v1.6.6.9.5 beta
playlist: support vod-only url
category props: allow mass mark/unmark favorites via actions with multiple channels option
backup: option to save settings only
search: option to find future records from epg as well
vod: auto-hide title if poster is available (can be disabled in vod screen settings)
archive section: allow video preview
quick switch: auto cancel channel switch after hud display timeout expires
vod: json: support trailer/backdrop image as well
xc: support for some providers without batch epg file, and fallback 2 to one-by-one loading
epg: added a builtin source if provider does not have any epg configured (but still has a valid tvg-id) to try loading from a common public sources
text: allow to change text and accent text colors separately from the app theme

v1.6.7.1
- lists: option to enable cyclic navigation between categories (using L/R)
- lists: new compact view type with channel numbers
- player hud: allow to move buffering/brightness/etc status to different parts of the screen
- player hud: new clear variant #5 added (supports both top and bottom)
- vod: deny entering adult group if restriction is configured
- vod player: support active edges to change brightness and volume
- vod: setting to use provider order for media library
- just started: allow user to remove certain channels or categories from this suggestion
- epg: allow to change epg shift for a provider
- playlist: support for portal:: link providers
- new wallpapers
- config: action to reset RC to default settings
- afr: better support for slower devices that skips frames on some streams, leading to unstable fps calculation (that triggers afr switch), applies for cases when stream does not declare frame rate by itself
- player: setting to set huge clock size

v1.6.7.2
- preview: config to start preview on clicking channel, and using second click to start playing fullscreen
- home: added indicators when no connection avail or time invalid
- drm: improve support for some mpd streams
- backup: allows to encrypt the user-data with a password (uses AES crypto)
- lists: option to disable all category

v1.6.7.3
- tvguide: option to prefer it to the standard channel browser in most places
- tvguide: do not close when launching playback and restore state when returning from playback to main screen
- backup: support saving and restoring backup using user-provided http storage via url (assume that the url applies POST data)

v1.6.7.4
- player: config to not popup hud on broadcast update
- visual: setting to fine-tune text color for current channel, and broadcast names
- touch: allow to configure action on touching different parts of a player screen
- touch: action to show quick playback control widget (defaults on touching corners of the screen)
- playlist: improved support for xspf sources
- drm: improved support for some mpd/ism streams
- player: improve support for streams with broken non-vital tracks like subtitles

v1.6.7.5
- phone: open main app screen in vertical mode by default (can be disabled in main screen settings)
- epg: allow playing archives even with no valid epg available for channel (might not work for some providers)

v1.6.7.6
- profiles: allows to restrict provider to be only used by a single user profile (via provider attributes)
- config: allow to setup default app-wide zoom for channels
- backup: better support for larger backups with more data (note that it may not load on older app versions)
- playlist: basic support for non-proxy acestream channels
- player: ask user what to do on channel error after num of retries exceeded
- category props: on hiding category show quick option to undo the action
- restrict: add action in settings to lock settings immediately
- phone: better treat screen cutouts in vertical view

v1.6.7.7
NOTE: This is the last stable version that supports Android 5.x, further version will work on android 6.x+
- stalker: improve support for vods on some providers
- lists: added side-by-side (huge)
- xc: improved archives support for some providers

v1.6.8.1 beta
- rc: increase minimal delay when waiting for channel switch by number
- config: trust user-provided epg sources (allow to override provider information)
- vod ui: show backdrop image from poster
- voice: improved voice search on some devices
- config: app-wide setting to override user-agent (remember that per-provider or per-channel setting has more priority as in other app places)

v1.6.8.2 beta
- tablet: allow enabling vertical mode on start screen
- vod: sort mode by release year
- xc: support playing vod with incorrect container type reported by providers
- vod id: improved preview screen
- studio: improve layout and switching for small amount unfocused screens

v1.6.8.3
- rtp: improved basic support for rtp and udp streams
- tvguide: restored original scrollable view for phones (always) and tablets (if vertical mode enabled)
- manage: action to remove metadata of channels/categories that are not currently used
- restrict: config to hide password when entering it via RC
- stalker: option to select different stb type
- vod: config to list directories first (in gallery view)
- vod ui: improved processing media items with multiple backgrounds, and tweaked ui as well
- cache: load vod data from provider from cache (only refresh manually or after configured timeout) if quick start cache is enabled, thus making media library appearing much faster
- cache: now uses channels cache if provider playlist is temporarily down

v1.6.9.1 beta
- xc: changed default stream request format from mpeg-ts to hls (you can change to ts back via provider props or generally if have issues with your provider)
- xc: fixed closed captions detection on some streams
- vod: long press left/right while browsing shows quick selection of different folders on the same folder level
- manage: option to drop custom channel order in a category
- manage: option to clear all channels data

v1.6.9.2 beta
- xc: reverted default format back to mpeg-ts since many providers does not work correctly with handling user sessions via hls
- lists: added indicators for channel that has duplicates/fav/banned in addition to archive marker
- playlist: support for #EXTATTRFROMURL tag to defer channel url and some attributes until channel is going to be played
- config: do not switch to a different duplicate source on error automatically
- manage: allow user to restrict category the same way how adult category is restricted
- player: better automatic audio/cc track matching by use-configured list of languages
- player: allow to override scaling X-zoom separately from Y-zoom

v1.6.9.3 beta
- vod: support for localized text and base64 encoding in otv media library format
- playlist: can specify codec for channel to be used by default
- epg: allows to configure non-hours TZ shift (with minutes) via channel, category or provider properties
- epg: improved manual mapping of channel to epg with source selection and program preview
- restrict: config to require code to be entered on app launch
- ux: improve actions with multiple channels in category props to allow selecting all, inverting selection, and displaying current state in most common cases
- playlist: partial support for channel icons in svg format (please bear in mind that some places like android tv home screen might not support such images on some devices)
- playlist: support for json channels format (otc) with support for localized text and base64 encoding
- config: list setting to allow changing order of system categories (like favorites, all, new, etc)
- config: reload epg data if new channels detected from provider

v1.6.9.4
- drm: support for DRM streams without default_kid and pssh but with enough data in playready
- profile: option to copy prefs from another profile
- player: remove extra buffering when auto-switching to next archived show while playing mpeg-ts streams (enabled for xc by default, can be disabled in provider properties)
- ux: some settings for lists and visuals are storied in user profile rather than globaly, allowing more different setup for different users
- player bindable actions: restart live stream, change playback speed
- xc: improved support for some providers that incorrectly threats epg request with the provided number of days
- xc: improve support for channels loading of provider on bad network conditions that sometimes may lead to broken state
- stalker: allow to specify sig in provider properties

v1.7.0.1 beta
- provider: can mark it non-editable so user cannot edit or view its properties
- atv: support adding provider (of common type) via QR code from phone
- playlist: support vod_library tag in otc/m3u to bundle url to media library (in otv/m3u/xml format)
- drm: improved support for some sources with license_data attribute

v1.7.0.2
- improve list performance for users with huge lists
- config: can change number of recent channels to show in player menu
- config: player bindable actions to exit to launcher, media library, archives
- config: option to auto-refresh background (if random is configured)
- cfg: action to drop changes in settings to defaults
- archive: show hud on seeking with more details about selected tv-show
- archive: fix seeking to prev/next show on channels with no epg
- home: show local ip in addition to public ip, if enabled
- vod: allow setting buffer size for media library playback (default to match live channels settings)
- xc vods: add separate recently added section for movies and series
- provider: allow to select categories that will not be loaded from a provider (via properties)
- epg: treat tvg-id as case-sensitive to avoid clashing issues on some providers (now in testing)

v1.7.1.1 beta
- otc/m3u: support for multiple vod_library links per playlist
- account: code activation improved
- vod: new section movies and series added (supports xc and otv currently) for TV devices with the support for more streamlined navigation for providers with flat media library structure

v1.7.1.2 beta
- preview: config to enable video preview support for 1-connection providers (pausing current playback)
- profiles: when having multiple user profiles can enable profile selection on app start
- home: allow to pin some of android system intents to home screen
- series: always use popup widget to select episode instead of going via folders
- media library: show filter button to quick filter current directory contents by genres
- provider: show installation hash in settings-extended-click on version number (last line) that is used by default in user-agent
- provider: allow to auto-rename categories on loading from provider (via properties)

v1.7.1.3 beta
- player: try to auto-switch to hls if content unparsable as mpeg-ts
- playlist: otc format supports passing category type
- vod: support for hidden categories in new movies/series ui
- config: control whatever to reopen stream when unpausing archived video that was paused for the given amount of seconds (default 20)
- ux: try to trigger app start action on reactivating without active fragment (may help most scenarios when app launch leads to empty page)
- xc: fix invalid movie response parsing that breaks movies loading
- ux: fix afr setting unreachable when user has too many supported resolutions
- backup: added option to merge providers on restoring backup (only unique urls are accepted)
- player: bindable action to switch to prev/next archive record on current channel
- ux: backup option to store both settings + channel meta (but skip providers)
- playlist: added templates {start_iso}, {end_iso} and {now_iso} to represent starting/ending/current time in ISO8601 format

v1.7.1.4 beta
- home: allow pinning virtual categories (with folded subcategories) to main screen
- archive: fix auto-switch to next archive record when no epg available
- stalker: support new series/movies screens
- playlist: support for audio_track and video_track to auto-select a track on playback by default
- recent: can clear recent channels via recent category properties
- codec: fallback to low-priority decoder if high-priority fails and fine-tuned default bufer values
- otc: support for key-value pairs in headers attr
- playlist: support for base64-encoded response for EXTATTRFROMURL/runtime_attr_url
- config: allow user to change position of home screen launcher buttons
- module: allows to toggle showing streams just started view on main screen