com.yacreader.YACReader.appdata.xml

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<component type="desktop-application">
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  <id>com.yacreader.YACReader</id>
  <name>YACReader</name>
  <summary>Yet another comic reader</summary>
  <developer id="com.yacreader">
    <name>Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez</name>
  </developer>
  <metadata_license>FSFAP</metadata_license>
  <project_license>GPL-3.0-only</project_license>
  <description>
    <p>Read, browse and manage your comics collection.
            All you need to enjoy your digital comics.</p>
    <p>Browse your comics collections using beautiful, customizable and smooth "comic flow"
            transitions.</p>
    <p>Features:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>File support: YACReader supports a wide variety of comic files and image types. rar,
                zip, cbr, cbz, tar, pdf, 7z and cb7, jpeg, gif, png, tiff and bmp.</li>
      <li>Configure your reading: Image rotation, double page mode, full size view, fullscreen
                mode, customizable background color, custom page fitting mode, bookmarks, resume
                reading, eye candy 'go to' and more.</li>
      <li>Image improvements: Bring to life your old comics with the image adjustments
                available in the reading mode. Use the brightness, contrast and gamma sliders and
                enjoy the new vibrant colors.</li>
      <li>Track your readings: YACReaderLibrary organizes your comics and keeps track of your
                reading progress and your collections' status.</li>
      <li>Tags (comic vine): Download your comics' information from Comic Vine. Title, number,
                volumen, authors and more.</li>
      <li>Search: Find your comics quickly using the built-in search engine. No matter how big
                is your collection, YACReaderLibrary will find anything instantly.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <caption>YACReader &amp; YACReaderLibrary</caption>
      <image type="source">https://www.yacreader.com/images/features/phoca_thumb_l_ss3b.jpg</image>
    </screenshot>
    <screenshot>
      <caption>Properties</caption>
      <image type="source">https://www.yacreader.com/images/features/phoca_thumb_l_properties.jpg</image>
    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
  <releases>
    <release version="10.1.0" date="2026-07-03" type="stable">
      <url>https://github.com/YACReader/yacreader/releases/tag/10.1.0</url>
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Improve save current page. It includes the comic file name in the default image name and the page number.</li>
          <li>Add an extract page action. It extracts the original visible pages when image based variants are used. The file name and page number are used as the output.</li>
          <li>Save the destination path for save/export page between runs.</li>
          <li>Fix low resolution images generated on save current page.</li>
          <li>Fix magnifying glass not using the source material.</li>
          <li>Improve last page detection in continuous scroll mode.</li>
          <li>Improve What's new dialog to show the full changelog.</li>
          <li>Improve continuous scroll mode with better performance and less flickering when resizing/loading.</li>
          <li>Fix reading position being reset to the cover when changing between fit modes.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix comics order when opening a comic from YACReaderLibrary.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibraryServer</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Don't crash at startup if the server can't bind to any address.</li>
          <li>Redirect / to /webui.</li>
          <li>New /webui design.</li>
          <li>Settings regarding metadata and auto-libraries updates can be controlled from /webui/settings.</li>
          <li>Add a new web content browser to /webui.</li>
          <li>Add update libraries functionality to /webui.</li>
          <li>Fix number in various HTTP APIs.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All GUI Apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Better system theme detection.</li>
          <li>New button in the help dialog for showing the changelog.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add support for long paths on Windows. This is experimental and only includes library creation and opening files (including the server), other functionality may or may not work with long paths, but the critical aspect of this is the folder structure of the library so overall it is a big win. NOTE: You need to enable long paths support on Windows itself for this to work, HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem -&gt; LongPathsEnabled -&gt; 1.</li>
          <li>Better PDF rendering that accounts for tall images used in web comics.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="10.0.0" date="2026-05-01" type="stable">
      <url>https://github.com/YACReader/yacreader/releases/tag/10.0.0</url>
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add support for continuous scroll mode.</li>
          <li>Fix the translator.</li>
          <li>Add Lanczos interpolation for image scaling. You can control the method used via the settings under Image adjustments.</li>
          <li>Fix hdpi trackpad scrolling when scroll animations are enabled.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Navigating between comics in the metadata editor no longer copies fields from the previous comic into ones that have no value set. To edit shared metadata across multiple comics at once, select them all and use the bulk edit dialog.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All GUI Apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Migrate Flow implementation from OpenGL to QRhi. This is a full new implementation with better performance and compatibility with operating systems and hardware.</li>
          <li>Add light/dark themes support that follow the system configuration.</li>
          <li>Add a theme editor and support for custom themes.</li>
          <li>The apps include 12 built in themes to pick from.</li>
          <li>Add an application language setting with a system default option in YACReader and YACReaderLibrary.</li>
          <li>Fix fullscreen mode in Windows, interaction with the OS is now possible while the apps are in fullscreen.</li>
          <li>Improve support for multi-screen setups.</li>
          <li>Fix PDFs with crop information on macOS.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add support for user-installed Qt image format plugins via the shared plugins/imageformats folder in the YACReader settings directory.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.16.3" date="2026-01-03" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix current page/time label content when the content is too long.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix table view last section stretch. Before it was only working randomly.</li>
          <li>Fix empty table view caused by wront state being saved. You'll need to reconfigure the table view headers to your liking after this.</li>
          <li>Fix open comic shortcut in fullscreen mode.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.16.2" date="2025-12-16" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>New customizable User Agent string to use it with Comic Vine. It can be set in YACReaderLibrary.ini in the [ComicVine] section using the COMIC_VINE_USER_AGENT key. Please, don't use it unless you are experimenting problems.</li>
          <li>Prevent crash when opening the folders context menu if a folder is not selected.</li>
          <li>Fix crash when using the Set type menu on libraries</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.16.1" date="2025-12-09" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix cover loading in Comic Vine scraper.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.16.0" date="2025-12-07" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Don't use scroll animations on macos by default, it where hdpi scroll is most likely to be used.</li>
          <li>New toolbar on macos.</li>
          <li>New mouse modes to turn pages. You can setup the app to use the left/right buttons to turn pages directly or you can click on the left/right part of the screen to turn pages.</li>
          <li>New setting to control whether the time is shown in the 'current page/total' label.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Improve flexibility of the open comic in third party app setting so more complex commands can be used. e.g. `open -a "/Applications/My Reader.app" "{comic_file_path}"`.</li>
          <li>Fix setting the comic rating in the table view.</li>
          <li>Log libraries validation when the app starts.</li>
          <li>New toolbar on macos.</li>
          <li>New setting in Comic Vine scraper to force exact volume matches.</li>
          <li>Better default search query in the Comic Vine scraper.</li>
          <li>Improved navigation in Comic Vine scraper, including keeping the current query around to make edits and refined searches easier.</li>
          <li>Add support for custom covers for any folder using the context menu.</li>
          <li>The edit cover buttons now support looping through pages, going forward from the last returns to the first, and going backward from the first jumps to the last.</li>
          <li>Add support for custom covers for comics using the edit metadata dialog, you can use a pick file button or drag&amp;drop an image into the cover view in the dialog.</li>
          <li>Covers can be set in bulk for various comics at once.</li>
          <li>New button to reset to the default cover of a comic.</li>
          <li>Support for storing the new image filters from iOS and Android apps.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibraryServer</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Log libraries validation when the app starts.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>PDF libraries have been updated for all Windows builds.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.15.0" date="2025-01-02" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Save magnifying glass size and zoom level.</li>
          <li>Add shortcut to reset the magnifying glass to its defaults (size and zoom),
                        it is slash by default but it can be reasigned.</li>
          <li>Bump PDF render size.</li>
          <li>Fix trackpad scrolling, it makes using trackpads more reponsive and natural.</li>
          <li>Added more info to Help -&gt; System info.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix headers in the table view getting stuck in a non moveable state.</li>
          <li>Add option to set the type of a library. It will convert all the content to
                        desired type (comic, manga, etc) and it will set that type as the default
                        one for that library. Available in the library context menu.</li>
          <li>Added more info to Help -&gt; System info.</li>
          <li>New setting to open comics in third party reader apps, it works by entering
                        a command that will launch the app, e.g. "/path/to/the/app
                        {comic_file_path}". You can use {comic_file_path} as a placeholder where
                        YACReaderLibrary will place thet path to the comic file.</li>
          <li>Purge covers and metadata not being used after a full library update.</li>
          <li>Fix crash when updating the current folder content after a library update.</li>
          <li>Fix crash when current folders is empty after an update.</li>
          <li>Enable dropping content on the FolderContentView.</li>
          <li>Fix open containing folder... shortcut for comics.</li>
          <li>Add a dialog to show information about a library, it includes the number of
                        folders and comics and the number of read comics.</li>
          <li>Fix occasional crashes when using automatic library updates.</li>
          <li>Add setting to hide the "Continue Reading..." banner from the home view.</li>
          <li>Improve Grid and Flow Info comics view scroll performance.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibraryServer</p>
        <ul>
          <li>New command --system-info to print information about the execution
                        environment and available resources
                        (including what image formats are supported and what libraries are used by
                        the app).</li>
          <li>Fix automatic libraries updates not being triggered.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>
                        Sorting heuristic to try to find spreads in the content of a comic is now
                        only used for files with less than 1000 pages to avoid false positives.
                    </li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.14.2" date="2024-02-15" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix columns in the search results.</li>
          <li>Fix type not being propagated to new folders from their parents.</li>
          <li>Fix default type set to folders in the root folder when they are added.</li>
          <li>Improve and fix comic file size format.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.14.1" date="2024-02-05" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add setting to disable scroll animations and scroll smoothing, recommended
                        if you are using a touch pad or if you find the mouse wheel behaviour laggy.</li>
          <li>Fix missing translation when opening YACReader from YACReaderLibrary.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix "Set type" context menu the grid view for folders.</li>
          <li>Add a different versioning strategy for databases. DBs version will change
                        only when the structure changes and not when YACReader version changes.</li>
          <li>Add support for updating libraries automatically with various settings to
                        chose from. During automatic library updates most actions are disabled, you
                        can stop an update by clicking on the busy indicator next to the Libraries
                        title.</li>
          <li>Improve content reloading. Navigation and selection state is no longer
                        reseted after content changes (e.g. library updates, tags edits, etc.)</li>
          <li>The app will try to move comics and folders to the trash bin when deletions
                        are requested, if the file system used doesn't support trash bin the files
                        will be removed permanetly.</li>
          <li>Add menu to choose what columns are displayed in the table comics view (do a
                        right click on the header to show it). The view has new 3 new headers to
                        choose from (Series, Volume and Story arc).</li>
          <li>Migrate number and arcNumber data types to TEXT. This only affects databases
                        created before 9.13 and fixes problems with some formats of numbers (e.g.
                        1.10).</li>
          <li>Propage update date to all the parent folders.</li>
          <li>Fix crash when resorting comics in reading lists in table view view and the
                        comic flow is hidden.</li>
          <li>Fix cover loading in QML views due to malformed URLs.</li>
          <li>Improve style of the webui status page.</li>
          <li>Fix type not being propagated to new files in a folder.</li>
          <li>Mark the current type in the context menu so the user can know the current
                        type.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibraryServer</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add rescan-xml-info command.</li>
          <li>Improved API to provide better integration with the clients (Android 1.4.0
                        and iOS 3.29.0).</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.13.1.2307166" date="2023-07-16" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li> Fix crash when dropping comics in sublists </li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.13.0.2307095" date="2023-07-09" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Avoid showing stale information in the server config dialog by updating the
                        connection information when the dialog is opened.</li>
          <li>Add new metadata support, it improves compatibility with ComicInfo.xml</li>
          <li>Add support for showing a "recently added/updated" indicator. The number of
                        days to consider something recent can be configured in the settings.</li>
          <li>Improved comic metadata dialog.</li>
          <li>Add textual tags support that can be queried through the search engine.</li>
          <li>Make = in the search engine work as : does.</li>
          <li>Add new operators to the search engine: exact match ==, &lt;,&gt;,
                        &lt;=,&gt;=.</li>
          <li>Support filtering by since/before dates in the search engine. e.g. added
                        &gt; 7
                        means recent content added since 7 days ago, and added &lt; 30 means content
                        added before the last 30 days.</li>
          <li>Show the full library path in the dialog shown to warn about missing
                        libraries.</li>
          <li>Fix scroll bar in the info comics view in Qt6 builds.</li>
          <li>New Recent smart list, it will show recent comics added.</li>
          <li>Try to detect changed files with the same name on libraries updates, there
                        is also a new setting to decide if the modified date of a file should be
                        used as an indicator to know if the file has been changed since it was added
                        (disabled by default).</li>
          <li>Fix alphanumeric navigation in the folders tree view. Shortcuts were
                        interfering the default behaviour, now some shortcuts will be ignored if the
                        folders tree has the focus.</li>
          <li>Fix sorting in the Comic Vine series selection dialog.</li>
          <li>Fix getting only distinct rows when querying folders through the search
                        engine.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add shortcuts for moving by one the double page mode to the left/right, by
                        default CTRL + SHIFT + LEFT, and, CTRL + SHIFT + RIGHT. Remember that you
                        can change any shortcut in the shortcuts dialog. You can also achieve this
                        functionality using the "Go to page flow" and chossing the page you want to
                        be on the left/right (depending on the reading mode comic/manga).</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All Apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>New icons for macos.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.12.0.2304234" date="2023-04-23" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix scroll in grid views when using Qt6 builds</li>
          <li>Fix deleting metadata from comics also deleted the number of pages info</li>
          <li>Use nayuki/QR-Code-generator instead of libqrencode for
                        QR code generation</li>
          <li>Do not accept empty values for the server port in the server settings
                        dialog.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Server</p>
        <ul>
          <li>New search API that exposes the search engine.</li>
          <li>Print scannable QR code at server start</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.11.0.2301073" date="2023-01-07" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix segfault (or worse) when exiting YACReader while processing a comic</li>
          <li>Fix
                    last read page calculation in double page mode</li>h </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix drag and drop in the comics grid view</li>
          <li>Detect back/forward mouse buttons to move back and forward through the
                        browsing history</li>
          <li>Fix crash when disabling the server</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All apps</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Run logger in a dedicated thread to avoid segfaults at application shutdown</li>
          <li>Add support for poppler-qt6 pdf backend</li>
          <li>Remove image allocation limit</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.10.2210304" date="2022-10-30" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed color selection dialog appearing as a subwindow in macos.</li>
          <li>Better support for HDPI screens (SVG icons).</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Update QtWebApp webserver to v1.8.6</li>
          <li>New folder content view that replaces the old "subfolders in this folder"
                        view shown when folders don't have direct comics.</li>
          <li>Fixed going forward in history navigation.</li>
          <li>Continue Reading view that it is shown for the root folder.</li>
          <li>UI gets updated when YACReaderLibrary gets updates from YACReader or
                        YACReader for iOS.</li>
          <li>Linux: Add fallback for dynamically loading libqrencode on distros that
                        don't provide unversioned library symlinks</li>
          <li>Fixed selected folder restoration after folder updates.</li>
          <li>Better support for HDPI screens (SVG icons).</li>
          <li>Add option to delete metadata from comics.</li>
          <li>Importing ComicInfo.XML is now optional and disabled by default, you can
                        change the behavior in Settings -&gt; General.</li>
          <li>Add option to scan XML metadata from all the comics in a folder.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Server</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Add webui status page (reachable by navigating to server::port/webui)</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.9.2.2210021" date="2022-10-02" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix potential infinite loop/crash on library updates.</li>
          <li>Fix comic properties dialog sizing.</li>
          <li>Fixes and stability improvements.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.9.1.2209046" date="2022-09-04" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix "go to" dialog not clearing the page number between runs.</li>
          <li>scroll behavior in "go to flow" view (macos).</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fix scroll behavior in "cover flow" view (macos).</li>
          <li>grid view unable to scroll in some systems.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release version="9.9.0.2209032" date="2022-09-01" type="stable">
      <description>
        <p>YACReader</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Show error when opening bad open recent entries</li>
          <li>GoTo page: Fix segfault when entering page numbers greater than comic's page
                        count
                        (toolbar and page flow)</li>
          <li>Initialize GotoFlow on current page, not cover</li>
          <li>navigation mode: Fix page index error when using both mouse and keyboard for
                        navigation</li>
          <li>Remove obsolete double page mode debug messages</li>
          <li>Support HDPI screens.</li>
          <li>Use one wheel mouse step per page in full page mode.</li>
          <li>Add updated MIME types to .desktop file for .cbz and .cbr</li>
          <li>Add settings to control page turning behaviour on scroll.</li>
          <li>Make forward and backward buttons in a mouse turn pages.</li>
          <li>Don't crash if bookmarks get corrupt for some reason.</li>
          <li>Magnifying glass fixes and improvements.</li>
          <li>Shorcuts customization fixes.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>YACReaderLibrary</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Support HDPI screens.</li>
          <li>Support import legacy XML info in comic files.</li>
          <li>Ensure that comic info exports use .ydb as file suffix.</li>
          <li>Enable arrow keys navigation in the folders tree view.</li>
          <li>Add Publication Date column to the comics table view.</li>
          <li>Use a scale effect in the comics grids on mouse over.</li>
          <li>Add system info to the help/about dialog to help reporting bugs.</li>
          <li>Fix selection when clicking on a folder in search mode.</li>
          <li>Fix defaul value for manga/comic mode in folders.</li>
          <li>Add an edit for filtering series results returned by Comic Vine.</li>
          <li>Support editing comics tags sequentially without leaving the edit dialog.</li>
          <li>Fix export/import comics info.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Server</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Always serve a cover image to the iOS client for any folder that has content
                        (requeries a library content update).</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
  </releases>
  <url type="homepage">https://www.yacreader.com/</url>
  <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/YACReader/yacreader/issues</url>
  <url type="faq">https://www.yacreader.com/support</url>
  <url type="help">https://www.yacreader.com/support</url>
  <url type="donation">https://www.yacreader.com/donation-why</url>
  <url type="contact">https://www.yacreader.com/contact</url>
  <categories>
    <category>Graphics</category>
    <category>Office</category>
    <category>Viewer</category>
  </categories>
  <content_rating type="oars-1.1"/>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">com.yacreader.YACReader.desktop</launchable>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">com.yacreader.YACReader.YACReaderLibrary.desktop</launchable>
  <provides>
    <mediatype>application/x-cbz</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-cbr</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-cbt</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-cb7</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-pdf</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-zip</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-rar</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-7z</mediatype>
    <mediatype>inode/directory</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/vnd.comicbook-rar</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/vnd.comicbook+zip</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/pdf</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/vnd.rar</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/x-7z-compressed</mediatype>
    <mediatype>application/zip</mediatype>
    <binary>YACReader</binary>
    <binary>YACReaderLibrary</binary>
    <binary>YACReaderLibraryServer</binary>
  </provides>
</component>