Additions
- Option to customize concurrent downloads, and increased the default page concurrency (@AntsyLich)
- Show missing chapters in manga details, with an option to turn it off
- Option to automatically mark new duplicate read chapters as read when fetched (@AntsyLich)
- Add gamepad support to the reader (full controller mapping: confirm/back, zoom, page turning, panning, menu/chapter sheet toggles, and progress bar adjustment)
- Added a Crash activity to catch crashes and share them
- Added new translations: South Levantine Arabic, Najdi Arabic, Azerbaijani, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Nepali, Oromo, Sinhala, Albanian, Tamil, Urdu
- Download option in manga details now honors filters (#1897, @emior2008)
- Option to show "Duplicate" Badge for entries already in library from another extension (#1893, @Hived)
- Option to open an available extension's website in a webview
Changes
- Option to collapse/expand the side nav on tablets
- Expanded side nav now also shows a button to navigate to settings (the more section in the top right still has it too)
- Reworded the "press to back" setting summary for clarity
- Renamed Security settings to "Security and Privacy"
- Show a notification permission prompt when opening advanced settings
- Scanlator filters are now backed up and can be restored (#1898, @emior2008)
- Hardware buttons for navigation (arrow up/down) now can be held to continue scrolling in webtooon formatted readers
- Fixed and improved directional/keyboard navigation in the reader menu (bottom nav buttons can now be reliably selected, down/up now opens/closes the chapter sheet, controller can hold A to adjust the progress bar)
Fixes
- Performance improvements to library and recents: Downloads are now fetched after loading so there is a pending state for donwloads now
- Improved the performance of restoring a backup
- Fixed not being able to load certain extensions
- Fixed a crash when browsing certain extensions
- Switched downloads to full coroutines which should give better behavior when pausing a download
- Fixed language picker not working
- Fixed a crash when users have multiple of the same extension available to download
- Fixed a Kitsu crash and reworked its login flow ui
- Fixed crashes that happened when restoring Mihon app settings in J2K
- More crash fixes
Others
- Made preferences type-safe and removed the old migration/restorer logic
- Switched to a fork of QuickJS Java
Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1
For info on the last major update, see Version 1.8.0