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

Changed

• Subtitle Delay Shortcuts: Overlay subtitle delay controls now match mpv's native defaults.

  • z, Z, and x adjust sub-delay; Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right run native sub-step and show the current delay on the OSD.
  • The previous SubMiner-only adjacent-cue delay action has been removed.

• Update Notifications: New installs now default to overlay-only update notifications instead of overlay plus system notifications.

Fixed

• Anki Card Enrichment: Fixed two issues where card fields were not populated correctly after mining.

  • Highlight Word now bolds the mined word in Kiku sentence and sentence-furigana fields even when the source Yomitan sentence has no existing bold markup.
  • Lapis and Kiku word cards enriched through SubMiner now include the word-and-sentence marker, restoring sentence context on the card front.

• Windows Overlay: Fixed shaky hover and click behavior on the subtitle bar when a video attaches to an already-running SubMiner instance.

• Windows Anki & Media: Fixed two issues affecting Windows users running SubMiner in background-launch mode.

  • Known-word cache refreshes no longer fail when no deck is configured.
  • Audio and image clipping now works correctly by recreating missing FFmpeg temp directories before processing.

• Windows Character Dictionary: The character dictionary auto-sync now correctly falls back to mpv's current video path on Windows when app media state is not yet ready.

• Linux Support Assets: Linux updates now create and refresh both managed support assets: the launcher runtime plugin copy and the rofi theme.

  • First playback on a fresh Linux install auto-installs those bundled assets before mpv starts if either one is missing.
  • Asset refreshes leave unrelated SubMiner data directories untouched and stage plugin copies before replacing the live runtime plugin.

• Linux Visible Overlay Startup: Auto-paused visible overlay startup stays fully interactive during the first measurement gap.

  • Startup subtitle cache misses paint raw text before tokenization finishes, and temporarily empty mpv subtitle reads refresh parsed cues before warm readiness resumes playback.

• Playlist Transitions: The visible overlay stays active while mpv advances to the next playlist item, including when the next episode loads after the warm transition delay.

• macOS Yomitan Popup Focus: Yomitan popup focus is restored after card mining or popup reload.

  • Clicking transparent overlay space now closes the popup and returns passthrough to mpv without a hide/reappear cycle.

• Stats AniList Search: Manual AniList linking from the stats page now strips generated Season N suffixes before searching, so the base anime title is used.

• Desktop Notifications: System notifications now show the SubMiner app icon when no custom notification image is provided.

• Release Notes: GitHub release What's Changed and New Contributors attribution sections are preserved when CI regenerates release notes from committed changelog output.

Docs

• Linux Update Flow: Documented that Linux update flows manage the launcher runtime plugin copy and rofi theme from subminer-assets.tar.gz, and that normal playback auto-installs those managed support assets if either one is missing.

What's Changed

• Replace subtitle delay actions with native mpv keybindings by @ksyasuda in #120
• fix(stats): strip Season N suffix from AniList title searches by @ksyasuda in #121
• fix(overlay): preserve visible state across playlist item transitions by @ksyasuda in #124
• fix(overlay): restore macOS Yomitan popup focus without breaking click-away by @ksyasuda in #125
• fix(linux): auto-install managed plugin copy; include in asset updates by @ksyasuda in #127
• Fix Windows Anki startup and overlay regressions by @ksyasuda in #128

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.