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I had a good week. There's a mix of all sorts of work.

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

highlights

Thanks to a user, we are adding support for two more filetypes today: QOI, which is a png alternative, and Procreate, an Apple image project file. QOIs have full support, Procreate files just have thumbnails.

If you use one of the darkmode styles on Windows and your tooltips suddenly got too dark to read a couple weeks ago, please check out the new 'alternate-tooltip-colour' variants of the styles in the options. It should fix you up for now. Try switching back when we move up to a new version of Qt again--it is a bug on their end.

There's two new checkboxes in options->media to ignore 'uninteresting' import and modified times. By default, if the modified time is very close to when a file was added to 'my files', I hide it in the media viewer. If you would prefer to always see it, you can now set this.

Importing massive apngs is now significantly faster.

The parsing system has a new 'String Joiner', which does string concatenation. It can glue the strings together with any custom text, including the empty string for pure concatenation, and it can join groups in 1-2 1-2 1-2 or 1-2-3 1-2-3 style patterns too.

The Client API can now fetch the siblings and parents of tags. If you want to get into siblings and parents but have never done it before, it can get complicated, so brace for impact.

file storage upgrades

I started on this work this week, but it is all boring behind the scenes stuff so far. I'm happy with the progress though, and I'd like, in the nearish future, to have:

- lower file access latency when you have millions of files
- the ability to say 'store no more than 200GB in this folder'
- background migration of files rather than the current block-the-whole-program-for-ages 'move files now' system

I'll keep chipping away at this over the next few weeks. I feel good about it.

next week

More like this. Catchup on older issues and pushing on file storage.