I’m happy to announce version 4.18.0 - “Cherut”
Cherut has some UI/UX improvements, on the Player it will display a chapter list should the podcast provide chapter information and the shownotes are now also shown in the player.
At the moment the chapters are “inert” but I already have a version where you can tap them to jump to them, however since it is also part of further changes to the Player UI/UX and I really wanted to make this release already that will come in the next release.
On the player the cover art also behaves better than it used to, where in the past it would not always show properly that should now no longer be the case.
Lastly the loading screen now shows for as long as it takes to load all the podcasts and gives basic feedback on what is happening.
The last change is also the first step towards the switch to enabling/properly configuring sailjail, at this time it will show the status of the different folders, which should be “needs migration”, in the future it will also actually run the migration, I am considering also adding this information to the Settings page, but maybe that is too much effort for something that should hopefully be a one time occurrence.
For those who do want to handle the move themselves creating a .gpodder-migrate-ignore file in each directory that needs migration will now show the message “user inhibited” and when I implement the actual migration code will skip the folder.
The next version will probably refine most of the concepts introduced now and in the last version a bit more and when the SailJail config ships it will be 5.0.
Thanks to @eson for the rapid submission of Swedish translations, please note that I made this release fast so all the many translating heroes did not really have time to update the translations yet, sorry about that.
I would like to thank my sponsors on GitHub (@PeperJohnny and @schmittlauch) and while I hate to be begging like this it really does help me, these days I am a freelancer in the programming/sysadmin Linux/HPC space and the last period has been brutally dry for me, so if you can sponsor me or if you would like to send some work my way please DM me.