arsfeld/reel v0.7.6

Reel v0.7.6

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What's New

Features

• Manual Watch Status Controls: Add comprehensive watch status management allowing you to mark individual episodes, entire seasons, or complete shows as watched/unwatched directly from the UI
• Automated Release Workflow: Release notes are now generated with AI assistance for better clarity and user-friendliness

Bug Fixes

• Fixed watch status not syncing to Plex/Jellyfin backends when marking content as watched/unwatched in the UI (resolved three critical bugs including silent failures, wrong HTTP methods, and missing sync tasks)
• Fixed episodes and movies not displaying correct watch status by loading data from playback_progress table instead of stale metadata cache
• Fixed video player back button not correctly returning to the originating page (home, library, show details, or movie details)
• Fixed player crash occurring ~5 seconds after skip-intro or skip-credits buttons appeared due to improper timer cleanup
• Fixed GStreamer scrubber appearing stuck after seeking by caching target position during pipeline flush
• Fixed scrubber UI retaining stale position values when switching between videos
• Fixed crash when navigating away from library page by properly disconnecting GTK signal handlers
• Fixed TV shows library grid not expanding when window was resized
• Fixed duplicate episode loading in show details page causing UI hangs with many episodes
• Fixed TV show episode sync missing 12 shows alphabetically at the end of large libraries
• Fixed HiDPI screens showing only 1/4 of video content
• Fixed 'mpv not found' build error when running cargo build
• Fixed stored authentication tokens being reused properly for health checks
• Corrected watch status button labels to clearly indicate marking status rather than playback actions ("Mark as Watched/Unwatched" instead of "Watch/Unwatch")
• Created playback progress entries for unwatched media when marking as watched (previously silently failed)

Performance Improvements

• TV Show Sync Optimization: Parallelized episode fetching and show processing, reducing sync time for 100-show libraries from ~191 seconds to ~15-30 seconds (6-12x faster)

Internal Changes

• Implemented proper GTK widget lifecycle management for popover menus in media cards
• Enhanced flatpak manifest with mpv, libplacebo, and required dependencies
• Prepared flatpak package for official Flathub distribution with all required files and documentation
• Removed keyring secrets permission from flatpak (credentials now stored in encrypted SQLite database)
• Added mold linker and clang to nix build environment
• Updated GitHub Actions workflows with proper permissions and stable versions
• Improved season dropdown and episode grid styling
• Enhanced preferences dialog with dynamic backend subtitle

System Requirements

• GTK4 and libadwaita
• GStreamer with common plugins
• 64-bit operating system

Downloads

x86_64 (Intel/AMD)

• Debian/Ubuntu: reel-v0.7.6-amd64.deb - Install with sudo dpkg -i
• Fedora/RHEL: reel-v0.7.6-x86_64.rpm - Install with sudo rpm -i
• Linux Binary: reel-linux-x86_64 - Standalone executable

ARM64 (aarch64)

• Debian/Ubuntu: reel-v0.7.6-arm64.deb - Install with sudo dpkg -i
• Fedora/RHEL: reel-v0.7.6-aarch64.rpm - Install with sudo rpm -i
• Linux Binary: reel-linux-aarch64 - Standalone executable

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo dpkg -i reel-v0.7.6-amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE

sudo rpm -i reel-v0.7.6-x86_64.rpm
# or
sudo dnf install ./reel-v0.7.6-x86_64.rpm

Standalone Binary

chmod +x reel-linux-x86_64
./reel-linux-x86_64