I'm in the middle of a big janitorial petition-processing update for the PTR and other repositories. There's a lot of work still to do, and most of what I have done so far doesn't apply to normal users, so I won't go for a release out tomorrow. I'll just work more instead.

v535 should be out on the 19th of July. Thanks everyone!

I had a good couple of weeks working on the server janitor petition workflow, making it able to work on more than one petition at a time. Unfortunately, this is UI that only a handful of users ever see, and I didn't have time for all that much else, so there aren't a lot of changes for regular people. One neat thing, however, is the introduction of early support for Krita and SVG files.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

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>>252
I really wish Hydrus would disband Discord, or at least provide a privacy friendly alternative for users who don't want to use that fucking trash.

At least give us a Matrix or IRC chat.
They could also add a bridged channel that bridges to a channel on the Discord.

https://usemumble.neocities.org/
The top piece of this provides an excellent overview on Discord being dogshit.

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I don't think it's possible. "Selection tags" is for tags applied to the images you have currently selected. Standard intended usage involves literally thousands of tags (I have 7k and I tag somewhat sparsely), which would be taxing on the database and kind of useless to have visible at all times. You can set the suggested tags options to show you more suggestions faster though by using "manage tag display and search" under tags on the top bar.

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- misc:
- I fixed a critical bug in tag sibling storage when a 'bad' tag's mapping is removed (e.g. 'delete A->B') and added ('add A->C') in the same transaction, and in a heap of fun other situations besides, that mostly resulted in the newly added sibling being forgotten. the bug was worse when this was on a local tag service via the manage siblings dialog. this problem is likely the cause of some of our weird sibling issues on clients that processed certain repository updates extremely quickly. I will keep investigating here for more issues and trigger another sibling reset for everyone in the future
- the 'show some random pairs' button on the duplicates page is nicer--the 'did not find any pairs' notification is a popup rather than an annoying error dialog, and when there is nothing found, it also clears the page of thumbs. it also tries to guess if you are at the end of the current search, and if so, it will not do an auto re-fetch and will clear the page without producing the popup message
- fixed a bug that meant file order was not being saved correctly in sessions! sorry for the trouble!
- import of videos is now a little faster as the ffmpeg call to check resolution and duration is now retained to check for presence of an audio channel
- when files are imported, the status messages are now much more granular. large and CPU-heavy files should move noticeably from hash generation to filetype calculation to metadata to actual file copying
- fixed a database query bug in the new processing progress tracking code that was affecting some (perhaps older) versions of sqlite
- when you trash/untrash/etc... a file in the media viewer, the top hover text now updates to show the file location change
- fixed a typo bug in the new content type tracking that broke ipfs pinning yet again, sorry for the trouble! (issue #955)
- I fleshed out my database pending and num_pending tests significantly. now all uploadable content types are tested, so ipfs should not break at the _db_ level again
- the page tab menu now clumps the 'close x pages' into a dynamic submenu when there are several options and excludes duplicates (e.g. 'close others' and 'close to the left' when you right-click the rightmost page)
- the page tab menu also puts the 'move' actions under a submenu
- the page tab menu now has 'select' submenu for navigating home/left/right/end like the shortcuts
- fixed some repository content type checking problems: showing petition pages when the user has moderation privileges on a repository, permission check when fetching number of petitions, and permissions check when uploading files
- fixed a typo in the 'running in wine' html that made the whole document big and bold
- across the program, a 'year' for most date calculations like 'system:time imported: more than a year ago' is now 365 days (up from 12 x 30-day months). these will likely be calendar calculated correctly in future, but for now we'll just stick with simple but just a bit more accurate
- fixed a bug in mpv loop-seek when the system lags for a moment just when the user closes the media viewer and the video loops back to start

- boring database cleanup:
- to cut down on redundant spam, the new query planner profile mode only plans each unique query text once per run of the mode
- also fixed an issue in the query planner with multiple-row queries with an empty list argument
- refactored the tag sibling and parent database storage and lookup code out to separate db modules
- untangled and optimised a couple of sibling/parent lookup chain regeneration calls
- moved more sibling and parent responsibility to the new modules, clearing some inline hardcoding out of the main class
- cleaned up a bunch of sibling, parent, and display code generally, and improved communication between these modules, particularly in regards to update interactions and display sync
- the similar files data tables are migrated to more appropriate locations. previously, they were all in client.caches.db, now the phash definition and file mapping tables are in master, and the similar files search record is now in main

next week

I've managed to catch up on some critical issues, and some IRL stuff also eased up, so I have some breathing room. I want to put some more time into multiple local file services, which has been delayed, likely some way to search over previously deleted files.

I had an ok week. I improved some quality of life and finally got around to shortcuts to seek video.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

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I had a good week. There are some bug fixes, a neat new way for downloader makers to parse dates, and Mr Bones gets the ability to search files.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

I had a good week. PDF files get thumbnails and more metadata, and there's some improved system predicate parsing.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

>>1521
Sup mate, glad to see AI tagging come along! I ran into an issue with the 540 version on Linux (been using Qt5 before that, 490 something):

"This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized."

From what I understand Qt is a framework to draw the windows of programs and you made a change from the old Qt5 to the new Qt6 at some point in time. The 490 something version in Qt5 ran flawlessly, so I'll try to use that until a fix is found.

Of course I used a search engine and found the solutions to check for possibly missing dependencies of Qt and running"export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=<qt base path>/plugins" to presumably tell Qt where to find its plugin?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29405689/qt-5-4-1-this-application-failed-to-start-because-it-could-not-find-or-load-th

Another recommended running "export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen" to change the plugin used for Qt to the "offscreen" plugin instead of xcb? Neither worked.

https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp/discussions/300

Anyways, just letting you know and maybe you can shed some light on this. In case I missed reading some part of the documentation or overlooked some other simple thing just let me know then I'll have another look at this myself.

I had a good week. There's a variety of work: some bug fixes, optimisations, quality of life, a new tool for the parsing system, parent and sibling fetching on the Client API, and support for more new filetypes.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

>>1522
Sorry for the trouble. Yeah, we have been through a couple of Qt bumps this past year. I just pushed us up to 6.5.2 a couple weeks ago and that caused its own headaches on certain Wayland-using Linux machines. Your problem, yeah, seems to be that Qt6 just won't load. No worries.

In general, I now recommend that all Linux users who are on anything even slightly unusual now run from source. This lets you customise which version of these important libraries you are running. This Qt business kickstarted me into making this process simple, and I can now happily point you here: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/running_from_source.html

There's a simple setup script to run now that'll take you through all the steps. You obviously want to select the 'Qt(5)' option in the setup.

Let me know if you have any more trouble.

>>1523
No need to apologize. Yeah I saw a lot of Qt related back and forth in the documentation and I get that such a framework upgrade causes quite a lot of difficulties with various Linux versions. Especially with "slightly unusual" distros, which absolutely applies here. Tails is based on Debian, but adapts software upgrades slowly (Debian itself is already slow) and Debian-Kicksecure and Whonix are very similar in that.

I will check out the building from source instructions, thanks!

I did import from newer hydrus versions to older ones, where the saved URLs were imported as a simple tag. Is there a process to convert that simple tag again into the URL for each file?

So far, have a nice weekend! :)

I had an ok week. I was a little ill, so I couldn't get the big stuff I wanted done, but I did clear out a mix of mostly bug fixes. There's also a little extra system:filetype predicate parsing and faster file maintenance.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

I had an ok week. You can type in system:rating predicates, PSD files show fully in the media viewer, and there are some additional quality of life improvements.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.

I had a great week. The 'delete big database stuff in the background' system is finished, there's support for HEIC, HEIF, and AVIF, I fixed a bunch of bugs, and there's updates to some core libraries that should improve UI quality of life.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.