chore(dev): release 2.9.0

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2.9.0 (2026-07-23)

Features

• add per-type controls for watch tracking (5f2f559)
• add per-type controls for watch tracking (aed365a)
• add trigger keyword to AI search (a64097f)
• add trigger keyword to AI search (3231795)
• dashboard: clear cache entries by meta id or catalog id (e2f4f75)
• experimental aiom image caching engine (67f33e7)
• movielens: apply taste tags on non-prediction catalog sorts (2a12df2)
• movielens: import user-created lists as catalogs (828bd07)
• movielens: multi-user MovieLens recommendations (fad8105)
• redesign oauth popups (7f44c91)
• top10: broaden service coverage, handle regional variants (fbe5d75)
• top10: broaden service coverage, handle regional variants (a1ed440)

Bug Fixes

• allow rootless users with built-in poster cache enabled (34be89d)
• allow rootless users with built-in poster cache enabled (c2f84a2)
• dashboard: keep the logs service filter visible (cca2179)
• hydrate release dates on TVDB movie search results so the digital release filter can act on them (fa533b2)
• logo: cache metahub image-existence checks for the full TTL (e679561)
• logo: verify metahub logo fallbacks exist before serving them (44f90de)
• mal & trakt oauth on multi-replica setups (afa5205)
• paginate Trakt watched fetches and prioritize recently aired shows in unwatched catalog (415725f)
• proxy episode thumbnails so clients can load them (bd96abf)
• proxy episode thumbnails through the art proxy (2cc7dba)
• request Trakt watched shows with extended=progress so hide-watched works again (963dd96)
• stale catalog name in movielens edit modal (a719e59)
• stale catalog name in movielens edit modal (5018028)
• stop inferring a rating poster provider from saved API keys (a7a2359)

Performance Improvements

• dedup md5 hashes (bfe73fb)
• use lz4 instead of lz-string in config cache (44d92cd)

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