Changelog: every Quven version in detail

1.5.10

29 October 2026 Most recent

2 additions · 7 improvements · 11 fixes

The library search now lists first the title that matches the words typed, for films, series, books, audiobooks, albums and recordings. The catalogue search reads a large library once typing pauses, and the Folders view of books and audiobooks shows the picture each folder holds. Quven 1.5.10 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.9.

Books and audiobooks A folder holding a picture named folder, in PNG, JPEG or WebP format, now shows it on its tile in the Folders view, on the desktop and in the web client.
Web client The manual match dialog and the match dialogs of books, audiobooks, albums and artists now state that the match is being saved while the server completes it. A series match can take about a minute on a large library.

Search Results are now ordered by how closely each title matches the words typed, including the original title and the title shown in the language of the application. A film, series, book, audiobook, album or recording named exactly as typed is no longer listed after longer titles holding the same words.
Catalogues The search in a catalogue now updates the list once typing pauses, or at once on Enter, on the desktop and in the web client. A large library no longer reloads its titles and filter counts at every key.
Books and audiobooks In the Folders view, a folder holding a single title is now shown as a tile among the other folders, under its own name. The count of each folder now includes the titles in every folder below it.
Sidebar Watchlist, Readlist and Listenlist are now grouped under Saved, followed by Collections and Playlists under Created by you, on the desktop and in the web client. Each group keeps its own order, and an entry cannot be moved into the other group.
Notifications A notice repeating one already on screen now replaces it instead of adding a second card, on the desktop and in the web client.
Desktop The application uses less memory. Each dialog is created the first time it opens, and the styles of the interface cost less for each control on screen.
Desktop and web client The chosen option of the view switch and the count of an active filter are now drawn in dark text on the accent colour, with a higher contrast.

Managed AI A book matched by the AI could be stored as another volume of the same series, and its description could be written in a language other than that of the edition held. The volume number is now kept, and the description follows the language and publisher of the edition, or the language of the library when the edition states none.
Matching A series folder naming no year was matched with certainty to one of several catalogue series sharing its name. Such a series is now matched by the AI where it is available, or left for review.
Books Two books of one work matched at the same time, as in a bulk AI match, could end with a refusal asking for a new match. The second book is now joined to the first.
Books On Linux and macOS servers, narrowing books by folder also included the books of a folder whose name differed only in letter case. Each folder now holds its own books alone.
Books and audiobooks A folder whose picture could not be loaded showed an empty tile. It now shows the folder symbol.
Desktop After a dialog opened from the selection bar, such as Edit genres, was closed, the keyboard returned to the search field of the sidebar. It now returns to the button that opened the dialog.
Desktop After a request the Quven Account service refused, the application could ask for a new session many times a minute. A failed renewal now waits before the next attempt, and a session renewed a moment earlier is used again.
Desktop The thumbnails of the Home spotlight showed square corners. They are now rounded.
Web client The catalogue search moved below the toolbar buttons at common desktop widths. It now stays on the line of the toolbar.
Web client The series match dialog showed nothing when the folders of the series could not be read. It now names the failure and keeps listing the candidates.
Web client A season page that failed to load now shows the standard error message with Retry.

1.5.9

28 October 2026

3 additions · 6 improvements · 7 fixes

Administrators can now browse books and audiobooks by folder, and a selection of titles can receive the same series, authors, language, publisher, year or category in one change, on the desktop and in the web client. The catalogue toolbar follows a new order, and the library search no longer fails after a minute of browsing. Quven 1.5.9 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.8.

Books and audiobooks Administrators can browse a library by its folders on the desktop and in the web client. A folder lists the folders below it with their number of titles and narrows the titles to those it holds. Folders holding a single title are listed apart under the name of that title.
Books and audiobooks A selection of titles can receive the same series, authors, narrators, language, publisher, year and category in one change, on the desktop and in the web client. Each title keeps its other metadata.
Books A manga is now recognised from a folder named manga or from the mark inside its archive, and the Category filter offers Manga. A book whose kind changes in this way is identified again at the next scan.

Catalogues The toolbar now shows the views and the library on the left, followed by the order, the filters, Select and the search, on the desktop and in the web client. The library is always chosen from a drop-down list.
Web client The selection bar shows at most three actions in its row. The other actions, and every action that cannot be undone, are listed under More actions.
Books The category holding every work other than comics, manga and magazines is now named Books instead of Fiction.
Books A folder named after magazines or manga is now read as a suggestion. A file is filed as a magazine issue only when its name or title carries an issue number or a dated month, and as a manga only when the document holds no text.
Desktop An account that links a single server now opens that server after discovery without asking. An account linking several servers still offers the choice.
Trailers The kind of each trailer, such as a teaser or a featurette, is now named in the language of the application on the desktop and in the web client. The desktop list also follows a change of language.

Search After about a minute of browsing, the library search could stop answering and report a failure. The search now has a limit of its own, set for the pace of typing.
Library scan A file whose name begins with Bonus followed by a kind of extra, such as a featurette beside the episodes of a series, was refused as an episode at every scan. It is now kept as bonus content.
Accounts Viewing activity waiting to be saved to the Quven Account was discarded after a few hours of outage. It is now kept and sent once the service answers again.
Desktop A refusal from the network in front of the Quven Account service could sign the application out, and a failed renewal of the session was repeated without pause. The session now stays open, and a failed renewal waits before the next attempt.
Managed AI A match could end on the desktop or in the web client before the server had tried every provider. The application now waits for the whole sequence of providers.
Music An album with lyrics for a single recording counted it in the plural. The count now uses the singular.
Web client The account button showed the name of the Quven Account profile, while the profile page showed the name stored on the server. Both now show the same name, which updates after the profile is saved.

1.5.8

25 October 2026

1 addition · 7 improvements · 8 fixes

A click or a tap on the picture no longer pauses a film on the desktop and in the web client: it shows the controls, and the play button pauses playback. Collections, playlists, personal lists and the playback history now show films and series in the language of the application, and a title reopened shortly after it stopped keeps its saved position. Quven 1.5.8 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.7.

Disc cases The DVD case can now take the pink finish, on the desktop and in the web client.

Playback A click or a tap on the picture now shows the controls instead of pausing the film, on the desktop and in the web client. The play button and the Space key still pause and resume playback.
Desktop The main button of a controller now brings up the controls with the play button selected, and the next press pauses the film.
Desktop and web client Collections, playlists, personal lists, ratings, reviews and the playback history now show the titles and posters of films and series in the language of the application instead of in English. A title the owner renamed keeps the owner's name.
Desktop These lists are read again from the server when the language of the application changes.
Sign-in The sign-in form no longer lists the rules for a new password and asks only for a valid password of at least four characters. The registration form still states the rules.
Desktop The animations of galleries, poster walls, spotlights and charts now stop while they are hidden, outside the window or the window is minimised.
Desktop Pictures are now kept apart for each server and profile, and pictures inside a page are decoded at the size they are drawn, which uses less memory.

Playback Leaving a title within a few seconds of reopening it moved its saved position two seconds back each time. The saved position now stays where it was.
Playback A backward seek just after opening a title was saved as the earlier position, so the next opening jumped forward. The position the viewer chose is now saved, on the desktop and in the web client.
Desktop Opening a chapter or a moment before the saved position, or changing the quality after a seek, could restart the title at the earlier saved position. The place the viewer chose is now kept.
Desktop With a Max or Lifetime licence, a controller showed the message that it requires Pro after each start, while the licence was still being read. The controller now waits for the licence.
Desktop After a change of server, the capabilities of the previous server's licence could stay available until the new licence was read. They now end with the change of server.
Remote access A first connection through the relay could fail several catalogue loads at once. Requests beyond the limit of the server now wait for their turn.
Web client After a change of language, some pages kept the text of the previous language, and after a change of profile a picture could keep the previous profile's copy. Both are now read again.
Desktop Quitting the application after its server had already stopped could interrupt the shutdown. The shutdown now completes.

1.5.7

21 October 2026

2 additions · 11 improvements · 20 fixes

The desktop application and the web client are now available in Spanish and German, and the genres of films and series appear in the language of the application. When an AI provider fails during matching, translation or subtitle repair, the server now turns to the next one, and remote access through the relay connects more reliably. Quven 1.5.7 is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.6.

Desktop and web client The interface in Spanish and in German, with German written in the formal register.
Audiobooks The author page now lists the author's audiobooks beside the books, on the desktop and in the web client. The author named on an audiobook page opens that page.

Desktop and web client The language list in the settings now begins with System, which follows the language of the operating system or the browser.
Desktop and web client The genres of films and series, including those imported from Plex, are now shown in the language of the application instead of in English.
Managed AI When the chosen provider fails during AI matching, subtitle translation or transcript repair, the request now passes to the next provider in the order Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek. If every provider fails, the message quotes a reference code that Quven support has already received.
Subtitles The AI repair of a transcript and the AI translation now receive the full catalogue entry of the work, with its cast and the plot published on Wikipedia. Names of characters and places are restored more accurately.
Music A card of the continue-listening rail now opens its album, plays the recording where listening stopped and scrolls to it, on the desktop and in the web client.
Audiobooks An author card in the audiobook shelf now opens the author's page instead of filtering the shelf.
Pictures The desktop and the web client now request covers and posters at the size they are drawn, and the server prepares each size once. Pages load less data.
Server The start of playback, the audio and subtitle lists and the book filters answer faster on a large library, and the server stays responsive under many simultaneous requests.
Server The first playback of a large file on a slow disk now starts at once with a conversion by the server, instead of waiting for an analysis of the file that could not finish in time.
Accounts Signing out, switching profile or changing server now also ends the session on the Quven Account service, so the credentials left behind can no longer be used.
Web client On a phone, the music bar now hides the volume slider and gives its room to the title and the artist.

Remote access A first connection through the relay could wait thirty seconds and fail before a later attempt succeeded. The relay now pairs each connection with an open link to the server and drops the links that stopped answering.
Remote access A relay that accepted the connection and never answered could leave a server unreachable until it restarted. The server now gives up after twenty seconds and tries again.
Web client A brief loss of the relay connection made every rail of Home fail at once. Requests now wait up to fifteen seconds for the connection to return.
Desktop A picture whose download the relay interrupted stayed on its placeholder. It is now requested again.
Desktop A film played directly over the relay could stay frozen after a seek while it waited for its first data. After eight seconds of buffering, the player now switches to a version prepared by the server and keeps the position.
Web client On a direct connection to the server, live updates were refused and the client checked for changes at intervals instead. They now arrive at once.
Web client A browser that declared support for FLAC without decoding it left a lossless recording silent. The server now converts the recording, and later recordings on that device are converted from the start.
Streaming A video without any audio track could fail to start on some devices. The server no longer announces an audio stream for it.
Music Lyrics stored in the lyrics tag in the LRC format were shown with their time stamps. They are now shown line by line in time with the music.
Music A song whose lyrics tag was rewritten as plain text kept showing the earlier timed lyrics. The new text now replaces them.
Music A singer credited only on compilations of various artists was never identified and received no portrait. Such singers are now identified.
Books Identifying a book again could repeat the answer held in the cache. The catalogues are now read again.
Web client A recording in a playlist was labelled and counted as a film. It is now named and counted as a recording.
Web client In Safari, a playlist entry moved by dragging often returned to its place. The move is now kept.
Web client The playlists page could stop with an error at desktop widths when a row held tiles of different heights. It now opens normally.
Web client The reader stayed blank when the server refused the address of the book. It now states the reason and offers to try again.
Web client On a 320-pixel phone, the search button of the bottom bar stood past the edge of the screen, and the language choice in the settings cut every name. Both now fit.
Web client The season page and the settings page carried no main heading for screen readers. Both now name themselves.
Desktop At the narrowest width, the button that scans a library again could extend past its card in French and Italian. It now stays inside the card.
Server A change to a playlist or a collection deleted in the meantime ended in a server error. It is now reported as a list that no longer exists.

1.5.6

17 October 2026

10 additions · 11 improvements · 12 fixes

Quven 1.5.6 adds signing in and registering with a Google or Apple account on the desktop and in the web client, and films, series and documentaries can now be narrowed by director and by actor. A server can now welcome further Quven Accounts as administrators, subtitles read from DVD pictures are recognised correctly, and the managed AI can run on Anthropic. Quven 1.5.6 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.5.

Desktop and web client Signing in and registering with a Google or Apple account. The desktop completes the sign-in in the system browser and returns to the application on its own.
Films, series and documentaries The Director and Actors filters, on the desktop and in the web client, each with a search and several names held at once.
Server A server linked to a Quven Account can now add other accounts as administrators, up to twenty, instead of moving to them. On the computer that hosts the server, "Add this account to the server" adds the signed-in account.
Server "Link an account" on the Quven Account card of the settings sends an invitation by email to co-own the server. The invitation is valid for fourteen days and is accepted on the Quven Account portal.
Server An account that cannot open a server held by another account can now press "Request access". The owner admits it as a guest or as an administrator from the email received, and the server opens on its own once access is granted.
Managed AI Anthropic is now offered beside OpenAI and DeepSeek in the AI settings of the desktop and the web client.
Pictures Where AI covers are enabled, a film or an episode whose file yields no usable frame now receives a poster and a background drawn by the AI from its synopsis.
Performances The performances page now offers its collections beside the performers, on the desktop and in the web client.
Subtitles Before a picture subtitle is read into text, the server checks that it reads as the language it declares. A mislabelled track is read in its actual language, or refused before any AI credit is spent.
Desktop and web client The verification code received by email can now be pasted in one action.

Subtitles Every subtitle Quven produces, whether written from the audio, read from a picture track or translated, is now named after its language followed by "(Generated by Quven)", in the language of the application.
Desktop A change of subtitle colour, size or position now applies to the film in progress without restarting the player. The playback position and the audio track stay as they were.
Desktop The audio and subtitle lists now keep the title each track carries in the file, such as a historic dub or a commentary, and its channel layout. Tracks that would still read alike are numbered.
Desktop Subtitles with their own styling now follow the colour and size chosen in the subtitle appearance panel.
Web client For a picture subtitle burned into the video by the server, the size, colour and position choices are now disabled and a sentence explains why.
Desktop and web client The dialogs now open on one common heading with a short label, a title and a description, and close on the same pair of buttons.
Desktop Episode pictures, cast portraits and rail posters are now read at the size they are drawn, and the server log, the import report and the excluded files list draw only the rows in view.
Pictures Films and seasons that no catalogue illustrates now take a frame of their own video, and each season shows its own poster rather than the series poster.
Pictures A picture drawn by the AI now carries the mark "Content generated by Quven".
Series Missing series backgrounds are now recovered a few at a time in the background, without refreshing every title of the library.
Accounts A profile name given as an email address is now shown as the part before the at sign, so that the people of a shared server no longer see the full address.

Subtitles DVD subtitles were read into text with most lines wrong. They are now read correctly, and the text read from pictures is proofread by the AI where the plan includes translation.
Subtitles A subtitle written from the audio could start its lines up to a minute early after a silence. Each line now starts with its first spoken word.
Subtitles An AI translation stopped at once when the provider was briefly overloaded or returned a malformed character. The translation now asks the provider again.
Desktop Playing the first album of a session could freeze the window for several seconds before any sound. The player no longer holds the window.
Desktop The list picker froze the window and held several gigabytes of memory on a server with a thousand collections. It now opens at once.
Desktop A forced track named in the file with its language code after the forced mark was listed under its English name. It is now named in the language of the application.
Series A series described by TVDB reached the library without a background. The background is now read, and series already stored read it once after the update.
Matching A film could wait in review against a title of another era whose name differs by one letter, and a year in a release tag could be read as the film's year. Such a file now keeps its own name, and the year is read before the tags.
Pictures An automatic scan could spend AI credits on replacement pictures. An automatic scan no longer asks for them.
Accounts On a server already linked to another account, the sign-in showed a second recovery panel after a refused link. One panel now offers the right action at once.
Accounts Signing in from several devices behind one internet connection could be refused with too many attempts. Ordinary use of the applications no longer counts against the sign-in limit.
Server Behind a reverse proxy on the same computer, any visitor could unlink the server from its account. Unlinking now requires an administrator or a request made on the server's own computer.

1.5.5

13 October 2026

1 addition · 2 improvements · 4 fixes

Quven 1.5.5 restores the speed of the series pages on a large server, and the desktop application and the web client now open long lists of collections and playlists without delay. Administrators can associate an album manually and remove its match, and the genre menus list each title under its own genres. Quven 1.5.5 is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.4.

Music Administrators can now associate an album manually with a catalogue release from the album page, and remove the match of an album from its card or its page, on the desktop and in the web client. Audiobooks already offered both actions.

Desktop The collections, playlists, Listenlist, library settings and the other long lists now draw only the rows in view. A shelf holding hundreds of collections opens at once, without freezing the window or holding a large amount of memory.
Web client The collections, the playlists and the saved lists now draw only the rows in view. Long lists open and scroll without delay in the browser.

Series On a server holding many series, the series pages, the series menus and the documentaries list could take several minutes to open after the update to 1.5.4. They open promptly again.
Genres A title could be counted under genres it does not belong to, so that the genre menu listed performances under almost every film genre. The genre counts and filters now list each title under its own genres.
Music Associating an album manually while another change saved the same album ended on an unexpected error. The refusal is now reported as a conflict.
Desktop Leaving an artist page before it had finished loading could end on an unexpected error. The page now closes without error.

1.5.4

13 October 2026

1 addition · 6 improvements · 17 fixes

Quven 1.5.4 lets administrators upload, replace and restore the photo of an actor or a director, and the desktop application holds far less memory during a long browsing session. Book libraries answer their filters faster, and several faults of the desktop application, the series refresh and the picture extraction are corrected. Quven 1.5.4 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.3.

Actors and directors Administrators can now upload, replace and restore the photo of an actor or a director from the Actors and Directors views and from the person page, on the desktop and in the web client.

Desktop Pictures are now decoded at the size they are drawn, and catalogue pages left behind are released. The application holds markedly less memory while a catalogue is browsed.
Desktop The pictures held in memory are now released when the application leaves a server or connects to another one. The pictures kept on disk remain available.
Desktop On Windows, the window can no longer be made smaller than 1280 by 720, unless the screen itself is smaller. The interface is therefore always drawn at its intended layout.
Books The chapters of a book are now stored apart from the book itself, which markedly shortens the publisher and other filters of a large book library. The first start after the update may take longer while the database is compacted.
Statistics The library statistics now load faster on a large server.
Web client The action that confirmed every title awaiting review in a library at once has been removed from the Needs review filter. Titles already confirmed keep their state.

Desktop In Canadian French, signing in to a profile ended on an unexpected error. The library form now opens in the language that Canadian French is based on.
Desktop The tab labels and the heading of the Settings page were drawn in a near-black colour on the dark background. They are now drawn in their intended colours.
Desktop On returning to a catalogue left far down the list, the visible cards could keep their placeholders. The cards in view are now loaded.
Desktop A rescan of all libraries in which no scan could start reported success. It now reports the failure, and a rescan that starts only some scans states how many started.
Desktop The last card leaving a Home rail disappeared at once. It now completes its exit.
Desktop The empty Actors and Directors views mentioned a search even when none had been entered. The message now names the current library and search.
Desktop Linking the server to an account again after an expired or refused attempt could cancel the new attempt without notice. The new attempt now continues.
Desktop A failed copy of the account link code was not reported. The window now states that the copy was refused.
Desktop When an update failed and the local server could not be started again, the reason for the failed update was not shown. It is now reported.
Hardware Intel Arc graphics for laptops were treated as integrated graphics. They are now recognised as discrete graphics.
Series When TMDb did not answer, a refresh from TVDB still emptied the image gallery and the countries of origin of a series. They are now kept, and completed from TMDb when it answers.
Metadata A refusal from OMDb could disable its searches and ratings for good. Searches and ratings resume once OMDb answers again.
Privacy A brief failure of the Quven Account service could leave discovery and product analytics switched off. They now resume once the service answers.
Home A catalogue holding a genre without a name prevented the suggestions from loading. Such genres are now passed over.
Pictures On some servers, films with a limited colour range received no still frames or thumbnails. The frames are now produced in a format the encoder always accepts.
Music A track whose embedded cover could not be read was read again on every request. The server now stops after a failed read.
Music A track converted during playback could keep its conversion running for hours after the listener had gone. The conversion now stops at once.

1.5.3

11 October 2026

6 additions · 7 improvements · 22 fixes

Quven 1.5.3 lists films, series and documentaries by their actors, directors, sagas and collections, with the portraits of directors and series creators. The Libraries settings have been redesigned, and the import from Plex and Jellyfin moves to a tab of its own that follows a running import step by step and brings over every genre and collection of the source. Quven 1.5.3 is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.2.

Films, series and documentaries The catalogues now offer Actors, Directors and Collections views, and the film catalogue a Sagas view, on the desktop and in the web client. Selecting a person opens the person page, and the creators of a series are listed as its directors.
People Directors and series creators are now shown with their portrait once the library metadata has been read again. While a portrait is still awaited, the card indicates it and the view reads it again until it arrives.
Collections The collections view of films, series and documentaries ends with a tile that creates a new collection, as the Collections page does.
Import from Plex and Jellyfin A running import now reports its progress every second, with the current stage, the title being handled, the elapsed time and a count for each kind of data. The result states how many genres, ratings and playback positions were written.
Sign-in When the email address of an account has not been confirmed, a notice now explains it and offers to send the confirmation email again, once per installation.
Desktop An unexpected failure in the profile picker now offers to send an error report, with the consent of the person sending it.

Settings The Libraries tab has been redesigned on the desktop and in the web client. Each library is shown as a compact card with its match figures, its last scan and the number of files under each root folder, and the root folders and exclusion rules open from the card menu.
Import from Plex and Jellyfin The import now has its own tab in the settings, which leads the administrator through the source, the connection, the contents, a preview and the import. The connection is checked before the contents are read, since that reading can take several minutes.
Collections The collections view of films, series and documentaries now lists a collection only for the works it holds in a library of that type. Each tile states how many of those works it holds.
Statistics The match figures of a series library now count series by their own state, as the catalogue filters do. The episodes of a matched series are no longer counted as unmatched titles.
Desktop The player now offers a single set of controls. The classic controls and the Settings option that selected them have been removed.
Metadata After the update, the server reads the titles and credits of film, series, documentary and performance libraries again in the background. Titles and credits are corrected as each title is read, and the libraries remain available meanwhile.
Accounts Account and profile names are now limited to 50 characters. A name holding markup or invisible control characters is refused.

Import from Plex A title imported through the server address received only its first two genres. Every genre of the title is now imported.
Import from Plex Collections were not found through the server address, and two collections sharing a name in different libraries were merged into one. Both are now read separately.
Import from Jellyfin A collection holding a series also listed every episode of it, and an import without a chosen account could read a guest account. A collection now holds its direct members, and the administrator account is read first.
Import from Jellyfin An address copied from the browser was refused, and a server that did not answer produced a generic error. The address is now accepted, and an unreachable server or a refused key is named as such.
Import A title that the source had not identified, or that Quven had matched through TVDB alone, was reported as missing from the library. Titles are now also found by their TVDB identifier and by the path of their file.
Import A collection whose name had been shortened was created again on every import. The existing collection is now found and updated.
Web client An import that had finished could end on an error or on empty figures. The wizard now follows the import to its end and reports its result.
Desktop After an import, open catalogues kept the previous watched marks and viewing counts until a restart. They are now updated at once.
Import During a long import, open pages read the server again every few seconds. They now read it at a slower pace while the import writes.
Titles French films could be shown under their Quebec titles, and a work read in its own language could receive its English title. Titles are now read from the region of the library language, and a work keeps its original title in its own language.
Series A refresh that read a series from TVDB alone removed its cast, creators, networks and genres. They are now kept and completed from TMDb.
Manual match The TVDB results showed names in the language of the server instead of the language of the viewer. They now follow the viewer.
Series The viewing state filters of a large series library could take more than a minute to count and then fail to load. They are now counted promptly.
Scans A series file placed in a Films library was left out without notice. It is now listed in the scan report as unrecognised.
Docker A container without IPv6 wrote a warning to the log for most catalogue requests. These failed attempts are no longer reported as warnings.
Desktop The library menu and the account menu could fail to open a second time. They now open every time.
Desktop Several labels, filter menus and the tray menu kept the previous language after a change of language. They are now updated at once.
Desktop In selection mode, a press on a catalogue card opened the title unless it landed on the small selection control. A press anywhere on the card now selects it.
Desktop The last actions of the selection bar could run past the edge of the window. The actions now wrap onto another line.
Desktop With a game controller, the audio, subtitle and settings panels of the player could not be used, and the buttons and menus did not respond during a film. The controller now moves through every panel, and Back closes the open panel before leaving the film.
Desktop The person page drew its empty header while the person was being read. A placeholder is now shown until the page is ready.
Windows installer On a computer where Quven was already installed, the Next button of the first page could remain unresponsive for a long time. It now moves to the next page at once.

1.5.2

8 October 2026

8 additions · 6 improvements · 14 fixes

Quven 1.5.2 lets administrators join the different spellings of an author into one person and review, with the help of the AI, the authors and artists whose names may belong to the same person. Book and audiobook titles are now shown in the language of their library, and an author or a collection can receive a photo or a cover of its own. Quven 1.5.2 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.1.

Authors Administrators can link the spellings of one author from the author cards of the book and audiobook shelves, on the desktop and in the web client. The dialog lists the spellings already linked, those the server proposes and a search of the shelf, and the shelves then show the linked spellings as one author.
Authors In the same dialog, an administrator can ask the AI whether two spellings name the same person. The answer states its confidence and links nothing by itself, and it is kept for thirty days so that a second request uses no credits.
Duplicates The author shelves of books and audiobooks and the artist shelf of music now report the names that may belong to one person. The review, offered to administrators above the shelf and in the Filters menu, asks the AI about every group at once; each group can then be associated or ignored, and the recommended groups can be associated in one step.
Titles A book or an audiobook identified in the catalogues is now shown under the title its work carries in the metadata language of the library. Changing that language updates the titles of the library at once, and a title set by the administrator still takes precedence.
Authors Administrators can upload, change or remove the photo of an author from the author page, on the desktop and in the web client. The photo is also shown for an author whom no catalogue knows.
Collections A collection can now receive a cover of its own from its page, with Change cover and Remove cover. The cover replaces the artwork of its works on the page and on the tile.
Collections The Books, Audiobooks and Music catalogues now offer a Collections view, which lists the collections of the profile beside the other views of the catalogue.
Import from Plex and Jellyfin An import can now carry the genres, the ratings and the playback positions of titles, each chosen in the wizard. A rating or a position that the profile already holds is never overwritten.

Authors The book and audiobook shelves now read an author written in another word order, with or without accents or with different spacing, as one person. The shelf shows the spelling most credits use, and the filters and counts agree with it; audiobook narrators are grouped in the same way.
Lists The featured entry at the head of the Watchlist, the Readlist, the Listenlist, the Playlists and the Collections now steps through every entry of the list. It previously stopped after three titles or five lists.
Listenlist Tracks, albums and audiobooks are now shown one kind at a time under a single choice. Albums and audiobooks no longer appear again on every page of tracks.
Author, series and artist pages A page now states that it is loading, then that the server is answering more slowly than expected. After thirty seconds it reports the failure instead of waiting further.
Catalogues The match state badge and the match state filter are now offered only to administrators, since guests do not curate the library.
Server The log level set in the configuration now applies while the server runs. A restart is no longer required to change it.

Readlist The Read button of a saved book opened nothing. The book now opens in the reader, and a collection now plays or opens every kind of work it holds.
Web client A saved recording played on its own, while the desktop played it with its album. It now plays with its album in both.
Collections The featured entry of the Collections page slid in again and emptied its preview each time the page was read. It now stays in place.
Collections The search of the collections found nothing when a name was typed without its accents. It now ignores accents, as the filter menus do.
Authors An author page could wait many seconds for the catalogue profile of an uncommon author. It now opens after a short wait and completes the profile once it is read.
Authors A failed read of an author profile made every later visit to that author fail until the server was restarted. A later visit now reads the profile again.
Audiobooks A folder whose name ended with a bracketed word, such as [Audiobook], was read as an Audible identifier and could not be identified. Only identifiers that combine letters and digits are now read.
Audiobooks A scan of a large audiobook library could remain on its last item for several minutes. Each audiobook is now completed separately.
Books Titles received from Open Library could carry invisible control characters. They are now removed, from stored titles as well.
Music A recording that failed to play was reported as an album that could not be loaded. The album message now appears only when the album itself fails to load.
Desktop A card menu could keep the actions of the card before its last change, such as Unmatch on an audiobook already unmatched. The menu is now built again at every opening.
Desktop The menu and edit buttons of a round author card were cut by its circle. They now stand inside it.
Desktop The animations of the dialog presenting the new features of a release did not play. They now play when the dialog opens.
Desktop A title opened in a library just created could offer the trailer and catalogue match actions of another kind of library. The new library is now known to every page at once.

1.5.1

7 October 2026

9 additions · 3 improvements · 19 fixes

Quven 1.5.1 redesigns the personal lists and adds the Listenlist, which keeps albums, recordings and audiobooks apart from the Watchlist and the Readlist. Collections can now hold works of every kind, beside the collections the catalogues publish, and Canadian French joins the languages of the application. Quven 1.5.1 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.5.0.

Listenlist Albums, recordings and audiobooks are saved on a new Listenlist, available from the sidebar, on the desktop and in the web client. Its recordings are shown eight to a page under their own page controls.
Collections A collection can now hold films, series, episodes, books, audiobooks and albums. Every card menu offers Add to collection, and a selection in any catalogue can be filed into a collection at once.
Collections The Collections page also lists the film sagas and the official series lists that the catalogues publish, by kind and by name. These collections are read only.
Collections A profile that holds no collection is offered a welcome collection of five films chosen among those the catalogues rate highest.
Languages Canadian French is now available as the language of the desktop application and the web client, and as the metadata language of a library.
Metadata editor The editor now opens from the card menu of every kind of title. Audiobooks can be edited too, with their title, authors, narrators, series, language, publisher, year, description and cover.
Audiobooks The catalogue now offers an Authors view, as books and music do. Selecting an author shows that author's audiobooks.
Desktop The account menu offers Close Quven, which asks for confirmation before closing the application and the server it started.
Server command line The quven command now offers doctor, which checks the server, its data folder, the free disk space and recent faults, as well as logs, restart and shell completions. The status command also reports the account, remote access and updates.

Lists The Watchlist, the Readlist, the Playlists and the Collections pages of the desktop application and the web client have been redesigned. Each page opens on a featured entry with its details and artwork, and a list can be renamed in place on its tile.
Playlists Albums and recordings are no longer added to a playlist, which now holds films and episodes. They are saved on the Listenlist instead, and Add to collection remains available.
Shared servers Searching for, downloading and translating subtitles now require the administrator, since they use the provider allowance of the server owner. Stopping the server through remote access is no longer accepted.

Matching A name stored with separated accents, as macOS writes it, found nothing in TMDb, MusicBrainz or Audible. Names are now composed before every search.
Films An edition label spelt with different accent encodings or letter case created two films. They are now one film, and the next scan merges films stored before.
Search The command palette and the list picker found nothing when a name was typed without its accents. Both now ignore accents, as title search does.
Catalogues A grid could flash and lose its scroll position while the server reported changes. The rows already shown now stay in place.
Desktop Closing the compact player left the application in its small window. The window now returns to its earlier size and maximised state.
Desktop A file dialog opened from a second window could appear behind it. Every file dialog now opens over the window in use.
Hardware decoding Intel Arc graphics cards were treated as integrated graphics and ranked below them. They are now treated as discrete cards.
Linux The refresh rate of an interlaced display mode was read as half its value, so a mismatched mode could be offered for a film.
Server A timeout from a catalogue could stop the metadata refresh, the identification of audiobooks or the book cover search. It now affects only the title or library concerned.
Server An analytics file that could not be opened could stop the server. The file is now opened again at the next attempt.
Updates After a check that found no update, a download could still take a version offered earlier. Each check now replaces the earlier offer.
Audiobooks Skipping back near the end of a chapter during the sleep timer fade left the volume low. The volume is now restored.
Settings A rescan of every library cleared the library selected for ignore patterns, and a failed read showed remote access as disabled. Both now keep what was shown.
Libraries Folders of a server running on another operating system could be read with the wrong separators in library setup and in the match dialogs. They are now read as the server writes them.
Lists On books, albums and audiobooks, a menu could offer to add an item already on the Readlist or the Listenlist. The menu now offers to remove it.
Playlists A recording in a playlist could not be played. It now plays with the recordings that follow it, in the order of the playlist, and the tile and the page show the same four covers.
Desktop Titles in lists, pages and the player cut the lower part of letters such as g, p and y. Each title now has room for them.
Desktop A film or series page whose details failed to load showed an empty header. The page now states the failure, and the message can be closed.
Desktop Profile dialogs now close with Escape or a press outside them, and the arrow keys now reach every settings tab.

1.5.0

5 October 2026

13 additions · 12 improvements · 8 fixes

Quven 1.5.0 adds audiobook libraries, with parts and chapters on one timeline and listening resumed where it stopped on every device, and administrators can now ask the AI to identify books, audiobooks and albums the catalogues do not recognise. A selection of titles can also be removed from any catalogue with one confirmation, together with its files if the administrator chooses. Quven 1.5.0 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.4.3.

Audiobooks Audiobooks are a new kind of library on the desktop and in the web client, marked as experimental in this first release. A folder is one audiobook, its parts play in sequence with the chapters of each file, and each profile resumes listening at the point it reached on any device.
Audiobooks The listening bar offers 30-second skips, a move to the previous or next chapter, a speed from 0.75x to 3x and a sleep timer that counts only the time spent listening. Listening is available on every plan, while the speed and the sleep timer require the Pro, Max or Lifetime plan.
Audiobooks An audiobook page shows its description with its formatting, its chapters and rails of related audiobooks. The match dialog now searches the Audible store by title as well as by ASIN, and an administrator can remove the match of an audiobook to match it again.
Match with AI Administrators can now ask the AI to identify books, audiobooks and albums, from a single title or from a selection, on the desktop and in the web client. A work that no catalogue holds is recorded as the AI describes it, and the credits come from the shared weekly allowance of the account.
AI covers On the Max annual and Lifetime plans, the AI can draw an original cover for a book, an audiobook or an album that no catalogue, store or file provides with one. The option is turned on in Settings under AI matching, each cover counts as four matches, and a cover found later takes its place.
Selection Administrators can now remove the selected titles of any catalogue with one confirmation, and their files are excluded from later scans. The confirmation can also delete the files from the drive, and it states how many remained there.
Metadata editor A poster can now be taken from a web address beside the upload, for every kind of title. The server downloads the image, which must be a PNG, JPEG or WebP file of up to 5 MB.
Disc cases Pink, orange, brown and lilac Blu-ray cases are now offered among the special editions.
Release presentation After an update, the desktop application and the web client present the main changes of the release once, with a page for each of them and the full release notes.
Docker The administrator of a server running in a container is now told when a newer image is available, and when an update is required.
Sign-in Password and PIN fields now offer a control that shows or hides what was typed.
Desktop The media keys of the keyboard now play, pause and change recording or chapter while the window has focus.
Episodes An episode for which no catalogue provides a still is now shown with a frame taken from its own file.

Sidebar The sidebar of the desktop application and the web client is arranged in four sections that fold under their heading. Inside a section an entry can be moved or hidden, Home always remains, and libraries keep the order set on the server.
Catalogues Every catalogue now opens at its full length with a letter rail beside the grid. A letter pressed or typed brings its first title to the top, and pages not yet read are shown as placeholders until they arrive.
Catalogues Titles are now sorted from A to Z without regard to accents, letter case or ligatures. A title opening on an accented letter, such as Été, is filed under its letter instead of after Z.
Filters The menus of films, series, documentaries and performances now offer the viewing state of the profile, those of books the reading state and those of albums the listening state. Where the server provides them, each value shows how many titles it holds under the other criteria in force.
Filters Video catalogues now offer the year and each dynamic range format, from the Dolby Vision profiles to HDR10, HLG and SDR. Several formats can be held at once.
Libraries A few libraries with short names are now shown side by side above a catalogue, and a longer list opens directly on its choices.
Settings Library cards on the desktop are laid out in columns, with each root folder on one line beside its own scan button. The web client shows the same cards.
Settings Automatic scanning now has a single switch beside its heading, which turns on the folder watch, and the cards of Appearance fold under their heading.
Menus Every menu of the desktop application opens on the same card with a short entrance, and the symbol of a row is lit under the pointer, as in the web client.
Managed AI The server administrator can now choose OpenAI or DeepSeek for AI matching and subtitle translation. OpenAI remains the default, and a request answered by DeepSeek uses one and a half times the credits.
Web client On a narrow window the tab bar becomes a capsule beside a Search button, which opens the search field at the foot of the window. On a phone the bar shrinks while the page scrolls down and returns at the top or on a press.
Messages The text of the desktop application and the web client has been rewritten in a formal register in English, Italian and French. A failed action now states its reason in the language of the application instead of a technical message.

Desktop An unexpected error during a resize or in a window could close the application. The application now stays open and shows a notice with a code that identifies the error.
Books In the reader, a PDF page appeared as a white sheet on the paper ground, and an EPUB, MOBI or AZW3 book could appear on a white or black sheet depending on the system theme. Every format now keeps the paper tone.
Selection A selected title that had scrolled out of view could be left out of the action applied to the selection. Every selected title now receives the action.
Music Playing an artist's discography queued every edition of each album. It now plays the primary edition of each album only.
Web client A stream in 1440p showed the FHD logo. It now carries its own QHD label.
Web client The player could choose a forced subtitle track over a full one in the same language. A full track is now chosen first.
Desktop In French, two settings of the reader were written without their accents. They now appear correctly.
Figures such as bitrates, frame rates, sizes and dates are now written as the language of the application writes them, on the desktop and in the web client.

1.4.3

29 September 2026

7 additions · 7 improvements · 11 fixes

Quven 1.4.3 keeps the desktop application and the web client up to date when a library, a list or a title is changed from another device, and administrators can now change the case and the genres of many selected titles at once. The notice of an unexpected error can also send a report to Quven, only after the person sending it has given consent. Quven 1.4.3 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.4.2.

Changes from other devices A case replaced, a title corrected by a scan, a film watched or a list edited on another device now appears in the desktop application and the web client without a restart. On the desktop, the title pages, Settings, the Watchlist, the Readlist, the saved marks and the counts in the sidebar are read again.
Selection Administrators can now use Change case and Edit genres on the selected films, series, documentaries and performances, on the desktop and in the web client. Edit genres adds the genres typed or suggested to every selected title and removes those chosen, and each title keeps its other details.
Genre filter The genres an administrator adds to titles now appear in the genre filter after those of the catalogue, so titles filed under a genre such as Manga can be found again.
Error reports The notice of an unexpected error now offers Report on the desktop and in the web client. The dialog lists the data the report contains, its size and whether the server logs are included, sends nothing until consent is given, and removes email addresses, IP addresses and account and machine names on the device before sending.
Settings Case artwork now accepts an image for every packaged case, including the special edition colours.
About The About section of the desktop application and the web client now links to the public profiles of Quven under Follow Quven, LinkedIn included.
Web client Settings, Profile, Playlists, Watchlist, Readlist and the library setup now show a back control, as on the desktop.

3D films Keeping a 3D film as its own edition now requires the Pro, Max or Lifetime plan. On the Free plan the next scan returns the file to its film as a version, and the film still plays in 3D on every plan.
Match with AI A selection now sends only the titles that are not matched or are awaiting verification, and the action counts them. The confirmation names every title sent with its year and status and states what reaches the AI service, and a title matched from its own card is confirmed in the same way.
Match with AI Each card now shows the outcome of its title as the answer arrives, and a card that leaves the grid fades while the following cards move into its place. Documentaries and performances show the same outcomes, and their selection now offers Match with AI as well.
Notices Every notice now closes on its own, after 5 seconds for a success or information, 10 seconds for a warning and 20 seconds for a failure. On the desktop an expired notice fades out instead of disappearing at once.
Selection The selection bar has a new design on the desktop and in the web client, with every action at the same height and the count shown beside the catalogue total. Selected cards are marked with an accent ring while the others are dimmed, and books and music use the same bar.
Disc cases A poster shown in its case on a title page now appears at the full size of a poster without a case, and films and series share the same poster size. Cards drawn in a case are slightly larger in the rows of Home and the catalogues.
Sidebar Music and Books no longer carry the Preview mark.

Genre filter A genre removed from a title in the metadata editor still found that title, and a genre added there was never found. The filter now reads the genres set on each title.
Match with AI A card showed Matching with AI while the confirmation was still open, a title left unmatched was counted as matched, and the notice for one title read "1 items". A card is now marked only once the request is sent, and the notices name each outcome correctly on the desktop and in the web client.
Notices about a single title, such as a case or genre change, used the plural form. They now use the singular in every language.
Desktop Change case was offered on performances, on personal videos and on selections without a title drawn in a case, where it had no effect. It is now offered only where a case can be changed.
Desktop After a change of language, the selection count, its label and the catalogue total remained in the previous language. They now follow the language chosen.
Desktop An album page could show the error of an album opened earlier over the album now open. Each page now shows only the result of its own title.
Desktop The file details showed a file of one terabyte or more in gigabytes. Such a file is now shown in TB.
Web client On a phone, the Watchlist lost its tab bar and showed the menu button over its top corner. The page now appears as the other pages do.
Web client Catalogue cards slid across the page when it loaded, when the window was resized or when a refresh reordered the titles. Cards now move only to fill the place of a title that left.
Web client The case of a title in the first row of a catalogue was cut at the top when the pointer rested on it. The case is now shown whole.
Web client In French, the Case artwork tiles in Settings spread over their neighbours once a case was replaced. Each tile now stays within its column.

1.4.2

28 September 2026

3 additions · 4 improvements · 6 fixes

Quven 1.4.2 lets administrators choose the finish of every disc case on their server and replace a case with their own artwork, and the Change case dialog now offers the colours of special editions. The desktop update card also shows the release notes in Italian when the application is set to Italian. Quven 1.4.2 is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.4.1.

Settings Disc cases on this server, under Appearance on the desktop and in the web client, sets the finish of each disc's case for every title without a case of its own. The same section decides whether documentaries are drawn in a case.
Settings Case artwork replaces a packaged case with a PNG image of the same size, for example one bearing a logo, up to 4 MB. Save template provides the starting image, and everyone who uses the server sees the result.
Disc cases The Change case dialog of a title now offers red, green, purple, white, smoke grey and light blue Blu-ray cases, and red, white and smoke grey DVD cases. These finishes apply to one title at a time and are never a server's standard finish.

Disc cases A title without a chosen case was drawn in a finish derived from the title itself, which spread similar titles over several colours. Every such title now appears in the finish the administrator sets for its disc, and in the standard finish until one is set.
Disc cases Performances and personal videos are no longer drawn in a case. Documentaries remain in a case unless an administrator turns off Draw documentaries in a disc case.
360° video The desktop player now reads the view keys by their place on the keyboard rather than by the letter they print. An AZERTY or other layout keeps the same arrangement of keys, and the guide card shows the keys the keyboard in use prints at those places.
Desktop The update card, the server section and Settings now show the release notes in Italian when the application is set to Italian.

Desktop Home rows holding both films and series could leave empty places, after which the window could stop midway through a page transition or show empty catalogue pages. Film and series cards are now kept apart, and the rows fill correctly.
Books A PDF reopened, resized, zoomed or switched to full screen moved half a view past the place being read. It now returns to the same place.
Desktop reader In full screen, a window opened over the reader, such as search, lost its arrow keys to page turning and its Escape key to leaving full screen. The keys now act in the window that is open.
Web client The book card menu offered Add to watchlist. It now offers Add to Readlist and Remove from Readlist, and the English wording names the list Readlist wherever it appears.
Web client The account menu in the sidebar appeared behind the disc cases of a catalogue. It now appears in front of every card.
Desktop In French, the name of a poster ribbon marked as custom in Settings wrapped one letter per line. The mark now sits on its own line and the name on one line.

1.4.1

28 September 2026

4 additions · 6 improvements · 14 fixes

Quven 1.4.1 adds a library type for personal videos, can draw films and series in the case of their disc, and chooses the featured films on Home for each profile. It is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.4.0.

Personal videos A new library type holds personal recordings on every plan. Each file appears under its own name without catalogue identification, and the desktop and web client show these videos in a catalogue of their own that offers no matching commands.
Personal videos A poster and a background image are now taken from a frame of each video. The date, place, device, author and other details recorded in the file appear in a Recording section of the title page, and the place is shown to administrators only.
Disc cases With Draw titles in their disc case enabled under Appearance, films and series appear in the Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray or DVD case of their source on the desktop and in the web client. The case is detected from the file name, the video stream or the resolution, and administrators can select another one with Change case.
Activity Profiles are now named from their Quven Account, including profiles that have not signed in recently. The sharing settings of a server also list the profile names of each accepted guest.

Home The featured films at the top of the page are now selected for the active profile according to its viewing preferences, the ratings of each film and how recent it is. Films already started are left out, each film appears once whatever its editions, and the row for the time of day now opens the page.
Catalogues The library is now chosen from the same menu as sorting and filters, on the desktop and in the web client. A long list of libraries can be searched, and All libraries appears where the server offers it.
Catalogue grids now fill the width of the window with evenly spaced posters. Compact poster cards fit one more poster in each row, and the web client now applies that setting as well.
Books The reader no longer shows page buttons. The keyboard, the mouse wheel and a selection on either half of a comic page turn the pages, and full screen now hides the toolbar and panels until Escape is pressed.
Books The Background setting now applies to books whose text adapts to the window as well, and the colour of the text follows the chosen background.
Desktop and web client Cards, dialogs and panels now share the same shadow depths. A focused or selected card is raised one level further.

Home Several editions or library copies of one film could occupy more than one place in the rows for the time of day. Each film now appears once, and every copy leaves the rows once one of them has been started.
Search Films and series in the results showed the catalogue title, year and poster instead of those set in the metadata editor. The results now match the cards.
Sorting by year ignored the years set in the metadata editor for films and series. The order now follows the year shown on each card.
3D films File names spelling the layout as TBT, Side-by-Side or Top-and-Bottom, or placing it before 3D, were not recognised as 3D editions. These forms are now identified.
Books PDF pages taller than the window and tall comic scenes moved to the next page before their lower part was shown. The keys and the mouse wheel now scroll one view at a time, and a new page opens at its top.
Books In a comic read from right to left, one key press could turn two pages or none. Each press now turns one page in the reading direction.
Books A PDF kept the page size it was opened at after entering full screen. The pages are now laid out again when the window changes size.
Desktop reader In full screen, the arrow keys, the page keys and Escape had no effect until the page was selected, and a book opened while the application was already in full screen kept its toolbar. The keys now act at once, and the toolbar is hidden.
Web reader Entering full screen required a click before the arrow keys turned the page. Browsers that cannot display the reader in full screen no longer offer the control.
Cards with a quality ribbon could place the dynamic range label over the edition badge. The label now appears above the badge on the desktop and in the web client.
Desktop An edition label such as Extended Cut stretched across the whole title area. It now matches the width of its text.
Desktop Series cards without a year appeared lower than their neighbours in catalogue grids. Every card now stands at the top of its row.
Desktop The sidebar showed a technical identifier under each library name. It now shows the library type in the selected language.
Catalogues Removing a library while the library menu was open left the menu on screen on the desktop and reopened it in the web client. The menu now closes with its library.

1.4.0

27 September 2026

8 additions · 9 improvements · 21 fixes

Quven 1.4.0 is available for Windows and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.3.0.

Release line 1.4 is named Luberon. The name appears beside the version number in the application and on the update card.
Desktop 360° videos can now be explored with mouse dragging, keyboard controls and the mouse wheel. Max and Lifetime include these view controls, with a guide available in the player.
3D films File names declaring side-by-side or top-and-bottom video identify a separate 3D edition. Playback preserves the paired images for a compatible display, including when transcoding is needed; subtitles that must be burned into the picture are unavailable.
Libraries can now be excluded from All libraries while remaining accessible individually. If every library of a type is excluded, the combined view continues to show that type in full.
Catalogue filters now include Matched for films, series, documentaries, performances, books and albums. The desktop and web client can show only titles that have been identified.
Music Mark as listened is now available on the Continue listening row. It marks the album as complete and removes it from the row.
Activity Administrators can view each profile with its latest session and open its viewing details on the desktop and in the web client. The details include time watched, devices, most watched titles and session history.
Administrators can now set a pause limit of 5 to 60 minutes, or leave it disabled, in Quality settings. Desktop and web playback stops after the chosen pause duration and preserves the viewing position.

Windows installers and applications are now signed with the certificate of Quven Technologies S.R.L. Windows identifies the company as the publisher instead of showing an unknown publisher warning.
Home Recommendations for the time of day now include films, series and documentaries selected for the active profile. Viewing history, duration and the time of day guide the selection, which refreshes as titles are watched and the local day changes.
Desktop Playback now opens in the current window. Full screen remains available from the player or F11, and closing the player restores the previous window state.
Guests now see only library types that contain titles on the desktop and in the web client. The list refreshes on returning to Home.
Books and music Larger covers and clearer card menus make the horizontal rows easier to browse. Removing a title from a row now closes its space with an animation.
Book and album pages now show the credited author or artist with a portrait and a more prominent name. Long credits wrap within the page.
Catalogue sort options now name both the field and the direction consistently. The metadata editor is labelled Edit metadata for unmatched titles as well.
Settings cards now identify the plan required for their features. Music credits and playback statistics use labels in the selected language.
Lifetime now allows a server to be shared with up to 150 guests. Max retains its limit of 50 guests.

Plans opened from the desktop or web client previously required another sign-in. They now retain the current account when the account service is available, and still open if that service does not answer.
Series Stored metadata could leave new episodes, titles and images unavailable for months. Information for continuing series and empty catalogue searches can now be refreshed after one day.
Books Author initials, expanded forenames and surname-first credits could prevent the correct identification. These forms are now recognised, and generic titles can be searched within the author's catalogue.
Video identification Resolution and codec labels such as 8K and AV1 remained in the title sent to catalogues. They are now removed from the search title.
Metadata Dates beyond next year could appear in titles and year filters. Such dates are now discarded or rejected by the editor, while a valid catalogue year remains available when an older correction contains an invalid year.
Music Status filters previously narrowed only the albums already loaded, leaving incomplete results and incorrect totals. Filtering now covers the full catalogue before pages and totals are calculated.
Desktop A film that had ended remained on its last frame when Play or the timeline was selected. Playback now restarts at the beginning or at the selected position.
Desktop The timeline of a directly played video without audio could stop advancing before the picture ended. The displayed and saved positions now continue with playback.
Books PDFs without bookmarks listed page text as chapter headings. They now show the absence of a table of contents while retaining normal reading and saved positions.
Web reader Some scanned PDF pages remained blank when the browser blocked the image decoder. Those pages can now be drawn with an alternative decoder.
Book and album pages could extend beyond narrow windows, and long reading labels could be cut off. Their content now stays within the available width.
Book covers could disappear during a refresh or keep the previous image after a replacement. The displayed cover now remains during ordinary refreshes and updates when it is replaced.
Desktop Dialogs left open at sign-out could reappear after the next sign-in. They now close with the session that opened them.
Desktop Long track names, addresses and other labels could overflow their controls or become unreadable when shortened. They now fit their columns and expose the full text on hover.
Activity Playback history could show unnamed profiles despite a known account name. The server now retains the name for subsequent activity views.
Web client Activity history could appear empty after removing titles reduced its page count. It now returns to the last available page.
Web client Saving a pause limit or a transcoding preference could remove the hardware choices from Quality settings. The available choices now remain visible after saving.
Update cards could show an unnamed release line when the installed application did not recognise the offered version. They now use the name supplied with the update.
Library setup Invalid names, overlapping folders and unsupported metadata languages could produce technical errors. The desktop and web client now explain the condition in the selected language.
Buttons, toggles and tabs did not consistently show a hand cursor when available. Enabled controls now indicate that they can be selected on the desktop and in the web client.
Web client Linked server names could include an unnecessary system prefix. Server and profile selection now show the readable server name.

1.3.0

23 September 2026

2 additions · 5 improvements · 14 fixes

Quven 1.3.0 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.2.9.

Release line 1.3 is named Noto. The name is shown beside the version number in the application and on the update card.
Excluded files report A file that another operation was writing at the same moment is listed with a reason of its own. Such a file is intact and is read again at the next scan.

The text of the desktop application and of the web client has been revised in English, Italian and French. Informal expressions and technical terms have been replaced with plain wording, the error pages of the web client name the condition and the available action, French follows French punctuation, and English uses British spelling.
The diagnostics consent now describes accurately what is removed before an event leaves the device: folder paths are replaced with a hash, and email addresses, IP addresses, access tokens and personal names are removed. Library names are not altered.
Music Untagged files named in the form "Artist - Album - 02 Title" now take their track number from the file name. A credit placed before the number is recorded as the performer when it names someone other than the artist of the folder. Recordings of such albums already in the library are renumbered at the next scan.
Web client The notice shown at the end of a scan opens the Excluded files report from its expand control, as on the desktop, and the report shows a titled message when no file was excluded.
The notice shown at the end of a scan closes once the Excluded files report is opened from it, on the desktop and in the web client. The report remains available in the library settings.

Desktop Editing a music or book library opened the editor on the film type and warned that the content would be removed. Saving without changes would have changed the type of the library and removed its content. The editor now opens on the type the library holds.
Libraries A folder that the server could not list during one pass, because of its permissions or of a network share, had all of its files reported as deleted, and files added later in its subfolders went undetected until the folder itself changed. The previous listing is now kept and the folder is read again at the next pass. A folder that appears after the first pass is reported in full once it can be listed.
Excluded files report Discarding a stopped scan emptied the report of the previous completed scan, which is now kept. A file that another operation was writing at the same moment was counted in the totals without being listed.
Music In an album of untagged files, recordings without a number competed for the same position, and some of them were left out at every scan. A recording that loses a position to another now takes the next free one.
File repair Repairing a lossless recording could produce a lossy or reduced copy. ALAC in .m4a became AAC, 24-bit and floating-point WAV became 16-bit, and FLAC in .ogg or .oga became Vorbis. The repaired copy now keeps the original codec wherever its format can hold it.
Web client After a recording failed to play, for example because the connection was interrupted, selecting Play again failed a second time. The recording is now opened again.
Desktop A cover that the server returned in a damaged form replaced the cover already stored on the computer with a placeholder. The stored cover is now kept.
Desktop When a required update was pending, moving from one title to the next could open the update card over the new title. The card now stays closed while the next title starts.
Desktop When the server did not answer in time, Home remained in its loading state and several other screens stayed empty without a message. A row that times out no longer holds the other rows of Home, and the other screens state that the server did not answer.
Home The rows chosen for the time of day, such as Late Night Picks, showed no drama, comedy, horror or documentary titles in a library whose metadata is in French. On the desktop, the same rows could also list titles chosen for another part of the day around midnight.
Books A merge of more than one hundred books was offered and then refused without explanation. The desktop and the web client now offer the merge for two to one hundred books.
Books An author could be shown with the portrait of a different person whose name differs by one letter. The server now replaces or removes such a portrait.
Books The review proposed beside a placeholder title showed the agreement score of a different edition. It now shows the score of the edition proposed.
Settings The note on the Founders plan stated Lifetime prices that do not match the published schedule. It now states that Founders access includes Pro through 31 December 2026, with nothing to pay.

1.2.9

22 September 2026

6 additions · 5 improvements · 9 fixes

Quven 1.2.9 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.2.8.

Home now shows the most recently added documentaries, performances, albums and books, each in its own row, on the desktop and in the web client. A row appears only when the server holds a library of that kind.
When Home has nothing to show, it lists the libraries already configured, each of which can be opened directly, and it distinguishes a server without libraries from one whose libraries are still empty.
Desktop The menus of the book, album, film and series pages offer to open the source folder in File Explorer or Finder. The option appears only when the computer can open the folders of the server. The album page now has a menu of its own for this purpose.
EPUB repair A book whose package can no longer be read is rebuilt from the chapters that remain readable. The repaired copy is written beside the original, which is not modified.
A repaired copy that lacks chapters or playback time present in the original is marked as partially recovered, with the number of chapters recovered.
Books The book page states why a book is waiting to be identified, either because it is queued or because a catalogue is temporarily unavailable.

Repairing a damaged file from the Excluded files report is now included in Max and Lifetime. On other plans the report still lists the files that can be repaired and links to the plans. A repair that has already been completed keeps its result in the report after a change of plan.
The report of the files that a scan did not add is now called Excluded files on the desktop and in the web client. Its reasons, actions and repair results have been rewritten in English, Italian and French, and a total of one is written in the singular.
Desktop The notice shown at the end of a scan, including a stopped or failed scan, now states the totals of the Excluded files report, as the web client does.
Web client The rows of a library grid fade at its lower edge, and at its upper edge once the grid has been scrolled. A card reached with the keyboard is scrolled clear of the faded edge.
TVDB When the catalogue stops responding or is temporarily held by Quven, the server log records the condition once when it begins and again when its cause changes, instead of once for every request.

Books Identification stopped for every pending book when one catalogue did not respond in time, even if another catalogue had already answered. The book now waits for the next pass and identification continues with the other books.
Books A placeholder title written by a conversion program, such as "Unknown Title", or the caption of a word processor, such as "Microsoft Word - document.docx", was shown as the title of the book. The file name is now used instead, without the extension of a saved document, and books already in the library are corrected when the server starts.
Books The ISBN printed on the copyright page is now searched for in the first six sections of a book instead of four, so that more scanned books are identified. Books already in the library without an ISBN are read again once.
Books An ISBN printed in a book whose title is a placeholder was discarded. The book is now placed in review.
Books Books without an ISBN that had the same placeholder title and the same authors shared one synchronised reading position. Each book now keeps its own.
Desktop Opening the table of contents of a book with thousands of chapters could make the application unresponsive for several seconds. The contents now open directly on the current chapter, and the episode lists of the player open in the same way.
Library setup Several kinds of library prepared at once are now created as separate libraries, each with its own folders, and the drafts not yet created are kept when a creation fails. The suggested name is updated after each folder choice.
Web client The library grid now fills the window at every height. A tall window, such as a browser in full screen, previously showed an empty band below the titles, and a short window added a second scroll bar.
Web client, Safari The Sort and Filters menus of a library now remain open when Back is selected, close with Escape or when the page outside them is selected, and return the focus to their button after a choice closes them.

1.2.8

21 September 2026

5 additions · 2 improvements · 15 fixes

Quven 1.2.8 is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and as a Docker Server-only image. No action is required when updating from 1.2.7.

Required updates When an update is marked as required, the update card opens automatically on the desktop and in the web client, and it cannot be dismissed while the update can be installed from that window. The card waits until a film or a book in progress is closed.
Profile selection now shows the server the profiles belong to, with options to switch to another server or to sign in with another account.
Library statistics now include albums and books, show the last scan of every library, including book libraries and empty libraries, and count every item in the match chart. Recordings are no longer included in the video charts.
Desktop image cache Images are kept in memory and on disk, so pages and grids display them immediately when revisited. Images from the connected server are checked for changes instead of being downloaded again.
Web client For a Free account, the server selection explains that remote access is included in Pro and links to the plans, instead of listing servers that cannot be reached.

Error reports sent with your consent may now include the title or the search during which an error occurred, so that the problem can be reproduced. Reports never include information that identifies a person, a company or a place: names, e-mail addresses, VAT numbers, telephone numbers, IP addresses and locations are removed before a report leaves your computer. The privacy policy has been updated accordingly (version of 21 September 2026), and each account is asked to accept it at its next sign-in.
Artist and author portraits published on Wikimedia are now stored and served by Quven. Linked servers update the addresses of portraits they have already saved automatically.

Web client A completed subtitle translation was not displayed in the player. The translated track now appears as soon as the translation is complete and remains selected.
Web client Enabling subtitles could cause the video to stutter without displaying any text.
Web client Closing the subtitle activity window asked for confirmation to leave the player.
Web client Untitled subtitle tracks in the same language were listed as identical entries. Forced tracks are now labelled, and the remaining identical entries are numbered.
The remote access switch in the tray and in the settings was shown as enabled for accounts whose plan does not include remote access. It is now shown as disabled, with the reason.
Windows and Linux bundle The update card offered the server update separately from the desktop update that already includes it. The server is now updated together with the desktop, and the command line refers to the desktop.
Quitting from the tray could report connection errors for pages that were still loading. Remote access no longer opens connections while the server is starting or shutting down.
The tray menu now follows the system language.
Desktop The book page was not refreshed after a manual match.
TVDB The episode order of a series was requested once for each episode instead of once for the series. A translation missing from the catalogue is no longer reported as an error.
Performance Titles, libraries and recordings with several associated lists, such as library folders or song lyrics, now load each list separately.
Desktop image cache The cache now only acts on files within its own folder.
Web client The progress bars in the subtitle activity window now use the application style.
Desktop The account button arrow now sits at the edge of the sidebar, and the highlight shown over a card follows the corners of its cover.
Web client installed as an app Profile selection now shows the server the app is connected to.

1.2.7

20 September 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement · 15 fixes

Quven 1.2.7 is available for Windows, for macOS, for Linux and as a Docker Server-only image. Automatic scanning is now part of Pro. The update card shows the release notes of the version it offers, filtering a large book library works again, and a disk that is switched off can be told apart from a folder that was moved. On the desktop, every text and every button takes the size and the style intended for it, a folded paragraph ends with an ellipsis, and text supplied by the server wraps instead of being cut. The macOS build also carries four fixes that its 1.2.6 build did not include. No step is required after updating from 1.2.6. The update applies on its own.

The update card shows the release notes of the version it offers, for the client and for the server. The client section previously reported that no notes were attached, although the feed carried them.
The Automatic scanning card has its own row on the Server tab of the desktop. It previously overlapped the identity card, so the server's name and version, its uptime, its address and the restart control were hidden under it.

Automatic scanning is part of Pro "Detect new files in the folders", "Periodic scan", "Save each book's cover beside its file" and "Save each album's cover in its folder". Manual scans remain free. Everything else in the free tier does too, and a server without Pro shows each option switched off and states the reason. The settings you chose are kept for your account and will apply again once the tier is active, so you will not have to set them a second time. The plans page and the Docker guide describe the change.

Filtering the Series view of a very large book library could fail with a database error. The filter now accepts a selection of any size, however many books the library holds and however narrow the criteria you combine.
Writing book covers beside their files stopped at the first folder that did not respond, so a single folder moved manually blocked every cover in the library until the next scan, and a disk that is switched off is now recognised from a whole group of unreachable folders, while a single missing folder is left for the next pass and the log reports the covers that were not written. A cover the catalogue could not deliver is no longer treated as a written file.
An album folder that no longer exists is reported as a disk that is switched off rather than as a folder that refused the write.
Series described by TVDB The episode ordering was read once per episode and is now read once per series. A missing page after a full one was taken as the end of the list and could hide a recent season. It is now treated as a gap. Looking up an episode by absolute number on a catalogue that did not respond raised an error instead of reporting the episode as not found.
A server whose link the account no longer recognised queried every catalogue for every title and logged each refusal. A single refusal now pauses every catalogue until the link is restored. The scan continues with the information the files carry.
Remote access left enabled on a server without the required tier logged the same warning every five minutes. The warning will be logged once, and again only when the reason changes.
Two scanner limits the server leaves unset were displayed as 0 on the desktop and in the browser. They now read as unlimited. Every limit is formatted in the language of the app.
Error reports sent with your consent were grouped without a version, because the version label was redacted as if it were an e-mail address. A connection attempt over IPv6 that the catalogue client abandons on a network without an IPv6 route no longer produces a report per request.
Product analytics, with your consent, now records the engagement events sent when a watchlist, a rating, a review, a playlist or a collection changes, and the performances media type. Every one of these events was previously rejected, so it can now be counted.
Desktop typography. Text and buttons whose style was not defined were drawn with the default, so the season page title, the subtitle request panel, the server name on the remote connect screen, the controller panel title and four subtitles now use their intended sizes, while the retry button of the connectivity band, the two copy buttons of the device-code window and the related-title card use their intended style. Nine texts supplied by the server, from the album page's failure caption to the reader's note, now wrap instead of being cut at one line. The clear control of the search palette and the back and close controls of the profile manager have an accessible name and a tooltip.
A folded paragraph on the desktop, such as a synopsis or a note cut at a set number of lines, ended without indicating that more text followed. It now ends with an ellipsis. The folded overview does the same.
The book page kept the first book's publication year after a match was changed, and the album page did not refresh the artist's initials or its edit control when the album loaded after the page.
The read action on the book page shows the chapter under its label; the two lines were clipped. The button now takes the height of its content. A button with a rounded face drew a grey rectangle around it at rest and under the pointer; it no longer does.
The failure card stated that the file was gone where the server only knows that it could not be read. The card now names the two likely causes, a file no longer on disk or a disk that is not mounted, and its text can wrap.
A storage total in the browser grouped its digits against the language: "1.024 TB" in Italian, where the language writes "1024 TB". The language now decides, and older browsers will follow the same rule.

1.2.6

19 September 2026

2 improvements · 12 fixes

A recording or a book that does not open now reports the reason the server gave, and the music bar, the video player and the reader all carry the technical line a support request needs. On an Intel Mac, writing a subtitle from the audio no longer aborts, and a music engine that fails to load is reported as the engine, with the reason the system returned. On every platform the filter menu draws all of its options again, the performers view keeps the pages already loaded, and a request that times out is reported as a connection failure rather than a file failure, so the message can say where to look. The Windows and Linux builds, and the Docker image, follow the Mac later the same day and carry four more fixes, listed last. It ships on Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker Server-only. Updating from 1.2.5 requires no further step.

A recording that does not play is explained. The music bar shows one short line, "This recording will not play", and pressing it opens a card with the reason the server gave: the file is no longer on disk, the server did not answer, or the playback engine did not start on this device. The card's second line carries the error code and the request that failed, which is the line a support request should quote. The web player has the same line and the same card. The line is withdrawn as soon as the recording plays again, where it used to remain over a recording that had recovered.
The video player draws the same technical line under its own message. The reader now learns from the server why a book did not open, where it used to report only that the book was not available although the server had answered with the reason; the desktop reads that answer from its own request, and the browser asks the server for the first byte of the book, which carries the same answer.

Writing a subtitle from the audio on an Intel Mac. The recognizer ran on the graphics processor, and a Mac without unified memory hands it a buffer it refuses, so the job aborted after about two minutes. Transcription now runs on the graphics processor on Apple silicon alone, while an Intel Mac runs the processor build, which was measured faster on the same recording.
A music engine that did not load, as on a Mac whose bundle it could not read, was reported as a problem with the file, and the card asked for the file's permissions to be checked. It is now reported as the engine, with the loader's full reason and each path it tried, so the message can name the library that is missing or the signature that was refused.
A request that timed out was treated as the viewer leaving, on every open: the music bar kept its opening indicator, the video player stayed black, and the reader stopped loading without a message. A timeout is now reported as the server not answering, as is a relay that could not be reached from a Mac away from home. Closing the window still cancels the request.
A recording whose file had been removed was handed to the playback engine anyway, which met the missing file alone and reported a failure it could not name. The server now checks the file before it answers, as it already did for a film, so the message can say that the file is missing.
The filter menu drew its first option alone. The status submenu of every catalogue, and any other short criterion, showed a single row until scrolled, because the pane slid in before its list had measured the space it was entering. The list is measured as the pane arrives, and every option is drawn.
Returning to the performers view from a name's titles loaded the first page alone, so a viewer who had scrolled through several pages would find the rest gone. The view now keeps the pages already loaded. Two performers whose names differed only in the spacing between words shared one row in the search palette; each has its own row.
An author override such as "a cura di X" was re-read on every start. The repair pass normalized the line and the override wrote the original spelling back, so the same book would be re-read at each start. The override now reads its authors under the same rule as the file's credits, so what it stores is what the repair will keep.
A request arriving while the server was stopping delayed the shutdown as the open streams did. Such a request is not answered any more, and the desktop closes at once.
Starting the desktop with the saved server switched off. The client sat on "looking for your server" for as long as the system kept one connection attempt open, 75 seconds on a Mac and about 20 on Windows, before it offered the server picker. Each attempt now ends with its five-second window, and the picker appears after it.
A library written by a newer build stopped the server at start. The two start-up repairs listed the libraries before their per-library guard, and a row the running build could not read took the whole server down ten seconds after it had begun serving. The listing is now handled like a library's own repair: it is logged, and the repair waits for the next start.
Offering the authors of a large book shelf to the directory. The names went out in batches of 200 without a pause, so a shelf past six thousand names was refused after its thirtieth batch, the batches after it filled the log with warnings, and every sweep started over from the first name. The offer now follows the directory's budget, and each sweep resumes where the last one stopped.
In the web player a notification covered the settings control at every width above a phone's for as long as it stayed on screen, and settings is the control you reach for after a playback failure. Notifications now sit clear of the player's controls.

1.2.5

17 September 2026

1 addition · 5 improvements · 7 fixes

On macOS, quitting from the menu bar did not complete, books opened on a card that declared the reader unavailable, and the strip that announces a pending release stayed hidden under the native title bar: all three are fixed, and a click on the Dock icon brings the window back. On every platform the performances shelf gains a Performers view, a subtitle you chose stays chosen, a sheet you opened in the player stays until you close it, and on Windows the crossfade between two recordings no longer drops to silence. It ships on Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker Server-only. Updating from 1.2.4 needs no further step.

Performers on the performances shelf. The hub has a second view beside the titles that lists who was on stage across the libraries you are looking at, with a portrait where the catalogue has one and initials where it does not, and how many recordings each name appears in. Pressing a name narrows the titles to that person, and the filter menu offers the same names as a row of its own. The list is built from what you wrote in a recording's editor, or from the first three names the match brought in where you wrote nothing, though a name you write replaces the cast for that recording rather than joining it. The search palette finds a performer by name as well and opens the shelf narrowed to them. On the desktop and in the browser.

A sheet you open in the player stays until you close it, with the X in its header or with the hide control, which folds the sheet and the chrome in one press. On Windows the chrome also stays folded after that press: the release of the click used to read as the pointer moving and woke it again.
Quitting the desktop with a film or a recording open ends at once. The server would wait out its whole shutdown budget, up to twenty seconds, for the stream the player was still reading.
A file the system refuses to read is named as refused in the scan report and the toast, with what to do about it, instead of being called damaged. The folders macOS refuses are most often the ones the server has not been granted under Privacy & Security.
A round card, an artist's or a performer's, reads its state and kind in a row under the name, between it and the count. Nothing is drawn over the portrait any more.
Subtitle translation runs on a newer, faster model. An episode's subtitles that took a few minutes now take under one, and the translated track is the one selected when it arrives.

Quitting from the menu bar on macOS. The icon's menu was being replaced on the way out, which macOS refuses, so the quit stopped before the server did and the error only surfaced a minute later, by which time the app would no longer listen. The menu empties itself now, the server stops, and the app leaves. If anything else fails on the way out, the app still quits; it is not held by it.
Reading a book on macOS. The reader asked for its window before it had one, declared itself unavailable, and every book opened on the "not available here" card. It waits instead. A page that did get through was handed to the system as text with a character set attached, so the reader drew its own markup instead of the book; the page's type travels on its own now. The trailer window on macOS waited the same way, and does the same.
The release badge on macOS. The custom title strip was hidden because macOS draws its own window controls, and that strip is where a pending release is announced, so a Mac that should have been offered an update was told nothing at all. It stays under the native bar now, without the buttons the traffic lights already give you, and Command F opens the search palette as the sidebar says it should, so a Mac can learn of a release the day it ships.
A subtitle you chose during playback was taken back by the stored choice a moment later, on every roster the player re-read; a translation that had just attached went the same way. A choice made in this playback now outranks the stored one.
Crossfade on Windows. Both recordings fell silent together and the next came in at full level nine seconds late, because every stream of the process shared one volume. The music player now opens an output whose volume is per stream, as the other platforms already had.
A music engine that fails to load, as on a Mac whose bundle it could not read, used to fail silently and stay failed for every later press. It reports the reason now, and the next press asks again, so a recording that would not start can say why.
A publisher's collection that credits one person per volume does not spell all of them across the top of the series page any more. It names three and counts the rest.

1.2.4

17 September 2026

10 additions · 13 improvements · 9 fixes

Quven 1.2.4 adds Performances libraries, collaboration profiles and optional cover exports. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker Server-only. Updating from 1.2.3 requires no additional steps.

Performances Dedicated libraries for concerts, theatre, opera and recorded specials, with separate filters and a combined catalogue on desktop and web. Available on every plan.
Metadata editor Edit metadata leads the menu for unidentified recordings on desktop and web, with title, year, synopsis, performance date, venue and performers. Titles awaiting review retain the standard menu order. Performances exclude trailer actions.
Search and personal lists Performances and documentaries retain their media kind and open the corresponding detail page.
Album artwork Desktop and web display complete covers in CD cases across catalogues, artist pages and Home. Artwork animations respect reduced motion.
Cover files Optional scanner settings save book covers beside their files and album covers in their folders, preserving existing artwork. Previously indexed books are included.
Artists Collaboration profiles combine member portraits, links and albums in one discography, with the newest releases first.
Home Stop reading, Stop watching and Stop listening remove unfinished titles from their respective rails. Stop reading is also available on book detail pages.
Artists Duplicate identities can be merged while preserving albums, credits and alternative names for subsequent scans.
Web player An episode selector provides direct access to other episodes and opens at the current selection.
Controller settings PlayStation mappings display the corresponding controller layout.

Large libraries Lists render visible rows only, reducing pauses in author filters, book contents, readers, episode selectors and folder selectors.
Biographies Artists and authors display the complete introduction from their localized Wikipedia article, with source attribution and expandable text.
Comics Double-page reading uses individual page turns, with suitable transitions for covers, wide pages and navigation jumps. Reduced motion is respected.
Music Crossfade timing adapts to track startup delays to maintain overlap on slow connections.
Book details Clearer catalogue labels, correctly placed edit links, singular page counts and direct links from author credits.
Library selection Six equally sized tiles provide a consistent layout for every library kind.
Catalogue search Unavailable results distinguish a busy service, an exhausted daily allowance, a refusal and an unreachable service.
Documentaries and performances Desktop and web offer consistent sorting options, with series ordered by their first performance date.
Search Retry is offered for recoverable failures.
Ebooks Availability is labelled Preview, consistently with Music.
Catalogue navigation Grids and name shelves restore their scroll position after a detail page closes. Open filter menus update counts and labels in place.
Updates Package verification displays its own progress state.
Artist pages Desktop includes background lighting and parallax, with playback controls positioned clear of the portrait.

EPUB chapters Generated placeholders are excluded from chapter titles.
Reading positions Chapters spanning multiple files retain the correct chapter assignment.
Book identification Unknown or placeholder publication dates are omitted from catalogue searches.
Book titles Capitalization from the source file is retained when catalogue titles are entirely uppercase or enclosed in quotation marks.
Book series Missing-volume placeholders are restricted to valid series numbering.
Book collections Startup reconciliation groups box-set files into their correct work without reidentifying the entire library.
Biographies Incomplete catalogue responses are refreshed when a fuller description becomes available.
Book credits Matched author names and user corrections consistently link to the author page containing the book.
Book series Collection names containing a volume number resolve to one series with the correct volume position.

1.2.3

16 September 2026

15 additions · 12 improvements · 7 fixes

This release covers more ground than any since music arrived. Books can be browsed by author and by series, music has identified artists of its own, and a film's editions are separate titles. Sorting and filtering work the same way on every shelf, folder watching is on by default, and a file a scan skipped can be repaired from the report. It ships on Windows, Linux and Docker Server-only. Updating from 1.2.2 needs no further step.

Book shelves by author and by series, on the desktop and in the browser. An author page carries a portrait, a short biography from Wikipedia in the language you read, credited to it, the books you hold and the works of theirs your library does not have.
Series pages list the volumes in order, add the volumes the catalogues know about, and leave an empty place where a numbered volume is missing.
Authors and series are search results now. They are in the palette, next to artists, and a name that is spelled two ways in your files is one result there, opened on the page the name leads to rather than on any single book.
Music artists A counted artist shelf you can search, identities resolved against the catalogues instead of the tags, and an artist page with a description, a portrait and a discography you can sort.
Independent film editions. A theatrical cut and a director's cut are separate titles, each with its own files, watched state and playback position, on the desktop and in the browser, and the cloud will not confuse them either, so a profile that syncs through your account finds each edition exactly where it left that edition, not where it left the other one.
Optional music crossfade. It is off unless you ask for it. You can set it anywhere between two and ten seconds, and it works the same way on the desktop and on the web.
Batch actions on books and albums Read or unread, reading list, identify again, merge two copies of one edition, queue or add to a playlist, and remove. A scan that refuses a whole batch says so once, not title by title.
A sort menu beside the filters on every shelf, with the same words on both clients. Books sort by publisher, year, category, language, last read and how much you have read; albums by genre, track count, label, last played and running time.
An All chip on every catalogue, so a kind can be browsed across all of its libraries at once. The sidebar entry opens the same view.
A reading rail on Home. Any Home rail can be folded to its heading, and it will stay folded.
Metadata editor forms for books, for albums and for artists.
Folder watching is on by default. A share that sends no change notifications, such as SMB or NFS, is compared against its last snapshot instead, and the switches that watch a library and scan it on a schedule have become one server setting, drawn in the same card on the desktop and in the browser.
A file a scan skipped can be repaired from the report. The repair is a durable job that survives a restart, and it writes a playable copy beside the original, never over it.
Comic and PDF pages fit the window, and a two-page spread is not cut down the middle any more.
A library selector in the browser's toolbar on every grid.

Start-up reports every phase and a migration shows how far along it is, while a server with a large book library builds its search index once instead of on every start, which on a big library used to take minutes. Book text lives in its own database beside the library, though nothing about where your files sit changes. Your files stay put.
Book covers are looked for in the book's folder and in its opening pages, and ISBNdb can be asked when the printed ISBN and the title agree. Albums that came off a scan bare get their cover afterwards, from the folder they sit in or from the catalogue, without a second scan and without anyone asking for it.
Book identification reads the ISBN printed in the colophon, reads a calibre record beside the file whole, and will not accept one written for another book. Two spellings of one title count as a single work, and a volume number is read however the name spells it.
ISBNdb is asked in bulk, one request for many numbers. It stops before the daily allowance runs out.
Catalogue answers are cached for longer. Your own searches go ahead of the identification running in the background.
Multi-disc albums are grouped per disc. The playing disc is marked.
Manual matching keeps a choice a running scan refused and sends it again when that scan ends, so a book, an album or an artist matched in the dialog while a scan was running does not need matching a second time.
The desktop keeps the player and its statistics when the window moves between screens, Home rail spacing was corrected, and the continue-listening card resumes the pressing you were on.
The update card says it is verifying while a download reports nothing. It used to look stalled.
In the browser, a page fades in once it is laid out instead of jumping, and a name page loads on its own skeleton.
Reader preferences are kept on the desktop and written through a temporary file, so a crash mid-save cannot leave an empty settings file.
The server log records the cause of every handled failure, and a write that finds the database busy is retried. Each database has its own write gate now, so writing a book's text no longer holds every other write for seconds at a time in the middle of a scan.

An unreadable comic archive is closed and skipped. It no longer holds the file open.
PDF covers are rendered in a separate process, so a malformed file cannot end a scan.
Misdetected audio files are read again, MP3 files in an unusual container are supported, and box sets run past disc 99.
A compilation tagged with a various-artists spelling such as V.A. no longer shows up as an act of its own on the artist shelf, and that includes the ones an older scan had already filed there, which no rescan would have repaired.
No series is created from a title a converter truncated, from a name cut inside a word, or from a book that names only its own volume.
An edition will keep its year when its publication statement is discarded.
An author credit whose Wikipedia page address contains parentheses resolves correctly.

1.2.2

14 September 2026

1 addition · 5 improvements · 2 fixes

Most of this release is about books. A scan does not stop to ask the catalogues about every new book any more, so a big shelf can be browsed the night it is added, and Kindle files open in the reader. Music scans skip an album they cannot read instead of stopping. This release ships on Windows, Linux and Docker Server-only, and updating from 1.2.1 needs no further step.

Kindle files open now. A MOBI or KF8 book without DRM can be read on the same pages as an EPUB, with its chapters and its search, and a book that names no chapters of its own gets them read out of its text. Pressing a chapter on the book page opens the reader right there.

A large shelf took long to appear because a scan stopped at every new book to ask the catalogues who wrote it, so a library of forty thousand files advanced at a few dozen a minute. The files now go on the shelf as soon as they are found and the books get identified in the background, though some covers may take a while to arrive.
A book's contents are grouped into what comes before the story, the story itself and what comes after. An edition stored twice, say in two batch folders, joins the first copy as another file instead of showing up as a second book.
A busy catalogue is waited for and asked again instead of marking your books as unknown, and the answers it gets are kept much longer, so a rescan asks for far less.
Playback changed in three places. HDR10 stays on by itself wherever your display and browser can show it, a browser without HEVC gets a high-quality H.264 copy, and a file whose only problem is too many audio channels keeps its original video instead of being re-encoded.
A library cannot be placed inside a folder that another library of the same kind already scans, because the files would belong to both and neither would show them. Quven names the folder and the library, in your own language.

Music scans will not give up on an album they cannot read. They skip it, keep going and say which files they refused. An album that is already identified is described again from the release it matched.
A server running in Docker writes a lot less to its log, does not back itself up after every scan that changed nothing, and the web app stops asking it about updates it has no way to install. On the web, a shelf full of covers loads every one of them, where it used to drop the last few.

1.2.1

13 September 2026

The ebook reader was missing from the desktop app, and this release puts it back. It was not a setting anyone could have found: the page the reader draws is built when the app is packaged, and the machine that builds our releases was not set up to build it, so every desktop published since ebooks arrived shipped without one. A book that opened on a window saying the reader was unavailable was this defect, and updating fixes it.

1.2.0

12 September 2026

14 additions · 8 improvements · 3 fixes

Your music is a library now, and it arrives as a preview: point Quven at your album folders and the covers land on a shelf beside your films, with a queue that follows you around the app. Ebooks are marked experimental and the browser reads them as well as the desktop. Two things go the other way and need Pro from here: driving the desktop with a game controller, and asking the server to write a subtitle from a film's audio. Neither was named on the pricing page, so nobody could weigh them when choosing a plan. Both are on it now, beside the note that names the nine things which will never move.

A music library. Quven reads the tags first, then the folder names where a file has not got any, and works out which artist and which edition each recording belongs to. A cover comes from the file itself or from the image beside it, and lyrics from an embedded tag or a lyrics file next to the track.
Album and artist pages on both clients. An album page draws its recordings, its editions and the files behind them; an artist page carries the rest of their work under the album you came in on.
A queue that does not leave you when you move to another page, with transport controls in the desktop bar and in the browser, a menu on every recording, file details from the recording's own row and playlists you can add to without interrupting what is playing.
A stored FLAC reaches a browser that can decode it the way you stored it. Nothing is re-encoded.
An album you keep in two folders reads as two editions instead of one list holding every track twice, and the panel naming them is what picks between them.
Music in the command palette A square cover, the artist beside it, and a recording that starts where you press it.
Ebooks in the browser, marked experimental while the surface settles: the shelf, the book page and the reader itself. Pages are fetched as they are needed, so a large PDF opens without being loaded whole first.
A book says which volumes of its series your library is missing and how many books each of its authors wrote that you hold. A wrong match can be changed from either client.
Who is who A spoiler-free list of the characters in a book, verified against the Cloud directory, holding its place as you read and admitting a character once they matter, so the list never names somebody the page you are on has not introduced yet.
A Readlist of its own, separate from what you saved.
Google Books joins the catalogues a book can be identified against.
Removing a library is a durable job with progress you can watch, pause, resume or discard, and the files will go only once the rows are gone, so a removal a restart interrupts picks up where it stopped instead of leaving half a library behind.
One strip reports a scan and a removal, a scan announces itself before it starts walking, and the report of what a scan skipped is offered wherever it can be opened, the browser included.
A pending release is announced in the desktop titlebar, with a card that says what is coming and stays usable while it installs.

Filters and orders draw one row now, wherever you open them. A long list of values can be searched instead of scrolled, each value carries the number of books behind it, and no shelf offers you a field in one direction only.
How finished a feature is should not be a thing you have to guess, so it is written on the feature itself: music says preview and ebooks say experimental, on the sidebar row, on the shelf heading and in the reader. A feature that has settled carries no badge at all.
On a Free server a controller press moves nothing, and the first press says so instead of leaving a screen that will not answer. The Gamepad screen in settings says what a pad can do here and what unlocks it.
Asking the server to write a subtitle from a film's dialogue needs Pro. The work still runs on your own machine, and nothing is metered or sent anywhere. A track you already have plays on any plan, for every profile in the house, and a Free server can still read an image track, load a sidecar and burn one in.
The Pro card now names two things the plan already included and neither the tier card nor the checkout had said so far: the hosted web client, and a guest list of 25 people instead of 3.
Managed AI work now spends one weekly allowance shared across the servers an account has linked, instead of a count per server.
Desktop listening through your own VPN or reverse proxy stays free, even outside the house, although the hosted web client and the managed relay, which carry your music to a browser or across a network you do not run yourself, require Pro.
A book's language is read from its words instead of from the tag it carries, and a document a converter signed with its own account is no longer believed about who wrote the book.

A title opens on the best file it holds. Not on the first name in the folder.
An episode row now offers to add the episode to a playlist, as a film's row already did.
The account portal showed the relay's weekly fair-use cap as 537 GB against a plan that promises 500; the cap is 500 GB now.

1.1.22

3 September 2026

1 addition · 3 improvements · 1 fix

Seasons get their own posters. The edition filter has stopped offering editions nobody has. Three controller buttons in the player did not do anything at all, and now they do. On Docker, a subtitle Quven writes for you lands beside the film again. This one ships on Windows and Linux, plus Docker Server-only. There should be nothing to do but update.

Seasons get their own posters. A series had one and every season showed it, so a box set where each season carries its own art would look like the same image over and over, which is not much of a shelf. You can pick from what the provider holds for that season, or upload a file of your own. Clearing it puts the catalogue's back. Desktop and web keep the control in the same place, on the season header.

The edition filter used to list every edition Quven knows how to read. Most people hold two or three of them, so most of those rows filtered a library down to an empty page. It lists what your libraries actually hold, and a label Quven does not recognise is offered the way your files write it.
Three controller buttons in the player did not do anything at all. A plays or pauses when nothing else has the focus, and X and View open the chrome on its play control. That is also how a pad can reach the menus for subtitles and audio, or the settings button.
When a mount disappears during a scan, every link under it breaks at once. In a library built out of links the report listed a row for each subtitle and each cover, and the films that needed attention were hard to find. The report now lists only the media and the folder links.

On Docker, a subtitle Quven writes for you lands beside the film again. The media folder came in read-only, so that copy was refused and you would only find out from a warning in the server log. The subtitle itself was always kept and it always played, so what stayed empty was the folder next to the film, which is where you would go looking for it after moving that film to another machine or handing the folder to somebody else. That folder must be writable by uid 10001, and if you would sooner the server never wrote to your library, put QUVEN_MEDIA_READ_ONLY=true in your .env and the mount stays closed.

1.1.21

3 September 2026

2 additions · 4 improvements · 2 fixes

If your library holds symbolic links, Quven walks them now. It used to step over every one, so a folder full of links looked empty and the films behind them never arrived, which is what anyone running Unraid, or a Docker setup pointed at an rclone mount, had been living with since the first release. The rest is smaller. Mostly it is the badges, the ribbons and the messages that were telling you the wrong thing, or telling it only to the desktop. This release ships on Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker Server-only.

Links in a library are followed wherever they point, files and folders alike. A folder is entered once however many paths lead to it, so a link pointing back at its own parent does not loop, and one file stays one film. A link Quven cannot follow, usually because a container does not mount its target, appears in the list of files the scan skipped, with the reason.
The web app lists the files a scan skipped, per library, which until now only the desktop would show you. Each row carries the reason beside it, so forty links pointing at a folder your container never mounted say so on all forty lines, and you should not have to guess which folder went missing.

Every arrow key moves the search palette. Left and right used to do nothing at all, and the results are drawn as cards now, so a title keeps the poster you recognise it by instead of a thumbnail the height of one line. Both the desktop and the web app answer the same presses.
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic wear their own marks on the web, as they already did on the desktop and the television clients. The web drew a thumb for both Tomatometer scores, so a fresh film and a rotten one said exactly the same thing to anyone reading the row.
Closing Quven lets the server it runs shut down properly. It used to wait ten seconds and then kill it, and a scan cut that way had to be replayed from the beginning next time.
Choosing a folder to scan will not refuse one you reached through a link. The scan will read it, so the two should agree.

Custom ribbon artwork stopped appearing on the web after a while. Your server's list of them was read once, and a refused read was recorded as "this server has none", so the packaged ribbons came back and stayed there until you reloaded the page.
A server that is simply switched off now says so in your own language, and one that is merely busy says that instead. The message came from the relay, in English, and it would tell you the target server was not connected.

1.1.20

2 September 2026

1 addition · 3 improvements · 4 fixes

Scanning a library is quicker, and quieter about it. A scan used to open a connection for every read and look each file up inside the query that walks a whole title. It now holds one connection for the length of its own work and can answer that lookup on an index built for it. A folder whose catalogue marker was rejected is resolved once instead of once per episode, and the totals a scan reports are its own, not everything the server's done since it started. This release ships on Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker Server-only.

A season takes the poster you choose for it. You can upload an image of your own or pick one of the posters the catalogue published for that season, and it stands on the season's page and in the row of seasons on the show. Restore puts the catalogue's back. The poster you chose for the series is a separate choice, and nothing here will touch it.

Choosing a folder is a screen now, where it used to be a dialog. It opens on the places you can name, your drives and the one you looked at last, in four bands you should be able to read at a glance.
A controller walks the whole page. The directional pad moves between what is on screen and scrolls when there is nothing that way, and the first press lands on the title at the top, never somewhere in the chrome.
The preview beside your search results carries what TMDb, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic each said, drawn the way the title's own page draws them. The synopsis is no longer cut short while there is room under it, and the divider between results and preview also responds to the arrow keys.

The control that unlinks a server sat on top of the badge telling you whether that server was online.
The search box in the sidebar ran edge to edge while every link under it was inset.
Dragging the divider left the row highlight behind: it kept drawing across the cards at the width it had before you started.
An update will not wait for playback or a library scan anymore. Playback stops. If a scan was running when Quven restarts, it can pick up again once the server returns, and the update window keeps the language you chose.

1.1.19

2 September 2026

The controller's Back button now leaves the screen you are on. It closed a dialog or the search palette before, and did nothing once there was nothing open, so on a page reached from the sidebar it was a dead button. It steps back through the navigation now, and stays quiet on the settings card that is reading your presses, so assigning a button cannot walk you off the screen that is assigning it.

1.1.18

2 September 2026

3 additions · 9 improvements · 4 fixes

Quven 1.1.18 Dolomiti: every word you type, in every name a title carries

Search is the change you will notice first. Every word you type is looked for in every name a title carries, in any order, across all your libraries at once, and what comes back is grouped by where it was found. The palette holding that search opens on your own library now rather than on a list of four commands, and it opens in one theme: the light variant is gone, and everything Quven draws is drawn dark.

The palette opens on what you were watching and on titles ranked against the ones you have finished, each card carrying the reason it was offered. The commands sit beside them as tiles, and a film plays from there without opening its page first.
The preview beside the list carries the tagline, the score, the certificate and the billed names, which the catalogue already knew and nothing drew. Drag the divider and the width you chose is kept, on the desktop and in the browser alike.
Controller buttons are assigned on a drawn pad instead of a column of dropdowns: one point per button, a line naming what it does, and one panel for whichever point is open.

Quven ships one theme, and it is the dark one. The product has always opened dark and every accent was written for it; the light palette was a second set of colours the rest of the design did not use. A preference written before this is ignored rather than carried over.
A title search is answered from an index rather than a scan of every row. Every word must be found, as a word or as the start of one, in any order and in any name the work is known by, and accents fold, so a query typed as Amelie answers with Amélie. What a viewer loses is the middle of a word: chi still answers with Chihiro, hiro no longer does.
A search that could not be run says so, instead of reporting a catalogue that holds nothing.
What one catalogue leaves empty is filled from the others, field by field, on the work, the season and the episode alike. Automatic means TVDB for a series and TMDb for a film, rather than TMDb for everything.
Changing a library's metadata language reads the catalogues again. That is what fills a language none of them had ever been asked for, and each library is read on its own so one failure stays where it happened.
A folder that names a catalogue identity is matched on it and the title search is not run at all. A release tag in brackets is no longer read as one of those names.
Refresh and unmatch are offered on the association a title actually holds, so a series described by a catalogue other than TMDb keeps both entries and is marked in the tab that named it.
A manual match on a long series is given the time it takes. Rebuilding a 1217-episode tree ran past the deadline the ordinary reads carry, and the abandoned request took the server's work with it.
The signed Docker Server-only image ships with this release for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

An action refused because a scan is running is answered by a message you dismiss, with the reason and what to do about it. It used to be a notice that faded: a tester could report only that something appeared and disappeared too quickly to photograph.
Removing a library while it is being scanned cancels the scan and removes the library.
The strip that replaces the season row marks the season you are on.
A subtitle cue is timed the same way whichever of the two converters reads it.

1.1.17

1 September 2026

2 additions · 4 improvements · 3 fixes

Quven 1.1.17 Dolomiti: a series named after a year keeps its name

A series named after a year keeps its name. Quven read the number as the year it was looking for and discarded the title with it, then refused the file for naming no episode, which the name had carried all along. Three failures of that kind close here: a title the library would not take, an episode described by the wrong season and a filter that narrowed nothing, together with a log that can be read again.

Every line of Quven carries a name. This one is Dolomiti, shown in About and in settings beside the version number, which remains the identifier updates and support work from.
A linked server can be removed from an account on the surface in front of you, whether that is the browser, the desktop or a phone. It leaves the list and stops appearing on the other devices.

The logs are considerably quieter. What a scan writes for each episode it resolves and each file another catalogue reorders is detail, and it now sits behind the debug level rather than burying the lines worth reading. A page closed while it loads is no longer recorded as a failure of the server.
An episode described by TVDB is read in your language. The catalogue answers a whole ordering at a time rather than one episode, so the series is read once for each language and held while the scan works through its files.
The film list is read as two queries rather than one. Each film used to return multiplied by its files and its identifiers, so a page of two hundred titles arrived as thousands of rows.
The Docker guide names the key an NVIDIA host needs. It described gpus: all, a line the published profile does not contain; it now describes runtime: nvidia, which the profile carries.

A series named after a year enters the library. 1923, 1883, 1917: the title is kept, and where the folder declares a year in brackets, that is the year taken.
An episode numbered within its season no longer takes another season's description. A file named Episode 3 under Saison 02 offered that 3 to the catalogues as an absolute index, so a missing season pair answered with the third episode of season one, its title and its plot.
Quality and edition filters narrow a smart-television catalogue. The chosen value was written to a field nothing reads, and the grid stayed as it was.

1.1.16

1 September 2026

3 additions · 9 improvements · 7 fixes

Quven 1.1.16 Dolomiti: one lane for remote access

Remote access carries one transport. The peer-to-peer lane is gone from the server, the web client and the shared core, and with it the port advice and the promises the interface made about it: a linked server is reached over the same HTTP and WebSocket connection everything else already used. A tunnel nobody is watching gives its slot back instead of holding it, and a television that loses the relay finds it again on its own.

A television reads the documents an account is waiting on and accepts them where it stands, in the language it is set to, and sign-in reads in that language from the code screen to the closing line.
Managed AI matching asks more than one provider. Where the first cannot answer, the next in the order is asked, and one that is switched off is not asked at all.
A detail page names the catalogue its words come from, so two identifiers no longer leave you guessing which of them wrote the page.

A folder that names a catalogue is answered by that catalogue. A series written {tvdb-...} enters the library with TVDB's identity, prose, seasons and episodes, and keeps the corner ribbon, the first-air year and the genres it used to lose. A refresh or a re-match stays on the catalogue that holds the identity instead of quietly moving the title to another one.
The words a title is stored under are asked of the catalogue that describes it rather than only of TMDb, so a film or a series matched elsewhere reads in your language down to its seasons and episodes wherever that catalogue carries them.
A translated subtitle is written beside the media as SubRip, which any player reads.
Seasons are drawn as posters, with their own artwork where the catalogue carries it.
The manual-match dialog offers the folder a work sits in as the search term, lists only the catalogues that carry that kind of title, and opens on the match a title already has whichever catalogue named it.
An idle media tunnel is probed and released when it stops answering, so a relay that filled with abandoned sessions serves the next viewer instead of refusing them.
The relay log carries a line per session rather than one per connection.
Google and Apple sign-in are described in the privacy policy, with what each of them carries.
The signed Docker Server-only image ships with this release for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

The directional pad always has a way out. A control that answers arrows keeps them along its own axis only, so the star rating in a detail hero no longer holds the focus.
Back on a television no longer unwinds the library behind the consent gate, and a document waiting there is announced once rather than three times.
A re-match the server refuses says so instead of failing quietly.
Unmatching a title drops the translations the association wrote, so the page goes back to the name on the folder rather than keeping the previous work's.
A film is no longer offered catalogues that list no films.
A show with one season reads “1 season”, and a lifecycle the catalogue does not report is left out rather than printed as “Unknown”.
A packaged desktop reports the version it was packed with rather than a local build counter.

1.1.15

31 August 2026

3 additions · 5 improvements · 6 fixes

Quven 1.1.15: in the language you read it in

Quven reads back in the language you are reading it in. Titles, country names, the window chrome and the names TVDB and AniDB carry now follow you rather than whichever identifier a catalogue happened to store first. The catalogue criteria were rebuilt around that: the filter sheet is a drill-in menu, quality and edition hold more than one answer at a time, and the header goes back as a whole instead of one step at a time.

A gamepad's buttons do what you say they do. Each one is assigned on its own row in settings, a button left with no action stays out of the way, and the directions keep navigating so there is always a way back to the screen that assigns them.
Films and series can be told which catalogue describes them. The chosen one writes the work, not whichever identifier arrived first, and anime has a lane of its own; where that catalogue says nothing, the answer falls back rather than emptying the page.
Quality and edition take several values at once, and countries are held as a set. The whole header goes back in one press rather than unwinding a menu a level at a time.

Every window is drawn in the reader's language and stays there. A title carries the name that language knows it by, TVDB and AniDB included, and a catalogue ordered A to Z is ordered by what is on screen rather than by what the database stored.
Country names are ordered by the name they show rather than by their code, so the list reads in order in every language.
A catalogue can be sorted by when a title was added, beside the rows that already said when it changed.
Search reaches original titles, so a film or a series answers to the name on its poster as well as to the one your library speaks.
The documentaries series lane is offered every capability the page holds rather than the first six.

A second episode's name no longer costs its own file the match. Two episodes in one file are named in the row without either one displacing the other.
The manual-match row printed a title underneath itself.
A library newly chosen kept the editions it no longer holds.
An edition label longer than the column could hold was dropped in silence; it is refused where it is entered instead.
On the television the film branch closed on a route its episode sibling had already closed, and a press that ticked an option could leave the keyboard behind on the row above it.
The desktop window stayed attached to a preferences store it had opened, and the gamepad rows read wrong after a language change.

1.1.14

30 August 2026

7 additions · 4 improvements · 7 fixes

Quven 1.1.14: a tester's evening, and another way in

This release lets a manual match be undone, keeps the filter chips on a narrow window from covering the row below them, and starts a playlist from the chosen entry. An account can now carry a Google or Apple identity, a trailer can be requested in the language of the app, and a library can be rescanned one folder at a time instead of whole.

Google and Apple sit beside the Quven password now. The link is another way in, never a second account: the Quven email stays the login and the contact address, and one provider identity belongs to one account. Where the credentials are absent the rows are simply disabled, rather than sending anyone into a redirect that goes nowhere.
Trailers come in English, Italian or French. When the catalogue holds nothing in the language asked for, the answer names what it fell back to instead of passing English off as the choice. The desktop remembers the language for the run; the browser remembers it for next time.
A rescan can be pointed at a single folder. Only that subtree is read, so files elsewhere are neither removed nor looked at again, and the unreadable ones already recorded outside it survive the pass untouched.
Episode metadata reads in English, Italian or French, chosen per library, and falls back field by field rather than all at once.
Films and series take their automatic catalogue separately. A house that trusts one provider for cinema and another for television can finally say so.
A gamepad drives the Windows desktop. Full screen has a button on the title bar now, beside F11.
One file holding two episodes is carried as the run it is, from the scanner through to every client.

Every catalogue criterion lives in one Filters panel, at any width, instead of folding away only once the toolbar runs out of room. Sort, search and selection stay outside it and stay immediate, and opening the genre menu inside the panel no longer closes the panel around it.
Playlists and the watchlist are drawn at the scale the rest of the surfaces use. The watchlist pages twenty-four at a time, and nothing crosses a page twice or falls between two of them.
Subtitles Quven produces are written beside the media they belong to. One an older version left in the wrong place is repaired the first time something asks for it.
The 8K ribbon is drawn for each corner with its own geometry rather than mirrored from the other, so the text reads the right way round on both sides of the poster.

A manual match could not be undone The manual choice itself refused the request, and no client offered a way to clear it. A manual match can now be undone.
A copy stream is cut where FFmpeg cuts it. The map that predicted those cuts had been reading decoded frames instead of the packets the muxer acts on, so a seek on a direct-played file could land seconds from where it was asked for.
Subtitle timing holds over the relay as well as off it, and a stream whose geometry arrives incomplete is refused instead of served against the wrong clock.
A television that has finished a title refreshes what it had cached before it leaves the screen.
Relay tokens no longer reach the server log.
A playlist plays from the entry that was picked, and an episode inside one says which series it belongs to.
On a narrow catalogue the pressed filter pill no longer covers the row it had wrapped over.

1.1.13

28 August 2026

Quven 1.1.13: the library on the television, and an eye on the server

Most of this release went to the television. The library there carries its criteria on the header line instead of behind a sheet, the remote reaches everything it draws, and a person's screen holds the half of itself the desktop already had. Away from the set, a Plex import survives the request that started it, an operator gets a tab that says what the server is doing right now, and a poster says how much of a series is left to watch.

1.1.12

27 August 2026

8 additions · 6 improvements · 6 fixes

Quven 1.1.12: read by something other than a person

Quven gains a documented integration API, generated from the routes it describes, that a dashboard can poll and Grafana can scrape without an exporter in between. Closer to the screen, a poster carries the ribbon an operator draws on it, catalogues sort and jump by the titles you actually see, and a film whose file name carries a date stops being mistaken for an episode of something.

The integration API has a published reference. Six read-only routes (server, libraries, statistics, sessions, history and metrics) are generated from the code that serves them and rendered beside the guides, so a page cannot drift from the surface it documents. Each read answers with a weak ETag and a 304 to a caller that already has the body, which is what makes polling one of them every few seconds reasonable.
The metrics route speaks Prometheus. A Grafana panel reads the installation directly, with no exporter between it and the server, and every label is escaped: a library name is the operator’s own text, and a newline in one would otherwise invent a metric.
An administrator can read the whole installation’s viewing history, and a dashboard tile can draw the poster of what is playing now. The history says what was played and when; it never says who watched it, and neither do the sessions.
A poster can carry a status ribbon. An operator draws it, picking from one list of lifecycle labels in the language the shell is in now, and a viewer moves it to another corner or asks it to stop moving. It is hidden entirely on a server with nowhere to store artwork.
Choosing a poster manually offers every official one a title has, four to a row, in more than one language, each named rather than left to a bare thumbnail. The row says which file is under match and which one already is the match, and refreshing a title restates its alternative titles and production countries instead of emptying them.
A library folder is picked on the server. The picker used to browse the machine running the client, which is the right answer only when they are the same machine, and a typed path the server’s filesystem refuses now answers as a bad request rather than as a fault.
The alphabet rail lands where the server sorts. A letter jump supersedes the page still in flight rather than queueing behind it, a letter after Z has a bucket of its own on the television as well, and both documentary lanes land on a letter or neither does.
A television viewer can say or type a title instead of walking an alphabet with a directional pad.

Catalogues are ordered by the titles they put on screen. The order is decided where the query is written rather than after it, so an Italian library no longer opens its A–Z on the English titles it is not showing, and the quality and dynamic-range filters offer the rungs the server will actually answer.
A film matched onto a short film that shares its title is offered the film it can be. Title and year alone cannot tell a ninety-minute feature from an eleven-minute short, so the duration decides: the runner-up takes the match when its declared runtime fits, and where nothing fits the title is still marked for review rather than accepted.
The consent that gates product analytics is measured in elapsed time rather than against the wall clock, a switch that decided nothing is gone, and the home hero stops refetching every eight seconds while someone reads it.
The relay is drained on the way out and from the state where its port is still open, so a deploy restarts it instead of leaving a server that answers and forwards nothing.
Pausing records where the film stood, whichever way it was paused, and a title finishes against the file that will actually play.
The Plex import reads a library through both channels and merges what each can see, asks each library only for what it holds, and stops offering rows it would never create.

A film whose name carries a release date was refused by a Movies library. “(2016-02-13)” reads as season 2016, episode 20160213, which is right for a daily show and wrong for every film named that way. The same date now ends the title before the catalogue is asked, so the query carries the film’s name rather than the date and the title it also carries in another language.
Opening a second library replaced the menus of the one on screen, and an edition named All cleared the filter it was supposed to apply. An edition that matches nothing answers with nothing rather than with everything, and one row answers for every way people spell the same edition.
The duplicate report called one film listed under two titles two films, and the divergent-files report listed guesses at what it had found instead of answering.
The setup wizard printed a secret and pre-empted the better channel to deliver it.
Two catalogue reads were reported by the database layer as unpredictable on every run: the library list joined three collections row for row, and the statistics aggregate took an arbitrary row from an unordered set.
A subtitle translation that finished could cut itself off half way through attaching, and the notice it raises could not be reached on a television.

1.1.11

26 August 2026

10 additions · 6 improvements · 6 fixes

Quven 1.1.11: the television grows up

A Smart TV stops being the client that shows the least: it gains a settings screen, a catalogue you can sort and filter, playlists worth looking at and a player behind one control instead of seven. Away from the set, a series continues where you actually stopped rather than at the first episode you skipped.

The Smart TV client has settings. It reports the account the set is signed in as and the servers that account reaches, offers the library statistics to an administrator, and carries the presentation choices: stillness, and the two switches that hide the Spotlight carousel and the “Needs attention” rail. Neither television platform lets a viewer ask its operating system for reduced motion, so until now a set had no way to ask for stillness at all. Nothing there administers the account, because linking and billing are not things anyone does with a remote.
The television catalogue can be sorted, filtered and pointed at a library. It used to open one library in alphabetical order with no way to change either, so a server holding two film libraries put the second one nowhere at all. Library, order, quality, dynamic range, edition and genre are two presses from the Filters control.
Catalogues filter by edition, in the browser and on the desktop as well. The options are the labels your selected libraries actually hold rather than a fixed vocabulary, so a library that marks no editions offers no filter.
The television player hides its options behind one control. There were seven discs along the transport row, three labelled and four not, and nothing said what any of them was on. One menu now carries a line per thing this playback can change (season, quality, audio, subtitles, speed, shape and the diagnostic read-out), each reading what it currently stands at.
Playback speed and a forced aspect ratio reach the set on the same ladders the desktop and the phone offer, and the season sits across the foot of the picture, so changing episode no longer means leaving the player.
A television viewer can rate a title, file it in a playlist, read every past viewing of it, open the reviews other people wrote, and see what a chosen edition actually is rather than picking a copy blind. Pressing the star already given takes the rating back, which is the only way to undo a vote with a remote.
Playlists on a set have a grid and a sleeve of their own and can be reordered from the remote, a profile can be renamed and given one of the eight faces every other client draws, and the titles a library could not place have a rail at the foot of the Home.
Your own rating sits in the score row beside what the catalogues think, as the one score there you can change. A title you had rated used to look exactly like one you had not.
The live playback dashboard leaves the settings tab nobody found and becomes an Activity row for administrators. It names the client and the device behind each session, whether the viewer is on this network and at what address, and reads each track as source through delivered form, so a transcode is visible as one.
Sharing a server stops at three guests only on Free: Pro carries twenty-five, Max fifty and Lifetime a hundred. The share card says, where the invite is about to be sent, whether your plan carries the relay your guests would arrive through.

A title's action row holds what you opened the page to do: play, watchlist, trailers where there are any, and a menu. It had been growing a pill per sheet until eight controls wrapped onto a second line and pushed the synopsis under the fold.
A relay that refuses a server is no longer reported as a server that is offline. An account that no longer links the server, or a plan that no longer covers remote access, says so and names what to check, instead of sending you to look at a machine that is running perfectly.
The container healthcheck stops writing a third of the log. A tester's day of server logs was 8,946 lines and 2,882 of them were the healthcheck reading the same route every thirty seconds. Only its successes are quieted; a failure reaches the log exactly as before.
The subtitle tab lists every source a file carries even where the stream cannot switch it on, with the reason beside it. A film whose only subtitle is a DVD bitmap used to be told it had none while the create tab listed it.
A subtitle you asked for turns itself on as soon as the player has it, on the phone and on the television as it always did in the browser, and the notice names the track now playing rather than offering it.
A refused library backup says who refused it and how big the request was, instead of twelve identical lines a day that name neither.

A series sent you back to an episode you had skipped. Every client answered “what plays next” with the first episode carrying no watched stamp, so a viewer halfway through episode ten who had skipped episode seven was offered episode seven. It happened on the desktop, in the browser, on the phone, on both television clients and in the Up Next rail. Playback also became watched only at the file's final second, so an episode whose credits you skipped stayed unwatched forever. A title finishes at 95% now, and continuing means the episode you left partway through.
A show opened on the first season not fully watched, so a viewer three seasons in landed on a gap left behind in season one. Opening an episode from a card could also resume twenty seconds before the end, because the page handed the player a position the player then capped somewhere else.
Bonus files were counted as editions of the film or episode that owns them. The duplicates filter answered with every title that owns a trailer, a 4K trailer ranked a 1080p film as 4K, and a bonus added years later presented its film as freshly added.
A series stored with genre names but no identifiers answered no genre filter at all, and the repair written for it needed a TMDb identity that a series named by another catalogue does not have. The names resolve on their own now, with no provider call.
A profile's chosen face was ignored on a television, which painted a bare initial for a choice the desktop, the browser and the phone all honoured.
Signing in on the desktop could remove a server the sign-in had not added, the catalogue described the library you had chosen as a filter you had applied, and a review card could overlap the one beside it or draw an empty star styled as a full one.

1.1.10

25 August 2026

6 additions · 5 improvements · 13 fixes

Quven 1.1.10: a server other software can read

A Quven server can now hand a read-only key to software you did not write, a title that exists in more than one cut offers the choice next to Play, and several libraries that scanned to nothing or filtered to nothing do neither any more.

A server can issue keys that third-party software reads it with. Dashboards and status boards had no way in before: the only credential a server accepted belonged to a person. A key is named by you, revocable, and read-only by construction: it can never issue another key, and nothing that changes anything will accept one. It reports the server, the libraries and their counts, and the sessions in progress; it does not report the folders your libraries live in, and a session says what is playing without saying who is watching. Keys are issued and withdrawn from Settings on the desktop and in the browser.
A film or an episode stored in more than one version offers a Versions button beside Play. It existed already, buried in the overflow menu, where a tester found it by accident after asking for it; a multi-file episode now carries the same control in its show and season rows.
Two thousand titles on a television are no longer reachable only by holding a direction. An alphabet down the side of the catalogue jumps straight to any letter and lands on its first title, and it works against servers installed long before it existed.
Trailers play on Smart TV sets, listed with their stills, and where the set has an application that can take the video the hand-off is offered by the name the set itself uses.
Smart TVs show what TMDb, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic think of a title, each with its own mark. Those scores had been reaching the server all along and neither television client drew any of them.
Quven is listed in the Unraid Community Applications catalogue, as a template over the published image rather than a separate build.

A server that cannot write to its data directory says which path, which user it is running as, and the exact command that fixes it. It used to die on a stack trace naming a path and nothing else, which is the first thing a container user would have seen.
Long text stops being cut with no way to open it: your own review in the browser and on the phone, and an episode synopsis in a season list. The way out appears only when something was really cut, measured on the text rather than guessed from its length.
When a metadata provider is down, deferred films no longer starve the deferred series behind them. Films took the whole retry batch and were listed again on every following pass, so with enough of them a series waited forever while the summary reported everything drained cleanly.
The library guide documents the {edition-...} marker for the first time, in both languages, including on episodes. The case that prompted it was a series shipping a colour cut and a black and white one that the catalogue lists as two shows.
The licences of the code your own browser is running are readable without being an administrator.

The genre filter on the series catalogue matched nothing, on every installation. Shows were stored with their genre names but not the identifiers the filter compares against. New matches store both, and a pass after startup repairs the shows already in the library.
A library whose folder was called Shorts, Other, Bonus, Scenes or Trailers scanned to nothing: those words mark bonus content, and the scanner was reading them in the name of the library itself as well as in the folders beneath it.
The audio language chosen for a series stopped being offered from the twenty-fifth episode on. The lookup read the two dozen most recent choices and only then searched them, so setting the audio once and afterwards only touching subtitles pushed that choice off the end.
Bonus material beside a film in a large library was logged as belonging to nothing: the search for its owner read one page of results before narrowing them to the folder, so the only real owner sorted past the end.
The versions button on an episode did nothing at all when the server could not be reached. No dialog, no message. A failed read and a title that genuinely holds one file used to look identical to the client.
Renaming a file kept the library from ever settling, so every automatic scan afterwards waited out its longest timer instead of starting when the disk went quiet.
Restoring the same backup twice could attach a file to a different film each time, where the same file existed in two libraries.
A rename typed into a library card was lost, with nothing said, if any other request happened to be in flight.
Two library folders where one contains the other imported the same file twice, and the losing half of that race shut down the whole removal pass for that scan.
A making-of arriving beside a film could inherit the identity of a feature that had just vanished, when the two shared a size, a timestamp and an extension.
Smart TV sets older than the client supports opened to a blank screen. They now get a message they can read, in their own language. Two builds meant to replace one another also arrived as the same version, because the packaged manifests carried a fixed 0.0.1.
Every film opened from a library failed on Samsung sets: the catalogue guessed film against series from a field this server does not send, so every film was requested as a series and answered with a 404.
On LG sets the pause key did nothing, the streaming attribution and trailer search opened nothing at all, and the pointer the remote drives moved over the screen without carrying the highlight with it.

1.1.9

24 August 2026

6 additions · 5 improvements · 7 fixes

Quven 1.1.9: the choice comes back

The audio track and the subtitle you pick are kept by the server and come back on every client and on the next episode, everything Quven translates is written beside the film it belongs to, a title carries the extras that shipped with it, and a server can be shared with the people you watch with.

The audio track and the subtitle you choose are stored per person and per file, so the next time you open that file it starts on what you were watching, whichever client you open it on. Playing without subtitles is a choice of its own and is remembered as one. Picking a language on one episode says what the rest of the series should open in.
Every subtitle Quven produces, whether translated, transcribed or saved from the editor, is now written next to the video as well as into the server's own store, so a film moved to another machine or opened in another player takes its subtitles with it.
Extras that sit beside a title, such as featurettes, deleted scenes, interviews and the making-of, are attached to the film or the show that owns them instead of being catalogued as films of their own, and a Bonus rail on the detail page lists them on the desktop, in the browser, on Android and on iOS. The three folder layouts Plex uses are read as extras, and a trailer is served in your own language where one exists.
An owner can share their whole server with up to three guests by email. A guest signs in with their own Quven account and keeps their own watch state, and an invitation nobody answers stops holding its seat.
Every season pill says how many episodes the season actually holds, on all five clients, and an episode that exists in more than one version is offered through the same editions rail films already had.
A Smart TV client for Samsung, LG and VIDAA sets: Home, catalogues, search, details, playlists, watchlist, settings and a player built for a remote rather than for a mouse. It is not on the television stores yet.

Continue Watching resumes where it says it will. The position reached the rail but not the player, and a transcode starts at its first segment unless it is told otherwise, so a film picked up an hour in was re-encoded from the beginning to get there. Changing quality mid-film had the same cause.
A 2.40:1 film is named by its frame rather than by its letterbox: a 4K master stored at 3840x1600 read as 1440p, and a Full HD one at 1920x800 read as 720p. Phones and tablets also gained the 8K tier the desktop already had.
Subtitle and audio rows name their language instead of printing tags, and say where the track came from: in the file, or translated by Quven. A track whose provenance cannot be established for certain is left unclaimed rather than labelled wrongly.
Android shows the season names the other clients show: a season the scanner recorded as “Season 1” no longer appears in English inside an Italian interface, and specials have a name at last.
Catalogue payloads from the metadata providers are stored compressed, and the activity centre is ordered by date.

A browser sidebar asked the server for the library list every ten seconds without pause, for as long as it was open: 7,690 requests in twenty-two hours on one beta tester's server, 55% of everything that server answered in a day, all of them returning the same unchanged list.
Autoplay could skip an episode. The player reports the previous item as ended until the new one has loaded, and that stale report was read as the new episode's own ending, so episode one ran into episode three.
A subtitle stored beside a file arrived twice in the picker on a streamed session, once from the playlist and once attached by the player, with nothing to choose between the two.
A device could sign itself out in the middle of the day. Two parts of a client could present the same refresh token, which the cloud treats as theft and answers by revoking every session that account holds on that device.
Changing quality took the subtitle you were reading with it, and on Android a subtitle nobody had asked for could switch itself on at the start of playback.
Bonus content behaved like the title that owns it: finishing an extra advanced the episode queue, and deleting one could delete the film it belonged to.
A server that was briefly unreachable hid the catalogue filters for the rest of the session instead of asking again.

1.1.8

23 August 2026

4 additions · 4 improvements · 4 fixes

Quven 1.1.8: the translation that was not one

Asking for subtitles in a language the file already declares no longer hands you back the same track untranslated, a catalogue stops asking the server for pages that do not exist, and returning from a title reopens the list where you left it.

A film or a series carries the catalogue's whole set of images instead of one poster and one backdrop, and the detail page cross-fades slowly through them. A title with a single image stays still, and so does the page for anyone who has asked their system for reduced motion.
An episode that exists in more than one version gets the same “Alternate editions” entry films already had: the dialog names each file by what actually differs and plays the one you pick.
A library card lists the files its last scan did not take in, and why: locked, unreadable, or named in a way nothing could place. Until now that list existed only in the server log.
The signed Docker Server-only image ships with this release for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

A series named by TheTVDB arrives under its English title instead of the language TheTVDB happens to hold it in, and a work whose only official titles are Japanese, Arabic and Portuguese no longer enters the library under whichever of them came first.
TheTVDB answers a title with no artwork by pointing at its own grey placeholder; that is read as “no image” now, so Quven paints its own instead of showing another brand's.
Anime posters from AniDB load. They were stored as a bare file name, which every client tried to fetch from TMDb; the rows already in your library are corrected when this version starts.
Re-matching a series clears what the previous match left on it: an episode the new series does not list keeps neither its old name nor its old synopsis, and the stored translations of the title, the seasons and the episodes go with it.

Asking for a translation into a language one of the file's own subtitle tracks already declares gave that track straight back, labelled as the translation. French releases hit this every time, because the French track is usually the one a scan would pick; Swedish or German worked, which made it look like the language was at fault.
A catalogue kept requesting pages past its own end, around a hundred and forty requests a second for as long as it stayed on screen, whenever the server's count and the rows it could return had drifted apart by even one. Resolving a duplicate series usually caused the drift, and the card of the merged series stayed on screen too.
Coming back from a film or a series reopens the catalogue at the position you left, instead of at the top.
The documentaries page re-formatted its counters on every frame while you scrolled.

1.1.7

22 August 2026

5 improvements · 12 fixes

Quven 1.1.7: the scan keeps its footing

An upgrade no longer stops a television scan on an identity an earlier version had cached, a search too broad for one catalogue no longer parks a title forever, and a series that only a second catalogue lists arrives with its full description.

A series listed on TheTVDB, OMDb or AniDB but absent from TMDb enters the library with the title, year, plot and artwork of the catalogue that identifies it, instead of the search result alone.
Removing a film or a series from a catalogue's menu works even when a scan or a watched change rewrote that row a moment earlier: the command used to return without doing anything.
Browsing a catalogue no longer re-reads and re-lists it on every page, and a scan that clears deleted files no longer re-reads the whole library once for every missing file.
Series are ordered by quality the same way films are, so a title whose quality is not known yet no longer jumps to the front of the list.
Third-party notices name TheTVDB and AniDB wherever the product lists what it uses.

Upgrading from an earlier version could stop a television scan with an error as soon as it reached a series whose identity had already been cached.
A title whose search was too broad for a catalogue was postponed indefinitely instead of being matched, and every retry asked the same question.
A placeholder identifier written into a file's own tags separated a legitimate second version into a film of its own, and skipped the check that the file matches the title its folder names.
AI disambiguation returned a verdict for a series the catalogue does not number, and matched a film that only a foreign catalogue lists.
A catalogue answering without a TheTVDB identifier erased the rest of an episode's description.
A subtitle translation that came back carrying none of its lines, or carrying the original text unchanged, replaced the track instead of being refused, and a translated line could split the subtitle document in two.
Merging two series left each viewer's own rating, review and watchlist entry behind on the series that disappeared.
A season whose only name is in a language other than the one requested could win a merge against the season that actually carries the metadata.
Up Next could offer an episode that has no file to play.
A file marked only “DV” in its name was labelled Dolby Vision on that alone.
The player raised an error over the video when a background step timed out.
Starting Quven while it is already running did not bring the window forward again after an earlier start had been interrupted.

1.1.6

22 August 2026

7 additions · 11 improvements · 5 fixes

Quven 1.1.6: four catalogues, and a scan that keeps going

Manual matching asks four catalogues instead of one, a scan survives files it cannot read, subtitles the server generates itself no longer depend on a cloud translation, and the database is copied before an upgrade changes its schema.

Manual matching asks every catalogue instead of TMDb alone: TMDb, TVDB, OMDb and AniDB each get their own tab, for films and for series, and every result names the catalogue that answered.
A title that exists in more than one version has its own "Alternate editions" entry on its menu: the dialog names each version by what actually differs (length, resolution, dynamic range, audio layout, video codec) and plays the one you choose.
Subtitle appearance is set from inside the player on the desktop: size, colour and position, saved for the next playback and applied to the running video when you ask for it.
A scan that cannot name a file any other way now asks AI for its identity, on plans that include managed AI matching and while the server's AI setting is on. One scan spends at most 100 identities of the account's monthly allowance, so a single untidy library cannot use it up.
Series and documentaries can be filtered by quality and dynamic range, which until now only films could do, and documentaries gain the genre filter the other two catalogues already had.
The database is copied before an upgrade applies schema changes, and the five most recent copies are kept beside it.
The signed Docker Server-only image ships with this release for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

A file the server cannot read costs no more than itself: the scan reports it as skipped instead of failing, records a folder it could not read to the end, and still removes a deleted title from the library.
Titles hidden behind bracket runs, words joined by separator characters, letter-for-number spellings or a resolution marker the parser did not recognise are read correctly, and a folder that declares its own catalogue identity outranks a namesake that resolved to a different title.
Series scanning asks the catalogue that named the series to order its episodes and describe its seasons, and stops retrying a season that catalogue will not answer for.
Scanning a television library no longer works through one series at a time, and how many files a scan works on at once is no longer tied to the number of processors the machine has.
The playback statistics panel on the desktop is the sectioned, scrollable panel the web client already had, written in your language, instead of a block of text that ran off the bottom of the screen during a long session.
A transcript the server generated locally survives a translation that later fails or is cancelled, and finishing one viewer's subtitle work no longer disturbs the others.
Image-based subtitle recognition refuses a language it has no model for instead of reading it as English, which used to produce text that only looked like language.
Artwork a catalogue does not carry is drawn as a designed placeholder instead of an empty frame.
Starting Quven while it is already running brings the open window forward instead of only saying it is already running.
A forgotten password is no longer a dead end: every sign-in form links to the reset page.
Reaching the AI matching limit is reported as a wait with the number of seconds to wait, rather than as a failure.

Filtering a catalogue by quality or dynamic range while browsing in a language other than the original returned nothing.
A text subtitle and an image-based one could be shown at the same time; choosing either now replaces the other.
Selecting a card in a catalogue could be swallowed by the artwork overlay drawn above it.
Switching profile could act on a server other than the one being used.
Seeking during playback could be mistaken for a transcoder that had stopped.

1.1.5

17 August 2026

5 additions · 4 improvements · 5 fixes

Quven 1.1.5: macOS catches up

Windows, Linux and the Docker image received these changes in 1.1.3 and 1.1.4; the Mac packages ship them together here, so a macOS server and desktop move from 1.1.2 straight to everything below.

Correct a title yourself when the server matched it wrongly: name, year, overview, artwork and poster, from the desktop app or the web client, and the correction survives the next scan.
Bring your history over from an existing Plex or Jellyfin server. Quven finds the source, shows what it will import and transfers watched state and playlists, matching titles by catalogue identity rather than folder layout.
Bonus content beside a film or series is part of the library: trailers, featurettes, behind-the-scenes reels, deleted scenes and interviews are recognised instead of being scanned as titles of their own.
A live view of playback on the server Who is watching, from where, over which route, and the technical detail of the file each session plays.
Sign a client in with a short code approved in the account portal, so no password is typed on a remote screen.

Manual quality over the managed relay reaches 2160p, where a stale server default had been holding every remote stream at 480p.
Continue watching shows one card per series instead of one per episode.
Scanning a series is faster Each season's translations are fetched once per scan instead of once per episode.
Show status is written in the language you selected.

Sessions that had already ended were presented as live, and one client's playback progress could be attributed to another.
Corrected artwork failed to load through the managed relay, and artwork left behind by a deleted correction was never cleaned up.
Bonus content is removed only once its file is really gone, and follows its title when two aggregates are merged or one is split.
A library folder at the root of a disk had its files treated as outside itself, so deleted files were never removed from that library.
HDR conversion picks the graphics device by proving it can transfer frames correctly.

1.1.4

17 August 2026

6 additions · 5 improvements · 7 fixes

Quven 1.1.4: correct a title, bring your history, watch the server

This update lets you correct a title the server matched wrongly, bring your watch history and playlists over from Plex or Jellyfin, and see who is watching what. Windows and Linux servers also receive the hardware-transcoding repairs that shipped for the Docker image in 1.1.3.

Correct a title yourself when the server matched it wrongly: name, year, overview, artwork and poster, from the desktop app or the web client, and the correction survives the next scan.
Bring your history over from an existing Plex or Jellyfin server. Quven finds the source, shows what it will import and transfers watched state and playlists, matching titles by catalogue identity rather than folder layout.
Bonus content beside a film or series is part of the library: trailers, featurettes, behind-the-scenes reels, deleted scenes and interviews are recognised instead of being scanned as titles of their own.
A live view of playback on the server Who is watching, from where, over which route, and the technical detail of the file each session plays.
Sign a client in with a short code approved in the account portal, so no password is typed on a remote screen.
The signed Docker Server-only image ships with this release for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

Manual quality over the managed relay reaches 2160p, where a stale server default had been holding every remote stream at 480p.
Continue watching shows one card per series instead of one per episode.
Scanning a series is faster Each season's translations are fetched once per scan instead of once per episode.
Show status is written in the language you selected.
The server says so in its log when it could not put the database in write-ahead-log mode, instead of running slower without explanation.

Sessions that had already ended were presented as live, and one client's playback progress could be attributed to another.
Corrected artwork failed to load through the managed relay, and artwork left behind by a deleted correction was never cleaned up.
Importing from Plex or Jellyfin dropped collections and playlists, attributed an episode's identity to its whole series, and reported an unreadable database as an absent one.
A library folder at the root of a disk had its files treated as outside itself, so deleted files were never removed from that library.
In the web client, a dead remote tunnel could leave the player waiting instead of recovering.
HDR conversion picks the graphics device by proving it can transfer frames correctly, after a server was found producing corrupted colour on hardware that advertised support.
The Docker NVIDIA profile is published in the form every Compose version accepts, and a server claimed from a container reports what actually failed.

1.1.3

14 August 2026

3 improvements · 4 fixes

Quven 1.1.3: hardware transcoding, repaired

This update repairs hardware transcoding on Intel and multi-GPU servers, where HDR films were converted by the processor while the graphics hardware sat idle.

Intel servers convert HDR films to SDR on the graphics chip instead of the processor. On a 4K HDR title the same conversion moved from about fourteen processor cores to a quarter of one.
Servers with both an integrated and a dedicated graphics card use the dedicated one for HDR conversion, measured more than twice as fast as the card chosen before.
Speech recognition prefers the processor over an integrated graphics chip where there are enough cores, and keeps the graphics chip on smaller machines.

Servers with Intel graphics could not use hardware H.265 encoding at all: the capability check asked the encoder for a frame smaller than it accepts, so every H.265 conversion silently ran in software.
VA-API servers decoded in software while encoding on the graphics chip, which spent processor time on a conversion the hardware could do.
HDR conversion is refused when the only graphics device available is a software emulator, which produced a green picture instead of failing.
Playback diagnostics name the conversion route the server actually used.

1.1.2

13 August 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement · 5 fixes

Quven 1.1.2: efficient ARM playback and safer server data

This update adds Raspberry Pi-class hardware transcoding and makes custom server data locations and diagnostics safer.

Linux servers can use V4L2 M2M H.264 hardware decoding and encoding after a real runtime probe, with bounded software fallback for unsupported codecs or failed decoders.
The signed Docker Server-only image is available from GHCR for Linux AMD64 and ARM64, with versioned Compose bundles, Cosign verification and SPDX SBOM attestations.

Raspberry Pi HLS output follows the source frame grid and repairs the separately emitted codec-header sample so seekable fragments remain decodable.

Custom server data roots are used consistently by persistent stores and desktop updates, cannot be escaped through rooted or parent-relative paths, and retain the earlier Linux AppImage layout during an upgrade.
Diagnostic cleanup preserves live Linux runs and reports the log directory the host actually uses.
Documentary activation no longer requests the same library twice when it overlaps an asynchronous catalogue rebuild.
Unsupported or malformed V4L2 fragments are left unchanged instead of being rewritten speculatively.
Seeked V4L2 M2M streams retain hardware encoding without starving their audio rendition, and playback statistics name the active V4L2 backend.

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1.1.1

10 August 2026

1 improvement · 10 fixes

Quven 1.1.1: playback and subtitles, repaired

This update repairs playback from the web player, restores subtitles that stopped reaching every client, and stops the scanner from filing one film under another.

When a transcode runs on the CPU although a hardware backend was selected, the server log names the backend and the reason.

Playback from the web player no longer waits forever on a browser that cannot decode HEVC. The player asked the server for a codec profile from the quality preference alone; it now asks the browser first. Firefox is affected on every system, and Chrome on Linux.
Acquired subtitles reach the player again. Requesting the subtitle list while another request was still running returned an error, so a sidecar, a recognized image track or a finished translation could be stored and never appear.
Subtitle files stored in a Subs folder beside the media are found on Linux and macOS. The folder was probed by its lowercase name, so only a case-insensitive filesystem answered.
A server stays reachable straight after an account is linked, instead of listing as offline for up to half a minute.
An unrecognized command on the server CLI reports usage instead of opening a tray icon.
The scanner no longer accepts a feature-length file as a short film: a file at least twice the declared runtime goes to review instead of matching at full confidence.
A film split across two folders is no longer merged with an unrelated one, and an episode whose file names a different show is no longer absorbed into it.
Hardware transcoding is no longer disabled for the rest of the server's run when a playback session is torn down while its encoder is still writing.
Intel Quick Sync works for normal playback. It was excluded from every seekable session because it cuts segments on its own schedule, and a source needing HDR tone mapping additionally failed to start.
Subtitle recognition from images and local transcription work on Linux again. The programs that perform them were built against a system newer than the one most people run, so they refused to start on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, on Debian 12 and 13 and on every current enterprise distribution. Playback, scanning and transcoding were unaffected.

1.1.0

8 August 2026

4 additions · 4 improvements · 6 fixes

Quven 1.1.0: subtitles you can create and correct

This update adds local subtitle generation and editing, and makes subtitles stored beside your media play everywhere.

Generate subtitles for media that has none. The Server transcribes the audio locally, without sending audio anywhere, and stores the result as an ordinary subtitle track. This is a free Server capability; an administrator installs the speech model on demand.
Speech recognition uses the GPU where one is available, Metal on macOS and Vulkan on Windows and Linux, and falls back to an optimized CPU build on a host without a usable adapter. The CPU path always leaves at least one processor to the rest of the system.
Edit a subtitle track from the desktop and the web player: correct its text and per-cue styling, then save it as its own file without touching the original.
Choose which subtitle a translation starts from. Every eligible track is listed and labelled by language and kind, behind an automatic entry that keeps the previous behaviour.

Subtitle files stored beside a media file, .idx and .sub pairs included, are attached on desktop, web, Android and iOS. Playback resolves to a network source even for direct file, so the player could not previously find them on disk.
Image-based subtitle recognition reads DVD, VobSub and PGS streams correctly: the stream is sized from the container instead of the video, and every image is paired with its own cue.
Long transcript lines are kept as sentences instead of being cut at each word.
The credits screen names what actually ships, the accelerated speech runtimes included.

Audio transcription no longer refuses ordinary tracks whose packets overlap by a few samples after resampling.
A subtitle edit is filed under the language of the track it came from, not the audio language.
The subtitle editor no longer rewrites punctuation in dialogue, and refuses an unreadable colour instead of silently dropping it.
Failures in subtitle work are reported in your own language instead of raw server text.
A translation can no longer start from an earlier translation.
A music note in an image-based subtitle is read as a note again, instead of becoming a word that was then translated.

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1.0.19

29 July 2026

2 improvements · 3 fixes

Quven 1.0.19: resilient discovery and diagnostics

This update makes local Server discovery and desktop reconnection more resilient and classifies diagnostics consistently.

Desktop reconnection verifies the current Server identity before restoring a persisted session, so stale credentials cannot target a replaced or different Server.
Local API probes record stable operation names and bounded response classifications without recording response bodies.

DNS-SD advertisements convert Unicode Server names to bounded ASCII TXT values so mDNS publication cannot fail on an accented machine name.
Successful HTTP responses with incompatible JSON are treated as failed probes instead of disrupting desktop startup or restoring an unverified session.
Desktop global exceptions and playback failures no longer produce duplicate diagnostic reports, and their structured local logs are kept.

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1.0.18

28 July 2026

2 additions · 3 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.18: Bundle controls in the tray

This update adds host-local update checks and login-start controls to the Windows and macOS Bundle tray.

The Bundle tray can check for updates and show the native update result without opening Settings.
Windows and macOS Bundle installations can enable or disable Start at login directly from the tray.

Bundle and Server-only installations retain distinct login-start registrations when both package types are installed.
Tray-driven update apply preserves the installed product shape: Bundle relaunches the desktop client, while Server-only relaunches its tray companion.
Settings and tray updates share a fail-closed active-work check, reject overlapping applies, and repair stale Start at login paths.

Package-specific Start at login entries no longer survive uninstall, and update relaunch identity no longer depends on a temporary server-tray launch argument.

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1.0.17

27 July 2026

2 improvements · 4 fixes

Quven 1.0.17: safer scans and diagnostics

This required update hardens library scanning, managed metadata startup and desktop diagnostics.

TV libraries dominated by movie-style filenames now emit one privacy-safe library-type warning instead of one diagnostics warning per rejected file.
Client, local Server and Cloud diagnostics share the production environment label, while repeated native playback diagnostics are reported once per playback session.

Rescans no longer reuse a deleted cached show identity, concurrent show merges retarget episodes to the canonical show, and a missing parent rejects only the affected file.
Legacy database migration clears an inherited read-only attribute from the local database and its sidecar files before the local Server opens them.
Managed TMDb remains disabled until a Quven Account link is persisted and stops immediately after unlink, while own-key installations remain independent.
Diagnostics redact UNC media paths and keep authentication or endpoint failures visible as actionable warnings.

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1.0.16

27 July 2026

2 improvements · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.16: safer opt-in analytics

This Windows and Linux update strengthens Quven's consent-gated product analytics and fixes documentary selection during overlapping library refreshes. Windows packages are live for x64 and ARM64, Linux Server-only packages are live for x64 and ARM64, and macOS remains on 1.0.15.

Product analytics uses a fixed privacy-bounded catalog for aggregate library, playback, reliability and engagement signals, and remains inactive until the current consent is granted.
Analytics delivery and recovery outcomes are classified consistently without exposing media titles, file paths or account identity.

Revoking analytics consent continues to remove the installation identity and unsent events instead of carrying them into a later session.
Documentary batch selection now takes one atomic catalog snapshot, so a library refresh that overlaps the action cannot produce a stale or mixed selection.

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1.0.15

25 July 2026

3 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.15: one coordinated release train

Quven's platform feeds had advanced independently: Windows was on 1.0.14, Linux on 1.0.4 and macOS on 1.0.2. Version 1.0.15 deliberately set every Windows, Linux and macOS Bundle or Server-only feed to one common release number so future desktop releases advance together.

Windows Bundle and Server-only, Linux Server-only and both macOS release types now share the same stable SemVer across x64 and ARM64.
The coordinated release workflow verifies every candidate before the first feed changes and prevents one platform from advancing while another still owes the current train.
Windows and Linux activate the privacy-preserving product analytics capability only after the current optional consent; macOS 1.0.15 predates that activation.

Platform-specific version drift can no longer make a newer-looking number imply feature parity or publication on another operating system.

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1.0.14

25 July 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.14: guided matching and safer TV merges

This Windows release, published alongside Linux 1.0.4 from the same source, added guided bulk AI matching and hardened the reconciliation of TV shows split across folder structures or earlier matches.

Selected unresolved shows can be matched in managed, quota-aware batches with visible progress.

Fragmented structures are analysed before consolidation, and accepted merges move seasons, episodes and personal state atomically to one canonical show.

Desktop and hosted Web follow the canonical show identity after a merge instead of leaving a stale or duplicate card selected.

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1.0.13

23 July 2026

1 improvement · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.13: stronger Viewer safeguards

This Windows release, published alongside Linux 1.0.3 from the same source, tightened authorization for Viewer accounts while keeping browsing, playback and personal library state available.

Desktop and hosted Web keep administrative and destructive controls visible but disabled for Viewer sessions, so the account's limits are clear before an action starts.

Viewer handlers now stop before issuing forbidden requests, while the server independently rejects administrative or destructive mutations at the API boundary.
Remote sign-out and server-selection failures remain visible instead of silently discarding the active session state.

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1.0.12

22 July 2026

2 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.12: steadier scans and playback probes

This Windows release bounded concurrent media inspection and reserved probe capacity for interactive playback. The same remediation shipped on Linux as 1.0.2; 1.0.11 candidates were replaced before publication and are intentionally absent.

FFprobe work is globally bounded, with background scans leaving capacity for DirectPlay keyframes and other interactive requests.
A plausible transient native launch failure receives one short retry; permanent errors, timeouts and cancellation remain strict.

Large cold scans no longer launch an unbounded burst of media probes that can starve playback-related inspection.

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1.0.10

21 July 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.10: uninstall without losing your library

This Windows release corrected package cleanup boundaries and made local-data removal an explicit, reversible choice before uninstall.

Settings can explicitly arm complete local-data removal for the next uninstall, with a reciprocal action to return to preservation.

Server-only update, tray, CLI and pre-update database-backup flows were verified together against the final package shape.

Normal uninstall now removes the application while preserving the database, accounts, backups, logs and caches by default.
The MSI cleanup identity is pinned to the immutable package id instead of the display title, so the shared local-data root is never deleted.

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1.0.9

21 July 2026

2 improvements · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.9: reliable moves and update checks

This Windows release combined precise inventory-delta scanning with hardened automatic update discovery.

Automatic checks run at bounded startup, activation and tray-menu moments without continuous polling; manual checks still bypass the cooldown.
Fast rescans classify new, updated, moved, removed and unchanged files before dispatching work.

Movie and episode rename round trips preserve media identity, watchlist, ratings, reviews and resume state.
LAN, relay and non-admin sessions cannot invoke host-local update controls or endpoints.

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1.0.8

21 July 2026

1 improvement · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.8: precise inventory-delta rescans

This Windows release made rescans compare the same timestamp precision that the database stores and classify file changes explicitly.

Unchanged files are skipped before worker dispatch, so routine rescans stay fast and focused on real inventory changes.

Sub-millisecond filesystem timestamp differences no longer make unchanged files look updated after a database round trip.
A failed replacement candidate cannot delete a valid single-file aggregate or leave an unrelated stale variant behind.

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1.0.7

21 July 2026

2 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.7: preserved media identity

This Windows release keeps unambiguous file moves attached to their existing media identities and adds event-driven update discovery.

Bundle checks for updates during bootstrap and window activation; Server-only checks at startup and when its tray menu opens.
Concurrent update checks coalesce, transient failures remain retryable and repeat notifications for the same version are suppressed.

Moving or renaming a uniquely matched movie or episode no longer recreates the aggregate and cascades away personal state.

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1.0.6

21 July 2026

2 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.6: clearer AI matching

This Windows release clarified managed AI matching and improved title normalization and diagnostics around manual corrections.

AI Matching copy now reflects Founders, Pro and Max availability instead of presenting a generic provider action.
History Channel naming variants normalize more consistently before metadata matching.

Manual-match diagnostics identify the real failure boundary without turning expected fallback behavior into misleading incidents.

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1.0.5

21 July 2026

1 improvement · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.5: faster warm-cache scans

This Windows release stopped counting metadata cache hits against the outer provider limiter and kept routine per-file scan failures local.

TMDb, OMDb and OpenSubtitles cache hits return without consuming the upstream request budget; cache misses remain authenticated, coalesced and rate-limited.

Warm-cache scans no longer pause behind a limiter intended for real upstream metadata requests.
Expected per-file scan warnings remain in local logs instead of opening remote diagnostics incidents.

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1.0.4

21 July 2026

2 improvements · 1 fix

Quven 1.0.4: subtitles only when requested

This Windows release removed automatic OpenSubtitles lookups from library matching and made ordinary rescans reconcile inventory deltas.

OpenSubtitles is contacted only after an explicit subtitle request, while existing hashes remain available for later searches.
Rescans remove confirmed stale rows without reprocessing every unchanged file.

A clean library scan no longer serializes one automatic subtitle hash lookup per movie even when metadata is already cached.

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1.0.3

21 July 2026

1 improvement · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.3: dependable keyboard and update flows

This Windows release completed the first stable full-package and delta update paths while tightening default form actions on Desktop.

Bundle and Server-only updates preserve the database, account and Remote Access state and return to the expected process topology after relaunch.

Enter now submits sign-in and equivalent desktop forms through the intended default action.
Interrupted update state is normalized before the next check instead of leaving a stale in-progress status.

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1.0.2

25 July 2026

1 addition · 2 improvements · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.2: cleaner TV libraries

Before the coordinated release train, 1.0.2 represented different platform snapshots: Windows used it as an early stable predecessor, Linux shipped bounded media-probe remediation, and macOS added guided bulk AI matching plus safer TV-show consolidation. The macOS packages were signed and notarized for Intel and Apple silicon.

Desktop can bulk-match selected unresolved shows with managed AI, quota-aware batching and visible progress.

Fragmented show structures are analysed before consolidation, then seasons, episodes and personal state move atomically to one canonical show.
Desktop clients follow the canonical show identity after a merge and preserve the active selection while the library refreshes.

Malformed or concurrent merge results now fail closed instead of leaving duplicate cards or partially moved episodes.
Viewer sessions no longer attempt administrative or destructive actions that the server will reject.

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1.0.1

22 July 2026

2 improvements · 2 fixes

Quven 1.0.1: smoother media analysis

This macOS update keeps playback-related media inspection responsive during large library scans and makes TV-season metadata recovery more resilient. Signed and notarized packages are live for Intel and Apple silicon; the Apple-silicon runtime smoke remains open.

Interactive playback probes now keep reserved capacity ahead of background library-analysis work.
FFprobe launches are bounded across the server, with one short retry for plausible transient launch failures while cancellation and timeouts remain strict.

Large scans no longer launch an unbounded burst of media probes that can compete with playback and other user-facing work.
Incomplete season-metadata responses are no longer retained as reusable cache entries, so a later request can recover cleanly.

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1.0.0

21 July 2026

3 additions · 3 improvements · 3 fixes

Quven 1.0.0: the initial stable release

Quven 1.0 was the initial stable release. Server + Desktop and Server-only packages went live for Windows x64/ARM64 and for macOS on Intel and Apple silicon; macOS was signed and notarized by Apple, while real-device ARM64 validation remained open. The hosted Pro web client went live, Linux v1 shipped Server-only for x64 and ARM64, with ARM64 released without a native hardware test, and the native mobile apps continued toward store distribution.

Windows x64 and ARM64 downloads for both Server + Desktop and Server-only, with architecture-specific packages selected from each platform menu.
Persistent managed-AI matching controls for Founders, Pro and Max servers, used only when deterministic metadata matching remains ambiguous.
An explicit Windows uninstall choice Keep the local database, accounts and settings by default, or arm complete local-data removal from Settings.

Library rescans reconcile new, updated, moved and removed files first, skip unchanged files, and preserve watchlists, ratings, reviews and resume state across unique moves.
Cloud metadata reads are cache-first and coalesced before rate limiting; OpenSubtitles is contacted only after an explicit subtitle request.
Desktop update checks now run at startup and resume with bounded cooldowns, while host-local update controls remain unavailable to remote and hosted-web sessions.

Rescans no longer leave deleted shows behind, duplicate a title after a file move, or discard personal metadata attached to the original media identity.
The Windows CLI updater now survives the package handoff and restart window, reports the installed version accurately and recovers interrupted update state.
Sign-in and equivalent desktop forms submit with Enter, and benign scanner cancellation and provider fallback paths no longer create misleading diagnostics noise.

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1.0.2-alpha

22 June 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Cloud library backup and shared subtitle translations

Pro servers can keep their library setup safe in the cloud, and AI subtitle translations are now shared so a title is only translated once. The translation feature is Max and activates at v1.4.

Cloud backup of your library setup (Pro) Your libraries and manual match corrections are saved to the cloud and can be restored onto a fresh server, with your manual matches re-applied automatically on the next scan.
Translated subtitles are cached centrally, so once a title has been translated every entitled account gets it instantly, with no repeat cost. Translation is a Max feature that activates at v1.4.

Entitled servers refresh their cloud backup automatically after each scan.

1.0.1-alpha

18 June 2026

3 improvements

Sturdier diagnostics and broader remote reach

Optional diagnostics now cover more of the app and reach remote browser sessions, with clear in-app consent.

Web diagnostics capture data-layer, render, relay and playback errors through one classifier.
Remote browser sessions on app.quven.tv report relay-dial failures, so off-LAN issues are easier to spot.
Security diagnostics default on, disclosed by a one-time in-app consent banner with one-click opt-out; personal data is aggressively scrubbed and never sent.

1.0.0-alpha

17 June 2026

3 additions · 3 improvements · 2 fixes

v1.0.0 alpha: cloud identity and consistent launch copy

The first public alpha. Identity is now a single Quven Account across every device and server, and desktop and web share one launch flow.

Quven Account sign-in One free account works across desktop, web and every server you link.
Household profiles are unlimited on all tiers, with optional PINs and per-profile watchlist, ratings and resume.
Blind reverse-tunnel groundwork for the remote media plane, which prepares off-LAN streaming at scale.

The onboarding, the prices and the product copy now read the same on the site, on the desktop and on the web.
Windows, Apple-silicon macOS and Linux server packages share one release pipeline, with platform availability kept explicit.
Playback stays steady through long sessions and window/focus changes.

Remote tunnels are torn down completely on disconnect, sign-out and tab close, so no allocation is left behind.
Anonymous server-link requests are rate-limited.

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0.9.6

16 June 2026

2 improvements · 2 fixes

Resolvable network discovery and remote hardening

Servers advertise themselves more reliably on the LAN, and the remote relay path closes a round of audit findings.

mDNS advertisements are now resolvable and labelled, so clients find the right server faster on busy networks.
Relay connect/teardown is centralised so a concurrent disconnect and close cannot double-tear-down a tunnel.

Closed a relay tunnel leak that could keep a WebRTC peer and TURN allocation alive after the client left.
Several desktop command guards now refuse unsafe actions during a scan or mid-session.

0.9.5

14 June 2026

3 additions · 2 improvements · 2 fixes

Remote streaming in the browser and AI subtitle translation

The web client can now reach your home server from anywhere, and AI subtitle translation lands in the codebase with precise, fair metering. It is a Max feature that activates at v1.4.

Remote-mode web client live Stream your library from a browser outside your LAN over the encrypted relay.
AI subtitle translation (Max) Cue-aware chunking translates movie-length subtitles without timing out, cached locally for free replays. This Max feature activates at v1.4.
Up to three concurrent remote sessions per server, so several household devices can stream off-LAN at once.

A relay status indicator mirrors the desktop pill in the web topbar and mobile sidebar.
Translation metering counts only translatable cue text and charges exactly once, only after the result is stored.

Normalised ICE candidates to the standard wire form so the browser-to-server tunnel completes reliably.
Idempotent replay of a completed translation survives a dropped connection and a tier downgrade with no double charge.

0.9.4

13 June 2026

2 additions · 2 improvements · 1 fix

Account portal and documentation go live

The account portal and a full documentation site are now live behind the Quven brand.

Account portal at accounts.quven.tv: sign-in, register, email verification, password reset and linked-server management.
A premium documentation page with sticky table-of-contents and grounded setup, playback and remote-access sections.

Split-screen cinematic auth and a full-width account dashboard.
Footer restructured into Product / Resources / Legal.

Login no longer bounces back on Safari/iOS and Chrome incognito: the refresh cookie is now first-party via a same-origin backend.

0.9.3

12 June 2026

1 addition · 2 improvements

Adaptive bitrate transcoding

Transcoded playback can serve an adaptive bitrate ladder so quality follows the connection.

Optional ABR ladder Lower video-only rungs are emitted alongside the top rung by one transcode process, and all of them share a single audio group.

Master-playlist bandwidth now advertises video plus the highest audio rendition, so players pick rungs accurately.
First catalogue load shows a shimmer skeleton instead of an empty flash.

0.9.2

11 June 2026

3 additions · 2 improvements · 2 fixes

Cloud backend on PostgreSQL

Accounts, plan entitlements and billing move to a managed cloud service, with email and user management for administration.

Account email verification and password reset.
Admin user management List, create, delete, set roles and reset passwords from a Users tab on desktop and web.
Every user can see the server's plan, even non-admins and servers without a linked account.

The cloud service now uses a database that supports live monitoring and concurrent writes.
Daily off-process database backups with integrity verification.

Refresh tokens rotate in families with atomic revocation and replay burn.
Server-link token consumption is single-use under one transaction.

0.9.1

10 June 2026

3 additions · 2 improvements · 1 fix

Quven Account and remote relay

Reach your home server from outside the LAN with zero port-forwarding, on the Pro managed relay.

Connect remotely from the desktop client Cloud sign-in, server picker, auto-dial over the encrypted WebRTC tunnel.
Short-lived signed entitlements with a 7-day offline grace window so the client keeps working when the network blips.
Cloud-issued TURN credentials (Cloudflare Realtime) for NAT traversal.

Self-hosted DIY remote (your own port-forward, reverse proxy or Tailscale) stays free; only the zero-config managed relay is Pro.
A tunnel monitor bounces you back to Connect with an actionable toast if a remote session drops.

The SDK now correctly rebases requests onto the active server URL instead of a static default.

0.9.0

7 June 2026

2 additions · 2 improvements

Cross-platform desktop and installer foundation

Windows, macOS and Linux received a shared adapter and installer foundation; the public launch targets were narrowed during platform validation.

Per-OS adapters for credential storage, GPU probing and display refresh-rate switching.
Packaging and update foundations for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Cross-platform adapter coverage for credential storage, GPU probing and display behavior.
One concurrent-playback baseline holds steadier under heavier local load.

0.8.7

5 June 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement · 1 fix

Shows everywhere and the ember rebrand

TV shows are now first-class across personal surfaces, with a refreshed accent palette and shared avatars.

TV shows join movies Add them to your watchlist, rate them, review them and put them in collections.
Shared profile avatar upload across desktop and web.

New ember-orange accent palette across desktop and web.

Adding a series to the watchlist no longer returns a not-found error.

0.8.6

4 June 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Ratings, reviews and continue watching

Rate and review titles inline, and pick up exactly where you left off.

One-click 1-to-5 star rating on movie and show detail, with a full review sheet.
A continue-watching rail with resume-on-hover, on desktop and web.

User ratings are kept distinct from the 10-scale external rating badges.

0.8.5

1 June 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Streaming availability and subtitle search cache

See where a title streams, and search subtitles faster with a local cache.

Streaming-availability badges and an external-title preview powered by watch-provider data, with required JustWatch attribution.
An OpenSubtitles search cache with per-item manual refresh.

Subtitle search and listing are cache-first, so repeat lookups are instant.

0.8.4

30 May 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Opt-in diagnostics

Optional, consent-gated crash and performance diagnostics to make the beta sturdier.

Optional diagnostics, subject to two explicit consents and off by default.
Aggressive PII scrubbing and a small set of named performance transactions.

Status and feedback stay clearer during busy sessions.

0.8.3

27 May 2026

1 addition · 2 improvements

Premium card chrome and multi-select

Catalogue cards got a premium redesign and gained multi-select for bulk actions.

Multi-select on the Movies and Shows grids with a shared selection state.

Redesigned media cards with cleaner chrome and one consistent motion rhythm.
Profile and detail actions need fewer clicks.

0.8.2

23 May 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Playlists, collections and history

Organise your library with curated lists and review what you have played.

Playlists and collections with curated members.
A playback-session history view.

The context (kebab) menu now hosts playlists, collections, history and re-analyze in one place.

0.8.1

19 May 2026

2 additions · 2 improvements · 1 fix

Settings overhaul

A tighter, clearer settings surface with per-library control and a real GPU picker.

Per-library configuration cards.
A hardware-decode GPU picker with Auto / Discrete / Integrated / Software override.

Settings consolidated from 13 tabs to 10.
Persisted preferences (subtitle size/colour/position, audio normalization, date format, compact cards) are now actually applied.

Removed inert controls that previously toasted “saved” without doing anything.

0.8.0

15 May 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Profiles, watchlist and ratings

Personal surfaces arrive: profiles, watchlists, ratings and resume.

Household profiles with watchlist, ratings and resume state per profile.
Media-card context actions for quick add/rate/play.

Watch-state updates are easier to read across lists and detail pages.

0.7.3

11 May 2026

3 improvements

Web and desktop parity

The web client reaches feature parity with desktop across catalogue, detail and settings.

Catalogue, detail and settings now match between web and desktop.
Library display order is configurable and respected on both clients.
Self-hosted Inter web font so web and desktop render identical typography.

0.7.2

7 May 2026

2 improvements · 1 fix

Web player video-plane hardening

The browser player renders cleaner on dark scenes and recovers from network stalls.

Removed translucent overlays over the video so dark scenes no longer show grey banding.
Seeks are coalesced during fast scrubbing.

Idle playback sessions recover instead of stalling.

0.7.1

3 May 2026

1 addition · 2 improvements · 1 fix

Browser HLS engine

Smarter engine selection keeps rendition, quality and subtitle control wherever possible.

hls.js is the primary engine everywhere it can run, iPhone 17.1+ included through Managed Media Source, with AirPlay preserved.

Audio and subtitle switching is smoother during long playback.
Mobile playback is more stable on changing networks.

Chromium browsers no longer silently lose the quality menu, or the ability to change audio track without interrupting playback.

0.7.0

29 April 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Premium web client

A premium web client lands as the universal fallback, with the full catalogue, detail pages and playback in the browser.

Web app built on Vite, React and TypeScript with Home, Movies, Shows, detail pages, profile, settings and a watch route.
Browser HLS playback with a stable first-run baseline.

Web and desktop share one stable user flow for catalogue and playback.

0.6.4

25 April 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement · 1 fix

Seekable on-demand HLS and remux

On-demand streams are fully seekable, and packaging-only changes skip a full transcode.

Seekable VOD playlists with deep cold-resume.
Video-copy remux when only the container needs changing, instead of re-encoding.

Per-track audio renditions decouple audio switching from the video stream.

Absolute timestamp rewrite makes fragmented-MP4 seeking land precisely.

0.6.3

21 April 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Audio passthrough and GPU tonemap

HD audio passes through untouched, and HDR tonemapping can run on the GPU.

AC3 / E-AC3 audio passthrough.
GPU HDR-to-SDR tonemapping via libplacebo/Vulkan on the NVIDIA path, with the CPU chain as the universal fallback.

GPU tonemapping cut CPU load by roughly 98% on a 2160p HDR test source.

0.6.2

17 April 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Subtitles: burn-in, extraction and cache

Text and image subtitles are handled end to end, with a fast sidecar cache.

WebVTT extraction for text subtitles and burn-in for image subtitles (PGS/VOBSUB).
A subtitle sidecar cache One pass caches every text stream per source file.

Subtitle extraction runs in the background without blocking playback.

0.6.1

13 April 2026

1 addition

HDR to SDR tonemapping

HDR content plays correctly on SDR screens through a quality CPU tonemap chain.

Hable HDR-to-SDR tonemapping on the CPU (zscale), the universal fallback for every platform.

0.6.0

9 April 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

HEVC software fallback

HEVC transcoding works even without hardware encoding, with capability probing.

Software HEVC encoding (libx265) as a fallback when no hardware encoder is available.

Encoder capabilities are probed at startup so the pipeline degrades safely.

0.5.3

5 April 2026

1 addition · 1 fix

Variant cleanup

Fix bogus matches by splitting a file off into its own title and re-matching.

Detach a file variant into a new unmatched title, then re-match it manually.

Distinct films wrongly collapsed onto one match can now be separated from the detail page.

0.5.2

1 April 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

Multi-file per match

One catalogue entry can hold many physical files: 4K and 1080p, several audio tracks, theatrical and extended cuts.

A logical movie/episode aggregate with N physical file variants and a per-file source picker.
Per-variant delete that cascades to the parent when the last file is removed.

The scanner attaches a newly discovered file as a variant of an existing match instead of duplicating the entry.

0.5.1

27 March 2026

1 addition

Documentaries

Documentaries are detected in both their shapes, feature-length and episodic series.

Dual-shape documentary detection Feature docs as movies, docuseries as shows with seasons and episodes.

0.5.0

23 March 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

TV Shows

Full TV support with shows, seasons and episodes.

Show, season and episode aggregates with episode-level matching and artwork.

Episode files are reconciled to the right show, season and episode by filename and path.

0.4.3

18 March 2026

3 additions

Live scan progress and theming

Watch scans progress in real time, in your language and theme.

Live scan-progress fan-out to the desktop client.
Dark and light theming with hot theme switching.
UI localization in English, Italian and French.

0.4.2

14 March 2026

1 addition

Automatic server discovery

The client finds your server on the LAN with no configuration.

mDNS / DNS-SD discovery The server publishes itself and the client auto-connects.

0.4.1

10 March 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

Native player

A native VLC-class player with direct play and hardware decoding.

Native playback with direct play, hardware decoding, subtitles and an on-screen display.

Playback recovers cleanly after pause, resume and window-focus changes.

0.4.0

5 March 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

Native desktop client

The native desktop shell arrives, built from shared composable controls.

Catalogue mosaics, a cinematic detail hero, and reusable rails and cards.

Pages are composed from one shared control catalogue for a consistent look.

0.3.2

28 February 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

Persisted media metadata

Probed codecs, audio and subtitle tracks are stored so playback decisions are instant.

Persisted probe data with audio- and subtitle-track tables.

Streaming decisions and track lists read from the database first.

0.3.1

24 February 2026

1 addition

HLS transcode pipeline

On-the-fly HLS transcoding for clients that cannot direct play.

On-demand HLS transcoding and segment delivery.

0.3.0

19 February 2026

1 addition

Direct file playback

Full-fidelity raw-file delivery for native, VLC-class clients.

Direct-file delivery with HTTP range requests (seek, resume) keyed on the physical file.

0.2.2

14 February 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

Manual match and match fixes

Manual correction of an automatic match, with more precise recovery heuristics.

A manual-match dialog to correct or set a title's match.

Cached metadata payloads reduce repeat external lookups.

0.2.1

10 February 2026

2 additions · 1 improvement

AI disambiguation and ratings

Optional AI disambiguation for tough matches, plus external ratings.

An optional AI disambiguator over a configurable OpenAI-compatible provider.
External ratings via OMDB.

External calls get retry and timeout resilience.

0.2.0

5 February 2026

2 additions

Matching pipeline

Automatic metadata matching against TMDb with fuzzy title scoring.

TMDb matching with Damerau-Levenshtein and Jaro-Winkler title scoring.
Filename parsing that cleans titles, years and quality tags.

0.1.2

29 January 2026

1 addition · 1 improvement

Background scanning

Libraries scan in the background and recover safely after a restart.

An in-process job queue and library scanner.

Workers replay safely Partially-run scans reset to a clean state and re-enqueue on startup.

0.1.1

22 January 2026

2 additions

Media toolchain

Bundled media tooling for probing and processing files.

Bundled FFmpeg and ffprobe with reliable process invocation.
Media file probing for codecs, duration and tracks.

0.1.0

15 January 2026

3 additions

Project foundation

The first foundation build: domain core, persistence and server cross-cutting.

Domain core with a result-based error model.
Persistence on a local database in write-ahead-log mode.
Structured logging, health checks and an OpenAPI surface.

Every Quven version, in detail.

1.5.10

1.5.9

1.5.8

1.5.7

1.5.6

1.5.5

1.5.4

1.5.3

1.5.2

1.5.1

1.5.0

1.4.3

1.4.2

1.4.1

1.4.0

1.3.0

1.2.9

1.2.8

1.2.7

1.2.6

1.2.5

1.2.4

1.2.3

1.2.2

1.2.1

1.2.0

1.1.22

1.1.21

1.1.20

1.1.19

1.1.18

1.1.17

1.1.16

1.1.15

1.1.14

1.1.13

1.1.12

1.1.11

1.1.10

1.1.9

1.1.8

1.1.7

1.1.6

1.1.5

1.1.4

1.1.3

1.1.2

1.1.1

1.1.0

1.0.19

1.0.18

1.0.17

1.0.16

1.0.15

1.0.14

1.0.13

1.0.12

1.0.10

1.0.9

1.0.8

1.0.7

1.0.6

1.0.5

1.0.4

1.0.3

1.0.2

1.0.1

1.0.0

1.0.2-alpha

1.0.1-alpha

1.0.0-alpha

0.9.6

0.9.5

0.9.4

0.9.3

0.9.2

0.9.1

0.9.0

0.8.7