
[B][COLOR red]July 05, 2021[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The new repo is now live and Matrix and Leia have separate install paths.
    The version seen will be Kodi version dependent.  The good new for you
    Matrix users is that this version is now all I'm working on from here on out.
    I'll be trimming down and removing all py2 code soon.[/I]


[B][COLOR red]December 27, 2019[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Thought I'd report things on my to-do list that are currently part done and being
    worked on.  I hope some might comment so I can put things into priority. So it
    goes like this[/I]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 1.) Uncached torrent removal.[/I]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) Global context menu options.[/I]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) Add season pack ability.[/I]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] - 2.) add service, and option to enable, to notify user of new updates for those
    that turn off auto updates.[/I]


[B][COLOR red]October 9, 2019[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Wow, I did not realize it's been months since I added comments here.  I wanted
    to inform people at this current time there are issues with TMDb user lists.  It
    seems that some users have reported to TMDb that titles are being dropped
    from their lists.  I noticed in the Movies-Collections many lists seem to now
    have missing titles so I'm hit with this new issue myself.  I reported this to
    TMDb and it's been confirmed and they are looking into it.[/I]


[B][COLOR red]July 18, 2019[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] More additions to try and speed up menu load times so please experiment with the
    new options for "Season Count" and "Unwatched Count".  Personally I like
    seeing this added info but it does add an api call and impacts load times.
    Also if you flip these on or off please remember you need to clear cache,
    meta and cache option at a min.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Had a little issue with someone messing with "view types' and did not know how to
    cure the setting they chose.  What I decided to do was enhance the
    "Reset View Types" option to now include flushing of the Kodi cache for
    "viewMode6.db".  Keep in mind this will now reset every single view type
    to skin default and wipe the data from Kodi as well.  It's actually the
    preferable method for a proper reset.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] I actually fixed the HEVC filtering last update and forgot to include that in the
    changelog.  What I discovered today was the filtering was done after the
    source links were counted so you saw all kind of gaps in the link count list.
    I now moved the code to where it should be to not effect the count and
    labels.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] I've turned back on caching of Trakt Progress list for speed.  First users
    complained the list did not update for episodes they just finished watching
    so I removed the caching duration so it would update instantly but this
    came at a cost...slow down and it comes with the territory folks and you
    can not have it both ways.  I've come to realize the complaints of speed
    out weigh the folks wanting it updated instantly so some of you lose.
    No more discussions on it either!![/I]


[B][COLOR red]July 06, 2019[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Trying to speed up menu load times so please experiment with the new options
    for "Page Item Limit" and "Disable Extended artwork(fanart.tv).  I'm currently
    using a Page Limit of 10, yes you heard that right.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Disabling Extended artwork seems to have the biggest impact on TMDb lists at
    this time.  I watched a 20 listitem page go from 8 seconds to 4 seconds by
    turning this new feature off.  Ironically IMDb lists had .75 seconds load time
    improvement.  IMDb parses web page due to IMDb not having an api.
    TMDb's api is in use so I'm not sure if two consecutive api requests cause
    this large delay or not but it sure looks to be the case.  I plan to investigate
    this further info.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The most notable loss to using "Disable Extended artwork" will be no clearart or
    discart retrieved.  This is seen during playback seek or pause.  The clearart
    generally appears on the right side of the player.  Discart is used by some
    skins to show a DVD pop out of the poster artwork.  If this artwork is of no
    importance to you I suggest turning this new option off.[/I]


[B][COLOR red]June 19, 2019[/COLOR][/B]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] UpNext integration info.
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Please note this release requires the latest release of UpNext, version 1.0.1, that
    can be found in the Kodi repo and was released on un 18, 2019.  Version 1.0.0
    has a few communication issues that were esolved in 1.0.1.  You will notice
    occasional missing UpNext notifications with v1.0.0 so please be sure to check
    this.  Thank you Ian for resolving this issue!![/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] For now the best way to use UpNext is with the Kodi context menu option
    "Play from Here" or from within the "Playlist Manager" - "View Playlist"[/I]
[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Previously all exo forks refused to close the episode list items if you used
    "Play from Here" so this play method for me became annoying.  I've fixed this
    and episode list items, and playlist, now close. [/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] Due to the above I was forced to hard code Auto Play for Episodes.  This
    was needed for the "Play from Here" context menu option to work in continual
    episode play of an entire season.  If you select a single episode only that
    episode will play, but with Auto Play still in effect.  If you disable UpNext
    this removes the hard code. If you wish to bypass Auto Play for a single
    episode I suggest using the context menu option "Select Source" for the item
    you wish to single play without Auto Play enabled[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The Auto playlist creation is on by default and this is done behind closed
    doors with no effect on performance at all.  You can try with and without this
    feature on and you will not notice even the slightest difference so I suggest
    leaving it on.  At this time the only thing this does is when you enter a Season
    the playlist will create a full episode list for the given Season you entered only.
    Entering the "Playlist Manager" you could view, edit,  and play this list. Future
    plans for this playlist as well.[/I]


[COLOR yellow]--[/COLOR][I] The goal for next update is to get the playlist to play from a single episode
    selection, so you won't have to use "Play from Here" but at this time I'm
    dealing with a bit of a bug calling this playlist for direct play.  I also want
    to add a pre-scrape ability so next episode play is instant without a visible
    scrape process, but timing it the scrape takes about 3-5secs for the next
    episode to play as it is now so I didn't holdback this release[/I]
