Release v1.0.63-gfed0290

Changes since v1.0.61

Reading, navigation and gestures

• Fixed zoom getting stuck so you couldn't turn the page: touches the app lost track of no longer leave the reader in pinch mode.
• Pinch zoom keeps the spot under your fingers instead of jumping to the top left.
• Panning a zoomed page no longer turns the page as well. In zoomed and guided mode a swipe only turns the page when the view can't move any further.
• Swipes respect right-to-left reading in zoomed and guided mode too.
• Guided mode: pinch no longer gets stuck at the smallest or largest size, and "next panel" across pages no longer jumps.
• Vertical panning on portrait pages is no longer about 1.5× too fast.
• The mouse wheel scrolls a zoomed or fit-width page first and only turns the page at the top or bottom. A touchpad swipe turns one page instead of several.
• Pages can be turned right after opening a comic; before, page changes were ignored until the first save finished.
• Touches on empty areas around a zoomed page now work.

Performance and memory

• Pages are decoded at screen resolution and switch to full resolution only when you zoom in or need more detail. A 4000×6000 scan drops from about 96 MB to screen size.
• Solid RAR and 7z archives keep nearby pages cached, so reading one is no longer slow. Non-solid 7z archives open pages directly.
• Covers and Komga thumbnails are decoded in the background at a reduced size and freed when they're no longer shown.
• Komga lists only create the cards that are visible and load more as you scroll.
• The Library and Komga tabs keep their state when you switch tabs, and Komga no longer reconnects.
• Removed forced garbage collections that caused pauses when opening and closing comics.
• PDF and EPUB pages are cached on Windows too.

Komga

• Downloads are much faster: they no longer run on the UI thread, which limited them to around 90 KB/s.
• Fixed corrupt downloads after a dropped connection, where the whole file was appended to the part already downloaded.
• Libraries with many series keep loading past the first page without scrolling or resizing the window.
• The "bypass SSL validation" setting is now saved.
• Custom request headers are now saved; before, they were lost on restart.
• Read progress that fails to sync is retried instead of being reported as synced.
• Two books with the same series and title no longer overwrite each other's download.
• Series search works for names containing characters like (, [ or +.
• Trial limit: Komga books are now counted correctly.

Library and import

• Only solid CBR and CB7 archives are converted to CBZ, at import and after a Komga download. Other archives are kept as they are.
• Converted CBZ files store images without recompressing them, which makes conversion faster.
• ComicInfo.xml: fixed every second field being lost, such as Series after Title. Age ratings with "+" or spaces and fields containing markup are now read correctly, and issue numbers no longer depend on the system language.
• Comics deleted from a bookmarked folder are no longer imported again, and a temporarily unavailable folder keeps its bookmark.
• "Save current page" saves to Pictures/StripWolf.
• Files opened from the command line or with "Open with" open reliably.

Settings and stability

• Settings changed in different places at the same time no longer overwrite each other, and settings are saved safely, so a damaged settings file can't stop the app from starting.
• Fixed library refreshes that could trigger each other and repeat the Komga sync and folder scan every time.
• Fixed crashes and memory leaks around two-page mode, cover caching, PDF rendering and leaving the reader while pages were loading.
• The old Komga server table, which stored passwords in plain text, is removed from the database.

Platforms

• Android: minimum version is now Android 7.0 (API 24); before, only Android 16 could install the app.
• iOS and iPadOS: minimum version is now 16.0 (was 26.5).
• Guided reading (panel detection) is available in Windows release builds. On iOS it's no longer offered, since it couldn't find panels there.
• Desktop features are chosen by the target platform instead of the build machine.

Development

• New test project with about 480 tests covering archives, PDF, EPUB, the database, settings and a mocked Komga server. Tests that use your own comics only run locally (category LocalComics).
• New CI workflow runs the tests on Ubuntu and Windows.
• Removed unused packages and outdated OpenCV runtimes.