Honya v1.4.2

Honya v1.4.2

This release focuses on making Honya's reading experience more reliable and improving how app updates and chapter content are handled.

✨ What's New

• Text-to-Speech support

  • Listen to chapters directly from the reader.
  • Added chapter text chunking for smoother speech playback.
  • Added playback controls for listening, pausing, resuming, and stopping.

• Improved app update system

  • More reliable detection of available app updates.
  • Improved handling of installed update versions so an already-installed version is not incorrectly shown as available.
  • Added background update checking so Honya can check for new releases without requiring the app to remain open.
  • Improved update state handling and post-update reconciliation.

• Cleaner chapter text

  • Improved chapter text sanitization and cleanup.
  • Removes unwanted undefined content and other malformed text before displaying or processing chapters.

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

• Improved offline behavior when working with downloaded/local chapter content.
• Improved reliability of background update handling.
• Improved text processing for chapters used by both the reader and Text-to-Speech.
• Added regression tests for chapter text cleaning and TTS text chunking.
• Various stability and reliability improvements across the reader and update systems.

📦 Update Notes

Existing Honya users can update normally. Your library, downloads, repositories, settings, and other stored data are preserved.

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Honya v1.4.2
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