v2.2.0

Runtime security and compatibility

• Upgraded to Electron 43.7.7, resolving the remaining dependency audit findings. The full dependency audit is clean.
• Desktop builds require a 64-bit operating system. The macOS minimum is now macOS 12 (Monterey).
• Development tooling requires Node.js 22.12.0 or later.

Reliability and maintenance

• Shared typed IPC contracts now cover preload and renderer APIs.
• Download listeners receive payloads without privileged Electron event objects. Cross-context unsubscribe handles preserve exact listener cleanup, including duplicate registrations.
• Persisted preferences are normalized against defaults, and malformed window bounds fall back safely. Existing JSON preferences remain compatible.
• Startup initialization has lifecycle cleanup and stable hook dependencies, avoiding repeated dependency checks when changing language.
• All lint warnings are resolved, and CI enforces zero-warning lint.
• Added regression coverage for event bridging, preference normalization, error handling, and startup cleanup.

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v2.1.1

Download reliability and Windows fixes

• Downloads keep updating while Settings or Logs is open.
• Start All resumes paused downloads; intentional stops no longer become errors or retry cookies.
• Pause All stops downloads concurrently, and removing an active entry waits for termination.
• Duplicate starts and stale process events are ignored.
• Completed video and converted audio retain the final file path for the open-file action.
• Dependency installation waits for file writes to finish before extraction.
• Fixed Windows ZIP extraction when launched from PowerShell 7, with clearer extraction errors.
• yt-dlp explicitly uses HVD's installed Deno runtime.
• Fixed corrupted Unicode titles and paths by forcing UTF-8 output from yt-dlp on Windows.

Maintenance

• Removed unused electron-store; the existing JSON preferences remain compatible.
• Updated compatible development dependencies and added test/lint gates to all installer builds.
• Expanded regression coverage and verified real MP4/MP3 downloads, pause/resume, tab switching, dependency installation, and active-download removal.

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v2.1.0

• Added browser-cookie authentication via --cookies-from-browser (Chrome, Brave, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi) for sites that require sign-in
• Fixed YouTube "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" failures by passing the browser's cookies to yt-dlp
• Automatically retries without cookies when browser cookie extraction fails, so downloads still complete unauthenticated
• Added friendly, localized download errors (sign-in, cookies, FFmpeg, unavailable, network, unsupported) with per-row Retry, Sign in, and Details
• Added a dismissible authentication banner and a Retry Failed queue action; errored downloads can now be retried and their URL re-added
• Added browser-aware sign-in, a "Test browser cookies" check, and an About line showing the installed app version
• Preferences now save immediately, so the selected browser survives restarts
• Removed the previous Electron-session cookie temp-file mechanism and the unused app:get-cookies-file IPC handler

v2.0.6

• Fixed audio and video downloads sharing the same output directory; queued items now use their configured video or audio output folder
• Added per-item download option building so the active tab no longer changes queued downloads
• Extracted pure option-building helper to src/lib/buildDownloadOptions with tests
• Project hygiene (2.0.5): added ESLint, unified the preload build, centralized default preferences, cleaned up renderer IPC listeners, extracted DownloadParser, and added AGENTS.md

v2.0.4

• Fixed yt-dlp update download on Windows (file-locking workaround with temp-file rename)
• Added yt-dlp -U as automatic fallback when direct download fails
• Same temp-file rename applied to FFmpeg/Deno extraction
• Synced preload.js with preload.ts (missing getYtDlpLatestVersion, updateYtDlpSelf)

v2.0.3

Changes

• Fix: Dependency downloads now actually extract ZIP/tar.xz archives — FFmpeg and Deno can be installed via the UI on a clean Windows install
• Fix: HTTP downloads now include User-Agent header and handle GitHub redirects properly
• UI: Settings tab now shows 'Up to date' for available dependencies instead of a confusing 'Download' button
• Cross-platform: ZIP extraction uses PowerShell on Windows, ditto on macOS, unzip on Linux; FFmpeg .tar.xz on Linux uses tar
• Tests: 23 new unit tests for dependency manager dispatch logic, filename matching, and path escaping