0.48.1

• A dragged novel stays where it is dropped. Reordering the library showed
  the novel back in the slot it had been dragged out of for a moment before it
  settled, easiest to catch after a quick drag. The grid was being handed the
  order from before the drag while the database caught up with the new one.
• NovelScraper is free software under the GNU General Public License, version
  3 or later. The licence itself shipped in 0.48.0 with nothing said about it
  here, which this puts right. The README now spells out what it means: the
  source is open, and anything built on it has to stay just as free.

0.48.0

• Delete your account, yourself. Settings, under Server account, has a
  Delete account button. It asks for your password again, because a session
  left open somewhere should not be enough to destroy an account, and then
  removes the account and every record synced under it, at once and for good.
  There was no way to do this before: the only route was an administrator, and
  the server refused even that for your own account. The last administrator of a
  server still cannot leave, since nobody would be left to run it.
  Your library is untouched. It stays on the device and works without an account.

0.47.1

• A chapter can be asked what it can do. Right-click one on a computer, hold
  it on a phone: mark the chapters before it read or unread, mark it either way,
  or mark every other chapter in the novel read or unread. Holding a chapter used
  to start picking chapters out, so the menu offers that too.
• The sources a device has now follow the account properly. They were sent
  once and never again, and nothing on the receiving side did anything with
  them. Installing or removing a source now tells the other devices, and the
  Extensions screen lists, above Available, the sources an account has that this
  device cannot otherwise see because it does not list their repository.
  Installing one adds the repository and fetches the source. Nothing installs by
  itself.
• The book page has room to breathe on a computer. The details column grew
  with the window instead of staying 420dp wide beside an ocean of chapter list,
  chapter rows are no longer padded for a thumb, and the title is no longer
  printed twice: the bar leaves it to the heading and takes it over only once
  the heading has scrolled away.

0.47.0

• An account now does one thing: sync. The server used to scrape novels,
  store their text, build EPUBs, serve covers and run a web reader. All of that
  happens on the device already, so it has been taken out of the server and out
  of the app. What an account adds is the library kept in step between devices:
  the novels, their order, ratings, categories, read chapters, the reading
  position to the sentence, and which sources are installed.
• Importing an EPUB happens here, and needs no account. The file used to be
  uploaded to the server; it is read on the device now, so importing works
  offline, signed in or not. An imported novel stays on the device that
  imported it and is deliberately not synced: the records carry what a library
  holds, not the books themselves.
• Save as EPUB works for any novel, offline. The file was built by the
  server and offered only for novels stored there. It is written on the device
  now, from the chapters held there, for any novel with something downloaded.
  A novel is split into volumes of a hundred chapters, as the server split them:
  one volume saves as a single EPUB, several save as a zip holding one EPUB per
  volume. A volume is a fixed window of chapters, so volume 3 is always chapters
  201 to 300 and exporting the same novel twice gives the same files.
• Exporting the reading statistics no longer needs an account either, for
  the same reason: the file is written here.
• Novels that lived on the server have been removed from the library. They
  cannot be fetched any more, so the rows would only have failed to open.
  Anything read from a source is untouched. A novel that was on the server can
  be brought back by exporting it as an EPUB beforehand and importing the file.
• The Progress tab is gone, along with checking a server novel for new
  chapters and the scrape relay. Novels from a source are still checked for new
  chapters, on the device, as before.

0.46.1

• Stats count every novel. They came from the server, which knows only the
  novels scraped or imported there, so a novel added from a source never
  counted. Books and chapters are now counted in the library itself, words
  from the server for its novels and from the chapter text on the device for
  the rest, and Stats no longer needs an account; only Export, the server's
  file, still does.
• All four narration engines fit on a phone. Kokoro, Supertonic, Piper and
  the phone's own voice wrap onto a second line instead of pushing Piper off
  the screen and folding Supertonic's name in two.

0.46.0

• Supertonic, a third narration voice. Settings → Narration → Engine now
  offers Supertonic 3 beside Kokoro and Piper: a 122 MB download, ten voices,
  nearly as natural as Kokoro and several times lighter. On a laptop's
  processor it reads a chapter at a fifth to a third of real time with the
  whole app at 8% of the machine, where Kokoro needs half of real time and
  four times the processor; with GPU acceleration on, the graphics card takes
  it and the app drops to 2%. That margin is what should let a phone narrate
  with a natural voice. English for now.

0.45.1

• The app no longer freezes while it tries the graphics cards. In 0.45.0
  the cards were tried the first time Listen was pressed, and while that ran,
  narration and closing the window both waited on it: up to two and a half
  minutes on an integrated chip. The cards are now tried in the background as
  soon as GPU acceleration is downloaded or switched on, with progress shown
  in Settings; until there is an answer the processor reads, and the next
  time narration starts it moves to the card. Closing the app never waits on
  narration for more than a moment.

0.45.0

• GPU narration on Windows for every graphics card, in a 343 MB download
  instead of 2 GB. Windows now uses DirectML, which runs on AMD, Intel and
  NVIDIA cards alike, in place of CUDA; Linux keeps CUDA for NVIDIA cards. The
  pack brings a copy of Kokoro made to run on DirectML, with the same voice.
  On a GTX 1060, 0.12 of real time once warm, with the processor nearly idle.
• The fastest card is found by trying. DirectML takes the first adapter
  Windows lists, which on most laptops is the integrated chip, and there
  Kokoro can run twelve times slower than real time. The first time a voice
  is used, each card is tried in a separate copy of the app and the fastest
  one that keeps ahead of the voice is kept; if none does, the processor
  narrates and Settings says so.
• A card that fails can't take the app down. Some graphics failures end
  the whole process instead of reporting an error, so a voice is only ever
  narrated on a card after that separate copy has spoken with it.
• GPU files from 0.44.0 can be removed from the same place in Settings.
• Settings are written far less often. Every change rewrote its whole
  file, fifty times for one drag of a slider; now a save waits for the ones
  already queued.

0.44.0

• Narration on an NVIDIA graphics card. Settings → Narration → GPU
  acceleration appears where the driver reports a card CUDA 12 can use, and
  downloads what the card needs: about 2 GB, 2.6 GB once unpacked, every file
  checked against its published checksum. Switched on, the neural voices run on
  the card: on a GTX 1060, three times faster than four processor cores, with
  the whole app at 2% of the machine while it reads aloud. If the card or its
  driver turns the model down, narration uses the processor as before and
  Settings says why. The pack can be removed from the same place. On Linux the
  same pack is offered but has not yet been tried on a machine.

0.43.0

• Updates on Windows no longer delete the app's data. The installer puts
  the program in %LOCALAPPDATA%\NovelScraper and removes that folder whole
  before installing a new version, and the library, the installed sources, the
  downloaded voices and the browser's profile were kept in the same folder.
  They now live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\NovelScraper Data, which no installer
  touches; settings stay in %APPDATA%\NovelScraper. The update to this
  version still runs the old version's installer, so it clears the old folder
  one last time: a library kept on the server comes back by itself, and
  sources and voices have to be installed again.
• Narration on the desktop takes half the processor. Kokoro is no faster
  past about four threads, and it had been given up to eight, each extra one
  burning processor while it waited: on an i7-8750H, the same speed for 1.9
  CPU-seconds per second of audio instead of 4.2.