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

  • Keep mining stats and watch history in sync across machines over SSH, from a new Sync Stats & History window (tray menu) or the subminer sync <host> command.
  • Syncing merges data safely, so nothing is duplicated even if you sync the same machines repeatedly, and hosts with auto-sync enabled sync in the background on a schedule, reporting results as overlay notifications.
  • Manual database snapshots (create, merge, reveal, delete) cover one-off transfers, and Windows machines running the built-in OpenSSH Server can be used as sync remotes too. No setup beyond SSH access is required on the remote side.

• TsukiHime Subtitle Downloads

  • Download Japanese and secondary-language subtitles for the current video directly from TsukiHime, mirroring the existing Jimaku flow: Ctrl+Shift+T opens an in-overlay search modal with separate tabs for the primary and secondary languages.
  • Matching releases are found automatically from the video filename; the chosen subtitle downloads and loads straight into mpv, no API key required.

Changed

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

Fixed

• Word Highlighting Accuracy: Fixed several cases of incorrect word highlighting and annotations, including 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 being skipped for next-level ("N+1") highlighting.
• Startup Playback Pausing Too Early: Fixed playback resuming before subtitle processing had finished warming up, which could briefly show untranslated subtitles right after opening a video, most noticeable when resuming mid-episode.
• Linux AppImage Crash Notification on Quit: Fixed a spurious "Service Crash" desktop notification appearing after closing a video when running the Linux AppImage.

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

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.