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Changelog

Upcoming

v0.5.1

  • Fix failure to initialize new installations on Windows.

v0.5.0

  • Lower Android SDK version to 21.
  • Massive refactor of search DB implementation. This will likely cause issues with existing search cache files, you can delete them and they will be regenerated.
  • Some fixes to alert dialogs on some platforms.
  • Better error dialog support.
  • Docker releases available.
  • Moved documentation to GitHub wiki for now.
  • Remove old search logic that introduces an extra large delay to search.

v0.4.10

  • Fix Windows build not working on ARM
  • Go back to a single Windows build (but it also works on ARM)
  • Show a dialog on fatal errors on Windows and Mac
  • Expose DHT indexer HTTP API at :8080/localDhtIndexer/, see https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/issues/29 for more info.

v0.4.9

  • Fix error starting app on Windows.
  • Exit a bit cleaner on macOS.
  • Rename windows build to windows-amd64. Hopefully there will be ARM build soon.

v0.4.8

  • Store config and cache in user dirs by default. -workDir uses the old behaviour.
  • Don't alert users to pre-releases.
  • Fix pages being deflated without user agent support.

v0.4.7

  • Added -castLink flag to override Chromecast web sender hosting.
  • Misc torrent client improvements.
  • Fixes for BitTorrent v2 file listings.
  • Updates for new castlink subtitle features.
  • Fix crash in transcoder on some files.

v0.4.6

  • Add -torrentPort flag.
  • Add -version flag.
  • Change Possum DB default cache size to 20 GB.
  • Fix high CPU usage tracking transcoding events.
  • Add some support for BitTorrent v2.
  • Fix some Possum DB bugs.
  • Performance improvements in torrent client.
  • Fixes for missing IPv6 support in torrent client.
  • Fix some bugs in hosts menu handling.

v0.4.5

  • Debugging improvements for possum on Windows.
  • Fix a crash on possibly corrupted torrents.db when searching.
  • Make switching hosts and installing protocol handler easier.
  • Bump transcoding limit to 5GB.
  • Cleanup possum cache at startup.
  • cove will open to the update docs if it's out of date.

v0.4.4

  • Hide the console on Windows. Run with run.bat for this behaviour or pass -windowsHideConsole.
  • Add run.bat to Windows release that logs to a file named cove.log for issue reporting. Use run-console.bat to do this from a console and view the logs in the console too.
  • Release Windows ffmpeg files separately for smaller downloads.
  • Possum storage cache is now supported on Windows. Pass -possum to try it out.

v0.4.3

  • Raise transcoding input file size limit to 4 GB.
  • Fix squirrel storage write errors.

v0.4.2

  • Statically link possum-db on Linux and Darwin.

v0.4.1

  • Fix possum flags not being exposed.
  • Linux and Darwin builds are missing the possum-db shared library and do not work.

v0.4.0

  • Fix slow startup when search database is very large.
  • Add possum DB support for disk caching on macOS and Linux.
  • Linux and Darwin builds are missing the possum-db shared library and do not work.

v0.3.0

  • Spread log messages across two lines.
  • Use DHT index info names in recent torrent list.
  • Make cove accessible on local networks via http://cove.local:8080. See Operation.

v0.2.0

  • Reduce logging noise.
  • Prefer IPv4 local network address.
  • Nuke ledis dir if there's an error during startup.
  • Reduce indexer.db size leak.
  • Fix a panic when info isn't ready for some file handlers.

v0.1.1

  • Fix transcoding on non-Apple platforms.
  • Disable IPv6 on Darwin by default again.

v0.1.0

The last official release was v0.0.11, so all changes since then are below.

New features

  • DHT indexing can now be paused/resumed.
  • Added support for linux/aarch64 and linux/arm.
  • Open browser automatically at startup. Disable with -noOpenBrowser.
  • Add magnet links to files and torrents for third-party client use.
  • Add metainfo download button.
  • Show transcoding store progress.

Fixes

  • Improvements to search result output.
  • Fix preview video alerts.
  • Improve metadata detection for nested files.
  • Speed up file listings for very large torrents.
  • Enable DHT indexing over IPv6 where supported.
  • Exit handling improved.
  • Torrent file listings served from local DHT index.
  • DHT index searches query the database directly.
  • Reduce transcoding overhead especially for HEVC.
  • Fix playlist button.

News

v0.0.12

This was a prerelease with several undocumented revisions.

The main reason for the release was to get feedback on the linux/aarch64 and linux/arm builds.

v0.0.11

Changes

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The prior release are yet to be imported here. See https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/releases.