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Lidarr

COLLAB
Velocity5.0

Music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent

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Lidarr's release notes still tell you not to update Radarr — the fork's seams are showing.

media managementmaintenancemetadata providerstorrent clientsarr stack
◆Current state
Lidarr publishes auto-generated pre-release builds every few weeks, each carrying a handful of commits. The recent ones add rate limiting to Spotify lookup endpoints, fix basic auth and cookie reuse for qBittorrent, pull in Weblate translation updates and bump ImageSharp and MailKit. The boilerplate at the top of every entry warns against updating Radarr inside an existing container — text inherited from the upstream project and never changed.
◆Where it's heading
This is a project maintained rather than developed. Version numbers advance through build counts more than features, one release in this window contains nothing but a version bump, and the substantive work is defensive: staying within third-party rate limits, keeping torrent client authentication working, absorbing dependency updates. The metadata providers it depends on are where the pressure shows.
◆Prediction
Expect continued small builds driven by external breakage — torrent client authentication changes and metadata provider limits are the two recurring sources here. The rate limiting added for Spotify suggests provider throttling is an active problem, so more of the same is the likeliest next move.

◆Recent moves

  1. 10d ago

    Spotify lookup endpoints get rate limits

    Rate limiting is added to the Spotify lookup endpoints, alongside deferred deserialization and a cookie test fix. Self-imposed throttling usually means the provider was already pushing back, which makes this the most informative entry in the window.

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  2. 25d ago

    qBittorrent basic auth fixed

    Two commits: basic auth for qBittorrent repaired, and a build failure caused by low disk space. Client authentication keeps needing attention across these releases.

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  3. 2mo ago

    qBittorrent cookie reuse and translation updates

    Authentication cookies are reused across qBittorrent calls rather than re-established each time, plus a Weblate translation sync. Small efficiency work on the same integration as the following release.

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  4. 4mo ago

    ImageSharp and MailKit bumps, URL parsing fix

    Dependency updates and a fix for URL parsing on some systems. Routine upkeep with no user-facing capability attached.

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  5. 7mo ago

    Version bump to 3.1.2, no other changes

    A release whose only commit is the version bump itself. It illustrates how much of this feed's version churn carries no content.

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  6. 7mo ago

    Custom format rename token and tag input fix

    A new rename token exposing the custom format name, plus a tag input height fix. The one small addition to user-visible capability in this window.

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