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windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v595/Hydrus.Network.595.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v595/Hydrus.Network.595.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v595/Hydrus.Network.595.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.zst: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v595/Hydrus.Network.595.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.zst

I had a great week. I've got several quality of life improvements, and a user has figured out native Ugoira rendering.

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

Ugoiras

Ugoiras are an unusual gif-like animation format from Pixiv. Getting them to play in hydrus has been a long time goal, and thanks to a user who put a bunch of work in, they now work out of the box. You don't have to do anything; any Ugoiras you have in your client will now play in the media viewer.

If your Ugoiras have animation timing data inside their archive (those downloaded with PixivUtil or gallery-dl should have these!), hydrus will parse this and render frames for the correct duration. There is also an option to present this info in a file note. If there is no timing data, hydrus will fall back to 8fps.

There's more technical data here: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/filetypes.html#ugoira

All your Ugoiras will get a metadata rescan on update, so it might take a few minutes for any duration data to fully kick in.

We are now planning possible ways we can add the Ugoira timing data using the hydrus downloader engine, which would finally allow in-client downloading of properly animating Ugoiras. Let me know how today's update works for you, and we'll see what we can do.

other highlights

All multi-column lists now sort case-insensitively. A subscription called 'Tents' will now slot between 'sandwiches' and 'umbrellas'.

All 'file logs' in importers now load much faster. If you had slow subscription or session load, let me know how things feel now.

The 'Favourite Searches' star button now supports nested folders in a hacky way. Just put '/' in the 'folder name', and it'll make submenus for you.

I fixed a bug where setting a pair of potential duplicates as 'not related' would sometimes merge modified file dates. You might get a popup about it on update about it to reset file modified dates for any files that were previously affected.

OR predicates get some more work--you can now 'start an OR with selected', which opens the edit panel and then replaces, 'dissolve' an OR back to its constituent sub-preds, and the menu and UI got a little polish.

The 'urls' thumbnail right-click menu has a new 'force metadata refretch' command, which makes it easy to redownload Post URLs to get tags and stuff again. You don't have to manually set up the url downloader with a custom 'tag import options' any more--hydrus can do it for you.

new build

The build today folds in some library updates the advanced users and I have been testing. As far as we can tell, there are no special update instructions needed, so just update as normal. If you are on an old version of Windows/Linux and you have any problems booting, let me know.

next week

I did some placeholder duplicates auto-resolution UI this week, and I'm feeling better and better about the whole system. There's still a lot to do, but none of it looks too crazy. I'd like to keep pushing on it a bit. Otherwise I'd like to just do some boring code cleanup.