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Radarr

COLLAB
Velocity5.0

Movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent

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Radarr is in steady maintenance, with one new download client the only visible addition

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◆Current state
Radarr ships small builds on parallel develop and master branches, typically a handful of commits each. The recent stream is almost entirely correctness work — HTTP request disposal, deferred JSON deserialisation, malformed cookie handling, qBittorrent basic auth, an SQLite busy timeout raised to 1000ms — plus translation updates. The single functional addition is an RQBit download client.
◆Where it's heading
Version numbers are moving quickly through 6.1 to 6.4, but the changes behind them are patch-sized; the major.minor increments track branch mechanics rather than feature milestones. The work that is happening targets reliability under load and with third-party clients, which is where a long-running background service accumulates problems.
◆Prediction
Expect the develop-branch build cadence to continue with further download client and indexer compatibility fixes; nothing here signals a larger release in preparation.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    Radarr 6.4.1: RQBit download client support

    Adds RQBit as a download client, the only new user-facing capability in this stretch of releases. Broadening client support is the main way Radarr grows without changing its own surface.

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  2. 10d ago

    Radarr 6.4.0 build 10540: HTTP and JSON handling cleanup

    Internal HTTP hygiene — disposing HttpRequestMessage correctly and deferring JSON response deserialisation. Memory and allocation behaviour, invisible to users.

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  3. 17d ago

    Radarr 6.4.0 develop bump and cookie handling fix

    The version bump to 6.4.0 on the develop branch, carrying a malformed cookie test fix and a fetch error repair. A branch marker more than a release.

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  4. 24d ago

    Radarr 6.3.0 master build: translations and CI fix

    The master-branch counterpart to the same 6.3.0 build, carrying a CI disk space fix and Weblate translation updates.

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  5. 25d ago

    Radarr 6.3.0 develop build: streaming extension probe fix

    Excludes streaming extensions during probing and fixes the same build issue as its master twin, cut a few hours apart. The dual-branch pattern produces two entries for one piece of work.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Radarr 6.2.1: qBittorrent basic auth and SQLite timeout fixes

    Fixes basic auth against qBittorrent and raises the SQLite busy timeout to 1000ms — the kind of change that quietly reduces failures on busy or slow storage.

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