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Sonarr

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Velocity5.0

PVR and library manager for TV series

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Sonarr's release feed is a two-month run of one-line fixes, most of them about qBittorrent auth.

media-automationqbittorrentdownload-clientsmaintenancejellyfinpatch-releases
◆Current state
Ten releases in this window, several cut hours apart, and almost every one carries a single change. The dominant thread is download-client authentication: basic auth for qBittorrent, reusing authentication cookies across qBittorrent calls, and backporting both to the v4 line — the same two fixes appearing repeatedly as they propagate across branches. The rest is a Jellyfin and Emby connection test with a new Jellyfin auth header, a language-handling correction, and dependency bumps for MailKit and FFprobe.
◆Where it's heading
This is mature-product maintenance, and the failure surface is entirely at the integration boundary — the download clients and media servers Sonarr talks to change their auth behaviour, and Sonarr chases them. Releases are cut per-fix rather than batched, which produces a high tag count from a low volume of actual change. Nothing in this window touches Sonarr's own capability surface.
◆Prediction
Expect the same pattern to continue: small single-change releases tracking download-client and media-server API shifts, with no visible feature work on the 4.0 line.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Jellyfin and Emby connection test, new Jellyfin auth header

    Adds a connection test for Jellyfin and Emby and moves to Jellyfin's new auth header — the same category of work as the qBittorrent fixes, just on the media-server side of the integration. The only entry in this window that adds anything a user can act on.

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  2. 9d ago

    Unexpected stored languages treated as Unknown

    A one-change release making unexpected language values in the database fall back to Unknown rather than misbehaving. Defensive data handling, invisible in normal use.

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  3. 1mo ago

    qBittorrent basic auth fix

    The qBittorrent basic auth fix again, this time on the 4.0.19 line. The same change surfacing across multiple version tags is why the release count here overstates the amount of work.

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  4. 1mo ago

    qBittorrent basic auth fix (4.0.18 line)

    The identical qBittorrent basic auth fix cut on the 4.0.18 branch a day earlier. A duplicate in substance, distinct only in version number.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Untitled patch release

    A release published with no listed changes at all, only a changelog link. Nothing user-facing to report.

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  6. 1mo ago

    MailKit and FFprobe dependency bumps

    A dependency-only release bumping MailKit and FFprobe. Routine currency on the notification and media-analysis paths.

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