https://youtube.com/watch?v=2_fxNRtmyAE [Embed]
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v526/Hydrus.Network.526.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v526/Hydrus.Network.526.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v526/Hydrus.Network.526.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v526/Hydrus.Network.526.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had a mixed week. I was a little short on time, so this is a simple bugfix and quality of life release.

Full changelog: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/changelog.html

highlights

When you petition in the manage tags/siblings/parents panel on a repository, it typically asks you for a reason for the change. There are some fixed reasons, but now the system will remember the last five custom reasons you enter too. I hope this saves some typing/pasting work for people with clever petitions to make. You can change the number of recent reasons saved (including setting to 0 to disable) under options->tags.

Every multi-column list in the program now has a 'reset the column widths for this type of list' entry in their header right-click menus. It also resizes immediately (an old debug routine that did this for all lists needed a restart). If your thread watcher list goes crazy wide, it should be fixable now! Let me know how it goes.

I added the basic media keys you find on many keyboards to the shortcut system--previous, next, play/pause, volume up, volume down, and mute. On Windows, these keys seem to have a global hook that fires regardless of how I capture it too, so they may not be so useful yet, but feel free to play around with them.

I fixed a stupid logical typo in my new date calculating code that was breaking system time predicates with the same number of months as the current month (like "system:modified time before 2 years 5 months ago" in May). Sorry for the trouble!

next week

There is going to be an important update next week!

Last week, I tried to update OpenCV for everyone, but it caused a dll conflict in the updated build and I quickly rolled it back in a hotfix. We are going to try again next week, which will require 'extracting' users to perform a clean install. Since we are making that change, I have decided to also roll in a long-planned renaming of the program executables. 'client' will become 'hydrus client' and 'server' 'hydrus server'. This part will require updating of custom shortcuts and launch scripts. I will reiterate all this with specific instructions for all platforms in next week's release, and I'll drop reminders for several weeks after.

Next week is also a 'medium size' job week. If I have time and energy, I'd really like to see if I can get the Qt media player working as an mpv fallback.