v3.6.0

What's new in 3.6.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed freeze when pressing X to stop a stream — monitoring loop now exits immediately instead of spinning 30 seconds
• Fixed intermittent loading overlay (busy dialog) getting stuck on stream start/stop
• Fixed Kodi becoming unresponsive on Stop
• Fixed 30-second UI freeze caused by unreachable channel icon servers
• Fixed slow stream start — removed double-play and sleep-loop blocking
• Fixed sys.exit(0) race that caused Kodi to retry stream resolution in a loop

✨ New Features

• Persistent file-based caching for Live TV (30 min), Movies/VOD (60 min), Series (60 min), Catch-up (15 min)
• Settings → Cache: user-configurable cache expiry for Live TV, Movies, Series (5 minutes → 7 days)
• Clear content cache button in Settings → Cache
• Persistent icon-host reachability cache saved to disk (re-tested hourly)
• Curl timeout limits added (curllowtimeout=3s, curlclienttimeout=5s) to cap thumbnail fetch stalls

🔧 Improvements

• setContentLookup(False) on playback ListItem prevents stream probing on stop
• safe_icon() applied to both addDir() and addDirMeta()
• Added .gitignore to keep release zips out of the repo

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.