v 1.7.4
Fixes:
- Collection list was empty, due to changes at ITVX.

Changes:
- Re-enabled inputstream helper (undoing changes of 1.7.3 now that inputstreamhelper has been fixed).

v 1.7.3
Hotfix:
- Videos fail to play with the message: "Could not make the request. Your internet may be down."

v 1.7.2
Fixes:
- In some cases, Kodi continued to run the previous version for a while after the add-on was updated.
- Short news clips fail to play in category News.
- Support live items without start and end time.

v 1.7.1
Fixes:
- Short sport clips fail to play with error 'Not Found'

v 1.7.0
New Features:
- Optional full HD streams - must be enabled in settings, off by default.

Fixes:
- Search with live items in the results failed.
- Some episode listings failed.

v 1.6.2
Fixes:
- Logging in to IVX account with username and password works again.

v 1.6.1
Fixes:
- NO IPTV EPG.

Changes:
- An attempt to correct some mistakes that are easily made when copying authentication tokens from a web browser.
- More informative error messages and logs when importing tokens fails.
- Some other minor changes.

v 1.6.0
Fixes:
- 'Continue watching' items could sometimes have and incorrect resume point.
- Another attempt to fix issues singing in with email and password.

New Features:
- Possibility to import authentication tokens copied from a web browser or another instance of
  viwX as an alternative to authenticate.

v 1.5.3
Fixes:
- Show a proper geo-blocked message again.
- All catchup played in low resolution.
- Sometimes a message to login was shown when the actual issue was a connection error.

Changes:
- Added support for hero items of type 'episode'.
- Hero items of type 'series' now navigate directly into the intended series folder.
  If the programme has more than 1 series the items has a context menu entry 'view all episodes' to navigate to the whole programme.

v 1.5.2
Fixes:
- Login failed with error 'Forbidden' even though email and password were correct.

v 1.5.1
Fixes:
- News clips failed to play with KeyError 'Brand'.
- Error messages when opening an empty 'Continue Watching' list.
- Stream-only FAST channels stalled in advert breaks.
- Programmes are now reported as having been fully played when the user has skipped to the end while playing.
- Some programmes were missing en IPTV EPG.
- Search now requests the same number of items as a generic web browser does.

New Features:
- Paid items are excluded from search results based on the setting 'Hide premium content'.
- On most live channels it's now possible to seek back up to 1 hour from the moment the channel is started.

v1.5.0
Fixes:
- ViwX failed to start with 'FetchError: Forbidden'. And issue only experienced by users of OSMC and possibly some other systems that still use OpenSSL v1.1.1.

New Features:
- Episodes in 'Continue Watching' now have context menu item 'Show all episodes', which opens the programme folder with all series and episodes.
- Trending now shows programmes with episodes as folder, rather than playing the first episode of series 1.

v1.4.1
Fixes:
- Yet again sign-in errors. Now affecting both new users and existing users who had signed out.

v1.4.0
New features:
- Support for signed programmes. (Enable the new setting 'Use signed programmes whenever available').
- Live hero items (those in orange on the main menu) now have a context menu 'Watch from the start'.

Fixes:
- Collection ITV sport failed with KeyError('collection')
- Again occasional sign-in errors for new users. Hopefully the final fix.
- A rare failure to list live channels.
- Adapt to changes at ITVX causing submenu 'My ITVX' to fail sometimes.

v1.3.0
Fixes:
- Freezing streams on Kodi 21 (Omega).
- A lot of timeout errors, only experienced by new users, particularly when trying to sign in or open a stream.
- All categories failed to open with KeyError('encodeEpisodeId') due to a change at ITVX.
- A workaround for a bug in ITVX causing full news programmes to fail with FetchError('Not Found').
- Sometimes an episodes listing failed with KeyError('guidance').

New features:


v1.2.1
Fixes:
- All categories failed to open with KeyError('pathSegment') due to a change at ITVX.

Changes:
- Schedules of live channels are now listed up to 6 hours in the future (was 4 hrs).

v1.2.0
Fixes:
- All categories failed to open due to various changes at ITVX.
- Error on opening some series named 'Other Episodes', due to changes at ITVX.
- Some sub-collections failed with error 'Not Found', due to error in ITVX data.
- Added support for hero and collections items of type 'page'. Fixes some collections being empty, or hero item not shown.

New features:
- Added a 'My itvX' entry in the main menu with:
    - My List - ITVX's My List.
    - Continue Watching: supports continue watching on different devices and different platforms.
    - Because You Watched: recommendations by ITV based on a recently watched programme.
    - Recommended: general recommendations by ITV.
- All programmes and series now have a context menu item to add/remove the programme to/from My List.

Changes:
- When not signed in, a user is now always offered to sign in via viwX's settings when an item was opened that required authentication.
- Search now respects setting 'Hide premium content'.
- Brushed up README thanks to JohnVeness.

v 1.1.1
- fix: playing VOD on kodi Omega failed with error.

v 1.1.0
- Updated user-agent string to Firefox 118.
- Added support for Live TV items in collections. Fixes: collection 'ITVX Live Channels' is empty.
- Added support for shortFromSlider in collection, like the folder with short news-like items in the collection 'Rugby World Cup'.
- Added support for shorForm collections. Fixes: absence of the collection 'Rugby World Cup 2023'.
- Adapt to a change at itvx causing an empty 'Kids Collection'.

v 1.0.0
 - First release.

v1.0.0-rc.1
- Support hero items and collection items of type collection.
- Added some protection against future changes to ITVX's main page.
- Fix: Some parts of subtitles missing when more than one colour was used on a single line.
- Added support for an experimental addon that performs automatic subtitles translation.
- Some other minor changes and improvements.

v1.0.0-beta.6
- Adapt to changes at ITVX which fixes:
    - Almost all VOD fail to play.
    - Programme folders fail to open.

V1.0.0-beta.5
- Start live streams a few seconds more in the past to fix stuttering and buffering issues.
- Cleanup of some cookie and property black magic to fix other issues with stuttering and stalling live streams.
- Adapt to changes at ITV which fixes:
    - Missing 'News' collection on the add-on's home page.
    - Most items in category 'News' fail to play.
- Fix: All items now have the correct title and plot in the info screen while playing.
- Fix: The addon becomes unresponsive for a very long time after an error.

V1.0.0-beta.4
- Fix: Very frequently a sign in to itvx is required.
- Fix: Free playable items in collections and categories failed, claiming to be premium.
- Fix: Premium content on the top level of a collection/category failed to play with a premium account.
- A bit more resilient to errors in hero items.

V1.0.0-beta.1
- Renamed addon to viwx
- Fix: some programmes with multiple episodes in categories were listed as single playable item, caused by changes at itvX.
- Fix: page 'Live' failed to open with error 'NoneType is not subscriptable' caused by changes at itvX.
- Fix: category 'News' failed to open caused by changes at itvX.
- Fix: search sometimes does not return results when it should.
- Fix: suport more types of hero items.
- When available, local time zone is now obtained from Kodi's settings, rather than the OS.
- VOD content in HD (720p, depending on the age of the episode).
- Support more colours in subtitles

v0.7.3
- Fixed playable items in collections failed with error 'Not Found' caused by changes at itvX.
- The main menu is always refreshed to ensure hero items are up to date.
- Fixed regression in 0.7.2: live hero items failed to play.
- Various minor changes under the hood.

v0.7.2
- Fix short news items from 'main menu/news' didn't play.
- Fix 'main menu/news' sometimes failed with "KeyError 'synopsis'".
- Fix fast channels won't play on kodi 20.

v0.7.1
- Fixed "KeyError 'type'" at addon start caused by changes at itvx.

v0.7.0
- Fix fast channels stop playing after a few minutes.
- Fix crash of kodi 20 on playing video.
- Proprer error message on access attempt to geo restricted content.
- Now navigate into a series folder, rather then opening it in place.
- Added settings to devide long lists up in pages and/or A-Z listing.
- Series folder inherit the premium status of the program.
- Series folders now have images.
- Error message is shown on playing premium content without a premium account.
- Times in live schedules now presented in the system locale/user preferences
- Some other minor fixes, improvements and changes under the hood.

v0.6.0
- Added itvx promoted content to main menu.
- Added itvx collections to main menu.
- Removed shows A-Z due to lacking native support on itvx.
- All other items are now also retrieved from itvx.
- Added setting to hide paid itvX-premium content.
- Add 'play from the start' to the context menu of the main live channels.
- In live channel listing, display bare programme names rather than extended info.

v.0.5.1
- fix new icon not shown anymore after reboot

v.0.5.0
- itvX icon and fanart
- Access to all itvX live channels.
- Option to play live programs from the start, when enabled in settings. For the main live channels only.
- Now possible to pause live programs.
- New main menu item 'Search'.
- Removed main menu item 'Full series'.

v.0.4.0
- List A-Z subfolders in menu 'Shows'.
- Much improved account sign in experience.
- Now possible to sign out of ITV account.
- New setting to show password in plain text while you type.
- Settings in new format, with help texts.
- fix: catchup subtitles did not show anymore.
- A little less confusing error messages.
- Various small fixes, improvements, changes and adaptions to changes at ITV's web services.

v.0.3.1
fix: episode without subtitle fails to play
update live channels' epg a bit more frequent
fix: some episodes are missing in listings

v.0.3.0
Still a work in progress, but most things should be working reasonably well though