- Introduced `dispatcharr_user_agent`, `dispatcharr_dvr_user_agent`, and `dispatcharr_http_headers` functions in `core.utils` to standardize User-Agent strings and HTTP headers for outbound requests.
- Updated various components, including `LogoViewSet`, `EPGSourceViewSet`, and VOD proxy views, to utilize the new header functions, ensuring consistent User-Agent usage across the application.
- Enhanced the handling of Schedules Direct API requests by including proper User-Agent headers, addressing previous API compliance issues.
- Sanitize series_rules on read (get_dvr_series_rules) and write (set_dvr_series_rules), filtering non-dict elements and non-list values
- Sanitize series_rules in CoreSettingsSerializer.update() to cover the generic settings API path (Settings page round-trip)
- Harden EPG ignore list getters (prefixes, suffixes, custom) with shared _safe_string_list helper to filter non-string/non-list values
- Add 13 unit tests covering all corruption scenarios