https://youtube.com/watch?v=8yXk3_o1Hoo [Embed]
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v538/Hydrus.Network.538.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v538/Hydrus.Network.538.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v538/Hydrus.Network.538.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v538/Hydrus.Network.538.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz

I had a great week. There's some new libraries and new file support.

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

notes

If you get a popup on update about missing indices, don't worry. Something I forgot last week is being fixed. Just let it work.

If you run from source, I recommend you rebuild your venv this week. Just run the 'setup_venv' script again with the same settings you chose before. You'll get new Qt, OpenCV, and the HEIF support. If you are on an older OS and run into trouble with Qt, the setup now has a 'Qt (o)lder' option that gives you something we know is very stable and compatible.

=highlights

The main UI and image libraries that hydrus uses are updated today. We've been in an awkward place with Qt for a while, stuck on a version I regret updating to, so I hope this jump relieves this. It should speed some image load, reduce some flicker, and fix some UI scaling issues. There are no special install instructions, and we've been testing for months on different computers and haven't seen any specific update problems, so I'm not expecting any significant issues. If you do run into anything, then please roll back to your backup and let me know.

Thanks to a user, we now have full support for HEIF, HEIC, and AVIF files! They import and work like any other image. We also support the 'sequence' version of these files, which are essentially like (currently super rare) high quality animated gifs. I'm very new to all these formats, and they are obviously less common, so if you have a weird version or your colours are all messed up, I'll be interested in examples. I don't even have a 'HEIC sequence' to test with!

My deferred delete system is complete. Most users don't have to ever think about it, but it is under database->database maintenance. There's an UI panel to track what still needs to be deleted and some basic settings to control when it does its work. If you delete the PTR or do a large regeneration job, the (very slow) actual delete of the existing data now happens in pieces in the background in the future. I'm really pleased with the performance, and even deleting 30-million-row tables seems to work very well, but if you delete the PTR (2 billiow row table!) and get unacceptable lag every few seconds, check that menu and disable the work during idle/normal time and let me know, and we'll figure it out.

tags->migrate tags has cleverer file filtering. You can now select the tags for files 'deleted from x' or 'currently in y or z' real easy.

next week

I'm generally happy with my current productivity, but I'm falling behind on many things at once. I would like to focus on system predicate parsing and Client API for a week, because it keeps slipping.