add handle tvmaze specials without airdate.
Change during switch tv info source, specials are removed from db because of non-existing generic numbering.
Change add first/latest regular episode, use first_aired_regular_episode in all places that have airdate of first episode.
Add IMDb to person interface.
Add akas to person.
Add IMDb bio parser.
Add TMDB api for people.
Add character role start/end year to IMDb api and tv character.
Fix updating characters with multiple persons, by limiting to one.
Add cache to imdb_api.py.
Add cache to tmdb_api: get_person, _search_person.
Add cache to trakt get_person, _search_person cache.
Improve main execution loop speed https://stackify.com/20-simple-python-performance-tuning-tips/ point: 12
Add network to episode for tvdb_api (from show data).
Add fallback for network/timezone for tv episode to tv show.
Add skip retrieve_exceptions for tv info sources that don't have 'scene_url'.
Change move network load before show load to make sure the tvshow obj timezone can be set (startup).
Add datetime.time to/from integer to sbdatetime (hour, minute only).
Add load all indexer mapping at once from db during startup.
Add load the failed count during startup.
Change move sanitize_filename to sg_helpers.
Change move download_file to sg_helpers.
Add list_tables, list_indexes to db.py.
Add multi db column add function.
Restore backup tables during upgrade.
Use lib.tvinfo_base import everywhere.
Add new properties to tvepisode.
Add show_updates to indexer endpoint.
Add new db schema.
Add Character and Persons tables.
Add tvmaze_api lib.
Add pytvmaze lib.
Add debug __repr__ to people/show queue.
Add crew to show tvinfo_base.
Drop backup tables for now.
Don't save switch refresh, update show queue items (since they are sub queues of switch).
Remove show from switched_shows in case it is in it when deleting the show.
Use switch queue for manual switch
Load/save updated time for person/Character.
Add show_queue table.
Add _get_item_sql, _delete_item_from_db_sql to search search_queue.
Add people_queue type.
Add people scheduler.
Add people queue.
Add tvinfo source switch queue item.
Alternate naming for person/character images.
Add load and save image/thumb urls for persons.
Add load character pics.
Add save images for characters.
Add save image urls for characters to db.
Change limit for person searches to 100 instead of 10 default.
Add person verification.
Add people_url and character_url to sources that support them.
Add save castlist changes.
Add remove old characters from castlist.
Change optimize find_show_by_id.
Change improve debug info for person, character obj.
Add db_support_upsert support flag in db.py.
Add cast list objs and load from db.
Add parse and add additional images to TVInfo.
Add optional loading of images and actors/crew.
Fix _make_timestamp in py2.
Save and load _src_update_time.
Change use update time for show updates.
Add _set_network optimization.
Add src_update_timestamp to tvshow tbl.
Add updated_timestamp to TVInfoShow.
Add _indexer_update_time TVShow obj.
Add support to search for external ids on TV info sources: [TVINFO_TVDB, TVINFO_IMDb, TVINFO_TMDB, TVINFO_TRAKT].
Change show tasks page, keep remove button for failed switches always visible.
Add use get_url for tvmaze_api interface (to support failure handling), without changing original lib.
Add missing settings in switch show.
Add new switch error: TVSWITCH_ID_CONFLICT: 'new id conflicts with existing show'.
Add messages for manual switch id.
Add connection skip handling.
Add get_url failure handling to Trakt lib.
Add real search_person to tvinfo interface.
Change move TMDB api key to tmdb_api.
Add get_url usage via tmdb_api.
Change join/split of akas/join and sql group_concat to `;;;` to prevent issues with names that may contain comma (`,`).
Add Trakt api specific failure times.
Add warning about reassigning MEMCACHE
Add calc_age to sg_helpers for person page to remove dupe code.
Add return age in ajax for persons.
Change format dates on person page to honour config/General.
Add convert_to_inch_fraction_html to sg_helpers.
Change direct assign method instead of wrapper (faster).
Change force disk_pickle_protocol=2 for py2 compatibility in tvinfo cache.
Add episode rename info during switch.
Add save deleted episodes when switching tvinfo source.
Add get_switch_changed page.
Add force=True to QueueItemRefresh during switch of tvinfo to force rewriting of metadata.
Add filter character dupes in tvdb_api only take images for unique character, role combos on tvdb.
Fix humanize lib in py27.
Add diskcache to tvinfo_base.
Add doc files for diskcache lib.
Add clean tvinfo to show_updater.
Add switch_ep_errors table to sickbeard.db
Add debug log message when extra data is fetched for a person.
Change make character loading more efficient.
Add placeholder image for characters and persons.
Change start, end year moved to new extra table to support multiple person per character.
Change replace start_year, end_year with persons_years in Character class.
Add new table character_person_years, change table structure characters.
Add check if show is found for switch pages.
Add missing scheduled to cache.db people queue table.
Change trakt show search now will ignore failure handling, to make sure it's always tried when searching for shows.
Change add/improve tvmaze id cross search.
Change improve search, if only ids are given, resulting seriesnames on source will be used as text search on following tvinfo sources.
Add new parameter: prefer_person to imagecache/character endpoint.
Add if prefer_person is set and person_id is set to valid person and the character has more then 1 person assigned the character image will not be returned, instead the actors image or the placeholder.
Add only take external ids if character is confirmed in logic.
Add match name instead of person id for checking same person in show when adding cast for sources without person id (tvdb)
Add cache tmdb genres directly in dict for performance.
Change rotate column headers on manage/Bulk Change for supported browsers to reduce screen estate waste.
Add column to manage/Bulk Change to display the show folder location size.
Add media stats to manage/Bulk Change and view-show when hovering over folder size.
Add to manage/Bulk Change an icon where show location no longer exists and group the icon/non icon shows.
Add a hover tip to the edit column on manage/Bulk Change to remind about using multi-select.
Change add tooltips on manage/Bulk Change checkbox actions to display what each are used for.
Add to manage/Bulk Change confirm dialog before removing or deleting a show.
Change manage/Bulk Change add sort by size options to table, (Total, Largest, Smallest, Average).
Change manage/Bulk Change add busy spinner for processing when changing size sort type.
Change manage/Bulk Change table make header stick when page is scrolled.
Change manage/Bulk Change table make footer stick when page is scrolled.
Change manage/Bulk Change add filter to table, showname, quality, and status.
Change number of shows listed after a filter is displayed at the bottom of Bulk Change.
Change edit and submit buttons are disabled when there is no selection on Bulk Change.
Change edit and submit buttons display number of selected items on Bulk Change.
Change tidy up html markup and JavaScript for manage/Bulk Change.
Change refactor to simplify bulk_change logic.
Change the cf_clearance cookie to an undocumented optional config instead of a requirement.
Change where cf_clearance does not exist or expires, config/Search/Search Tasks/"Host running FlareSolverr" is required.
Fix saving magnet from PAs as files under py3.
Fix SkyTorrents provider.
Fix Torlock provider.
Fix TBP provider.
Change simplify section config/General/Updates.
Add check for package updates to menu item action "Check for Updates".
Add known failures are cleared for a fresh check when "Check for Updates" is used.
Change add pycryptodome for py7z to recommended.txt
Change add prebuilt AMD64 python-Levenshtein to recommended.txt.
Change add cryptography to recommended.txt as is now deprecated from 2.7
Change add pip and setuptools to piper to control installed versions under py2.
Change move lib path registration to earlier in startup because needed by piper.
Change improve performance by using pkg_resources calls instead of cmdline pip.
Change add restart trigger during loading, use changed pid of server as trigger.
Change don't load shows at startup, or save at shutdown when doing an update restart.
Change minimise redundant threads at startup when an update restart is pending.
Change handle case where pip may output what appears a failure, but isn't.
Change add capture of requirements parse errors to assist when adding new specs.
Change auto-install Cheetah dependency on first time installations (tested on Win).
Change Cheetah to fallback to setup.py type install instead of pure binary, this addresses install issues when reverting a version, and no doubt other things.
Changed cmdline_runner migrated to sg_helpers.py
Change remember Manage/Media Process folder and method when button 'Process' is used.
Change code style, use `cur_` in `for` loop vars.
Tidy ups, and address code warnings.
Change rename remove_file_failed to remove_file_perm and make it return an outcome.
Change doctype for scantree as `Generator` to define both yield and return types.
Change improve list performance for file/directory browser.
Change improve import shows listing performance.
Change improve performance during show rescan process.
Change improve performance during media processing.
As implemented under py3, add Popen to _23 and wrap a context manager to close and release resources under py2. Refactor code to implement `with` context.
Fix loading timezone on Windows 7+.
Add fallback zoneinfo file.
Use tzwinlocal as fallback timezone on Windows.
Add epoch_start to network_timezones.
Fix issue with getting tzwinlocal on Windows (non English system language).
Use new totimestamp, from_timestamp.
Change aired modify time to to_file_timestamp.
Fix _cleaner.py for py3.
Change don't delete folder bs4/builder.
Clean shows ignore, require list before saving global lists.
Clean require, ignore words after db upgrade.
Add global ignore, require words cleanup to show_updater.
Clean editShow ignore/require list.
Also cleanup exclude lists of shows.
Optionally restore excludes from previous downgrade.
Add lib folder to all_tests.py to fix local tests.
Add shows ignore/require words to pass_wordlist_checks if show_obj is given.
Change improve scene_exceptions interfacing to indexer API.
Change start implementing new interface.
Add tvdb api lib indexerapiinterface.
Change rebase traktinterface on tvinfo_base.
Switch back exceptions handling for indexers.
Change optimize loading of episodes during update to prevent slow loading with new tvinfo_base.
Change add scene_numbering loading.
Change search show webserve.
Change tv.py to new interface.
Change to more complex locking.
Change switch network_timezones from os.walk to scandir.
Change persons data.
Change add actor parsing to new castlist property.
Change add find_show_by_ids tests.
Change rename _mapped_ids of TVShow objects to internal_ids.
Change add new parameter to find_show_by_id where needed.
Change split nameCache into nameCache and sceneNameCache.
Change default of NameParser try_scene_exceptions to True.
Change remove try_scene_exceptions which are not default.
Change remove unused use_cache parameter from get_show.
Change migrate core objects TVShow and TVEpisode and everywhere that these objects affect.
Add message to logs and disable ui backlog buttons when no media provider has active and/or scheduled searching enabled.
Change views for py3 compat.
Change set default runtime of 5 mins if none is given for layout Day by Day.
Add OpenSubtitles authentication support to config/Subtitles/Subtitles Plugin.
Add "Enforce media hash match" to config/Subtitles Plugin/Opensubtitles for accurate subs if enabled, but if disabled, search failures will fallback to use less reliable subtitle results.
Add Apprise 0.8.0 (6aa52c3).
Add hachoir_py3 3.0a6 (5b9e05a).
Add sgmllib3k 1.0.0
Update soupsieve 1.9.1 (24859cc) to soupsieve_py2 1.9.5 (6a38398)
Add soupsieve_py3 2.0.0.dev (69194a2).
Add Tornado_py3 Web Server 6.0.3 (ff985fe).
Add xmlrpclib_to 0.1.1 (c37db9e).
Remove ancient Growl lib 0.1
Remove xmltodict library.
Change requirements.txt for Cheetah3 to minimum 3.2.4
Change update sabToSickBeard.
Change update autoProcessTV.
Change remove Twitter notifier.
Update NZBGet Process Media extension, SickGear-NG 1.7 → 2.4
Update Kodi addon 1.0.3 → 1.0.4
Update ADBA for py3.
Update Beautiful Soup 4.8.0 (r526) to 4.8.1 (r531).
Update Send2Trash 1.3.0 (a568370) to 1.5.0 (66afce7).
Update soupsieve 1.9.1 (24859cc) to 1.9.5 (6a38398).
Change use GNTP (Growl Notification Transport Protocol) from Apprise.
Change add multi host support to Growl notifier.
Fix Growl notifier when using empty password.
Change update links for Growl notifications.
Change deprecate confg/Notifications/Growl password field as these are now stored with host setting.
Fix prevent infinite memoryError from a particular jpg data structure.
Change subliminal for py3.
Change enzyme for py3.
Change browser_ua for py3.
Change feedparser for py3 (sgmlib is no longer available on py3 as standardlib so added ext lib)
Fix Guessit.
Fix parse_xml for py3.
Fix name parser with multi eps for py3.
Fix tvdb_api fixes for py3 (search show).
Fix config/media process to only display "pattern is invalid" qtip on "Episode naming" tab if the associated field is actually visible. Also, if the field becomes hidden due to a setting change, hide any previously displayed qtip.
Note for Javascript::getelementbyid (or $('tag[id="<name>"')) is required when an id is being searched in the dom due to ":" used in a shows id name.
Change download anidb xml files to main cache folder and use adba lib folder as a last resort.
Change create get anidb show groups as centralised helper func and consolidate dupe code.
Change move anidb related functions to newly renamed anime.py (from blacklistandwhitelist.py).
Change str encode hex no longer exits in py3, use codecs.encode(...) instead.
Change fix b64decode on py3 returns bytestrings.
Change use binary read when downloading log file via browser to prevent any encoding issues.
Change add case insensitive ordering to anime black/whitelist.
Fix anime groups list not excluding whitelisted stuff.
Change add Windows utf8 fix ... see: ytdl-org/youtube-dl#820
Change if no qualities are wanted, exit manual search thread.
Fix keepalive for py3 process media.
Change add a once a month update of tvinfo show mappings to the daily updater.
Change autocorrect ids of new shows by updating from -8 to 31 days of the airdate of episode one.
Add next run time to Manage/Show Tasks/Daily show update.
Change when fetching imdb data, if imdb id is an episode id then try to find and use real show id.
Change delete diskcache db in imdbpie when value error (due to change in Python version).
Change during startup, cleanup any _cleaner.pyc/o to prevent issues when switching python versions.
Add .pyc cleaner if python version is switched.
Change replace deprecated gettz_db_metadata() and gettz.
Change rebrand "SickGear PostProcessing script" to "SickGear Process Media extension".
Change improve setup guide to use the NZBGet version to minimise displayed text based on version.
Change NZBGet versions prior to v17 now told to upgrade as those version are no longer supported - code has actually exit on start up for some time but docs were outdated.
Change comment out code and unused option sg_base_path.
Change supported Python version 2.7.9-2.7.18 inclusive expanded to 3.7.1-3.8.1 inclusive.
Change pidfile creation under Linux 0o644.
Make logger accept lists to output continuously using the log_lock instead of split up by other processes.
Fix long path issues with Windows process media.
Change improve TL and IPT provider recent search performance to process new items since the previous cycle.
Change log a tip for TL and IPT users who have not improved on the default site setting "Torrents per page".
Add recommended.txt file with recommended libs that can be installed via: python -m pip install -r recommended.txt
Fix saving .nfo metadata where the file name contains unicode on certain Linux OS configurations.
Add config General/Interface/"Allow IP use for connections". The option is enabled by default and does not change existing behaviour to allow a browser to connect to an instance using server IP address.
Change add WrongHostWebHandler to handle a bad hostname request with a 404 response.
Fix Shazbat torrent provider backlog issue.
Change to making simple base info of search_queue items instead of full deep copies.
Change move TVShow.getOverview logic to helpers.episode_status_overview() and call it with parameter in tv.py and webserve.py
Change metadata usage of indexer api keys.
Change make tvdb_api docs consistent to the attributes for show object.
Change consolidate write_file at helpers.
Change add "Keep up to x most recent downloads" to Edit Show/Other.
Change add "Keep up to x most recent downloads" to Manage/Bulk Change/Edit.
Change append number of downloads to keep to the number of file(s) at Display Show.
Change add "Keep up to x most recent downloads" to add show finally step.
Add prune to refreshDir/rescan.
Add helper function remove_file.
In rare cases, systems *fail* to remove the deprecated "_base.pyc" file (and probably others) in \lib\html5lib\treebuilders\. Therefore, the startup cleanup process will now list files that cannot be auto deleted - user must then manually delete files listed in "__README-DANGER.txt".
Change add un/pw for cookie support to improve SpeedCD torrent provider.
Change improve handling faults when downloading .torrent files.
Remove TorrentBytes provider.
Change remove redundant log messages for releases never to be cached removing <30% log spam
Change remove redundant log messages for items not found in cache removing <10% log spam
Pep8.
Change improve security with DNS rebinding prevention, set "Allowed browser hostnames" at config/General/Web Interface.
Change improve security with cross-site request forgery (xsrf) protection on web forms.
Change improve security by sending header flag httponly with cookies
Change improve security by sending header flag secure with SSL cookies
Change improve test for creating self-signed SSL cert.
Change force restart when switching SSL on/off.
Change enable Tornado serve_traceback feature.
Change PEP8 tweaks.
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