VERSION bump + chores release note for the R10 .btn-primary/.btn-danger/.btn-warn
recipe unification (refactor; a few primary buttons gained the standard hover).
The app-wide 'glass over image' tier: panels stay near-opaque (surface 90%, menu 100%)
so chrome text is readable, but glass-card drops to 50% so the per-scheme backdrop image
gently shows through the feed cards (blur 22, inset 10). User-tuned via the live GlassTuner
and validated ("the image just barely shows through, text still readable"); supersedes the
uniform-88% pass that had killed the image-through-cards look. Only the data-backdrop=on
tier — :root (image off) and .glass-media (Plex art) unchanged.
The surface's onMouseLeave nulled hoverIndex, so moving the pointer off a menu snapped the highlight
back to activeIndex — the first item in a menu with a free-text input (ChannelTags), where the field
swallows arrow keys so there is no list-nav holding a keyboard position. The keyboard and typeahead
already reclaim the highlight by nulling hoverIndex in onNavigate/onMatch, so the mouseleave reset was
redundant; dropping it keeps the last hover. 0.60.3.
Root cause: html[data-backdrop="on"] and .glass-media shared ONE translucent tier, so a value tuned for
Plex art (meant to show its poster through) was forced onto the whole app — over the feed, the nav and
popovers read straight through it. Split them: the app-wide background-image tier is now near-opaque
(surface 88% / card 90% / menu 93% / blur 22px), while the Plex-art tier stays translucent (72/80/85/14).
Tuned live on the user's prod session (50% -> 72% was still too see-through; 88% reads clean). 0.60.2.
With a background image on, glass surfaces used surface-alpha 50% + 10px blur, so the feed read
straight THROUGH the nav/menus/popovers (user-reported: distractingly transparent). Raised to
72%/80%/85% + 14px blur — the backdrop image still shows as soft colour, but content behind no longer
punches through. Verified in-browser: nav bg alpha 0.5 -> 0.72, no inline override on a clean pref.
Cuts the v4 (Tailwind migration) + focus/a11y foundation work for release. User-facing note covers the
app-wide keyboard-focus ring, steadier menu highlights, the three previously-invisible focus inputs,
and keyboard-reachable saved-view row actions; the v4 migration and dead-style cleanup are listed as
chores.
Reported: on iPad Brave a shared video's audio still stopped when backgrounded, while youtube.com
keeps playing. Root cause: routing the element's audio through createMediaElementSource pulls it out
of the normal media pipeline the browser's background-playback feature (and iOS) hooks into, and iOS
then suspends the AudioContext on background — the opposite of the goal. YouTube uses a plain media
element + Media Session and lets the browser background it. So drop the Web Audio graph entirely and
keep only the Media Session metadata + play/pause handlers, leaving native background handling in
charge. Frontend-only.
Facebook's scraper rejected our self-hosted poster as "Corrupted Image": the poster is an
ffmpeg-produced JPEG (non-standard marker order) that browsers/iOS/Twitter decode fine but FB's
stricter processor won't. For a YouTube source, point og:image at the video's stable, non-expiring
`i.ytimg.com/vi/<id>/hqdefault.jpg` (a Google-encoded JPEG FB decodes reliably) built from the id in
the stored thumbnail — instead of the stored `sqp`-signed variant, which can expire. Non-YouTube
sources keep the poster fallback (fine everywhere but FB). Declares 480×360 so FB includes it on the
first async scrape. og.py only — no schema change.
A mirrored Shows library whose items have no genres stored `genres` as JSON
`null` — SQLAlchemy's JSONB persists a Python None as a JSON scalar, not SQL
NULL. /facets unnested it with jsonb_array_elements_text(), which raises
"cannot extract elements from a scalar", so a single bare library 500'd the
whole Plex module on open (the grid loads, the filter sidebar's facets call dies).
- Guard the /facets genre unnest with jsonb_typeof(genres)='array', mirroring
the guard people.py already applies to the same columns.
- Persist the JSONB tag columns (genres/directors/cast_names/collection_keys on
plex_items and plex_shows) with none_as_null=True, so an empty list round-trips
as SQL NULL and self-heals on the next sync — closing the trap for any future
unnest.
Verified against the real prod row (DumaTV show, genres = JSON null): the
unguarded query errors, the guarded one returns cleanly.
Internal-only epic (gates, tests, compiler strictness); no user-facing change, so
the release note is chores-only. Bundles: the siftlode check/publish gate
(tsc/eslint/prettier/knip/vitest/pytest) with a hard pre-publish gate + e2e
freshness guard, ESLint flat config + one-time Prettier pass, the backend pytest
harness (isolated test image), frontend vitest growth, the e2e scroll-restore fix,
and noUncheckedIndexedAccess (+ the zero-fallout compiler flags).
Cuts the release for the unshipped stack since 0.44.0: E3 feed view modes, the
Platform refactor (S1–S6b, internal), and the Plex cast-explore epic. VERSION
0.44.0 -> 0.45.0; user-facing releaseNotes entry.
Auth security round: SB3 (email tokens out of URL query → fragment), SA4 (server-side
session revocation + 'Log out other sessions'), SA3 (trusted-proxy X-Forwarded-For so
rate limits can't be bypassed via a forged header).
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