v2.5.0

Highlights

This release brings three of the most-requested download features: DASH streams, expired-link recovery, and per-download cookies/headers.

✨ New

• MPEG-DASH (.mpd) streams — DASH manifests are now downloadable just like HLS, with a quality picker and an ffmpeg remux into a single playable file. The browser extension detects .mpd links too.
• Refresh an expired link — a download whose signed URL has expired no longer fails. It quietly fetches a fresh link and keeps going from the bytes already on disk; the Details window also gained a Refresh link button for doing it by hand.
• Per-download cookies, headers and referer — a link can now be handed to the app together with the cookies, headers and referer needed to fetch it, so protected streams download successfully.

🐛 Fixes

• Downloads no longer restart from zero when a time-limited link goes stale mid-transfer.

🔧 Under the hood

• Full end-to-end tests for the DASH pipeline against real ffmpeg.
• The whole solution now builds with zero warnings.

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Install: grab the archive for your platform below, or on Linux run
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bezzad/Downloader.Desktop/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

What's Changed

• docs(claude): require approval before any outward-facing post by @bezzad in #8

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0