https://youtube.com/watch?v=VFyu1qvub7A windows Qt5 zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.Windows.Qt5.-.Extract.only.zip Qt6 zip: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.Windows.Qt6.-.Extract.only.zip Qt6 exe: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.Windows.Qt6.-.Installer.exe macOS Qt5 app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.macOS.Qt5.-.App.dmg Qt6 app: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.macOS.Qt6.-.App.dmg linux Qt5 tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.Linux.Qt5.-.Executable.tar.gz Qt6 tar.gz: https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v503/Hydrus.Network.503.-.Linux.Qt6.-.Executable.tar.gz I had a good week improving how the program works behind the scenes. The build is more reliable, and it is now easy to run the program from source in Windows. reliability tl;dr: The program breaks less now and in the future. Just as I was hotfixing a fresh boot problem last week, in the intervening time yet another boot problem arrived! We've been hit by several of these in the past couple of months, and I hate causing people this stress, so I decided to put some time into the way the official release is put together. I really hope this will not happen as much in future. This is mostly technical, but the requirements.txts that prep the program environment are simpler, laid out for easier reading and maintenance, and have frozen version numbers for important libraries. I also put time into the build script itself, doing some cleanup and anti-deprecation work. The issues with PySide6 and dateutil are fixed. I want the program to be more stable going forward when I click 'publish'. It has been duct-tape-and-a-prayer for too long. Thank you to those who report problems, and please keep them coming if and when this new system fails. I want to keep improving things here, especially too as more users run from source. running from source Absent any more issues, I expect this to be the last week I put out a Qt5 build. The Qt6 build is stable with no giant outstanding problems. Users on Windows 7 (and some similarly old Linux and macOS versions) cannot run Qt6, so they will need an alternate solution. It is now easy to run the program from source in Windows. I have written several batch files to make it simple, no technical knowledge required beyond the ability to open a zip file, and the help has a brand new full walkthrough. If you want to run Qt5, the way to do so is equally simple and clearly labelled. Updating, too, is very similar to how you already update with the Windows extract zip. https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/running_from_source.html The process is also simpler and clearer for advanced users who want to use 'git', 'venv', and 'pip' manually. If you have been running hydrus from your system python, you might want to check out the help to learn how to set up a venv--it is really easy these days, and you can save yourself a real headache. I'm obviously interested in reports if any of this fails for you; or if there is anything you find confusing. There is more work to do here, and once we have a workflow people are happy with, I would appreciate if some advanced Linux and macOS users can translate my new .bat files roughly to .command and .sh (I just don't have the familiarity/expertise in these platforms to do this well), so we have easy 'running from source' support for all platforms.