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windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v440/Hydrus.Network.440.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v440/Hydrus.Network.440.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v440/Hydrus.Network.440.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v440/Hydrus.Network.440.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had an unfortunately short week, but I did some good work. The tiled renderer has nice fixes.

tiled renderer

I regret the tiled renderer, while good most of the time, had crashes when it did go wrong. To stop this with any new errors that might pop up, the whole block now has an additional layer of error catching around it. If a tile fails to render for any reason, you now get a black square, and if some coordinate space cannot be calculated or a portion of the image is truncated, the system will now print some errors but otherwise ignore it.

A particular problem several users encountered was legacy images that have EXIF rotation metadata but were imported years ago when the client did not understand this. Therefore, hydrus thought some old image was (600x900) when it then loaded (900x600). In the old system, you would have had a weird stretch, maybe a borked rotation, but in my new tiled system it would try to draw tiles that didn't exist, causing our errors-then-crashes. The client now recognises this situation, gives you a popup, and automatically schedules metadata regeneration maintenance for the file.