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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 doesn’t currently extend to reading lists or collections, but that may come in future updates.

Individual Pages

This update brings a major quality-of-life improvement for book and comic users: the ability to view individual volume and chapter metadata. Users can now access dedicated pages for volumes and chapters, with the option to update metadata for specific chapters or books. Additionally, users can now read a series, chapter, or volume directly from any card, without needing to open the series detail page.

Settings Overhaul

The settings pages have been overhauled, drawing more inspiration from Plex. Tooltip information is now more prominent, and changes to any field are instantly applied, eliminating the need for a "Save" button. All settings—whether for admin controls or user preferences—are now consolidated into one screen, though some workflows have been moved to dedicated pages (e.g., CBL Import and MAL Interest Stack import). This should make features easier to discover and manage.

Publisher Images

A new system for publisher images, similar to favicons, has been introduced. This allows users to submit or edit publisher images through Kavita’s GitHub repo, which will then be dynamically downloaded and displayed on detail pages. While the feature is still in its early stages, the Kavita team is hoping the community will contribute and refine the images over time.

This release lays the groundwork for future UX updates and optimizations. Next on the roadmap is an overhaul of Kavita+, along with continuing efforts to resolve the persistent Foreign Key constraint issue and improve scan loop performance. The release also comes with a big thank you to all the contributors on Weblate for their work on localization, with Kavita now fully supported in 10 languages.

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Added

• Ability to upload a volume cover for Komf users
• Extensive theming options for the login screen, including background images
• Introduction of "Colorscapes," a dynamic tinting system that selects colors from cover images and applies them to the background of pages (currently for series detail pages, configurable via the theming system; recommended to disable for light themes)
• New library actionable to generate Colorscapes (soft refresh covers)
• New tasks tab in Library Settings and Edit Series Modal that shows appropriate tasks and explanations
• Dedicated Volume/Chapter detail pages accessible from any card
• Ability to read directly from cards (volumes, chapters, series, or reading lists)
• Ability to edit chapter metadata, including locking fields and sorting order for comic users with unique issue numbers
• New API and UI for setting a volume cover (with locking option), now supported by Komf
• Publisher images, managed through Kavita's website, are now available
• New metadata filter "is empty" to check for missing links in fields like Writers, Tags, Genres
• .yacreaderlibrary directories now ignored by the scanner
• UI now auto-refreshes on new Kavita releases, busting locale cache for non-admin users
• Admins can trigger Sync Theme job from the Tasks page
• Added a link to the CBL Repo in the CBL Import feature

Changed

• Password limit increased to 256 characters
• Settings and preferences consolidated into one page with a left nav menu, following Plex’s UI style
• Restoring position now works universally when interacting with jump keys
• Jump keys now feature animations rather than tooltips to indicate series numbers
• Filter icon now animates during configuration
• Several screens moved to dedicated sections, including most of Kavita+ settings
• Series and chapter cards now show localized names/titles on hover
• Cover Artists renamed to "Artists" across the app
• On mobile view, dropdown buttons removed for scrolling, with links now displayed in a modal
• Folder watching now runs in a separate background thread to avoid startup delays for large libraries
• Sync Themes job now runs daily (instead of weekly)

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where long passwords would truncate when autofilled
• Fixed CSS variables in the side-nav that were incorrectly assigned
• Numerous localization and theme-related issues resolved
• Fixed pagination bugs in OPDS reading list feeds
• Fixed issues in CBL Import and MAL Interest stacks
• Fixed missing fields preventing manga reader preferences from being saved
• Resolved several errors related to user ratings, CBL imports, themes, and other minor bugs
• Corrected an issue where special volume 0 in book series caused rendering issues in series detail cards

Theme

• Tables are now themeable
• Numerous changes to CSS variables. Wiki has been updated with additional documentation, particularly around the Colorscape system.

API

• API updated for resetting cover image fields. All update APIs now accept a LockCover field to force a lock (or not). Defaults to true but can reset the cover with an empty string and false.

Hello!

currently i use Jellyfin for my music library but i am not really happy with it. I used to use Plex and it was wonderful but... here we are...

I already tried Navidrome but for me a crucial feature is to be able to import spotify playlists and rebuild them with my local library.

For jellyfin there is a plugin that does that and it works 90% of the time. But even after finding several scripts and docker-composes i could host i was never able to properly import my spotify playlists into navidrom. Reason why that is so crucial is that i use spotify to build playlists, make song-radios and add them back into the playlist and then i download this playlist using various tools.

I then rebuild these playlists inside my music library.

Now i found Music Assistant 2.0 for my HomeAssistant and it's incredibly awesome! Being able to fully use my sonos speakers and group them on the fly is amazing! But using song radios inside it with my jellyfin as the media provider apparently uses jellyfin's "instant mix" and my goodness is that ever hot garbabe... i have my whole library being properly tagged by Picard and every song has the proper metadata and all that but Instant mix is just plain useless. For 50% of my songs it will just put the same song 5 times into the queue and be done with it. Sometimes it's actually able to build a good sounding radio but that's really hit or miss.

So to conclude, what would you guys recommend if i want a music library that:

1. Has preferably a subsonic API to maximise compatibility with different players
2. Has the ability to import and reconstruct my spotify playlists
3. Has a working song radio / instant mix feature that will not collapse as soon as you try to use it

Thank you very much!

📢 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 Changes

• Config Changes:
  • Moved publisher tags configuration to the postprocessing section. Fixes #102.
  • Updated Discord templates configuration to use predefined filenames.
• Removed Features: CLI commands and OPF mode support have been removed.

Config Deprecations

• Deprecated several configs, including Discord, Komga/Kavita notifications, and post-processing score tags. Check the release notes for full details.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26316374

I know that this community will fall to the exact same destiny as they all do. 999 posts wanting a Drunkenslug invite and if all the stars align we get a once in a lifetime post of someone offering an invite.

Many of Usenet users don't actually know they can invite people and help others to their first steps into that scene.

So i beg of you, take a look into your profiles, find those invite buttons and offer them here! They will not be of any use if they just get dusty in your profiles, we need those invites in the community!

There is absolutely nothing for you personally to gain here, other than the satisfaction of helping others.

Thank you all and cheers!

After my guides over on c/piracy i assume some new people will look for usenet invites. Maybe someone stumbles over this one here.