https://youtube.com/watch?v=OQEDWiM-QRI
windows
zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v491/Hydrus.Network.491.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v491/Hydrus.Network.491.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
macOS
app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v491/Hydrus.Network.491.-.macOS.-.App.dmg
linux
tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v491/Hydrus.Network.491.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz
I had a good couple of weeks doing a behind the scenes overhaul and a variety of quality of life work. I was ill last week and put off the release, but I am feeling great now.
metadata import/export
As is often the case, an important overhaul makes few actual changes front end. I've been trying to do this for a while, but now the 'export/import tags in a neighbouring .txt file' routine now works on completely new tech. Rather than hardcoded tags into .txt files, it now uses a modular system that I will be able to expand in future to support filtering and string processing, more metadata types like ratings and URLs, JSON and XML as the file formats, and will even allow funky migrations like converting tags to URLs.
As a side benefit, Export Folders now support tags .txt export.
For now, all the UI front-end looks the same, but please expect this to change in future. I'll be writing some nice unified panels and dialogs to handle the new objects as I write them.
advanced user highlights
The 'OR*' advanced tag input now supports system predicates! It uses the same system predicate parser as the Client API, so you can now type or copy/paste most system predicate text and get something both useful and complicated. The text that parses isn't always exactly the same as the predicate label, so check out the big list of example parseable system predicates here: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/developer_api.html#get_files_search_files
Also, if you are a parser creator, String Processing now has a Tag Filter processing step. Let's say you can grab all the tags from somewhere but you need to filter out a handful of non-tag text like '+' and '?', or you are able to create hydrus namespaced tags and want to filter by namespace, just insert this into your string processing and it should be much easier than messing around with long regexes.