Version 531

Version 527 Special Update

NOTICE! For everyone but macOS, Version 527 had special update instructions. If you are updating from 526 or earlier, please consult the post here: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/tag/v527

misc

• fixed editing favourite searches, which I accidentally broke last week with the collect-by updates
• when you right-click a tag and get the siblings/parents menus, the list of copyable siblings, parents, and children is now truncated to 10 items each per service. stuff like pokemon has hundreds of children and for a very long time has been spamming giganto 11-column menus that cover the entire screen
• same menu truncation for the open/copy URLs menu. if there's a file that has 600 URLs for interesting technical reasons, it won't nuke you any more (issue #1037)
• updated the default pixiv file page parser, which recently broke for users who were not logged in. they seem to hide original size behind the login now, so if you do a lot of pixiv work, get Hydrus Companion or figure out a cookies.txt solution and get yourself logged in
• the downloader progress panels have a couple of status text improvements: first, they will stop saying 'waiting for a work slot' when the actual error is something unusual such as the gallery search hitting the file limit. second, when there is an unusual status and the downloader is in the paused state, it can now properly differentiate between 'paused' and 'pausing'
• some invalid URL strings now raise the correct error in the downloader system, causing them to be properly filtered away instead of sticking around and being unhelpful
• if there is a connection error because of an SSL issue, the network job is now retried like any other connection error. I originally thought these were all non-retryable like cert validation errors, but it seems some of them are just write timeouts etc.. during the negotiation, so let's see how it goes
• I believe I have fixed an error when selecting a tag in a list when that list had been previously shift-selected and then cleared and repopulated
• manage siblings and parents should be better about focusing the correct text input after they boot and load
• in future, if a taglist tries to deselect something it no longer has, it'll do an emergency 'deselect all' to exorcise the ghosts fully
• reworded the text around 'reset potential duplicates' action in the duplicates page to be more clear on what it does
• I tinkered with some of the shutdown code hoping to catch an odd issue of the exit 'last session' not saving correctly, but I don't think I figured the issue out. if you have noticed you boot up and get a session that missed up to the last 15 minutes of changes before you last shut down, please let me know you your details
• added a link to tagrank, a new Client API project at https://github.com/matjojo/tagrank, to the Client API help. it shows you pairs of comparison images over and over and uses trueskill ranking algorithm to figure out which tags are your favourite
• added a link to 'Send to Hydrus', a Client API project at https://github.com/Wyrrrd/send-to-hydrus, to the Client API help. it sends URLs from an Android device to your client

client api

• as part of a plan to migrate to service_key indexing everywhere and reduce file_metadata bloat, the client api has a new services structure, a service information Object where service_key is the key. this is now in the /get_services call and /get_files/file_metadata, under services under the root. the old type-based structure in /get_services and the in-file embedding of service info in /get_files/file_metadata are still in place, so nothing breaks today, but I am officially declaring them deprecated, to be deleted in 2024, and recommend all Client API devs move to the new system before the new year
• the new service object also includes info on the local rating services. I'd like to add ratings to file_metadata fairly soon
• if you don't want the services object in /get_files/file_metadata, there's a new include_services_object param you can set to false to hide it
• updated the unit tests and client api help to reflect all this. main new section: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/developer_api.html#services_object
• the client api version is now 46

update woes

• I somewhat successfully pounded my head against an issue where the first tab (usually 'my tags') was disappearing in the manage tags/siblings/parents dialogs for some users. this bug, for real, seems to be the combination of (Python 3.11 + PyQt6 6.5.x + two tabs + total tab text characters > ~12 + tab selection is set to 1 during init event). Change any of those things and it doesn't happen. This is so weird a problem to otherwise normal code that I won't pivot all my 50-odd instances of tab selection to handle it and instead have hacked an answer for the three tag dialogs and filename tagging. Sorry for the trouble if you got this! Let me know if you see any more
• in a similar-but-different thing, PySide6 6.5.1 has a bug related to certain Signal connections. don't use it with hydrus, it messes up all my menus! their dev notes suggest they are going to have a fix/revert for 6.5.1.1