Kavita

This release addresses a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-47202) and includes various bug fixes for bookmarks, annotations, and OIDC validation.

This release focuses on performance, security hardening, and major UI overhauls for Reading Lists, the CBL Manager, and the introduction of multi-download support.

This hotfix includes various bug fixes for the image reader, settings, and admin statistics, alongside enhancements to the Auth Keys endpoint.

This expansive release introduces journal-style progress tracking, a reworked auth stack with named Auth Keys, massive scanner speed improvements, a new stats system, and device-bound reading profiles.

This release fixes bugs in OIDC and OPDS pagination, while enforcing TLS for OIDC providers and improving scope filtering.

This feature-packed release introduces OIDC authentication, a refreshed Epub reader with an annotation system, custom font support, and significant OPDS improvements.

This release introduces reading profiles, expanded comic metadata for Kavita+, Koreader sync support, and improved browsing for people, genres, and tags.

Fixed a bug where General Settings would not save when the IP Address was empty.

This release fixes several bugs related to Docker installations, volume management in series detail view, and infinite scrolling in the Reading List.

This release focuses on stability and polish, featuring enhancements to smart filters, media error cleanup, reading lists, and significant localization fixes.

This update fixes a multi-root library bug causing series to be deleted and recreated, alongside improvements to scrobbling, localization, and Kavita+ functionality.

Fixed a bug causing the 'Don't fall behind' modal to display constantly and corrected a wiki link.

This release introduces automatic metadata downloading for Kavita+, improved PDF metadata support via Calibre, an overhauled Stats API, and automatic webtoon mode switching.

This release fixes several bugs across mobile, ingestion, and UI while stabilizing MetronInfo.xml support, though it caused metadata loss for some users.

This release features a ground-up scanner rewrite for better reliability, a new entity-based people architecture with dedicated detail pages, and various quality-of-life improvements including bulk library actions.

This hotfix includes various UI refinements, performance improvements, and bug fixes following the UX refresh.

Introduces a major UX refresh featuring a dynamic 'Colorscape' tinting system, detailed pages for individual volumes and chapters, a revamped settings overhaul, and publisher images.

Introduces a built-in theme explorer, MAL smart collections for Kavita+ users, scanner performance optimizations for large libraries, and enables WAL mode by default.

This release focuses on polish and bug fixes, including improvements to series detail pages, library parsing, and the manga reader, while deprecating the series/chapter-metadata API.

This massive update introduces a comic overhaul with Comic Vine support, user-based collections, a new Light Novel library type, and PDF reader settings, alongside foundational code rewrites.

This release integrates email functionality directly into the application, updates volume numbers to floats, fixes a critical 'Want to Read' bug, and introduces database storage for Kavita+ metadata.

This update fixes cover image regressions, improves Kavita+ AniList token management, and introduces a new Docker repository and various UI and functionality enhancements.

This release focuses on bug fixes, UI refinements, and new Kavita+ features including Discord integration and license key resets.

This release fixes several bugs including side nav wipes for new admins and weblink ID extraction for Kavita+, while adding versioning to backup filenames.

This hotfix resolves a critical bug where a cleanup task incorrectly updated LastModified fields, causing skewed progress events.

This release focuses on performance polish, improved image loading, UI-based file exclusion patterns, and bug fixes for smart filters and readers.

Fixed the user invitation flow and added error handling for failed invitations.

Fixes a critical smart filter encoding bug and introduces new progress synchronization APIs for the Panels team.

This release introduces the Next Estimated Chapter feature, optimizes database connection pooling, and fixes a critical bug preventing the creation of new users.

Version 0.7.9 introduces extensive customization options for the Dashboard and Side Nav, adds Smart Filters, enables external server sources, and adds a Series Preview for Kavita+ users.

Kavita introduces a revamped filtering system, improved OPDS implementations, expanded localization, and various performance optimizations and bug fixes.

This release introduces localization support, updates fonts to woff2, improves date and number formatting, and officially launches on Linuxserver.io.

Introduces personal bookmarks for EPUBs, Google Book rating support for Kavita+ users, and an overhauled rating system allowing half-star increments.

Introduces overall ratings, the ability to remove series from On Deck, and a new fingerprinting method for Kavita+ users requiring license resets.

Introduces Kavita+, a subscription service featuring AniList scrobbling, external reviews, and recommendations, alongside various UI enhancements, cover image improvements, and numerous bug fixes.

This hotfix addresses a reader bug and includes various fixes for library management, mobile layout, and UI rendering.

v0.7.3 introduces web links, AVIF support for media encoding, an admin media error log, and significant improvements to the EPUB parser and reader.

v0.7.2 introduces CBL import, reading list enhancements, vertical reading for Epubs, and Base URL support, alongside numerous stability and performance improvements.

This release provides a fix for Synology installations by reverting the ability to run Docker as non-root.

This hotfix addresses several bugs, including SignalR event issues, library settings failures, regex timeouts, UTC date errors for GMT+1 users, and WebP cover pathing bugs.

v0.7 introduces comprehensive reading statistics, a polished image reader with swipe support, enhanced library customization, and CDisplayEx integration.

This hotfix addresses high system utilization, resolves several security vulnerabilities, fixes manga reader display bugs, and restores specific light novel parsing logic.

This release introduces the ability to send files to devices via email, kid accounts with age restrictions, stable folder watching, and various performance optimizations and bug fixes.

Introduces a new folder-based scan loop for improved efficiency, adds .kavitaignore and experimental folder watching, and updates library requirements to require series-specific folders.

This release focuses on performance improvements via Angular 14 and OnPush change detection, alongside a reworked global download system and a new 'Want to Read' list for users.

Fixes a bug where images and PDFs failed to load under the new authentication system.

This security hotfix addresses multiple high-severity vulnerabilities including password exploits, unauthorized file access, and SSRF, while adding a login lockout mechanism.

Version 0.5.4 introduces a new PDF reader, infinite scrolling, double page layouts for manga, estimated reading times, and a new list view, alongside various UX and performance improvements.

v0.5.3 introduces a refreshed book reader with column layout and themes, series relationship linking, enhanced search capabilities for titles and files, and various UX improvements.

Fixed PDF rendering on 32-bit Raspberry Pis, improved backup reliability for themes and files, and corrected book reader action bar behavior.

This hotfix resolves critical series sorting issues caused by cleared SortName values, fixes user invitation and registration bugs, and addresses several general stability issues.

This release introduces custom theme support, a new side navigation bar, UI-based metadata editing, and a rewritten events widget for detailed scan progress.

Email migration now auto-validates using login credentials, removing the requirement to click a confirmation link.

This update overhauls search and account management, introducing mandatory email verification and invites, refresh tokens, and expanded metadata search capabilities.

Version 0.5 introduces local metadata support, a Tachiyomi extension, multi-threaded PDF rendering, and updates to .NET 6 for improved performance.

Fixed a regression that prevented admin registration during the initial flow setup.

Fixed a critical vulnerability that allowed non-privileged users to create administrator accounts.

This release focuses on reader improvements, including a webtoon reader rework and new cover fitting options, alongside navigation bar task indicators and updated telemetry collection.

This release focuses on bug fixes and adds bulk actions for series and streams, while relocating application configuration files.

Version 0.4.7 introduces a major comic parsing rework, significant database update performance improvements through chunking, support for decimal volume numbers, and an option to disable authentication.

Introduces reading lists, significant API and memory performance optimizations, WebP support, and various UX enhancements across readers.

Added OPDS support with Open Search and Page Streaming, introduced user API keys, and improved stat collection performance and threading.

Version 0.4.4 introduces bookmarks, custom cover art for various entities, a redesigned collection page, and an in-app update checker along with various performance improvements.

Introduces Webtoon Reader mode, mixed media library support, and compatibility for PDFs and raw images, alongside various parser improvements and UI fixes.

v0.4.2 introduces a complete redesign of the Manga/Comic reader, file download capabilities, improved book series grouping, and parsing enhancements.

Fixed a critical database constraint issue during library scans and a calculation bug for the Continue Reading button.

Introduces Collections for series tagging, Dark Mode, Sentry integration, expanded archive support, and various fixes for the book and manga readers.

Introduces support for epub books with a feature-rich reader, continuous manga reading, and stability improvements for disk scanning and parsing.

This update provides stability improvements, bug fixes, and performance enhancements for Comics and Manga support, including improved parsing and cover image handling.

Added support for comic book libraries and improved manga parsing, connection recovery, and series detail displays.

This update fixes directory picker issues for Linux and Windows users, corrects date formatting, and resolves bugs related to archive extraction and UI elements.

Fixed an issue for Linux/Docker users that prevented adding folders to libraries due to a leading slash in the path string.

Fixed a major bug affecting the Continue Reading button in the UI.

This release introduces a major focus on manga support with an overhauled UX, rewritten image caching, expanded archive format support, and improved series metadata management.

This release introduces a rewritten DB structure and scanning code for improved performance, along with various stability fixes and new library management features.

Initial milestone release of Kavita introducing user roles, library access control, manga reading support for archives, and progress tracking.