v1.4.0

• feat: adding Homescreen 2.0 Banner
• feat: add classify.is_transport_failure for the crash channel, sharing the unreachable-server tables
• feat: add MegakinoUnavailable so routes classify by type instead of exception class names
• feat: add a comic library with reader for all common archive formats
• feat: index CBZ, CBT, CB7, CBR, CBA and PDF comics grouped into series and issues
• feat: read series, issue number and credits from ComicInfo.xml, fall back to the filename
• feat: add a comic reader with single and double-page spreads, zoom and fit modes
• feat: queue a cover for every issue, series covers first
• feat: give every comic its own downscaled cover, prepared visibly in the background
• feat: extract a single page from CBR/CBA instead of repacking the whole archive
• feat: downscale covers to 640px WebP (1.5 MB page -> 7 KB cover)
• feat: repack CBR/CBA into a cached CBZ, never touching the original file
• feat: cache comic covers on disk and drop cache entries when the source is gone
• feat: add optional ComicVine enrichment, off by default and rate-limited below the API cap
• feat: add a series/single-issue switch to the comic shelf
• feat: wire comic_auto_prepare_all so it actually converts every issue
• feat: point at the automatic preparation setting from the reader
• feat: prepare comic covers in the background and show that it is happening
• feat: extract one cover per series after a scan instead of never starting
• feat: show preparation progress in the shelf header and on each card
• feat: add a comics settings section for covers, caches and diagnostics
• feat: add a setting for replacing originals after conversion, off and unwired
• feat: split the library into one shelf per media kind
• feat: add /library hub with per-kind tiles and live counters
• feat: add media_kinds column to custom_paths, configurable in settings
• feat: add library sub-menu to the sidebar, planned kinds shown disabled
• feat: let modules register a shelf via register_thirdparty(section="library")
• feat: TMDB backdrop as the title window's header image (in Modal / Beta)
• feat: changes on Start Page 2, Hover Information, module changes with TMDB, integration of OpenSubtitles (free API Key needed)
• feat: add flag.integrations.mediaplayer as its own data point, separate from mediascan
• feat: add telemetry/classify.py as the single place cancellations and unreachable-server errors are classified
• feat: wire up the flag./detail. data points that were registered but never emitted
• feat: let build_play_event emit syncplay.room_content under its own consent toggle
• feat: make the devInfo feature-usage dashboard registry-driven so unwired keys are visible
• feat: jellyfin specific settings added, also some fixes in other settings
• feat: optional absolute episode numbering from the "[Episode NNN]" title marker (aniworld)
• feat: library => read PDF and EPUB in an overlay instead of a browser tab
• feat: adding more library functions and fix: one progress bar for single-file jobs, working accent hex input, no search history on load
• feat: Web Player Overhaul with more options, styles, etc. Also some bug fixes
• fix: some fixed in ebook library
• fix: stop reporting yt-dlp hoster errors as MediaForge crashes
• fix: keep network transport failures out of the telemetry crash channel
• fix: answer 502 instead of 500 in /api/episodes and /api/providers when megakino.to is unavailable
• fix: stop filing telemetry crash reports for megakino.to outages on the remaining two routes
• fix: answer 502 instead of 500 when megakino.to returns an unusable response
• fix: stop filing a telemetry crash report for every megakino.to outage
• fix: handle a truncated JSON body in /api/seasons, which had no upstream branch at all
• fix: for megakino => guard against list-typed API fields in parse_meta
• fix: accept a JSON array in megakino.to fields documented as plain text
• fix: stop one malformed megakino.to record from failing the whole /api/series response
• fix: fixing language
• fix: use a comics-specific translation for "Series" so German reads Reihen, not Serien
• fix: accept kind="comic" for reading bookmarks (was collapsed onto epub)
• fix: group comics by folder and recognise the numbering styles real libraries use
• fix: treat the parent folder as the series name, filename only for number and title
• fix: accept an underscore or dot before a bare issue number
• fix: poll the preparation status immediately instead of 2.5s late
• fix: show the preparing spinner in the single-issue view too
• fix: read a trailing "- 0001" as the issue number instead of a story title
• fix: read a leading number when the title carries its own dash
• fix: decode percent-escaped characters in filenames (H%f6lle -> Hölle)
• fix: take the year out of brackets that also name a publisher
• fix: detect bsdtar when it is installed as "tar", as on Windows 10+ and macOS
• fix: make the whole poster card clickable on the comic and book shelves
• fix: add keyboard activation and ARIA state to poster cards
• fix: prepare comic covers on shelf load, not only during a scan
• fix: queue cover preparation from /api/library?kind=comic so an already scanned library gets covers at all
• fix: read the group preference lazily — calling into library_core.js at parse time aborted the page module and left LIB_KIND undefined
• fix: backdrop and text fix in modal
• fix: home panel storage view fix for Unix and Docker
• fix: home panel hidden queue rows will counts visible only
• fix: assign MEDIA_STATS_ENABLED in its own settings block (was a 500 on probe-worker saves)
• fix: cockpit storage/limits, mobile heading overflow, empty hover drawer, calendar release dates and series detection
• fix: queue keep the home page run strip live
• fix: restore the default home-feed row order and record why the personal rows lead
• fix: style the shared Start Page groups in the home page modal, which does not load settings_rows.css
• fix: never report user-initiated cancellations as crashes or errors
• fix: keep the console silent while the devInfo server is offline or in maintenance
• fix: honour a download cancel in the CLI captcha solver instead of holding the browser open
• fix: reset the push-notification fan-out scope in a finally block
• fix: report flag.self_update after the restart so it survives the process exit
• fix: only arm the v1 API telemetry throttle when an event was actually sent
• fix: some fixes in start page order
• fix: repair Kindle markup, page geometry, chapters and typography
• fix: change aniworld episode changer to correct season, but leave number absolute
• fix: some fixes and addings
• fix: some fixes in book reader
• fix: settings => put Layout first on the Start Page tab and style its subheadings
• fix: some fixes in module management, startpage 2 and some more
• fix: Modules => make CineInfo sources a first-class module capability
• fix: Web Player => a double tap must not leave fullscreen
• fix: Fix a crash when uninstalling a module (also causing an lint error)
• fix: some bug fixes in hanime style, seerr poster responsive, etc.
• fix: fix hanime issues
• fix: hanime search backend moved, and unblock its poster CDN
• fix: sync the German catalogue and wrap the hardcoded strings
• fix: a successful single-episode retry is no longer booked as failed
• fix: harden the transcoder, the workers and numeric settings
• fix: vendor hls.js instead of loading it from a CDN
• fix: watchdog no longer aborts long downloads
• fix: validate library paths before queueing an upscale
• fix: encoding/upscaling no longer deletes the original before the move
• fix: upscale and encoding queue doesnt run at the same time anymore
• refactor: generalise _genres_str into a shared _text coercion helper
• refactor: drop the comic_auto_covers toggle, covers are never optional
• refactor: split library.js/.css into core + video + books modules
• perf: parse the megakino API response once instead of decoding the body twice
• perf: omit empty fields from cached issue rows
• perf: swap in late covers in place instead of repainting the grid
• perf: skip the ffprobe pass on book-only paths and the book pass on video-only ones
• perf: drop the other kind's payload from /api/library responses
• perf: cache the telemetry consent/enabled_keys read instead of hitting SQLite per event
• perf: move SyncPlay session telemetry out of the room and registry locks
• perf: bound the image proxy and collapse concurrent fetches
• perf: pause polling in hidden tabs, add a queue badge endpoint
• perf: SQLite pragmas, batched calendar writes and the missing indexes
• chore: uv lock for py7zr
• chore: drop the orphaned German msgid left behind by the start page rewording
• chore: fix .dockerignore, drop dead folders, complete the docs
• chore: add .gitattributes to fix line-ending noise
• docs: describe all three classification consumers in classify.py's module docstring
• docs: describe the folder-per-series layout in the README and the empty state
• docs: describe the comic library in the README
• docs: describe the per-media-kind libraries in the README
• docs: Update Readme and pyproject.toml
• docs: record that third-party modules never get a telemetry interface
• docs: document what telemetry never reports in PRIVACY.md and README
• docs: state the PR title and language rules in the PR template
• style: theme tokens for status colours, checkbox class, missing breakpoints
• test: guard the page-module/core load-order contract for all three shelves
• test: cover crash-safe publishing, hanime cards and the retry plan
• test: add a pytest suite and wire it into CI
• build: add py7zr for .cb7 and libarchive-tools to the Docker image for .cbr
• ci: change Triage for modules
• ci: consolidate workflows and cut the build minutes
• ci: pin third-party actions to SHAs and harden the workflows
• security: keep response content out of the megakino error message, size and position only
• security: bound the depth of the megakino.to text coercion against hostile nesting
• security: strip userinfo credentials from URLs before they can reach a telemetry payload
• security: withhold direct_link.urls and syncplay.room_content when the origin provider cannot be determined
• security: proxy awareness, cross-site guard, SyncPlay guest scope
• security: close the SSRF gaps in the two proxies
• security: one shared, quote-safe HTML escaper for the whole frontend
• security: admin-gate the integration settings and stop returning secrets
• security: always verify TLS certificates, drop the first-party exemption