NEWS.md

📜 Codex News

v1.7.10

• Fixes

  • Fix occasional import link tags crash.

v1.7.9

• Fixes

  • Tags page layout fixes.

v1.7.8

• Features

  • Tags page layout changes with more notes from @beville.

• Fixes

  • Tags for simple comic fields were incorrectly taken from the first comic in a group.
  • Filter menu wasn't populating for top folder.
  • Librarian status tasks would appear out of order.

v1.7.7

• Fixes
  • Fix Librarians Statuses not loading in UI.
  • Tags screen crash with untagged series or volumes.
  • Fix tags screen Mark Read confirmation names.
  • Order Tags Contributors by relevance not alphabetically.

v1.7.6

• Features

  • Always Show Filenames setting for browser cards.
  • Tags page layout changes with notes from @beville.

• Fixes

  • Fix import crash on files with escapable html characters or utf-8 chars in the filename.
  • Fix page range crash in reader.
  • Fix overzealous escaping of html in metadata strings.
  • Fix group tags not aggregated properly in metadata screen for folders and story arcs.

v1.7.5

• Fixes

  • More granular websocket notifications means the web UI does fewer more targeted data updates.
  • Prevent deactivating and deprivileging the logged in user.
  • Fix resetting active flag when resetting admin user with environment variable.
  • Fix crash in auto-update when unable to determine current Codex version.

v1.7.4

• Fixes

  • Fix setting bookmarks and book settings bug.
  • Sanitize HTML out of imported comic metadata fields and admin inputs.

v1.7.3

• Features

  • Browser Order By Child Count.
  • Customized site title option in Admin Flags.
  • Codex logs are now compressed when rotated.
  • Support OPDS v2.0 Progression (streaming) draft proposal from Aldiko.

• Fixes

  • Browser Group Mark Read/Unread obeys browser filters.
  • Fixed bad redirect when to deep linking into browser Folders or Story Arcs.
  • Fixed order by name for issues disregarding volume names in browser and reader
  • Fix display of name and filename on browser cards.
  • Fix batching import of Contributors to prevent crash on large imports.
  • Fixed an OPDS Metadata crash.

v1.7.2

• Features

  • Download entire groups of comics from the browser and metadata screens.

• Fixes

  • Fix reader page API sometimes crashing.

v1.7.1

• Features

  • Always display filename for comics on browser cards in Folder View
  • Detect .jxl extension (JPEG XL) as a comic page.

• Fixes

  • Fix ignoring MacOS resource forks in archives.
  • Don't redirect to issue view on first search in Folder View

v1.7.0

• Features

  • Search
    • Use SQLite Full Text Search v5 for search engine.
    • Search syntax has changed. See the help popup at the end of the search bar.
    • Use faster db column lookups for some search bar queries. Thanks @bmfrosty.
    • You may remove the directory config/whoosh_index.
  • Integrity Checks
    • Faster more comprehensive db integrity checks run every night instead of at startup.
    • Integrity checks can run on startup with environment variables documented in README.

• Fixes

  • Actually fix browser opening reader at correct bookmark.
    • Also fixes progress calculation on browser cards.
  • Fixed crashes when the upstream codex version is not accessible.
  • Fixed possible race conditions with nightly maintenance.

v1.6.19

• Fixes

  • Fix browser opening reader at correct bookmark.
  • Fix for browser triple tap bug for android tablet browsers in desktop mode.
  • Fix populating arcs in reading order menu in reader.
  • Fix submitting old arc to reader API.
  • Fix Version API blocking. Add check version admin task.
  • Fix Library "Poll Every" validation.
  • Fix Metadata dialog not scrolling sometimes.
  • Fix file extension for downloaded PDF pages.

v1.6.18

• Yanked. Broken Reader.

v1.6.17

• Features

  • Admin Action buttons now responsive to view size.

• Fixes

  • Auto update wasn't comparing versions well.
  • Possible fix for initializing admin flags crash.

v1.6.16

• Fixes

  • Import may have been marking mounted drive's comics modified inappropriately.
  • Import crash when moving comics.
  • Relink deep orphan folders in the db instead of recreating them.
  • Do not adopt orphan folders deleted from the filesystem.
  • Admin Tab change password for user broke.
  • More robust ui cache busting on library update.
  • Fix minor error on metadata text boxes with null values.

v1.6.15

• Fixes

  • Fix more Metadata links to browser groups not computing and resolving properly.

v1.6.14

• Fixes

  • Fix Metadata links to browser groups not resetting topGroup properly.

v1.6.13

• Fixes

  • Admin Panel Link was showing in the admin panel, not in the browser or reader.

v1.6.12

• Features

  • Native Windows installation instructions in the README thanks to @professionaltart.
  • Anonymously send stats to improve Codex. See admin/flags for description and opt-out.

• Fixes

  • Detect iOS devices in Desktop Mode for proper iOS tap behavior.

v1.6.9, v1.6.10, v1.6.11

• Yanked. Bad network behavior. Broken javascript.

v1.6.8

• Fixes

  • Fix OPDS streaming in lazy metadata mode for Chunky-like readers which require a page count.

v1.6.7

• Fixes
  • OPDS authorization for some readers
  • Remove superfluous debug exception trace on timezone endpoint.

v1.6.6

• Fixes
  • User creation in admin panel broke.
  • There was confusing UI on admin panel unauthorized screen.

v1.6.5

• Fixes:
  • Fix logout button not working.

v1.6.4

• Fixes:
  • Reader crash loading reader order arcs.
  • OPDS datetimes now uniformly served in iso format.
  • Fix browser filter menus clearing and loading irregularities.
  • Fix parsing negative issue numbers in filenames.
  • Log common non-ComicBookInfo archive comments with less alarm.
• Removed
  • LOGLEVEL=VERBOSE deprecated for a long time. Use LOGLEVEL=DEBUG

v1.6.3

• Features
  • Reader inherits the last browser view, with filters, as it's default reading arc.
  • When browser page is less than 1, redirect to parent. When 1 and empty, show empty page.
• Fix
  • The cover api was not accepting http basic (opds) authentication.

v1.6.2

• Fixes
  • Fix pagination with more than 100 comics in the browser.

v1.6.1

• Features

  • Add a retry button on book load error and page load error pages.

• Fixes

  • Fix unable to login if anonymous users prohibited.
  • Fix filter crash.
  • Metadata was showing incorrect groups for individual comics

v1.6.0

• Features
  • Custom Covers for Folders, Publishers, Imprints, Series and Story Arcs.
  • Browser setting to choose Dynamic or First group covers. Thanks @Thakk.
  • Breadcrumbs in the browser
  • Reader can read by Volumes as well as by Series, Folder and StoryArc.
  • More compact UI controls.
  • Metadata tags can click to browse filtered on that tag.
  • Experimental API throttling support. Search the README for "throttle".
  • Add websocket updates for anonymous sessions
  • Speed and caching optimizations.
• Fixes
  • OPDS http basic authorization fixed.
  • Groups with the same name in different cases collapse into one group in the browser.
  • Order By respects browser show groups settings.
  • Fixed re-import of urls and identifiers.
  • Fixed cleanup of some foreign keys when no longer used.
  • Clean up all orphan folders on startup instead of first pass
  • Fix creating bookmarks.
  • Update browser sessions for user when users finish a book.

v1.5.19

• Fixes
  • Metadata crash on folders.

v1.5.18

• Fixes
  • Ignore comic pages from dotfiles and macOS resource forks.

v1.5.17

• Fixes
  • Fix background color of browser card controls since vuetify update.

v1.5.16

• Fixes
  • Fix creating and updating exclude groups.
  • More Web & url tags parsed from metadata.

v1.5.15

• Fixes
  • OPDS streaming broken for some clients (Chunky) without metadata.
  • OPDS redirects for empty pages or 404's were crashing.
  • OPDS uses filename fallback for title if missing metadata.

v1.5.14

• Features
  • Relative folder path is now searchable if Folder View enabled.
  • More granular caching hopefully for better performance.
• Fixes
  • OPDS redirects were crashing.
  • Null search was crashing metadata for single comics
  • Fix a breakage with fast file static file serving.
  • Change browser order by to something sensible when search cleared.

v1.5.13

• Fixes
  • Fix root folder for library sometimes not created on import.
  • Fix redirect loop in browser when all members of a group deleted.
  • Fix browser pagination buttons not advancing.
  • Fix OPDS v2 crash
  • Fix browser throbber not appearing when making query.

v1.5.12

• Fixes
  • Fix Folder browser offset pagination bug for folder with books and no folders.

v1.5.11

• Fixes
  • Fix erroneous Folder View page out of bounds redirect.

v1.5.10

• Fixes
  • Folder view was not showing all the books on mixed folder & book pages.
  • Shutdown and Restart admin tasks were not working.

v1.5.9

• Fixes
  • Crash when reading comics in folder view introduced in v1.5.8

v1.5.8

• Fixes
  • No search results was returning every comic instead of no comics.
  • issue: field searching returned no results.
  • issue_number, community_rating, & critical rating no longer require two digits of precision.
  • Excess books included in reader arc/folder/series.
• Features
  • Even Lazier import when Import Metadata Admin flag turned off.
  • issue: field search now combines numeric and suffix parts.

v1.5.7

• Fixes
  • Pagination crash with more than 100 folders.
  • Experimental fix for Synology Docker CHOWN_PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES=1

v1.5.6

• Fixes
  • Fix sqlite limit crash when importing > ~1000 web urls.

v1.5.5

• Fixes
  • Attempt to fix import crash processing too much metadata at once. Allow undocumented env variable to manipulate this: CODEX_FILTER_BATCH_SIZE (default: 900)
  • Fix search engine update crash for large collections.

v1.5.4

• Fixes
  • Django 5 broke root_path prefixing from the asgi server. Work around it.

v1.5.3

• Fixes
  • Mouse horizontal scroll broken on Firefox.

v1.5.2

• Fixes
  • OPDS titles were showing as "Unknown" for comics with tagged volumes.
  • OPDS v2 was crashing.
  • Cover displayed for group browser with Name ordering was inconsistent.
  • Enable mouse drag horizontal scrolling in reader zoom mode.

v1.5.1

• Fixes
  • OPDS v1 was not rendering any data.

v1.5.0

• Warning
  • The main database path has changed from db.sqlite3 to codex.sqlite3
  • This version forces a rebuild of the search index (not the main database)
• Fixes
  • Some integrity checks weren't running on startup.
  • The metadata page would sometimes crash for Admins.
  • Moving a comic to a subfolder would crash.
  • Moving a deep subfolders would crash.
  • Moving a comic to the root folder would send the comic to the phantom zone.
  • Updating comics would sometimes not delete removed tags.
  • Series & Volumes no longer updated too often on import.
  • Admin Actions was polling all libraries when one selected.
  • OPDS was showing repeated titles.
  • Vertical scroller tracking and updating improved.
  • Page filenames are now sorted case insensitively which should improve order.
• Features
  • Admin Exclude groups compliment the existing Include groups.
  • New metadata tags: Monochrome, Tagger, GTIN, Review, Identifiers, & Reading Direction. Available when comics are re-imported (Force Update recommended).
  • Identifiers metadata tag replaces the "Web" tag.
  • Reads ComicInfo.xml and other formats from the PDF keywords field. You can write ComicInfo.xml to PDFs with comictagger.
  • Reading Direction reader setting replaces Reader's vertical & horizontal views.
  • Supports the MetronInfo metadata format (rare).
  • Filesystem events filtered to only the ones Codex handles.
  • Double-click to zoom on pages in reader.
  • Read PDF with browser in a new tab link.
  • Experimental checkbox for caching entire comic or PDF in the browser.
  • Admin Flag for disabling most metadata import.
• Dev
  • Using comicbox v1 for metadata import.

v1.4.3

• Fixes
  • Crash on undecodable characters in metadata.
  • Search terms weren't applying to filter choices population.
  • Fix name ordering. Show series & volume in browser cards if it affects name ordering.
  • Shrink reader page change boxes to let toolbar activate on corner clicks.
• Dev
  • Big lint update.

v1.4.2

• Fixes
  • Groups were not aggregating children properly when searched.
  • Search could break Folder View.
  • Changing the browser 'Order By' would sometimes not apply.
  • Attempt to fix stale books appearing on reader load.

v1.4.1

• Fixes
  • A bug that prevented folder view from displaying under some circumstances.

v1.4.0

• Features
  • Story Arc Top Group in Web & OPDS Browsers
  • Support multiple Story Arcs per comic.
    • Supports Mylar CSV StoryArc / StoryArcNumber extension to ComicInfo.xml
  • Show only filter options that affect the current browse level.
  • Reader has a Series/Folder/Story Arc order selector.
  • Reader shows filename instead of metadata title if you've been browsing in File View
  • Downloads now use the original filename from disk.
• Fix
  • Folder was view displayed but crashed in OPDS even if disabled by admin.

v1.3.14

• Features
  • Better metadata extraction for PDFs.
  • Support for ComicInfo StoryArcNumber, Review and GTIN tags.
  • Order by Story Arc Number
  • Do not detect .cbr files if unrar is not on the path.
  • Display filename for comics in browser file view.
• Fixes
  • Import of ComicInfo Tags metadata.
  • Never removed old missing metadata when updated.
  • Error on moving folders.
  • Fix saving last route between sessions.
  • Better error messages if unrar is not on the path.
• Removed
  • Remove support for unrar.cffi

v1.3.13

• Fixes
  • Group cover sometimes showing wrong cover for order.
  • Rare import crash.

v1.3.12

• Features
  • OPDS 2 Last Read link.
• Fixes
  • Books without bookmarks could break parts of the reader.
  • Remove clipboard UI hints when clipboard isn't available.

v1.3.11

• Features
  • Last Read Order By option for web and OPDS.
  • Some Order By options now have a default descending order.
  • OPDS 1 special top links limited to 100 entries.
• Fix
  • OPDS 1 links did not include filters or order information.
  • OPDS 1 page streaming broke.

v1.3.10

• Fixes
  • Crash when reading from folder view.

v1.3.9

• Features
  • Experimental OPDS 2.0 Support.
  • Create all comic covers admin task.
  • Faster Metadata pages for web and OPDS.
• Fixes
  • Two pages mode broken.
  • Credits not imported bug.
  • Failed imports not removed when file removed bug.

v1.3.8

• Fixes
  • Fix Basic Authentication not enabled for OPDS Cover, Page, and Download views.
  • Tune low memory algorithm slightly lower for memory constrained systems.
• Dev
  • Use makefile and moved most scripts into bin.

v1.3.7

• Feature
  • Metadata page links to groups to browse to.
• Fixes
  • Crash when moving comics.
  • Container memory limits weren't detected for Linux kernels before 4.5
  • Reader
    • Horizontal Reader was slow for comics with high page counts.
    • Vertical scroller was not tracking pages in fitTo Width or Orig modes.
  • Validation error detecting child and parent library paths incorrectly.
  • Dev
    • Django 4.2

v1.3.6

• Fixes
  • Much lower memory tuning. Environment variables control tuning.
  • Possible fix for vertical scroller page tracking for tall images.

v1.3.5

• Fixes
  • OPDS sorting and filtering broke.
  • Fixed Download URLs for clients that ignore headers like Chunky.
  • Update Search Index now checks for more missing entries.

v1.3.4

• Fixes
  • Number out of range errors for issue when search indexing.
  • Total child pages of folders and groups sometimes overcounted, displaying half unread folders.
  • Reader: Vertical Scroll
    • Remove black bottom margin from images.
    • Was loading every page in a comic at once.
    • Page tracking did not work with images larger than viewport width.

v1.3.3

• Fixes
  • Number out of range errors when search indexing.
  • Possible Search Index Remove Stale and Abort jobs not scheduled properly.
  • OPDS missing entry ids rejected by Panels reader.
  • Downloads had an extra period in the suffix.

v1.3.2

• Fixes
  • Reader Fit To settings broken
  • Possible files marked modified too often.

v1.3.1

• Fixes
  • An import crash in create foreign keys.
  • Admin table dates were always in UTC so sometime off by a day.

v1.3.0

I remember... my whole life. Everything

• Features
  • Codex stable in 1GB RAM environments. Faster with more.
  • Codex uses unrar-cffi if available. Not required.
  • Browser
    • Navigate to top button.
    • Filter by File Type.
  • OPDS
    • Top links display only at catalog root.
    • Extended metadata moved to alternate links.
  • Admin
    • Search Indexer Remove Stale Records task much faster.
    • Comic import speedups.
    • Fancier sortable admin tables.
    • Removed max_db_ops config variable.
• Fixes
  • Reader vertical scroll lost its place in Fit To Width or Orig mode.
  • OPDS downloaded files all had the same name.
  • Search Index
    • More robust against bad data.
    • Some search fields were case sensitive.
  • Admin
    • Graceful shutdown when Docker container stops.
    • Codex was backing up on every startup.
    • Status for batched imports (large imports or low memory) now reflects total instead of single batch.

v1.2.9

• Features
  • Vertical scroll option for reader.
  • Faster search index removes.
  • Admin Users tab shows last user activity date.
  • OPDSE PSE 1.2 extension for Panels pse:lastReadDate
• Fixes
  • Fixed next and previous book keyboard shortcuts.
  • Improved OPDS acquisition page performance by removing more "categories" metadata.

v1.2.8

• Features
  • Search Index
    • Improved search indexing times.
    • Admin Flag to adjust nightly full optimization.
  • OPDS
    • "Newest Issues" Link replaced by "Recently Added" after user feedback.
• Fixes
  • Volume tags were often not scanned. Recommend using Force Reimport on all libraries.
  • OPDS
    • Fix navigation links not inheriting view settings of current page.
    • Removed populating categories in OPDS to experiment with performance issues.
    • Fix OPDS pse lastRead tag.
  • Block library polling during database updates, fixes reindexing.

v1.2.7

• Fixes
  • Trap final search index commit errors and try again without merging segments.
  • Fix moving folders assigned no parent folder, displaying them in root.

v1.2.6

• Fixes
  • Impose memory limits on search index writers.
  • Impose items before write limits search index writer.
  • Sort comics by path for the reader navigation when in Folder View.
  • Remove inappropriate vertical scroll bars from page images.

v1.2.5

• Features
  • In Folder View the reader navigates by folder instead of series.
• Fixes
  • OPDS crash on missing 24 hour time setting input required.

v1.2.4

• Features
  • User configurable 24 hour time format.
  • Reader
    • Displays covers as one page even in two page mode.
    • Read in Reverse mode.
    • Keymaps for adjusting page by one page in two page mode.
    • Previous and Next book navigation buttons and keymaps.
• Fixes
  • OPDS:
    • Fix acquisition feed timeouts on large libraries by removing most m2m fields that populated OPDS categories
    • Fix pagination
    • Show series name in comic title.
    • Experiment: don't show top links or entry facets on pages > 1
  • Reader:
    • Two pages mode would skip pages.
    • Next/prev book goes to correct page for Right To Left tagged books.
    • Fix occasional error setting reader settings.
    • Fixed noop poll event happening on comic cover creation.

v1.2.3

• Fixes
  • Prevent search indexing starting over if it encounters errors.
  • Fix download buttons.
  • Fix admin settings drawer obscuring small screens.
  • Fix scroll bars showing inapproporately on admin tables.
  • Fix OPDS authors having 'i' appended.

v1.2.2

• Fixes
  • Fix all items removed from search index after update.
  • Speedups to cleaning up search engine ghosts.

v1.2.1

• Fixes
  • Crash on building a fresh database.
  • Fixed an importer crash when it tried to wait for changing files.
  • Disabling Library Poll prevented manual polling.
  • More explicit Poll Every hints in edit dialog.
  • Repository link didn't open a new window.

v1.2.0

What kind of Heaven uses bounty hunters?

• Features
  • Faster and more robust PDF support. Codex no longer depends on the poppler library.
  • LOGLEVEL=VERBOSE deprecated in favor of DEBUG
  • Stats page API accessible via API key as well as admin login.
• Fixes
  • Some Librarian Status messages would appear never to finish.
• Development
  • The multiprocessing method is now S P A W N 💀 on all platforms.
  • Websockets are now handled by customized Django channels
    • aioprocessing Queue communicates between librarian and channels.

v1.1.6

• Fixes
  • Fix rare deletion and recreation of all comics when inodes changed.

v1.1.5

• Features
  • Admin Stats tab
  • Libraries can have a poll delay longer than 1 day.
• Fixes
  • Crash when removing comics.
  • Admin Create & Update dialogs would get stuck open on submit.
  • Delete expired and corrupt sessions every night.
  • More liberal touch detection for more devices.

v1.1.4

• Fixes
  • Multiprocessing speedup for large search engine indexing jobs
    • Writes search engine data in segments.
  • Search engine segment combiner optimizer runs nightly (and manually).

v1.1.3

• Fixes
  • Fix some OPDS browsers unable to read comics.

v1.1.2

• Fixes
  • Fix unable to initialize database on first run

v1.1.0

Whoosh

• Features
  • Switch to Whoosh Search Engine.
    • You may delete config/xapian_index.
  • May run on Windows now?
  • Moved db backups to config/backups.
  • Backup database before migrations.
• Removed
  • Do not store search history for combobox across sessions.
• Fixes
  • Fix Admin Library folder picker.
  • Uatu does a better job of ignoring device changes.
  • Don't pop out of folder mode on searches.
  • Fix showing error on unable to load comic image.

v1.0.3

• Features
  • Force update all failed imports admin task.
• Fixes
  • Fix moving folders to subfolder orphans folders bug.
  • Fix id does not exist redirect loop.

v1.0.2

• Features
  • Support for Deflate64 zip compression algorithm.
• Fixes
  • Fix Failed Imports not retrying import when updated.
  • Make db updates more durable and possibly problem comics paths in log.
  • Discard orphan websocket connections from the connection pool.
  • Fix Admin Status drawer closing at wrong time.

v1.0.1

• Features
  • Justify order-by field in browser cards.
• Fixes
  • Fixed next book change drawer opening settings drawer.
  • Fixed zero padding on browser card issue numbers.

v1.0.0

Vue 3

• Features
  • Removed old django admin pages.
  • Shutdown task for admins.
  • Configure logging with environment variables. See README.
• Fixes
  • Fix displaying error in login dialog.
  • Fix saving community & critical rating filters to session
  • Fix fit to screen not enlarging pages smaller than screen.
• Developer
  • Frontend is now Vuetify 3 over Vue 3. Using options API.

v0.14.5

• Fixes
  • Fix crash on decoding some comics metadata charset encoding.

v0.14.4

• Fixes
  • Fix login not available when AdminFlag Enable Non Users was unset.
  • Fix server PicklingError logging bug.

v0.14.3

• Fixes
  • Fix root_path configuration

v0.14.2

• Fixes
  • Fix Librarian process hanging due to logging deadlock.
  • Fix reader keyboard shortcut help.
  • Fix book change drawer appearing in the middle of books.

v0.14.1

• Fixes
  • Resolve ties in browser ordering with default comic ordering.
  • Always close book change drawer before reader opens.

v0.14.0

Sliding Pages

• Features
  • Animated sliding pages on reader.
  • Comic & PDF pages display loading, rendering and password errors.
• Fixes
  • Filters with compound names were not loading choices.
  • Show only usable filters for current view as filter choices.
  • Allow filtering by None values when None values exist.
  • Handle an iOS bug with downloading pages and comics inside a PWA.
  • Fixed PDF failure to render on load and after changing settings.
  • Login & Change Password dialogs no longer activate Reader shortcuts by accident.

v0.13.0

Admin Panel

• Features
  • Single Page Admin Panel.
  • Users may now change their own passwords.
  • OPDS
    • Use facets for known User Agents that support them. Default to using entry links.
    • Gain a Newest Issues facet, a Start top link and a Featured / Oldest Unread link.
    • More metadata tags.
    • Special thanks to @beville for UX research and suggestions
  • HTTP Basic auth only used for OPDS.
  • Frontend components do lazy loading, should see some speedups.
• Fixes
  • Fixed imprints & volume levels not displaying sometimes.
  • Fix large images & downloads for some OPDS clients.
• Developer
  • API v3 is more restful.
  • /api/v3/ displays API documentation.
  • Vite replaces Vue CLI.
  • Pina replaces Vuex.
  • Vitest replaces Jest.
  • Django livereload server and debug toolbar removed.

v0.12.2

• Fixes
  • Fix OPDS downloading & streaming for Chunky Comic Reader.
  • Hack in facets as nav links for Panels & Chunky OPDS readers.

v0.12.1

• Fixes
  • Disable article ignore on name sort in folder view.
  • Fix browser navigation bug with issues top group.

v0.12.0

Syndication

• Features
  • OPDS v1, OPDS Streaming & OPDS Search support.
  • Codex now accepts HTTP Basic authentication.
    • If you run Codex behind a proxy that accepts HTTP Basic credentials that are different than those for Codex, be sure to disable authorization forwarding.
  • Larger browser covers.
  • Sort by name ignores leading articles in 11 languages.
• Fixes
  • Use defusexml to load xml metadata for safety.
  • Removed process naming. My implementation was prone to instability.

v0.11.0

Task Monitor

• Features
  • Librarian tasks in progress appear in the settings side drawer for adminstratiors.
  • Covers are now created on demand by the browser, rather than on import.
  • Browser Read filter.
• Fixes
  • Bookmark progress bar updates in browser after closing book.
  • Metadata web links fix.

v0.10.10

• Features

  • Reader nav toolbar shows position in series.

• Fixes

  • Fix inability to log in when Enable Non Users admin flag is unset.
  • Simplify Admin Library delete confirmation page to prevent OOM crash.
  • Move controls away from iphone notch and home bar.

v0.10.9

• Fixes

  • Fix null bookmark and count fields in metadata
  • Fix indeterminate finished state when children have bookmark progress.
  • Fix maintenance running inappropriately on first run. Crashed xapian database.
  • Fix reader metadata keymap

• Features

  • Progressive Web App support
  • Reader "Shrink to" settings replaced by "Fit to"

• Special Thanks

  • To ToxicFrog, who's been finding most of these bugs I'm fixing for a while.

v0.10.8

• Fixes

  • Fixed reader nav clicks always showing the toolbars.
  • Attempt to fix unwanted browser toolbars when treated as mobile app
  • Wait half a second before displaying reader placeholder spinner.
  • Fix metadata missing search query.
  • Fix metadata cache busting.

• Features

  • Accessibility enhancements for screen readers.

v0.10.7

• Features

  • Browser tries to scroll to closed book to keep your place.

• Fixes

  • Fixed missing lower click area on browser cards.
  • Fixed session bookmark interfering with logged in user bookmark.

v0.10.6

• Broken docker container

v0.10.5

• Features

  • Reader shrink to screen setting becomes fit to screen and embiggens small images.
  • Reader changing to the next book now has visual feedback and requires two clicks.

• Fixes

  • Removed vertical scrollbars when Reader shrunk to height.
  • Don't disturb the view when top group changes from higher to lower.

v0.10.4

• Fixes

  • Fix double tap for non-iOS touch devices.

• Features

  • Shrink to Screen reader setting.
  • Reader throbber if a page takes longer than a quarter second to load.

v0.10.3

• Fixes
  • Fix PDF going blank when settings change.
  • Remove vestigal browser scrollbars when they're not needed. Thanks to ToxicFrog.
  • Fix cover cleanup maintenance task.

v0.10.2

• Fixes
  • URLS dictate view over top group. Fixes linking into views.
  • Fix possible cover generation memory leak.
  • Build a deadfall trap for search indexer zombies. Use Offspring's brains as bait.

v0.10.1

• Fixes
  • Linked old top level comics orphaned by library folders migration.

v0.10.0

Portable Document Format

• Features

  • PDF support. Optional poppler-utils binary package needed to generate PDF cover thumbnails.
  • CBT support. Tarball comic archives.
  • Alphanumeric issue support. Requires rescanning existing comics.
  • Individual top level folders for each library.
  • Don't duplicate folder name in filename sort.

• Fixes

  • Comic file suffixes now matched case insensitively.
  • Finished comics count as 100% complete for bookmark aggregation.
  • Mark all folder descendant comics un/read recursively instead of immediate children.
  • Don't leak library root paths in Folder View for non-admins in the API.
  • Fixed aggregation bug showing inaccurate data when viewing group metadata.
  • More accurate Name sorting.
  • Fixed default start page for RTL comics.
  • Disabled reading links for empty comics.
  • Shield radiation from Venus to reduce zombie incidents.

v0.9.14

• Fixes

  • Fix comicbox config crash.
  • Use codex config namespace (~/.config/codex) so codex doesn't interfere with standalone comicbox configs.
  • Comic issue numbers display to two decimal points instead of using ½ glyphs.

• Features

  • Filename order by option. Disabled if the "Enable Folder View" Admin Flag is off.

v0.9.13

• Fixes
  • Fix root_path configuration for running codex in url sub-paths
  • Parse new filename patterns for metadata.
  • Slightly faster comic cover generation.

v0.9.12

• Fixes

  • Fix setting global reader settings.
  • Fixed reader settings not applying due to caching.
  • Bust reader caches when library updates.
  • Reader titles smaller and wrap on mobile.
  • Fixed deep linking into reader.

• Features

  • Disable reader prev/next touch swiping for phone sized browsers.

v0.9.11

• Fixes

  • Fixed covers not creating on import.
  • Covers update in browser when updated on disk.
  • Create missing covers on startup.
  • Bust browser cache when library updates.
  • Reader settings were not applying in some cases.
  • Fixed crash updating latest codex software version from the internet.
  • Fixed crash loading admin page.

• Features

  • Codex processes show names in ps and thread names on Linux.
  • Add Poll libraries action to FailedImports Admin Panel.
  • Space and shift-space previous and next reader shortcuts.
  • Reader settings UI redesigned to be clearer.

v0.9.10

Yanked. Crash loading admin page.

v0.9.9

• Fixes

  • Fixed combining CBI credits with other format credits
  • Failed imports notification appears only for new failed imports.

• Features

  • Update search index daily.
  • Clean up orphan comic covers every night.

v0.9.8

• Fixes

  • Fixed search index update crash while database is still updating.
  • Fixed issues larger than 99 bug.
  • Fixed issue not imported due to metadata cleaning bug.
  • Fixed crash updating search index while library was still updating.
  • Thread error trapping and diagnostics to root out zombie process issue.
  • Sort numeric terms in filter menus numerically not alphabetically.
  • Fixed comic name display wrapping in browser.

• Features

  • More comprehensive metadata sanitizing before import.
  • Reduced time checking to see if files have finished writing before import.
  • Uniform format for metadata parsing logging.
  • Credits sorted by last name.

v0.9.7

• Fixes

  • Coerce decimal values into valid ranges and precision before importing.

• Features

  • Clean up unused foreign keys once a day instead of after every import.
  • Clean up unused foreign keys librarian job available in admin panel.

v0.9.6

• Fixes

  • Don't open browser when a library changes when reading a comic.
  • Fixed crash creating illegal dates on import.

• Features

  • Replace description field with more common ComicInfo comments field.
  • Log files now rotate by size instead of daily.
  • Log path for failed imports and cover creation.

v0.9.5

• Fixed
  • Use an allow list for importing metadata to prevent crashes.

v0.9.4

• Fixes
  • Fixed crash when importing comments metadata.

v0.9.3

• Fixes
  • Import credits data for CBI and CIX tagged comics.
  • More liberal metadata decimal parsing.

v0.9.2

• Fixes
  • Fix rare migration bug for Cover Artist role.

v0.9.1

• Fixes
  • Fix to library group integrity checker

v0.9.0

Private Libraries

• Features
  • Libraries may have access restricted to certain user groups.
  • The "Critical Rating" tag is now a decimal value.
  • The "Community Rating" tag replaced "User Rating" tag, a decimal value.
  • Cover Credits role replaced by "Cover Artist".
  • Reader has a "Download Page" button.
  • Metadata dialog highlights filtered items.
  • Metadata dialog is faster.
  • Admin Queue Job for creating missing comic covers.

v0.8.0

Search

• Features
  • Metadata search field in browser
  • Settings dialogs replaced with side drawers
  • Changed some keyboard shortcuts in reader.
  • "group by" renamed to "top group".
  • Admin panel gained a Queue Jobs page.
• Fixes
  • Browser does a better job of remembering your last browser view on first load.
  • Reader's "close book" button now does a better job returning you to your last browser view.
  • Metadata panel cleanup and fix some missing fields.
• Binary Dependencies
  • Codex now requires the Xapian library to run as a native application
• Drop Support
  • The linux/armhf platform is no longer published for Docker.
• License
  • Codex is GPLv3

v0.7.5

• Fixes
  • Fix integrity cleanup check for old comic_folder relations that prevented migrations.

v0.7.4

• Fixes
  • Fix integrity cleanup check for more types of integrity errors that may have prevented clean db migrations.
  • Fix last filter, group, sort not loading properly for some new views.

v0.7.3

• Fixes
  • Fix crash updating latest version.
  • Fix a folder not found crash in folder view.
• Features
  • Database indexing speedups.

v0.7.2

• Fixes
  • Fix another integrity check bug

v0.7.1

• Fixes
  • Fix and integrity check crash that happened with an older databases.
• Features
  • Added CODEX_SKIP_INTEGRITY_CHECK env var.

v0.7.0

Feels Snappier

• Database Migration

  • v0.7.0 changes the database schema. Databases run with v0.7.0+ will not run on previous versions of codex.

• Features

  • Big speed up to importing comics for large imports.
  • Speed up creating comic covers on large imports.
  • Admin Panel options for polling (formerly "scanning") and watching events have changed names.
  • Admin Panel task added to regenerate all comic covers.
  • Browser Admin Menu option added for polling all Libraries on demand.
  • Comics with no specified Publishers, Imprints and Series no longer have induced default names for these but have no name like Volumes.
  • Codex repairs database integrity on startup.
  • Codex backs up the database every night.
  • Autodetect server timezone (for logging).
  • Use TZ and TIMEZONE environment variables to explicitly set server timezone.
  • Added VERBOSE logging level to help screen out bulk DEBUG messages from dependencies.
  • Truncated logging messages for easier reading.

• Fixes

  • Fixed metadata screen displaying incorrect information.
  • Now compatible with python 3.10.

v0.6.8

• Fixes
  • Fixes some import bugs with filename parsing when there are no tags
  • Fixed two page view toggle hotkey
• Features
  • Browser now tells you what kind of items you're looking at.
  • Reader swiping navigation
  • Reader keyboard shortcut help dialog
  • Tentative linux/armhf support. No way for me to test this
  • Vacuum the sqlite database once a day to prevent bloat
  • Corrupt database rebuild procedure. See README.

v0.6.7

• Dark admin pages and fix template overrides.

v0.6.6

• Automate multi-arch builds

v0.6.5

• Build Docker images for amd64 & arm64 manually.

v0.6.4

• Fix reader bug that only displayed first page

v0.6.3

• Add LOGLEVEL environment variable.
  • Set to DEBUG to see everything.
• Removed DEV environment variable.
• Possible fix for newly imported covers not displaying.

v0.6.2

• Fixes
  • Fixed intermittent Librarian startup crash in docker.
  • Fixed DEBUG environment variable to be able to run in production.
• Dev
  • Added DEV environment variable for dev environment.

v0.6.1

• Fixes
  • Fix librarian startup crash. Prevented admin actions from happening.

v0.6.0

Better Filtering and Sorting

• Features
  • New Filters
  • New sort options: Updated Time and Maturity Rating
  • New frontend URL scheme
  • New API
  • Added time to the browse card when sorting by time fields
  • Browser pagination footer now remains fixed on the page
  • Browser pagination footer is now a slider to handle larger collections
  • Notifications now appear in reader as well as browser
  • On comic import failure, log the path as well as the reason
  • Codex version information moved to Browser > Settings
• Fixes
  • Fixed a bug importing Story Arc Series Groups and Genres. Requires re-import to correct.
  • Fixed a bug with sorting that grouped improperly and showed the wrong covers for reverse sorts.
  • Scanning notifications on login not disappearing bug squashed
  • Fixed a bug where the browser settings menu wouldn't close when opening a dialog

v0.5.18

• Fixes
  • Fix filters not changing display bug

v0.5.17

• Fixes
  • Fix root_path not parsing bug

v0.5.16

• Fixes
  • Fix broken startup when parsing json shared between front and back end

v0.5.15

• Features
  • Metadata popup is now faster.
  • Metadata popup now shows created_at, updated_at and path (if admin).
  • Removed numeric and common password validators. Made the minimum length 4.

v0.5.14

• Features

  • Metadata view for browse containers. Also observes filters.
  • Covers now regenerate on re-import.

• Fixes

  • Fix scanning notification
  • Fix unable to delete libraries bug

v0.5.13

• Features
  • Admin Flag for automatically updating codex
  • Force updates from the admin panel with an Admin Flag action
  • Snackbar for notifying about failed imports

v0.5.12

• Features
  • Admin page for failed imports
  • Snackbar tells admins when scans are happening
  • Report the latest version available in the browser footer tooltip
  • Admin flag for disabling codex for non-users

v0.5.11

• Features
  • Browser rows now adapt to browse tile size
  • Browser covers for containers now match data we're sorting by
  • Serve static files faster
• Fixes
  • Reader fix settings for all comics were not setting properly
  • Fix bookmarks for sessions that aren't logged in

v0.5.10

• Fixes

  • Fix filtering bugs
  • Fix mark read/unread bugs
  • Fix reader settings not setting properly
  • Fix reader images positioning
  • Fix minor crash closing books with uninitialized browser app

v0.5.9

• Fixes
  • Fix sorting for folder view
  • Fix import bugs
• Features
  • Display sort key value in browse tile
  • Display standard image for missing covers
  • Slightly more helpful 404 page

v0.5.8

• Upload mistake with 0.5.7. This is just a version bump.

v0.5.7

• Fixes

  • Fix import crashes
  • Remove scan locks on startup

• Features

  • Allow credits with an empty role
  • Pagination of large browse results
  • Center comic pages better
  • Add download link to browser menu
  • Log to files as well as console

v0.5.6

• Fixes
  • Websocket path security wasn't handling leading slashes well. Skip it.

v0.5.5

• Fixes
  • Revert to whitenoise 5.1.0 which works with subpaths

v0.5.4

• Fixes
  • Fix crash on start if all static dirs do not exist.

v0.5.3

• Fixes
  • Fixed login bug introduces in v0.5.3 (thanks hubcaps)
  • Fixed filtering bug introduced in v0.5.2
• Features
  • Versioned API
  • Toast popup for admins indicating libraries are scanning.
  • Periodic frontend refresh during long scans.
  • Codex version displayed in browser footer

v0.5.2

• Features
  • Lazy load filter choices when the menu opens
  • Documentation moved into admin panel
• Fixes
  • Fix multiprocessing for Windows

v0.5.1

• Minor bugfixes.

v0.5.0

First useful working version

• Productionized alpha release

v0.4.0

Polished UI

• Polished VueJS frontend

v0.3.0

I'm a frontend developer!

• Single Page VueJS frontend PoC without much styling

v0.2.0

It's alive

• Working application with all initial features
• Django frontend

v0.1.0

Hello world

• Proof of concept.