v1.0.0

Stremio Native v1.0.0

A high-performance native Stremio desktop client with a Slint interface, embedded Rust stream server, and hardware-accelerated libmpv playback.

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Release notes

Desktop lifecycle and startup

• Projects the persisted model for the active tab synchronously before starting network loads and performs tab-entry projection on Slint's UI thread, preventing an older queued snapshot from replacing newer Continue Watching, Calendar, Library, Discover, Addons, or Settings state.
• Runs Core sequential effects through a single FIFO executor instead of spawning them concurrently, so an older library/profile storage snapshot cannot commit after a newer snapshot and reappear after restart.
• Reloads only the bounded initial Board/Search catalog range when first-login profile hydration introduces addon catalogs that Core intentionally leaves unloaded, removing the former full-restart requirement.
• Invalidates Calendar's cached metadata requests only when its relevant library items or addon catalogs change; unchanged revisits reuse the ready schedule without a network reload.
• Uses Core's canonical storage-key constants at startup, retains a legacy server_urls read fallback, and maps the legacy JSON filename to the canonical streaming_server_urls database key.
• Shows the Slint client and starts its event loop before icon lookup, tray/update setup, database initialization, stream-server startup, storage hydration, Core construction, or MPV initialization; the responsive loading UI is now the first startup milestone and reports shell_ready_ms for cold-start profiling.
• Runs stream-server startup and all independent Core storage reads concurrently after configuration is available.
• Configures Turso WAL through its row-returning query path, batches the remaining pragmas and schema work, migrates legacy storage in one transaction, and defers log/image-table maintenance beyond the first-frame window.
• Initializes libmpv's shared OpenGL context from the first available render callback after deferred engine startup and requests that callback explicitly, fixing audio-only playback when Slint's one-time graphics-setup event occurred before MPV was ready.
• Queues network-backed external subtitles through libmpv's asynchronous command API and cancels outstanding subtitle requests before Stop, keeping the MPV actor free to process Player Back immediately while preserving ordered loadfile/stop semantics.
• Reprojects a matching ready Core details model immediately on every details entry path, preventing repeat visits to cached titles from waiting forever for a state event Core correctly omits.
• Keeps details-page Back navigation available during genuine metadata loading so a failed or slow request cannot trap the client on its skeleton state.
• Removes the tray component by ownership during post-event-loop shutdown instead of changing its finalized visibility property, preventing Slint's Constant property being changed panic on quit.
• Adds a native system tray with GUI-relevant actions for opening Stremio, Settings, logs, update checks, installation, and quit; closing the window now respects the quit-on-close setting and otherwise hides to the tray.
• Queues tray-driven show/navigation operations onto Slint's event loop to avoid re-entrant Winit window borrows.
• Adds single-instance activation plus official stremio: and magnet: deep-link forwarding, with commands queued until Core and playback are ready.
• Keeps the latest Discord activity pending while IPC is unavailable, retries connection with a bounded 2-to-30-second backoff, and treats media/pause/resume activity changes as reconnect opportunities without blocking the UI.

Native shell and UI polish

• Uses the official desktop card interaction split: one Discover click selects and loads the metadata preview, a double-click opens full details, and Library retains its one-click details route through the same shared card primitive.
• Uses the stream-server's exact icon_48.png and app.ico assets for the tray, Slint window, taskbar, executable resources, and Windows installer.
• Applies the official shell's #15122b Windows caption color with white caption text while keeping the operating system's native title-bar controls.
• Centers the Stremio navigation mark against the same fixed rail and header tokens used by the sidebar icons at every responsive UI scale.
• Vertically centers the details stream-row play button in a full-height action slot, including rows whose descriptions wrap.
• Adds localized tray/update strings, a web-style language selector, application/build/shell versions in their official Settings positions, and shell version 1.0.0.
• Adds an official-style update notification and installer flow backed by GitHub releases through self_update.

Playback dependency and release system

• Replaces the tracked static MPV SDK with the pinned optimized x86-64-v3 libmpv-2.dll and COFF import library from the trusted shinchiro GitHub release.
• Downloads, extracts, SHA-256 verifies, caches, links, and deploys the DLL and pinned licenses directly from the Rust build script; Cargo builds no longer require PowerShell, 7-Zip, or repository-stored media binaries.
• Resolves dynamic libmpv through pkg-config on Linux, with STREMIO_MPV_DIR retained as an explicit local SDK override.
• Pins the current Core head plus its flate2 compatibility correction from perpetus/stremio-core, and pins the lifecycle-fixed stream-server revision through remote Git dependencies, so clean CI checkouts do not rely on sibling repositories.
• Disables stream-server's standalone Windows EXE resource table only when it is embedded, preventing duplicate VERSIONINFO/icon resources while preserving the GUI executable's own 1.0.0 metadata.
• Preserves only OpenGL state supported by the active context and uses an ES2-compatible RGBA render target, preventing ES3-only libmpv sharing operations from leaking GL_INVALID_ENUM into Slint/FemtoVG on Windows.
• Adds clean Windows and Linux release jobs. The Windows job also produces the Inno Setup installer and GitHub updater archive.
• Provisions the optimized static libtorrent 2.0.13 dependency on clean Windows runners through stream-server's pinned vcpkg baseline, overlay, triplet, and GitHub Actions cache.
• Publishes tagged v* builds automatically after both platforms pass, with updater-compatible assets, the Linux binary, SHA-256 checksums, direct download links, the matching detailed changelog section, categorized commit links, and a full comparison link.

Resource baseline

• The settled 1.0.0 process measured 358.6 MB private working set and 0.19% five-second CPU, 455.8 MB (56.0%) below the retained 814.4 MB official Stremio WebView2 baseline.

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Source

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