Nightly build

The Nightly channel: an automated build from the latest commit on main (9b4bbc5), rebuilt on every push. The Stable channel is the newest tagged release.

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Windows -- the .exe installer. It is unsigned, so SmartScreen may
warn on first run. Verify the download against SHA256SUMS.txt if you want to
confirm it wasn't tampered with in transit.

Linux -- the .AppImage, x86_64. chmod +x it and run it; it works on
Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+ and Arch. It needs webkit2gtk-4.1 present on the
system (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 on Ubuntu/Debian, webkit2gtk-4.1 on Arch) --
that one is not bundled. For a tray icon you also need a StatusNotifier host; on
GNOME that means the AppIndicator extension. Without one Karasu still runs and
closing the window quits instead of hiding.

Android -- the .apk, sideloaded. Take the _arm64 one; _universal
is the fallback for anything that refuses it (old 32-bit phones, emulators).
Both are signed with the project key, so installing over a previous release
keeps your data. The built-in updater covers desktop only -- on Android a new
version is installed the same way, over the top.

Karasu's built-in updater (About page, or automatic daily checks) verifies
updates against its own signing key regardless -- see latest.json for the
update manifest.

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Karasu 1.0.0

Karasu 1.0.0 is the first tagged release: a desktop and Android tracker built
exclusively for AniList, in the spirit of Taiga. It watches what you play or
read — the system's media sessions on Windows and Linux, player and browser
windows on Windows, and a Jellyfin server anywhere — parses the release name,
matches it against your list and scrobbles the progress, asking first when it
is not sure. Around that sit the list itself with offline editing and a sync
queue, a local library scanner that knows which episode you have on disk,
statistics and a year-in-review poster, AniList's forum and activity feed,
and on Android four home-screen widgets and background notifications that
run with the app closed.

This release also opens the Stable update channel: new installs follow it
by default, and the per-commit build lives on as Nightly for anyone who
wants to stay on the edge. Everything below is what changed on the way here,
grouped by what it means for you rather than by commit; the full record is
the commit log.

Fixed

• Account-free mode no longer wipes an entry when you edit one field of it.
  Every quick control — +1, the status dropdown, the score select, the bulk
  bar, the detail editor — sends only the field you changed, and the local list
  was filling in the rest with defaults: a +1 reset the status to Planning and
  zeroed the score, repeat count, volume count, notes and tags. Absent now means
  "leave it alone" for every field, as it always has for AniList.
• The sign-in merge no longer deletes local rows it never pushed. A local
  entry that agreed with AniList on status, progress and score was cleared
  without being sent — so notes, tags, rewatch count, volume count, privacy and
  both dates that existed only locally were lost, and the merge reported
  success. It now pushes whatever the AniList row is missing before clearing,
  and never overwrites a value AniList already has.
• A library scan can no longer wipe the index because the drive was offline.
  An unreachable folder produced zero files, and zero files were written down as
  the truth across all three library tables — reported as a successful scan, and
  surviving a restart. The folder is checked before anything is replaced, and
  finding nothing where something was indexed before keeps the index and says so.
• Queued offline edits can no longer land on a different account. Signing out
  left them in the database with no record of who made them, so the next account
  to sign in drained them onto its own list. Each queued edit is now stamped with
  the account that made it and is only ever replayed for that account — so
  signing back in still syncs what you were waiting on, and nobody else's client
  ever sees it.
• The JSON backup carries every list field again. It dropped advanced
  scores, custom-list membership and hidden-from-status-lists — the three that
  AniList writes wholesale with no undo, and so the three a backup is most
  needed for.
• Undo is no longer offered for a save it cannot reverse. It covered six
  fields and silently skipped the rest; it now reverses dates, privacy and
  hidden-from-status-lists too, and declines outright when a save touched custom
  lists or advanced scores.
• The score rescale reads the list as it is now, not as it was when you
  opened Settings — it could claim there was no list at all, and otherwise
  planned real score writes from a stale snapshot.
• A daily backup that was truncated (a full disk, a process killed mid-write) is
  checked and rewritten instead of occupying a retained slot unusably.
• Clicking the tag box no longer deletes a tag. A <label> around the tag
  editor made the first chip's remove button its target, so clicking the caption,
  the box's padding, or another chip's text removed the first tag silently.
• The list view's keyboard shortcuts no longer fire against the wrong entry.
  After one arrow press, Enter/Space/e/c/s acted on the highlighted row whatever
  else had focus — Space on a focused button wrote a +1 to your real list for a
  title you weren't looking at, and cancelled the button you actually pressed.
• Ctrl+K no longer opens the command palette behind an open editor and discards
  what you were typing; the season picker no longer lets / and Ctrl+1/2/3 fire
  underneath it.
• The Stable update channel no longer claims you are up to date. No stable
  release has ever been published, so its manifest 404s — and a manual check
  answered that with a green tick. It now says the channel has no release yet.
• An update check that fails no longer burns the once-a-day throttle, and the
  request has a timeout like every other one in the app.
• Switching update channel clears the download held for the old one, instead of
  offering to install a build the new channel does not have.
• On Linux, an update is only offered to a running AppImage. A self-built binary
  was offered one whose install would have overwritten the user's own build.
• Settings that failed to save no longer look saved. The content filter and
  every detection toggle were fire-and-forget: the switch moved, the write was
  dropped, and the choice quietly did not survive a restart. They put the
  control back and say what went wrong.
• The bell no longer answers a failed read with "You're all caught up."
• The media-session diagnostic distinguishes "no player is reporting anything"
  from "the system service could not be reached" — on Linux the second means
  detection is down, and it used to send you to debug your player.
• Turning airing notifications off no longer arms them: re-enabling months later
  used to replay every episode that had aired in between.
• A title hidden by the content filter can no longer surface in an on-hold
  reminder.
• "No such user" is no longer what a dropped connection looks like. Profiles,
  threads and character/staff pages rendered every failure as "this does not
  exist" — a definite claim about someone else's account, made because the
  network was down. A real not-found still reads as one; everything else says
  what failed and offers a retry.
• Relative timestamps ("3m", "5h", "2d") are translated. They were hardcoded
  English sitting directly beside a translated "now"; German now reads 3 Min. /
  3 h / 3 T.
• The franchise graph's status legend uses the right vocabulary — it said
  "Watching" over a manga graph whose own cards said "Reading".
• Jellyfin's sign-in errors are translated. "Wrong username or password" was
  composed in Rust and printed verbatim, so a German UI showed it in English.
• Five things that were reading or writing the wrong cache entry. The
  sidebar's Anime and Manga counts were blank for the whole of account-free mode
  and the franchise rail could not see a local entry (both keyed on undefined
  where every other screen keys on 0); the favourite heart on a character,
  staff or studio page patched a media entry keyed by a character id and never
  moved; liking a thread updated nothing on screen; and the thread author's
  avatar was always missing, because the query asked for a size the page does
  not read.
• Fetching media in bulk no longer fires every batch at once into a shared
  ~30/min budget.
• Portable mode's "replace the database that's already there" works. It called
  a copy that refuses an existing file, so it could only ever print a raw SQLite
  error — the only route to a portable copy was deleting the old file by hand.
• Two list screens opening at once no longer each send the whole offline queue,
  and a queued edit AniList refuses outright now says so instead of vanishing.
• The trailer card and the streaming-episode tiles no longer render as broken
  images. Their thumbnails live on hosts the content-security policy does not
  allow, and widening it to cover them would hand those hosts your IP and what
  you are looking at — so the cards are drawn instead, and still open the same
  link.
• The command palette's keyboard cursor follows the list. Twelve navigation
  items do not fit its box, so the last one was unreachable: arrowing down moved
  an invisible highlight and Enter opened something never on screen. It also
  announces the highlighted row to a screen reader now.
• On Linux, mpv's IPC socket defaults to your own runtime directory rather than
  a /tmp path shared with every other account on the machine.
• The detail page's play button appears as soon as a library scan finds the next
  episode, instead of waiting for something else to redraw the page.
• An episode that has just aired no longer shows an empty pair of brackets where
  its countdown was.
• The franchise graph says when it stopped expanding, instead of only when it ran
  out of room for nodes.
• The match picker shows "TV Short" rather than TV_SHORT.
• The context menu takes focus when it opens and announces itself as a menu, so
  it can be used from the keyboard at all.
• Grid-card buttons become visible when tabbed to, instead of being focusable
  while fully transparent.
• The review composer's body label no longer points at a field that isn't there
  in preview mode.
• An offline edit is no longer deleted when AniList answers with something
  recoverable — an expired token, a rate limit, a server fault. Only a payload
  AniList rejects on its own terms is dropped, and when one is, it says so.
• Repeated offline edits to the same entry collapse instead of replaying as one
  request each into a ~30/min budget.
• The sign-in merge refuses to run unless it has read both live AniList lists
  first. A failed read used to look like an empty account, at which point the
  local list was pushed over real progress.
• A merged entry whose write only reached the offline queue keeps its local row
  until the write lands.
• Enabling portable mode with a database already beside the executable asks
  which copy to keep instead of silently adopting the older one. Disabling says...