FreeFlix CLI v1.8.5

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🪟 Windows: arrow keys work again (regression fix)

• 1.8.4's new Windows key reader broke the arrow keys: the classic-console
  special-key prefix (\x00/\xe0) was read behind a wrong kbhit() guard, and
  the VT escape sequence (\x1b[A…) wasn't always fully drained. Arrows now read
  reliably in both classic console and Windows Terminal (VT) mode, while focus
  events (\x1b[I/\x1b[O) are still ignored and a lone Esc still goes back.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.4

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🪟 Windows fixes (important)

• "FreeFlix manipulates itself / Esc presses by itself" — fixed for real on
  Windows. The previous fix was POSIX-only; on Windows the menus fell back to
  readchar, which mis-read Windows-Terminal focus events (\x1b[I / \x1b[O
  on Alt-Tab) as a stray Esc, stepping back through menus until it closed the
  app. There's now a dedicated msvcrt reader that drains the whole escape
  sequence and ignores focus/mouse events — applied to the menus AND the search
  results pane. Only a truly isolated Esc goes back.
• Stops asking to install the players on every launch. Once you've completed
  first-run setup, the full wizard no longer re-triggers (a silently-failed
  shader download used to make it re-prompt forever). Player detection also now
  finds mpv.net / VLC installed outside PATH (winget links dir, Program
  Files…), so an installed player is no longer reported missing.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.3

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uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🔎 Search history

• The search box now shows your recent searches; press ↑/↓ to recall a
  previous query. History is deduped and capped.

🆕 New releases (background, personalised)

• A daemon thread checks — without ever blocking the home — whether the
  Anime-Sama shows in your history have a newer season/part. When they do, a
  New releases entry appears (and a home teaser), opening a poster preview
  list (chafa) that jumps straight into the new season.

⚙️ Settings, reorganised

• Settings are now grouped into Playback / Downloads / Appearance / Accounts
  (data-driven, no more brittle index dispatch). Type / to search settings.

🎨 Themes

• Four new themes (Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine, Monochrome), a
  custom accent colour, and a live preview panel before you apply.

⬇️ Downloads manager

• "My Downloads" is now a manager: disk-space + total-size summary, play or
  delete finished files, and resume/delete interrupted ones — all in a loop.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.2

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🏠 Enriched home screen

• A dashboard now greets you at the top of the home menu: a greeting, a
  quick stats line (this week · streak · in-progress count) and a
  Continue-watching carousel listing your last shows with resume/watched/
  downloaded badges — all from local data, instant, no network.

🗂️ Sources

• French-Anime (ex French-Manga) moved to 2nd position in the anime
  sources; ⭐ recommended badge on Anime-Sama and French-Stream.
• All source descriptions are now translated (menu + startup splash) plus the
  remaining English messages in the Anime-Sama flow.

⏳ Startup

• The launch progress bar fills visibly again — the easing was too slow for
  the short splash, so the bar barely moved; it now climbs to 100% smoothly.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.1.post1

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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Fixes shipped as a post-release of 1.8.1 (PyPI versions are immutable):

• Anime-Sama missing seasons/parts — the season parser stopped early and
  dropped later seasons (e.g. Dr Stone hid Saison 3 Partie 2 and Saison 4
  • parts 2/3). It now matches ALL panneauAnime(...) declarations on the page.
• "FreeFlix closed by itself" / phantom Esc — terminals (and mpv) that enable
  focus reporting send \x1b[I / \x1b[O on Alt-Tab, which a split read could
  mistake for a stray Esc. The key reader now drains the whole escape sequence
  and ignores focus/mouse/paste events; FreeFlix also disables those reports at
  startup and after every player exit.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.1

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🔎 Filter any list with /

• Press / in any menu to type-to-filter a long list (episodes, seasons,
  sources…). Enter picks the highlighted match, Esc clears the filter. The
  status bar shows the hint.

🏷️ Episode badges

• Episode rows now show at-a-glance badges: ✓ watched, ▸NN m resume
  (you stopped mid-episode), ⬇ downloaded. Wired into Anime-Sama, Coflix and
  French-Stream episode lists. Watched state is recorded when you finish/play an
  episode.

FreeFlix CLI v1.8.0

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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🧭 New navigation UI

• Breadcrumb trail above every menu — you always see where you are and what
  Esc goes back to: 🏠 Home › Sources › Anime-Sama › Naruto › Saison 2 › VOSTFR.
  Long trails truncate from the left so the deepest levels stay visible.
• ? help overlay — press ? in any menu for every keyboard shortcut
  (menus, multi-select, download cancel, mpv/Anime4K keys). Any key closes it.
• Consistent status bar at the bottom of every menu:
  ↑/↓ · Entrée : choisir · Échap : retour · ? : aide.

🇫🇷 Full French coverage

• Translated ~40 prompts that were still English in the French UI, across
  GoldenMS, AniList, Nyaa, Anime-Sama, Coflix, French-Stream and Papystreaming
  (type/season/episode inputs, subtitles, resume prompts, stream picker,
  torrent picker, AniList linking…).

🐛 Correctness fixes (full-project audit)

• Latent wrong-episode bug: three AniList-update callbacks captured loop
  variables late (B023) — bound at definition now.
• t() shadowing in the AniList handler (loop variable named t) fixed.
• Mutable default argument in get_hls_link removed; raise … from None in the
  Cloudflare fallback; unused loop variables renamed.
• All bare excepts were already gone (1.7.9); ruff is now clean on E/W/F/B
  across the whole project (deliberate late imports documented with noqa).
• First-run setup steps renumbered coherently.

FreeFlix CLI v1.7.9

Update

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

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📺 VLC fixes

• Quiet playback: VLC no longer floods the terminal with libav/libva/codec
  chatter — only the essentials are shown (its console output is hidden).
• Respects the chosen quality: on HLS, VLC used to ramp up to the highest
  variant, ignoring the resolution you picked. It's now capped with
  --adaptive-maxheight, so 720p stays 720p.

🧹 Internal cleanup (healthier base for 1.8)

• All bare except: replaced with except Exception: (13) — Ctrl-C and real
  errors are no longer swallowed.
• Network timeouts added everywhere they were missing (scraper wrappers,
  portal-resolution calls, the Cloudflare fetch helper, GoldenAnime) so a dead
  host can never hang FreeFlix.

FreeFlix CLI v1.7.8

Installation / Update

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli/main/scripts/install.py | python3

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell -c "iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex"

Update (uv):

uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli

The Linux deps, Nerd Font and Anime4K fixes apply automatically on the next launch after updating.

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🐧 Linux install fixed (Kubuntu & co)

• The static-build repos for mpv and aria2 vanished (404). Both are no longer
  self-managed on Linux — FreeFlix installs them via the distro package
  manager (apt/dnf/pacman/zypper/apk) with a confirmation, then re-checks. No
  more "✗ player (download failed)". VLC is installed too (parity with the
  install scripts). ffmpeg stays self-managed (its build still works).

🔤 Nerd Font is now a standard dependency

• First-run setup installs the Nerd Font on every OS and defaults icons to
  nerd. Existing users get it via a one-time upgrade migration.

▶️ "Continue from AniList" — back & upgraded

• The home-menu entry is back (shown when an AniList token is set).
• It now has the same tech as the normal sources: poster previews (chafa),
  quality/bitrate analysis, subtitle search, position-resume, stats, and
  automatic AniList progress sync.

😌 Comfort

• Last server remembered: the player menu pre-selects the host you used last.
• Quality/language badges in the player menu ([VF] [VOSTFR] + resolution).
• Toasts: setting changes confirm with a brief self-dismissing message
  instead of "press Enter".

🔧 Other

• The "update available" notice now shows the single uv tool upgrade
  command (we ship via uv).

FreeFlix CLI v1.7.7

Installation / Update

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli/main/scripts/install.py | python3

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell -c "iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex"

Re-running the installer always upgrades to the latest.

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⬇️ No more half-downloaded files in your folder

• Every backend now downloads into the hidden .temp/ dir; the finished file
  lands in Downloads/FreeFlix/ (or the season folder) only at 100%.
  Previously aria2c wrote the .mp4 straight into your folder, so a dropped
  connection left a partial file there. Now an interrupted download stays in
  .temp/ (resumable) and never pollutes your folder.

⏸ Resume interrupted downloads

• My Downloads now shows an Interrupted downloads section listing what
  stopped mid-way (with % for HLS or MB downloaded). Select one to Resume
  (picks up where it stopped via aria2 --continue / yt-dlp .ytdl state) or
  Delete the partial. Resume works while the stream link is still valid;
  otherwise re-download it from the source.
• .temp/ partials are never listed as playable files anymore.