Release Notes

🚀 New Features

Whisper.cpp Support

Author: @peterpiglet ([PR #74](https://github.com/your-repo/pull/74))

• Added support for Whisper.cpp as a transcription provider
• Included UI settings to configure Whisper.cpp integration
• Implemented graceful fallback when the Whisper.cpp URL is missing

Responsive Dashboard & UI Improvements

Author: @serabi ([PR #72](https://github.com/your-repo/pull/72))

• Overhauled the dashboard with a responsive horizontal card layout
• Cards now display cover images, service status, and sync timestamps clearly without hover interactions
• Added visual indicators (yellow border) for sync discrepancies
• Improved mobile responsiveness

Suggestion System & Progress Tracking

• Implemented a new Audiobook Suggestion System
• Added a toggle for suggestions and improved settings persistence
• Refined logic to exclude books >70% completed from suggestions
• Improved auto-discovery matching and "xpath fallback" logic for better accuracy

🛠 Improvements & Refactoring

Configuration & Database

• Refactored configuration to be database-driven instead of relying solely on environment variables
• Updated the Settings UI to reflect these changes, allowing for dynamic updates without restarts
• Implemented robust pagination for Booklore cache refreshing to handle large libraries

Sync & Transcribe Logic

• Added Local Transcribe support with CUDA GPU acceleration and Deepgram API integration
• Improved SyncManager threshold logic and "most recent change wins" leader detection for cross-format sync (Audiobook vs Ebook)
• Refined normalization for better cross-format percentage comparison

Logging

• Fixed logging handlers (Telegram, Memory) to respect specific log levels and not be overridden globally

Docker & CI/CD

• Added support for version tags in the Docker publish workflow
• Enabled dev branch builds with dynamic build numbers

🐛 Bug Fixes

File System & Path Handling

Author: @gattacus ([PR #77](https://github.com/your-repo/pull/77))

• Critical Fix: Proper escaping of special characters (e.g., brackets) in ebook filenames when searching the filesystem with glob patterns
• Prevents crashes or missing files when paths contain special characters

Sync & Connectivity

Author: @serabi ([PR #73](https://github.com/your-repo/pull/73))

• Fixed KoSync client headers to ensure consistent identification as a KOReader client on all requests
• Resolved false positive fuzzy title matching to prevent incorrect book associations
• Fixed AssertionError in tests related to absolute path updates

❤️ Community Credits

A huge thanks to our contributors for this release:

• @peterpiglet for the Whisper.cpp integration
• **@serabi for the beautiful dashboard redesign and header fixes
• **@gattacus for the filesystem globbing fixes