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windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v561/Hydrus.Network.561.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v561/Hydrus.Network.561.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v561/Hydrus.Network.561.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.zst: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v561/Hydrus.Network.561.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.zst

I had a mixed week. Thumbnail rearranging is added, and some bugs and quality of life issues are cleared.

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

thumbnail rearranging

So, if you right-click any thumbnail, you'll now see a 'move' menu. This makes it simple to rearrange your thumbnails. You can move your current selection to the start, the end, left one, right one, or 'to here' if you have multiple selected. If your multiple selection is non-contiguous, it will be made so on move, with the move focusing around the position of the first selected item.

You can also map these commands to keyboard shortcuts under the 'thumbnails' shortcuts set. I haven't added any default shortcuts for this yet, but let me know if and what you would prefer--I've been playing around with ctrl+numpad numbers on my dev machine, and it feels nice to me.

In future I'll try and figure out mouse drag-and-drop rearranging. It might have to wait for a larger pending rewrite of the thumbnail grid though--we'll see.

other highlights

Unfortunately, there were a couple of stupid typos in the content processing changes last week. One in the duplicate filter (which the v560a hotfix addressed), and another fixed today that was causing 'already in db' results to not get metadata updates correctly. Sorry for the trouble, and thank you to the users who reported these.

Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Insert is now hardcoded to copy tags from the taglist.

The thumbnail and media viewer menus should now be much thinner. I hate how wide they can get, how annoying it is to hit their many nested submenus when they get like that, so let me know if they still go crazy in some situations.

There was a bitrot issue in v559, the millisecond timestamps conversion, that made it impossible/bad to update from a much older version. This has always been a tricky technical issue to talk about and communicate to the user, so I've now written a better in-client error reporting process that stops the user before the update is even attempted. The upshot this week is that if your client is v551 or older and you try to update to v561 or later, you will be told to update to v558 first.

In lieu of a proper rewrite, I've made some semi-hacky newline processing improvements to the parsing system. If you make downloaders and hate having to deal with extra whitespace in multiline content, notes or otherwise, check out the full changelog and let me know how you get on with it all.

next week

I want to work on github bug reports, which I haven't put proper time into for too long!