SubMiner/release/prerelease-notes.md

This is a prerelease build for testing. Stable changelog and docs-site updates remain pending until the final stable release.

Highlights

Added

• Sync Stats & History

  • New Sync Stats & History window (tray menu) and subminer sync <host> command keep mining stats and watch history in sync between machines over SSH, with saved devices, per-host sync direction, and live stage-by-stage progress.
  • Merges are safe to repeat: data combines without duplicates, and hosts with auto-sync enabled sync automatically in the background on a schedule, reporting results as overlay notifications.
  • Manual snapshot tools (create, merge, reveal, delete) and connection testing cover one-off transfers; Windows machines running the built-in OpenSSH Server work as sync remotes too, with no setup needed beyond SSH access. Power users can script transfers directly with --push/--pull, --check, --snapshot/--merge, and --json flags.

• TsukiHime Subtitle Downloads

  • Download Japanese and secondary-language subtitles for the current video directly from TsukiHime, mirroring the existing Jimaku flow.
  • Press Ctrl+Shift+T to search by tabs for the primary and secondary languages; the matching release is found automatically from the video filename and loads straight into mpv, no API key required.

• Post-Playback History Menu

  • After a watch-history episode ends or mpv closes, the fzf/rofi launcher returns to that series with options to play the previous or next episode, rewatch, pick another episode, or quit SubMiner.
  • Previous/Next continue across season directories, so you can binge a show without manually browsing folders.
  • The menu shown right after picking a series from subminer -H now offers the previous episode too, matching the post-playback menu.

• Known-Word Highlighting by Anki Maturity

  • Subtitle highlights for known words can now be colored by Anki card maturity (new, learning, young, mature), similar to asbplayer. Enable it with ankiConnect.knownWords.maturityEnabled, or toggle it live during a session.
  • The mature-interval threshold and the four tier colors are configurable, and the in-session help legend shows the active tier colors while maturity highlighting is on.
  • Tiers follow Anki's own card state: a lapsed card correctly shows as learning rather than young, and a note is treated as mature if any of its cards are mature. Stats and other known-word tools stay accurate with this new data.

Changed

• Clipboard-Video Shortcut
  • The "append clipboard video to queue" shortcut is now configurable via shortcuts.appendClipboardVideoToQueue instead of being fixed.

Fixed

• Word Highlighting Accuracy

  • Fixed several incorrect word highlighting and annotation cases: inconsistent part-of-speech exclusions on merged quote-particle tokens, missing annotations for rare kanji, katakana punctuation wrongly treated as non-kana noise, and certain kanji vocabulary skipped for next-level ("N+1") highlighting.

• Character Dictionary Season Overrides

  • Manual AniList overrides for a series now stay in effect for every episode in the same season folder, even when individual episode filenames produce different automatic guesses.

• Startup Playback Pausing Too Early

  • Fixed playback resuming before subtitle processing finished warming up, which could briefly show untranslated subtitles right after opening a video.
  • Most noticeable when resuming mid-episode or when a subtitle cue starts within the first couple of seconds.

• Linux AppImage Crash Notification on Quit

  • Fixed a spurious "Service Crash" desktop notification appearing after closing a video when running the Linux AppImage.
  • If needed, the mount-keepalive behavior behind this fix can be disabled with SUBMINER_NO_APPIMAGE_MOUNT_KEEPALIVE=1.

• AnkiConnect Proxy Port Conflict

  • Fixed video playback failing to start when another process already held the configured AnkiConnect proxy port; SubMiner now shows a notification explaining how to resolve the conflict instead of crashing.

• Stats & Settings Reliability

  • Fixed session stats reporting zero known words after the known-word cache gained maturity tiers.
  • Hardened the stats server against malformed requests, stalled AniList lookups, media mismatches during word mining, and missing Yomitan connections.
  • AnkiConnect settings validation now preserves valid custom configurations while safely falling back on invalid values instead of failing.

• Rofi Menu Prompt Spacing

  • Rofi menu prompts now keep a space between the prompt label and the input field instead of crowding the search placeholder text.

What's Changed

• feat(shortcuts): make clipboard-video-append shortcut configurable by @ksyasuda in #158
• refactor(tokenizer): extract subtitle annotation filter into rule table by @ksyasuda in #162
• refactor(tsukihime): swap Animetosho backend for TsukiHime API by @ksyasuda in #165
• refactor: split anki-connect and stats-server resolvers into modules by @ksyasuda in #169
• feat(launcher): add post-playback history menu with previous episode by @ksyasuda in #170
• Anki maturity-based known-word highlighting by @ksyasuda in #172

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.