1.5.0.9-dev5-cpr-vcodex-steroids

CPR-vCodex Steroids — Release Notes

🛡️ Stability & crash fixes

No more random Settings crashes. We fixed two sneaky bugs that could make the Settings screens crash or behave erratically:

• The tab bar at the top of Settings could occasionally point to the wrong label and crash when you switched tabs — that's gone.
• A rare out-of-bounds issue when reading stored settings could make things unstable after certain update paths.

The result: Settings is more reliable and predictable, especially after upgrading or when a settings file isn't a perfect match.

🚀 Faster startup & always-ready features

Your reader now boots up lighter and snappier. Instead of loading the whole reading-statistics, favorites and flashcard data up front, the device loads them only when you actually open that screen. Net effect:

• Faster boot and quicker response after power-on.
• The Home screen now shows up to 10 recent books instead of a longer list — tidier and less work at startup.
• Everything you use (stats, favorites, flashcards) still works exactly as before, just loaded on demand.

🖼️ Better images & cleaner screensaver

Photos, covers and the screensaver look better and show less ghosting.

• Image brightness/contrast is now adjustable and consistently applied across covers, photos and the sleep/screensaver screens.
• E-ink ghosting on the screensaver text was reduced, so after waking the display stays cleaner.
• Grayscale rendering was tuned for a more pleasing, crisper result (fewer washed-out or muddy grays).

📚 Wikipedia — new article library with safer downloads

This is the biggest change of the round. The Wikipedia reader got a real behind-the-scenes upgrade:

A proper offline article library.

• Each downloaded article is now kept in its own tidy folder with all its parts ("Cache" list shows articles by their real title, not a cryptic number).
• Opening a cached article works even without a network connection — the reader just opens the saved, converted article.

More reliable full-article downloads.

• The full-article download flow no longer crashes on your device's memory limits in the middle of a big article.
• Previously, downloading + converting a long article could cause the reader to reset right at the end. That hard reset is fixed: articles download, convert and open smoothly.

Safer cache management.

• Deleting a cached page now asks you to confirm first before removing it, so you can't wipe an article by accident.
• The deletion actually clears the whole article folder (not just a leftover piece).

Cleaner return to the search screen.

• After you close an article, the main "Search Wikipedia" bar goes back to its normal hint instead of still showing the title of the article you just finished.

🧹 Internal tidy-up (not technical, but worth knowing)

This release also includes a lot of internal cleanup behind the scenes — memory handling on your limited-RAM device was made much more careful during downloads and conversions, which is what makes the fixes above possible without slowing things down or adding bloat.