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@waldseelen waldseelen released this 10 Jun 06:33
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RAVN v1.0.0 - Initial Release & Stability Update

This is the first stable release of RAVN, bringing robust video downloading, audio conversion, and library management with significant architectural improvements.

🚀 Key Improvements & Features

  • yt-dlp Dynamic Self-Update: Seamlessly updates the underlying yt-dlp binary from GitHub Releases to prevent breakages caused by upstream platform changes.
  • Code Signing & Integrity: Windows builds are now Authenticode-signed and provide SHA-256 checksums to build SmartScreen trust and ensure payload integrity.
  • Splash Screen Integration: Added a sleek, non-blocking splash screen during initial application load for a better user experience.
  • Strict UTF-8 IPC: Enforced strict UTF-8 encoding and fallback replacements in subprocess pipes ( fmpeg, yt-dlp, �ria2c), preventing crashes on systems with non-standard OEM codepages.
  • Isolated Sandbox Testing: Shipped a built-in Windows Sandbox profile (windows_sandbox.wsb) to quickly test the application in a globally isolated, dependency-free environment.
  • Dependency & Size Optimization: Bundled essential MSVC C++ runtimes (�cruntime140.dll, msvcp140.dll) and stripped unused Python libraries (pytest, distutils, pdb) to reduce the final portable .exe size.
  • API Stabilization: The 27-parameter signature in the core download system was successfully collapsed into a strongly-typed DownloadRequest dataclass, hardening the core data flow.

🔧 Installation

RAVN is shipped as a portable executable for Windows.

  1. Download the RAVN-windows-x64.zip asset.
  2. Extract the folder and launch RAVN.exe.
    Note: Depending on the certificate's accumulated reputation, Windows SmartScreen might appear initially. Simply click "More info" and then "Run anyway" if the ZIP checksum matches.
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