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@Suryansh-Codes2209 Suryansh-Codes2209 released this 28 Jul 22:27
v1.3.0
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Learn about vigilant mode.

Book catalogs, BitTorrent, a reworked browser extension, and an engine that backs off on evidence instead of guesswork.

Added

  • Book catalog browsing (⇧⌘B) — search and browse Project Gutenberg (~75k public-domain titles) and the Internet Archive, then send a format straight to the queue. Any OPDS feed can be added under Settings › Catalogs, including your own Calibre server. Downloads are named Title - Author.epub, not the catalog's 2701.epub. DRM-wrapped, priced, and loan-only editions are shown but never fetched.
  • BitTorrent downloads — magnet links and .torrent files run in the same queue as everything else, with the same concurrency limit, pause/resume/cancel, and quiet-hours scheduling. Off by default; enabling it explains that BitTorrent uploads as well as downloads. Seeding is bounded (ratio 1.0 or 60 minutes by default). MacGet does not search for or index torrents.
  • The browser extension talks back — now on the Chrome Web Store. A real toolbar popup shows whether MacGet is actually reachable, plus recent activity, context-menu capture, a toolbar badge, and optional notifications.
  • Folder-grouped download list — downloads collapse into per-category folders that expand in place.
  • Live speed chart and chunk view in the inspector, so a stalled connection is visible rather than inferred.
  • Warm color theme and a new app icon, tuned for light and dark.

Changed

  • Connections open at full width immediately. The old adaptive probe started at 4 and kept each added connection only on a ≥15% throughput gain — but "no improvement" is the expected reading once the link is saturated, so it settled low precisely when the extra connections were free.
  • Backing off is now evidence-driven — the worker count halves after 4 no-progress attempts in 10s, and only while bytes are still flowing, which separates a hostile host from a dead local link.
  • Endgame chunk splitting — a freed worker splits the largest in-flight piece instead of idling, so the last slow chunk no longer sets the finish time.
  • Learned per-host caps expire after 7 days and can be cleared from Settings › Network.

Fixed

  • Media downloads from authenticated pages no longer 403. Cookies now go through a domain-scoped jar instead of a global Cookie header, which YouTube's CDN rejects.
  • A backgrounded extension worker no longer silently drops downloads started in a background tab.
  • Selected rows stay readable in light mode.
  • No more permanent repositioning timer on every page the extension visits.

First launch: this build is free and un-notarized — on first open, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway (one time). See the README's First launch on macOS section.

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