https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYN9WivpQ6M [Embed]
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v590/Hydrus.Network.590.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v590/Hydrus.Network.590.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v590/Hydrus.Network.590.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.zst: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v590/Hydrus.Network.590.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.zst

I had a pretty good week and have a bunch of quality of life improvements to roll out.

Full changelog: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/changelog.html

highlights

The 'check now' button in 'edit subscriptions' and 'edit subscription' is now more intelligent and handles pause status. It'll ask you about paused subscriptions and queries, and it better examines and navigates what you can and will be resurrecting.

If you shrink the search page's 'preview' window down to 0 pixel size, it now recognises it is hidden and will no longer load videos and stuff in the background!

In the parsing system, the 'character set' choice for a 'String Match' now includes the quick-select options for hexadecimal and base64 chars.

When hitting share->copy hashes on a thumbnail, the program now loads up the md5, sha1, and sha512 hashes into the menu labels, so you can now verify md5s or whatever at a glance.

I wrote a thing for API devs and any other advanced users interested in hydrus content updates about how the Current Deleted Pending Petitioned model works in hydrus: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/developer_api.html#CDPP . I went into very specific detail because when talking about this with a user the other day, I couldn't remember it perfectly myself.

Lastly, I am happy to say that I succeeded in doing, as I planned, some meaty background work. The 'Metadata Conditional' object, which does 'does this file have x property, yes/no?', and which I have been thinking about for a couple years, got its first version, and it went a lot better and simpler than I expected. The whole thing plugs into the existing system predicate system and will share much edit UI with it. The MC will be a key lego brick in the development of the duplicate auto-resolution system, and most of the comparison logic for the first version is essentially done now. I pretty much just have to write the database tables and maintenance daemon, and then some UI, so fingers crossed it won't be too long before I am rolling it out for advanced users to play with.

next week

I want to add local media file path fetching to the API and do a bit of API permissions cleanup.