🎬 Youwee v0.12.0

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

✨ What's New

Dependency source selector (yt-dlp/FFmpeg) - Added source switching in Settings → Dependencies so users can choose between app-managed binaries and system-managed binaries
Safety confirmation before switching to system source - Added a confirmation dialog when switching yt-dlp/FFmpeg to system source to prevent accidental changes

OS-aware system source label - System source label now adapts by platform (Homebrew on macOS, PATH on Windows, package manager on Linux)
Automated GitHub release notes in build workflow - Enabled generate_release_notes in the release workflow so published releases include auto-generated notes
Windows custom title bar integration - Replaced the native Windows title bar with app-themed custom controls (drag region, minimize/maximize/close) for consistent theming

Windows download history recording - Captured final output filepath reliably on Windows so completed downloads are correctly added to Library history
Windows redownload path parsing - Fixed output folder extraction for backslash-based Windows paths when redownloading items
Non-UTF-8 yt-dlp output on Windows - Added GBK/ANSI decoding fallback and --print-to-file handling so non-UTF-8 locales still capture final file paths correctly
Library auto-refresh after download completion - Library history now refreshes automatically when a download status changes to finished
Douyin modal URL compatibility - Normalized douyin.com URLs with modal_id into canonical /video/{id} format in backend yt-dlp calls and frontend deep-link parsing

Platform	File	Description
🍎 Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4)	`Youwee-Mac-Apple-Silicon.dmg`	For Apple Silicon Macs
🍎 Mac (Intel)	`Youwee-Mac-Intel.dmg`	For Intel-based Macs
🪟 Windows	`Youwee-Windows.msi`	MSI Installer
🪟 Windows	`Youwee-Windows-Setup.exe`	EXE Installer
🐧 Linux	`Youwee-Linux.deb`	Debian/Ubuntu
🐧 Linux	`Youwee-Linux.AppImage`	Portable (all distros)
🌐 Extension (Chromium)	`Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip`	Unzip and load unpacked on Chrome/Edge/Brave
🦊 Extension (Firefox)	`Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi`	Signed unlisted add-on for Firefox stable

FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
Bun Runtime - if you can only download 360p from YouTube (auto-download available in Settings)

Chromium: download Youwee-Extension-Chromium.zip -> extract -> open chrome://extensions -> enable Developer mode -> Load unpacked.
Firefox: download Youwee-Extension-Firefox-signed.xpi and open it directly to install.

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

fix(windows): record download history on non-UTF-8 locales (GBK) by @TTAWDTT in #35
fix(windows): replace native title bar with custom controls by @TTAWDTT in #37
fix(douyin): normalize modal_id URLs to direct video format before yt-dlp by @TTAWDTT in #40

Full Changelog: v0.11.1...v0.12.0