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Prowlarr

COLLAB
Velocity5.0

Indexer manager for the arr media automation stack

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A steady indexer-maintenance cadence: fixes, definitions, translations, repeat.

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◆Current state
Prowlarr ships every week or two off the develop branch, and the entries are consistently small: indexer definition corrections, parsing fixes, dependency bumps and Weblate translation batches. The only user-facing addition in this window is showing indexer-specific categories in search. Every entry opens with the same boilerplate about switching update branches, which is the feed's own shape rather than news.
◆Where it's heading
The value being shipped is upkeep of the indexer catalogue — PreToMe categories, M-Team category updates, MyAnonamouse author name handling, IPTorrents query parameters. That is the actual product for an indexer manager, but it means the release history reads flat: no architectural change, no new integration surface, no shift in what Prowlarr does. Version numbers move faster than capability.
◆Prediction
Expect the same rhythm — per-indexer definition fixes and dependency bumps cut every one to two weeks — with any notable change arriving as a small search or UI addition rather than a release theme.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    2.6.1.5509 shows indexer-specific categories in search

    The one user-visible addition in this window: search now surfaces each indexer's own categories rather than a normalised set. Small, but it is the sort of fidelity that matters when indexers disagree about how content is filed.

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  2. 10d ago

    2.6.0.5494 fixes non-ASCII Basic Auth credentials

    HTTP Basic Auth credentials containing non-ASCII characters now work, and a null reference when categories are missing from a download request body is prevented. Corrective work that unblocks a real class of user rather than adding surface.

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  3. 15d ago

    2.5.2.5491: logging endpoint and task status icon fixes

    A Happy Eyeballs logging endpoint fix, a status icon correction for completed tasks with no message, translations and library bumps. Housekeeping consistent with the rest of the window.

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  4. 17d ago

    2.5.2.5483 improves byte-size parsing precision

    Indexer size parsing gains precision, alongside AngleSharp, MailKit, SqlClient and Polly bumps and a Weblate batch. Nothing here changes what Prowlarr can do.

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  5. 25d ago

    2.5.1.5464 corrects categories for three indexers

    Category fixes for PreToMe and M-Team plus MyAnonamouse author name handling — the per-indexer catalogue upkeep that makes up most of Prowlarr's release volume.

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  6. 29d ago

    2.5.1.5460 adds leecher sorting for IPTorrents

    An IPTorrents query parameter fix and leecher-based sorting for that one indexer. Narrow by design: this is definition-level work, not product-level.

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