https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v455/Hydrus.Network.455.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v455/Hydrus.Network.455.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v455/Hydrus.Network.455.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v455/Hydrus.Network.455.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz
I had an ok couple of weeks. Some quality of life is improved, the UI should save sessions a bit quicker, and the database repairs itself more of itself.
Your client may warn you about a missing index on first boot. If it does, that's great--some new repair code is working!
session save
Some users with large sessions (typically around 2-3+ million 'weight') are experiencing severe UI lockups and general lag. This week I deal with part of that problem by greatly reducing the amount of CPU needed to save most sessions. Now pages know if they have been changed since being loaded, and if they have no changes, they can skip a bunch of session save work.
There's nothing you have to do here, but if you have been experiencing 12+ second freezes every few minutes, please let me know how you get on now. I can't promise things will be perfect, but if you have any large and inactive downloader pages, you should notice things running a bit smoother (exiting the program too, should be faster).
There is still a problem of lag and lockups when there are 200+ downloaders in the session. This is a different and unfortunately more severe problem that I have relieved in recent weeks but needs some other large work to completely fix. Best solution for now is to clear out finished downloaders if you can.
misc
Many of the simple system predicates, like height and filesize, now support the '≠' (not equal) operator! This is still in the early stages, but I'd like to add some options of the thumbnail menu so you can say 'find files that (do not) have this file's precise resolution/duration/size' etc...
You can now copy thread subjects to clipboard in the watcher downloader page list!
The advanced file deletion dialog now remembers the last reason you chose!
The network job widget (which shows download progress, you see it on any downloader) now shows the current URL it is working on under its cog menu. You can click it to copy to clipboard. May help to debug some odd network errors etc...
The way data sizes over 1KB are rendered has been overhauled. It should now generally be to three significant figures, so 3.11MB instead of 3.1MB, 12.3GB instead of 12GB. See if you like the change, and if not, try tweaking it to 2sf under the new EXPERIMENTAL option in options->gui.