Screenbox 0.18.0 ڈاؤن لوڈ

What's Changed
Warning
This release includes a known regression in the search functionality that may cause crashes in certain scenarios. We're actively working on a fix and appreciate your patience.
This release is all about playlists and polish. We've introduced powerful new playlist management features, improved privacy controls, and refined the user experience with smoother animations, and under-the-hood optimizations. Plus, we've squashed bugs and streamlined the codebase for future updates.
New Features
- feat: playlist management support by @huynhsontung in #514
- feat: add settings privacy section by @United600 in #700
- feat: add Open With context menu for media files by @Copilot in #754
- feat: hide redundant caption for videos when it only adds file extension by @Copilot in #782
- feat: add success notifications for playlist create, rename, and delete by @Copilot in #798
- feat: add current play queue to a new or existing playlist by @huynhsontung in #803
- feat: handle Open with command on cached library item by @huynhsontung in #810
Bug Fixes
- fix: Delay playlist parsing until LibVLC is initialized by @Copilot in #745
- fix: subtitle auto-loading regression from PR #676 by @Copilot in #746
- fix: combobox popup position by @United600 in #752
- fix: RTL repeat glyph directionality by @United600 in #769
- fix: forward frame stepping position sync by @United600 in #795
- fix: media returned without media info when restoring from cache by @huynhsontung in #805
Localization
- l10n: Crowdin updates by @huynhsontung in #726
- l10n: Crowdin updates by @huynhsontung in #811
- fix(l10n): minor grammar fix for some privacy-related strings by @huynhsontung in #812
User Experience
- style: add titlebar control by @United600 in #784
- style: adjust player page animation offsets and transitions by @United600 in #796
- style: minor playlist dialogs tweaks by @United600 in #800
- style: improve playlist button design in the play queue selection bar by @United600 in #804
- style: fix playlist page header text overlap by @United600 in #809
Other Improvements
- chore: migrates Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json by @United600 in #669
- chore: minor clean up to NavigationView by @United600 in #723
- chore: update keyboard accelerator helper constants documentation by @United600 in #737
- chore: add lottie generation script by @United600 in #776
- chore: add powershell script to generate custom icons fonts by @United600 in #779
- chore: bump C# language version and copyright year by @United600 in #785
- chore: replace command bar extension with control by @United600 in #797
- refactor: player controls playback and subtitle keyboard accelerator events by @United600 in #724
- refactor: move all behaviors to a new Behaviors namespace and folder by @United600 in #731
- refactor: player page keyboard accelerator events by @United600 in #733
- refactor: LibVlcService into stateless IPlayerService with PlayerContext by @Copilot in #755
- refactor: decouple casting from VLC via stateless CastService and CastContext by @Copilot in #760
- refactor: make LibraryService stateless via LibraryContext and LibraryController by @Copilot in #761
- refactor: ResourceNameToResourceString converter by @United600 in #762
- refactor: add playback rate message by @United600 in #775
- refactor: NavigationViewEx property change logic and simplify control by @United600 in #780
- refactor: ThicknessFilterKinds location and improves converter XML documentation by @United600 in #781
- refactor: replace view-layer error forwarding with typed failure messages from ViewModels by @Copilot in #794
- refactor: language model and remove layout direction converter by @United600 in #801
- refactor: control visibility logic for open popups by @United600 in #802
- ci: Add automated Winget package submission workflow by @Copilot in #747
- ci: Change release type from 'published' to 'released' by @drshtmstry in #750
- ci(copilot): Update Copilot setup to use Windows host by @huynhsontung in #789
New Contributors
- @drshtmstry made their first contribution in #750
Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0