Changelog

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v1.7.0 (Upcoming)

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New Features

• Support for multiple instances (Open multiple OpenComic windows)
• Add option to open files from outside OpenComic in a new window
• Add setting to use a custom folder for cache and temporary files
• AI image upscaling tool
• AI image descreen tool
• AI image artifact removal tool
• Cache the folder’s thumbnails/poster file lists to reduce disk I/O
• Hide file extension by default
• Support playing background music on a specific page
• Options in OPDS to auto-download files from the catalog
• Support for tabs
• Option to extract document images (PDF and EPUB)

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Bug Fixes

• Adding or changing poster not working when the drive is different from the system drive
• Hiding cursor in fullscreen mode fails in some cases
• Save/Copy uses the image under the mouse cursor instead of the active page
• Error saving the progress of the final page in epub files
• Prevent crash when retrieving metadata with Sharp for many large images (Linux only)
• Extract files when the file in it starts with the ’-’ character
• Use reading sort for thumbnail/poster generation
• Improve drag scrolling (Ignore right-click and add activation dead zone)

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v1.6.5 (October 31, 2025)

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New Features

• Go prev/next chapter with auto-scroll (Moving the cursor in the middle of the screen)

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Bug Fixes

• Cancelling prev/next chapter breaks the magnifier tool
• Downgrade Electron to 37.8.0 to fix font rendering issues on Linux

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v1.6.4 (October 11, 2025)

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Bug Fixes

• Downgrade Electron to 38.0.0 to resolve Linux release freezes on Wayland

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v1.6.3 (October 7, 2025)

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Bug Fixes

• Add error handling for reading progress in comic context menu
• Error handling for corrupted JSON/ZSTD files in cache and remove them
• Header bar buttons don’t register start/end of chapter if scrolled with scrollbar
• Asynchronous progress check in the context menu (Mark as read/unread)
• The application loops and freezes when opening files on the network (UNC paths)
• Prevent concurrent reads of the same file
• Memory leak in blob files when browsing extremely quickly while reading
• TypeError by ensuring countries is an array
• High memory usage on Linux due to a compatibility issue between Sharp and Electron
• Incorrect page is being set as a poster in manga mode
• Image breaks sometimes in PDF render

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v1.6.2 (September 8, 2025)

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New Features

• Option to change labels from app bar
• Context menu in continue reading bar
• Support multi-layer folder labeling in servers

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Bug Fixes

• Prevent app freeze when relative path receives undefined value
• Error on start directly in last reading

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v1.6.1 (August 26, 2025)

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New Features

• Extract tracking chapter/volume also from image names
• Tracking also by current page/image chapter/volume
• Pick at random button
• Separate order of browsing and reading
• Sort option to list compressed files first, separated from folders
• Auto-prompt to track
• Improve relative path support for folder portable

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Bug Fixes

• Show page number doesn’t work properly on scroll reading
• Some tap zones events not working
• Thumbnails and progress missing when filtering current page
• Rare cases of blank images during reading
• Show magnifying glass instantaneous when enabled from shortcuts
• goBack not working if OpenComic starts directly on reading
• Error on migrating some config
• Server connections do not work in some cases on Windows
• Some compressed files wouldn’t open from the servers

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v1.6.0 (July 27, 2025)

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New Features

• Allow disabling “Do not enlarge more than its original size” in Webtoon mode
• Improved rotation and support for rotating in PDF
• PDFs are rendered to a blob image instead of a canvas
• Optimized sidebar thumbnails
• Support Discord Rich Presence
• Get Calibre series and series_index metadata in PDF and ePub
• Increase and decrease horizontal margin shortcuts
• Use single thread in HDD extractions
• Auto-hide mouse cursor in fullscreen mode
• Show progress bar, pages and percentage in library/browsing
• Progressive thumbnail/progress generation based on scroll position
• Option to mark as read and unread
• Option to show page number in the top right-hand corner
• Add support for labels in master folders (auto config only)
• Option to show shadow effect between pages in double page mode

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Bug Fixes

• Error opening files from the system file explorer
• Invert tap zones in manga reading
• Error opening an OPDS Catalog
• Correct support Komga OPDS server
• Some mime types are not correct detected
• Update electron to fix white lines in Webtoon mode
• Navigation back not working with shortcuts and gamepad
• Correct invert some shortcuts in manga reading
• Optimized poster handling in file image retrieval
• Do not use the ignore pattern when searching for poster/images

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Earlier Versions