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The 0.4.0 stable release brings together everything from the 0.4.0 beta line: a full download-profile system, smarter audio handling, a more reliable binary runtime, stronger download recovery, and a broad UI and localization pass.

Highlights

Faster Download Workflows

Arroxy now has a download-profile system that drives quick downloads, bulk runs, and playlist submissions from one place.

  • The home screen ships with built-in profiles for best available, 4K, QHD, 1080p, 720p, 480p, Smart TV MP4 variants, and audio-only downloads.
  • Profiles can carry media targets, subtitles, SponsorBlock settings, embed settings, output folder rules, and per-profile subfolders. Built-in profiles can be customized and your own profiles can be added.
  • Quick Download shows probe/queue progress, supports cancellation and retry, can retry with configured cookies, and reports partial success for bulk runs.
  • URL intent detection distinguishes single videos, playlists, channels, search URLs, and mixed links before choosing whether to probe, prompt, or open review, and playlist-cap handling opens review when the whole playlist cannot be queued safely.
  • Bulk URL parsing cleans links, filters obvious non-media files, deduplicates entries, and previews accepted/rejected rows for large paste sessions.

Smarter Audio Selection

Audio handling now favors the source's own tracks and surfaces clearer quality information.

  • A new preference chooses between compatible audio and surround-first native audio, and it stays consistent from probing through presets, profiles, playlists, and quick downloads.
  • Arroxy now prefers the source default or original audio track when available, and keeps Dolby/DRC tracks out of the default compatible path unless you opt into the surround preference.
  • The audio format picker shows language, quality tier (high/medium/low badges with tooltips), and format details so multi-track videos are easier to choose from.

Release Notes In The App

  • A What's New dialog reads the current version's changelog after an update and remembers the last version it showed, so release details no longer live only on GitHub.

Runtime And Binary Reliability

The app now relies on signed runtime metadata and Electron's bundled Node runtime instead of resolving "latest" binaries at runtime.

  • yt-dlp JavaScript challenges run through Electron's bundled Node runtime, so Arroxy no longer needs Deno or a system Node install for extractor JavaScript.
  • Runtime-managed binaries resolve from signed manifest entries verified with a bundled Ed25519 key, cached as last-known-good and backed by a bundled fallback index, served from a dedicated runtime-binaries release feed.
  • Materialization verifies size and SHA-256, uses content-addressed cache directories, guards ZIP extraction, and probes only after a real executable exists.
  • Packaged runtime smoke checks verify managed yt-dlp, Electron Node, and bundled extractor JS before normal startup, and dependency diagnostics carry clearer attempt/failure records for yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and ffprobe.

Download Reliability And Recovery

  • Media retries can preserve temp data for resumable network, rate-limit, chunk-transfer, disk-space, and postprocess failures when usable media evidence exists, and retry/restart paths validate or clean up preserved temp directories.
  • Progress parsing and HLS normalization no longer show misleading completed progress before a queue item is actually done.
  • yt-dlp errors flow through a published error taxonomy with localized guidance, including first-class DRM-protected, login-required, and missing-dependency failures.

UI, Feedback, And Localization

  • The home surface, profile picker, profile editor, queue drawer, review step, wizard navigation, warmup splash, and footer were refined for denser everyday use.
  • An adaptive backdrop adds dark/light scenes with WebGL, Canvas2D, and CSS fallbacks, plus a theme-matched native startup background to reduce launch flash.
  • Feedback opens through Tally with a hidden state snapshot and, after explicit submission, can upload a gzipped, redacted tail of the log to the feedback service. Discord community links were added to the README, footer, and About dialog.
  • App copy now flows through a gettext-backed translation workflow with generated runtime locale JSON across all supported languages.

Tooling And Tests

  • Formatting and linting moved to Biome and Oxlint, and bun run check now gates formatting, linting, tooling contract, typecheck, dependency hygiene, dead-code, circular imports, and package publish checks.
  • Fixture Product E2E now owns real Electron/IPC/yt-dlp workflows against deterministic fixture media, separating acceptance tests from cheaper unit/renderer checks.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v0.3.13...v0.4.0

Contributors

dependabot and antonio-orionus
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