Release Notes

Last Updated:April 27, 2026

April 18, 2026

Email notification feature: An email notification feature has been added to inform users whenever cleanup or recovery operations are performed.

Support for Live Streams & Upcoming Videos: Live streaming and upcoming premiere videos are now officially recognized as normal videos. Previously, they were sometimes mistakenly flagged as unavailable. You can now safely keep active streams in your playlists without them being targeted for cleanup.

Improved Handling of Pre-Existing Country-Blocked Videos: During the initial playlist import, metadata for videos that are already country-blocked is now saved to the database. This ensures that when the background scheduler runs, these videos are correctly routed to the recovery pipeline instead of being permanently removed(Cleanup).
Unchanged Handling of Pre-Existing Private/Deleted Videos: Videos that are already private or deleted at the time of import lack accessible metadata and will not be saved to the database. Consequently, the background scheduler will continue to remove them during its routine cleanup.
Standard Recovery Remains Unchanged: Please note that this update applies strictly to videos that are unavailable at the exact moment of their initial import. Any video that was successfully imported and backed up, but later becomes unavailable, will be processed by the standard recovery pipeline as usual.

Upgraded FixMyPlaylist's infrastructure to handle system maintenance more gracefully. You will now see a informative status page instead of connection errors during scheduled upgrades or unexpected outages.

Playlist recovery is now more reliable and resilient to quota limits. Previously, certain operations could fail midway due to quota exhaustion, which sometimes resulted in no visible progress even though some steps had already consumed resources. With this update, the system now verifies and reserves the required quota upfront for each recovery action. This ensures that every planned step can be fully completed once it starts. In addition, recovery no longer stops entirely when a quota limit is reached. Instead, the process completes as many valid actions as possible and safely preserves partial progress. As a result, playlist recovery is more predictable, avoids wasted operations, and continues to make incremental improvements even under quota constraints.

When registering a playlist, the service now displays a report highlighting any unavailable videos within the playlist, such as deleted, private, or region-blocked content. As before, these unavailable videos present at the time of initial registration will still be automatically cleaned up according to the existing logic, and their removal history can be reviewed in the Recovery History section. This update is designed to provide clearer insight into the playlist’s state and help users better understand what happens during registration.

No longer treat videos as unavailable solely based on their privacy status being unlisted. Even if a video is unlisted, it can still be played within a playlist as long as it is not country-blocked, and YouTube does not surface it as an error in the playlist’s “unavailable videos” banner. Therefore, such videos are now considered valid and left untouched. However, if a video is unlisted and restricted or blocked in the user’s country, it is still classified as an invalid video.
Previously, invalid videos that already existed before playlist registration were silently cleaned up by the scheduler without informing the user which videos were removed. Going forward, even these cleanup-only actions will be visible in the Recovery History section, where the video Id of each cleaned-up video will be displayed for transparency.