v0.8.3 - The UX Refresh Latest

Released by @majora2007

v0.8.3 9c34c19

The much-anticipated UX Refresh is finally here. After over a year of planning and two months of development (including a brief trip to Norway/Finland), this update delivers a major overhaul to Kavita's user experience. Inspired by the design language of Plex, this release aims to make Kavita the Plex of reading platforms, both on mobile and desktop. The changes have been met with overwhelmingly positive feedback from nightly testers. Here are the highlights of what’s new.

Colorscape

One of the most significant new features is "Colorscape," a dynamic tinting system that adds a colorful gradient background to pages with cover images, much like Plex's movie detail pages. This feature wasn’t easy to implement, requiring extensive work on CSS gradients before landing on a solution. Users can turn Colorscape on or off and customize it with themes, allowing theme creators to modify how it looks. The feature do

📢 Update Alert! 📢

New Features

• Komelia WebUI: Added Komelia wasm webui (Komf integration is a work in progress).
• ComicInfo Enhancements: Added StoryArc and StoryArcNumber support.
• Metadata Job History: Track your metadata jobs more effectively.
• Apprise Notifications: Integrated Apprise notifications. #145
• Kavita Enhancements: Added chapter metadata updates for API mode and mangadex links configuration.
• New Providers: Added Hentag provider.
• Metadata Updates: ComicInfo now updates Title, Series StoryArc, and StoryArcNumber. Books titles are now updatable in API mode.

Fixes

• Komga: Fixed tags and links not being added to oneshots. #153
• Kavita: Resolved connection errors in event listener and fixed issues with volume and chapter covers.
• Bangumi: Trimmed summary indent. #75
• API Improvements: Fixed event listener not detecting new books and improved response parsing for Yen Press and Kodansha.

Breaking Chang

Reading around online, I can see some people have linked Kavita and LL, but I can't for the life of me find out how. Can someone share please?

A new stable release is here with three major improvements and numerous smaller changes. Let's dive into the highlights:

Built-in Theme Explorer

Users can now browse, preview, and download themes directly within Kavita. Uploaded themes will update automatically.

Smart Collections for Kavita+

Users can import Interest Stacks/Restacks from their MAL accounts into Kavita, syncing every two days. These collections are read-only but can be promoted if the user has the promotion role.

Scanner Changes

Optimizations have been made to improve scanning performance for larger libraries, reducing the processing time significantly.

Misc Changes

• WAL Enabled by Default: Fixes common database lock issues.
• Double Scrollbar on Mobile: Fixed on all pages.
• OPDS Improvements: Enhanced metadata and reading list support.
• Manga Reader Tweaks: Improved fit-to-height/width functionality.

New Features

• Smart Collections: Sync with MAL every 2 days.
• **Theme Downl

Release v0.7.10 Patch Notes

New Feature

• Next Estimated Chapter: This release introduces a new feature called "Next Estimated Chapter." It calculates the estimated release date for the next chapter or volume in a series, based on underlying volumes and chapters in a series. It takes into account acquisition methods and series status, providing estimated dates for your reading pleasure.

Changes

• DB Connection Tweaks: Tweaked the pooling for DB connections to reduce database contention issues.
• Improved UI: Various UI improvements, including changes in email service testing, updated email format checks, and more.
• Better Epub Mapping: Epub marc:relators now map illustrator to Inker instead of Letterer.
• Series Scrobbling: In Kavita+, series that are already completed in AniList won't update to "in progress" in Kavita+.

Bug Fixes

• Various Fixes: A myriad of bug fixes, including issues related to series completion, sorting, email links, dark

Komga and Kavita Metadata Fetcher is a tool that fetches metadata and thumbnails for your digital comic book library. It can automatically pick up added series and update their metadata and thumbnail. You can also manually search and identify series, or match the entire library or a series. Additionally, you can install the Komf userscript to add Komf integration directly to Komga and Kavita UI, allowing you to launch manual or automatic metadata identification.

It has a userscript to be integrated into the kavita UI https://github.com/Snd-R/komf-userscript

Kavita v0.7.8 Changelog Summary

Major Updates:

• New Filtering System: Kavita introduces a revamped filtering system, allowing users to create unique filters and combine statements. The system is designed to be flexible and expandable.
• OPDS Improvements: Enhancements to the OPDS implementations have been made, including better series descriptions and new feeds for "want to read". Kavita is also working on adding OPDS2 support.
• Localization Progress: Kavita is now fully translated into Korean, Chinese (Simplified), and almost entirely in Italian. Many other languages have over 80% of their strings translated.

Added Features:

• Click on a character tag from the Reading list to open a pre-filtered search.
• New sections in OPDS feeds for "Want to Read" series.
• Admins can change the cover image size with multiple size options.
• User day breakdown stat graph on user stats page.
• Filters by Path, filepath, and Series Summary.
• New filter comparis

Hi to any new subscribers :)

Kaizoku is a nice self-hosted application that runs mangal in the backend to download Mangas from multiple sources. It can set up reoccurring tasks to check for running mangas and download new episodes automatically.

It has a Kavita integration where it can tell kavita that there is a new manga in the library and it should rescan and get it's metadata.

It works really fast and works with the most common Manga sources online.

A reader bug slipped through release testing, so here's a hotfix for everyone.

The full release can be found here.

Changed

• Changed: When deleting a library, give the library name in the prompt
• Changed: Directory Picker will now sort libraries as some OSes don't return paths sorted

Fixed

• Fixed: Fixed an issue with fit to width on mobile from last release
• Fixed: Fixed an issue where creating a new library, advanced settings wouldn't persist
• Fixed: Fixed an issue where kbd tags with paper theme would render incorrectly
• Fixed: Fixed an issue where wrong cover could be chosen for series in an edge case setup
• Fixed: Fixed an issue where typing in the autocomplete for directory picker would throw errors