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v1.7.0 — Books and audiobooks

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@samuelloranger samuelloranger released this 20 Aug 16:09
· 81 commits to main since this release

Books and audiobooks arrive as a first-class media type, alongside movies and shows.

Highlights

  • A books library with its own data model. library_books, editions, files, authors and book quality profiles — library_media, media_files and the existing quality profiles are untouched, so nothing about your movies and shows changes.
  • Metadata from Google Books, configured as an integration like TMDB or Prowlarr rather than through environment variables.
  • Search and grab across categories 7000 and 3000 together, deriving book vs audiobook from the parsed release format and size — because trackers routinely file audiobooks under Books.
  • Hands-off acquisition. A six-hourly sweep searches monitored wanted editions, upgrades anything below its profile's cutoff format (a retail epub replacing an OCR pdf is the book equivalent of 1080p replacing 720p), a separate RSS pass covers book categories, and monitored authors get new titles added daily.
  • Author monitoring with a backlist guard. Turning monitoring on records the date; only titles published from then on are added, so you do not import a fifty-book backlist by accident.
  • Redesigned book detail page with provider HTML rendered safely, and adoption of files already sitting in your library.

Added

  • Books UI fully translated (English and French).
  • configureBooks maintenance script.

Fixed

  • A wrong provider language is corrected against the ISBN.
  • Titles still match when a tracker drops an apostrophe.
  • Duplicate torrents are adopted instead of failing the grab; files are pre-scanned before import.
  • An upgrade now deletes what it replaced.
  • Post-process completion is reflected in the UI, and lists refresh when something changes elsewhere.
  • unzip is installed in the image, which epub metadata extraction needs.

Upgrade notes

  • Books are gated behind a setting: a movies-and-shows-only install is unaffected.

Full Changelog: v1.6.5...v1.7.0