BATorrent becomes a media hub: find → download → search → watch/play, all around the cover-art identity. A left nav rail (collapsible) swaps between pages with smooth transitions.
Onboarding & updates
- Welcome / What's New screen — one screen that greets you on first install and, after each update, carries a personal note from the dev plus that version's highlights and a link to the full release notes. (Born from a real need: a past broken auto-update left no way to reach users between releases.)
- Guided interactive tour — a coach-marks walkthrough (dimmed backdrop, callouts with arrows pointing at the nav rail, adding a torrent, Discover, Search, HUB and Settings). Runs once automatically after the first welcome/update screen — on a fresh install and once for everyone updating into this release — is skippable, and re-runnable anytime from Help → Interactive tutorial.
Appearance
- App-icon picker (Settings → Appearance) — choose the live Dock/taskbar icon from a set of styles, independent of the UI theme (so a dark icon pairs with a light theme). Doesn't change the file-manager icon (
.app/.exe), which comes from the signed bundle. Icon pack contributed by @dkindratyuk-web (#15).
Discover
- A new Discover page: rotating hero + rows of trending/popular movies, series and games (TMDB + IGDB), cover-art forward. Click anything to search for it.
Search, rebuilt
- Title-first search: type once and pick the actual work (e.g. God of War Ragnarök) from a poster grid before seeing downloads — one cover per title, games and movies mixed by relevance.
- Then drill into that title's downloads with real filters: quality, source, repacker, provider/origin and seeders, plus a relevance sort that matches whole words (so "blast" ≠ "last").
- Each result shows where it came from (RuTracker, Torrents, …); raw torrents resolve covers on demand. A "raw results" escape hatch is always available.
HUB — watch & play
- Watch movies in a built-in player with resume (it remembers where you stopped) and a watched-% bar on each poster — stream while it's still downloading.
- Continue watching and Continue playing rails up top, then your movies and games libraries.
- Games: launch from the hub — it auto-detects the executable (or you set it once), with Install/Open-folder actions.
Reliability
- Auto-update hardening — the downloaded installer is verified against its published size before it runs (no more bricking on a truncated/blocked download), a boot-crash safe mode offers recovery (reset settings / get latest) if startup fails twice, and the update dialog always has a manual "Download manually" fallback.
- The Peers tab no longer lags on large swarms — failed geo-IP lookups are negative-cached and the peer list only refreshes while the tab is open.
Fixes
- A completed torrent that you'd streamed no longer re-announces "download complete" on every launch (its skipped sidecar files no longer make it look unfinished).
Other
- Fully translated across all 8 languages.