podly-pure-podcasts/podly_pure_podcasts v2.5.0

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🚀 New Features & UI Improvements

• Enhanced Podcast Dashboard
  • Added a dark mode option to the user interface.
  • Introduced a feed detail routing view and updated the homepage to handle direct feed selection.
  • Added an advertisement removal summary, interactive timeline visualization, and detailed processing statistics to the frontend dashboard.
• Smart Audio & Chapter Tools
  • Added automatic creation of chapter tags for podcasts using audio transcriptions.
  • Introduced a feature to re-process episodes using existing transcription data.
  • Added a chapter refinement system to correct misaligned chapters.
• Improved Data Parsing
  • Implemented advanced parsing for episode descriptions while maintaining original HTML formatting.
  • Added an automatic whitelist verification feature for initial entries in a podcast feed to optimize workflow.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Stability

• Audio & Streaming Adjustments
  • Resolved an MP3 streaming compatibility bug specifically affecting Pocket Casts.
  • Fixed processing calculations by ensuring the original episode duration is used for accurate ad statistics and processing costs.
  • Optimized the word boundary refiner algorithm.
• System & Environment Reliability
  • Strengthened security and environment handling by ensuring .env variables override database settings.
  • Resolved field masking issues across the read-only UI, API layer stripping, and runtime configurations.
  • Patched duplicate JSON key handling errors originating from local LLM responses and restored response_format support.
  • Fixed UI layout clipping on mobile devices by migrating to dvh units for Android Chrome.
• Database & Task Improvements
  • Resolved memory and state synchronization bugs by clearing the SQLAlchemy identity map following each writer command.
  • Added logic to skip redundant job creation for whitelisted posts with existing audio data.
  • Standardized all timezone operations to use strict UTC datetime.
  • Fixed a bug to ensure step_name is preserved when background tasks are canceled.

⚡ Performance & Tooling Updates

• Project Architecture Migration
  • Migrated the package manager and runtime dependency framework from Pipenv to uv.
  • Upgraded code quality tooling, replacing Mypy and Pylint with ty and ruff.
• Feed Optimization
  • Improved endpoint responsiveness by decoupling the synchronous refresh_feed function from the GET /feed/<id> API call.
• CI/CD Build Infrastructure
  • Migrated ARM64 Docker compilation processes onto native GitHub ARM build runners to speed up deployment workflows.
  • Optimized automated dependency injection and cleanup within the test pipeline utilities.