Road Map and Progress

Release 1.2.0: Movie tracking/recommendations

• Feature: Movie download progress tracking
• API: sort by, filter methods

Release 1.1.0: Personalization, Improved Metadata Support

• Feature: Show tracking: recently watched

Release 1.0.0: Stability and performance improvements

• Fix: Show torrent providers, seasons_complete method
• UI: Favorites, Watch List, Recently Watched

Release 0.0.8: Infrastructure and Stability

• Major infrastructural and stability enhancements

Release 0.0.7-alpha: Personalization, Improved Metadata Support

• Feature: Shortcut support
• Feature: UI Improvements

Release 0.0.6-alpha: UI Redesign/MVP

• API: Add themoviedb MetadataProvider
• Dev: Migrate to Container/Presentational components architecture.
• Feature: Save preferences/App State to ~/.popcorn-time-desktop/{config, cache}.json
• Perf: Infinite scrolling performance improvements

Release 0.0.5-alpha: Improve Playback and Dev Tooling

• API: CC support (opensubtitles, etc), SubtitleAdapter
• API: Favorites, Watch List, Recently Watched
• Dev: Drop Webchimera support, migrate to native
• Dev: Add initial Flow support
• Dev: Add initial Redux support
• Feature: Embedded subtitle support, behind flag
• Feature: Support external playback methods, behind flag
• Feature: Downloaded content persistence
• Feature: Custom endpoint configuration
• Feature: Half-star ratings

Release 0.0.4-alpha: Improve torrent speed

• API: Set a timeout for TorrentProvider's, should fail and return if they exceed the timeout
• API: Get status of all Providers to notify users of endpoint downtime
• Dev: Screenshot testing
• Feature: Query Season torrents and play individual episodes for increased torrent seeders (HUGE seeder count win)
• Metadata and Torrent API caching for faster responses
• Feature: Get network speed, download speed, other diagnostic information
• Feature: Get torrent download speed, progress in percentage and mb
• Feature: Filter torrents with low seeder count

Release 0.0.3-alpha: Improve Video Playback Stability

• API: Add concatenated torrent metadata (name, title, etc) as single metadata property, allow for imporved torrent hueristics
• API: Add season summary to MetadataAdapter
• Dev: Add support for .mlv and other video formats using WebChimera, macOS, Windows
• Dev: Add initial electron-builder support
• Dev: Stabilize WebChimera, provide proper fallback methods, progress and buffering loading bindings
• Feature: Warn user if seeders count is low

Release 0.0.2-alpha: Standard/MVP Features

• Feature: Search movies
• Dev: Add initial tests
• API: Metadata and torrents for Movies and TV shows
• API: Use episode title to improve torrent search results and increase seeds count
• UI: TV Show integration

Planned features/implementations/migrations

• API: Benchmark torrent download speed
• API: Provider 'registration' support, provides = ['movies', 'shows']
• API: Use remote option. Allow api results to be fetched from api server instead of locally, Isomorphic API server, default to remote server
• API: Support for Anime
• Dev: Transition to immutability, functional programming paradigms
• Dev: Deploy releases through Travis and Appveyor using Artifacts
• Feature: Automatic updates with Squirrel
• Feature: Build-in VPN
• Feature: Keyboard Shortcut support
• Feature: Mutli-lang subtitle support
• Perf: Compile to preact using webpack alias
• Perf: Minimize react re-renders (using why-did-you-update)