Harbor v1.0.1 Beta

Harbor v1.0.1 Beta

This release adds a redesigned Season Explorer with TVDB anime support, improved split-cour anime tracking, the "More Like This" end-screen player, experimental external mpv playback and Nuvio Cloud integration, custom library groups, episode and movie release countdowns, and improvements to playback reliability, browsing performance, PublicMetaDB, games, and reader views.

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☁️ Nuvio Cloud & Accounts (Experimental)

• Nuvio Cloud Integration: Added Nuvio as an account provider for syncing your library, watch progress, profiles, and addons. Connect and switch between Stremio and Nuvio under Settings → Account → Account provider (@glpc-blaze).
• Cloud Profiles & PIN Protection: Added support for up to six Nuvio cloud profiles with server-side PIN protection and per-profile Continue Watching. Manage profiles under Settings → Account → Profiles (@glpc-blaze).
• Profile Mapping & Synced Addons: Choose which Nuvio profile slot syncs with your Harbor profile and view its synced addons under Settings → Account → Nuvio → Profile mapping / Synced addons, available when Nuvio is selected (@glpc-blaze).
• Secondary Profile Permissions: Added controls for allowing secondary profiles to manage accounts, switch providers, add profiles, and configure startup preferences. Configure these from the primary profile under Settings → Account → Profiles → Privileges for secondary profiles (@glpc-blaze).
• Account-Isolated Progress & Libraries: Improved isolation of Continue Watching, resume points, watched status, libraries, and profile PINs across accounts and profiles, while preserving library changes made during synchronization (@glpc-blaze).
• Safer Account Switching: Prevented stale background sync requests from overwriting the active account's watchlist or discarding cached playback progress after switching accounts (@glpc-blaze, @Thunderhawkk).
• Account Settings Accessibility: Kept account-provider controls reachable in Settings and clearly marked Nuvio as experimental (@Thunderhawkk).

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📺 Season Explorer & TVDB

• Redesigned Season Explorer: Overhauled Season Explorer with larger, consistently sized posters, centered captions, hover-scrolling for long titles, and hover-only carousel navigation arrows (@comet776).
• TVDB Anime Season Explorer: Added TVDB Season Explorer support to anime overview pages, unifying season browsing across anime and regular TV series (@comet776).
• Season Number Pills & English Names: Added clear season number badges and standardized English season titles while preserving localized synopses (@comet776).
• Multi-Tier Artwork Fallbacks: Season artwork now gracefully falls back from TVDB to TMDB, and finally to the main show poster if season art is missing or fails to load (@comet776).
• Localized Season Synopses: Season descriptions now follow your chosen metadata language, cleanly falling back to English when untranslated (@comet776).
• Performance & Layout Optimization: Reduced layout overhead and eliminated unnecessary re-renders when browsing and switching seasons (@comet776).
• Season Explorer Setting: The season shelf is on by default and can be turned off under Settings → Library → Metadata → Episode order → Season explorer. Anime uses Harbor's TVDB service without a key, while regular shows use your TVDB key or TMDB metadata (@comet776).
• Streaming Links Beside the Overview: Moved watch-provider and streaming links beside the overview and awards on wide detail layouts (@comet776).

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🎌 Anime & Split-Cour Tracking

• Cross-Cour Navigation: Fixed previous and next episode buttons failing to navigate across sequel anime cours (@comet776).
• Multi-Episode ONAs as Seasons: Classified multi-episode ONAs properly as full seasons, fixing incorrect episode titles and broken special thumbnails (@comet776).
• Split-Cour Continue Watching: Preserved direct episode mappings for split-cour anime in Continue Watching so progress transitions smoothly (@comet776).
• Batch Mark Watched Across Cours: Marking an episode as watched now correctly marks all prior episodes up to that point, even across split cours (@comet776).
• AniList Rate-Limit Resilience: Prevented AniList API rate limits from blocking or delaying anime detail pages (@comet776).
• Direct Sequel Mapping: Prioritized direct addon mappings for sequel episodes, with automatic retries for missing Kitsu entries (@comet776).
• More Reliable Anime Resume & Stream Matching: Preserved anime identity when resuming from Continue Watching and improved stream matching to reject releases from the wrong season (@Thunderhawkk).
• Verified Continue Watching Episodes: Anime Continue Watching cards retain exact add-on entry IDs and provider episode mappings, showing the correct season and episode across desktop, Big Picture, and mobile (@comet776).
• Scoped Sequel Hiding: Hiding an episode now applies only to the matching sequel entry, so the same episode number in another cour stays visible (@Thunderhawkk).
• Multi-Episode & Sequel Navigation: Fixed next-episode navigation for anime files that contain multiple episodes and preserved sequel identity when switching to local or downloaded episodes (@Thunderhawkk).
• Simplified Anime Search: Removed the separate "Sequels & Prequels" search row so anime results appear without waiting on extra AniList requests (@comet776).

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🎬 Video Player & Playback

• "More Like This" End Screen: When you reach the end of a movie or episode—or during a customizable lead time before it finishes—a smart recommendation screen appears with suggested titles based on TMDB and Cinemeta (@Thunderhawkk).
  • Corner Mini-Player: While browsing suggestions before a title concludes, your current video shrinks into a rounded corner mini-player with compact play, pause, progress, and volume controls so playback is never interrupted.
  • Big Picture & Controller Navigation: Full D-pad and keyboard navigation support across cards, preview actions, mini-player controls, and "Keep Watching / Close" actions.
  • Customizable Countdown & Timing: Configure custom lead times (up to 30 minutes, with convenient presets like 5 minutes), countdown rings, and default countdown actions under Settings → Player & quality → Up next.
• Play in Your Own MPV (Experimental): You can now launch and watch video streams directly inside your system's standalone mpv player (Settings → Player & quality → Engine → External player). Harbor cleanly preserves pause states, track selections, resume checkpoints, and episode titles (@momo-labsz).
• Linux Picture-in-Picture (PiP): Fixed detached Picture-in-Picture window lifecycle and video restoration specifically for Linux desktop environments (@pengunnn).
• Consistent Sources Between Episodes: Improved next-episode playback and queue transitions to retain your selected addon, release group, quality, and dub, including when preferred addons respond late (@Thunderhawkk).
• Smoother Stream Recovery: Fixed playback restart loops and improved recovery to preserve your position when a stream unexpectedly stops (@Thunderhawkk).
• Audio Recovery: Improved audio-device recovery so it completes before playback resumes (@Thunderhawkk).
• Faster Seek-Bar Previews: Reduced thumbnail preview latency, prioritized the latest hover position, and kept nearby cached previews visible while new frames load (@Thunderhawkk).
• Smoother Minimize & Restore: Preserved the native video surface while minimized to reduce playback stutters and unnecessary video-output resets (@Thunderhawkk).
• Improved End-Screen Recommendations: Added anime recommendations after the last aired episode, preloaded suggestions and artwork before entering the mini-player, and added English fallbacks for missing recommendation descriptions (@Thunderhawkk).
• Compact Content Advisories: Restored the compact advisory design with severity bars, badges, and animations, plus a live settings preview under Settings → Player layout → While you watch (@Thunderhawkk).
• Player Interface Polish: Fixed scrollbar flicker in the "About this title" dialog and removed an unwanted focus outline around the playback stage (@Thunderhawkk).
• Lower Anime4K Indicator Overhead: Reduced background polling when the Anime4K badge is hidden (@Thunderhawkk).
• Better Intro Detection: Upgraded TheIntroDB integration to its v4 API and now sends episode duration, improving intro and recap matching (@Thunderhawkk).
• Chapter Marks Toggle: Added a persistent "Show chapter marks on seekbar" toggle to the player's Chapters menu. The Chapters button now starts hidden in both player layouts and can be re-enabled from Settings → Player layout (@Thunderhawkk).

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📅 Episodes & Release Dates

• Episode Release Countdowns: Added live countdowns for upcoming episodes across episode lists, grids, the player, and Big Picture views (@Thunderhawkk).
• Cinema & Digital Release Dates: Added separate movie countdowns for theatrical and digital releases, using regional dates with clearly labeled fallback countries (@Thunderhawkk).
• Episode Strip Previews: Added hover previews to the episode strip, with consistent air dates, release countdowns, description settings, and visible download controls (@Thunderhawkk).

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📂 Library & Custom Groups

• Custom Library Groups: Create and manage groups with editable names, optional artwork, and linked MDBList or Trakt lists under Library → My Groups (@Thunderhawkk).
• Group Browsing & Home Pinning: Added paginated list browsing, refresh and ordering controls, and the ability to pin groups to Home. Manage pinned group names, placement, and visibility through Customize Home (@Thunderhawkk).
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Harbor Patch Notes

🎵 Music & Spotify Integration

• Spotify Playback Pairing: Seamlessly pair Spotify playback while allowing browsing directly through the listener's own application.
• Audio Visualizer & Metering: Real-time Spotify audio output metering integrated into the visualizer, signal levels, and Miku companion. The meter is now aligned with the audible clock and volume slider.
• Audio Quality Indicator: Real-time badge reporting current Spotify streaming quality.
• Playlist Management:
  • Pin favorite playlists to the Home screen and open them directly from the pinned row.
  • Added playlist details editor dialog for Harbor and Spotify.
  • Expanded add-to-playlist dialog into a spacious cover grid.
  • Added context menus across playlists ("Jump back in", "Made for you", "Recents", and track actions).
  • Preserved tracklist scroll position when navigating playlists with over 100 songs.
• Queue & Playback Improvements:
  • Faster transition times when advancing to queued tracks.
  • Resilient resume checkpoints that remember the correct track even after queue modifications or application restarts.
  • Retained Previous and Next track controls on the collapsed player bar.
  • Added direct audio settings shortcut to the Music page toolbar.

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🎬 Video Player & Playback

• Chapter Navigation & Timeline Markers: Added dedicated chapter selection menus and timeline markers to desktop playback.
• Precise A/B Looping: Exact position tracking when marking and toggling A/B loop points.
• Audio Device Stability:
  • Guarded audio output reloads against background device-list churn and session adoptions.
  • Deferred audio recovery until playback actively resumes.
  • Re-synchronized Dynamic Audio Normalizer (dynaudnorm) cleanly after device reloads.
• Live Broadcast Handling: Distinctly separates indexed media files from live broadcasts, carrying the live stream flag across in-place stream switches.
• Scrubber Hover Preview: Fixed the timeline hover thumbnail preview from sticking after cursor exit.
• Cast Tab Isolation: Prevented opening the Cast library panel from overwriting the user's active library tab.

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🎌 Anime & Metadata

• Split-Cour & Sequel Resolution:
  • Automatically resolves aired sequel cours in Continue Watching and routes progress to the correct airing season across Simkl, AniList, and MyAnimeList.
  • Added an option to prioritize IMDb IDs when matching anime entries.
  • Prevents unaired sequel-cour episodes from borrowing metadata from preceding seasons.
  • Resolves shared IMDb and TMDB identifiers to their first cour.
• Titles & Language Preferences:
  • Automatically fills missing episode titles using MyAnimeList and resolves Romaji titles from Kitsu.
  • Strictly preserves user-configured episode title language preferences over foreign scripts.
• Episode Search & Navigation:
  • Search TMDB episode titles across all seasons directly from the detail view.
  • Restores the viewed season after navigating episodes.
  • Replaced cached placeholder episode records with real aired metadata.
• Anime4K Pipeline: Complete, verifiable Anime4K shader chain with automatic recovery for failed probes.
• Calendar & Franchise Deduplication: Dropped duplicate rows and merged seasons from the Release Calendar while preserving locally tracked anime.

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🔄 Tracking & Scrobbling (PublicMetaDB, AniList, MAL, Simkl, Trakt)

• PublicMetaDB (PMDB) Integration:
  • Full integration of PublicMetaDB watchlist into the Overview page and Library.
  • Integrated PMDB watch history with the Home screen's "Hide Watched" filter.
  • Added durable resume outbox to guarantee watch state is preserved across app closures.
  • Added PMDB status badge to Continue Watching cards.
  • Added client-side watch history filtering and anime episode mapping.
• Rewatch Counting:
  • Added dedicated rewatch sync toggles for AniList and MyAnimeList (MAL).
  • Accurately tracks completed rewatches without counting first-watch series finales as rewatches.
• Custom Lists & Privacy: Full support for AniList custom lists and private entries in the Library and anime rows.
• Tracker Reliability:
  • Unified tracker sessions across profiles while preserving individual profile settings.
  • Automatically retries queued scrobbles without waiting for an application restart.
  • Fixed Trakt token refresh behind proxy configurations.
  • Fixed Simkl queue replays inadvertently re-marking unmarked items.

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🖥️ Media Servers (Jellyfin, Emby, Plex)

• Server Collections: Natively browse media server collections directly within Harbor.
• Custom Sync Scheduling: Configurable sync refresh intervals in minutes, hours, days, or weeks (including a daily sync preset).
• Sync & Library Performance:
  • Parallelized Jellyfin sync page requests with expanded batch sizes for faster library synchronization.
  • Progressive library grid and poster rendering, preventing UI flicker or empty collections during active syncs.
  • Prioritizes server-provided posters with automatic fallback to TMDB.
  • Added dismiss option for the "Titles Need Review" banner.
  • Hardened Authorization header authentication and connection failure reporting.

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☁️ TorBox & Cloud Library

• Private Cloud Playback: Added direct browsing and playback for personal TorBox cloud storage.
• Download Indicators: Added active playback spinner for single-file TorBox downloads.
• Cleanup: Removed deprecated background queries for retired TorBox and local file addons.

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📖 Manga & Extensions

• Extensions Layout: Manga extensions now match the plugins tab layout and maintain search order.
• Source Filtering: Persisted chapter source filters with smart default to the owning source.
• Clean Title Matching: Stripped redundant color-edition tags from manga titles for cleaner tracking and Discord presence.
• Favorite Resolution: Automatically re-resolves stale favorite entries to ensure mismatched chapters never open.

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💬 Subtitles & Addons

• Subtitle Priority & Addons:
  • Prevented autoloaded external subtitles from overriding user-selected embedded subtitle tracks.
  • Subtitles can now be served directly from trusted local addons.
  • Preserved explicit manual "Subtitles Off" preferences when translating-addons finish processing.
  • Fixed long generated translation subtitle offers being omitted from addon results.
• Addon Connectivity: Added browser fallback when an external addon setup page fails to connect.

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🏠 Home & UI Experience

• Hide Watched in Featured Hero: Option to hide watched titles from the featured Hero banner, with seamless same-row backfilling.
• Hero Trailer Playback: Restored reliable autoplay for video and audio trailers across Hero views, along with customizable trailer resolution settings.
• Search Usability:
  • Restores search result scroll position when returning from item detail views.
  • Retains multi-source AIOMetadata results during catalog and group merges.
• Continue Watching Formatting: Normalized Continue Watching episode labels to standard S# E# format.
• Responsive Menus: Dynamically sized context menus to match their longest option cleanly.
• Letterboxd: Prevented friend review requests from opening unnecessary source-check windows.

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🎮 Discord Rich Presence

• Music Presence: Real-time Discord presence updates without duplicate credits; automatically hides presence shortly after pausing.
• Anime & Episode Details: Displays actual episode titles and preferred localized anime titles in rich presence.
• Accurate Timestamps: Corrected playback timeline timestamps when resuming or seeking.
• Manga Presence: Shows real manga cover art for local and extension sources, with improved title disambiguation.
• Community Endpoints: Updated rich presence links to point to official Harbor community base URLs.

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⚙️ Installer & Platform Stability

• Harbor Shipyard:
  • Re-architected setup into "Harbor Shipyard", enabling optional feature selection during installation.
  • Added ability to modify installed components directly from Settings.
  • Enlarged and streamlined the installer component selection area.
  • Rotated application update signing infrastructure to a modern Minisign key.
• macOS:
  • Fixed application launch crash by properly bundling the staged libmpv closure and verifying release builds.
  • Updated macOS FFmpeg/FFprobe download logic to use the Evermeet info API.
• Linux: Restored native file dialog support for restoring .harbx backup archives, and resolved build dependencies for extension tools.

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🤝 Contributors & Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to all the contributors who helped build, test, and improve Harbor in this release cycle:

• @Thunderhawkk
• @comet776
• @Quantumishard
• @3-pr
• @Justsnoopy30
• @jton3

Your contributions, bug reports, and feedback make Harbor better with every release!

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nanojson jar for Harbor extension layer (capstan) builds.

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