What's New in v1.3.5

✨ Features

YouTube Ingestion & Playback Suite
- Segment‑timestamp support and subtitle rendering for richer video study sessions.
- Offline video playback with automatic caching and a source‑mode switcher.
- Background video downloading using yt‑dlp and optional cookie‑based authentication.
- Simplified YouTube API (removed legacy cookie settings) and tighter UI integration with the Socratic Tutor.
4K Video Resolution – Settings now allow selecting video quality up to 4 K for a sharper learning experience.
Background Indexing Throttling – Indexer runs with adaptive throttling and higher priority for foreground tasks.
Quiz Enhancements – MCQ options now enforce uniform length and a new concurrency benchmark improves quiz generation speed.
YouTube‑Aware Syllabus Modal – The syllabus creator can map study chapters to YouTube video segments instead of PDF pages.
Socratic Rescue Redesign – New summary package layout and prompt preview for faster, clearer assistance.
UI Refresh – Updated border styles, input/button aesthetics, and refined prompt preview components.

Backend Queue & Retrieval
- More deterministic queue ordering and tighter bounds on syllabus prompts.
- Enhanced concurrency handling for retrieval operations.
- Optimized task‑retrieval queries by dropping unnecessary priority sorting.
PDF Processing
- Faster bookmark extraction via pdfcpu and prevention of duplicate uploads.
Frontend Stability
- Strengthened window security, more reactive settings UI, and smoother media cue handling.
Settings & Calendar
- Reorganized layout, removed deprecated custom URL fields, and simplified calendar sync logic.
- Improved external‑link handling with a robust openURLInBrowser fallback.
Build & Auth
- Build script now loads .env automatically and provides clearer cloud‑auth fallbacks.
API Consistency
- Renamed GetTaskContext to getTaskContext for naming uniformity.
Documentation
- README refreshed to clarify StudyLoop’s purpose and features.
- Added detailed guides for YouTube ingestion, PDF processing, and architectural decisions.
Syllabus Drafting
- Refined drafting rules and segment labeling for more accurate study outlines.

Updated the upgrade button text to “Join Pro Early Access” and streamlined the billing flow.
Fixed harsh‑shadow regex boundaries in the design scanner script.
Resolved topic‑chunk mapping issues when page bounds drift.
Removed unused single‑vector extraction and pooling helpers from embeddings.
Cleaned up deprecated PDF path upload endpoint and related chunker helpers.
Fixed various minor frontend bugs related to window security, settings reactivity, and media cues.

Bumped version to v1.3.5.
Refactored numerous UI components and settings pages for better maintainability.
Cleaned up test suite: removed redundant tests and streamlined cases.
Updated API dependency reports and documentation to reflect recent removals and renames.

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