Release notes
What’s new.
Published changes to HyperBook, beginning with the first public beta. Package-only revisions and planned features are intentionally excluded.
0.9.0
The first public beta of HyperBook.
Library
- Automatic discovery of local audiobooks and cover art.
- Support for MP3, M4A and M4B files and external CUE sheets.
- Support for single-file books, embedded chapters and books split across multiple audio files.
- A clear chapter view with title, author, narrator and duration metadata.
Playback
- Immediate chapter switching and precise seeking within a chapter or the complete book.
- Local listening progress, volume and playback-speed memory.
- System media-key integration through MPRIS.
Organisation
- Tags, library filtering, custom shelves and favourites.
- Bookmarks at an exact listening position with optional notes.
Appearance and settings
- A responsive library and book-detail layout.
- System, light and dark appearance modes and a language setting.
- A local SQLite library with no required account, advertising or cloud upload.
0.9.1
A focused visual, licensing and distribution update.
Added
- Publisher, application version and product website information in About.
- A Licences section describing third-party components and icon assets.
- A consistent icon set supplied with the application, independent of the system icon theme.
Improved
- Consistent appearance and behaviour between the native DEB and Snap editions.
- Desktop menu and software-centre integration.
- Clearer proprietary and third-party licensing information.
Fixed
- Missing or inconsistent interface icons in the Snap edition.
- Application icon integration with desktop environments.
- Environment warnings shown when starting the Snap edition.