Note; getattr not required in the backend given slot value is already initialised at runtime, but is used in .tmpl due to defensive coding practices.
Change webserve pyc warnings resolved after code review.
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.
Add config/General/Updates/Alias Process button, minimum interval for a fetch of custom names/numbering is 30 mins.
Add Export alternatives button to edit show.
Change improve tooltip over show title in display show for multiple alternatives.
Add display season alternatives on hover over season titles in display show.
Change single digit season display to zero-padded double digits in edit show.
Change add note on edit show for season specific search rule.
Add mark next to season titles that have exceptions.
Add support for centralised sg alternative names and numbers.
Change sg alts can overwrite scene number field only if field value is blank.
Change add note on edit show for season specific search rule.
Change add has_season_exceptions to control newznab id search.
Change add season exceptions to torrent providers.
Add env var NO_ALT_GET (1 = only use cache json).
Change give remove_file functions time to process.
Change selection of allPossibleShowNames to be all seasons not season 1.
Change add allPossibleShowNames unit test.
Change improve order of exceptions on ui.
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.
Add newznab smart logic to avoid missing releases when there are a great many recent releases.
Change improve performance by using newznab server advertised capabilities.
Change config/providers newznab to display only non-default categories.
Change use scene season for wanted segment in backlog if show is scene numbering.
Change combine Manage Searches / Backlog Search / Limited and Full to Force.
Change consolidate limited and full backlog.
Change config / Search / Backlog search frequency to instead spread backlog searches over a number of days.
Change migrate minimum used value for search frequency into new minimum 7 for search spread.
Change restrict nzb providers to 1 backlog batch run per day.
Add to Config/Search/Unaired episodes/Allow episodes that are released early.
Add to Config/Search/Unaired episodes/Use specific api requests to search for early episode releases.
Add use related ids for newznab searches to increase search efficiency.
Add periodic update of related show ids.
Change terminology Edit Show/"Post processing" tab name to "Other".
Add advanced feature "Related show IDs" to Edit Show/Other used for finding episodes and TV info.
Add search info source image links to those that have zero id under Edit Show/Other/"Related show IDs".
Add "set master" button to Edit Show/Other/"Related show IDs" for info source that can be changed.
Change terminology displayShow "Indexers" to "Links" to cover internal and web links.
Change add related show info sources on displayShow page.
Change don't display "temporarily" defunct TVRage image link on displayShow pages unless it is master info source.
Change if a defunct info source is the master of a show then present a link on displayShow to edit related show IDs.
Change simplify the next backlog search run time display in the page footer.
Change try ssl when fetching data thetvdb, imdb, trakt, scene exception.
Change improve reliability to Trakt notifier by using show related id support.
Change improve config/providers newznab categories layout.
Change show loaded log message at start up and include info source.
Change if episode has no airdate then set status to unaired (was skipped).
Technical
Change move scene_exceptions table from cache.db to sickbeard.db.
Add related ids to show obj.
Add use of mapped indexer ids for newznab.
Add indexer to sql in wanted_eps.
Add aired in (scene) season for wanted episodes.
Add need_anime, need_sports, need_sd, need_hd, need_uhd to wanted episodes and added as parameter to update_providers.
Add fix for lib lockfile/mkdirlockfile.
Add set master TV info source logic.
Change harden ui input validation.
Add per action dialog confirmation.
Change to reload page under more events.
Change implement "Mark all added episodes Wanted to search for releases" when setting new info source.
scene_exceptions.py: scene exceptions were not saved. the exceptionCache variable used to cache the scene exceptions. The list with exceptions is updated in db, but when reopening your series edit page, the scene exception list is retrieved from the cache instead the db. I've created a small patch that updates the cache after updating the scene exceptions in db.
show_name_helpers.py: After each manual search the showName was added to the scene exceptions list. This was only added to the cache, but was anoying because up until a restart the list with scene exception names kept growing. Fixed this by refering to the function by value instead of by reference.
Provider getURL and downloadResult functions now removed and replaced with ones from helpers.py to help slim the code down plus allow more better control over request sessions.
Removed TVTumbler code.
Fixed HDBits provider.
Fixed config settings that were ment to be booleans but instead where set as str or int, should help resolve random html errors.
XEM Refresh check re-coded.
NameParser code for creating show object has been changed to only attempt at the very end once its found the bestMatch result, helps on resources and performance.
Fixed charmap issues for anime show names.
Fixed issues with display show page and epCat key errors.
Fixed duplicate log messages for clearing provider caches.
Fixed issues with email notifier ep names not properly being encoded to UTF-8.
TVDB<->TVRAGE Indexer ID mapping is now performed on demand to be used when needed such as newznab providers can be searched with tvrage_id's and some will return tvrage_id's that later can be used to create show objects from for faster and more accurate name parsing, mapping is done via Trakt API calls.
Added stop event signals to schedualed tasks, SR now waits indefinate till task has been fully stopped before completing a restart or shutdown event.
NameParserCache is now persistent and stores 200 parsed results at any given time for quicker lookups and better performance, this helps maintain results between updates or shutdown/startup events.
Black and White lists for anime now only get used for anime shows as intended, performance gain for non-anime shows that dont need to load these lists.
Internal name cache now builds it self on demand when needed per show request plus checks if show is already in cache and if true exits routine to save time.
Schedualer and QueueItems classes are now a sub-class of threading.Thread and a stop threading event signal has been added to each.
If I forgot to list something it doesn't mean its not fixed so please test and report back if anything is wrong or has been corrected by this new release.
Scene exceptions now uses a internal cache for scene exceptions and scene season exceptions, helps reduce overhead to DB and performs faster lookups when making scene exception requests.
Re-write of New Show seearch function
Re-write of Existing show search helper function for determining indexer/indexerid
Massive code cleanup and more bugs found and fixed
Indexer code fully modualized for future proofing