v1.8.4

Added

• GET /api/reader/state reports updatedAt per issue — when it was last read.
  The mobile apps date the read rows on an arc's spine with it.

v1.8.3

Added

• Reading-list progress endpoint (GET /api/reader/lists-progress): how far
  through each list you are, and the next issue to open. Core owns the lists
  but never reads reader tables, so the join lives here. Drives the mobile
  apps' arcs screens.

v1.8.2

Fixed

• Cover pre-render stays in the background. At boot it ran five shelf
  queries for every user before rendering, which on an install with many
  users stalled the server for over ten seconds, then rendered at full
  speed. It now looks at the ten most recently active readers, one at a
  time, and renders a cover every quarter second.

v1.8.1

Fixed

• Shelf covers are pre-rendered first. The boot catch-up rendered the
  newest files' covers, which is not what the Home shelves show. Each
  user's Continue, Next up, New, Recently finished and Start new items now
  come first, then the newest files.

v1.8.0

Changed

• Covers and resized pages survive a restart. Every processed page
  variant (thumbnails, phone-sized pages, trimmed pages) is now kept on disk
  under the data directory as well as in memory, so the first Home screen or
  library grid after a restart no longer reads thirty archives cold off the
  storage. Bounded to about twenty thousand files, oldest out first.
• Covers are rendered ahead of time. A new hourly job, Pre-render issue
  covers, makes the cover thumbnail for newly imported files, and a boot
  catch-up does the same for the newest few hundred, so a fresh download
  shows its cover on the shelves without anyone paying for the first render.

v1.7.1

Changed

• Go to series is now the series name in the reader top bar, not a separate
  button — clearer, and it drops a button icon that did not render. Clicking
  the series name jumps to its series page (fixing a history-handling race that
  could bounce you back). The home-rail right-click / long-press menu is
  unchanged.

v1.7.0

Added

• Go to series, without hunting for it. The reader now has a Go to
  series button in its top bar, so you can jump straight from the comic
  you are reading to its series page. On the home reading rails, right-click
  (or long-press on touch) a card for the same Go to series action —
  left-click still opens the reader, so the read-and-go path is unchanged.
  Previously the only routes to a series were the library grid and search.

v1.6.2

Changed

• Home rails coexist with other plugins. The reading rails now render into a
  self-owned wrapper inside the shared home slot instead of taking over the whole
  slot, so another plugin's home rails (e.g. audiobooks) can sit alongside them
  rather than being replaced. Reading rails stay on top; the layout is unchanged.

v1.6.1

Fixed

• Review mode + unsaved edits: pressing Space on a page with pending panel
  edits now saves that page first (which marks it reviewed and shares the
  human layout) instead of casting a "layout is correct" vote for the old
  layout the edit was replacing. A pending revert is likewise applied before
  the confirmation counts.

Changed

• Recomputes respect human edits: when a panel layout is recomputed (engine
  upgrade, model change, cache miss), pages with hand-corrected layouts are no
  longer re-detected — the edit is used directly, and is re-shared to the
  community cache so corrections made before sharing was enabled get
  back-filled.

Added

• Panel studio — layout database browser: a new "Database" button in the
  studio opens a read-only browser over every panel layout stored on the
  server, with summary counts, filter chips (ML / built-in / edited /
  reviewed / page mode), text search, and paging. Clicking a row jumps the
  studio straight to that issue and page — including issues other than the
  one currently open.

v1.6.0

Added

• Shared panel cache (Settings → Library, on by default): panel
  layouts are looked up from a community cache before detecting — so a page
  detected or hand-corrected on any server gives you instant guided view —
  and your own detections and corrections are contributed back (only
  ML-detected layouts and hand-corrections are shared — the built-in
  detector's output stays local). Only panel
  rectangles and a hash of the page's image bytes are sent; never image data
  or filenames. Hand-corrections outrank model output everywhere; model
  layouts are only shared once two servers independently corroborate them.
  Turn the toggle off to opt out entirely (detection then runs locally only).
  Confirming a page in the studio's review mode also counts as a vote of
  confidence on the shared layout (retracting the review retracts the vote);
  community layouts that collect enough rejections stop being served.
• Panel studio: users with the new reader.panels.edit permission
  (admin tier by default) get an "Edit panel layout" action on issue rows
  that opens a full-issue editor — a page-thumbnail rail beside an editable
  layout view. Drag corners (slanted panels supported) or whole panels,
  add/delete panels, reorder the reading sequence, force a page to read
  whole, or revert pages to automatic detection; staged edits across any
  number of pages commit with one Save. Corrections are saved per file,
  apply to everyone on the server, beat any detector's output, and survive
  model upgrades.
• Guided panel view: read a page panel by panel — the reader detects the
  panel layout server-side (computed once per issue, cached) and the g key
  or the new toolbar button steps through panels with an animated camera,
  and a spotlight dims everything outside the current panel. While an issue's
  layout is being detected the reader shows live page-by-page progress.
  Right-to-left series tour panels in manga order. Pages without a confident
  layout stay whole pages.
• ML panel detection downloads itself: when the ML toggle is on and no
  model is installed, the reader fetches the current panel model from the
  BackIssue CDN on startup (verified by checksum before it's ever loaded)
  and activates it without a restart. A model you placed by hand is never
  replaced; a custom readerPanelModel path disables auto-management.
• ML panel detection (optional): drop a panel-detection model at
  <data dir>/models/panels.onnx (or set readerPanelModel to its path) and
  panel layouts come from a neural detector that handles black gutters,
  borderless cartoon panels, and low-contrast layouts the built-in detector
  can't — in testing it produced guided layouts on 91% of pages vs 34% for
  the classical detector. Without the model (or the optional
  onnxruntime-node dependency) the classical detector keeps working
  unchanged, and a Settings → Library toggle switches between the ML and
  built-in detectors at any time. Turning the model on or off recomputes
  each issue's layout once.