FLOW CHANGE LOG
VERSION: 2.1.5
DATE: 2026-06-03
STATUS: RELEASE

FEATURES
- Add new Proxy manager and routing #362
- Add new App language selection in settings #376
- Add text highlight and selection for comments and description #374
- Zoom level indicator #348
- Subtitle customization #348
- Add playlist items re-ordering and video watch progress #380 #382
- Add more data import options #396 #357 #424 #428
- Add copy video title by long press #426
- Add playlist video downloads confirmation dialog  #413
- Add RYD disable option #433
- Add background worker and notification disable option #411
- Add new video player controls lock mode #441
- Add toggle to refresh subscriptions at app startup #435
- Add navigation tab order controls and default tab selection
- Add comment and comment preview disable options
- Add Material You dynamic color theme #448
- Add custom light and dark theme choices for System Default #367
- Add more app icon variants with updated adaptive icon packaging #400
- Add shorts history #285
- Add time based shorts auto scroll #398
- Add block shorts from channels #285
- Add new watch history search #393
- Add new sorting options in playlists
- Add new player seekbar width customization
- Add remeber brightness toggle #474
- Add new more lyrics providers (Based on Metrolist's provider implementation https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist )
- Add new lyrics engine (Based on Metrolist's ExperimentalLyrics.kt, LyricsLine.kt, LyricsCommon.kt, and FadingEdge.kt.)
- Add new Music Audio Quality selector #521
- Add external music downloads #256
- Add shorts history delete option #514
- Add LireTube history export option #507
- Add shorts playback speed selection #496
- Add option to disable or change long-press playback speed #475
- Add option to disable volume boost #491
- Add date and time format customization #481 
- Add codec preference settings #560 
- Add Android Auto support
- Add live chat support

IMPROVEMENTS
- Seekbar preview and slider optimization #360 #361
- Improve media playback notification handling #347
- Improve Monochrome app logo quality #336
- Add paging to comment replies #369
- Add master backup import to onboarding #365
- Improve video watch progress handling #379
- Add share button to channel screen #397
- Add download pause/resume to download screen #407
- Add to playlist sheet redesign and video addition to multiple playlists #391
- Improve comments and description sheets design and interactions #397
- Chapters sheet redesign
- Battery optimization #383 #559
- Personality/control center redesign and optimization
- Improve dislike signals from video player
- Improve topics categories
- Improve dynamic video player sizing and handling
- Player settings sheet redesign and Introduce new sheet sidebar in player
- Add player sizing toggle
- Add paid videos filters #439
- Improve video and shorts playback performance #442 #425
- Prefer VP9/H264 over AV1 for playback #406
- Improve Live streams handling and UI #435 #416 #390
- Improved watched content filtering #451
- Improve subscriptions feed UI, count, content and cache #435 #468
- Redesign App Icon picker #400
- Improve shorts UI and performance #446
- Watch history and likes screens redesign
- Improve playlists and library screens UI design
- Improve subtitle handling #271
- Improve upcoming videos handling and add a reminder #470
- Improve mini video player animaton #464
- Improve sponsor skip button placement #476
- Improve music playback speed and simpmusic issues
- Improve lyrics formatting, seeking and better word level lyrics hightlight
- Improve Music feed and add more sections
- Music player and its components redesign
- New queue sheet design, improved queue handling and similar content fetching
- Improve AV1 handling #548
- Increase subscription feed cache size
- Reduce player UI position update churn during playback to improve high-FPS fast-speed smoothness #478
- Improve playlist and background playback STABILITY

FIXES AND STABILITY
- Fix play mode switch pop up #378
- Fix Go to channel on home and related videos #370 #351
- Fix comment loading in queue #352
- Fix queue dock position by @ItsMe-95fx #371
- Fix channel content rendering #366
- Fix empty media playback notification #347
- Fix limited playlist content #385
- Fix auto play when in background playback #388
- Fix pip mode freeze #354
- Fix low thumbnail quality #403
- Fix channel avatar on subscription #387
- Fix background playback #417 #434
- Fix playback issues when playing from shared links #422
- Fix playlist playback history #413
- Fix album and subscriptions search crashes #443 #445
- Fix video downloads and songs playback in wrong language #381 #353
- Fix large playlist crashing #454
- Fix video player supression  #453
- Fix content preference backup #452
- Fix low resolution casting #299
- Fix shorts player disable option #466
- Fix music playlist delete path #471
- Fix LazyColumn crash #479
- Fix player jitter #478
- Fix missing track duration
- Fix channel banner resolution #518

ENGINE
- Improve topic maturity detection for better recommendations #281
- Fix watch progress tracking accuracy
- Optimize learning signal weighting
- Improve discovery query filtering
- Improve feed history tracking
- Fix recommendation engine concurrency issue
- Improve brain state persistence
- Connect YouTube watch history to recommendations #389
- Add Interest Anchor Queries to improve recommendations

CORE:
- Add native channel content extraction via InnerTube API
- Bump NewPipeExtractor version to v0.26.2
- Add SABR stream decoders and native InnerTube API video stream extraction with NewPipeExtractor as fallback