Release Notes - v2.1.4

New Features

• Integrated Better Player engine and settings, replacing the old Video Player engine.
• Added "Continue Watching" and "Continue Reading" sections to the home feed.
• Introduced customizable home header styles.
• Added support for local subtitle loading and multi-server subtitle aggregation.
• Added Markdown support to tracker profile bio display and updated title thresholds.
• Added a filtered discover route and increased tracker pagination limits.
• Added log file rotation and initialization safety to the app logger.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed brightness and volume resetting when toggling the player lock.
• Fixed missing subtitles and audio tracks for MKV files.
• Fixed an issue where extensions failed to install.
• Fixed missing libmpv.so error on Android 8.
• Fixed batch downloading not recognizing watched episodes.
• Fixed unwanted characters appearing in media descriptions.
• Fixed volume and brightness control swap.
• Resolved an autoDispose provider lifecycle crash.
• Redesigned and overhauled the player server and subtitle sheet layouts.

Improvements & UI/UX Enhancements

• Updated the episode metadata fetching fallback order to: AniZip -> Tenrai -> Kitsu.
• Optimized download progress handling, throttled notifications, and transitioned to the byte_me ecosystem for downloads.
• Enhanced subtitle handling architecture and UI components.
• Improved time-remaining formatting to display both hours and minutes.
• Optimized image loading logic to prioritize widget media covers and included HTTP headers.
• Centralized navigation bar styling using NavBarThemeData.
• Refactored player controls into a dedicated overlay with modular widgets and adjusted scaling factors for different screen widths.
• Removed the SafeArea wrapper from player top controls to improve layout.
• Simplified the sources tab variant layout and item presentation.
• Configured Discord RPC to automatically disconnect when the app is detached.
• Updated media kit libraries and plugin references for improved performance across platforms.

Full Changelog: v2.1.4-alpha.3...v2.1.4