Reddit users were rocked by some drama this morning when a vulnerability report on Huntarr turned sour, culminating in a storm of negativity / comments, with the developer deleting their repos, Discord server, and online presence.

ElfHosted were never at risk from this particular vulnerability (our Huntarr and other Arr apps are protected behind ElfHosted SSO Auth), but the end result is that it seems that Huntarr will no longer be developed / maintained.

Given the unfortunate the way the situation has played out has left, we've decided that the best course of action to support our users is to revert to an older, simpler version of Huntarr, which we've forked, "claudited", and named "Newtarr" (coincidentally, my cat went to the vet today for "the procedure", and now bears the "cone of shame").

Newtarr will replace Huntarr on your next glowup. It's Huntarr in all but name and color scheme, so there's nothing new, other than a few bugfixes, and the removal of features we didn't use anyway. You will notice that you'll get a standard, conservative hunting config by default, but you're free to ramp up its aggressiveness as you see fit. Unlike public indexers, our internal indexers (ElfZyclops, ElfBitmagnet, and ElfZyclops) don't have or need any rate-limits.

If you're interested in the Newtarr fork technically, you can find it at https://github.com/elfhosted/newtarr, and a full security audit of the fork's codebase at https://github.com/elfhosted/newtarr/blob/main/SECURITY-AUDIT.md

⚠️ Note for non-ElfHosted users

The ghcr.io/elfhosted/newtarr:rolling image is public and available for general use, but without any expectation of ongoing support or development. If somebody else wants to step up and maintain the fork, we'd be happy to help curate / steward it. PRs will be likely be accepted if they're true to the original function and easy to understand and merge 🙂

🤗 Reminder to be kind

The Huntarr dev posted publicly in their Discord about some serious, life-altering personal circumstances in Dec 2025. I'm not comfortable re-sharing these post even though they were public, but it's clearly established that they were / are going through "some stuff". Their reaction to the current situation is unfortunate, but please be kind and remember that they're a fellow human with feelings and a real life and family. Let them go in peace.