• Downloaded Bytes Column & Status Progress Bar (hydra-gui):
• Added a dedicated “Downloaded” column in the downloads table displaying the exact byte count retrieved so far.
• Added an inline graphical progress bar rendered directly within the Status column for active transfers, providing immediate visual progress alongside status text and percentages.
• Browser Extension Plugin Link Interception & Media Actions (browser extensions, hydra-gui):
• Added automatic interception for browser link clicks matching installed Hydra plugin claims (such as streaming video links or torrents), forwarding them straight into Hydra plugins.
• Added in-page media panel download actions to trigger plugin downloads directly from web pages.
• Added a toggle under extension settings in the desktop app to enable or disable plugin link interception.
• Recent Save Folders Menu (hydra-gui):
• Added a quick-access dropdown menu next to the “Save As” path in the Add URL and File Info dialogs, allowing one-click selection of recently used download destinations.
• Double-Click to Open Completed Downloads (hydra-gui):
• Added double-click interaction to open completed downloads directly in their default system application.
• Customizable Toolbar (hydra-gui):
• Added toolbar customization options to show, hide, and rearrange toolbar actions, including a new quick-access button to open the Plugins manager.
• Configurable FFmpeg Executable Path (hydra-gui, hydra-plugin):
• Added a setting under Options to specify a custom FFmpeg binary path for media stream remuxing and audio extraction.
• Batch URL File Import in Interactive CLI (hydra-cli):
• Added the --batch-file <FILE> option to hydra interactive, importing and queuing batches of URLs directly from a text file into the terminal interface.
• Source Page Notes on Captured Downloads (hydra-gui):
• Added automatic prefilling of the “Notes” field with the originating web page URL (referer) whenever a download is captured from a web browser.
• Portable Mode Marker File (hydra-gui, hydra-host):
• Added detection of a Portable.ini marker file beside the executable to run in self-contained portable mode, keeping configuration, downloads database, and state in the application directory.
• Keyboard Range Selection in Batch Dialog (hydra-gui):
• Added keyboard range selection using Shift with arrow keys in the Batch Download URL dialog list.

Changed & Refactored

• Chrome Request Header Fingerprint (hydra-net):
• Changed HTTP/HTTPS request headers when using a Chrome User-Agent to mirror Chromium’s exact header set (sec-ch-ua, Sec-Fetch-*, and browser Accept headers), preventing anti-bot filters and CDNs (such as Akamai Bot Manager) from returning 403 Forbidden errors, while strictly enforcing uncompressed responses (identity) to protect byte range offsets.

Fixed

• Updater Proxy Support & Portable In-Place Updates (hydra-updater, hydra-gui):
• Fixed the auto-updater on restricted or proxied networks by honoring HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy configurations from Connection settings.
• Fixed updater support for Windows portable installations, enabling seamless in-place updates.
• Preserve macOS Full Disk Access Across Updates (hydra-updater, hydra-gui):
• Fixed macOS Full Disk Access permissions being lost after updating Hydra, keeping access granted across version upgrades.
• Captured Filename Percent-Encoding & Browser Fallbacks (hydra-gui):
• Fixed download filenames captured from web browsers being improperly decoded or re-escaped when probing server information, preserving the user’s intended filename from the browser. — *contributed by @EmirMontazeri (#326, #333)*
• Replay Browser User-Agent on Captured Downloads (hydra-gui):
• Fixed captured browser downloads ignoring the browser’s User-Agent string, ensuring session-locked and User-Agent-validated transfers complete without rejection.
• Engine CPU Efficiency & Socket Read Coalescing (hydra-net, hydra-gui, hydra-cli):
• Fixed high CPU usage during high-speed multi-connection downloads by coalescing ready socket reads, running a dedicated GUI worker, and skipping hash verification digests on canceled or failed transfers.
• Interactive Terminal Queue Scrolling & Cleanup (hydra-cli):
• Fixed interactive terminal queue list scrolling so selected items stay within the visible terminal viewport, and fixed the clear command to cleanly remove failed items.
• Wayland Window Resizing on Linux (hydra-gui):
• Fixed window redrawing artifacts and stale display dimensions when resizing the desktop window on Wayland sessions.
• Linux AppImage Library Portability (packaging):
• Fixed AppImage startup crashes on Linux distributions with mixed library versions by bundling compatible libxkbcommon and libxkbcommon-x11 libraries.
• Node.js Path Resolution for YouTube Plugin on Windows (hydra-plugin, hydra-youtube):
• Fixed the bundled YouTube plugin failing to locate Node.js on Windows for JavaScript n-sig challenge solving, and added helpful diagnostics when a JavaScript runtime is missing.
• Preserve Resolved Filename During File Info Probing (hydra-gui):
• Fixed plugin-resolved download titles being overwritten by raw server redirect filenames when probing URLs in the File Info dialog.
• macOS Window Close Crash with Active Input (hydra-gui):
• Fixed an application crash on macOS when closing dialog windows while a text input field was actively focused.
• Start in Tray on macOS Login (hydra-gui):
• Fixed the main window appearing on login when configured to start minimized in the system tray on macOS.
• Persist Table Settings & Scheduler Visibility (hydra-gui):
• Fixed table column order, visibility, and width preferences failing to persist across restarts, and kept queue items properly visible in the Scheduler dialog.
• Windows Drive Root Paths in Browser Captures (hydra-gui):
• Fixed saving browser-captured downloads directly to the root directory of a Windows drive (such as D:\).