v1.4.1

Fixed

• Mirror results in distro ranking display in real time again
• Encoding parameters corrected for subprocess calls; temp files cleaned up reliably
• Unused parameters removed from _on_ranking_done

Changed

• collections.abc imports modernized; urllib.parse.unquote applied where appropriate
• Code formatted with ruff

v1.4.0

Added

• Threads control in Arch mirrors options: --threads N for parallel mirror
  ranking (reflector 2023+); persisted in settings.conf
• Distro mirrors tab now groups entries into Distributions and
  Third-party repositories sections

v1.3.0

Fixed

• Worldwide selection now correctly means "no country filter" — previously
  greyed-out but still-checked countries were silently passed to reflector
• Worldwide persisted in settings.conf and restored on next launch
• Country grid filled column-by-column so each column reads alphabetically
  top-to-bottom
• Country names with accented characters sort correctly
  (Réunion before Romania/Russia, Türkiye in correct T-position)
• Distro mirror speed measurement now starts after the first response chunk,
  excluding DNS, TLS handshake, and TTFB — measures pure download throughput
• X-button unblocked after reflector exits with an error
• Removed debug log output left in production code
• assert process.stderr is not None replaced with RuntimeError
  (assertions are disabled by python -O)
• Double-slash in speed-test URLs for empty test_repo (RebornOS, Arch4edu)

Optimised

• Test download size 200 KB → 500 KB; chunk size 8 KB → 64 KB for more
  stable throughput readings on fast mirrors
• Removed dead code: excluded_countries, _diff_text, CountryDetectionResult.name
• Commented-server and ISO-2 code regex patterns compiled once at module level
• Paths in pkexec bash scripts quoted with shlex.quote
• future.result() in ranker wrapped in try/except
• refract-rank: mirror testing now concurrent (ThreadPoolExecutor)

v1.1.1

Added

• Settings persistence — options are saved to ~/.config/refract/settings.conf
  on every OK click and restored on next launch
• Sync recency control in Arch mirrors options: Max age (h) (--age N)
  or Latest synced (--latest N), mutually exclusive; defaults to Max age 24 h
• Global config /etc/refract.conf — admins can set system-wide defaults via
  the new Save as global default button (requires root via pkexec)

Fixed

• Countries are now displayed in alphabetical order
• Multi-country ranking: default mode uses --age N + --number N so mirrors
  from all selected countries are considered (previously --latest N could
  exclude entire countries by filling the pool from the most active ones)
• Selecting Worldwide now unchecks all individual countries and vice versa

Changed

• First-launch bootstrap reads the first available config in order:
  /etc/refract.conf → /etc/reflector-simple.conf →
  /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf → built-in defaults;
  result is written to ~/.config/refract/settings.conf immediately so
  external configs are never read again

v0.8.3

• GUI tool for ranking pacman mirrors on Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions
• Built-in speed-testing engine for distro-specific mirrors: CachyOS
  (x86_64 / v3 / v4), EndeavourOS, Artix, BlackArch, RebornOS, ArcoLinux
• Third-party repo mirror support: Chaotic-AUR, Arch Linux CN, Arch4edu
• Live progress with per-mirror speed display
• Country filter for both Arch and distro mirrors
• Auto-detection of the current distro for checkbox pre-selection
• Preview + unified diff before saving
• Single pkexec call for all mirrorlist files