LANraragi v.0.8.4 - Real Cool World

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Happy New Year to all! May your manga collections be fruitful and your TempleOS installations blessed.

This release brings in more of the planned User Survey Requests features, namely everything related to Thumbnails.
Next release should be focused on tackling the BIG ONE, aka search speed.

ppc64 and s309x have been dropped from the Docker images

I don't think anyone ever pulled those architectures (since they're mainframe-oriented) and they were starting to take a toll on github build times (to the point I'd often hit the 6h limit for cacheless builds), so they're gone!

I apologize to all the PowerPC enjoyers.

Reader improvements New Year's Bundle

In this version, I'm finally adding in the feature that will make all panda pundits praise me and potentially pledge some pennies:
You can now directly show the thumbnails overlay when opening the Reader.

wow!

The thumbnail overlay previously had performance issues due to showing the full-size images; I've fixed this by extending the existing thumbnail APIs to be able to create/return thumbnails for all pages in an archive, and not only the cover.
This makes overall perf much nicer, althrough if you're hosting on a CPU that doesn't have many cores/threads, the thumbnails might take a while to appear on first reads now.

But as a result, you can now also set any page to be the cover thumbnail for an archive!
This replaces the old "regenerate thumbnail" button in the Reader, since you can just set page 1 for the same effect.

I've also improved back button functionality: The Reader no longer clutters browser history with an URL for each page, and going back using the return button will now bring you back to whatever search you'd performed before reading.

Changelog

• New Year's Reader Fun Pack™️

  🥳 (Add an option to show the tags/thumbnail overlay first when opening the Reader #514) Add an option to show the tags/thumbnail overlay first when opening the Reader
  🎉 (Add "set this image as the cover thumbnail" option to the reader  #517) Add button to set the current page as the cover thumbnail
  🎊 (Poor performance/usability for editing archives #520) Use the new thumbnail API in the Reader overlay
  ✨ Remove pushstate/popstate functionality from Reader
  😳 ([Suggestion] return to library button logic is not intuitive enough #546) Use http referrer headers to be able to redirect the user to his previous search when leaving the Reader

• ([Suggestion] Option to hide the carousel view in Index #567) Hiding the carousel now sets a pref so it doesn't re-open on page reloads

  🧧 Response to the new carousel has been quite positive, but as with every new feature, some people just want to disable it.
  😭 And that's perfectly fine! I forgot to make collapsing the carousel a saved change in the previous release, so it should be less egregious from now on.

• ([bug] pdf file wont be loaded correctly #554) Fix PDFs not working if your Ghostscript install was too recent

  🧧 gs 9.50 marked the flags I was using to pull pdf pages as insecure, which required some command line updates.
  🎍 This wouldn't have been too big an issue except I uh, shipped 9.50 in the Docker image most people use, so sorry about that.

• Update koromo plugin so it can also accept metadata files from [REDACTED] compilation torrents

  👻 gee I truly wonder what that mystery site could be

• (Tag Rules doesn't support Japanese characters and kanji. #565) Fix Tag Rules only accepting ASCII characters

  🥲 Another day, another disappointment.
  🥳 And by disappointment I mean I fucked up encoding again! I have failed you once more and deeply apologize.

• Add option to use file modified time for the builtin date_added feature

  ⏱ I planned to remove the old date plugin after fully integrating it to the main app, but since the feature doesn't apply retroactively, I decided to leave it in for the time being, in case you want to batch tag dates for all your stuff.

• (No thumbnails from .gif #572) Fix gif thumbnails, which used to not work due to different file naming by imagemagick

  🎉 who the heck uses gif for their covers? ah dingus it doesn't matter there ya go fixed

• Add support for default values in plugin parameters

  🎍 A surprisingly easy addition that was missing before -- default values will only apply if the user never saved preferences for your plugin, so you shouldn't see any changes if you're updating.
  🎊 The Regex plugin should also now execute before all the others in autoplugin if it's enabled, in order to try and get better base tags before querying external services. (And it has save title set to true by default now!)

• API Changes

  🔑 (Add "set this image as the cover thumbnail" option to the reader  #517) Add no_fallback to GET /api/archives/:id/thumbnail to get JSON in case a thumbnail is being generated instead of a fallback image
  🔑 The pages/extract endpoint will now add the job ID for the matching Minion job ID.
  🔑 (Add "set this image as the cover thumbnail" option to the reader  #517) Add PUT /api/archives/:id/thumbnail?page=xx to set a defined page as the cover thumbnail for an archive
  🔑 (Add "set this image as the cover thumbnail" option to the reader  #517) Add a page parameter to GET /api/archives/:id/thumbnail to get a thumbnail for any page of a given archive

• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements

  💎 Fix toasts being under the overlays
  💎 (Fix taglist overflowing on stats page #550/Fix awesomplete z-index collision with carousel #551/Fix .collapsible-title padding override applying outside of carousel #552/Fix tagger input element size on g and ex themes #553) Various CSS fixes by @CirnoT (Thanks!)
  💎 Fix is_file_in_archive and matching plugins to work with the new extraction logic from 0.8.3
  💎 ([Feature request] add option to create robots.txt file #559) Add a default robots.txt file
  💎 (Mobile: Cannot add tags on chromium-based browsers #531) Disable usage of tagger.js on mobile browsers
  💎 (EHMasterScript Import Tagging Fails #536) Add missing useragent parameter to MEMS plugin
  💎 (Total entries doesn't match the showing archives and actual archives inside the folder. #563/E-Hentai Plugin "Forced language to use in searches" not working. #566) Add warning text to a few plugins to clarify potential issues
  💎 Add default value for isnewin database
  💎 Fix timestamp tags so it works properly with web uploads
  💎 (Title Header Hidden on Infinite Scroll #574) Disable header setting in infinite scrolling mode

Full Changelog: v.0.8.3...v.0.8.4

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