SubMiner/release/release-notes.md

Highlights

Changed

• Subtitle Delay Keybindings: Overlay subtitle delay controls now match mpv's native bindings.

  • z, Z, and x adjust subtitle delay; Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right step to the adjacent subtitle and show the current delay on the OSD.
  • Removes the old SubMiner-specific adjacent-cue delay action in favor of mpv's built-in sub-step.

• Update Notifications: New installs now default to overlay-only update notifications instead of also sending a system notification.

Fixed

• Anki — Highlight Word: The mined word is now correctly bolded in Kiku sentence and sentence-furigana fields even when the source Yomitan sentence did not already contain bold markup.

• Anki — Lapis/Kiku Word Cards: Word cards enriched through SubMiner now correctly include the word-and-sentence marker, restoring sentence context on the card front.

• Anki — Windows: Fixed two issues that surfaced after background app launches on Windows.

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

• Desktop Notifications: Restored the SubMiner app icon on system notifications that do not supply their own image.

• Dictionary — Windows: The character dictionary auto-sync on SubMiner mpv shortcut launches can now fall back to mpv's current video path when app media state is not yet ready.

• Overlay — macOS Yomitan Popup: Fixed focus and dismiss behavior for the Yomitan popup on macOS.

  • Popup focus is correctly restored after mining a card or reloading the popup.
  • Clicking on transparent overlay space now properly closes the popup and passes the click through to mpv, with no hide/reappear cycle.

• Overlay — Linux Startup: Fixed several edge cases that could leave the overlay unresponsive or drop subtitles at startup when auto-pause was active.

  • The overlay stays interactive during the initial render measurement gap.
  • Subtitles paint as plain text immediately on cache misses, before tokenization finishes.
  • Temporarily empty subtitle state is now re-parsed correctly before warm readiness resumes playback.

• Overlay — Playlist Advance: The visible overlay now stays interactive when mpv advances to the next playlist item, including when the next episode loads after the warm transition delay.

• Overlay — Windows: Fixed shaky subtitle-bar hover and click behavior when a video connects to an already-running background SubMiner instance.

• Stats — AniList Search: Manual AniList linking from the stats anime page now searches only the anime title, dropping any generated "Season N" suffix that was causing failed lookups.

• Updates — Linux: Improved Linux update reliability for managed support assets.

  • Updates now correctly install and refresh both the launcher runtime plugin copy and the rofi theme alongside AppImage and launcher updates.
  • Support-asset refreshes no longer touch unrelated SubMiner data directories, and plugin copies are staged safely before replacing the live runtime plugin.
  • Fresh installs now auto-install the managed runtime plugin and rofi theme from the bundled app on first launcher playback if either asset is missing.

Docs

• Linux Updates: Documented how Linux update flows manage the launcher runtime plugin and rofi theme, and that the first launcher playback auto-installs any missing managed support assets from the bundled app.

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.