MeowChan 1.0.1 🐾

MeowChan 1.0.1 🐾 — Less waiting while downloads run

This performance maintenance release improves responsiveness when downloads,
archive updates and gallery navigation happen together.

What's improved

• Keep using the workspace during slow saves. Download state is prepared in
  the background, so UI queries no longer wait on slow download commits.
  Interactive work is bounded, and repeated preference changes retain the latest
  pending value.
• Less repeated UI work. Progress updates are coalesced, download rows update
  incrementally, and covered archive and reader views defer expensive refreshes
  until needed. Status, errors and controls can still request prompt updates.
• Less filter staging overhead. Temporary-file accounting replaces repeated
  directory scans for each data block, retaining conservative storage limits,
  recovery and cancellation handling.
• More focused gallery work. Indexed media associations and on-demand context
  preparation reduce repeated work. Covered views stop starting unnecessary
  thumbnails. Originals are still fully verified before cached video posters
  are used.
• Better coordinated video switching and closing. Playback changes share
  actual cleanup completion, keep resources owned until native work finishes,
  and prevent stale operations from controlling a newer video.
• More stable reader and window transitions. Late reply-count updates retain
  the visible reader post, archive favorites stop querying a closed session, and
  macOS fullscreen restoration respects a later request to return to Normal.

Media integrity checks, explicit saves, final preference saves and selection
identity remain enforced.

Get MeowChan 1.0.1

All five primary packages include .NET and VLC; no .NET SDK installation is needed.

Platform	Download
Windows x64	ZIP
macOS — Apple Silicon	DMG
macOS — Intel	DMG
Linux x64	AppImage
Linux ARM64	AppImage

All packages, source archives and checksums
include Linux bundled-VLC and system-VLC tar alternatives. The system-VLC variant
requires compatible system VLC. Make AppImages executable before launching.
macOS apps are ad-hoc signed and not notarized; see the
first-launch guidance.

Close older application instances and back up your profile and media before
upgrading. Archive schema 5 and media manifest 4 are unchanged from 1.0.0.

Performance feedback

Early user feedback reports better responsiveness. The original Windows hang
with an external USB SSD has not been formally demonstrated fixed; improvements
vary with storage and workload.

Report a problem with the
exact version/package, OS, enabled plugins and reproduction steps. For performance
issues, include whether downloads are active and whether profile and media
storage are internal or connected through USB.

Build provenance

Source: 2518feb60928977f3ebf16cb656dbdf6b2060bfe. Successful stable-candidate / all / all run.

The unchanged candidate-inventory.json records original CI filenames. The nine application downloads use 01-–09- prefixes; SHA256SUMS covers public filenames. Automated runner checks do not establish physical Windows/USB or everyday-use acceptance.