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  JellyTau v0.5.0 Stable

  dtourolle released this 2026-08-11 19:22:21 +00:00 | 152 commits to master since this release

  ✨ Features

  • Android video can render on the device's own video surface. Settings →
    Video Playback → Native Video (experimental, off by default) hands
    decoding to ExoPlayer, which draws into a surface composited behind a
    transparent WebView, with the player controls layered on top of it.

    The backend had reported "this platform has a native video surface" on Android
    all along, but the frontend threw that answer away in two separate places, so
    the path had never actually run. Both are lifted. The setting can only ever
    suppress the backend's choice, never override it upward: turning it off
    forces the web player even where native is available, and turning it on does
    nothing on platforms whose backend never offered it — Linux cannot composite
    behind its webview, so it stays on the web player either way.

    Verified playing on a physical device. Still unverified: the mini-player
    transition, audio-track switching on the native path, and whether hardware
    decoding measurably improves battery or CPU — so the toggle stays off by
    default. (UR-003, UR-004 → DR-150)

  🐛 Fixes

  • The video surface now reaches the screen at all. The player built its
    video surface, handed it to ExoPlayer, and then never added it to the view
    hierarchy, because the Activity reference it needed was never supplied — so
    native video would have decoded to a surface nobody could see, whatever else
    was fixed. This also silently disabled picture-in-picture for video, which
    gated on that same never-attached surface. (UR-003, UR-041 → DR-151)

  • Platform playback support is no longer guessed from the browser user
    agent. The frontend re-derived "does this platform decode audio natively" by
    string-matching navigator.userAgent — a second copy of a decision the
    backend already makes, free to drift out of step with the backends it was
    describing. The backend now reports its own capabilities and the frontend
    consumes them. (UR-003, UR-005 → DR-152)

  🔧 Internal

  • The git tag is now the single source of truth for a release version. The
    version lived in four files that had to be edited in lockstep, and the release
    workflow rewrote exactly one of them — so a tagged build produced an installer
    named for the tag wrapped around package metadata naming the previous
    release, and the Linux job, which had no version step at all, shipped whatever
    happened to be committed. scripts/set-version.sh now writes all four from
    one argument and every release job calls it with the tag. The Android
    versionCode is derived in the same place, guarded by tests for the property
    that actually matters: it must increase monotonically and stay above the value
    already installed in the field, or Android silently refuses the update.
    (DR-153)

  Downloads

  Platform	File
  Android	jellytau-release.apk — sideload or adb install
  Windows (portable)	jellytau.exe
  Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)	jellytau_0.5.0_amd64.deb — sudo dpkg -i
  Windows	jellytau_0.5.0_x64-setup.exe (NSIS installer)

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  Report a problem: https://gitea.tourolle.paris/dtourolle/jellytau/issues

  Downloads

  • jellytau-release.apk
    36 MiB

    2026-08-11 21:34:13 +00:00
  • jellytau.exe
    28 MiB

    2026-08-11 21:34:14 +00:00
  • jellytau_0.5.0_amd64.deb
    11 MiB

    2026-08-11 21:34:14 +00:00
  • jellytau_0.5.0_x64-setup.exe
    6.5 MiB

    2026-08-11 21:34:16 +00:00
  • Source Code (ZIP)
  • Source Code (TAR.GZ)