MTDb - Ultimate Movie&TV Database 4.0.5

Enhancements

• Filtering by genres on browse page should now be faster.
• Updated data tables across the site and images used when there's nothing to display in the table.
• Infinite scroll will now be triggered sooner when scrolling on discover page.
• Scrollbar in dark mode in firefox will now match site color better.
• Navbar can now be hidden for custom page.
• Role index page will now list users by date user was assigned to role.

Bug Fixes

• Automatically imported news articles will now have correct source url.
• Genres with cyrillic and other accented characters added from settings page should now work properly.
• Deleting backdrop images when editing title from admin area will now properly remove all relevant files from the disk.
• Error message will now be shown when trying to create a video with a name that already exists.
• When chunked uploading is enabled videos will now correctly upload to public disk.
• Redirect user to upgrade/pricing page when clicking on external video link if user or role has not "videos.play" permission.
• Locally created titles that are not marked as "fully_synced" will now be included in the sitemap.
• Default html5 captions on firefox will now longer display initially if caption are disabled on the player.
• A number of other smaller fixes.

Enhancements

• Reduced the time it takes to auto-update title by about 3x.
• Titles in a list can now be displayed in either portrait or landscape mode.
• Automatically scroll selected season and episode into view when editing title.
• Added edit button to title, season, episode and person page (if user has relevant permissions).
• User with "titles.edit" permission will now be able to create and edit episodes for that title as well.
• Added next and previous buttons to image popup on title page.
• Free plan can now be selected in pricing page and will redirect to sign up page.
• Improved contrast for several widgets in dark mode.

Bug Fixes

• Captions with same name can now be created for different videos.
• Placeholders that could not be replaced in SEO tags will now be removed.
• Fixed an issue where search page was sometimes limited to 8 results incorrectly.
• "Only Streamable" toggle will now correctly only show titles that have videos of "full" category attached.

New Features

• Added support for adaptive hls and dash streams (.m3u8, .mpd, .ts etc) with automatic quality and caption selector.
• Browse page can now be set as homepage.
• Added tags and reviews data tables in admin area.
• Video plays are now tracked and the total count can be viewed in videos table in admin area.
• Added configurable GDPR cookie notice.
• Added configurable confirmation policies to register page.
• Added chunked uploading. This allows MTDb to upload large files in smaller chunks for better upload reliability and avoid server max file size limits.
• Added support for XSendFile and XAcceleratedResponse for reducing server RAM and CPU usage when previewing or downloading files.
• Added resumable uploads functionality.

Enhancements

• Video and other uploads can now be stored on cloud providers (s3, digitalocean, backblaze etc)
• Possible video qualities can now be specified from settings page.
• Minimum and maximum years can now be specified for release date slider in browse titles page.
• Landing page image and overlay color can now be changed from appearance editor.
• "Add Credit" modal in edit title page will now show a list of available jobs and departments.
• Videos can now be added for a series without selecting a specific season or episode.
• Title selector in video modal will now use regular site search for better results accuracy.
• Improved genre, keyword and production country management when editing titles.
• Local search will now order results by relevance first and then by popularity.
• Added "videos.play" permission. Users without this permission will be redirected to upgrade page when trying to play a video.
• Show 5 episode credits per series in actor filmography by default with a button to show more.
• Next video will now be played automatically when player overlay is open and current video ends.
• Translation lines can now be removed in "admin > translations" page.
• Show more descriptive error message in create video modal.
• Redirect user from "billing/pricing" to "billing/upgrade" url if they are already logged in or subscribed.
• Close filters sidebar in browse page on mobile by default.
• Slugs will now be generated properly for cyrillic and chinese characters.
• Billing plans will now be synced automatically when changing paypal or stripe credentials from settings page.
• User password can now be changed from admin area.
• Increase time period for "next and previous episodes" panel to two weeks from current date (was one week previously).
• If title primary video has a thumbnail, use that thumbnail as title video cover image.
• Hide title videos panel if there are no videos to show and user can't add new videos.
• Strip title name from automatically imported youtube videos.
• Compatibility with latest tmdb and stripe API.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where wrong episode count was shown in edit video modal.
• Don't show news articles in custom pages table in admin area.
• Don't remove old image if there's no new poster image available on themoviedb.
• Fixed a few issues with enabling memcached cache driver.
• Clicking related videos in player sidebar will now always correctly load captions.
• Titles with accented characters will now work properly in urls.
• Corrected a few issues with input texts having low contrast in dark mode.
• Adding production countries when editing title will no longer require page reload.
• Show age ratings from settings page in edit title page.
• Prevent deletion of billing plans if any users are subscribed to them.
• Prevent billing plan parent being set to the plan itself.
• Properly escape double quotes in page meta description tag.
• Don't show videos in title page if user has no "videos.show" permission.
• Email confirmation sent via "Resend" button will now contain correct email confirmation url.
• Fixed a few issues with syncing filters and url in browse page.
• Search bar will now have proper background color on mobile when dark mode is active.
• Fixed a few issues with translations.
• Properly show landing or homepage preview in appearance editor when relevant menu item is selected.
• Public lists can now properly be accessed event without "lists.view" permission.
• Don't disable "onlyStreamable" filter when clicking "movies" or "series" navbar menu items.
• Hide reviews tab in title page if user does not have "reviews.view" permission.
• Show correct character name in filmography if actor has been in multiple seasons of same show as different character.
• Chart legend items will now wrap to new line if there's not enough space.
• A number of other smaller fixes and improvements.