chore(release): 0.15.0

- sidebar: migrate flat props to css object (font-family, color, bg, custom vars)
- frequencyDictionary.topX default: 1000 → 10000
- text-shadow default: updated to outline-style multi-shadow
- anki: reset ai model/prompt, imageMaxWidth/Height, animatedMaxHeight to 0; isLapis defaults
- troubleshooting: log default warn (not info), css["font-size"] usage
- shortcuts: add W markWatchedKey; clarify keybindings vs built-in overlay actions
- websocket: clarify all services off by default, fix enabled semantics
- usage: --anilist → --anilist-setup
- AGENTS.md: add Docs Upkeep trigger map, clarify CLAUDE.md symlink, expand PR notes

AGENTS.md

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Start here, then leave this file.
 
 `docs-site/` is user-facing. Do not treat it as the canonical internal source of truth.
 
+`CLAUDE.md` is a symlink to this file — there is one project instruction file, not two.
+
 ## Quick Start
 
 - Init workspace: `git submodule update --init --recursive`
@@ -42,6 +44,20 @@ Start here, then leave this file.
 - Runtime-compat / dist-sensitive: `bun run test:runtime:compat`
 - Docs-only: `bun run docs:test`, then `bun run docs:build`
 
+## Docs Upkeep
+
+- Docs ship with the change, not after. If a change alters behavior, defaults, flags, shortcuts, ports, or APIs, update the matching docs in the same PR. Touching code without reconciling its docs is an incomplete change.
+- Source of truth for config defaults is the generated `config.example.jsonc`. Never write a default value into prose you didn't read from it — and don't restate the same default across multiple docs; cite/link to one place so there's a single thing to update.
+- Trigger map (touch left → update right):
+  - `src/config/definitions/**` (schema/defaults/template) → `bun run generate:config-example`, then reconcile `docs-site/configuration.md` + any feature doc that cites that default
+  - shortcuts/keybindings (`shortcuts.*`, `keybindings`, `stats.*Key`, `subtitleSidebar.toggleKey`, controller bindings) → `docs-site/shortcuts.md`
+  - CLI flags/subcommands (`src/cli/args.ts`, `launcher/**`) → `docs-site/usage.md` + relevant integration doc
+  - feature behavior (anki / jellyfin / jimaku / anilist / youtube / immersion / stats / websocket / sidebar / character-dictionary / annotations) → matching `docs-site/<feature>.md`
+  - architecture / IPC / workflow / internal process → internal `docs/` (system of record)
+  - feature set / requirements / install flow → `README.md`
+- Removing or renaming a config key: grep `docs-site/` and `docs/` for the old key and any value it documented; legacy/hidden keys (`LEGACY_HIDDEN_CONFIG_PATHS`) should not appear in user docs as current settings.
+- Verify after doc edits: `bun run verify:config-example` (if config touched), `bun run docs:test`, `bun run docs:build`.
+
 ## Sensitive Files
 
 - Launcher source of truth: `launcher/*.ts`
@@ -52,7 +68,8 @@ Start here, then leave this file.
 
 ## Release / PR Notes
 
-- User-visible PRs need one fragment in `changes/*.md`
+- User-visible PRs need one fragment in `changes/*.md` — format and rules in [`changes/README.md`](./changes/README.md) (`type` + `area` keys required; apply the `skip-changelog` label to opt out)
+- User-visible docs changes get a `type: docs` fragment
 - CI enforces `bun run changelog:lint` and `bun run changelog:pr-check`
 - PR review helpers:
   - `gh pr view --json number,title,url --jq '"PR #\\(.number): \\(.title)\\n\\(.url)"'`
@@ -63,4 +80,4 @@ Start here, then leave this file.
 - Use Codex background for long jobs; tmux only when persistence/interaction is required
 - CI red: `gh run list/view`, rerun, fix, repeat until green
 - TypeScript: keep files small; follow existing patterns
-- Swift: use workspace helper/daemon; validate `swift build` + tests
+- Only Swift is the `scripts/get-mpv-window-macos.swift` helper (macOS mpv window detection); validate via `bun test scripts/get-mpv-window-macos.test.ts`

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,74 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v0.15.0 (2026-05-29)
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Subsync: The `subsync.defaultMode` config option has been removed; Subsync now always opens the manual subtitle picker regardless of any previously set default mode.
+
+### Added
+
+- Auto-Updater: Adds tray and `subminer -u` update checks with app update prompts, launcher and Linux rofi theme auto-updates, checksum verification, configurable notifications, and an opt-in prerelease channel via `updates.channel: "prerelease"`.
+- Settings Window: New dedicated Settings window via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections; click-to-learn keybinding controls including the AniSkip button key; AnkiConnect-backed deck, field, and note-type pickers that auto-fill from the configured Anki deck; cross-category search; and live save for most options including subtitle CSS, stats keys, logging level, Jimaku, Subsync, and Anki mappings. AI and translation settings remain config-file only.
+- Inline Character Portraits: Optional AniList character portraits appear inline for name-matched subtitle text; manual AniList overrides scoped per parent media directory so separate season folders maintain separate character dictionary selections.
+- Log Export: Sanitized log ZIP export from the tray menu and via `subminer logs -e`, with home-directory usernames redacted from exported contents.
+- Launcher CLI: `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` prints the installed app version; `mpv.profile` config and Settings support passes a named mpv profile to managed launches; bundled mpv plugin startup options are now configurable from SubMiner config.
+- First-Run Setup: Optional installer for Bun and the `subminer` CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows, including a Windows `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH; setup recognizes existing Homebrew or user PATH installs and avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths; includes an Open SubMiner Settings button; standalone setup app quits after completing, returning terminal control.
+- Primary Subtitle Visibility on Yomitan Popup: New `subtitleStyle.primaryVisibleOnYomitanPopup` option keeps hover-mode primary subtitles visible while a Yomitan popup is open.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Subtitle Appearance Config: Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css`, `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`, and `subtitleSidebar.css`; known-word and N+1 annotation colors moved to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`; subtitle font defaults updated to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`. Existing configs migrate automatically; legacy Anki color keys still accepted with deprecation warnings.
+- Subtitle Style Defaults: Stronger outline-style text shadow, thicker JLPT underlines, and frequency `topX` default raised to `10000`.
+- Character Dictionary: Entries scoped to the current AniList media for name matching and inline portraits; generates Japanese-only name aliases so raw romanized/English aliases no longer surface as separate results; new `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal to remove, reorder, or override loaded entries; in-app AniList selector waits for an explicit search with the box prefilled from the current filename; `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` is now the sole switch for dictionary sync and builds.
+- Electron Runtime: Updated from 39.8.6 to 42.2.0, returning SubMiner to a supported Electron release line.
+- N+1 Highlighting Default: `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is no longer implicitly enabled when known-word highlighting is on; existing configs that already had N+1 enabled are unchanged, but new configs must set it explicitly.
+- Linux Auto-Update Flow: Linux tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically, matching macOS and Windows; AppImages managed by a system package (e.g. AUR) and non-AppImage launches still use the GitHub-asset flow.
+- Jellyfin Setup: Removed the server presets dropdown; setup now shows a single editable server URL field.
+- Jellyfin Cast Identity: Device identity now derived from the OS hostname and always reported as SubMiner; previously configurable identity fields are ignored, preventing multiple installs from sharing a remote-session identity.
+- Startup Defaults: Jellyfin remote-session startup warmup and character-name subtitle highlighting now default to off.
+- Setup Appearance: Removed the bundled mpv runtime plugin readiness card from the setup flow.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- AniList Progress: Progress updates fire correctly when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold using fresh mpv timing events; season-specific results preferred for multi-season files with a clear message when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching; repeated missing-token checks no longer exhaust retry attempts or duplicate dead-letter entries.
+- Anki Mining: Sentence-audio padding is opt-in by default; animated AVIF freeze-frame duration aligned to word audio length without double-counting; multi-line sentence alignment fixed for repeated subtitle text; Kiku duplicate-card detection, auto-merge, modal acknowledgment race, and field/tag ordering corrected; YouTube playback cards use mpv's resolved stream URLs; sentence cards refresh the secondary subtitle before saving; known-word cache appends correctly with multiple deck field mappings.
+- Jellyfin Discovery: Startup, subtitle track selection, and duplicate ready-signal handling all fixed; paused mpv no longer misreported as playing; startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle; delayed Japanese subtitle selection, later-loading foreign track hijacking, and long-lived sidebar ffmpeg extractor leaks fixed; resume corrected when a remote play command sends `StartPositionTicks: 0` despite saved progress; picker library discovery kept working regardless of app log level.
+- Jellyfin Remote: Tray checkbox stays in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup changes; stale discovery sessions restarted when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target; remote controller visibility and progress sync fixed for seeks, stops, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows; Play and Resume now behave correctly (Play from beginning, Resume from saved position); final progress reports reuse SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets on stop; Windows setup login flow fixed with an IPC bridge, immediate feedback, and a timeout with inline error for unreachable servers.
+- Jellyfin Subtitles and Overlay: Subtitle overlay shown automatically during Jellyfin playback; `y-t` toggle made reliable and sticky across stream redirects; managed subtitle defaults re-armed on redirect; passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows no longer steal keyboard focus from mpv; subtitle timing improved with preferred embedded streams over external sidecars, correct Japanese-vs-English cue offset handling, per-stream delay shift restoration, and transient track-list read failure tolerance.
+- Overlay (macOS): Overlay hides when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground app; stable through transient window geometry disappearances from macOS APIs and when clicking from the overlay back into mpv; stats overlay opened inactive so it appears over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces; passthrough fixed so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar; window-tracker polling reduced while mpv is stably focused.
+- Overlay (Linux / Hyprland): Placement refreshes after leaving fullscreen; overlay stays above mpv after focus changes from clicks or movement; Settings and Yomitan windows promoted above the subtitle overlay instead of opening behind it; overlay hides when the character dictionary modal opens, including during AniList lookup.
+- Overlay Lifecycle: First startup subtitle primed before autoplay resumes so the overlay renders text before playback begins; overlay and subtitle stream kept alive after `y-r` restart with correct Linux bounds reapplication; launcher-owned playback quits SubMiner on end while background/tray sessions stay alive; subtitle sync modal fixed on macOS so it no longer flashes on first attempt or leaves stale state; Windows managed mpv launches from a background instance now correctly receive the start command, retarget the new socket, bind to the player window, and receive startup overlay options.
+- Yomitan Sidebar: Playback stays paused for sidebar-opened Yomitan popups when auto-pause is enabled; fixed popups not opening when startup races the Yomitan extension load; sidebar mining cards use audio and images from the clicked sidebar line instead of the current primary subtitle.
+- Launcher: Warm launches reuse a running background instance, reapply preferred subtitles, and close launcher-owned tray apps after playback ends; videos stay paused until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete; `subminer settings` on macOS exits cleanly when the window is closed; `subminer app` on Linux returns terminal control immediately; Linux first-run installs build with a valid Bun shebang; `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow when SubMiner is already running in background.
+- YouTube Playback: Selected subtitles downloaded to local temp files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit; false load-failure notifications suppressed; tray icon created on launcher-managed playback that attaches to an already-running process; mpv plugin no longer starts a second SubMiner instance for app-owned YouTube playback.
+- Shortcuts: Native mpv menu shortcuts disabled during managed macOS playback so configured SubMiner shortcuts work while mpv has focus; custom session shortcuts including `stats.markWatchedKey` wired through mpv; multi-line copy/mine overlay correctly focused so number keys choose the line count on macOS and Windows.
+- Controller Bindings: Controller config and debug shortcuts stay closed while controller support is disabled; binding learn mode starts from the edit pencil; remaps saved per controller profile; binding badges also start learn mode; row reset buttons restore individual bindings to defaults.
+- Logging: `logging.level` forwarded to launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions covering mpv log verbosity, plugin logging, and plugin-launched app logging; `logging.rotation` (default 7 days) and per-component `logging.files` toggles added with mpv logs disabled by default; repeated IPC socket warning spam suppressed while waiting for mpv to recreate the socket; Windows mpv IPC, subtitle track, and Yomitan diagnostics added.
+- Updater: Linux `subminer -u` performs release updates independently of any running tray app using GitHub release metadata; macOS update dialogs from `subminer -u` reliably appear in the foreground with a manual-install message for builds that cannot apply native updates; macOS and Linux `electron-updater` routes through `/usr/bin/curl` to avoid Electron network crashes; Windows automatic updates keep the native NSIS install path while routing updater HTTP through main-process fetch to avoid delayed exit after launch.
+- In-Player Stats: Layering fixed so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window; Jellyfin playback stats grouped by item metadata so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and keep clean display names.
+- Tray: Tray stays running when Yomitan settings are closed; settings loading no longer blocks other tray actions; Yomitan extension refreshes serialized at startup; embedded popup preview disabled to prevent renderer hangs during sidebar navigation; Windows "Open SubMiner Setup" action opens the setup window correctly after first-run is complete; session help modal close fixed without mpv running.
+- Discord Rich Presence: No longer falls back to Jellyfin stream URLs; Jellyfin playback titles primed before stream loading so presence shows the show/episode title instead of a URL.
+- WebSocket Annotations: Annotation spans and token metadata stay on the annotation WebSocket; the regular subtitle WebSocket is plain-text only.
+- Subtitle Frequency Highlighting: Frequency annotations kept for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while still filtering standalone determiners; fixed for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles such as `目の前` while keeping pure grammar/kana helper spans unannotated.
+- Subtitle Annotation Prefetching: Cached colored annotations and character images ready sooner for live subtitle changes without delaying raw subtitle display.
+- Packaging: macOS compiled mpv window helper correctly built into `dist/scripts` and bundled, preventing fallback to slow Swift source startup; stale Windows helper resource entry removed; one-shot `make clean build install` AppImage flows fixed so install picks up the AppImage built earlier in the same invocation.
+- Windows Startup Errors: Fatal startup failures now show a native error dialog and write details to the app log instead of exiting silently.
+
+### Docs
+
+- Documentation Site: Published stable docs at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`; fixed versioned docs navigation, archived page link handling, and local dev version routing; documented all previously undocumented config options including `subtitleStyle.primaryDefaultMode`, `stats.markWatchedKey`, `immersionTracking.lifetimeSummaries.*`, and all seven `mpv.*` launcher options; added Playback Startup Flow and Runtime Sockets diagrams to the architecture docs with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.
+
+<details>
+<summary>Internal changes</summary>
+
+### Internal
+
+- Release Tooling: Release-note polishing treats pending fragments and reviewed prerelease notes as a cumulative final outcome, collapsing prerelease-only fixes into the final user-facing change; prerelease generation reuses existing reviewed notes and merges only new fragment material; `make clean` preserves `release/prerelease-notes.md`.
+- Tests: Removed stale Yomitan vendor source-inspection assertions for changes that were not shipped.
+
+</details>
+
 ## v0.14.0 (2026-05-12)
 
 ### Added

changes/README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ How fragments turn into a release:
 
 - At release time, `bun run changelog:build` (and `bun run changelog:prerelease-notes`) pipes every pending fragment through `claude -p` to merge related items, drop noise, and rewrite into a clean user-facing release body. Write fragments as raw, informative notes — don't worry about polished prose, deduping across PRs, or line-by-line phrasing. The polish step handles all of that.
 - The polish step treats pending fragments as the final release outcome, not prerelease history. If a feature is added and then renamed or fixed before the stable cut, ship the final feature bullet instead of separate prerelease-only breaking/fix entries.
+- GitHub release notes and prerelease notes use short top-level items with nested bullets for the change, user benefit, and any useful action note. The stable `CHANGELOG.md` can stay in compact single-line bullets.
 - `internal` fragments stay in `CHANGELOG.md` (inside a collapsed `<details>` block) but are dropped from the GitHub release notes entirely.
 - The polished `CHANGELOG.md` and `release/release-notes.md` are committed and reviewed before tagging — edit the Markdown by hand if Claude misses something.
 

changes/anilist-progress.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: anilist
-
-- Used fresh mpv time-position, duration, and subtitle timing events for AniList post-watch threshold checks so progress updates still fire when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold.
-- Prefer season-specific AniList search results for multi-season files before falling back to the base title, and show a clear message when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching instead of silently queueing an impossible update.
-- Prevent repeated missing-token checks from rapidly exhausting AniList retry attempts or duplicating dead-letter entries for the same episode.

changes/anki-mining.md

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: anki
-
-- Made sentence-audio padding opt-in by default, and kept animated AVIF freeze-frame duration aligned to the word audio length without double-counting sentence audio padding.
-- Kept multi-line sentence mining aligned when repeated subtitle text appears in the selected history range.
-- Fixed Kiku duplicate-card detection so local duplicate sentence cards trigger the manual modal or auto merge, modal-open acknowledgement races no longer cancel the flow, and merged fields follow Kiku's group ordering, sentence-audio, furigana, and tag semantics.
-- Fixed manual clipboard card updates from YouTube playback so generated audio and images use mpv's resolved stream URLs instead of the YouTube page URL.
-- Sentence cards now refresh the current secondary subtitle before saving, so the translation field uses the loaded subtitle instead of repeating the primary text.
-- Fixed immediate known-word cache append when no default Anki mining deck is configured but multiple known-word deck field mappings are present.
-- Added an AnkiConnect deck dropdown at the top of Mining & Anki settings that auto-fills from Yomitan's current mining deck when available.

changes/auto-update.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: updater
-
-- Added tray and `subminer -u` update checks for SubMiner releases, including app update prompts, launcher and Linux rofi theme updates, checksum verification, configurable update notifications, and an opt-in prerelease channel. Set `updates.channel` to `"prerelease"` to receive beta/RC builds.

changes/character-dictionary-fixes.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: character-dictionary
-
-- Reused cached character-dictionary media matches so loading a title with an existing snapshot no longer sends another AniList search request.
-- Block the character dictionary manager when annotations are disabled, with a notice through the configured OSD/system notification surfaces.
-- Added surname honorific matches for Japanese localized character aliases embedded in AniList alternative names (e.g. Korean-source characters with Japanese names in parentheses), and refresh cached snapshots so those aliases are regenerated.
-- Use `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` as the only switch for character-dictionary sync/builds, hiding the legacy `anilist.characterDictionary.enabled` option.
-- Forward character dictionary manager session-action keybindings to the mpv plugin.

changes/character-dictionary.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: character-dictionary
-
-- Character dictionary entries are now scoped to the current AniList media for name matching and inline portraits, and generate Japanese name aliases only so raw romanized/English aliases no longer surface as separate results.
-- Added a `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal to remove, reorder, or override loaded dictionary entries.
-- The in-app AniList selector now waits for an explicit title search, with the search box prefilled from the current filename guess so you can edit it before choosing an override.

changes/character-name-inline-images.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: subtitles
-
-- Added optional inline AniList portraits for character-name subtitle matches, including automatic refresh of cached character dictionary snapshots that do not contain portrait data.
-- Scoped manual AniList overrides by parent media directory, so separate season folders can keep separate character dictionary selections.
-- Fixed large character dictionary imports by serving the merged ZIP through a local URL when supported, with a base64 fallback for older bundled Yomitan builds.
-- Allowed subtitle overlay data image sources so inline character portraits render instead of showing a broken image icon.

changes/controller-config-enables-input.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
-- Controller config and debug shortcuts now stay closed while controller support is disabled and show a notice to enable `controller.enabled` manually.
-- Controller binding rows now start learn mode from the edit pencil, so clicking edit and pressing a controller button saves the remap.
-- Controller remaps are now saved per controller profile, binding badges also start learn mode, and row reset buttons restore individual bindings to their defaults.

changes/default-opt-in-warmup-name-highlighting.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: config
-
-- Defaulted Jellyfin remote-session startup warmup and character-name subtitle highlighting to off.

changes/docs.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: docs
-area: docs
-
-- Published stable docs at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`, and fixed versioned docs navigation so archived pages keep local links under the selected version, the version switcher no longer nests paths incorrectly, local dev version routes serve warmed archive files, and internal README files no longer break archived builds.
-- Documented all previously undocumented config options, including `subtitleStyle.primaryDefaultMode`, `stats.markWatchedKey`, `immersionTracking.lifetimeSummaries.*`, and all seven `mpv.*` launcher options.
-- Added a Playback Startup Flow diagram and a Runtime Sockets section/diagram to the architecture docs, with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.

changes/electron-42-runtime.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: runtime
-
-- Updated the bundled Electron runtime from 39.8.6 to 42.2.0, moving SubMiner back onto a supported Electron release line.

changes/fix-discord-presence-jellyfin-title.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: integrations
-
-- Prevented Discord Rich Presence from falling back to Jellyfin stream URLs, and primed Jellyfin playback titles before loading tokenized streams so presence shows the show/episode title

changes/hide-setup-runtime-plugin.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: setup
-
-- Setup: Removed the bundled mpv runtime plugin readiness card; legacy mpv plugin removal still appears when needed.

changes/jellyfin-discovery.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: jellyfin
-
-- Fixed Jellyfin discovery playback: the active item is no longer reloaded on startup, paused mpv is no longer misreported as playing, startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle, duplicate ready signals no longer re-show the overlay, delayed Japanese subtitle selection is handled correctly, later-loading foreign tracks no longer steal the active Japanese track, and long-lived sidebar ffmpeg extractors no longer run against stream URLs.
-- Fixed discovery resume when a remote play command sends `StartPositionTicks: 0` despite saved progress on the item.
-- Kept Jellyfin picker library discovery working when the app log level is above info.

changes/jellyfin-remote.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: jellyfin
-
-- Keep the discovery tray checkbox in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup remote-session changes, and restart stale discovery sessions when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target.
-- Fixed remote controller visibility and progress sync for mpv/SubMiner seek jumps, stopped sessions, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows.
-- Kept Play and Resume distinct: Play starts from the beginning while Resume starts at the saved position, and final progress reports reuse SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets during stop.
-- Derived cast device identity from the OS hostname and always report the client as SubMiner, ignoring legacy configurable identity fields so multiple installs no longer share a remote-session identity.
-- Fixed the Windows setup login flow with an IPC bridge, immediate progress feedback, and a timeout with an inline error for unreachable servers.

changes/jellyfin-subtitles-overlay.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: jellyfin
-
-- Show the visible subtitle overlay automatically during Jellyfin playback so `subtitleStyle` appearance applies, and inject the bundled mpv plugin when SubMiner auto-launches mpv so mpv-side keybindings work without overlay focus.
-- Made the `y-t` overlay toggle reliable and sticky across stream redirects that change mpv's path, re-arming managed subtitle defaults on redirect so Japanese primary subtitles load, collapsing duplicate toggle events on Hyprland, and keeping passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows from stealing keyboard focus from mpv.
-- Improved subtitle timing by preferring default embedded streams over external sidecars, stripping Jellyfin's server-selected stream from playback URLs, suppressing mpv auto-selection while SubMiner stages managed tracks, correcting clear Japanese-vs-English cue offsets, and restoring per-stream subtitle delay shifts. Track selection tolerates transient `track-list` read failures and numeric string track IDs on Linux.

changes/launcher-fixes.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: launcher
-
-- Launcher-opened videos reuse an already-running background SubMiner instance, reapply preferred subtitles on warm launches, and close launcher-owned tray apps after playback ends.
-- Videos stay paused when attaching to a running background app until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete, with mpv plugin subtitle auto-selection moved to pre-load so launch-time choices are not reset.
-- `subminer settings` on macOS no longer emits Electron menu diagnostics and exits cleanly when the window is closed.
-- `subminer app` on Linux returns control to the terminal immediately, and Linux first-run launcher installs build with a valid Bun shebang.
-- `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow when SubMiner is already running in the background.

changes/launcher-mpv.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: launcher
-
-- Added `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` to print the installed app version.
-- Added `mpv.profile` config and Settings support for passing an mpv profile to SubMiner-managed mpv launches.
-- Made bundled mpv plugin startup options configurable from SubMiner config.

changes/linux-tray-appimage-update.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: updater
-
-- Linux tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically via `electron-updater`, matching the macOS and Windows tray flow, instead of stopping at a "manual update required" dialog. AppImages managed by a system package (AUR `/opt/SubMiner/SubMiner.AppImage`) and non-AppImage launches (no `APPIMAGE` env) still fall back to the GitHub-asset flow.
-- Routed `electron-updater` HTTP through `/usr/bin/curl` on Linux and disabled differential downloads, matching the macOS path, so background update checks stay off Electron's network service.

changes/log-export.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: logs
-
-- Add sanitized log ZIP exports from the tray menu and `subminer logs -e`, with home-directory usernames redacted from exported log contents.

changes/logging.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: logging
-
-- Forward SubMiner `logging.level` into launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions, covering mpv log verbosity, plugin script logging, and plugin-launched app logging.
-- Added numeric `logging.rotation` (default 7 days of retained daily app, launcher, and mpv logs) and `logging.files` toggles per component, with mpv logs disabled by default unless explicitly enabled for debugging.
-- Added Windows mpv launch, IPC socket, subtitle track, and Yomitan/dictionary diagnostics, including expected/active IPC socket values when plugin auto-start skips on a socket mismatch.
-- Stop repeated mpv IPC socket warning spam while the app waits in the background for mpv to recreate the socket.

changes/nplusone-defaults.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: config
-
-- `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is no longer implicitly set to `true` when known-word highlighting is enabled; existing configs that already had N+1 highlighting keep it, but new configs leave it disabled unless `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is set explicitly.
-- Updated known-word cache docs and examples to recommend expression/word fields and removed legacy-option references from user-facing config docs.

changes/overlay-lifecycle.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
-- Primed the first startup subtitle before autoplay resumes so the overlay renders text before video playback begins.
-- Kept the visible overlay and subtitle stream alive after restarting SubMiner from the mpv `y-r` shortcut, with correct Linux bounds reapplication and user-paused playback preserved through readiness gates.
-- Fixed managed mpv startup so launcher-owned videos quit SubMiner when playback ends while background/tray sessions stay alive, with pause-until-ready waiting for overlay and tokenization readiness.
-- Fixed the subtitle sync modal on macOS so it no longer flashes and hides on the first attempt or leaves stale state after syncing.
-- Fixed Windows managed mpv launches from a background instance so the warm app receives the start command, retargets the new mpv socket, binds to the player window, and receives startup overlay options.

changes/overlay-linux.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
-- Refreshed overlay placement after leaving mpv fullscreen so the visible overlay stays aligned to the player on Hyprland.
-- Kept the visible overlay stacked above mpv after mpv regains focus from clicks or overlay movement, and suspended it while the in-player stats window is open, restoring it mouse-passive afterward.
-- Promoted SubMiner and Yomitan settings windows above the subtitle overlay on Hyprland instead of opening behind it, without hiding subtitles.
-- Hid the visible overlay as soon as the character dictionary modal opens, including while AniList lookup is loading or returns no results.

changes/overlay-macos.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
-- Hid the macOS visible overlay when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground target so other apps and Spaces are not covered, treating the frontmost mpv app as the focus signal.
-- Kept the overlay stable through transient window-tracking misses, when mpv remains frontmost but window geometry temporarily disappears from macOS APIs, and when clicking from the overlay back into mpv.
-- Kept the overlay correctly layered during stats mouse passthrough, opened the stats overlay inactive so it appears over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces, and fixed passthrough so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar.
-- Reduced window-tracker background work by preferring the compiled helper and slowing polls while mpv is stably focused.

changes/overlay-yomitan-sidebar.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
-- Kept playback paused for Yomitan lookup popups opened from the subtitle sidebar when popup auto-pause is enabled.
-- Fixed Yomitan popups not opening when playback/overlay startup races the Yomitan extension load.
-- Fixed subtitle sidebar mining so Yomitan-enriched cards use audio and images from the clicked sidebar line instead of the current primary subtitle line.

changes/packaging.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: release
-
-- Fixed macOS packaging so the compiled mpv window helper is built into `dist/scripts` and bundled, preventing the overlay from falling back to slow Swift source startup, and removed a stale Windows helper resource entry that produced harmless missing-file warnings.
-- Fixed one-shot `make clean build install` flows so install picks up the AppImage built earlier in the same make invocation.

changes/plain-websocket-annotations.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: websocket
-
-- WebSocket: Kept the regular subtitle websocket plain-text only; annotation spans and token metadata now stay on the annotation websocket.

changes/primary-visible-yomitan-popup.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: config
-
-- Added `subtitleStyle.primaryVisibleOnYomitanPopup` to keep hover-mode primary subtitles visible while a Yomitan popup is open.

changes/release-notes-tooling.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: internal
-area: release
-
-- Release-note polishing treats pending fragments and reviewed prerelease notes as a cumulative final outcome, collapsing prerelease-only fixes or breakages into the final user-facing change.
-- Prerelease note generation reuses existing reviewed notes and merges only new fragment material, and `make clean` preserves `release/prerelease-notes.md`.

changes/remove-jellyfin-server-presets.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: jellyfin
-
-- Removed the Jellyfin setup server presets dropdown; setup now shows a single editable server URL field.

changes/remove-yomitan-vendor-test-assertions.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: internal
-area: tests
-
-- Removed stale Yomitan vendor source-inspection assertions for changes that were not shipped.

changes/settings-window.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: config
-
-- Added a dedicated Settings window via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections with click-to-learn keybinding controls (including the AniSkip button key) and AnkiConnect-backed deck, field, and note-type pickers.
-- Expanded live reload so Settings saves apply immediately for stats keys, logging level, Jimaku, Subsync, YouTube language defaults, Anki field mappings, sentence card model, and selected annotation/runtime options.
-- Settings search works across all categories, narrows on multi-word terms, and hides settings owned by richer editors.
-- The note-fields note type picker defaults to the configured Anki deck's note type, then exact `Kiku`, then exact `Lapis`, leaving it blank for manual selection otherwise.
-- AI and translation settings remain config-file only.

changes/setup.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: setup
-
-- Added optional first-run setup controls to install Bun and the `subminer` command-line launcher on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with a Windows `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH.
-- Added an Open SubMiner Settings button to first-run setup and moved Finish to the right-side action slot.
-- First-run setup recognizes existing `subminer` installs in Homebrew or user PATH directories, while manual setup avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths.
-- The standalone setup app quits after completing first-run setup, returning the terminal instead of leaving the process open.

changes/shortcuts.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: shortcuts
-
-- Disabled native mpv menu shortcuts during managed macOS playback so configured SubMiner shortcuts work while mpv has focus.
-- Wired configured session shortcuts, including `stats.markWatchedKey`, through mpv so custom changes work while mpv has focus.
-- Focus the visible overlay when entering multi-line copy/mine selection so number keys choose the line count on macOS and Windows.

changes/stats.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: stats
-
-- Fixed in-player stats layering so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window.
-- Grouped Jellyfin playback stats under item metadata instead of stream URLs, so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and keep clean display names.

changes/subsync-manual-only.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: subtitles
-
-- Subsync now always opens the manual picker and the `subsync.defaultMode` config/settings option has been removed.

changes/subtitle-appearance.md

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: config
-
-- Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css` and `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`; sidebar appearance uses `subtitleSidebar.css`.
-- Moved known-word and N+1 annotation colors to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`; legacy Anki color keys are still accepted with deprecation warnings.
-- Updated subtitle font defaults to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`.
-- Existing configs are migrated automatically: legacy primary/secondary appearance options and hover token colors fold into `subtitleStyle.css`, and user config files are preserved during legacy compatibility handling.
-- Live Settings saves apply subtitle CSS declarations immediately to open video overlays, and the generated example config uses the same CSS declaration paths.

changes/subtitle-frequency.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: subtitles
-
-- Kept frequency highlighting for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while still filtering standalone determiners.
-- Fixed frequency annotations for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles such as `目の前`, while keeping pure grammar/kana helper spans unannotated.

changes/subtitle-prefetch-annotations.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: subtitles
-
-- Improved subtitle annotation prefetching so cached colored annotations and character images are ready for more live subtitle changes without delaying raw subtitle display.

changes/subtitle-style-defaults.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: changed
-area: subtitles
-
-- Updated subtitle defaults with a stronger outline-style text shadow, thicker JLPT underlines, and a `topX` frequency highlighting default of `10000`.

changes/tray.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: tray
-
-- Kept the tray app running when closing tray-launched Yomitan settings, with a close-only menu so closing settings does not quit the tray, and an in-page close button on Hyprland where native window controls are unavailable.
-- Kept settings loading from blocking other tray actions, serialized copied Yomitan extension refreshes at startup, and disabled the embedded popup preview to avoid renderer hangs during sidebar navigation.
-- Fixed session help focus handling so the modal can close without mpv running.
-- Fixed the Windows tray "Open SubMiner Setup" action so it opens the setup window after first-run setup is complete.

changes/updater-fixes.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: updater
-
-- Linux: `subminer -u` performs release updates independently of any running tray app (reporting `up to date` without downloading when not newer), and update checks use GitHub release metadata/assets instead of the native Electron updater to avoid network-service crashes during startup.
-- macOS: update dialogs from `subminer -u` reliably appear in the foreground; builds that cannot apply native updates show a manual-install message instead of a restart prompt; `electron-updater` metadata and ZIP downloads route through `/usr/bin/curl` to avoid Electron network crashes while preserving the Squirrel install path; and metadata mismatches from conflicting ZIP filenames are resolved.
-- Windows: automatic updates keep the native `electron-updater`/NSIS install path while routing updater HTTP through main-process fetch, avoiding the delayed app exit after launch.

changes/windows-startup-fatal-errors.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: windows
-
-- Windows startup failures now show a native error dialog and write fatal details to the SubMiner app log instead of exiting silently.

changes/youtube.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: youtube
-
-- Downloaded selected YouTube primary subtitles to temporary local files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit, and suppressed false load-failure notifications by re-checking live mpv subtitle state.
-- Launcher-managed playback commands create the tray icon even when attaching to an already-running process, and app-owned YouTube playback no longer lets the mpv plugin start a second SubMiner instance.
-- Logged Linux tray registration failures with a StatusNotifier/AppIndicator hint and documented the Hyprland tray-host requirement.

docs-site/changelog.md

@@ -1,12 +1,80 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Unreleased
+## v0.15.0 (2026-05-29)
 
-- **Character Dictionary:** Loaded entries are now scoped to the current AniList media for subtitle name matching and inline portraits. Added a character dictionary manager at `Ctrl/Cmd+D`; AniList overrides now live inside that manager instead of using a separate default shortcut.
+**Breaking Changes**
 
-## v0.14.0 (2026-05-12)
+- Subsync: The `subsync.defaultMode` config option has been removed; Subsync now always opens the manual subtitle picker regardless of any previously set default mode.
 
-SubMiner no longer requires a globally-installed mpv plugin. The bundled plugin is injected at runtime only when SubMiner launches mpv — through the `subminer` launcher, the app's managed launch, or the packaged Windows SubMiner mpv shortcut. When you open mpv on its own, SubMiner is not involved and the plugin is never loaded. If you have a legacy global SubMiner plugin under mpv's `scripts` directory, first-run setup detects it and prompts you to remove it before playback starts.
+**Added**
+
+- Auto-Updater: Adds tray and `subminer -u` update checks with app update prompts, launcher and Linux rofi theme auto-updates, checksum verification, configurable notifications, and an opt-in prerelease channel via `updates.channel: "prerelease"`.
+- Settings Window: New dedicated Settings window via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections; click-to-learn keybinding controls including the AniSkip button key; AnkiConnect-backed deck, field, and note-type pickers that auto-fill from the configured Anki deck; cross-category search; and live save for most options including subtitle CSS, stats keys, logging level, Jimaku, Subsync, and Anki mappings. AI and translation settings remain config-file only.
+- Inline Character Portraits: Optional AniList character portraits appear inline for name-matched subtitle text; manual AniList overrides scoped per parent media directory so separate season folders maintain separate character dictionary selections.
+- Log Export: Sanitized log ZIP export from the tray menu and via `subminer logs -e`, with home-directory usernames redacted from exported contents.
+- Launcher CLI: `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` prints the installed app version; `mpv.profile` config and Settings support passes a named mpv profile to managed launches; bundled mpv plugin startup options are now configurable from SubMiner config.
+- First-Run Setup: Optional installer for Bun and the `subminer` CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows, including a Windows `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH; setup recognizes existing Homebrew or user PATH installs and avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths; includes an Open SubMiner Settings button; standalone setup app quits after completing, returning terminal control.
+- Primary Subtitle Visibility on Yomitan Popup: New `subtitleStyle.primaryVisibleOnYomitanPopup` option keeps hover-mode primary subtitles visible while a Yomitan popup is open.
+
+**Changed**
+
+- Subtitle Appearance Config: Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css`, `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`, and `subtitleSidebar.css`; known-word and N+1 annotation colors moved to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`; subtitle font defaults updated to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`. Existing configs migrate automatically; legacy Anki color keys still accepted with deprecation warnings.
+- Subtitle Style Defaults: Stronger outline-style text shadow, thicker JLPT underlines, and frequency `topX` default raised to `10000`.
+- Character Dictionary: Entries scoped to the current AniList media for name matching and inline portraits; generates Japanese-only name aliases so raw romanized/English aliases no longer surface as separate results; new `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal to remove, reorder, or override loaded entries; in-app AniList selector waits for an explicit search with the box prefilled from the current filename; `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` is now the sole switch for dictionary sync and builds.
+- Electron Runtime: Updated from 39.8.6 to 42.2.0, returning SubMiner to a supported Electron release line.
+- N+1 Highlighting Default: `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is no longer implicitly enabled when known-word highlighting is on; existing configs that already had N+1 enabled are unchanged, but new configs must set it explicitly.
+- Linux Auto-Update Flow: Linux tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically, matching macOS and Windows; AppImages managed by a system package (e.g. AUR) and non-AppImage launches still use the GitHub-asset flow.
+- Jellyfin Setup: Removed the server presets dropdown; setup now shows a single editable server URL field.
+- Jellyfin Cast Identity: Device identity now derived from the OS hostname and always reported as SubMiner; previously configurable identity fields are ignored, preventing multiple installs from sharing a remote-session identity.
+- Startup Defaults: Jellyfin remote-session startup warmup and character-name subtitle highlighting now default to off.
+- Setup Appearance: Removed the bundled mpv runtime plugin readiness card from the setup flow.
+
+**Fixed**
+
+- AniList Progress: Progress updates fire correctly when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold using fresh mpv timing events; season-specific results preferred for multi-season files with a clear message when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching; repeated missing-token checks no longer exhaust retry attempts or duplicate dead-letter entries.
+- Anki Mining: Sentence-audio padding is opt-in by default; animated AVIF freeze-frame duration aligned to word audio length without double-counting; multi-line sentence alignment fixed for repeated subtitle text; Kiku duplicate-card detection, auto-merge, modal acknowledgment race, and field/tag ordering corrected; YouTube playback cards use mpv's resolved stream URLs; sentence cards refresh the secondary subtitle before saving; known-word cache appends correctly with multiple deck field mappings.
+- Jellyfin Discovery: Startup, subtitle track selection, and duplicate ready-signal handling all fixed; paused mpv no longer misreported as playing; startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle; delayed Japanese subtitle selection, later-loading foreign track hijacking, and long-lived sidebar ffmpeg extractor leaks fixed; resume corrected when a remote play command sends `StartPositionTicks: 0` despite saved progress; picker library discovery kept working regardless of app log level.
+- Jellyfin Remote: Tray checkbox stays in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup changes; stale discovery sessions restarted when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target; remote controller visibility and progress sync fixed for seeks, stops, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows; Play and Resume now behave correctly (Play from beginning, Resume from saved position); final progress reports reuse SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets on stop; Windows setup login flow fixed with an IPC bridge, immediate feedback, and a timeout with inline error for unreachable servers.
+- Jellyfin Subtitles and Overlay: Subtitle overlay shown automatically during Jellyfin playback; `y-t` toggle made reliable and sticky across stream redirects; managed subtitle defaults re-armed on redirect; passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows no longer steal keyboard focus from mpv; subtitle timing improved with preferred embedded streams over external sidecars, correct Japanese-vs-English cue offset handling, per-stream delay shift restoration, and transient track-list read failure tolerance.
+- Overlay (macOS): Overlay hides when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground app; stable through transient window geometry disappearances from macOS APIs and when clicking from the overlay back into mpv; stats overlay opened inactive so it appears over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces; passthrough fixed so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar; window-tracker polling reduced while mpv is stably focused.
+- Overlay (Linux / Hyprland): Placement refreshes after leaving fullscreen; overlay stays above mpv after focus changes from clicks or movement; Settings and Yomitan windows promoted above the subtitle overlay instead of opening behind it; overlay hides when the character dictionary modal opens, including during AniList lookup.
+- Overlay Lifecycle: First startup subtitle primed before autoplay resumes so the overlay renders text before playback begins; overlay and subtitle stream kept alive after `y-r` restart with correct Linux bounds reapplication; launcher-owned playback quits SubMiner on end while background/tray sessions stay alive; subtitle sync modal fixed on macOS so it no longer flashes on first attempt or leaves stale state; Windows managed mpv launches from a background instance now correctly receive the start command, retarget the new socket, bind to the player window, and receive startup overlay options.
+- Yomitan Sidebar: Playback stays paused for sidebar-opened Yomitan popups when auto-pause is enabled; fixed popups not opening when startup races the Yomitan extension load; sidebar mining cards use audio and images from the clicked sidebar line instead of the current primary subtitle.
+- Launcher: Warm launches reuse a running background instance, reapply preferred subtitles, and close launcher-owned tray apps after playback ends; videos stay paused until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete; `subminer settings` on macOS exits cleanly when the window is closed; `subminer app` on Linux returns terminal control immediately; Linux first-run installs build with a valid Bun shebang; `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow when SubMiner is already running in background.
+- YouTube Playback: Selected subtitles downloaded to local temp files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit; false load-failure notifications suppressed; tray icon created on launcher-managed playback that attaches to an already-running process; mpv plugin no longer starts a second SubMiner instance for app-owned YouTube playback.
+- Shortcuts: Native mpv menu shortcuts disabled during managed macOS playback so configured SubMiner shortcuts work while mpv has focus; custom session shortcuts including `stats.markWatchedKey` wired through mpv; multi-line copy/mine overlay correctly focused so number keys choose the line count on macOS and Windows.
+- Controller Bindings: Controller config and debug shortcuts stay closed while controller support is disabled; binding learn mode starts from the edit pencil; remaps saved per controller profile; binding badges also start learn mode; row reset buttons restore individual bindings to defaults.
+- Logging: `logging.level` forwarded to launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions covering mpv log verbosity, plugin logging, and plugin-launched app logging; `logging.rotation` (default 7 days) and per-component `logging.files` toggles added with mpv logs disabled by default; repeated IPC socket warning spam suppressed while waiting for mpv to recreate the socket; Windows mpv IPC, subtitle track, and Yomitan diagnostics added.
+- Updater: Linux `subminer -u` performs release updates independently of any running tray app using GitHub release metadata; macOS update dialogs from `subminer -u` reliably appear in the foreground with a manual-install message for builds that cannot apply native updates; macOS and Linux `electron-updater` routes through `/usr/bin/curl` to avoid Electron network crashes; Windows automatic updates keep the native NSIS install path while routing updater HTTP through main-process fetch to avoid delayed exit after launch.
+- In-Player Stats: Layering fixed so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window; Jellyfin playback stats grouped by item metadata so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and keep clean display names.
+- Tray: Tray stays running when Yomitan settings are closed; settings loading no longer blocks other tray actions; Yomitan extension refreshes serialized at startup; embedded popup preview disabled to prevent renderer hangs during sidebar navigation; Windows "Open SubMiner Setup" action opens the setup window correctly after first-run is complete; session help modal close fixed without mpv running.
+- Discord Rich Presence: No longer falls back to Jellyfin stream URLs; Jellyfin playback titles primed before stream loading so presence shows the show/episode title instead of a URL.
+- WebSocket Annotations: Annotation spans and token metadata stay on the annotation WebSocket; the regular subtitle WebSocket is plain-text only.
+- Subtitle Frequency Highlighting: Frequency annotations kept for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while still filtering standalone determiners; fixed for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles such as `目の前` while keeping pure grammar/kana helper spans unannotated.
+- Subtitle Annotation Prefetching: Cached colored annotations and character images ready sooner for live subtitle changes without delaying raw subtitle display.
+- Packaging: macOS compiled mpv window helper correctly built into `dist/scripts` and bundled, preventing fallback to slow Swift source startup; stale Windows helper resource entry removed; one-shot `make clean build install` AppImage flows fixed so install picks up the AppImage built earlier in the same invocation.
+- Windows Startup Errors: Fatal startup failures now show a native error dialog and write details to the app log instead of exiting silently.
+
+**Docs**
+
+- Documentation Site: Published stable docs at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`; fixed versioned docs navigation, archived page link handling, and local dev version routing; documented all previously undocumented config options including `subtitleStyle.primaryDefaultMode`, `stats.markWatchedKey`, `immersionTracking.lifetimeSummaries.*`, and all seven `mpv.*` launcher options; added Playback Startup Flow and Runtime Sockets diagrams to the architecture docs with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.
+
+<details>
+<summary>Internal changes</summary>
+
+**Internal**
+
+- Release Tooling: Release-note polishing treats pending fragments and reviewed prerelease notes as a cumulative final outcome, collapsing prerelease-only fixes into the final user-facing change; prerelease generation reuses existing reviewed notes and merges only new fragment material; `make clean` preserves `release/prerelease-notes.md`.
+- Tests: Removed stale Yomitan vendor source-inspection assertions for changes that were not shipped.
+
+</details>
+
+## Previous Versions
+
+<details>
+<summary>v0.14.x</summary>
+
+<h2>v0.14.0 (2026-05-12)</h2>
 
 **Added**
 
@@ -68,7 +136,7 @@ SubMiner no longer requires a globally-installed mpv plugin. The bundled plugin
 
 </details>
 
-## Previous Versions
+</details>
 
 <details>
 <summary>v0.12.x</summary>

docs-site/configuration.md

@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ See `config.example.jsonc` for detailed configuration options.
       "word-spacing": "0",
       "font-kerning": "normal",
       "text-rendering": "geometricPrecision",
-      "text-shadow": "0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.9), 0 0 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.55)",
+      "text-shadow": "-1px -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 1px -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), -1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 0 0 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.5)",
       "font-style": "normal",
       "backdrop-filter": "blur(6px)",
       "--subtitle-hover-token-color": "#f4dbd6",
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ See `config.example.jsonc` for detailed configuration options.
         "color": "#cad3f5",
         "background-color": "transparent",
         "font-size": "24px",
-        "text-shadow": "0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.9), 0 0 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.55)"
+        "text-shadow": "-1px -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 1px -1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), -1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.95), 0 0 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.5)"
       }
     }
   }
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ See `config.example.jsonc` for detailed configuration options.
 | `nPlusOneColor`                    | string   | Hex color used for the single N+1 target subtitle highlight (default: `#c6a0f6`)                                             |
 | `frequencyDictionary.enabled`      | boolean  | Enable frequency highlighting from dictionary lookups (`false` by default)                                                   |
 | `frequencyDictionary.sourcePath`   | string   | Path to a local frequency dictionary root. Leave empty or omit to use installed/default frequency-dictionary search paths.   |
-| `frequencyDictionary.topX`         | number   | Only color tokens whose frequency rank is `<= topX` (`1000` by default)                                                      |
+| `frequencyDictionary.topX`         | number   | Only color tokens whose frequency rank is `<= topX` (`10000` by default)                                                     |
 | `frequencyDictionary.mode`         | string   | `"single"` or `"banded"` (`"single"` by default)                                                                             |
 | `frequencyDictionary.matchMode`    | string   | `"headword"` or `"surface"` (`"headword"` by default)                                                                        |
 | `frequencyDictionary.singleColor`  | string   | Color used for all highlighted tokens in single mode                                                                         |
@@ -897,8 +897,8 @@ Enable automatic Anki card creation and updates with media generation:
     },
     "ai": {
       "enabled": false,
-      "model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
-      "systemPrompt": "Translate mined sentence text only."
+      "model": "",
+      "systemPrompt": ""
     },
     "media": {
       "generateAudio": true,
@@ -906,11 +906,11 @@ Enable automatic Anki card creation and updates with media generation:
       "imageType": "static",
       "imageFormat": "jpg",
       "imageQuality": 92,
-      "imageMaxWidth": 1280,
-      "imageMaxHeight": 720,
+      "imageMaxWidth": 0,
+      "imageMaxHeight": 0,
       "animatedFps": 10,
       "animatedMaxWidth": 640,
-      "animatedMaxHeight": 360,
+      "animatedMaxHeight": 0,
       "animatedCrf": 35,
       "audioPadding": 0,
       "fallbackDuration": 3,
@@ -925,8 +925,8 @@ Enable automatic Anki card creation and updates with media generation:
       "pattern": "[SubMiner] %f (%t)"
     },
     "isLapis": {
-      "enabled": true,
-      "sentenceCardModel": "Japanese sentences"
+      "enabled": false,
+      "sentenceCardModel": "Lapis"
     },
     "isKiku": {
       "enabled": false,
@@ -1133,7 +1133,6 @@ AniList integration is opt-in and disabled by default. Enable it to allow SubMin
     "enabled": true,
     "accessToken": "",
     "characterDictionary": {
-      "enabled": false,
       "maxLoaded": 3,
       "profileScope": "all",
       "collapsibleSections": {

docs-site/shortcuts.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ These control playback and subtitle display. They require overlay window focus.
 | `Right-click + drag` | Reposition subtitles (on subtitle area)             |
 | `Ctrl/Cmd+A`         | Append clipboard video path to mpv playlist         |
 
-These keybindings can be overridden or disabled via the `keybindings` config array. The playlist browser opens a split overlay modal with sibling video files on the left and the live mpv playlist on the right.
+The mpv-command rows above (`Space`, `F`, `J`, `Shift+J`, the seek/sub-seek/sub-delay keys, replay/play-next, and quit) are merged from the `keybindings` config array and can be remapped or disabled there. `V`, `Ctrl/Cmd+A`, and the mouse actions are built-in overlay behaviors and are not part of the `keybindings` array. The playlist browser opens a split overlay modal with sibling video files on the left and the live mpv playlist on the right.
 
 On macOS managed playback, SubMiner disables mpv's menu-bar shortcuts so configured SubMiner shortcuts like `Cmd+Shift+O` reach the mpv plugin instead of opening native mpv menu actions.
 
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Mouse-hover playback behavior is configured separately from shortcuts: `subtitle
 | `Ctrl+Alt+S`       | Open subtitle sync (subsync) modal                       | `shortcuts.triggerSubsync`                      |
 | `\`                | Toggle subtitle sidebar                                  | `subtitleSidebar.toggleKey`                     |
 | `` ` ``            | Toggle stats overlay                                     | `stats.toggleKey`                               |
+| `W`                | Mark current video watched and advance to next in queue  | `stats.markWatchedKey`                          |
 
 The stats toggle is handled inside the focused visible overlay window. It is configurable through the top-level `stats.toggleKey` setting and defaults to `Backquote`.
 

docs-site/subtitle-annotations.md

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ SubMiner looks up each token's `frequencyRank` from `term_meta_bank_*.json` file
 | Option                                           | Default      | Description                                                      |
 | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.enabled`      | `false`      | Enable frequency highlighting                                    |
-| `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.topX`         | `1000`       | Max frequency rank to highlight                                  |
+| `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.topX`         | `10000`      | Max frequency rank to highlight                                  |
 | `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.mode`         | `"single"`   | `"single"` or `"banded"`                                         |
 | `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.matchMode`    | `"headword"` | `"headword"` or `"surface"`                                      |
 | `subtitleStyle.frequencyDictionary.singleColor`  | `#f5a97f`    | Color for single mode                                            |

docs-site/subtitle-sidebar.md

@@ -35,30 +35,45 @@ Enable and configure the sidebar under `subtitleSidebar` in your config file:
     "toggleKey": "Backslash",
     "pauseVideoOnHover": true,
     "autoScroll": true,
-    "fontFamily": "\"M PLUS 1\", \"Noto Sans CJK JP\", sans-serif",
-    "fontSize": 16
+    "css": {
+      "font-family": "Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP",
+      "color": "#cad3f5",
+      "background-color": "rgba(73, 77, 100, 0.9)",
+      "font-size": "16px",
+      "opacity": "0.95",
+      "--subtitle-sidebar-max-width": "420px",
+      "--subtitle-sidebar-timestamp-color": "#a5adcb",
+      "--subtitle-sidebar-active-line-color": "#f5bde6",
+      "--subtitle-sidebar-active-background-color": "rgba(138, 173, 244, 0.22)",
+      "--subtitle-sidebar-hover-background-color": "rgba(54, 58, 79, 0.84)"
+    }
   }
 }
 ```
 
-| Option                      | Type    | Default      | Description                                                                                        |
-| --------------------------- | ------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `enabled`                   | boolean | `true`       | Enable subtitle sidebar support                                                                    |
-| `autoOpen`                  | boolean | `false`      | Open the sidebar automatically on overlay startup                                                  |
-| `layout`                    | string  | `"overlay"`  | `"overlay"` floats over mpv; `"embedded"` reserves right-side player space                        |
-| `toggleKey`                 | string  | `"Backslash"` | `KeyboardEvent.code` for the toggle shortcut                                                      |
-| `pauseVideoOnHover`         | boolean | `true`       | Pause playback while hovering the cue list                                                         |
-| `autoScroll`                | boolean | `true`       | Keep the active cue in view during playback                                                        |
-| `maxWidth`                  | number  | `420`        | Maximum sidebar width in CSS pixels                                                                |
-| `opacity`                   | number  | `0.95`       | Sidebar opacity between `0` and `1`                                                                |
-| `backgroundColor`           | string  | `rgba(73, 77, 100, 0.9)`  | Sidebar shell background color                                                        |
-| `textColor`                 | string  | `#cad3f5`    | Default cue text color                                                                             |
-| `fontFamily`                | string  | `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP` | CSS `font-family` applied to cue text          |
-| `fontSize`                  | number  | `16`         | Base cue font size in CSS pixels                                                                   |
-| `timestampColor`            | string  | `#a5adcb`    | Cue timestamp color                                                                                |
-| `activeLineColor`           | string  | `#f5bde6`    | Active cue text color                                                                              |
-| `activeLineBackgroundColor` | string  | `rgba(138, 173, 244, 0.22)` | Active cue background color                                                         |
-| `hoverLineBackgroundColor`  | string  | `rgba(54, 58, 79, 0.84)`    | Hovered cue background color                                                        |
+Styling lives under the `css` object, using CSS property names and CSS custom properties (the same pattern as `subtitleStyle.css`).
+
+| Option              | Type    | Default       | Description                                                                |
+| ------------------- | ------- | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `enabled`           | boolean | `true`        | Enable subtitle sidebar support                                            |
+| `autoOpen`          | boolean | `false`       | Open the sidebar automatically on overlay startup                          |
+| `layout`            | string  | `"overlay"`   | `"overlay"` floats over mpv; `"embedded"` reserves right-side player space |
+| `toggleKey`         | string  | `"Backslash"` | `KeyboardEvent.code` for the toggle shortcut                               |
+| `pauseVideoOnHover` | boolean | `true`        | Pause playback while hovering the cue list                                 |
+| `autoScroll`        | boolean | `true`        | Keep the active cue in view during playback                                |
+
+| `css` property                              | Default                     | Description                  |
+| ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
+| `font-family`                               | `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP` | Cue text font family |
+| `color`                                     | `#cad3f5`                   | Default cue text color       |
+| `background-color`                          | `rgba(73, 77, 100, 0.9)`    | Sidebar shell background color |
+| `font-size`                                 | `16px`                      | Base cue font size           |
+| `opacity`                                   | `0.95`                      | Sidebar opacity between `0` and `1` |
+| `--subtitle-sidebar-max-width`              | `420px`                     | Maximum sidebar width        |
+| `--subtitle-sidebar-timestamp-color`        | `#a5adcb`                   | Cue timestamp color          |
+| `--subtitle-sidebar-active-line-color`      | `#f5bde6`                   | Active cue text color        |
+| `--subtitle-sidebar-active-background-color`| `rgba(138, 173, 244, 0.22)` | Active cue background color  |
+| `--subtitle-sidebar-hover-background-color` | `rgba(54, 58, 79, 0.84)`    | Hovered cue background color |
 
 ## Keyboard Shortcut
 

docs-site/troubleshooting.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ If the overlay never appears at all, see [Playback Startup Flow](./architecture#
 
 ## Logging and App Mode
 
-- Default log output is `info`.
+- Default log output is `warn`.
 - Use `--log-level` for more/less output.
 - Use `--dev`/`--debug` only to force app/dev mode (for example to get dev behavior from the overlay/app); they do not change log verbosity.
 - You can combine both, for example `SubMiner.AppImage --start --dev --log-level debug`, when you need maximum diagnostics.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ If the overlay never appears at all, see [Playback Startup Flow](./architecture#
 
 2. Reduce rendering pressure:
 
-- lower `subtitleStyle.fontSize`
+- lower `subtitleStyle.css["font-size"]`
 - keep overlay complexity minimal during heavy CPU periods
 
 3. Reduce media overhead:
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ If the overlay never appears at all, see [Playback Startup Flow](./architecture#
 ```json
 {
   "subtitleStyle": {
-    "fontSize": 30,
+    "css": {
+      "font-size": "30px"
+    },
     "enableJlpt": false,
     "frequencyDictionary": {
       "enabled": false
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ If the overlay never appears at all, see [Playback Startup Flow](./architecture#
 
 - Confirm only one SubMiner instance is running.
 - Check whether bottlenecks are `ffmpeg`, `yt-dlp`, or sync tooling in system monitor.
-- Use `info` logs by default; keep `debug` for targeted diagnosis.
+- Keep the default `warn` level for normal use; raise to `info` or `debug` only for targeted diagnosis.
 - Reproduce once with `SubMiner.AppImage --start --log-level debug` and open DevTools (`y` then `d`) if freezes recur.
 
 **"Failed to parse MPV message"**

docs-site/usage.md

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ subminer dictionary --candidates /path/to/file.mkv
 subminer dictionary --select 21355 /path/to/file.mkv
 subminer texthooker               # Launch texthooker-only mode
 subminer texthooker -o            # Launch texthooker and open it in your browser
-subminer app --anilist            # Pass args directly to SubMiner binary (example: AniList login flow)
+subminer app --anilist-setup      # Pass args directly to SubMiner binary (example: AniList login flow)
 
 # Direct packaged app control
 SubMiner.AppImage --background             # Start in background (tray + IPC wait, minimal logs)

docs-site/websocket-texthooker-api.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This page documents those integration points and shows how to build custom consu
 
 ## Enable and Configure the Services
 
-SubMiner's integration ports are configured in `config.jsonc`.
+SubMiner's integration ports are configured in `config.jsonc`. All three services are **off by default** — the block below shows the values to set to turn them on.
 
 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ SubMiner's integration ports are configured in `config.jsonc`.
 
 ### How startup behaves
 
-- `websocket.enabled: "auto"` starts the basic subtitle websocket unless SubMiner detects the external `mpv_websocket` plugin.
-- `annotationWebsocket` is independent from `websocket` and stays enabled unless you explicitly disable it.
-- `texthooker.launchAtStartup` starts the local HTTP UI automatically.
+- `websocket.enabled` defaults to `false`. Set it to `"auto"` to start the basic subtitle websocket unless SubMiner detects the external `mpv_websocket` plugin, or `true` to always start it.
+- `annotationWebsocket.enabled` defaults to `false` and is independent from `websocket`. Set it to `true` to start the annotated stream.
+- `texthooker.launchAtStartup` defaults to `false`. Set it to `true` to start the local HTTP UI automatically.
 - `texthooker.openBrowser` controls whether SubMiner opens the texthooker page in your browser when it starts.
 
 If you use the [mpv plugin](/mpv-plugin), it can also start a texthooker-only helper process. The launcher derives the plugin's texthooker setting from your SubMiner config (`texthooker.launchAtStartup`) and injects it at runtime — there is no plugin config file to edit.

package.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "subminer",
   "productName": "SubMiner",
   "desktopName": "SubMiner.desktop",
-  "version": "0.15.0-beta.11",
+  "version": "0.15.0",
   "description": "All-in-one sentence mining overlay with AnkiConnect and dictionary integration",
   "packageManager": "bun@1.3.5",
   "main": "dist/main-entry.js",

release/prerelease-notes.md

@@ -3,39 +3,48 @@
 ## Highlights
 ### Added
 
-- **Settings Window:** A dedicated Settings window is now available via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections. Includes click-to-learn keybinding controls, AnkiConnect-backed deck/field/note-type pickers, and live reload for stats keys, logging level, Jimaku, Subsync, YouTube language defaults, Anki field mappings, sentence card model, and selected annotation/runtime options. Settings search works across all categories and narrows on multi-word terms. AI and translation settings remain config-file only.
+- **Settings Window:** A dedicated Settings window is now available via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections.
+  - Includes click-to-learn keybinding controls, an AnkiConnect deck dropdown that auto-fills from Yomitan's current mining deck, and AnkiConnect-backed deck, field, and note-type pickers.
+  - Live-saves changes for subtitle CSS declarations, stats keys, logging level, Anki field mappings, sentence card model, and other annotation and runtime options; search narrows across all categories including on multi-word terms. AI and translation settings remain config-file only.
 
-- **Auto-Updater:** SubMiner can now check for and apply updates from the system tray or by running `subminer -u`, with checksum verification, configurable update notifications, and an opt-in prerelease channel. The `subminer` launcher and Linux rofi theme update automatically. Set `updates.channel` to `"prerelease"` to receive beta and RC builds.
+- **Auto-Updater:** SubMiner can now check for and apply updates from the system tray or by running `subminer -u`, with checksum verification and configurable update notifications.
+  - The `subminer` launcher and Linux rofi theme update automatically alongside the app.
+  - Set `updates.channel` to `"prerelease"` to receive beta and RC builds.
 
-- **First-Run Setup:** A new optional setup flow installs Bun and the `subminer` command-line launcher on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with an Open SubMiner Settings button on completion. Windows users get a `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works in any terminal without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH. Setup recognizes existing `subminer` installs in Homebrew or user PATH directories, avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths, and quits the standalone setup app on completion.
+- **First-Run Setup:** A new optional setup flow installs Bun and the `subminer` command-line launcher on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
+  - Windows users get a `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works in any terminal without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH.
+  - Setup recognizes existing `subminer` installs in Homebrew or user PATH directories and avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths. An Open SubMiner Settings button is included on completion; the standalone setup app quits after finishing.
 
-- **Launcher:** `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` now prints the installed app version. The new `mpv.profile` config option passes an mpv profile to SubMiner-managed mpv launches. Bundled mpv plugin startup options are now configurable from SubMiner config.
-
-- **Character Portraits:** Character-name subtitle matches can now show optional inline AniList character portraits. Manual AniList title overrides are scoped per media directory so separate season folders keep independent character dictionary selections.
+- **Character Portraits:** Character-name subtitle matches can now show optional inline AniList character portraits.
+  - Manual AniList title overrides are scoped per media directory so separate season folders keep independent character dictionary selections.
 
 - **Log Export:** Sanitized log ZIP archives can be exported from the tray menu or by running `subminer logs -e`, with home-directory usernames redacted from the exported contents.
 
-- **Logging Configuration:** SubMiner's logging level is now forwarded into launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions, controlling mpv log verbosity and plugin script logging. The new `logging.rotation` config sets daily log retention (default 7 days), and `logging.files` toggles let you enable or disable per-component log files; mpv logs are off by default unless explicitly enabled for debugging.
+- **Logging Configuration:** SubMiner's logging level is now forwarded into launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions, controlling mpv log verbosity and plugin script logging.
+  - The new `logging.rotation` config sets daily log retention (default 7 days). `logging.files` toggles let you enable or disable per-component log files; mpv logs are off by default unless explicitly enabled.
 
 - **Yomitan Popup Visibility:** The new `subtitleStyle.primaryVisibleOnYomitanPopup` option keeps hover-mode primary subtitles visible while a Yomitan lookup popup is open.
 
+- **Launcher:** `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` now prints the installed app version. The new `mpv.profile` config option passes an mpv profile to SubMiner-managed mpv launches, and bundled mpv plugin startup options are now configurable from SubMiner config.
+
 ### Changed
 
-- **Subtitle Appearance:** Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css` and `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`. Sidebar appearance is configured via `subtitleSidebar.css`. The default subtitle font stack is updated to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`. Existing configs are migrated automatically.
+- **Subtitle Appearance:** Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css` and `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`; sidebar appearance uses `subtitleSidebar.css`.
+  - Default font stack updated to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`; default text shadow is stronger, JLPT underlines are thicker, and the frequency `topX` threshold defaults to `10000`.
+  - Existing configs are migrated automatically: legacy appearance options and hover token colors fold into `subtitleStyle.css`, and user config files are preserved.
 
-- **Known-Word Colors:** Known-word and N+1 annotation colors moved to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`. Legacy Anki color keys remain accepted with deprecation warnings. N+1 highlighting is preserved for configs that already had it enabled; new configs leave it disabled unless `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is set explicitly.
+- **Known-Word Colors:** Known-word and N+1 annotation colors moved to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`. Legacy Anki color keys remain accepted with deprecation warnings.
+  - N+1 highlighting is preserved for configs that already had it enabled; new configs leave it disabled unless `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is set explicitly.
 
-- **Character Dictionary:** A new `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal lets you remove, reorder, or override loaded dictionary entries. Entries are scoped to the current AniList media and generate Japanese name aliases only, so raw romanized or English aliases no longer appear as separate results. The in-app AniList title selector now waits for an explicit search rather than triggering automatically; the search box is prefilled from the current filename guess. The manager is blocked with a notice when character dictionary annotations are disabled, and `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` is the sole switch for enabling name matching and dictionary builds.
+- **Character Dictionary:** Entries are now scoped to the current AniList media and generate Japanese name aliases only, so raw romanized or English aliases no longer appear as separate results.
+  - A new `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal lets you remove, reorder, or override loaded dictionary entries.
+  - The in-app AniList title selector now waits for an explicit search rather than triggering automatically; the search box is prefilled from the current filename guess.
 
-- **Linux Updater:** Tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically via `electron-updater`, matching the macOS and Windows update flow. System-package-managed AppImages (e.g. AUR `/opt/SubMiner`) and non-AppImage launches fall back to the GitHub-asset flow.
+- **Linux Updater:** Tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically via `electron-updater`, matching the macOS and Windows update flow. System-package-managed AppImages and non-AppImage launches fall back to the GitHub-asset flow.
 
 - **Subsync:** The subtitle sync dialog now always opens the manual picker; the `subsync.defaultMode` config option has been removed.
 
-- **Jellyfin:** The server presets dropdown in Jellyfin setup is replaced by a single editable server URL field.
-
-- **AniSkip:** The key binding setting now uses click-to-learn key capture instead of raw text entry.
-
-- **Setup:** The bundled mpv runtime plugin readiness card is removed from first-run setup; the legacy mpv plugin removal notice still appears when needed.
+- **Jellyfin Setup:** The server presets dropdown is replaced by a single editable server URL field.
 
 - **Defaults:** Jellyfin remote-session startup warmup and character-name subtitle highlighting now default to off.
 
@@ -43,73 +52,96 @@
 
 ### Fixed
 
-- **macOS Overlay:** Significantly improved overlay focus and stability: the overlay hides when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground target; stays stable through transient window-tracking misses; remains correctly layered during stats mouse passthrough; opens over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces; and stays stable when mpv remains frontmost but window geometry temporarily disappears from macOS APIs. Passthrough is fixed so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar. The overlay stays stable when clicking from the overlay back into mpv. Background tracking overhead is reduced while mpv is stably focused. The compiled mpv window helper is now correctly bundled, preventing the overlay from falling back to slower startup on first launch.
+- **macOS Overlay:** Significantly improved overlay focus and stability across a range of scenarios.
+  - The overlay hides when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground target; stays stable through transient window-tracking misses; remains correctly layered during stats mouse passthrough; and opens over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces.
+  - Passthrough is fixed so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar. The compiled mpv window helper is now correctly bundled, preventing the overlay from falling back to a slower startup path on first launch.
 
-- **Linux/Hyprland Overlay:** Overlay placement refreshes after leaving mpv fullscreen so the visible overlay stays aligned to the player. The visible overlay remains stacked above mpv after mpv regains focus from clicks, and is suspended while the in-player stats window is open. Settings windows (SubMiner and Yomitan) now open above the subtitle overlay on Hyprland instead of behind it. The overlay is hidden immediately when the character dictionary modal opens, including while AniList lookup is in progress or returns no results.
+- **Linux/Hyprland Overlay:** Overlay placement refreshes after leaving mpv fullscreen so the visible overlay stays aligned to the player.
+  - The overlay stays stacked above mpv after click-to-focus events and is suspended while the in-player stats window is open.
+  - Settings windows (SubMiner and Yomitan) now open above the subtitle overlay; the overlay hides immediately when the character dictionary modal opens, including while AniList lookup is in progress.
 
-- **Jellyfin Playback:** Resolved a wide range of Jellyfin discovery and playback issues: the active item is no longer reloaded during startup, paused mpv is no longer misreported as playing, startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle, duplicate ready signals no longer re-show the overlay, and long-lived sidebar ffmpeg extractors no longer run against stream URLs. Discovery now correctly handles delayed Japanese subtitle selection and prevents later-loading foreign tracks from stealing the active Japanese track. Discovery resume correctly handles `StartPositionTicks: 0` for items with saved progress.
+- **Jellyfin Playback:** Resolved a wide range of discovery and playback issues: the active item is no longer reloaded during startup, paused mpv is no longer misreported as playing, startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle, and duplicate ready signals no longer re-show the overlay.
+  - Discovery now correctly handles delayed Japanese subtitle selection and prevents later-loading foreign tracks from stealing the active Japanese track.
+  - Discovery resume correctly handles `StartPositionTicks: 0` for items with saved progress.
 
-- **Jellyfin Subtitles:** Improved subtitle timing by preferring default embedded streams over external sidecars, stripping Jellyfin's server-selected stream from playback URLs, suppressing mpv auto-selection while SubMiner stages managed tracks, and automatically correcting clear Japanese-vs-English cue timeline offsets. Per-stream subtitle delay shifts are restored on load. Track selection now tolerates transient `track-list` read failures and numeric string track IDs on Linux.
+- **Jellyfin Subtitles:** Improved subtitle timing by preferring default embedded streams over external sidecars, stripping Jellyfin's server-selected stream from playback URLs, suppressing mpv auto-selection while SubMiner stages managed tracks, and automatically correcting Japanese-vs-English cue timeline offsets.
+  - Per-stream subtitle delay shifts are restored on load. Track selection now tolerates transient `track-list` read failures and numeric string track IDs on Linux.
 
-- **Jellyfin Overlay:** The visible subtitle overlay now shows automatically during Jellyfin playback so `subtitleStyle` appearance applies. The bundled mpv plugin is injected when SubMiner auto-launches mpv for Jellyfin so mpv-side keybindings work without overlay focus. The `y-t` overlay toggle is reliable and remains sticky across stream redirects. Passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows no longer steal keyboard focus from mpv.
+- **Jellyfin Overlay:** The visible subtitle overlay now shows automatically during Jellyfin playback so `subtitleStyle` appearance applies, and the bundled mpv plugin is injected when SubMiner auto-launches mpv so mpv-side keybindings work without overlay focus.
+  - The `y-t` overlay toggle is reliable and remains sticky across stream redirects.
+  - Passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows no longer steal keyboard focus from mpv.
 
-- **Jellyfin Remote Progress:** Fixed progress sync for mpv/SubMiner seek jumps, stopped sessions, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows. Play and Resume are now distinct: Play starts from the beginning while Resume starts at the saved position. Final progress reports use SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets during stop.
+- **Jellyfin Remote Progress:** Fixed progress sync for mpv/SubMiner seek jumps, stopped sessions, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows.
+  - Play and Resume are now distinct: Play starts from the beginning while Resume starts at the saved position.
+  - Final progress reports use SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets during stop.
 
-- **Jellyfin Identity:** Cast device identity is now derived from the OS hostname. Multiple SubMiner installs no longer share the same remote-session identity, and SubMiner always reports itself as the client regardless of legacy configurable identity fields.
+- **Jellyfin Identity:** Cast device identity is now derived from the OS hostname. Multiple SubMiner installs no longer share the same remote-session identity.
 
-- **Jellyfin Tray:** The discovery tray checkbox stays in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup remote-session changes. Stale discovery sessions restart automatically when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target. Library discovery works correctly when the app log level is set above info.
+- **Jellyfin Tray:** The discovery tray checkbox stays in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup remote-session changes. Stale discovery sessions restart automatically when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target.
 
-- **Jellyfin Setup:** Fixed the Jellyfin setup login flow on Windows: login now uses an IPC bridge with immediate progress feedback, and unreachable servers time out with an inline error instead of hanging.
+- **Jellyfin Setup:** Fixed the Windows login flow with an IPC bridge and immediate progress feedback; unreachable servers time out with an inline error instead of hanging.
 
-- **Subtitle Sync Modal:** Fixed a macOS issue where opening the subtitle sync modal would flash and disappear on the first attempt, or leave stale state after syncing.
+- **AniList Progress:** Threshold checks now use fresh playback position data so updates fire correctly when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold.
+  - Season-specific results are preferred for multi-season files, with a clear message when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching status.
+  - Repeated missing-token checks no longer exhaust AniList retry attempts or create duplicate dead-letter entries for the same episode.
 
-- **Controller:** Controller config and debug shortcuts now stay closed while controller support is disabled, with a notice to enable `controller.enabled`. Learn mode can be entered from the edit pencil or binding badge, remaps are saved per controller profile, and individual bindings can be reset to their defaults.
+- **Anki:** Sentence-audio padding is now opt-in by default; animated AVIF freeze-frame duration is correctly aligned to word audio length without double-counting padding.
+  - Multi-line sentence mining stays aligned for repeated subtitle text; Kiku duplicate-card detection and merge flow are fixed; clipboard card updates from YouTube use mpv's resolved stream URLs; sentence cards refresh the secondary subtitle before saving.
+  - Known-word cache append is fixed when no default Anki mining deck is configured but multiple known-word deck field mappings are present.
 
-- **AniList Progress:** Progress threshold checks now use fresh playback position data so updates fire correctly when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold. Season-specific results are preferred for multi-season files, and a clear message is shown when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching status. Repeated missing-token checks no longer rapidly exhaust AniList retry attempts or create duplicate dead-letter entries for the same episode.
+- **YouTube:** Primary subtitles are downloaded to temporary local files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit.
+  - False load-failure notifications are suppressed. Launcher-managed playback creates the tray icon when attaching to an already-running process, and app-owned playback no longer lets the mpv plugin start a second SubMiner instance.
 
-- **Anki:** Sentence-audio padding is now opt-in by default. When padding is configured, animated AVIF freeze-frame duration is correctly aligned to the word audio length without double-counting sentence audio padding. Multi-line sentence mining stays aligned when repeated subtitle text appears in the selected history range. Manual clipboard card updates from YouTube playback now use mpv's resolved stream URLs for generated audio and images. Sentence cards now refresh the current secondary subtitle before saving so the translation field contains the loaded subtitle rather than repeating the primary text. Kiku duplicate-card detection correctly groups fields, modal-open acknowledgement races no longer cancel the merge flow, and merged fields follow Kiku's group ordering, sentence-audio, furigana, and tag semantics.
+- **Character Dictionary:** Surname honorifics are now matched for Japanese localized aliases embedded in AniList alternative names; cached snapshots are regenerated to include them.
+  - Cached media matches are reused when loading a title with an existing snapshot, avoiding redundant AniList search requests. Manager keyboard shortcuts are correctly forwarded to the mpv plugin.
 
-- **YouTube:** Primary subtitles are now downloaded to temporary local files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit. False subtitle load failure notifications are suppressed after SubMiner confirms the selected track loaded. Launcher-managed playback commands create the tray icon even when attaching to an already-running process, and app-owned YouTube playback no longer lets the mpv plugin start a second SubMiner instance.
+- **Updater:** Update checks are more stable across platforms: Linux uses GitHub release metadata; `subminer -u` can update independently of the tray app; macOS update dialogs reliably appear in the foreground.
+  - Builds that cannot apply native updates show a manual-install message instead of a restart prompt. Windows retains the native NSIS update path while routing updater HTTP through the main process.
 
-- **Character Dictionary:** Surname honorifics are now matched for Japanese localized aliases embedded in AniList alternative names (e.g. Korean-source characters whose Japanese name appears in parentheses), and cached snapshots are regenerated to include them. Cached media matches are reused when loading a title with an existing snapshot, avoiding redundant AniList search requests on repeat visits. Character dictionary manager keyboard shortcuts are now correctly forwarded to the mpv plugin.
+- **Setup - macOS:** First-run setup recognizes existing `subminer` installs in Homebrew or user PATH directories and avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths.
+  - `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow even when SubMiner is already running. The standalone setup app quits after completing first-run setup, and `subminer settings` exits cleanly when the window is closed.
 
-- **Updater:** Update checks are more stable across platforms: Linux uses GitHub release metadata instead of the native Electron updater; `subminer -u` can update independently of the tray app; macOS update dialogs reliably appear in the foreground; builds that cannot apply native updates show a manual-install message instead of a restart prompt; Windows retains the native NSIS update path while routing updater HTTP through the main process; and macOS updater metadata mismatches from conflicting ZIP filenames are resolved.
+- **Tray App:** Fixed several lifecycle issues: the tray stays running when Yomitan settings are closed; a close-only menu prevents accidentally quitting the tray app; an in-page close button is available on Hyprland where native window controls are unavailable.
+  - Settings loading no longer blocks other tray actions; the embedded popup preview is disabled to prevent renderer hangs during sidebar navigation; extension refreshes at startup are serialized; the session help modal closes correctly without mpv running.
+  - On Windows, "Open SubMiner Setup" now correctly opens the setup window after first-run setup is complete.
 
-- **Setup - macOS:** First-run setup now recognizes existing `subminer` installs in Homebrew or user PATH directories, and manual setup avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths. `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow even when SubMiner is already running in the background. The standalone setup app quits after completing first-run setup, and `subminer settings` exits cleanly when the window is closed.
-
-- **Tray App:** Fixed several lifecycle issues with tray-launched Yomitan settings: the tray stays running when settings are closed; settings loading no longer blocks other tray actions; a close-only menu prevents accidentally quitting the tray app; an in-page close button is available on Hyprland where native window controls are unavailable; the embedded popup preview is disabled to prevent renderer hangs during sidebar navigation; extension refreshes at startup are serialized to prevent race conditions; and the session help modal can close correctly without mpv running. On Windows, the tray "Open SubMiner Setup" action now correctly opens the setup window after first-run setup is complete.
-
-- **Launcher:** Launcher-opened videos reuse an already-running background SubMiner instance and correctly reapply preferred subtitles on warm launches. Videos stay paused when attaching to a running background app until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete. Launcher-owned tray apps close after playback ends. `subminer settings` on macOS no longer emits Electron menu diagnostics. Linux first-run launcher installs now build with a valid Bun shebang. `subminer app` on Linux returns control to the terminal immediately. On Windows, managed mpv launches from a background SubMiner instance correctly retarget the new mpv socket, bind to the player window, and receive startup overlay options.
+- **Launcher:** Launcher-opened videos reuse an already-running background SubMiner instance and correctly reapply preferred subtitles on warm launches. Videos stay paused until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete.
+  - `subminer settings` on macOS no longer emits Electron menu diagnostics and exits cleanly when the window is closed. Linux first-run launcher installs build with a valid Bun shebang; `subminer app` on Linux returns control to the terminal immediately.
+  - On Windows, managed mpv launches from a background instance correctly retarget the new mpv socket, bind to the player window, and receive startup overlay options.
 
 - **Playback:** The first subtitle is primed before autoplay resumes so the overlay renders text before video playback begins. Launcher-owned videos quit SubMiner when playback ends while background and tray sessions stay alive.
+  - The visible overlay and subtitle stream stay alive after restarting SubMiner from the `y-r` shortcut, with correct Linux bounds reapplication and user-paused playback preserved through readiness gates.
 
-- **Subtitle Frequency:** Frequency highlighting is preserved for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while standalone determiners are still filtered. Frequency annotations are also corrected for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles such as `目の前`, while pure grammar and kana helper spans remain unannotated.
+- **Subtitle Frequency:** Frequency highlighting is preserved for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while standalone determiners are still filtered. Annotations are corrected for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles like `目の前`.
 
-- **Shortcuts:** Native mpv menu shortcuts are disabled during managed macOS playback so configured SubMiner shortcuts also work while mpv has focus. Session shortcuts including `stats.markWatchedKey` are correctly wired through mpv. The visible overlay receives focus when entering multi-line copy/mine selection so number keys work on macOS and Windows.
+- **Subtitle Annotation Prefetch:** Cached annotations and character images are ready for more live subtitle changes without delaying raw subtitle display.
 
-- **Overlay Restart:** The visible overlay and subtitle stream stay alive after restarting SubMiner from the `y-r` shortcut, with correct bounds reapplication on Linux and user-paused playback preserved through readiness gates.
+- **Shortcuts:** Native mpv menu shortcuts are disabled during managed macOS playback so SubMiner shortcuts also work while mpv has focus. Session shortcuts including `stats.markWatchedKey` are correctly wired through mpv. The visible overlay receives focus when entering multi-line copy/mine selection so number keys work on macOS and Windows.
 
-- **Stats:** In-player stats layering is fixed so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window. Jellyfin playback stats are grouped under item metadata instead of stream URLs, so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and display clean names.
+- **Stats:** In-player stats layering is fixed so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window. Jellyfin playback stats are grouped under item metadata so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and display clean names.
 
-- **Sidebar:** Yomitan lookup popups opened from the subtitle sidebar now correctly pause playback when popup auto-pause is enabled. Yomitan-enriched cards mined from the sidebar now use audio and images from the clicked subtitle line rather than the current primary line.
+- **Sidebar:** Yomitan lookup popups opened from the subtitle sidebar now correctly pause playback when popup auto-pause is enabled. Mined cards use audio and images from the clicked subtitle line rather than the current primary line.
+
+- **Controller:** Config and debug shortcuts stay closed while controller support is disabled, with a notice to enable `controller.enabled`. Learn mode can be entered from the edit pencil or binding badge; remaps are saved per controller profile, and individual bindings can be reset to their defaults.
 
 - **Discord Rich Presence:** Presence no longer falls back to Jellyfin stream URLs; Jellyfin playback titles are primed before loading tokenized streams so presence shows the show/episode title.
 
 - **WebSocket:** The regular subtitle WebSocket now sends plain text only; annotation spans and token metadata are sent exclusively on the annotation WebSocket.
 
-- **Windows:** Startup failures now show a native error dialog and write fatal details to the app log instead of exiting silently.
+- **Windows Startup:** Fatal startup errors now show a native error dialog and write details to the app log instead of exiting silently.
 
-- **Yomitan:** Fixed Yomitan popups not opening when overlay startup races the Yomitan extension load.
+- **Yomitan:** Fixed popups not opening when overlay startup races the Yomitan extension load.
 
-- **Settings:** Search now works across all categories, narrows correctly on multi-word terms, and hides settings with dedicated editors. Live saves for subtitle CSS declarations apply immediately to open overlays. Legacy subtitle appearance options and hover token colors are automatically migrated into `subtitleStyle.css`. The note-fields note type picker defaults to the configured Anki deck's note type, then `Kiku`, then `Lapis`, leaving it blank for manual selection otherwise. User config files are preserved during legacy config compatibility handling. The generated example config uses the same CSS declaration paths written by the Settings window.
+- **Subtitle Sync Modal:** Fixed a macOS issue where the modal would flash and disappear on the first attempt, or leave stale state after syncing.
 
 ### Docs
 
-- **Versioned Docs:** Stable docs are now published at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`. Fixed versioned docs navigation so archived pages keep local links under the selected version, the version switcher no longer nests paths incorrectly, local dev version routes serve warmed archive files instead of redirecting to production, and internal README files no longer break archived builds.
+- **Versioned Docs:** Stable docs are now published at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`.
+  - Fixed versioned docs navigation so archived pages keep local links under the selected version, the version switcher no longer nests paths incorrectly, and local dev version routes serve warmed archive files instead of redirecting to production.
 
 - **Configuration Reference:** All previously undocumented config options are now covered, including `subtitleStyle.primaryDefaultMode`, `stats.markWatchedKey`, `immersionTracking.lifetimeSummaries.*`, and all seven `mpv.*` launcher options. Updated known-word cache docs and examples to recommend expression/word fields.
 
-- **Architecture Docs:** Added a Playback Startup Flow diagram showing how managed launches inject the plugin, establish the IPC socket, and bring up the overlay via the two convergent triggers. Added a Runtime Sockets section and diagram to the IPC + Runtime Contracts page, with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.
+- **Architecture Docs:** Added a Playback Startup Flow diagram and a Runtime Sockets section and diagram to the IPC + Runtime Contracts page, with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.
 
 ## Installation
 

release/release-notes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+## Highlights
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Subsync: The `subsync.defaultMode` config option has been removed; Subsync now always opens the manual subtitle picker regardless of any previously set default mode.
+
+### Added
+
+- Auto-Updater: Adds tray and `subminer -u` update checks with app update prompts, launcher and Linux rofi theme auto-updates, checksum verification, configurable notifications, and an opt-in prerelease channel via `updates.channel: "prerelease"`.
+- Settings Window: New dedicated Settings window via `subminer --settings` or `subminer settings`, organized into Appearance, Behavior, Anki, Input, and Integration sections; click-to-learn keybinding controls including the AniSkip button key; AnkiConnect-backed deck, field, and note-type pickers that auto-fill from the configured Anki deck; cross-category search; and live save for most options including subtitle CSS, stats keys, logging level, Jimaku, Subsync, and Anki mappings. AI and translation settings remain config-file only.
+- Inline Character Portraits: Optional AniList character portraits appear inline for name-matched subtitle text; manual AniList overrides scoped per parent media directory so separate season folders maintain separate character dictionary selections.
+- Log Export: Sanitized log ZIP export from the tray menu and via `subminer logs -e`, with home-directory usernames redacted from exported contents.
+- Launcher CLI: `subminer --version` / `subminer -v` prints the installed app version; `mpv.profile` config and Settings support passes a named mpv profile to managed launches; bundled mpv plugin startup options are now configurable from SubMiner config.
+- First-Run Setup: Optional installer for Bun and the `subminer` CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows, including a Windows `subminer.cmd` PATH shim so `subminer` works without manually adding `SubMiner.exe` to PATH; setup recognizes existing Homebrew or user PATH installs and avoids writing into Homebrew-owned paths; includes an Open SubMiner Settings button; standalone setup app quits after completing, returning terminal control.
+- Primary Subtitle Visibility on Yomitan Popup: New `subtitleStyle.primaryVisibleOnYomitanPopup` option keeps hover-mode primary subtitles visible while a Yomitan popup is open.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Subtitle Appearance Config: Primary and secondary subtitle appearance now use color controls plus CSS declaration editors, saved as `subtitleStyle.css`, `subtitleStyle.secondary.css`, and `subtitleSidebar.css`; known-word and N+1 annotation colors moved to `subtitleStyle.knownWordColor` and `subtitleStyle.nPlusOneColor`; subtitle font defaults updated to `Hiragino Sans, M PLUS 1, Source Han Sans JP, Noto Sans CJK JP`. Existing configs migrate automatically; legacy Anki color keys still accepted with deprecation warnings.
+- Subtitle Style Defaults: Stronger outline-style text shadow, thicker JLPT underlines, and frequency `topX` default raised to `10000`.
+- Character Dictionary: Entries scoped to the current AniList media for name matching and inline portraits; generates Japanese-only name aliases so raw romanized/English aliases no longer surface as separate results; new `Ctrl/Cmd+D` manager modal to remove, reorder, or override loaded entries; in-app AniList selector waits for an explicit search with the box prefilled from the current filename; `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` is now the sole switch for dictionary sync and builds.
+- Electron Runtime: Updated from 39.8.6 to 42.2.0, returning SubMiner to a supported Electron release line.
+- N+1 Highlighting Default: `ankiConnect.nPlusOne.enabled` is no longer implicitly enabled when known-word highlighting is on; existing configs that already had N+1 enabled are unchanged, but new configs must set it explicitly.
+- Linux Auto-Update Flow: Linux tray "Check for Updates" now installs the new AppImage automatically, matching macOS and Windows; AppImages managed by a system package (e.g. AUR) and non-AppImage launches still use the GitHub-asset flow.
+- Jellyfin Setup: Removed the server presets dropdown; setup now shows a single editable server URL field.
+- Jellyfin Cast Identity: Device identity now derived from the OS hostname and always reported as SubMiner; previously configurable identity fields are ignored, preventing multiple installs from sharing a remote-session identity.
+- Startup Defaults: Jellyfin remote-session startup warmup and character-name subtitle highlighting now default to off.
+- Setup Appearance: Removed the bundled mpv runtime plugin readiness card from the setup flow.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- AniList Progress: Progress updates fire correctly when playback reaches or skips past the watched threshold using fresh mpv timing events; season-specific results preferred for multi-season files with a clear message when the matched season is not in Planning or Watching; repeated missing-token checks no longer exhaust retry attempts or duplicate dead-letter entries.
+- Anki Mining: Sentence-audio padding is opt-in by default; animated AVIF freeze-frame duration aligned to word audio length without double-counting; multi-line sentence alignment fixed for repeated subtitle text; Kiku duplicate-card detection, auto-merge, modal acknowledgment race, and field/tag ordering corrected; YouTube playback cards use mpv's resolved stream URLs; sentence cards refresh the secondary subtitle before saving; known-word cache appends correctly with multiple deck field mappings.
+- Jellyfin Discovery: Startup, subtitle track selection, and duplicate ready-signal handling all fixed; paused mpv no longer misreported as playing; startup unpause no longer repeats after a manual pause or `y-t` toggle; delayed Japanese subtitle selection, later-loading foreign track hijacking, and long-lived sidebar ffmpeg extractor leaks fixed; resume corrected when a remote play command sends `StartPositionTicks: 0` despite saved progress; picker library discovery kept working regardless of app log level.
+- Jellyfin Remote: Tray checkbox stays in sync on Linux after tray, CLI, or startup changes; stale discovery sessions restarted when the server no longer lists the SubMiner cast target; remote controller visibility and progress sync fixed for seeks, stops, startup path changes, and Linux websocket reconnect windows; Play and Resume now behave correctly (Play from beginning, Resume from saved position); final progress reports reuse SubMiner's last known position when mpv resets on stop; Windows setup login flow fixed with an IPC bridge, immediate feedback, and a timeout with inline error for unreachable servers.
+- Jellyfin Subtitles and Overlay: Subtitle overlay shown automatically during Jellyfin playback; `y-t` toggle made reliable and sticky across stream redirects; managed subtitle defaults re-armed on redirect; passive Linux/Hyprland overlay shows no longer steal keyboard focus from mpv; subtitle timing improved with preferred embedded streams over external sidecars, correct Japanese-vs-English cue offset handling, per-stream delay shift restoration, and transient track-list read failure tolerance.
+- Overlay (macOS): Overlay hides when mpv loses focus, is minimized, or is no longer the foreground app; stable through transient window geometry disappearances from macOS APIs and when clicking from the overlay back into mpv; stats overlay opened inactive so it appears over fullscreen mpv without switching Spaces; passthrough fixed so mpv controls stay clickable before hovering a subtitle bar; window-tracker polling reduced while mpv is stably focused.
+- Overlay (Linux / Hyprland): Placement refreshes after leaving fullscreen; overlay stays above mpv after focus changes from clicks or movement; Settings and Yomitan windows promoted above the subtitle overlay instead of opening behind it; overlay hides when the character dictionary modal opens, including during AniList lookup.
+- Overlay Lifecycle: First startup subtitle primed before autoplay resumes so the overlay renders text before playback begins; overlay and subtitle stream kept alive after `y-r` restart with correct Linux bounds reapplication; launcher-owned playback quits SubMiner on end while background/tray sessions stay alive; subtitle sync modal fixed on macOS so it no longer flashes on first attempt or leaves stale state; Windows managed mpv launches from a background instance now correctly receive the start command, retarget the new socket, bind to the player window, and receive startup overlay options.
+- Yomitan Sidebar: Playback stays paused for sidebar-opened Yomitan popups when auto-pause is enabled; fixed popups not opening when startup races the Yomitan extension load; sidebar mining cards use audio and images from the clicked sidebar line instead of the current primary subtitle.
+- Launcher: Warm launches reuse a running background instance, reapply preferred subtitles, and close launcher-owned tray apps after playback ends; videos stay paused until subtitle priming and tokenization readiness complete; `subminer settings` on macOS exits cleanly when the window is closed; `subminer app` on Linux returns terminal control immediately; Linux first-run installs build with a valid Bun shebang; `subminer app --setup` opens the setup flow when SubMiner is already running in background.
+- YouTube Playback: Selected subtitles downloaded to local temp files so the primary bar and sidebar read the same source, with cleanup on reload and quit; false load-failure notifications suppressed; tray icon created on launcher-managed playback that attaches to an already-running process; mpv plugin no longer starts a second SubMiner instance for app-owned YouTube playback.
+- Shortcuts: Native mpv menu shortcuts disabled during managed macOS playback so configured SubMiner shortcuts work while mpv has focus; custom session shortcuts including `stats.markWatchedKey` wired through mpv; multi-line copy/mine overlay correctly focused so number keys choose the line count on macOS and Windows.
+- Controller Bindings: Controller config and debug shortcuts stay closed while controller support is disabled; binding learn mode starts from the edit pencil; remaps saved per controller profile; binding badges also start learn mode; row reset buttons restore individual bindings to defaults.
+- Logging: `logging.level` forwarded to launcher-started and Windows shortcut-started mpv sessions covering mpv log verbosity, plugin logging, and plugin-launched app logging; `logging.rotation` (default 7 days) and per-component `logging.files` toggles added with mpv logs disabled by default; repeated IPC socket warning spam suppressed while waiting for mpv to recreate the socket; Windows mpv IPC, subtitle track, and Yomitan diagnostics added.
+- Updater: Linux `subminer -u` performs release updates independently of any running tray app using GitHub release metadata; macOS update dialogs from `subminer -u` reliably appear in the foreground with a manual-install message for builds that cannot apply native updates; macOS and Linux `electron-updater` routes through `/usr/bin/curl` to avoid Electron network crashes; Windows automatic updates keep the native NSIS install path while routing updater HTTP through main-process fetch to avoid delayed exit after launch.
+- In-Player Stats: Layering fixed so delete confirmations, overlay modals, and update-check dialogs appear above the stats window; Jellyfin playback stats grouped by item metadata so watched episodes merge with matching local library titles and keep clean display names.
+- Tray: Tray stays running when Yomitan settings are closed; settings loading no longer blocks other tray actions; Yomitan extension refreshes serialized at startup; embedded popup preview disabled to prevent renderer hangs during sidebar navigation; Windows "Open SubMiner Setup" action opens the setup window correctly after first-run is complete; session help modal close fixed without mpv running.
+- Discord Rich Presence: No longer falls back to Jellyfin stream URLs; Jellyfin playback titles primed before stream loading so presence shows the show/episode title instead of a URL.
+- WebSocket Annotations: Annotation spans and token metadata stay on the annotation WebSocket; the regular subtitle WebSocket is plain-text only.
+- Subtitle Frequency Highlighting: Frequency annotations kept for determiner-led noun compounds like `その場` while still filtering standalone determiners; fixed for Yomitan single-token compounds with internal particles such as `目の前` while keeping pure grammar/kana helper spans unannotated.
+- Subtitle Annotation Prefetching: Cached colored annotations and character images ready sooner for live subtitle changes without delaying raw subtitle display.
+- Packaging: macOS compiled mpv window helper correctly built into `dist/scripts` and bundled, preventing fallback to slow Swift source startup; stale Windows helper resource entry removed; one-shot `make clean build install` AppImage flows fixed so install picks up the AppImage built earlier in the same invocation.
+- Windows Startup Errors: Fatal startup failures now show a native error dialog and write details to the app log instead of exiting silently.
+
+### Docs
+
+- Documentation Site: Published stable docs at the site root with current development docs under `/main/`; fixed versioned docs navigation, archived page link handling, and local dev version routing; documented all previously undocumented config options including `subtitleStyle.primaryDefaultMode`, `stats.markWatchedKey`, `immersionTracking.lifetimeSummaries.*`, and all seven `mpv.*` launcher options; added Playback Startup Flow and Runtime Sockets diagrams to the architecture docs with cross-reference pointers in the MPV Plugin and Troubleshooting pages.
+
+## Installation
+
+See the README and docs/installation guide for full setup steps.
+
+## Assets
+
+- Linux: `SubMiner.AppImage`
+- macOS: `SubMiner-*.dmg` and `SubMiner-*.zip`
+- Windows: `SubMiner-*.exe` and `SubMiner-*-win.zip`
+- Optional extras: `subminer-assets.tar.gz` and the `subminer` launcher
+
+Note: the `subminer` wrapper script uses Bun (`#!/usr/bin/env bun`), so `bun` must be installed and on `PATH`.

scripts/build-changelog.test.ts

@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ function fragmentTypesInPrompt(input: string): string[] {
     .map((line) => line.slice('type: '.length).trim());
 }
 
+function assertReleaseNotesPromptRequestsNestedBullets(input: string): void {
+  assert.match(input, /In MODE: release-notes, use short top-level change bullets/);
+  assert.match(input, /Nested bullets should cover the change, user benefit, and any user action/);
+  assert.match(input, /Do not require the exact nested labels/);
+  assert.match(input, /Keep nested bullets short, concrete, and readable by non-technical users/);
+  assert.match(input, /Avoid paragraph-style release-note bullets/);
+}
+
 function defaultPolishedBody(input: string): string {
   const mode = modeFromPrompt(input);
   const types = fragmentTypesInPrompt(input);
@@ -171,6 +179,7 @@ test('writeChangelogArtifacts ignores README, groups fragments by type, writes r
     assert.match(releaseNotes, /## Highlights\n### Added\n- Polished: added entry\./);
     assert.match(releaseNotes, /### Fixed\n- Polished: fixed entry\./);
     assert.match(releaseNotes, /## Installation\n\nSee the README and docs\/installation guide/);
+    assert.match(releaseNotes, /- Windows: `SubMiner-\*\.exe` and `SubMiner-\*-win\.zip`/);
   } finally {
     fs.rmSync(workspace, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
@@ -437,6 +446,12 @@ test('writeChangelogArtifacts prompts Claude to summarize the final stable outco
         /Multiple fixes within the same prerelease cycle should collapse into one current-state bullet/,
       );
     }
+
+    const releaseNotesPrompt = stub.calls.find(
+      (call) => modeFromPrompt(call.input) === 'release-notes',
+    );
+    assert.ok(releaseNotesPrompt, 'expected a release-notes Claude invocation');
+    assertReleaseNotesPromptRequestsNestedBullets(releaseNotesPrompt.input);
   } finally {
     fs.rmSync(workspace, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
@@ -706,6 +721,7 @@ test('writePrereleaseNotesForVersion prompts Claude to revise stale prerelease b
       prompt,
       /Multiple fixes within the same prerelease cycle should collapse into one current-state bullet/,
     );
+    assertReleaseNotesPromptRequestsNestedBullets(prompt);
   } finally {
     fs.rmSync(workspace, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }

scripts/build-changelog.ts

@@ -260,14 +260,18 @@ You will receive a list of FRAGMENT entries below. Each fragment has metadata (t
 
    </details>
    Do not include the Internal section at all in MODE: release-notes; internal fragments will not be present in the input for that mode.
-4. Each bullet should:
-   - Lead with a short feature/area name in title case followed by a colon, e.g. "Playlist browser:", "Windows overlay:", "Stats dashboard:". Pick the name from the fragment's bullet content, not the raw 'area:' slug.
+4. Each top-level change item should:
+   - Lead with a short feature/area name in title case. Pick the name from the fragment's bullet content, not the raw 'area:' slug.
    - Be written in user-facing language. Drop implementation jargon, internal class names, file paths, and PR numbers.
    - Be merged with related bullets when possible. If five fragments all touch Windows overlay z-order/focus/restore, write one or two bullets that summarize the overall improvement instead of five.
    - Drop bullets that only describe PR housekeeping, CodeRabbit follow-ups, or test-only changes that don't affect users.
    - Preserve the substance of breaking changes that remain breaking after applying the Release Outcome Rules. Do not soften or omit them.
-5. Do not invent features. Every bullet must be grounded in the input fragments.
-6. Do not include the version heading (## v...) — that wrapper is added by the caller.
+5. In MODE: changelog, each item may be a conventional single-level bullet, e.g. "- Playlist Browser: Adds faster saved-show browsing."
+6. In MODE: release-notes, use short top-level change bullets with two or three nested bullets when an item needs explanation.
+   Nested bullets should cover the change, user benefit, and any user action or compatibility note when useful. Do not require the exact nested labels; natural phrasing is fine. Omit the action bullet when no action is needed.
+   Keep nested bullets short, concrete, and readable by non-technical users. Avoid paragraph-style release-note bullets.
+7. Do not invent features. Every bullet must be grounded in the input fragments.
+8. Do not include the version heading (## v...) — that wrapper is added by the caller.
 
 The input begins below.
 
@@ -485,6 +489,7 @@ function renderReleaseNotes(
     '',
     '- Linux: `SubMiner.AppImage`',
     '- macOS: `SubMiner-*.dmg` and `SubMiner-*.zip`',
+    '- Windows: `SubMiner-*.exe` and `SubMiner-*-win.zip`',
     '- Optional extras: `subminer-assets.tar.gz` and the `subminer` launcher',
     '',
     'Note: the `subminer` wrapper script uses Bun (`#!/usr/bin/env bun`), so `bun` must be installed and on `PATH`.',

src/core/services/subtitle-prefetch.test.ts

@@ -295,6 +295,9 @@ test('prefetch service deduplicates repeated cue text within a run', async () =>
   }
   service.stop();
 
-  assert.deepEqual(tokenizedTexts.filter((text) => text === 'same'), ['same']);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    tokenizedTexts.filter((text) => text === 'same'),
+    ['same'],
+  );
   assert.ok(tokenizedTexts.includes('other'));
 });

src/main/main-wiring.test.ts

@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ test('autoplay subtitle prime prefers cached annotated payload before raw fallba
   );
   assert.match(actionBlock, /if \(cachedPayload\) \{/);
   assert.match(actionBlock, /emitSubtitlePayload\(cachedPayload\);/);
-  assert.match(actionBlock, /const rawPayload = withCurrentSubtitleTiming\(\{ text, tokens: null \}\);/);
+  assert.match(
+    actionBlock,
+    /const rawPayload = withCurrentSubtitleTiming\(\{ text, tokens: null \}\);/,
+  );
   assert.ok(
     actionBlock.indexOf('consumeCachedSubtitle(text)') <
       actionBlock.indexOf('withCurrentSubtitleTiming({ text, tokens: null })'),
@@ -144,7 +147,9 @@ test('known-word updates invalidate prefetched tokenizations before refreshing c
   );
   assert.ok(
     actionBlock.indexOf('subtitleProcessingController.invalidateTokenizationCache();') <
-      actionBlock.indexOf('subtitleProcessingController.refreshCurrentSubtitle(appState.currentSubText);'),
+      actionBlock.indexOf(
+        'subtitleProcessingController.refreshCurrentSubtitle(appState.currentSubText);',
+      ),
   );
 });