New Features
Multi-User Request System (#615, #617, #620)
- Book request workflow -users can request books with notes; admins review, approve, and fulfil requests
- Policy-based configuration -set download/request/block policies per content type or per source (e.g. allow direct downloads, set Prowlarr to request-only)
- Per-user policy overrides for tailored access control
- New Activity Sidebar -replaces downloads sidebar, combining active downloads with requests; sidebar can now be pinned
- Request retry support and admin-level request management
OIDC Authentication (#606, #612)
- OIDC login with auto-discovery and group-based admin mapping. Works with all OIDC providers.
- Auto-provisioning of OIDC users (configurable) and email-based account linking
- Password fallback when OIDC is enabled to prevent admin lockout
Multi-User Support (#606, #612, #613)
- User management -create, edit, and delete users with admin/user roles
- Per-user settings -custom download destinations, BookLore library/path, email recipients, and
{User}template variable - Per-user download visibility -non-admins only see their own downloads
- Works with users from all sources (Local, OIDC, reverse proxy, Calibre-web)
Notification Support (#618)
- Apprise-based notifications for request events and download completions
- Supports sending notifications to virtually any service
- Configurable globally or per user, with full customization of events and notification services
AudiobookBay Release Source (#619, #621, #623)
- New release source - search ABB directly from the UI
- Results include title, language, format, bitrate and size
- Downloads via configured torrent client
- Configurable hostname, max search pages, and rate limit delay
Email Output Mode (#603, #604)
- Email delivery as an alternative output mode for downloaded books
- Send books as file attachments using configured SMTP email
- Email recipient can be configured per-user
Improvements
- Booklore Bookdrop API destination support as an alternative to specific library selection (#625)
- Download path options for all torrent clients (#625)
- Add tag support to qBittorrent downloads (#610)
- Add threading to file system operations for improved performance (#602)
- Enhanced custom scripting -JSON download info, more consistent activation, decoupled from staging (#591)
- Hardlink-before-move optimization for file transfers (#591)
- New BookLore API file formats (#591)
- Improved login cookie naming for reverse proxy compatibility (#591)
- Fix Transmission URL parsing (#591)
- Fix healthcheck starvation during large file processing (#591)
v1.1.1 hotfix
- Pin Flask dependency until session bug introduced in 3.1.3 is fixed