full list

- misc:
- the client no longer regularly commits a full garbage collection during memory maintenance. this debug-tier operation can take up to 15s on very large clients, resulting in awful lag. various instances of forcing it after big operations complete (e.g. to encourage post-subscription memory cleanup), are now replaced with regular pauses to allow python to clean itself more granularly. this may result in temporary memory bloat for some very subscription-heavy clients, so feedback would be appreciated
- right-clicking on a single url import item in a 'file log' now shows you all the known hashes, parsed urls, and parsed tags for that item. I hope this will help debug some weird problems!
- all multi-column lists across the program now convert an enter/return key press into an 'activate' command, as if you had double-clicked. this should make it easier to, for instance, highlight a downloader or shift/ctrl select a bunch of sibling rows and mass-delete (issue #933)
- the subscription gap filler button now propagates file import options and tag import options from the subscription to the downloader it creates (issue #910)
- a new 'mpv report mode' now prints a huge amount of mpv debug information to the hydrus log when activated
- improved how mpv prints log messages to the hydrus log, including immediate log flushing
- fixed a bug that meant the hydrus server was not saving custom update period or anonymisation period for next boot. thank you for the reports, and sorry for the trouble! (issue #976)
- cleaned up some database savepoint handling after a serious transaction error occurs
- the client api now ignores any parameter with a value of null, as if it were not there, rather than moaning about invalid datatypes (issue #922)
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- url classes:
- the edit url class dialog is now broken into two notebook pages--'match rules', which strictly covers how to recognise a url, and 'options', which handles url storage, conversion, and normalisation
- url classes can now support single-value parameters (a parameter with just a value, not a key/value pair). if turned on, then at least one single-value parameter is required to match the url, and multiple are permitted. a checkbox in the dialog turns this on and a string match lets you determine if the url class matches the received single value params
- added unit tests to test the new single-value parameter matching
- fixed an issue where StringMatch buttons were not emitting their valueChanged signal, guess how I discovered that bug this week
- fixed the insertion of default parameter values when the URL Class has non-alphabetised params
- refactored and cleaned up some related parsing and string convertion code into new ClientString module

next week

More small jobs and bug fixes. I would also like to seriously explore and plan out an important downloader pipeline rewrite that will reduce UI lag significantly and allow for hundreds of downloaders working simultaneously.

I had a good week. There's more UI anti-jank work, with a smoother menubar and better minimise-to-tray support, faster png file import, and some quality of life.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.