Changelog

🖼️ 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

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