CrossWatch Release Notes

CrossWatch v0.10.7

This version introduces Kodi, the second provider in the new Media Clients category. Please read the Wiki before enabling it, as the Kodi adapter has several limitations due to Kodi JSON-RPC limitations

For the rest, I did a major CSS refactor and cleanup, plus some fixes and many UI improvements for all themes.

✨ Highlights

• Kodi added as a new experimental media client provider (v0.2).
• Kodi authentication via HTTP JSON-RPC with Basic Auth.
• Kodi sync supports history, ratings and playback progress.
• Kodi watcher support added for realtime scrobbling.
• Progress sync now uses provider-specific completion thresholds based on official API behavior.
• Dashboard compact widgets now support wider layouts and improved sizing.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Clicking a provider probe opens the matching connection modal.
• Improved: Plex/Emby/Jellyfin/Kodi watchers now back off quietly when servers are unreachable.
• Improved: Dashboard widgets now have more layout flexibility.
• Improved: Progress orchestration now respects target-provider completion behavior
• Fixed: Connection modal briefly showed the plain layout.
• Fixed: Debug logging mode after refresh.
• Fixed: Some connection modals (UI specific) such as PublicMetaDB.
• Fixed: Nuvio history sync to SIMKL no longer failed with "Missing watched date".
• Fixed: Plex no longer includes trailers in history. …

CrossWatch v0.10.6

This version expands progress sync to trackers and some UI improvements.

✨ Highlights

• Progress sync is added for Trakt, SIMKL and MDBList. The party is complete now.
• Redesigned Captures (UI)
• Redesigned banners in settings and main (UI)

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Added: Trakt playback progress read, update, and remove support.
• Added: SIMKL playback progress read, update, and remove support.
• Added: MDBList playback progress read, update, and clear support.
• Fixed: SIMKL progress to CW could skip valid percent-only progress items.
• Fixed: Plex progress clear is now supported in provider cleanup modal.
• Fixed: Nuvio connection was unable to save when you had multiple profiles.
• Fixed: Plex watcher - drop alert log entries are now rejected.
• Removed: Capture cleanup tools is now Provider Cleanup modal available in Maintenance
• Updated: MDBList adapter to v1.3 and SIMKL adapter to v1.7.
• Updated: Release version to v0.10.6.

CrossWatch v0.10.5

This version introduces Nuvio, the first provider in the new Media Clients category.

✨ Highlights

• Nuvio is added as new media client provider version 0.2 means experimental.
• Nuvio sync adapter supports watchlist, history and playback progress sync.
• PublicMetaDB support is promoted to adapter version 1.0.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Sync provider discovery now uses the shared module registry.
• Added: Visible Playback Progress warnings when provider profiles cannot refresh.
• Added: Advanced editor row details modal for inspecting stored raw fields.
• Added: Show SIMKL Pro and VIP status in probes
• Fixed: Editor refresh now reloads Current State, Local Tracker and playlist views from the correct selected source.
• Fixed: Editor manual corrections now work for editable Extra fields in Current State and Local Tracker.
• Fixed: PublicMetaDB custom playlist creation now sends the documented custom value.
• Fixed: PublicMetaDB auth health checks correctly handle live API 401 responses.
• Fixed: Emby and Jellyfin scrobble did not send stops after whitelist match.
• Updated: Nuvio adapter to v0.2 and PublicMetaDB adapter to v1.0.
• Updated: Release version to v0.10.5.

📚 updated WIKI

Nuvio auth https://wiki.crosswatch.app/crosswatch/settings/connections/media-clients/nuvio …

CrossWatch v0.10.4

This version improves the dashboard, Playback Progress settings, Editor and CW Tracker archive handling. Do a hard refresh in your browser if you have issues.

✨ Highlights

• Customizable dashboard widgets with new looks and style, adjustable. Lovely.
• Editor includes a local Tracker workspace, blocking for imported items and manual corrections from future syncs.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Recent Progress now uses sync progress activity instead of live playback-progress endpoints.
• Improved: Watchlist Preview is now a real dashboard widget and can be resized, reordered, hidden, and restored.
• Improved: Playback Progress provider selection supports multi-profile providers with counters.
• Improved: Playback Progress Settings now uses the same provider-card experience as Insights Settings.
• Improved: Hidden dashboard widgets no longer fetch their data, reducing unnecessary frontend and backend work.
• Improved: Sync Hub layout controls can now also restore hidden dashboard widgets.
• Improved: Disconnected providers are hidden from Playback Progress Settings instead of showing disabled provider cards.
• Improved: Editor now shows 100 rows per page, the table grid extends to full height, and baseline rows use a clearer block icon.
• Improved: CW Tracker archive actions now place Download ZIP and Import file before the cleanup Run button. …

CrossWatch v0.10.3

This version introduces very early experimental playlist syncs (not for production) only for early testing. I've completed the redesign of SIMKL and Trakt history adapters. Anime syncs and other show mismatch between SIMKL/TRAKT should be much better. The adapters are now mapping every episode. Anime with different numbering systems, split shows etc. If you use SIMKL or/and TRAKT history then Maintenance -> Sync and run (clean up your cache before using!)

Note: Note: Most anime specials cannot be matched reliably because SIMKL and Trakt number and/or group them differently. Specials need to be treated as tracker specific. Not much i can do about it.

Metadata has been fixed to resolve anime. If you have wrong covers or metadata: Maintenance -> Reports & Metadata -> Refresh artwork & metadata Probably also clear your own browser cache.

✨ Highlights

• Playlists: Experimental (not for production!) playlist synchronization with endpoints and mapping profiles.
• SIMKL/TRAKT: history syncs now preserves destination episode mappings and merges equivalent episode.
• Customizable Sync Hub: you can now enable/disable/relocate/resize the sync blocks in the main sync hub.
• Quick add: redesigned to have a step based Quick Add wizard.
• Whitelisting: redesigned Plex, Emby and Jellyfin library whitelisting.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements …

CrossWatch v0.10.2

The Scrobbler settings and configuration flow have been completely redesigned in this release. Webhooks now behave more like Watcher, although Watcher remains my preferred option. You can decide which approach works best for you.

If you use Watcher routes or webhooks, review your Scrobbler configuration after upgrading. Legacy webhook settings must be cleaned up. The Scrobbler page will display a banner that can handle this automatically.

If you have been using CrossWatch for a while, this may be a good moment to start with a clean config by using Factory Reset in Maintenance. This restores all default values and may significantly improve your experience.

✨ Highlights

• Scrobbler redesign: Watcher routes and webhooks now have separate management flows.
• Webhooks: Webhooks are now configured per media server profile. Same as Watcher routes
• Improved configuration: Sources, destinations, filters, and options are easier to understand and manage.
• Improved anime matching: Trakt’s absolute episode number can now be match the correct SIMKL episode

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Added: Dedicated management for creating, editing, enabling, and deleting Watcher routes.
• Added: Dedicated management for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby webhooks.
• Fixed: Native anime episodes can now be matched using Trakt’s absolute episodes.
• Removed: Outdated Scrobbler UI logic, unused helpers, and obsolete styling. …

CrossWatch v0.10.1

Webhook handling changed heavily in this release. If you use Plex, Jellyfin or Emby webhooks, please check your webhook URLs, tokens and profile/instance routing after upgrading.

SIMKL users should refresh their sync state from Maintenance after upgrading. This rebuilds the local SIMKL history cache with the new anime/history mapping logic.

Highlights

• Webhooks extended: Plex, Jellyfin and Emby webhooks now also support SIMKL and MDBList.
• Jellyfin Quick Connect: Jellyfin can now authenticate with Quick Connect.
• Events extended: Events now track scrobble and rating activity, including usage statistics.
• SIMKL anime history: improved SIMKL anime history sync that uses anime episode numbering.
• Design updates: UI Settings has received an overhaul including Connections.

Fixes & Improvements

• Added: Profile-specific webhook URLs and tokens for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby instances.
• Added: Support for Jellyfin Quick Connect.
• Added: Per-route scrobble policy overrides for watched and force-stop thresholds.
• Added: Events statistics for sync runs, scrobbles and duration trends.
• Added: Events database boot check with startup status and repair/rebuild handling.
• Added: Friendly unresolved reason labels for sync diagnostics and Events views.
• Added: SIMKL anime history can translate existing native anime episode numbers back to source. …

CrossWatch v0.10.0

This release includes some big orchestrator and adapter changes, especially around sync planning, unresolved handling and blackbox behavior. As always with a new minor release, it’s recommended to clean up your state files from the Maintenance tools after updating.

✨ Highlights

• Orchestrator reworked: Sync planning, apply handling, unresolved, blackbox promotion more consistant.
• Plex reworked: Plex now handles selected libraries, accepted writes, live confirmation, episode matching more reliably.
• Events viewer: New searchable (SQLite-backed) events for sync runs, item issues, unresolved items, etc.
• Issue visibility: Sync output now show clearer unresolved and blackboxed counts, with item-level reasons.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Orchestrator now records clearer sync run outcomes, including errors, unresolved items, blackboxed items, etc.
• Improved: Orchestrator blackbox promotion now follows the configured promote_after rules (default=3)
• Improved: Orchestrator now keeps unresolved, blackboxed, and failed item handling separated.
• Improved: Orchestrator apply results now better distinguish accepted writes from confirmed provider state.
• Improved: Orchestrator snapshots refresh after accepted writes where needed, reducing stale comparison results.
• Improved: Events viewer now groups sync runs and related item threads. …

CrossWatch v0.9.26

I’m going to start migrating from JSON to SQLite, which will probably turn into one big horror show. This is a major architectural change, but it is necessary to support CrossWatch’s future development. For that reason, I’m already releasing v0.9.26, which includes several fixes and improvements before the migration work begins.

✨ Highlights

• Jellyfin: the updated adapter require Jellyfin 10.9 or newer. Older Jellyfin versions are not supported anymore.
• Jellyfin: Updated to current API routes with Jellyfin 10.9+ compatibility checks.
• Playback Progress: faster and more accurate synchronization across Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Plex now retrieves complete progress directly from selected libraries
• Improved: Plex library whitelisting, pagination, duplicate selection, and Plex Home isolation remain fully supported.
• Improved: Duplicate media versions now select the newest and most accurate playback progress.
• Improved: Emby and Jellyfin query selected libraries individually and avoid unnecessary full-library scans.
• Improved: Active sessions, newer target progress, and watched items are no longer overwritten unexpectedly.
• Improved: Legacy null responses are handled safely while cached data prevents unnecessary full-library requests.
• Fixed: Pagination continues correctly when a page contains only duplicate items. …

CrossWatch v0.9.25

Huge update. This release introduces the new redesigned Sync Hub and other elements like the Now Playing experience.

✨ Highlights

• Sync Hub: Added live service, synchronization, application-health and update monitoring.
• Now Playing: Redesigned the live playback card with media information.
• Live Output: Redesigned Sync, Watcher and Debug output with structured, theme-aware live logs.
• Playback Progress: Added server- and pair-level library whitelisting for Plex, Emby and Jellyfin.
• PublicMetaDB: Added optional TMDb title and release-year enrichment.
• Performance: Optimized startup for slower devices.

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved: Live output now includes provider labels, severity levels, timestamps and readable copied logs.
• Improved: Bounded live-log rendering keeps the interface responsive during high-volume output.
• Improved: Faster Watchlist loading, dashboard counters, episode artwork and source-profile labels.
• Improved: Playback Progress indexing and target resolution now respect whitelistings.
• Improved: Plex progress synchronization avoids self-writes and protects currently playing,.
• Improved: Redesigned Maintenance with better cleanup, action summaries and capture management.
• Improved: Added persistent TMDb metadata caching. …