SubMiner/release/release-notes.md

Highlights

Added

• In-App Changelog
  • View release notes without leaving the app, from the tray menu ("View Changelog") or the "What's New" button on update notifications.
  • Shows notes for the latest published release even when it's newer than your installed build, and falls back to the notes bundled with your install if the download fails.
  • Older versions fold automatically, your installed version is badged, and newer ones are tagged "New"; navigate with J/K or the arrow keys, Enter to expand/collapse, R to refresh, and Esc to close.

Changed

• Faster Subtitle Tokenization
  • Subtitle lines are parsed and looked up roughly twice as efficiently, with results cached across lines so repeated words and grammar no longer re-query the dictionary.
  • Enabling a character dictionary no longer slows subtitle scanning as much, since name lookups now only check positions where a known name can actually start.
  • Fixed related accuracy issues along the way: readings that could go missing on certain word endings, subtitle text that stayed unannotated after mining a card, character names that could drop out of disambiguation rules, and halfwidth-katakana character names that weren't recognized or read correctly.

Fixed

• Large Character Dictionary Generation
  • Big character dictionaries (long-running series like One Piece) no longer fail to install with a timeout error; the import time budget now scales with dictionary size instead of using a fixed 7-second limit.
  • The "Generating character dictionary" notification now shows real progress (character/page counts, image download progress with an ETA, name-processing progress) and an elapsed-time clock, so a long-running import no longer looks frozen.
• Stats Deletion Responsiveness
  • Deleting sessions, episodes, or library entries on the stats page no longer freezes the page or an active video player; deletes are now batched into a single transaction.
• Subtitle Sidebar Clutter from Styled Subtitles
  • Heavily typeset subtitles (karaoke openings/endings, stylized signs) no longer flood the subtitle sidebar with garbled vector-drawing text or duplicate "shadow" copies of the same line.
  • Subtitle text is now decoded consistently in one place, matching what mpv actually renders on screen, so it can no longer diverge or get cached inconsistently.
• X11/XWayland Playback and Overlay Fixes
  • Fixed a crash on the first fullscreen toggle when using an mpv gpu-next shader (e.g. ArtCNN) in X11/XWayland mode; SubMiner no longer forces mpv onto its older OpenGL renderer.
  • Fixed the overlay appearing oversized and offset from the video under fractional or mixed-monitor display scaling in X11/XWayland mode.

What's Changed

• perf(tokenizer): single-pass Yomitan scan with cross-line caching and prefetch fixes by @ksyasuda in #185
• fix(subtitles): collapse duplicate ASS events and decode text once by @ksyasuda in #186
• feat(overlay): add in-app changelog modal by @ksyasuda in #187
• fix(playback): stop forcing legacy OpenGL renderer on X11 mpv backend by @ksyasuda in #188
• fix(dictionary): stop large character dictionaries from timing out by @ksyasuda in #189
• fix(overlay): handle X11 display scaling across monitors by @ksyasuda in #193
• fix(stats): batch deletes off the main thread by @ksyasuda in #194

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.