CouchPotato 5af8fd0b Update: Installation and Upgrade

CouchPotato, is an awesome automatic movie downloader and organizer and a perfect companion for your XBMC media center. A new update (5af8fd0b) is now available for CouchPotato. This post describes the changes in the new CouchPotato 5af8fd0b update and provides instructions on how to update your CouchPotato.

What's New in CouchPotato 5af8fd0b

CouchPotato 5af8fd0b update brings numerous fixes and improvements, some of which are listed below:

Only skip data dir paths when updating source
Make ubuntu init script executable so it can be symlinked to /etc/init.d
Zero fill imdb ids found
Allow imdb id with int of 4-7
Use success when adding movies
Remove SceneHD as we can't login with captcha. fix #2146
Detect Windows 8 tablets as touchdevice also.
Whatever! #2283
Flixter decode json before parsing. closes #2305
No need to use disable check in automation
Add category to renamer replacements. fix #2283
Force unicode name for newznab. fix #2347
Move and fix cleanreleases
Revert "Make sure to untag downloading dir if it's completed. fix #2341"
Make sure to untag downloading dir if it's completed. fix #2341
Use json in flixter
Plex endless loop when no clients connected
Cleanup searcher and release checking
Load lsb init-functions so that status_of_proc is available
Make iframe https
New clients added that aren't in the current client cache now trigger a reload if the list isn't "stale" yet.
When notifications fail to send the client list is automatically reloaded in case the client address has changed.
Cleaned up Plex notifications plugin.
Make sure movies are removed from dashboard
Fix releases missing from Snatched&Available
Changed MIME type of JSONP requests to text/javascript
Fix to Searcher.createReleases (media_id doesn't exist yet)
Fix to MovieSearcher.single to set default media type as types aren't in develop yet.
Fixed ResultList.append call to 'movie.searcher.correct_movie' instead of 'searcher.correct_release'
Updated rTorrent library - MethodError exceptions when calling group methods should be fixed.
Updated rTorrent library and fixed call to MethodError.message (should be MethodError.msg) in _update_provider_group
Updated rtorrent library - scgi fix for Python 2.6
Make YIFY a imdbid search. fix #2323
Import Media, not Movie. fix #2320
Better year name guessing. #2323
Updated rTorrent downloader options
Updated rtorrent library to current master - scgi:// support
Userscript styling fixes
Userscript didn't load properly
Use Media for all Movie db actions
Add tv branch column aliases
Use movie instaid of media model
Rename mediaplugin
Remove refresh from movie media
Move media refresh to media plugin
Revert "TorrentBytes login url change. fix #2317"
Move suggestions to movie folder
Move search item to movie folder
Make search work for multiple media types
YIFY use IMDB id for search. fix #2313
TorrentBytes login url change. fix #2317
Check snatched with single query
ILoveTorrents cleanup
disabled by default
improve resilience to retrieve description in get_more_info
support getting more info.
use a proper name, instead of the link
torrents are found and appended to the results argument
add new provider for ILT.
Rename release.update to update_status
[SabNZBd] Consider encrypted as failed
Don't use movie done status to check seeding
fix log message
Remove all empty folders
fix colour order
Set missing to ignored after 1 week
Remove movie_dict/li>
Update movie quality status colour and text
Add missing status
frontend release.update
clean-up searcher
Add release.update event
Added directory option

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The complete list of changes and fixes in CouchPotato 5af8fd0b update is available here.

Installation and Configuration Instructions

Ubuntu Installation (Or you may use the 1-step installer)
Windows Installation
CouchPotato Configuration Instructions

Upgrade Instructions

There are many ways to update CouchPotato. If you installed from git following our Ubuntu installation guide, then you may cd into ~/.couchpotato and issue git pull command:

cd ~/.couchpotato
git pull

You may also get the CouchPotato 5af8fd0b update by clicking "Update to Latest" from the settings menu or click on the update notification that appears on top of the screen (shown below).