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Added/Changed

• The UI for Houdoku has been completely refreshed! The user-experience is consistent with previous versions, but the design is more consistent and easier to use than before. Some highlights:
  • Better performance across the board.
  • Clearer controls and layout on the library page, especially with the list view.
  • The series page has a more consistent layout and actions on the chapter table are much faster. Also added additional context menu options.
  • The Download page layout has been redesigned.
  • The status bar has been replaced with a more flexible notification system.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the context menu on the chapter table would overlap the window border.
• Fixed certain layout option combinations not working from the library control bar.
• Fixed downloads sometimes not being detected properly.

houdoku.org

Added/Changed

• Added a reader setting to optimize image contrast.
• Added a reader keybind (default u) and menu button to toggle spread offset in the Double view.
• The "Add Series" page will now use the columns setting from the library view.
• Added a context menu when right-clicking series on the library page.

Fixed

• Fixed overlap behavior of chapter list context menu.

Added/Changed

• Reader changes:
  • Added option for margin between Long Strip pages.
  • In the Double layout, spread pages will be displayed individually. Also added an option to offset the pages.
• Read status for individual chapters is now included in backups.
• Chapter list sort options & page size are now persisted.
• The downloader will now pad 0's in page filenames to ensure they are sorted correctly.
• Added support for searching for a series when linking to a tracker.
• General performance improvements by simplifying how states are handled.

Fixed

• Fixed "Stretch to fill" not behaving properly when images are smaller than both window height and width.
• Fixed an issue that could cause building to fail on Linux.

Changed

• The control bar on the library page has been simplified.
• The layout of the Downloads tab has been slightly adjusted.

Fixed

• Fixed a rare case where specific settings would not persist.

Fixed

• Fixed series in library sometimes copying data from other series (only from webview-based extensions).
• Fixed covers not downloading if they are missing/removed.

Notice: Along with this update, all extensions have been updated (and many new ones were added). Extensions must be updated to the latest version to function properly.

Added

• Added support for backing up + restoring the series list -- thanks @yash-278!
• Added a list view for the library -- thanks @yash-278!
• Added library sort options -- thanks @yash-278!
• Added click controls to navigate pages in the LongStrip reader.
• Added a "no next chapter" message in the reader when reaching the end of the last available chapter, which proceeds back to the series details page.

Changed

• Made updates to tags:
  • User tags have been removed.
  • Format/theme/content warning/genre have been replaced with the universal "tags".
  • Tags are no longer limited to specific values. Some extensions will now use a wider variety of tags, and users can specify any tags for filesystem-imports.
• The Cloudflare interceptor has been improved to work for more extensions.

Fixed

• Fixed an error when trying to read archived local series when the base directory doesn't exist.
• Fixed not being able to display webp images.
• Fixed a rare case where the series detail page wouldn't load if an extension returned bad data.

Added

• Fullscreen mode (F11) now hides the titlebar. Additionally, pressing m (configurable) on the reader page will hide/show the menu bar.
• Greatly increased the performance of reading local archive-file chapters (.zip/.cbz/.rar/.cbr).
• Various other performance improvements.

Fixed

• Fixed a renderer crash for some classes of extension request errors.
• Fixed minor placeholder text that was included on the series detail page.

Fixed

• Fixed chapter downloads sometimes not being queued in the correct order.
• Update to support bug fixes for some specific extensions.
• Other minor stability fixes.

houdoku.org

Changed

• Added support for importing local series with chapters as separate archives.
• Added more download options, along with a dedicated button at the top of the series page.
• Removed tooltips from library control bar buttons.

Fixed

• Fixed the filter on the extension table not ignoring case.
• Fixed image order when reading from local sources.
• Fixed flag icons not loading in some components.
• Fixed chapters in "My Downloads" list not being sorted.

houdoku.org

Changed

• Removed support for migrating legacy Lovefield user data, which was deprecated in 2.5.0.
• In two-page view, the reader control bar now shows both visible page numbers (i.e. "3-4 / 20").

Fixed

• Fixed how chapters with no number would appear in the reader dropdown & titlebar.
• Fixed reader click controls not working correctly on the two-page layout.
• Fixed order of pages in two-page layout not using the reader direction.
• Fixed the chapter & page control buttons not being disabled properly according to the reader direction.