What's new: Nextup

1.5.2 · 1 October 2026

The image now comes from Docker Hub. If you are already running Nextup, change one line in your docker-compose.yml:
```
image: lightmorphic/nextup:latest
```
Replace whatever image line you have now, then docker compose pull and docker compose up -d. The image itself is the same build; nothing inside the app has changed and your data is untouched.
The website has moved to Cloudflare Pages. The address is the same. Nextup now lives in two places and no others: this website for everything written about it, and Docker Hub for the image. The Downloads link goes to https://hub.docker.com/r/lightmorphic/nextup, the changelog is a page on the site at /whats-new.html, the licence is served at /licence.txt, and problems are reported by email rather than on a tracker.
The GitHub workflow that built images for ghcr.io has gone, along with the files GitHub Pages needed. Neither is used any more.

1.5.1 · 13 September 2026

The season you were working in stays open. Ticking off the last unwatched episode in, say, season two closed it and opened season one instead, because the page opens whichever season holds the next episode you have not seen and falls back to the first when there is none. The page now remembers which seasons you had open, the same way it already remembers where you had scrolled to.
The hero fills the width of the site rather than sitting in a narrow column down the left with empty space beside it. The question and its typed answer sit on the left, what it does and the way in on the right. The typing animation is unchanged.
The open-source footer used across Lightmorphic now appears on every page, and the Read the source button has gone with it.
The company number is no longer a link, and the TMDB credit runs the full width of the footer with a rule under it.

1.5.0 · 13 September 2026

The morning email is dark too. It was still white, which was the last light-coloured thing left. It also tells a mail client it is a dark message, so nothing tries to invert it.
Every screenshot on the website has been retaken. All ten still showed the old light app, and the dashboard and sharing card also showed the old Next up layout from before 1.2.0.
Fixed a broken grid on the Films page. The Mark watched button was a sibling of the film tile rather than part of it, so every film took two columns and the button sat beside the poster instead of under it. With one film ready it looked odd; with four it looked broken.
The container takes its timezone from the machine it runs on, by mounting /etc/localtime read-only, rather than having Europe/London written into the compose file.

1.4.0 · 6 September 2026

### Dark, and only dark

Light mode and the appearance switch are gone, from the app and from the website, along with everything behind them: the switch itself, the route and cookie it used, the light half of every colour token, the light half of all nineteen accent colours, and the button style that existed only for the switch. Pages stay dark whatever the browser asks for.
Because the theme cookie has gone, Nextup sets one cookie, not two. The cookies page, the front page and the accessibility page all said two.

### Legal sub-footer

The company details, registered office and the date the page was last updated sit on the left; Privacy, Cookies, Terms, Accessibility and Complaints are right-justified on the same line. They drop underneath and align left on a narrow screen.

### Addresses

No email address appears anywhere except the five legal pages, and only three are used: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
[email protected] was in the footer of all seven pages, in the page's structured data and in llms.txt. All gone; that domain no longer exists. The terms address was on it too and has moved to lightmorphic.com.

### Checked

Every page of the app and the site at every width from 3440 down to 320: 1,660 measurements, nothing overflows, every page dark even with the browser asking for light, no errors.
162 tests, including new ones that fail if a theme switch or a light theme ever comes back.

1.3.0 · 5 September 2026

A security and quality pass over the whole project.

### Security

Dependencies updated, clearing 16 known vulnerabilities: Flask 3.0.3 to 3.1.3, Werkzeug 3.0.4 to 3.1.8, requests 2.32.3 to 2.34.2, cryptography 43.0.1 to 50.0.1, gunicorn 23 to 26.
The sign-in page can no longer be used to bounce you off the site. A next value beginning with two slashes is a whole other website, and it was being accepted. Only a plain path is now kept.
Security headers on every response: a content security policy that allows scripts from nowhere but this app, plus nosniff, a referrer policy and a refusal to be framed.
The sign-in cookie can be marked Secure with NEXTUP_HTTPS_ONLY=1, for installations where every way in is HTTPS.
Restoring a backup is now all or nothing. Settings were written after the transaction had already been committed, so a failure at that point could leave you with your data back but no settings at all.
The container runs read-only, with no extra privileges and no Linux capabilities. Gunicorn's control socket, the one thing that wanted to write outside the data directory, is switched off.
The installer is removed from the finished image. Nothing installs anything at runtime, and pip and setuptools were the only remaining things a vulnerability scanner objected to. The image now scans clean.

### Quality

No typed glyphs anywhere. Thirty pasted symbols in the app and twelve on the website have gone. Where the shape carried meaning, such as a rating star, it is now drawn; everywhere else the words already said it.
Tooltips are short. Several grew with the length of a film title, one reaching 106 characters, which is what pushed them off a narrow screen. The longest is now well under half that, and the full wording is still there for a screen reader.
Everything you tap on a phone is at least 44 pixels tall. Buttons were 31.
The website said the front page listed shows oldest first, and still called itself version 1.0.0.

### Checked

Every page measured at every width from 3440 pixels down to 320, in twenty pixel steps, in light and dark. No horizontal overflow anywhere.
161 tests, twelve of them new and covering the security fixes above.

1.2.0 · 5 September 2026

Next up is one line per episode, not one per show. A series you were eight behind on took a single line, so the top of the list ran out of recent things quickly and episodes from months back appeared inside the first twenty. It is now a straight run of everything that has come out and is still waiting, newest first, films among the episodes at the date they reached home viewing.
How far behind you are is shown once per show rather than on every line.
An Up to here button on every line, and long lists are paged sixty at a time.

1.1.2 · 5 September 2026

The page stays where it was after you tick something off. Every watched button posts a form and comes back as a fresh page, which the browser drew from the top, so marking off a run of episodes meant scrolling down again after every click.

1.1.1 · 5 September 2026

Next up names the episode that has just aired, rather than the next one you had not ticked off. For a show never started that was the pilot, so a series from years ago sat at the top.

1.1.0 · 5 September 2026

Films and episodes share one list on the front page, newest first, each saying the day it came out. Films had not been in that list at all.
A Just out / Oldest first switch, so catching up is still one click.

1.0.0 · 3 September 2026

The first release. Everything below has been in daily use on a real library of

93 shows and 964 watched episodes before being called finished.

### What it does

Next up: every show with an aired episode you have not watched, oldest first, with a one-press Watched button and a count of how far behind you are.
Catching up: tick one episode, a whole season, or everything up to a given episode. Unaired episodes cannot be ticked by accident and progress counts only what has actually been broadcast.
Episode pages with the still, synopsis, air date, runtime, guest cast and director, linked from everywhere an episode is named.
Discover: what is arriving, with a tick, a question mark and a cross on each. Films are filtered to home releases rather than cinema ones. A cross hides a title from Discover without deleting it.
Maybe list for shows and films you are curious about but not following. They stay out of Next up, the calendar and the email.
Films split into ready to watch, coming to streaming, and seen, with the UK services that carry each one.
Calendar of the month: episodes in yellow, films reaching home viewing in blue, each labelled so colour is never the only signal.
A morning email with the cover, a description and a link for each thing that has become watchable. Covers travel inside the message. Any send time, to the minute.
A watchable-after setting, because a programme going out at eleven at night is not really available until the next day.
Backup and restore: one file holds everything, and restoring is all of it or none of it.

### How it behaves

Artwork is fetched once and served by Nextup, so no page ever points a browser at another host.
The TMDB key and the mail password are entered in the app and stored encrypted, never in an environment file.
No analytics, no telemetry, no account with anyone.
Light and dark, following the system by default, with twenty accent colours.
Runs as a non-root user in the container, with all state in one directory.

0.13.1 · 3 September 2026

### Fixed

The email panel takes the full width now. Squeezed into a masonry column its fields stacked one per row and it grew twice as tall as anything else, which left its column running well past the others. Across the whole width the fields pack three to a row and it is short and wide instead.

0.13.0 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

Settings is masonry now. Nothing lines up with anything: each panel takes only the height its content needs and the columns fill themselves, so no panel is padded out to match a neighbour. Three columns, then two, then one.
The TMDB panel was the worst offender for wasted space. Its explanation is shorter and the key now sits on one line with its buttons rather than stretched across the whole panel on its own.
The email panel's address hint was three lines, which made that whole row of fields tall. It is one line. The send time, the clock switch and the tick box share a line rather than taking three.

0.12.0 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The accent colour, the watchable delay and the email schedule now save themselves the moment you change them. Their buttons remain underneath for anyone without scripting, and are only removed once the page knows it can do the job instead. The mail server, the TMDB key, the password and the restore still need a deliberate press, because half-typed credentials should not save themselves.
Buttons have an edge you can see. An ordinary button's border sat at 1.27 to 1 against a white panel and 1.12 to 1 in the dark, and the quiet ones had no fill and no border at all, so they read as plain text. Both now use the same edge as the form fields, clearing the 3 to 1 asked of a control.

0.11.1 · 3 September 2026

### Fixed

On a medium screen the bento was only 81 per cent full: three panels sat in a two-column stack, leaving a hole, and the backup panel sat alone in a four-column row. Stacks now spread across whatever width they are given. Measured fill is 88 per cent at desktop, 94 in the middle, 92 to 97 on a tablet and 95 on a phone.

0.11.0 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

Form fields pack across the width they are given instead of stacking down it. The mail settings had five rows of fields, two of which held a single input stretched across the whole panel. They are three rows now, which makes the panel considerably shorter and stops the bento having to be padded out around it.

0.10.5 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The bento's two pairs are balanced by measurement rather than guesswork. The stack beside the morning email overshot it by 230 pixels and sign-in fell 272 short of backup, which is where the leftover space was going.

0.10.4 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The bento is packed properly now. Panels are sized to their content rather than stretched to a shared row height, which was what created the empty space. The TMDB key runs across the top, the morning email sits beside a stack of four short panels picked so the two come out level, and backup and sign-in finish the bottom row. It steps from six columns to four, then two, then one.

0.10.3 · 3 September 2026

### Fixed

The bento's short panels had a hole between the heading and the content, because forms were being pushed to the foot of their compartment. Content sits at the top now and spare room falls to the bottom, where it reads as space rather than a mistake.

0.10.2 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

Settings is a bento: compartments of different sizes that tessellate, rather than two columns of whatever happened to land in them. The sizes are chosen so the grid fills with no gaps and nothing has to be shuffled out of order, which keeps what you read in the same order as what you see. It steps down to four columns, then to one.

0.10.1 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The privacy and cookies pages now give [email protected], and the complaints page and the accessibility statement give [email protected].

0.10.0 · 3 September 2026

### Added

Backup and restore. One button writes everything to a single JSON file: every show and film, everything watched, what was dismissed, your settings, and enough show detail that a restored copy works before it has spoken to TMDB. Another button reads it back. All of it or none of it, so a file that cannot be read leaves the database exactly as it was.
Your TMDB key and mail password are left out of the plain download, because they are encrypted with a key that stays on that server. A second button includes them as plain text, and says so.

### Fixed

Form fields were nearly invisible in dark mode: the field was the same colour as the panel behind it, with an edge at 1.1 to 1 against it. Fields now have their own background and an edge clearing 3 to 1 in both themes. Light mode failed the same standard at 1.27 to 1 and was fixed with it.
The upload limit was two megabytes, which a large library's own backup would have exceeded. It is now sixty-four.

0.9.4 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The headline no longer underlines a phrase to draw the eye. It asks which episode you were on, and a line beneath types out the answer, cycling through real examples. With scripting off, or with reduced motion asked for, the first answer simply stands.
The link for the TMDB key now goes straight to the page that holds it, in the app, on the website and in the README, rather than to the front of the site to be hunted for.

### Fixed

Three error banners in the app were still the old top-of-page sort. They now sit beside what caused them like everything else.

### Added

Tests for three standing rules: no decorative underlining, no left-hand edges on boxes, and no banner notifications. Link hover underlines are allowed, and the test says why: without them an inline link is told apart by colour alone.

0.9.3 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

The website has been rebuilt. Every screenshot retaken on the current build, including the show page, whose cast row used to run off the side of its panel in the old picture.
The decorative label above the headline is gone, along with the grid of eight small feature cards. Each section now stands on a real screenshot instead.
The morning email has a section of its own, since nothing else in this class of software does it.
Fixed a column with a fixed minimum width that pushed the page sideways at 320 pixels, which is what a 1280 pixel screen becomes at 400 per cent zoom.

0.9.2 · 3 September 2026

### Changed

A linked cover in the email now says it carries no border, because some mail clients ring a linked picture in blue otherwise.
The Settings page says so plainly when the email is switched on but the address box is empty, since that is the one thing that stops anything in the email being clickable.

0.9.1 · 3 September 2026

### Fixed

The plain text version of the email had neither the descriptions nor the links, so anyone whose mail client shows text rather than pictures got less than everyone else. It now carries the same.

0.9.0 · 3 September 2026

### Added

The morning email now shows the cover of each show and film, a couple of sentences about it, and links each one back to its page in Nextup.
The artwork is attached to the message rather than linked, so it appears even though this server is not reachable from the wider internet, and no mail client ever calls out to fetch it.
A field in Settings for this Nextup's own address, which is what the links in the email point at. Left blank, the email still lists everything, just with nothing to click.

### Changed

Poster caching moved out of the web route into its own module, so the pages and the email share one copy of each picture rather than fetching it twice.

0.8.2 · 2 September 2026

### Changed

No coloured edges anywhere. The confirmation strips lose their coloured rule and keep the coloured tick or exclamation. Today on the calendar is a filled date rather than a ring round the cell. The tick buttons, the yes, no and maybe buttons and the calendar key all carry their meaning in the fill or the text instead. A test now walks both stylesheets and fails if one comes back.
Focus outlines stay, since they are outlines rather than borders and taking them away would leave anyone using a keyboard with nowhere to look.

0.8.1 · 2 September 2026

### Fixed

On a middling screen the search box dropped to a second row and sat against the right edge with a wide gap beside it. When it wraps it now takes the whole row.

0.8.0 · 2 September 2026

### Changed

Confirmations no longer appear as a coloured banner at the top of the page. They now sit beside the control that caused them, as a quiet line with a coloured edge, and saving a setting returns you to that panel rather than throwing you back to the top to read the message.
The top bar drops its "Next up" link, since the logo already goes there, which leaves the search box room to stay on the same row.
The light, dark and automatic switch is now an icon on its own. It still announces which mode it is in to a screen reader.

0.7.2 · 2 September 2026

### Fixed

Anything hidden by script stayed on screen. The browser hides such elements with its own stylesheet, and any rule of ours that sets how an element is laid out overrode it. The clock switch's fallback button was the visible symptom.

0.7.1 · 2 September 2026

### Changed

The clock choice is now a toggle switch reading "12 hours" and "24 hours", sitting beside the time rather than up beside the heading, since the time is the only thing it changes. It applies as soon as it is pressed, and still works without scripting.
Hours and minutes are dropdowns rather than number boxes, so the 24 hour clock reads 08 and 09 rather than 8 and 9. A number box strips a leading zero, so it could never show them properly.

0.7.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

The morning email can go out at any time of day, to the minute, rather than on the hour. Twelve minutes past seven is a perfectly good answer.
A small switch beside the heading turns the time controls from the 24 hour clock to am and pm, for anyone who would rather read it that way. The 24 hour clock stays the default, and the choice only changes what is shown; the time is stored the same way either way.
The email has been rebuilt: the Nextup name at the top, the date it covers, television and films in separate sections with the channel or the streaming service beside each, and a Lightmorphic credit at the foot linking to lightmorphic.com. Built from tables and inline styles, which is what mail clients understand, and it loads nothing from anywhere else.

### Changed

The scheduler now checks every two minutes rather than every ten, so a time like 07:12 is not a quarter of an hour late.
An older install that stored only an hour is read and converted on the way past, so nothing needs re-entering.

0.6.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

A setting for when something counts as watchable. A programme going out at eleven at night is not really available until the next day, so Nextup now waits a number of days you choose before putting it in Next up, moving a film into Ready to watch, or mentioning it in the email. The default is one day. Nought restores the old behaviour of counting it the day it airs.
A morning email. Mail server details go in the Settings page, with the password stored encrypted alongside the TMDB key. Once a day it sends a short list of what has become watchable, in plain text and simple HTML. If nothing has, nothing is sent.
Buttons to send a test message and to send today's email straight away, so the settings can be proved without waiting until morning.
TZ in the compose file, since the send hour and the meaning of "today" both depend on the container's clock.

0.5.2 · 2 September 2026

### Fixed

On a phone, the poster stayed beside the text on a show or film page, leaving the synopsis in a column about 190 pixels wide. Below 520 pixels the poster now sits above the text and the writing gets the full width.

0.5.1 · 2 September 2026

### Fixed

The cast strip on a show or film page pushed the whole page off to the right instead of scrolling inside its own panel. The column it sits in was sizing itself to the full width of every cast photograph laid end to end.

0.5.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

Films now appear on the calendar, on the day they reach home viewing, in blue against the yellow used for episodes. Every entry is also labelled, so the two are told apart by more than colour, and a small key sits above the month.
Films you have already seen are faded on the calendar the same way watched episodes are, rather than disappearing.

### Changed

Films on the maybe list stay off the calendar, matching how maybe shows behave.

0.4.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

Show and film pages now carry proper detail: the cast with photographs, the genres, the certificate, the tagline, the creators of a series or the director and writers of a film, and links out to a trailer, IMDb and a where-to-watch page.
Shows list which UK services carry them, the way films already did.
Cast photographs go through the same local cache as posters, so the pages still call out to nobody.

### Changed

The image proxy accepts filenames with dashes and underscores, which cast photographs use and posters do not.
The extra detail is fetched when the page is opened rather than stored, so it is never stale, and both pages render fine when TMDB cannot be reached.

0.3.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

Discover, two pages for deciding what to take on. Films lists what reaches streaming or television in the next 7, 14, 30 or 60 days, with cinema releases left out. TV lists series starting soon, or everything on air now.
A tick, a question mark and a cross on every Discover card. Tick adds it, question mark puts it on the Maybe list, cross hides it from Discover for good. Hidden items still turn up in a search, and one button brings them all back.
Episode pages. Click any episode title and you get its still, synopsis, air date, runtime, rating, guest cast and director, with links to the episode either side. Episode titles across the dashboard, calendar, show pages and Coming soon all lead there.
Films can go on the Maybe list too, so the tick, question mark and cross mean the same thing whichever page you are on. The Maybe page now has a Shows section and a Films section.

0.2.0 · 2 September 2026

### Added

A Maybe list for shows you are curious about but are not following. They stay out of Next up, the calendar and Coming soon until you press Start watching, at which point they join your shows as normal.
Search results and show pages can add straight to Maybe as well as to your shows.
Films now show when they reach streaming, not just when they were in cinemas. Nextup reads the digital, physical and TV release dates from TMDB and prefers a UK one, falling back to Ireland then the US.
Films also show which UK services carry them, using the JustWatch data TMDB publishes. Subscription, free and ad-supported services are listed; rental and purchase are left out.
The Films page is now three sections: ready to watch, coming to streaming, and seen. A "Check now" button re-asks TMDB about any film without a date.
Coming soon lists films landing on streaming alongside the episodes airing.

### Changed

The scheduled refresh also updates film availability, and skips shows on the Maybe list.

0.1.0 · 2 September 2026

First working version.

### Added

Next up dashboard: shows with aired, unwatched episodes, oldest first, with watched counts, time watched and a films-to-watch tile.
My shows: poster grid with per-show progress, favourites, archive, and filters for all / behind / archived.
Show page with every season and episode; tick one episode, a whole season, or everything up to a given episode.
Month calendar of episodes for tracked shows, with watched ones faded.
Coming soon list over 14, 30, 60 or 180 days.
Film watchlist with a to-watch and a seen section.
TMDB search across shows and films, added in one click.
Automatic refresh from TMDB every 12 hours, plus a manual refresh button. Ended shows are refreshed on a two-week cycle instead.
TMDB API key entered in the Settings page and stored encrypted, never in a plaintext environment file.
Poster and still proxy: artwork is cached locally and served from this app, so no page loads anything from a third-party host.
Light and dark themes, following the system by default, plus a 20-colour accent picker.
Single-user sign-in with a starter account of admin / nextup that the app nags you to change.