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v0.3.7

2021-04-06

This update is essentially 2 weeks of bugfixing and battle testing for existing Comics and Manga support. After these 2 weeks, I am positive this release is stable and can hold over anyone until the next release (v0.4 - book support).

New

  • More cover Image enhancements. Files with “cover” or “folder” are now taken before the first file
  • Parsing enhancements that translate chapters with “b” suffix to “.5” ie) Chapter 202b -> Chapter 202.5
  • Many performance enhancements to ensure the scan loop works faster and uses less memory. After initial scan, my test library of 230GB of manga takes 3 seconds to update new series.
  • Library cards are now alphabetically sorted on Homepage
  • Special grouping from last release has been refined and more specials are encapsulated, giving you ultimate control over reading order.
  • MANY parsing enhancements/fixes to cover many new scenarios found in the wild
  • Series reviews and summaries are now truncated by a read more button if they are longer than 250 characters
  • Series reviews are much easier to make and edit
  • When an archive cannot be read, we show a custom message and card design to inform the user
  • On Connection Lost when user refreshes browser, we will try to go back to page they lost connection on

Fixed

  • In Progress stream leaving old series due to abandoned rows being left in the DB
  • In Progress stream was not ordered according to reading activity
  • Don’t allow specials to generate the series cover image (unless there are no better covers)
  • Search doesn’t show results when user searches with a localized name
  • When changing the Name of a Series, it is being reset after a Scan Library
  • Many areas weren’t using a natural sort, so things like page 2, page 10 would cause page 10 to come first
  • If a file was bound to a chapter, then extension changed, the file would stay with the chapter after a Scan Library, even though it’s no longer on disk.
  • Read vs Continue button wasn’t showing correctly based on reading progress
  • Go to Page (click the progress button) was off by 1
  • Hitting Go to First page button would cycle through a virtual page split if the first page was a split page
  • 2 split pages in a row would cause the second page to be shown as a normal page
  • After updating a user library access, underlying page wouldn’t show [Admin]
  • Series’ Summary and Reviews do not respect newline characters