anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager v0.5.0 on GitHub

On a Mac? The -experimental files are fresh builds for Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel) that we haven't tried ourselves yet. Want to be among the first? Give them a go and tell us how it went in an issue.

Added

Themes Support

Now you can change Mister Download Manager's look and feel, and even its icons, with themes, and you can write your own.

9 built-in looks in View → Theme: Classic, Native, High contrast, Metro, Adwaita, Breeze, Luna, Aero, Aqua.
Write your own theme as a TOML or JSON file, or import a Base16 scheme or your pywal colours.

Remote Control and Headless Mode Support

MDM no longer has to be in front of you: manage your downloads from your phone, or keep it running on a machine with no screen.

Add links and manage your downloads and queues from your phone, on your own network: Options → Remote.
Run MDM with no window on a server, NAS, Docker or Unraid with --headless, and send it downloads from your browser.

Browser extension

The extension now installs from your browser's store, updates itself, and catches more of what you download.

Install it from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons.
See the streams, videos and sounds a page has loaded, with their qualities, and download any of them.
VPN and proxy support: send downloads through the browser's proxy or VPN extension (off until you turn it on).
See why a download stayed in the browser, and which setting to change.
More browsers supported: it now works in Zen, Helium, LibreWolf, Floorp and Waterfox too.

Video and Images

MDM now goes well beyond single videos: whole playlists, subtitles, sound on its own, and picture galleries.

Playlist and channel support: download a whole playlist or channel from a video site: tick the videos you want and pick one quality for all.
Subtitle support: download a video's subtitles, saved beside it or put into it.
Audio-only support: download just a video's sound, as MP3, Opus or FLAC.
Signed-in video support: download videos that need you signed in, using your browser's cookies.
Image gallery support: download whole galleries (Flickr, Imgur, DeviantArt and more) with gallery-dl.

Torrents

Torrents grew into a full client: watch while they download, follow feeds, or let your debrid service do the work.

Sequential download support: download a torrent in order, so you can watch it while it downloads.
RSS support: follow feeds and add new torrents automatically, by your own rules.
Debrid support: use your Real-Debrid, AllDebrid or Premiumize account for torrents and file-host links.
Limit seeding and upload, recheck files, reannounce, add trackers, and block IPs with a blocklist.

Downloads

Hand MDM a pile of links or a Google Drive link and let it get on with it.

Link grabber: paste many links, MDM groups them, checks which are online, and extracts archives when they arrive.
Google Drive support: links now download the actual file instead of Drive's web page.
Up to 128 connections per download, if you turn it on.
The Scheduler can wake the computer to run a queue.

Network

Decide exactly how MDM reaches the internet, and see where your files come from.

Send every download through one network adapter, such as your VPN's. If it drops, nothing goes out through your normal connection.
Custom DNS support: choose who looks up addresses: Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AdGuard, NextDNS or your own, over HTTPS, TLS or plain.
See each download's server: its country, flag and round trip.

Interface

Bigger when you need it, faster to open, and closer to your system.

Make every window larger, up to 200 %: View → Interface size, or Ctrl + and Ctrl −.
Direct3D 12, Vulkan and Metal support: MDM draws with Direct3D 12 on Windows; Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS are options.
Every file name now has its file-type icon, the one your system uses.
The built-in categories can now be renamed, given other file types, or deleted.
Hide a download's progress window to the notification area while it keeps going.
When MDM starts with the computer, it now waits in the notification area instead of opening its window.

Other

Smaller additions worth knowing about.

System keychain support: passwords and account sign-ins are now kept in your system's keychain, not in MDM's settings.
Use your own copies of yt-dlp and ffmpeg instead of MDM's.
AppImage tools support: the AppImage can update through them, downloading only what changed.
Website: a page for every feature, a Themes gallery, and a hall of fame.

Changed

MDM got much lighter, and Linux is now supported like Windows.

Linux is no longer experimental: checked on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon, and on clean Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.
Downloads are smaller: setup.exe 23 → 16 MB, AppImage 36 → 20 MB, .deb 27 → 17 MB.
Under 10 MB of memory in the notification area on Windows, from about 50 MB.
Machine translations in all 85 languages were checked again against the English and corrected.
Downloads from the browser keep the name, size and type the browser saw, so downloads behind a sign-in show correctly right away.
MDM follows every kind of redirect a browser does, including "your download starts in a moment" pages.
Freeze reports now say whether MDM was stuck in a loop, waiting on something, or the computer was too busy to run it.

Removed

No features were removed, only an old label and some bulky files.

The -experimental label on the Linux files (macOS keeps it).
The 80 MB universal Mac download: there's now one for Apple Silicon and one for Intel. Coming from 0.2.4, update once by hand: Download in Check for updates opens the release.
The separate 28 MB command-line program: now a 0.2 MB launcher, every command works as before.

Fixed

More than 80 fixes. The main ones:

Firefox and Waterfox: MDM now takes the download before the browser's file dialog, so the browser doesn't download it too.
The extension now reaches MDM from Ubuntu's Snap Firefox and from Brave Origin.
Download File Info and the progress window open in front of the browser.
No more black band across menus and windows on Windows 11 Insider builds.
Text is sharper on Windows.
A slow start no longer makes MDM give up on Direct3D and stay on OpenGL.
Linux: menus open in the right place and appear at once on Hyprland and similar compositors.
Linux: dark mode follows the desktop, and a slow keyring or sleep service no longer freezes the window.
No more crash when a magnet link or browser download arrives while MDM is minimized or in the tray.
A minimized MDM keeps running its queues and Scheduler.
Downloads no longer fail with "part file still in use" on a busy computer.
Links that work only once no longer fail with "403 Forbidden".
YouTube's "Requested format is not available" no longer stops a download: MDM takes the nearest quality below.
Stop now also stops yt-dlp, which used to keep downloading in the background.
Buttons fit their text in every language.
Screen readers read lists, menus and windows properly.

Security

This release tightens what MDM accepts from torrents.

Unsafe file names in torrents are refused.
When a torrent's files are already in the folder, MDM asks before writing into them.
Files from torrents are marked as downloaded from the internet, so SmartScreen and Gatekeeper check programs before they first run.
MDM no longer contacts torrent trackers on this computer or the local network.
The torrent library, librqbit, is updated to 9.1.0.

Every change in detail

Added

Themes and the look

Themes: View → Theme (#45).
Classic is MDM's look, unchanged and still the default. Native takes your system's
colours: Windows' accent colour and, when it is on, its contrast theme; the desktop's accent
colour and higher-contrast setting on Linux (GNOME 47 and later, KDE Plasma); the accent colour
on macOS; it follows them when they change. High contrast is black and white with a bright
accent, every edge drawn and text at 7:1 or more. A theme applies at once, light and dark alike,
and theme files in the themes folder (View → Theme → Open themes folder) are listed too;
High contrast is itself such a file, in the same format. Six style themes keep the layout and
bring their own control shapes, icons and, on Windows, a title bar MDM draws (resizing, Snap
Layouts on Maximize, double-click and Alt+Space work as with the system's):
- Metro, after Windows 8's flat look: square corners, flat buttons, boxes that take an
  accent border when focused, check boxes with a tick, a bordered progress bar, scroll bars with
  their arrows always shown, one-colour icons (Microsoft's Fluent UI System Icons, MIT) and a
  title bar in the theme's colour with the title centred.
- Adwaita, after GNOME's look: round corners, flat grey buttons, a rounded focus ring, boxes
  that take a ring when focused, GNOME's check boxes and radio buttons, GNOME's Adwaita icons
  (LGPL-3.0), in colour for files and categories and one colour in the toolbar, and a header bar
  with the title in bold and round buttons.
- Breeze, after KDE Plasma's look: rounded corners, buttons and boxes whose edge takes the
  accent under the pointer or when focused, KDE's check boxes and radio buttons (the accent's
  edge, a tick in the text's colour), a focus frame, KDE's Breeze icons (LGPL-3.0-or-later) and
  a title bar in KDE's style: the title centred, round buttons that fill under the pointer
  (Close in red).
- Luna, Aero and Aqua, after Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Leopard), each with a light
  and a dark side and icons drawn for MDM in its era's manner. Luna: buttons shaded from
  white with a dark blue edge and an orange glow under the pointer, green ticks, square text
  boxes, progress in green blocks and a deep blue title bar with the title in bold and square
  buttons (Close red). Aero: glossy buttons in two halves that turn light blue under the
  pointer, quiet check boxes, a glossy green progress bar and a glassy title bar, the title on
  a soft glow, its buttons hung from the top (Close wider and red). Aqua: gel buttons round
  at the ends (the default one blue), glossy check boxes, a blue focus ring, a blue gel progress
  bar and a grey title bar with the title centred and small round graphite buttons whose glyphs
  show under the pointer. Every glyph and shade is MDM's own drawing; none of Microsoft's or
  Apple's pictures or fonts are used.
- MDM's own icons where Metro, Adwaita and Breeze had none: Metro's Hide to the
  notification area, Adwaita's PDF, torrent file and Hide to the notification area, and
  Breeze's PDF and Hide to the notification area, drawn for MDM in each one's style (the
  one-colour ones in the theme's text colour).
- Theme files: every colour and size MDM's controls are drawn with (corner radii, borders,
  font sizes, the list's row height, the icons' ink) comes from the theme, by role; the classic
  look is that theme, unchanged pixel for pixel. A theme file (TOML or JSON in the data folder's
  themes folder) can change any role, choose each control's style ([controls]) and an icon
  set, and a theme can be a folder that brings its own icons. An icon set can mix PNG pictures
  with SVG drawings, and one-colour icons (-symbolic.svg, -symbolic.png, drawn in the
  theme's text colour) with coloured ones, and hold pictures at 32 and 48 pixels, used on a
  screen scaled to 150 % and more: the style themes' pictures stay sharp there.
- Base16 and pywal colour schemes as themes: a Base16 or Base24 scheme (.yaml, the
  classic layout and tinted-theming's palette: one) or pywal's colors.json (wallust's
  pywal-shaped one too), added with View → Theme → Add a theme file… or put in the themes
  folder, is a theme on the classic look: only the colours change. base00 and base01 are the
  backgrounds, base05 and base04 the text, base0D the focus, the selection and the progress bar
  (pywal: its background and foreground, color4); text is kept at 4.5:1 or more against every
  background and the accent at 3:1, moved a little where a scheme falls short. Once wal has
  run, View → Theme lists pywal, read from where pywal writes it
  (~/.cache/wal/colors.json, %USERPROFILE%\.cache\wal\colors.json on Windows), and MDM
  follows each new wallpaper's colours within two seconds. A theme file can inherits a scheme
  to change more than its colours.
View → Interface size (#262):
every window larger, 100 % to 200 %, on top of the system's display scale; Ctrl +,
Ctrl − and Ctrl 0 in any MDM window, as in a browser. Every open window follows at once
(dialogs, menus, the drop target) and MDM starts at that size, the crash report window too. A
window larger than the screen opens as large as the screen allows and scrolls the rest, its
title bar on the screen.
View → Always dark (#60):
MDM stays dark whatever the system says, for a desktop that reports no light or dark
preference (MDM also reads it on Linux now, see Fixed).
A file-type icon before every file name or folder
(#122): the download list,
Download File Info, Properties, Download complete (its open folder), Add torrent (the torrent and
its tree), a torrent's Files tab, the progress window's Save To, the Scheduler's files, Batch
download's preview, and Download video's qualities and a playlist's videos (the file each one
gives). Each is your system's own icon for that type, the one its file manager shows: Windows
Explorer's, macOS Finder's, or your Linux desktop's icon theme (KDE's, GNOME's or GTK's choice,
then the themes it builds on). It is sharp at every display scale (125, 150, 200 %), taken at
the size the screen needs. Each type is looked up once, in the background, so a long list never
waits for it. Where the system has no icon for a type (a Linux desktop without an icon theme),
MDM draws one of its own, from the Tango icons (public domain).
Windows: MDM draws with Direct3D 12 (#89).
Its windows open faster (about a quarter of a second sooner on our test PC), and Direct3D may
avoid the stalls some graphics drivers' OpenGL has
(#82). View → Draw with
goes back to OpenGL, as before, from the next start; a choice of OpenGL is kept. The window
always opens: when Direct3D can't start, its first frame doesn't come within 10 seconds, or a
start with it ends before its first frame, MDM draws with OpenGL until Direct3D is chosen
again (the menu says so, and why); without a usable OpenGL either, it draws with Microsoft's
software renderer (Remote Desktop, virtual machines without a graphics driver). When the
graphics card is reset while MDM runs (a driver update), MDM starts again by itself. Freeze and
crash reports say what was drawing. Linux and macOS keep OpenGL by default.
Linux: Vulkan, and macOS: Metal, in View → Draw with (#206).
Linux can draw its windows with Vulkan (on Wayland and X11), and macOS with Metal, the way
Windows draws with Direct3D. OpenGL stays the default there until reports from real graphics
cards are in: try it and tell us how it went. The same safety net as on Windows: when Vulkan
or Metal can't start (no driver for it), its first frame doesn't come within 10 seconds, or a
start with it ends before its first frame, MDM draws with OpenGL until it is chosen again, and
the menu says why. A graphics card reset while MDM runs starts MDM again.
Hide to the notification area (#63):
a download's progress window has a button that hides it in the tray while the download goes
on: on Windows in its title bar, left of Minimize (the progress window draws its own Windows 11
title bar now, keeping the system's snapping, shaking, menu and shadow), and in its Alt+Space
menu; on Linux and macOS at the end of its tab row. The tray menu's new Downloads in
progress lists the running downloads to bring one's window back (double-clicking it in the
list does too). With Options → General → Minimize to the notification area (on by
default), Minimize hides the main window and progress windows there as well. Only where a tray
shows MDM's icon.
Started with the computer, MDM waits in the notification area
(#226): with Options →
General → Launch Mister Download Manager on startup, MDM no longer opens its window in front
at every sign-in. It starts hidden, its icon in the notification area, with its downloads,
queues, Scheduler and browser hand-overs running; its icon, or starting MDM again, shows the
window as before. The same on Linux and macOS; where no notification area shows MDM's icon
(some Linux desktops), it starts minimized, and the option's tooltip says so (it waits for
one up to 30 seconds after its icon is made, its window hidden: a desktop's can come up after
MDM at sign-in). The startup entry now passes /startup (new on the
command line); an entry written by an earlier version or its installer
is written again at the next start, and the installer writes the new one.
Drop-down lists for screen readers: a screen reader or UI Automation can now set a
drop-down list's choice by its text, and open or close the list.

Downloads

Downloads through one network adapter, with a kill switch
(#35): Options → Proxy /
Socks → Network adapter. Pick one, usually your VPN's, and every connection MDM opens goes out
through it or not at all: downloads, FTP, the DNS you chose, MDM's own downloads and the update
check. When the adapter disconnects, nothing goes out through your normal connection. Running
downloads stop and start again when it's back. The command line's get takes --adapter. PAC
scripts' myIpAddress no longer opens a network socket on Windows.
- Video pages and image galleries go through it too, on Windows, Linux and macOS: video
  downloads (yt-dlp and the ffmpeg it starts) and galleries (gallery-dl) go through a proxy MDM
  runs on this computer, which opens their connections through the adapter as MDM opens its
  own, with the DNS you chose, IPv4 and IPv6. The same kill switch: when the adapter
  disconnects, their connections close at once and the downloads stop, then start again when
  it is back. Formats over RTMP, RTSP, MMS or FTP, which can't go through it, are refused. The
  command line's video-get and gallery-get take --adapter.
- Torrents go through it on Windows too
  (#143): every torrent
  connection goes out from the adapter's address, with the same kill switch as downloads:
  peers, trackers, the DHT and the listening port. When the adapter disconnects, torrents stop,
  nothing goes out another way, and they start again when it is back.
- Only ftps:// (FTP with implicit TLS) can't be held to an adapter yet, so it doesn't start
  while one is chosen.
Choose the DNS (#36):
Options → Connection → DNS picks who turns names into addresses for downloads, FTP, MDM's
own downloads and the update check. The system's (the default), Cloudflare, Google, Quad9,
AdGuard, NextDNS (with your configuration ID) or your own, asked over HTTPS (the default), TLS,
or plain over TCP. Test shows how long it takes to answer. When it can't be reached, the
download stops with a message naming it, unless you allow falling back to the system's DNS;
your hosts file and local names stay with the system's. The command line's get takes
--dns. Torrent trackers still use the system's DNS, and so do video pages and galleries
unless a network adapter is chosen.
Where a download's server is (#140):
Download File Info, the progress window and Properties show the server's country, with
its flag, and its round trip, such as about 24 ms (near), in green, amber or red. The country
comes from a table that ships with MDM (IP to Country Lite by DB-IP,
CC BY 4.0, refreshed with each release), looked up on the computer: no address is sent
anywhere. The time is measured from the download's own connections, with nothing extra sent.
Through a proxy MDM says so instead of guessing, and a CDN's server (Cloudflare, CloudFront,
Fastly, Akamai and others) is said to be the CDN's, not the site owner's. Properties keeps what
the last run saw. MDM is about 770 KB larger (the table 674 KB, the flags 95 KB).
More than 32 connections per download, if you want them (#12):
Options → Connection now takes any number from 1 to 32, typed or set with the arrows,
and Allow more than 32 connections raises that to 128, for server exceptions too. Servers
that allow fewer are still noticed and asked for fewer. The command line's -c takes 1 to 128.
Google Drive links (#34):
paste a Drive file's link (drive.google.com/file/d/…/view, …/uc?id=…, …/open?id=…) and
MDM downloads the file itself, as it was uploaded, over several connections and resumable,
with its real name and size in Download File Info. Large files get past Drive's "can't scan
this file for viruses" page as Download anyway does. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides come
as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. A private file downloads with the sign-in the extension
passes from the browser. When Drive won't give a file (too many downloads lately, sign-in
needed, no access), MDM says so in your language instead of saving Drive's page. The video
button over a Drive video downloads the original file. Folders aren't downloaded yet: MDM
says the link is a folder. See Google Drive links.
Link grabber, and archives extracted when they are downloaded
(#37). The window that took
the browser's "Download all links", Tasks → Import and dropped lists grew into Link grabber
(also Tasks → Link grabber..., where pasted links go). Links come in packages: a split
archive's volumes together, the other links of a page together, the rest in "Various files".
Each link is looked up for its name, size and whether the server has it (Offline links come
unticked), and each package has its folder, an archive password, "Extract when done" and
"Delete archives after extracting". Start or Add to queue (IDM's import, unchanged:
an .ef2 file still brings each download's referrer and cookies). MDM extracts ZIP (AES and
Deflate64 too), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, GZ and XZ itself; 7z and RAR need 7-Zip (split .7z.001
and .partN.rar too), and a window says so when it isn't installed. It extracts when a package
says so, for any download with Options → Archives → Extract archives when their download
completes (off by default), or with right-click → Extract. A split archive is extracted
once its last volume is in. Extracted files are marked as downloaded from the internet, as the
archive is; names that would leave the folder, links, and archives that would fill the disk are
refused; an existing file is never overwritten. The archive goes to the Recycle Bin (the Trash)
only when you ask. Options has a new Archives page.
Image galleries (#58): a
gallery's address in Add URL (a Wikimedia Commons category, a Flickr album, a DeviantArt or
Imgur gallery and more) opens Download a gallery, which downloads its pictures with
gallery-dl into a folder of their own, all of them or the first N. Started again, a gallery
fetches only its new pictures. gallery-dl is an optional helper like yt-dlp: installed from its
releases only when signed by its author's key, or your own copy (Helpers). On the command line:
install-gallery-dl and gallery-get.
The built-in categories are yours to change (#93):
Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs and Video can be renamed, given other file types and
deleted, like your own categories (right-click → Properties or Delete). A renamed category keeps
its folder. Deleting one asks what happens to its downloads: move them to General, or take them
off the list; their files stay either way. Options → Save to → Restore the built-in
categories brings them back as they came. General and Torrents still change only their folder.

Videos

Playlists and channels (#69):
Download video from a page lists a playlist's or a channel's videos, with their lengths, all
ticked, with Select all and Select none. One quality applies to all of them (the best, up to a
height, the original sound, MP3, Opus or FLAC). Each video gets its own download, in a folder
named after the list, and Download Now starts the main queue, which runs as many at once as its
settings say. A playlist is listed as its videos come in; the listing can be stopped and taken
up again (List the rest), and one the site breaks off says after how many videos and why. A
channel is listed 50 videos at a time, with Load more. Lists of thousands stay quick, and adding
more than 500 downloads asks first. On the command line: playlist-info and playlist-get.
Video subtitles (#68):
Download video from a page lists the video's subtitle languages, the uploader's first, then the
site's automatic captions (in the language spoken, English and yours). They're saved beside the
video as <name>.<language>.srt, or put into the video with ffmpeg (MP4, MKV), and the choice is
offered again for the next video. Subtitles a site refuses (YouTube limits how often they may
be fetched) never cost the video: MDM asks once more after a pause, then says which are missing.
On the command line: video-get --subs, --auto-subs, --embed-subs; video-info lists them.
A finished video and its subtitles are now marked as downloaded from the internet, as other
downloads are.
A video's sound as MP3, Opus or FLAC
(#32,
#70): Download video lists
Audio only MP3 at its best variable bitrate (VBR) and at 320, 256, 192 and 128 kbps, after
the sound in the site's own format, now named Audio only, original. ffmpeg converts it (on
Windows MDM offers to install it, as for the best video qualities; on Linux and macOS it uses
the system's), and the browser's Download video button offers the same. Under the MP3 ones,
Audio only OPUS (YouTube's Opus is only moved into an .opus file, not converted) and
Audio only FLAC (lossless, with an honest note in the window: it can't add quality the
site's lossy sound doesn't have, the file is only bigger). The command line takes
video-get --format mp3:192 (mp3:0 for VBR), -f opus: and -f flac:.
Cookies for video sites
(#229): Options → Sites
Logins can let yt-dlp read a browser's cookies on this computer (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave,
Opera, Vivaldi, Chromium, Whale; Safari on macOS), with a profile by name or folder, so a pasted
link to a video that needs you signed in (YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot")
works. Off by default. When the browser's extension passes the page's own cookies, those are
used instead. When the browser's cookies can't be read (Chrome, Edge and Brave lock them on
Windows; a locked keyring on Linux), the Download video window says so in plain words.
Your own yt-dlp and ffmpeg (#51):
Download video from a page → Helpers... shows where each comes from, and Use another
program... takes a copy you already have instead of MDM's own (checked once, then used by
the window and the command line alike; MDM leaves its updates to you). Use MDM's own copy
goes back.

Torrents

Download in order (#39): to
watch a video while it downloads, tick Download in order in Add torrent, or choose
Torrent → Download in order in the list's right-click menu, even while it runs. A file's
start comes first, and with First and last pieces first (on by default) its end comes early
too, which most video files need before they play. Slower peers take pieces a little further
on, so the start isn't waiting for them. Other torrents now download the rarest pieces first,
as BitTorrent programs usually do: on MDM's test swarms they finished just as fast, and they
finished where a scarce piece's only holder left. Torrents already in the list carry on, with
nothing checked again. MDM also honours a peer's request to cancel a piece it no longer needs,
so its upload isn't spent on data nobody wants.
RSS feeds (#39): Tasks →
RSS feeds... watches RSS and Atom feeds of torrents, lists their articles (download one by
hand), and its download rules add the new ones whose titles they match: words or regular
expressions, words to skip, an episode filter (1x2;1x5-8;2x1-) that takes each episode once, a
folder per rule. A feed's backlog is never downloaded by itself.
Torrent commands (#39): a
torrent's right-click menu has Torrent → Recheck files, Reannounce, Add trackers...
and Copy magnet link. Its Files tab can tick and untick files while it runs. A .torrent
file's web address, in Add URL or from the browser, opens Add torrent with what the file holds.
TORRENT is in Options → File types' defaults, so the browser hands .torrent files over; a
list saved before keeps what it had.
Seeding and upload limits, and a share ratio that lasts
(#39): under "Keep sharing
torrents after they finish", Torrent settings can stop sharing a finished torrent at a share
ratio, or after it has been shared for some minutes; both off by default. A torrent stopped so
says it in its event log and isn't shared again at the next start. Torrent settings can limit
what all torrents together send, and a torrent's progress window can limit its own, kept with
it. Its General tab now counts what it sent and how long it shared over all its runs, so the
share ratio no longer starts again at 0 after a pause or a restart.
Torrent settings: the network is yours to choose
(#40): accept incoming
connections or not, map the port with UPnP or not, a fixed port, the DHT, finding peers on the
local network, a SOCKS5 proxy from Proxy / Socks (which turns off what would go around it), an
IP blocklist (P2P or eMule format, fetched again every 7 days), and stopping the torrent engine
when no torrent runs. A new help page, Torrents and your security,
says what others can see and what each switch does.
Torrents through your debrid account
(#44): with Send torrents and
magnet links to the first account instead of to peers ticked (Options → Accounts), a
magnet link or a .torrent file goes to the account. Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize
download the torrent on their servers, and the list shows how far they are (45% at
Real-Debrid). MDM then downloads its files over HTTP, with all its connections and resume,
and removes the torrent from the account's list. Your computer never connects to the torrent's
peers. Experimental, as the accounts are.

Debrid accounts, experimental

Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize (#44):
Options → Accounts keeps your debrid service accounts. Real-Debrid signs in by code in the
browser, or with your API token; AllDebrid by a PIN in the browser or with an API key, and MDM
waits while it prepares a slow link; Premiumize with its API key. A link from a file host your
service supports is unlocked through your account, then downloaded with all of MDM's
connections, pause and resume, from Add URL, the browser's link menu and batch downloads. When
the direct link expires, MDM asks the service for a new one. The direct link is never shown or
copied, and the sign-in is kept like your other passwords (the system's keychain, below). Each
service is asked well under its request limit. See Debrid service accounts.
Experimental: built from the services' public API documentation, not yet confirmed with a real
paid account.
One link directly, and the command line
(#44): Download File Info
says which account a link goes through (Download through Real-Debrid (your account));
untick it to download that link directly. File Properties has the same choice for a
download in the list, and MDM keeps it after a restart. The command line's get and resume
go through the accounts of Options → Accounts too, and --direct skips them. A download
the browser had already started stays direct after a restart, and when one service doesn't
answer, the other accounts still work.

The browser extension

In the stores: the Firefox add-on is on addons.mozilla.org,
Mister Download Manager,
installed with one click and kept up to date by Firefox (and by Zen and LibreWolf); the
Chromium one is in the Chrome Web Store,
Mister Download Manager,
for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, installed with one click and kept up to date.
Chrome offers it by itself once MDM is installed, and the website, the help and the README
offer Add to Firefox and Add to Chrome first. The store's copy needs this release of
MDM: the helper of MDM 0.2.x serves only the copy in MDM's own folder, and the browser refuses
the store's (#208). The
store's copy shows no Download video button on YouTube, whose downloads the store's policy
forbids; Tasks → Download video from a page still takes any page.
MDM offers the browser extension: until a browser's extension has reached MDM, each start
shows Add Mister Download Manager to your browser, with a button for every browser
installed, which opens its store page (Install it by hand stays there for a browser that
can't use its store). The window says when the extension is connected; Don't ask again
stops it.
The extension's toolbar button says whether the browser reaches MDM. When it doesn't, a
red ! and How to fix it lead to the new help page, The browser and MDM aren't
connected, at the section for the
reason. Its popup also pauses taking downloads, leaves the current site to the browser for
good, and opens MDM or its Options.
Options → General → Test browser integration checks MDM's side in order (integration on,
the installed copy, the browsers can find MDM, which browsers' extension connected) and
offers Set it up when the browsers can't find MDM.
The extension lists the media a page has loaded
(#38). The toolbar button's
window has Media on this page: the HLS and DASH streams the page's players loaded (each
once, with its qualities and length) and the video and sound files it played, with their size.
Download sends a stream to the Download video window and a file to the list, with the
page's cookies, the page as the referrer and the browser's User-Agent, so a stream a page won't
give up can still be saved. Copy-protected (DRM) streams are listed as Protected and never
sent. Nothing new to allow: the extension already watched the tab's responses.
Downloads from a browser behind a VPN or proxy extension go through it too
(#42): the browser extension
passes the proxy the browser uses for a download (an extension's, or its settings' manual proxy
or auto-config script) with it. MDM downloads through the same proxy while Options → Proxy /
Socks → Use proxy/socks from a browser's request is on, which is the default. A proxy that
needs the VPN extension's own login can't be shared: the download says so rather than going
without it. It is an opt-in, off as installed: Send downloads through this browser's proxy or
VPN extension in the extension's popup. In Firefox the switch asks for the browser's proxy
permission (to read the browser's proxy, never to change it). Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and
Vivaldi can't make that permission optional, so their extension has it from the install; Chrome
counts it under the access to every site the extension already has, so the update asks for
nothing new. There the extension reads the browser's proxy settings: the server for the
download's scheme (honouring their bypass list), or their auto-config script. Addresses on
this computer (localhost, 127.0.0.1) go straight to it, as the browser sends them.
Zen, Helium and other browsers built on Firefox or Chromium (#41):
the extension reaches MDM in them, also when one is the only browser on Linux or macOS (Zen
reads Firefox's folder, which MDM now creates; Helium its own). Add Mister Download Manager
to your browser lists them, Zen, LibreWolf, Floorp and Waterfox by their own names (Options
too), and sends Firefox's family to the right page. On Windows MDM lists the browsers Windows
itself lists, so Helium is no longer taken for Chrome. Flatpak browsers can't start MDM's
helper, which the help page now says.
MDM says why the browser kept a download
(#208): every download left
to the browser by Options is a line in MDM's log naming the setting that decided (its type
isn't in File types, its site or address is excluded, it's under the minimum size, the
browser is unticked, browser integration is off, or the extension may not read the site), and
the extension's button shows the last one, with the file's name. A download from a private
window is logged without its name or site.
More file types taken from the browser by default
(#208): today's installers and
packages (DMG and PKG for macOS, DEB, RPM and APPIMAGE for Linux, MSIX, APPX, APPXBUNDLE and CAB
for Windows, JAR), archives (XZ, ZST, TGZ, TXZ) and WEBM, FLAC and OPUS join Options → File
types. A list never edited gains them on the next start; one you edited stays as it is.
Options → File types → Don't take files smaller than leaves small files (a receipt, an
icon) to the browser, and Edit list ... for the addresses left to the browser works.
PDFs, music and videos the browser would open itself are taken too, when their type is in
Options → File types (Options → General → Keys... turns it off). Hold Alt while
clicking a link to let the browser have it.
Download selected links and Download all links on the browser's right-click menu: the
page's links go to Import, to tick there.
Downloads from forms (a button that posts and gets a file back) are posted again by MDM,
with the form's data, instead of being lost. A form that sends a file (multipart) stays with
the browser.

Remote control, servers and scripts

Control MDM from your phone (#141):
Options → Remote, off by default. A phone or another computer on the local network, paired
with a code (or a QR code) MDM shows, opens a page MDM serves over HTTPS: it adds links, magnet
links and .torrent files, shows the list with its progress, pauses, starts and removes
downloads, and starts and stops the queues, in the phone's language. Only paired devices are
answered, each removable in Options, and only on the computer's private network addresses.
Guide.
Run MDM on a server (#157):
misterdownloadmanager --headless runs MDM without a window (a home server, a NAS, Docker,
Unraid), its folders and port set by flags or the environment; a Dockerfile, a Compose file
and an Unraid template come with it. Phones pair with the code it prints (or
misterdownloadmanager-cli pair), and the browser extension can send downloads to another
MDM. Guide.
The automation API's list also gives the queues, the categories and the free space; it starts
and stops a queue by name, and an added address can choose its category and queue.

Accounts, the Scheduler and support

Sign-ins in the system's keychain
(#44): debrid accounts, Sites
Logins' passwords and the proxy's password are kept in Windows Credential Manager, in the
system keyring on Linux (Secret Service: GNOME Keyring, KeePassXC and others) and in the
macOS keychain, and the settings keep only a reference. Those already saved move there on
the next start. A locked keyring is never unlocked and no keyring is ever asked for a
password: without one, they stay in MDM's settings as before, sealed for your Windows account
on Windows (the proxy's password now too, like Sites Logins' passwords). Options →
Accounts says where they are. A portable copy keeps them in its own folder, and uninstalling
with remove the download list and settings removes them from Credential Manager too.
The Scheduler wakes the computer to run a queue
(#142): tick Wake the
computer to run this queue under the start time, and a sleeping computer is woken a minute
before the queue starts and kept awake while it runs; the line under it says when. On Windows
it needs Allow wake timers in the power plan: when that is off the Scheduler says so, with a
link to the setting. On Linux an administrator has to allow it once (the guide shows how); on
macOS only an administrator can schedule a wake, so the option says why it's greyed. MDM never
asks for an administrator's password. The Scheduler is 40 pixels taller for it.
Support MDM: Help → Support MDM and a line in About open the creator's
GitHub Sponsors page in the browser; the website, the
README and the browser extension's popup link to it too. Only when asked: MDM stays free, with
no reminders, and nothing changes or unlocks.

Linux

The AppImage updates through AppImage tools too (#24):
it carries the address of its updates, and each release has its .AppImage.zsync, so
AppImageLauncher, Gear Lever and AppImageUpdate download only the parts that changed.
Update now works as before.
The Linux files are named without -experimental: the AppImage, .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz
are MisterDownloadManager-<version>-linux-x86_64.<ext>, and the .deb's and .rpm's
descriptions no longer call them an experimental build. Update now, the AppImage tools and the
website find them by either name. The macOS .dmg files keep -experimental.

The website

A page for every feature, and a Themes page
(#260): each feature has a page
of its own, with the real window, where to find it in the app, since which version, and what it
can't do yet; the home page lists them all, by group. The Themes page shows every built-in theme
in its light and dark side, and how to make your own theme file, try it without building MDM,
and share it, with a prompt to give an AI assistant. What isn't in a release yet says so.
Made possible by these amazing humans: the home page's first view thanks everyone who sent
a pull request, opened an issue or joined a conversation on GitHub, with their round photos; the new
Contributors page shows what each one did;
each release, on the News page and in its notes on GitHub, ends with the people who helped since
the one before; and the README thanks everyone too.

Changed

Downloads and the browser

A download from the browser keeps the browser's name, size and type: Download File Info no
longer asks the server again, so a link's own name (download="…"), a Unicode name and a
download behind a sign-in show right away, and correctly. When it must ask (an address typed
in), it asks with the cookies, referrer and User-Agent the download will use.
The address the browser was given is kept along with where its redirects led, so an expired
signed link (a GitHub release, a cloud drive) is renewed when resumed, and a site excluded in
Options is left alone even when it redirects to another.
MDM follows every kind of redirect a browser does (#28):
any HTTP redirect (301, 302, 303, 307, 308), up to 20 in a row instead of 10, and the pages
download sites put in between ("your download starts in a moment"), which lead on with a
Refresh header or a <meta http-equiv="refresh">: their wait is kept (up to 10 seconds), and
the cookies they set go along while the download runs (not into a resume later). A page that
leads on only through its own script still stops there.
The download button over videos passes the page's referrer, cookies and the browser's
User-Agent to yt-dlp, so videos that need a sign-in or play only where they're embedded work.
Files downloaded from the web are marked as downloaded from the internet, as the browser marks
its own: Windows' Mark of the Web (SmartScreen, Office's Protected View), macOS' quarantine.
Downloads from a private window are kept out of the saved list.
Torrents behind a proxy open no UDP socket toward the network: UDP trackers were already
left out there; now their client stays on this computer too.
Proxy auto-config scripts (PAC) run in QuickJS, a much smaller JavaScript engine, with
limits on memory and running time: a script that loops or grows forever now fails, as a broken
script does (the download goes on with the default proxy settings), instead of holding it.
The extension is called Mister Download Manager.

Smaller and lighter

MDM's programs and downloads are much smaller (#25):
on Windows, the programs went from 93 MB to 41 MB (misterdownloadmanager.exe from 61 MB to
38 MB, the command line from 28 MB to a 0.2 MB launcher), and setup.exe from 23 MB to 16 MB.
On Linux the AppImage went from 36 MB to 20 MB, the .deb from 27 MB to 17 MB.
- The command line runs in the app's own program, so the download engine ships once. Every
  command, --json, Ctrl+C and exit code work as before.
- The translations (85 languages besides English) are packed, 12 MB of text in under 1 MB
  without the translators' notes, and unpacked once at start.
- Release signatures are checked by MDM's own small verifier instead of a full OpenPGP
  library.
- The code that draws the windows is optimised for size (the engine stays optimised for
  speed), and the programs are optimised as a whole.
- Crash reports name functions from the release's symbol files only, without the debug-info
  reader a build from source can add.
- The installer packs tighter, and MDM's own code no longer carries the build machine's
  folder paths (a bundled C library still keeps a few of its own).
- Later, the program is built for size
  (#158), which takes the
  installer from 16.1 to 13.6 MB and the zips from 19.3 to 15.6 MB, with the same features and
  the same download speed.
Two smaller macOS downloads (#25):
a .dmg for Apple Silicon (-macos-arm64, about 14 MB) and one for Intel (-macos-x86_64,
about 16 MB) instead of one universal .dmg of 80 MB. From 0.2.4 or older, update once by hand:
Download in Check for updates opens the release; pick your Mac's .dmg. Update now
works again after that.
Less memory in the notification area (#72):
closed to the tray, or minimized there (on by default), MDM gives the memory it isn't using back
to Windows. Task Manager's Memory drops from about 50 MB to under 10 MB (with 500 downloads
in the list, from 58 to about 14 MB). It gives it back again 2 minutes after hiding, when the
clock's ticks and a one-time allocation have brought some back, then every 10 minutes while MDM
stays there. After the language list (which needs a font for every script) closes, those fonts
are let go: about 70 MB less than before. On Linux the heap's free memory goes back to the
system the same way. MDM uses a lot of memory
explains Task Manager's figures.

Reports, translations and help

Freeze reports say what kind of freeze it was (#57):
MDM measures how much processor time the window got while it didn't answer. The report then
says whether it ran all along (a loop), waited (a deadlock, or the disk or the network), or
hardly ran at all, which means a computer too busy to run MDM or slow to load it from disk,
most likely not a bug in MDM. Those last ones share one signature, so they find one issue
instead of many.
Better translations in every language. Every machine-translated text of the program and
of the website was read again against the English, with a style guide for each language (how
it writes commands, questions and labels) and the terms native reviewers settled, and fixed
where it was wrong or unnatural. Texts a person reviewed (all of Italian and Arabic) were left
as they are. New texts are translated the same way from now on.
Translators: a reviewed translation is never replaced by machine translation. A row whose
#, machine line a person deleted is kept by tools/i18n/translate.py in every case (--redo
included; a check it fails is printed for the person to decide), and CI fails a pull request
that drops such a row or marks it #, machine again (tools/i18n/reviewed_guard.py). The first
reviewed catalog is Italian (#150).
The help shows what it describes (#228):
every guide and the main help pages now have pictures of the windows they explain, cropped to
what matters, numbered where a step points at one control, and step strips for the usual flows
(a download from the browser, a first download, a video, a torrent, a queue overnight). On the
website they follow its light or dark theme, keep their place while they load, and open larger
with a click; their descriptions and captions are translated with the page. The pictures are
made by a script from one list (tools/shots/), so they can all be taken again in one go.

For developers

A Linux test machine, scripted (part of #164):
tools/lab/linux-vm/ sets up an Ubuntu 24.04 desktop in VirtualBox from a Windows host
(vm.ps1: hardware, headless start, linked clones; setup.sh: packages, Rust, Node, the
browsers, UI automation, an unlocked keyring), builds any branch or pull request there with a
quick test profile (build.sh), and checks pull requests on it: windows shot and compared
pixel by pixel (shots.sh, shot-host.sh, pixdiff.py), HLS and DASH hand-overs from the Snap
Firefox and Google Chrome (streams.mjs, streams-chrome.mjs), the extension's proxy switch
(proxy-optin.mjs), hand-overs and the Scheduler while minimized, torrents without a network,
and MDM's start-up time (measure.sh). Every change is now checked on Linux as on Windows. The
machine also has copies on KDE Plasma, Cinnamon and XFCE (desktop.sh), which get a build
copied over instead of making one (vm.ps1 deploy); a window harness shoots many windows from
one running MDM in any language, mode and theme, with real clicks and keys inside the machine
(win.sh, win-host.sh); and a store package is checked before it ships (store-check.mjs,
chrome-menu.mjs).
Linux builds and window shots in minutes, on WSL2 (part of
#164): tools/lab/wsl/ sets up
mdm-lab, an Ubuntu 24.04 WSL2 distribution of its own, which builds any branch or pull request
for Linux at the computer's full speed (build.sh: about 5 minutes from scratch, under a minute
after a change, against 15 to 60 in the VirtualBox machine), shoots MDM's windows in any language
and mode on a virtual screen that never shows on Windows (shots.sh: about a second a window,
against 40), compares OpenGL and Vulkan pixel by pixel (renderers.sh), and hands a build to a
VirtualBox machine for what needs a real desktop (deploy.ps1).
The engine tests no longer fail on a busy computer
(#123,
#136,
#201):
- the pause-and-resume and event-log tests no longer depend on how fast the machine is: the lab
  server can hold a byte back until a test lets it go (stall_at), and a test can wait until
  every request it made is in the server's log (#123);
- three end-to-end tests depended on timing: a refused connection coming back, the learned
  connection limit, and a dead address (a server without ranges was fixed earlier). Each now
  waits for the state it checks. The lab server can hold a connection slot for a test
  (hold_slot), and settled() now also means every slot is free (#136);
- nine more tests checked a time, a speed or a byte count that a starved CPU or a busy CI runner
  can't keep. Each now checks the state itself, or times from the event it is about: a slow
  request's own duration, a stop measured from Stop against a wait of minutes, the first bytes
  before a pause, a speed limit against a download the server paces at the same time (and every
  byte paid for once), parts asked again instead of a deadline, links that expire after a number
  of requests instead of milliseconds, range attempts a server without ranges answers slowly
  enough not to fill the sockets, and the bytes a sparse file takes on the drive. The
  slow-connection test now fails without shedding (it passed without it before). The lab server
  can hand out such links (/redirect?uses=N) and pace answers to range requests on their own
  (range_rate) (#201).
The host connection limit test tells a reconnect from a connection too many
(#224). A server sees that a
client dropped an answer only when it next writes to it, so on a busy computer a connection
that reconnects can be refused once while the server still counts its old answer. The lab
server now logs, with each refusal, how far the answers holding the client's slots had been
sent; the test fails only for a refusal none of them explains.
Tests no longer make Windows Firewall ask about them. The torrent tests and test tools
listen on 127.0.0.1 only (a new setting of the torrent engine, its listen address), so each new
build of a test no longer opens sockets on every address.
/show menu:<n> opens the menu bar's menu even with downloads in the list; it opened the
first download's right-click menu instead.

Fixed

The progress window's Download status tab is balanced: its rows sat 10 px below the
tab's top edge but touched its bottom edge; there are now 7 px above and below.
Where a download's server is says "this computer" or "the local network", each with its own
icon in the flag's place, instead of "this computer or the local network" with nothing; the dot
between the place and the time is round, where the font's thin "·" read as an apostrophe.
Windows: a slow start no longer turns Direct3D off (part of
#280): MDM gives Direct3D 10
seconds to show its first frame, and goes back to OpenGL when it doesn't. Those 10 seconds
counted MDM's own loading too (the list, the fonts, the icons), which can take that long by
itself on a busy computer just after it starts, so Direct3D was taken for failing and OpenGL drew
from then on. Only Direct3D's own time counts now. Crash and freeze reports say what drew, on
which graphics card and driver (OpenGL's too), and why, near their top, where a report cut to fit
still has it.
Linux: torrents work on a system without CA certificates too (part of
#264): the torrent engine built
its own connection for the trackers, which can't be made without them, so no torrent or magnet
link started there. It now uses MDM's: peers, the DHT and http:// trackers work, and an
https:// tracker fails saying there are no certificates to check it with.
Linux: uninstalling the .deb or .rpm leaves no browser files behind
(#266): MDM wrote the files
that tell each browser where its helper is in every user's home folder, and apt remove or
dnf remove left them there, naming a program that was gone. The packages now install them for
everyone, in each browser's own folder (Chrome and Brave, Chromium and Vivaldi, Edge, Firefox,
the Snap Firefox included), and remove them with the package; MDM writes none in the home
folder for those browsers, and takes away the ones an earlier version wrote. The AppImage and
the tar.gz, and Opera, Helium, Thorium and Firefox's forks (which read them only in the home
folder), still get them there.

Windows, menus and dialogs

Sharper text on Windows (#262):
Segoe UI and Tahoma are grid-fitted across as well as up and down, and each letter starts on a
whole pixel, as Windows draws its own grey text: upright strokes were two grey pixels wide at
100 % and 125 %, which read as blurred.
Menus opened near the screen's right or bottom edge flip inside it at every display scale and
interface size: the screen's edge was measured in pixels and the menu in points.
A menu shut with Escape opens again at the first click on its title: a menu opened from
the menu bar and shut with Escape, the pointer still on its title, was left marked open. On
Linux the next click on that title only "shut" it, and a second click was needed; on Windows
Escape seemed to do nothing (the menu came back at once). Escape, or MDM losing the focus, now
shuts the menu whatever the pointer rests on; a press on a title still shuts its own menu or
opens another.
Menus and the drop target without a black band across their top
(#208): on a Windows 11
Insider build (22635), every menu and submenu showed a black band a title bar tall across its
top and a thin one down its left side, its items moved down by as much and its last ones cut
off; so did the drop target (Tasks → Show drop target), its icon moved down. Each of these
windows had a title bar's style, hidden by MDM, and something on that build placed the window's
picture where the title bar would have ended. Menus and the drop target are now plain pop-up
windows, as Windows' own menus are, with nothing above their contents to take for a title bar;
every window of MDM without a title bar is made one the same way.
The progress window, and the windows with a style theme's title bar, without a black band
across their top (#208): on
the same Windows 11 Insider build, the progress window showed a black band a title bar tall
above its own title bar and a thin one down its left side, its contents moved down and cut off
at the bottom; so could every dialog and the main window with Metro, Luna, Aero or Aqua. MDM
draws these title bars itself, in windows that kept the system's title bar style, hidden.
On Windows 11 they now have no title bar style at all: the progress window and the dialogs are
plain windows, all theirs; the main window keeps the system's resizing edges, so it still
resizes, snaps and maximizes as before, with a thin strip of its title bar's colour above it.
Moving them by their title bar, their taskbar button, Alt+Tab and the window menu (Alt+Space,
or a right-click on the title bar) work as before. Windows 10 keeps the frames it had.
Windows: Download File Info and the progress window open in front of the browser
(#208): a download handed over
by the browser could open its window behind the browser, and stay there. Windows lets a
program in the background take the foreground only with the browser's say-so, which the user's
next click or key ends, and a window refused it opens under the program in front. Every dialog
and progress window of MDM that opens without the foreground now goes above the other
programs' windows, without taking the keyboard from the one being typed in: a click on it does,
as with Download complete.
A window closed with its title bar's × no longer turns black first
(#207): every dialog and the
progress window turned black for a moment when closed with the × or Alt+F4, rather than with
Esc or one of its buttons: one to several seconds on Linux, a few hundredths of a second on
Windows. The window now keeps its contents until it goes.
Dark mode: grey notes and error texts are easier to read
(#45): they now have the
contrast WCAG asks for (4.5:1) on every dark surface, Options' failed checks no longer use light
mode's dark red on the dark dialog, and an editable drop-down's arrow is tinted dark under the
pointer.
Download complete shows above other programs' windows, as IDM's does, so the end of a
download isn't missed (#77):
it doesn't take the keyboard from the program being typed in, and once clicked it is a window
like any other. Options opened from the extension's Button settings... comes to the front
(#77), instead of opening
behind the browser on Windows.
Dragging the file out of Download complete works in every language
(#78): the handle looked for the
English window title, so outside English the drag did nothing. The handle now says what it does
on hover. It is Windows only, and no longer shown on Linux and macOS, where it did nothing.
Help opens the website's help pages, in your language
(#227): Help contents,
Tutorials, Scheduler and queues, Video downloads, the Help buttons of Options and
the Scheduler, and the browser extension window's tutorial and help links opened the docs on
GitHub (the Options and Scheduler buttons a page that wasn't there). They open
misterdownloadmanager.com now, at the same section, in the interface language when the website
has it (else English), and Home Page opens the website too. The command line's and the MCP
server's help name the website's guide. Problem reports, releases and the source stay on GitHub.

Every language

Buttons fit their text in every language, in every window
(#192): many windows gave
their buttons a width made for English, so a longer translation was cut with "..." (German
Später herunterla... in Download File Info, Hilfsprogramme... in Download a gallery,
Russian Открыть с помощью... in Download complete, French Nouvelle file d’attente in the
Scheduler). Each button is now as wide as its translated text, and the buttons beside it move
along with the same gaps, the row keeping its end; a box or caption beside a widened button
ends before it. Where a window has no room left, the buttons wider than their text give some
back first. English is unchanged, and in Arabic and the other right-to-left languages the
buttons widen the mirrored way.
- Three more controls (after #212): in Russian and a few other languages, Download File
  Info's Preview, Options → Proxy's Get System and the Scheduler's drop-down after
  Turn off computer when done still ended in "...". Download File Info grows by what
  Preview's label needs (Russian, Ukrainian, Telugu, Belarusian and a few more), the Proxy
  page's title moves left to give Get System its room, and the Scheduler's drop-down widens
  towards its caption.
- The last languages (after #247): Options → Proxy's title takes two lines where one leaves
  Get System too little room (Bulgarian, Armenian, Tamil), and where it ran over the page's icon
  or past the window's left edge (Greek, Finnish, Catalan, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
  Malayalam, Serbian, Afrikaans). In Greek and Malayalam, the Scheduler's "Turn off computer
  when done" and its choices have shorter machine translations, so the drop-down fits beside
  the caption; in Belarusian, Welsh, French, Russian, Tamil and Ukrainian, the longer ones the
  translation review brought (such as Russian's Hibernate) are back to their earlier, shorter
  wording.
Download video: the buttons fit their text in every language
(#172): in German ffmpeg
installieren showed as "ffmpeg installie...", and in Russian Helpers... and Install
ffmpeg were cut too. Each button is now as wide as its translated text (English is unchanged),
and the page's title stops before the Install button instead of running under it. In Arabic
and the other right-to-left languages, a widened Hide tab in a download's window now grows
into the room beside it instead of towards the window's edge.
"Hide tab" was cut in longer languages (German "Registerkarte au..."): the button grows to
fit its label where there is room, through a shared helper other buttons can use.
Add torrent: the labels fit in every language: in German, Speichern unter ran under
its field.
A long file name ran out of the progress window (#62):
on the Options on completion tab, a longer translation of "Save To:" (Turkish, German…)
ran into the path, and the path ran past the window's edge. The label now takes the room its
language needs, and the path is shortened in the middle, keeping the file's name in sight,
and shown whole on hover; right-to-left languages included.
The crash report window in other languages
(#204): in any language but
English, the report in its box ran together on a few long lines, as its line breaks were taken
for a translation's and flowed again. The report now keeps its own lines in every language, and
in Arabic and Persian it reads left to right, from the box's left edge, as the English data it
is (the window around it stays right to left). The release notes in Check for updates keep
their lines the same way. End and restart MDM showed cut in German, French, Russian and
Arabic: the buttons are now as wide as their text, the others giving back room they don't need.
The crash report window's status line stays inside the window
(#164): the line above the
check box ("The symbols couldn't be fetched: …", an issue's title, a translation) ran past the
window's right edge, or its left edge in Persian. It is now cut with "…" at the margin and shown
whole under the pointer. Its title ("Mister Download Manager crash report") is now in MDM's
language too; it was always in the system's. On Windows that also gives its title bar MDM's
light or dark again in every language: outside English it kept Windows' own mode.
The extension's popup: Open Mister Download Manager shows whole
(#164): on Linux, whose fonts
are wider, and in longer languages, the button was cut to "Open Mister Do…". Each button is now
as wide as its text, and Options moves below it when both don't fit on one line.
Numbers are written the interface language's way (#128):
counts, sizes, speeds, percentages and the list's columns group and point their digits as the
chosen language does (German 10.200 and 1,50 MB, French 10 200, Hindi 1,00,000),
whatever the Windows region; a region in the same language keeps its own way (Swiss German
10’200). English is unchanged.
Download complete's Open with... stayed in English in every other language
(#80). The tool that collects
MDM's texts for translation now also finds labels given through a window's own helpers, and
checks in CI that it keeps finding them.
Download File Info's errors are worded in the interface language, as the list's are.
Bangla shows Bangladesh's flag instead of India's, in the language picker, on the website and
in the README (#27).

Linux

Ubuntu's Firefox reaches MDM (part of #164):
the Snap Firefox never makes the folder MDM looked for, so browser integration wasn't set up
for it and its extension couldn't find MDM. It is now, and the Snap goes through the desktop,
which asks once (Allow); the help says how to be asked again after Don't allow.
Chromium as a Snap ran MDM's helper inside its sandbox, away from MDM (it started a second,
sandboxed MDM): MDM no longer offers it, and the help says why.
Brave Origin connects, and the AppImage's helper is always there
(#253): Brave Origin keeps
its settings in a folder of its own (~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Origin), which MDM didn't
know, so its extension said MDM wasn't installed. MDM now sets up Brave Origin, the Beta, Dev
and Nightly versions of Brave, Chrome and Edge, and Vivaldi's snapshot; on macOS, Brave reads
Chrome's folder, which MDM now writes for it. From the AppImage, MDM copies the helper program
the browsers start out of the AppImage under a new name and swaps it in, so a browser still
running the old copy no longer keeps the new one out, and puts it back at each start if it went
missing. A copy or setup that fails is written to MDM's log, and Test browser integration
says when the helper program is missing, when no browser was found, or why setting it up
failed.
Dark Mode support follows the desktop, on every desktop
(#156): View → Dark Mode
support did nothing on Linux: MDM asked the window system for the desktop's light or dark
setting, and X11 never says. It now asks the desktop itself (the freedesktop portal, which KDE,
GNOME, Cinnamon and most others answer) and follows it as it changes. Where the portal doesn't
answer, as on XFCE and MATE, MDM stayed light under a dark theme: it now reads the theme the
desktop gives its programs (a name such as Adwaita-dark, Mint-Y-Dark or Greybird-dark is dark),
GNOME's own dark style setting when there is no portal, and GTK's settings with no desktop at
all, and follows changes as they happen. The portal still comes first. A change now shows at
once too: the window waited for its next theme check, up to 20 s on a busy machine, on every
desktop.
Menus open where they belong: in a Wayland session they opened in the middle of the screen
(#50), as Wayland lets no
program place its windows, and MDM's menus and drop-down lists are windows it places; MDM now
runs through XWayland when it is there (MDM_WAYLAND=1 keeps Wayland). Under tiling
compositors such as sway (#267),
through XWayland, the menu bar's menus, their submenus, the right-click menus and the drop-down
lists still opened in the middle of the screen, as the compositor placed them like windows. They
are now menu windows no window manager places, as X11 menus are, so they open where MDM puts
them, on every window manager.
Linux: menus appear at once, as menus, on compositors that animate windows (Hyprland,
picom with fading, #277).
Before the fix above, Hyprland gave MDM's menus a window's border and slid each one down from
the top of the screen. And moving from title to title along the menu bar closed one menu
window and opened another, so such a compositor faded each menu out and the next one in at
every switch. The menu bar's menus now share one window that moves from title to title, as a
submenu's window already did from item to item, and each menu window says which menu it is (a
drop-down menu, a right-click menu, a drop-down list), as GTK's and Qt's do.
Leaving a submenu no longer closes the whole menu
(#250): with a submenu open
(Tasks → Import, Downloads → Speed Limiter), moving the pointer back onto its menu, to another
item, closed the menu itself as well. Some window managers (KWin, sway) give a submenu's window
the focus; when the submenu closed, its window handed the focus on, and for a moment no window
of MDM had it, which counted as MDM losing the focus. A menu now closes for that only when the
focus stays away (a click in another program). A submenu also closes when the pointer rests on
another item without moving, instead of waiting for the next move.
The window couldn't be closed on desktops without a tray, such as MangoWC
(#59): closing hid it to a tray
that wasn't there. Closing now hides to the tray only when a tray shows MDM's icon, and quits
otherwise. (The menus and dark mode there: see #50 and #60.)
The first window opens seconds sooner, and no longer freezes on a busy computer
(part of #164): MDM asked
fontconfig for its fonts one at a time (one program for each of some thirty scripts, more each
time the language list opened) while the window waited, 2 s on an idle computer and long
enough on a busy one for a freeze report on the very first start. It now asks once, all
together, while the rest of MDM starts.
Open folder no longer freezes the window
(#222): Download complete's
Open folder asks the desktop's file manager (over D-Bus) to show the file, and MDM waited
for its answer on the window's own thread. A file manager slow to start, or one that never
answered (seen on Pop!_OS), froze the window until the freeze report caught it. MDM now asks in
the background and, when the file manager hasn't answered within 5 seconds, opens the folder
instead. Every other program MDM starts from a window goes the same way, on every system: Test
browser integration's Set it up, moving an extracted archive to the Trash (on a Mac the
Finder may ask first), putting an update in place (Installing the update..., with Cancel
greyed while it runs), opening pages and folders, reading the icon theme on Linux and, on a
Mac, the accent colour (every 2 seconds with the Native theme) and the system's version for a
bug report.
The window no longer freezes when the system's sleep or keychain service is slow
(follows #222): a queue set to
Wake the computer to run this queue asks the system to keep the computer awake while it
runs. On Linux that is logind, which can be slow to answer just after the computer wakes,
exactly when such a queue starts, and MDM waited for it on the window's own thread (asking
again every 5 seconds while it refused). It is now asked in the background, on every system;
the queue's downloads, retries and log lines are the same. A keyring that doesn't answer at
start (a stopped GNOME Keyring) is now waited for once, at most 5 seconds, instead of once per
saved password, and saving the list no longer asks it at all. On Linux the check for a tray to
hide windows in, and in Download File Info the check that Save As isn't a folder (slow on a
network share that doesn't answer), no longer run on the window's thread on every frame.
The .deb and .rpm bring what MDM's window needs (part of
#164): on a system without
libxkbcommon-x11 (a minimal install, a container), MDM installed from them stopped at start
under X11 and XWayland, and without the CA certificates (Debian's minimal install) no download
started. They now require both, and EGL for Wayland windows. They also require the glibc the
programs were built against, read from the programs themselves, instead of a fixed version: a
package built on a newer system no longer installs on an older one where it can't start.
A missing window library is named, with how to install it
(#265): from the tar.gz or the
AppImage, on a system without libxkbcommon-x11 (or another library X11 windows need), MDM
stopped at start with a crash. It now says which library is missing and the command that
installs it (apt, dnf, zypper, pacman or apk, by the distribution), on the terminal and in a
message box (zenity or kdialog, when there is one). In a Wayland session it opens its window
on Wayland instead, saying so.
Plain HTTP downloads work on a system without CA certificates
(#264): on a minimal install
without the ca-certificates package (the tar.gz, the AppImage or a source build), no download
started, http:// ones included ("No CA certificates were loaded from the system"). Plain HTTP
and FTP now work there, and each HTTPS or FTPS download fails at once, without retrying, saying
that the computer has no certificates to check the server with and to install
ca-certificates.
Galleries work with the gallery-dl a Linux distribution ships
(#236): with Ubuntu 24.04's
gallery-dl 1.26.9 chosen in Helpers, every gallery failed at once ("unrecognized arguments:
--no-input"): MDM passed options that only newer releases know. MDM now reads the chosen
gallery-dl's version and passes only what that release accepts, from 1.20 (Ubuntu 22.04) to
today's; checked against every release from 1.17 to 1.32. An older one (Debian 11's 1.17) is
refused when chosen, saying it is too old and which version MDM needs, and one chosen before is
passed over for MDM's own copy, which Helpers says. gallery-dl 1.30.0, whose version starts
with an empty line, is no longer taken for another program.
Update now asks the package manager which package MDM is: a copy in /usr/bin was taken
for the .deb on a Debian-like system and for the .rpm anywhere else, so a copy installed with
another package manager (pacman on Arch) would have fetched and opened an .rpm. MDM now asks
dpkg, rpm and pacman which one owns its program; the .deb and .rpm update as before, and a copy
of another package manager is left to the system's updates: Check for updates shows the new
version's notes and says to update it there.
Update now finds the Linux and macOS files by either name: a release's AppImage, .deb,
.rpm, .tar.gz and .dmg were named …-experimental; MDM now looks for the name without it
first and still takes the older one, so Update now keeps working whichever a release uses.

Downloads

A minimized MDM keeps working: with the main window minimized (not to the notification
area), queues didn't start their next file, the Scheduler's starts and stops didn't fire,
download limits, the network adapter's kill switch, the clipboard monitor, the update check, the
taskbar's progress and saving the list all waited until the window was restored. They run in
every window state now, and their windows (Download complete, a limit's notice) open at once.
A download or magnet link sent while the window is minimized opens at once
(#162): with the main window
minimized (not to the notification area), a download from the browser or a magnet link was
accepted but its window waited until MDM was restored. Download File Info and Add torrent now
open right away, as they do with the window open or in the notification area.
MDM closed with an internal error when a window opened while the main window was minimized
or hidden in the notification area, for example Download File Info for a download from the
browser, or Add torrent for a magnet link opened in the browser
(#22,
#145). The cause was in egui,
the toolkit MDM is drawn with (emilk/egui#8470),
and is fixed in MDM's copy of it.
A finished download no longer fails with "part file still in use" on a busy computer
(#201): when the last bytes
came in, the connections still running were cut off. One cut off while it read or wrote the
part file (checking the bytes before a reconnect, for example) left that read or write to finish
on its own, with the file still open, and renaming the finished file failed. The connections are
now told to stop and waited for, when a download completes and when it is stopped or fails, so
none of them outlives it. A stopped download's last writes are also in its saved progress now.
A download's progress file could be written again just after it stopped
(#106), and a download could
fail as it finished, with "part file still in use"
(#116). MDM saves a
download's progress every few seconds, in a file beside it. A download paused or finished
during one of those saves could stop before the save was done; that save then wrote an old
progress file a moment later, or, when the last bytes arrived during it, still held the file. A
download now stops only once its save is done.
A download too big for the drive is refused on a busy computer too
(#224): before a download
starts, MDM checks the drive has room for it. It gave up checking after 5 seconds (a network
drive that no longer answers can hang), counted from when it asked; on a very busy computer
the check could wait longer than that just to start, and a download too big for its drive
started anyway. The 5 seconds now count from when the check runs, and it asks only the
folder's own drive instead of listing every drive, which takes well under a millisecond. A
shared network folder (\\server\share) is checked too, which it wasn't before, and a
folder that doesn't exist yet is checked on the drive it will be made on.
A server without ranges no longer sends the file twice
(#136): when the extra
connections' answers came late (a busy computer), the download could finish and then start over
on one connection, fetching the whole file again. MDM now stops its other connections once every
byte is in, and a server that never said it takes ranges is known for one at its first full
answer (a CDN that says it does and misses a range now and then still gets several connections).
Stopping a download under a low speed limit took seconds: each connection first waited
for its turn under the limit. Stop now ends those waits at once.
Links that work only once (or hosts that allow one download at a time) failed with "403
Forbidden" after Download File Info had looked them up
(#28): the window's look and the
download each asked the server. The download now continues from the answer the window got,
and asks again only if that connection has closed meanwhile.
A download whose address ends in a long token (file hosts such as AnkerGames' mirrors) failed
with "the path is too long for Windows" before it started
(#28). Every new download's name
is now shortened to fit its folder (keeping the extension), and when nobody named the file
(no name from the browser, no answer to the look-up, not edited), it gets the name the server
gives, as in a browser: Call-of-Duty-Infinite-Warfare-AnkerGames.zip rather than the
address's token.
Resuming after a waiting page: when a download's address had to be asked again (an expired
link), MDM now goes through the same waiting pages and redirects as the first time, instead
of giving up on them.
A Google Drive link saved Drive's web page (a file named view or download) instead of
the file (#34).
File names can no longer hide a right-to-left mark (invoice‮fdp.exe), and a server's
Unicode filename* name wins over its plain fallback.
A freeze while MDM handles a command is reported again
(#202): since the clock and
what comes in from outside (a second launch, the browser, the automation API) run in every
window state, a freeze there opened no crash report window and wrote no freeze report, minimized
or not. The watchdog now times that part of each frame too.

The browser

Waterfox (and Firefox set to ask what to do with each file): the download stayed in the
browser (#208). Firefox's
family hands an extension the download only after its What should … do with this file?
dialog, by which time it has already downloaded the file behind the dialog. MDM now takes the
download as the server's answer arrives, before the dialog: for a file MDM takes, the dialog
never shows and the browser downloads nothing. Other files open the dialog as before.
A second browser download arriving while Download File Info was open replaced the first, which
was lost (the browser had already given it up). They now wait their turn, and those still
waiting when MDM quits are kept in the main queue (Download Later).
When Firefox started MDM for a download, closing its helper could close MDM too.
A download with very large cookies made the browser's helper start a second MDM and wait 5
seconds; MDM only starts now when it isn't running, and takes what the browser sends.
MDM listens for the browser before its window is up, and the browser's helper waits 20 seconds
for a slow first start instead of 5.
Browser downloads are no longer taken when the extension may not read the site (its access set
to On click): without the site's cookies they would fail.
The extension's right-click menu, and its translation, are set up again cleanly after an
update.
The browser extension's Download video menu: an item's highlight ran past the menu's
edge (#81).

Videos

HLS and DASH videos from the browser, as their stream
(#155): a video played as a
stream (most sites' long videos) failed with yt-dlp's "Unsupported URL" when the extension sent
the page instead of the stream. Download with Mister Download Manager in the right-click
menu on such a video now sends the stream its player loaded, as the button over videos and
Media on this page do. In Firefox it did nothing at all. The cookies sent are those of the
stream's own server, not the page's.
Streams served as plain text, from addresses without .m3u8 or .mpd
(#171): some players load
their stream from such an address, and the extension didn't know it as one. The button over the
video, the right-click menu and Media on this page then sent the page alone, which yt-dlp
answered "Unsupported URL". Now, when one of them is used and no stream is known, the extension
reads the start of what the player fetched (a few kilobytes, never on sight) and recognises an
HLS playlist or a DASH manifest.
Videos that need a sign-in (#229):
- from the button over them: the button's cookies reached the Download video window's
  look-up but not the download's own, which then failed with "Sign in to confirm you're not a
  bot";
- from YouTube Music and YouTube's mobile site: the button over a video on
  music.youtube.com or m.youtube.com passed the page's cookies for that host only, while yt-dlp
  asks www.youtube.com, so the sign-in didn't reach it. The extension now sends each cookie with
  the domain the browser keeps it for, and MDM gives yt-dlp each one for that domain:
  youtube.com's sign-in reaches every YouTube host, and a host's own cookie stays with that
  host. With an older extension, a YouTube page's cookies (or a site's mobile page's, m. and
  mobile.) go to the whole site.
A video download could fail in MDM while yt-dlp went on and finished it
(#79). A line yt-dlp printed in
the system's code page rather than UTF-8 (a title in Turkish or Russian on some Windows) ended
MDM's reading there, and the finished file was then "not said". yt-dlp now always writes
UTF-8, every line is read to the end, and the saved file is also found by its name. Whenever
MDM gives a video download up, it ends yt-dlp and everything yt-dlp started, so nothing goes
on downloading unseen.
Stopping a video download left yt-dlp downloading in the background on Windows
(#61): yt-dlp.exe starts a
second process that does the work, and only the first was ended. Resuming then failed ("yt-dlp
did not provide information") and a new try crawled, sharing the line with the old one. Each
helper now runs in a job of its own that Stop ends whole.
YouTube: "Requested format is not available" after MDM moved a video to another server
(#94). When the servers this
computer can reach don't serve the chosen quality, MDM downloads the nearest quality below it
(always a video, never the sound alone) and says so in the download's log. With no video left
at all, it tries the page's own servers. A server yt-dlp couldn't resolve or reach is avoided on
the next look-up. The log also names the qualities a move left out.
ffmpeg could fail to install with "the release has no an LGPL Windows build": BtbN, whose
builds MDM installs, publishes a dated build each day and then remakes its latest release,
and meanwhile GitHub's "latest" is the dated one, whose files are named differently. MDM now
reads BtbN's newest releases, either naming, and takes the newest complete build. Errors while
installing yt-dlp or ffmpeg are also worded in the interface language now.

Torrents

A magnet link could wait minutes for its file list (#92):
in 0.2.4 on Windows, the DHT (how MDM finds peers without trackers) could stop for the rest
of the session once a computer it asked was gone, so a magnet its trackers didn't serve never
got its file list. The updated torrent library keeps going, and a test keeps it that way.
Add torrent now shows the wait: the peers found, from the trackers, the DHT or the local
network, and how many answered. After 30 seconds without an answer, it says what may be in
the way.
Speed limits now work as they do for other downloads
(#39): a limit set in a
torrent's progress window changed every torrent's limit, a remembered limit was ignored, the
Speed Limiter's "for one file" was shared by all torrents together, and "Limit all downloads
together" left torrents out. Each torrent now has a limit of its own, a remembered one applies
again when it resumes, and torrents and other downloads share the global cap evenly: each
side gets at least half of it, and the rest when the other side needs less. A limit under
16 KB/s, which made a torrent drop its peers and stall, gives it 16 KB/s. A torrent started
again while its files were still being checked no longer stays paused, and of two torrents
started at the same moment, the second no longer fails with "the torrent is no longer there".
A finished torrent's progress window lost its tabs while it was still shared: Files, Peers,
Trackers, Pieces and General (with the share ratio) said "Shown while the torrent is
downloading." They now stay for as long as the torrent is shared.

Screen readers

Every row of a list, not only those in view
(#111): a list's rows out of
view (the last qualities of Download video, a long playlist, the downloads) are there too,
named, with their place ("12 of 40"), and can be scrolled into view or selected. A list of
thousands offers 300 rows around the view, so it stays as fast.
Lists read as blank items (#95):
the rows of Download video's qualities, Add torrent's files, the language picker, Options
(browsers, sounds, the file-type and site lists), the Scheduler and Import now have their names
(a format and its size, a file's name and size), their check boxes theirs, ticked or not, and
their selected row; Download video's list is called Quality, Add torrent's Files and the
sounds' Sounds. Choosing a row from a screen reader (UI Automation's Select) now shows the new
choice at once: it used to wait for the next mouse move.
List rows sit inside their list (#102):
they used to be listed beside it. A screen reader now says which row of how many ("4 of 12"),
choosing from the list itself works (UI Automation's Selection), and a tree's check box belongs
to its file's row. The language picker's list and the Options browser list and the Scheduler's
two lists have names now too.
The Categories pane and the menus (#113):
the pane reads as a tree (each category named with its count, open or shut, selected), the menu
bar and every right-click menu as menus whose items can be run, and Shift+F10 or the
Menu key opens the selected category's menu. A menu opened from the keyboard no longer stays
invisible until the mouse moves.
A window's contents the first time they read it
(#131): a window read for the
first time (Link grabber, Options, About...) showed only its title bar until it was drawn
again. It now answers with what it shows at once, as soon as a screen reader is running.
The progress window's Speed Limiter took a speed set with a screen reader or UI Automation
only after the focus moved on, and its "Remember Speed Limiter settings for this file" check box
had no name. A speed set that way applies at once, and the box is named.

Security

Torrents: file names are checked more strictly (#40):
a torrent with names the system can't write safely is refused, saying which name, and so are
torrents kept from an earlier run.
The torrent library is updated (librqbit 9.1.0).
No silent overwrite: when some of a torrent's files are already in the folder, MDM asks
before writing into them (No is the default). The command line's torrent-get stops and
names them, unless given --use-existing.
Files from torrents are marked as downloaded from the internet, as web downloads are:
SmartScreen checks a program before it first runs, Office opens documents in Protected View,
and Gatekeeper checks apps on a Mac.
Torrents' trackers on this computer or the local network aren't contacted, and a .torrent
file over 10 MB isn't read (it isn't one). Peers see MDM's major version only.