Changelog

New

• My Anime now shows what is playing: when a new file plays, the list goes to its tab and selects its row. In another section you stay where you are, and the row is ready when you go back. On by default; turn it off in Settings > Detection.
• Choose what the sidebar shows: hide any section in Settings or with a right click. That now includes My Anime, for those who only read manga. One list always stays.
• Covers: you can now use JPEG XL (.jxl) pictures as covers.
• Linux: new color schemes in Settings > Theme and display, shown as preview cards. They apply instantly, no restart.
• Linux: "Follow the system" uses your desktop's colors (KDE color scheme or GTK theme), read when MAL Updater starts.

Torrents

• Auto-send now downloads one copy of each episode. Once a copy has gone to qBittorrent, other copies are no longer wanted. You can still send one by hand.
• New "Why" column, next to the episode, says why each release is wanted or not.
• When nothing is wanted, Torrents now tells you what it is looking for.

Fixes

• Toolbars no longer overlap or get cut off in a small window. They wrap onto more rows, starting from the left, on Windows and Linux.
• Settings: Apply now takes effect immediately, then greys out until you change something else.
• Linux: a cover picture now closes when you click outside it.
• Linux: restarting from inside Settings (zoom) now works straight away.
• Windows: player detection no longer opens other running programs to read their names, and no longer mistakes programs that share a common window type for video players. This may help if a game's anti-cheat reported MAL Updater.
• The window no longer freezes while the library scan waits on a slow network share.
• Detection: a video ignored as outside your library folders is now picked up while it plays, without a restart, once you add its folder, set a folder for that entry, or turn off the library-only setting. Windows and Linux.

• UI fixes for bugs introduced in 4577

Info page

• Edit your entry on the page itself: status, episodes and score under the cover; Edit (Ctrl+E) for dates, tags and the rest.
• Better banners for MyAnimeList entries, using AniList's banner when available.

Main window

• The entry's banner behind the top pane (button to turn it off).
• New episode bar: hover to preview, click to set, − / + built in.
• Info box on the right as frosted glass.

Fixes

• Cards flickering or going grey when resizing or clicking.
• Fields flickering in the editors while resizing.

Other

• Settings: new Theme and display page, with an option to turn off the mascot's seasonal look.
• A small new hint for an easter egg.

🧲 Torrents
• Search the feeds by name: type in the box in Torrents and press Enter. It finds older episodes and whole seasons that have left the feeds.
• Right-click any anime > "Search torrents" searches for it directly.
• Results show under "Found: …" in the drop-down. Send them to qBittorrent or set them aside as usual. Pick another view to go back to the feeds.
• Search results are never sent automatically and don't count as Wanted.

🖼️ HD pictures
• "Lanczos (no AI)" now cleans up JPEG blockiness before enlarging, then smooths blotches only as much as the cover needs: more for poor covers, none for good ones. Fine lines and small details (noses, outlines) are kept.
• "AI anime" now mixes the AI result 50/50 with the plain enlargement, so covers keep their natural texture instead of looking flat.
• Photos of people always use the non-AI look.
• Existing HD pictures are remade automatically with the new looks.
• The picture viewer now updates on its own when the HD version is ready.
• Image filters/resamplers: much faster, specially in Linux

⚙️ Other
• Settings switches pages much faster.
• "Set up for this PC…" has moved to the Tools menu, next to Settings. The setup wizard shows once more for everyone, to choose the HD look for your PC.

🖼️ HD covers, made by AI

• Every cover is now HD: made twice its size and cleaner by an anime-trained AI (Real-ESRGAN), once, in the background, then shown everywhere: cards, detail pane, info pages, viewer.
• The AI is built into MAL Updater and runs on your PC: no online service, nothing is sent anywhere.
• Light on your PC: the cover you're looking at is ready in about half a second; the rest are made slowly at low priority, so a video keeps playing smoothly.
• Settings > Images: turn it off, pick a style (AI anime, Lanczos or Original), or make them all again.
• The cover cache now keeps to its size limit, and its folder can be changed.

🖥️ Setup wizard

• Tests your PC (processor, memory, disk and AI speed) and suggests settings, each with its reason.
• Compare the styles on three sample covers, and click to zoom 2×.
• Shown when you add an account or move to a new PC, and any time from Help > Set up for this PC…

✨ Highlighted rows

• Rows can be highlighted for what's playing (until it's recorded), airing now, not aired yet and, if you want it, watched but never scored.
• Each one on or off, each in its own color: Settings > General.
• View > Highlight rows turns them all off and on.

🌙 About

• New About window with some light animations 🐱
• A different animated scene in the corner each time you open it.

🧙‍♀️ Easter eggs 🎃🦇

• Our first easter egg is hidden in MAL Updater, can you find it? the hunt begins! 😈
• Help > About now counts the **easter eggs you've found**. More are coming!

✨ Misc

• Random window Fx.
• Settings > General > As MAL Updater starts: splash then effect, effect only, splash only, or nothing.

🎮 Discord

• Works out of the box: no more registering your own Discord app. Just turn on Settings > Broadcast > Show what is playing in Discord.
• Your status shows the title, episode and cover, and the title under your name in member lists.
• Two buttons for others: View on MyAnimeList (the show) and MAL Updater.
• Both the title and cover can be switched off. Hentai never shows a cover.

📋 Lists

• Fixed: tags and comments were missing from your MAL entries. They're read now, and an edit made in MAL Updater never wipes them on MAL.
• Season sort: titles with no season now sit together at the bottom (they landed among next year's).
• Films in two parts ("Movie 1-2", "Movie 2-2") count as one episode, so the play menu no longer offers an episode 2. Your library is re-scanned once to apply it.

🔗 Missing related

• New: "Related to" filter in Settings > Missing related – e.g. only what's related to anime you've completed.
• New "Your status" column: the status of your entry each title is related to.

📅 Airing schedule

• New "Statuses" button: hide shows by your list status (e.g. Dropped).
• Shows with no airing time yet now get a full card (cover, type, season) instead of a blank one.

🐧 Linux

• Browse lists have real columns: resize, drag to reorder, hide (right-click the header), all remembered.
• The search options move to their own row when the window is narrow.

🔞 Adult content

• Hentai on your MAL list now syncs properly. MAL's newer API was quietly leaving them out of your list; one sync brings them all in.
• Settings > Adult content now explains each hentai list choice in full, including where "Add only on this computer as" is (right-click a hentai that isn't on your list, e.g. in a search).

🔗 Missing related

• New Settings page, also opened from the ⚙ "What to list..." button in the view:
  • Relations of relations (sequels of sequels) – now off by default: only what your own entries are related to is listed.
  • Choose which anime types, manga types and relations to show (Summary, Side story, Spin-off…).

• Missing types are filled in (TV Special, PV, CM showed blank).
• Fixed: "Gathering related anime" counter that kept going up forever.

📋 Lists

• Season sort fixed: titles now sort by year and season (a Summer show no longer lands among Fall ones).

👤 Accounts

• A new account's folder is named after the account instead of "myanimelist-account"; accounts with the same name get numbered folders.
• Signing in to an account you already have no longer leaves an empty extra account in the menu.

🐧 Linux

• Episodes from network shares are recognised: Videos opened from an SMB or SFTP share in Nemo (and similar file managers) are now detected, with Flatpak players (e.g. Flathub mpv) and native ones alike.
• The Settings window can be dragged by any empty area.

📋 Lists

• Airing titles stand out in every theme: a stronger tint plus a coloured bar at the start of the row (View > Highlight airing titles).
• MAL age ratings are now read, so the 18+ (rated R+) filter works as intended. One sync fills them in.
• Adult entries on long lists are always requested on every page of your list.

🪟 Windows

• No more flicker when hovering the Settings page list or the sidebar with some themes (e.g. Tablet Dark).

🔍 Filters

• A cleaner Filters panel: Status, Type, Progress, Adult, Aired and Genres side by side, for anime and manga.
• Genre chips: pick genres to show (Any of these) or hide (None of these).
• Seasons like v2: Any time, one season (e.g. Fall 2026) or a range of years. Set it once and switch it on and off.
• Profiles: save a set of filters under a name and bring it back in one click. Each list keeps its own.
• The Filters button shows how many filters are on, and the tab counts follow them.

🔞 Adult content

• A Settings page of its own brings everything about adult content together.
• Hentai (on by default) and 18+ (rated R+) are separate filters.
• Keep entries on this computer only: set one of My lists to Offline, or choose how hentai changes are saved (Normal, Online or Only on this computer). You can also add a hentai from search without it reaching your online list. The app always asks first before anything kept on this computer would sync.
• Broadcast (Discord, web address) now hides only hentai. Titles rated R+ are shared like any other.

📋 Your lists

• Airing titles can be highlighted (View > Highlight airing titles).
• Search also looks in Comments and My notes.
• Full edit has a new date control: tick it, type the date, or pick it from a calendar. DEL to clear one part.
• Missing related no longer lists hentai you already have.

🎬 Episode recognition

• Your own episode rules: e.g. "episodes 13+ of season 1 are episodes 1+ of season 2". Tools/What recognition remembers.
• Better matching with anime-relations: open ranges like 13-? work, and rules apply even before a season's episode count is known.

🖼️Images & memory

• Settings > Images: clear the cover cache and see how much space it uses.
• Click RAM in the status bar to free the covers held in memory.

🐧 Linux

• Discord: show what you're watching, as on Windows. Works with the regular, Flatpak and Snap Discord, and with Vesktop.
• Episodes streamed in your browser are recognised: Chrome/Chromium, Firefox (and LibreWolf, Waterfox, Floorp, Zen), Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera. A tab is only read when its title names one of your streaming sites. Works on X11; on Wayland, for browsers running through XWayland.
• Flatpak players (e.g. Flathub mpv) are detected.

🪟 Windows

• Lists look right with every theme: no more odd cell colours.
• New option: pause the countdown while the player is behind other windows (on by default).
• Fixed: Season explorer's Sort and Group by type work again.

• Fixed: small memory leaks
• Final EOL version: MAL Updater 4 is now live: https://malupdater.com/downloads

• Fixed issue with version check and updater
• Native webp support without WIC add-on

• Fixed issue with version check and updater
• Fixed (kinda) issue with webp images from MAL

Placeholder for future updates