v5.49.25

5.49.25 (2026-03-07)

Bug Fixes

• helpers: terminate iframe workers after settle (#809) (c7317ac)
• instagram: avoid stale description cache for date parsing (#804) (31ac6c3)
• manifest: fallback publisher to name when short_name missing (#803) (0fc8043)
• media-provider: bound retry loop and add coverage (#800) (2be6d3b)
• regression (#813) (64aa483)
• rule error isolation (#801) (5c702f0)
• tiktok: fallback date parsing when video id is invalid (#807) (f92682a)

Performance Improvements

• audio,video: replace lodash media scans with native loops (#811) (c175eb4)
• audio,video: short-circuit iframe probing on first hit (#810) (ac8fc2a)
• audio: cache iframe fetches and dedupe probing urls (#818) (db184af)
• helpers: use reference-only html dom memoization (#816) (bb90b1c)
• logo-favicon: reduce favicon candidate allocations (#814) (d2f4291)
• media-provider: select best format in linear time (#819) (97587f3)
• metascraper: fast-path mergeRules in common case (#820) (7dc559a)
• metascraper: reduce getData allocations (#827) (5c674af)
• readability: cache html serialization per htmlDom (#823) (a1b10fc)
• readability: use happy-dom window parser (#822) (0333253)
• video: share iframe fetch cache across rules (#817) (a54cc73)

Reverts

• Revert "fix(instagram): avoid stale description cache for date parsing" (0677cd6)