LANraragi 0.9.5 - New Angels of Promise

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It's summer and I'm dying in a heatwave again while the entire industry is succumbing to AI crap -- But not before I get to shill the Ko-Fi again!
This is mostly small bugfixes and features, unless you're a Windows user...

LANraragi stickers are back!

Thanks to popular demand _{(two people)}, I've done a new run of previous LRR sticker designs.
Those new versions are actually slightly larger!

You too can now enjoy those potential infrigements of WinRAR, O'Reilly's and Docker's trademarks -- If they come knocking I'll just say I used them to train an AI model or something, apparently that's OK now.

Buy them here!

The Windows version no longer depends on WSL (#1266, @Guerra24)

LRR on WIndows is switching backends again!
After Strawberry Perl and WSL, the server is now using a custom environment based on MSYS2 to run on the cursed Copilot OS.

Improvements from WSL are pretty numerous!

• Access from localhost and LAN should just work ™️
• Enabling Hyper-V is no longer necessary
• No more confusion
• Filewatching should now work similarly to the Linux/macOS versions

The Karen launcher has also been rewritten in WinUI 3 -- Existing settings (content folder, start on boot, etc) from the previous version will be migrated across.

The WSL builds (both 1 and 2) are officially retired from CI and won't be provided going further. Adios!

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🔖 New Languages

• Portuguese (@mayannaoliveira)

🧩 New Plugins

• EHDL "info.txt" Metadata plugin (adds EHDLInfo metadata plugin #1273, @IceBreeze)
• Pixiv Downloader (Add filepath support for download plugin and implement Pixiv download #1240, @psilabs-dev)

☀️ Other changes

• 📁 Download plugins now support filepaths (Add filepath support for download plugin and implement Pixiv download #1240, @psilabs-dev)

  On top of the previous file URL mechanism, DL plugins can now give an archive file to the server directly.

$logger->info("Created ZIP archive with $download_count images: $zip_filename");
return (
    file_path => $zip_path
);

This allows plugin devs to handle websites like Pixiv or NH, where you need to grab every image individually and then zip them at the end, or other services where you might not be able to get a direct file URL and need to run the download yourself.

• 📜 Improve display of namespaces in compact mode (supports NS with multiple elements in columns #1276, @IceBreeze)

  

  Custom columns in compact mode will now show every tag for the specified namespace, instead of just the first one.

  They'll also now have the same behavior as the larger "tags" column, with individual clickable tags to search and a popup in case you have too many tags for the given namespace to fit in the column.

• 🔎 Improve search result sort speed (Employing Lua scripts to accelerate database retrieval #1296, @Putarku)

  For searches that used specific tags instead of just relying on the name, the server used to iterate through tags for every entry... which was pretty slow!
  
  This change now moves this operation to rely on Lua scripts executed on the database, which allows us to batch a single DB call to get the sorted results.

  This speeds up some of the slowest searches in this scenario from 15s to around 2 seconds. It's pretty good!

• 📖 Implement additional keyboard shortcuts (FR: "/" to search and other keyboard shortcut features #1289, @psilabs-dev)

  You can now use the following shortcuts in the index page:

  • "esc" to close release overlay
  • "/" to focus to search bar

  and in the metadata edit page:

  • "enter" when in the plugin args textbox to automatically invoke plugin

  Additionally, if release overlay is open, "/" will also automatically close the overlay before focusing to search.

• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements

  💎 Fix duplicate table having messed up sizing
  💎 Update Cache::FastMmap
  💎 Replace Parallel::Loops with MCE::Loops
  💎 (Fix the Ehentai plugin search error issue #1290) Improve EH plugin search (@Putarku)
  💎 (Allow the user to download resampled archives from E*Hentai #1292) Add support for resampled downloads to EH Plugin (@renakira1)
  💎 (Fix cookie path #1281) Fix baseurl session cookies spamming user storage (@nspitko)
  💎 (Add a skip permission fixing section for docker installation in doc #1284) Documentation update (@ResRipper)
  💎 (Fix API documentation response structures #1283) Documentation update (@psilabs-dev)
  💎 (Add Nginx documentation for large file downloads #1286) Documentation update (@psilabs-dev)
  💎 (Add context menu item for "copy URL" #1316) Add context menu entry for "Copy URL" to Index (@gustaavv)
  💎 (Remove LegacyKeyValueFormat warnings once and for all #1222) Improve thumbnail cropping position for wide images (@MoveToEx)
  💎 (Add locks to basic write operations #1277) Add locks to basic write operations (@psilabs-dev)
  💎 (Updated FAKKU login Plugin to include Useragent field #1293) Add a default configurable UserAgent to the FAKKU plugin (@Nixis198)

Full Changelog: v.0.9.41...v.0.9.50

“New Angels of Promise,” used to score the opening credits of the Omikron: the Nomad Soul video game, has a reservoir of memory to give it depth: it’s a direct descendent of, and answer to, “Sons of the Silent Age” and “Look Back in Anger.”

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