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windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v512/Hydrus.Network.512.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v512/Hydrus.Network.512.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v512/Hydrus.Network.512.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v512/Hydrus.Network.512.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had a great week back at work. There's a mix of different things, but particularly duplicate search improvements.

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

duplicates

You can now set a search in the duplicates processing page for 'one file comes from search A, the other comes from search B'! It is now super easy to, say, find png vs jpeg pixel duplicates.

I also improved the overall accuracy and precision of the duplicate search logic. When I looked closer at this code, I wasn't always getting pixel duplicates or search distance correct when actually fetching results to show you, or I was selecting bad representatives of larger groups in the final step. This was particularly true in 'show some random potential pairs', which was showing too many files, often outside the search scope. There's some other bells and whistles that are subtle but should make the results feel more 'human'--for instance, in 'show some random potential pairs', if you are set to 'at least one file matches the search', then the first of the random group will definitely match the search, and if you are set to 'both files match different searches', then the first file matches the first and the others match the second.

I have made several changes here, sometimes significantly increasing the CPU load. In testing, things generally seemed to be running at ok speed, but let me know if your IRL complicated situation gets laggy. Also let me know if you discover any miscounts.

misc

When you select thumbnails or right-click on them, the labels in the menu and status bar are a bit nicer--it can now say 'x images' or 'x mp4s' instead of the flat 'x files' in more places, and any time you have a selection of files with duration, it will say the total duration.

v511's supersampled thumbnails now look good on any UI scale. If you have a multi-UI-scale setup, on multiple monitors or not, you should now set the new setting (under options->thumbnails) to your maximum UI scale and hydrus should look good everywhere!

If you want to import or export a .txt sidecar with a separator character other than newline (e.g. comma, for CSV format), you can now do this! You can set any separator characters you like.

The Client API can now refresh pages.

next week

Next week will be a medium-sized job week. I want to spend extra time adding the duplicates system to the Client API.