change-log.txt

Subtitle Edit Changelog


v5.0.0-rc4 (11th of June 2026)

* Add Zonos TTS text-to-speech engine (CrispASR)
* Add VoxCPM2 text-to-speech engine (CrispASR)
* Add model-download button with per-model download size to Text to speech
* Add settings window for the Piper text-to-speech engine
* Add Parakeet RNNT models and SenseVoice-Small speech recognition (CrispASR)
* Add Music Symbol settings to Fix Common Errors
* Add live video preview to the burn-in window - thx MbuguaDavid
* Add "Beautify time codes..." to the subtitle grid context menu
* Add CJK unbreak actions
* Add French installer translation - thx Need74
* Add forced-flag support and dirty-state tracking to binary edit - thx mjuhasz
* Show a progress overlay while adding files in Batch Convert
* Use default ASSA storage style for new/converted subtitles
* Make bookmark add/toggle shortcuts work from the text editor - thx mjuhasz
* Use the system font (SF Pro) as the default UI font on macOS - thx mjuhasz
* Send consent attestation when voice cloning (CrispASR/Chatterbox)
* Persist burn-in encoding settings between sessions
* Update CrispASR to v0.7.1
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Turkish translation - thx bilimiyorum
* Fix #11357: also ignore Ctrl+Left/Right word-jump navigation while a text box is focused - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix #11422: "Check for updates" download button opened two browser tabs - thx nms42
* Fix #11479: OCR hang/out-of-memory on a stray "<" - thx wulf357
* Fix #11505: macOS menu bar reverting to English after restart - thx Mimikaki
* Fix #11515: crash when deleting; log unhandled UI-thread exceptions - thx OldMan-Jakob
* Fix #11529: hang when Modify Selection returns a large number of lines - thx ChocOranger
* Fix OCR Change All not replacing current item in BinaryImageCompare mode
* Fix OCR unknown-word prompt flow (Skip All / Skip Once) - thx mjuhasz
* Fix shift-click and Shift+arrow selection in subtitle/batch-convert/OCR grids - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Shift+End scrolling to top after a large-range selection - thx mjuhasz
* Fix toggle focus between subtitle grid and waveform - thx mjuhasz
* Fix grid coloring to honor too-many-lines and add independent CPS/WPM toggles
* Color Show/Hide cells red on overlap - thx mjuhasz
* Color Duration red for high CPS only when the CPS column is hidden - thx mjuhasz
* Improve Fix Common Errors inline editor and grid consistency - thx mjuhasz
* Fix continuation action sorting in Fix Common Errors - thx mjuhasz
* Fix wrong "After" preview (doubled text) in Fix Common Errors - thx mjuhasz
* Fix custom continuation style not reaching the engine; store it per profile
* Fix corrupted ellipsis character in the custom continuation style dropdown - thx mjuhasz
* Fix several burn-in bugs (output folder, cut precision, logo label)
* Fix transparent-video output-folder and subtitle-detect bugs
* Fix min-duration for the last subtitle in Apply duration limits
* Fix Option+Arrow word navigation in the edit box on macOS - thx mjuhasz
* Fix bookmark icon misaligning subtitle grid row numbers - thx mjuhasz
* Change default bookmark color to dark amber for light-theme readability - thx mjuhasz
* Fix cleared shortcuts being re-added from defaults on next startup - thx mjuhasz
* Fix incomplete UI refresh when the system theme switches dark to light - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Modify Selection length rules to use the longest visible line - thx mjuhasz
* Fix video state when opening image-based subtitle formats - thx mjuhasz
* Align binary-edit video player behavior with the main window - thx mjuhasz
* Fix vertical text alignment in diff grid cells - thx mjuhasz
* Unify the error log filename to error-log.txt
* Statistics: fix gap-average calculation - thx ivandrofly

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v5.0.0-rc3 (5th June 2026)

* Add multi-select to Batch Convert file grid (#11407) - thx sharazy
* Add multi-select to Fix Common Errors fix list - thx mjuhasz
* Add Unbreak, Auto-break, Split/rebalance and Evenly distribute to the Selected Lines menu
* Add CosyVoice text-to-speech engines (CrispASR)
* Add hovered-position tooltip to the video player slider
* Add download-status dots to the Speech to text forced aligner list + auto-select after download
* Add "Skip step 1" setting to Fix Common Errors - thx mjuhasz
* Restore /video: command-line argument for opening a video with the subtitle
* Update WhisperCpp to v1.8.6
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.12
* Add Hungarian translation - thx Zityi
* Update Turkish translation - thx bilimiyorum
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Czech translation - thx Matěj
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Fix #10940: sync Fix Common Errors language dropdown to the Language field
* Fix #11355: startup crash on Debian 13 (no system fonts)
* Fix #11357: bare Left/Right arrow keys hijacked while a text box is focused
* Fix #11379: CPS line-length strategy not updating the grid until restart
* Fix #11388: Replace & find next silently skipping the current match
* Fix #11392: honor user video shortcuts in the fullscreen video window
* Fix #11393: restore focus to the subtitle grid after exiting fullscreen video
* Fix waveform Alt+drag producing overlapping subtitles - thx mjuhasz
* Fix missing renumber after inserting subtitles from the waveform
* Fix spell check Change / Change all enabled before the word is edited
* Fix OCR / spell check window font handling - thx mjuhasz
* Fix macOS native menu toggle item labels - thx mjuhasz
* Fix regex Replace & Find Next newline handling - thx mjuhasz
* Reduce redundant Matroska cluster scanning (#11374, performance)

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v5.0.0-rc2 (3rd June 2026)

* Update WhisperCpp to v1.8.5
* Add engine update button to Auto-translate window
* Add "Text to speech..." to subtitle grid context menu (#10941)
* Add SSA Properties and Attachments windows + toolbar/menu items
* Add Space/Home/End keyboard navigation in tool-window data grids - thx mjuhasz
* Redesign Fix Common Errors Step 2 button flow and add fixes-applied counter - thx mjuhasz
* Auto-translate: remember line-merge strategy per engine
* Cache Regex and HTML stripping in three hot paths (performance)
* Update Inno Setup installer Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Turkish translation - thx bilimiyorum
* Update Portuguese translation - thx Blackspirits
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Include LICENSE in release packages (#11278)
* Fix #11275: "Adjust timings" always re-checked in Speech-to-text post-processing
* Fix OpenAI-compatible STT for "Speech to text selected lines" - thx dkakaie
* Fix #11307: highlight Duration column on CPS-too-high
* Fix #11305: align waveform window with restored video position
* Fix #11314: TextSplitResult crash on headless Linux
* Fix operator-precedence and locale-code bugs
* Fix image-export alignment and override-position bugs
* Fix #11280: tighter undo capture + restore redo for unrecorded changes
* Fix UndoRedoManager deadlock vector, Dispose race, and clone-timestamp bug
* Fix ColorTextTooLong incorrectly triggering on CPS violations - thx mjuhasz
* Fix #11327: window overflow with long video file paths
* Fix UI scale not applied at startup and freeze on scale change
* Fix OCR window progress bar / status text overlap
* Fix progress bar / status text overlap in video generation windows
* Fix SCC import: reject raw CEA-608 data rows and decode PAC line breaks
* Fix #9803: SCC import italics and byte-misaligned musical notes
* Fix #11342: SSA style editor *Default style recognition and style preview
* Fix color picker: hex is 6 chars (RRGGBB) when there is no alpha channel
* Fix SSA / ASSA style window preview box height and font scaling
* Fix #11308: move last/first word up/down no longer leaves subtitles stuck at 3 lines
* Fix #11308: merge selected lines auto-breaks the result to respect the 2-line limit
* Fix #11308: undo/redo keeps the grid at the cursor row instead of jumping to the snapshot's saved row
* Fix Google TTS voice listing crash when a parsed voice name is shorter than 5 characters

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v5.0.0-rc1 (30th May 2026)

* Update docs for RC1
* Add native macOS menu bar (NativeMenu) - thx mjuhasz
* Add wrap-around to Find and Replace (Find Next/Previous + Replace) - thx mjuhasz
* Add setting to hide the Plugins menu (default off)
* Add SE 4 "Move start/end one frame (keep gap if close)" shortcuts
* Add waveform "Set video position when moving start/end" (SE 4 parity)
* Add SE 4 per-paragraph waveform footer + zero-padded ruler labels
* Add waveform "Extract audio" format and sample rate settings (no more forced 16 kHz)
* Read word-level timestamps from OpenAI-compatible speech to text (e.g. Grok)
* Extend Shift+selection to Page Up/Down and Home/End in subtitle grid - thx mjuhasz
* Float undocked video/waveform windows while SE main window is active
* Show undocked video/waveform as independent top-level windows (own Alt+Tab entry)
* Split-line: use full MinGap, proportional duration, and auto-break halves over max line length
* Merge two subtitles: keep ASSA styles and split tracks by layer
* Remove merge-continuation-lines prompt after speech to text
* Route Compare time display through the full time-code converter - thx mjuhasz
* Change a few default settings (video player on Windows + write tools log)
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Update Polish translation
* Fix Compare dialog previous/next difference buttons and selection sync - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Compare dialog showing 0 and 00:00:00.000 for placeholder rows - thx mjuhasz
* Fix selected DataGridRow hover darkening / hover highlight issues - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Shift+arrow selection in subtitle grid - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Shift+PageDown skipping the last partially visible row - thx mjuhasz
* Fix subtitle grid page size returning fewer rows than visible - thx mjuhasz
* Make Find/Replace topmost only while the main window has focus
* Fix Cmd+A selecting all rows instead of text when the edit box is focused (macOS) - thx mjuhasz
* Fix "Merge continuation lines" finding nothing on mixed-language (CJK + Latin) files

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v5.0.0-beta33 (28th May 2026)

* Add IndexTTS TTS engine (Bilibili / IndexTeam, voice cloning ~870 MB) via CrispASR
* Add CEA-708 (DTVCC) caption decoding from H.264 SEI cc_data in MP4
* Add Beautify time codes profile editor + integrated beautify tool
* Add Merge continuation lines tool + Speech-to-text prompt
* Add Snap-all-times-to-frames tool
* Add Toggle dialog dashes / Merge as dialog / Frame-move commands
* Add ShotChanges set-cue-to-shot-change green-zone commands (SE 4 parity) - thx JDTR75
* Add ShotChanges extend/snap shortcuts (SE 4 parity) - thx JDTR75
* Add "Set duration to max CPS" shortcut for selected lines
* Add waveform of original video audio in TTS review window
* Add burn-in / RemoveTextForHi / VisualSync / BeautifyTimeCodes toolbar icons
* Expand SE 4 shortcut importer (15 more legacy mappings) + Sort by number / Video toggle brightness (mpv) commands
* TTS: unbreak lines centrally before handing text to engines
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.11
* Frame-align waveform gridlines and timeline labels in frame mode
* Keep AdjustAllTimes window open across New/Open
* Show "Allow overlap" checkbox on Waveform settings page
* Show min/max warning background in SecondsUpDown duration field
* Strip dialog dashes when splitting at text-box position
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Update Finnish translation - thx Encrust8368
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Fix Find Previous shortcut not working after first use - thx mjuhasz
* Fix CJK IME input issue on Find/Replace auto-focus - thx pdjdev
* Fix bookmark persistence after line mutations and undo/redo - thx mjuhasz
* Detect bookmark changes in undo/redo change detection - thx mjuhasz
* Restore subtitle grid focus after toolbar/panel layout change - thx mjuhasz
* Fix dialogs reopening due to stale shortcut key state after close - thx mjuhasz
* Restore focus to subtitle grid / text box when Find/Replace closes; focus edit text box after Find Next/Previous - thx mjuhasz
* Focus subtitle grid on startup so keyboard shortcuts work immediately - thx mjuhasz
* Fix FindNext crash from null ScrollIntoView and stale find state - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Replace dialog crashes (shorter/empty replacement, empty text editor) and stale Count after Replace All - thx mjuhasz
* Fix Alt+Tab not returning to main window when video/waveform are undocked
* Beautify window: move profile button to bottom + per-side fallback in change notes
* Fix #11181: Whisper parameters textbox scrollbar overlapping text - thx yawoo
* Fix #11176: BurnIn dialog unable to close after adding a logo - thx bichitoxxx

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v5.0.0-beta32 (25th May 2026)

* Add TTS Cast: per-actor voice / model / instruction mapping in Text-to-speech (for ASSA)
* Add "Import from SE 4..." to the Shortcuts editor (Settings.xml / SE_Shortcuts.xml) 
* Add slot-based "Set actor 1..10" + "Set new actor..." commands for ASS/SSA workflows
* Add "Go to previous bookmark", "Selection to lowercase/uppercase", and "Google it" (selected text) commands
* Add CrispASR Granite "plus" model (granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus, 4 quants)
* Chunk OpenAI-compatible STT uploads > 25 MB with silence-aware splits
* Add audio upload format choice (MP3/M4A/WebM/WAV) for OpenAI-compatible STT - thx harjoc
* Update Czech translation - thx Matěj
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Fix CrispASR Mega advanced-settings crash on Speech-to-text - thx rikimtasu
* Fix CEA-608 ordering when reading H.264 captions from MP4 with B-frames
* Fix STT response_format mismatch when sending timestamp_granularities - thx harjoc
* Fix Mac → Windows shortcut import mapping Cmd to WIN instead of Ctrl - thx Larxen
* Fix DeepSeek auto-translate prompt JSON-escaping - thx halaxy
* Fix h264_qsv / hevc_qsv preset list (drop unsupported ultrafast / superfast) - thx bichitoxxx

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v5.0.0-beta31 (24th May 2026)

* Add scrub video position by mouse wheel over the video surface
* Add OCR fallback database picker to the OCR window
* Add waveform Seek Silence back/forward shortcuts
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.10 - required for the new Mega backend
* Manage Qwen3 TTS (CrispASR) model downloads in SE
* Reload settings-page action labels and shortcut display names after a UI language change
* Make OpenAI-compatible STT 'stream' opt-in (default off)
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Race-proof the auto-translate cancel guard and suppress the cancel-error dialog
* Tighten Re-encode video window progress layout
* Fix freeze on Settings OK after toggling "Show stop/fullscreen button" - thx bichitoxxx
* Fix invisible status dots in Qwen3 TTS (CrispASR) settings
* Fix Save-As dropping extension after a language suffix
* Add Crisp ASR "Mega" backend (Qwen3-ASR-1.7B + robustness LoRA) for noisy / degraded speech
* Add WhisperX-style wav2vec2 forced-aligner zoo to the Speech-to-text dialog
* Update llama.cpp
* Work on plugins

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v5.0.0-beta30 (22th May 2026)

* Add Qwen3 TTS 1.7B VoiceDesign model with natural-language voice instructions - thx subof
* Add voice-design keyword picker to Text-to-speech for OmniVoice TTS - thx subof
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.9 - restores Windows CPU and CPU-Legacy builds
* Update OmniVoice TTS to OmniVoice-2026-05-22 - fixes the macOS/Linux dyld "Library not loaded" error
* Add "green/orange/gray" dot for engines/models for STT/TTS/Auto-translate
* Add snap-to-frames option for waveform drag
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Add frame-based min-gap setting - thx p33t3r
* Fix MP4 tx3g import returning only one subtitle when samples share a chunk
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus

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v5.0.0-beta29 (20th May 2026)

* Add Engine settings dialog for Qwen3 TTS, Kokoro TTS, and Chatterbox TTS
* Bundle macOS DMG with mpv and ffmpeg
* Add "Fill selected lines with clipboard text" to the main and OCR grid (Ctrl+Shift+V)
* Add "Three letter (ISO 639-2/B)" language code option to save-as - thx LurkingNinja
* Add "Try to use source encoding" option to Batch Convert - thx Hlsgs
* Add Windows CUDA variant for Qwen3 TTS
* Add Macedonian translation - thx kirepp-cmd
* Find and offer a matching subtitle when a video file is dropped - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Redesign llama.cpp OCR settings dialog and localize engine status labels
* Get spell check dictionaries from the maintained LibreOffice repository and redesign the dialog
* Select first row after OCR completes - thx LurkingNinja
* Trim long paths in the Reopen menu and tighten menu spacing
* Use a consistent, thicker progress bar across download and progress windows
* seconv: reject unknown --encoding values and add --encoding:source
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.8 - adds funasr, fun-asr-mlt-nano, and sensevoice (FunAudioLLM) backends; voxcpm2 TTS ~5-10x speedup
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Fix Text-to-speech async and Piper engine bugs
* Fix Edge TTS crash on bad rate format and retry transient failures - thx KevinHa59
* Fix shortcut window not receiving focus
* Fix Cancel button being clipped in the llama.cpp and speech-to-text engine download windows
* Fix Alt-key access shortcuts not firing on buttons - underscore in label now drives the access key - thx LurkingNinja

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v5.0.0-beta28 (17th May 2026)

* Add drag-and-drop area to TTS voice settings for importing a voice
* Add DeepSeek auto-translate engine
* Add llama.cpp model picker, download, and Start/Stop server to OCR window
* Add Ollama model picker for OCR window
* Add nOCR database picker for OCR window
* Add Ollama OCR model picker for Batch Convert
* Add opt-in last-ditch nOCR pass for Batch Convert
* Add nOCR fallback for BinaryOCR in Batch Convert
* Add BinaryOCR fallback for nOCR in Batch Convert
* Add copy-to-clipboard icon button for the speech-to-text console log
* Add Linux ARM64 (aarch64) support to release builds and downloads
* Add Linux x86_64 CUDA option to CrispASR
* Redesign auto-translate window for better usability
* Show llama.cpp model size for not-yet-installed entries
* Localize llama.cpp OCR settings dialog and validation strings
* Improve OCR cancellation handling and add llama.cpp request timeout
* Register Alt+Space Windows system menu via Window class handler
* Keep speech-to-text window open after Cancel
* Clean up Import Plain Text and harden script alignment for long videos
* Guard Ollama OCR against wrong (non-vision) model choices
* Flash a check icon after copying ASSA draw code to the clipboard
* Update llama.cpp to b9174
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.7
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Fix Chatterbox TTS Turbo crash and silent default-voice fallback
* Fix MP3 playback stopping before the end of the file
* Fix batch Split/Break long lines adding stray line breaks
* Fix auto-translate OK button and prompt before re-downloading llama.cpp model
* Fix auto-translate prompt persistence and translated filename
* Fix Netflix Quality Check ignoring per-check Apply checkboxes
* Fix subtitle format changing to source format on save after auto-translate
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Fix "Import plain text" align-button label to "Speech to text" - thx David

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v5.0.0-beta27 (15th May 2026)

* Save Settings.json in human-readable indented format - thx schabau
* Auto-scroll speech-to-text console log to bottom - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Fix speech-to-text engine combo not reflecting selection - thx humble-b
* Fix numeric keypad keys recorded as wrong shortcut - thx GrampaWildWilly

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v5.0.0-beta26 (15th May 2026)

* Add server-managed llama.cpp auto-translate engine
* Add CrispASR MADLAD auto-translate engine - also available in Batch Convert
* Add support for OpenAI-compatible speech-to-text servers
* Add update detection for the llama.cpp engine
* Add saving/restoring of Fix common errors window size - thx ironhussar
* Add Russian translation - thx jekovcar
* Move CrispASR to a shared data folder
* Show install status and size in speech-to-text engine picker - thx David
* Show media info window faster + make shortcut work in fullscreen - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.6 - Granite engine now uses granite-4.1
* Update Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Fix main window freeze after closing Settings with OK - thx David/bereld
* Fix llama.cpp engine download on macOS/Linux - missing symlinked libraries
* Fix llama-server startup with TranslateGemma models
* Fix "Clear original" and original-changed flag after translation - thx wjcarpenter
* Fix Mistral prompt text box missing in translate settings
* Fix mp3 position jumping back to last seek at end of file
* Fix removing color from non-WebVTT formats leaving <c.color> tags
* Hide extend-to-line items in subtitle grid header context menu

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v5.0.0-beta25 (13th May 2026)

* Add Finnish translation - thx userx77
* Add Mistral AI to AutoTranslate engine list
* Add option for "Center-in-subtitle-grid" - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Add green to WebVTT default color classes - thx wjcarpenter
* Consolidate Whisper/speech-to-text logs into tools-log (incl. active-setting)
* Allow editing subtitle text in Fix common errors step 2
* Honor selected audio track for waveform "Extract audio" and "Speech-to-text"
* Improve "Speech to text for new selection" language selection - thx routineCode
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.2
* Update Bulgarian translations - thx jekovcar
* Update Czech translation - thx Matěj
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Simplified Chinese translation - thx wuwufei
* Fix duplicate waveform generation when opening a recent video
* Fix minor issue with the right-click menu on mac - thx surfincanoy
* Fix mp3 playback position jumping back at EOF
* Fix PaddleOCR CUDA extraction on Linux - thx po5
* Fix Toggle Full Screen shortcut - thx TospeedArts
* Fix UI freeze on Settings Apply/OK from file-type association save - thx David/bereld

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v5.0.0-beta24 (10th May 2026)

* Fix log text box height in speech-to-text - thx rikimtasu
* Add "Merge two subtitles" tool
* Add "Import CSV/XLSX with custom columns" window - thx Dubbing-Nerd
* Add multi-mode to "Add to names list" window + report imported count - thx kt
* Add OmniVoice TTS CUDA support
* Add "Extract audio..." to waveform context menu
* Improve video position sliders and waveform
* Improvements for seconv (command line conversion tool)
* Allow importing styles from Aegisub .sty files - thx maxz1717
* Add a few names to English name list
* Update Bulgarian translations - thx jekovcar
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Improve CSV import for unknown format detection - thx Dubbing-Nerd
* Fix waveform issue - thx benshgit
* Fix for additional video file extensions - thx nms42
* Fix OmniVoice for mac

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v5.0.0-beta23 (9th May 2026)

* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Add Czech translation - thx Matěj
* Add forced aligner picker for CrispASR
* Show install status and size in forced aligner pickers
* Prompt for variant when re-downloading CrispASR
* Update CrispASR to v0.6.0
* Add change-style action to Batch-convert
* Remember active functions in Batch-convert
* Remember selected rules in Fix Netflix errors
* Add tooltips for video player - thx Monstercate
* Show friendly voice names in Kokoro TTS - thx David
* Set max waveform zoom to 500
* Update libmpv to 2026-04-21
* Reset fullscreen auto-hide timer on each user activity
* Drop right padding on undocked video player
* Preserve PAC justification on italic lines
* Fix merge-lines in export-plain-text to merge all text
* Fix mp3 file not stopping at end (regression)
* Fix crash when loading idx file - thx Codling
* Fix saving interjections for non-English languages - thx Pemicope
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack 
* Don't invert waveform zoom direction with "Invert mouse wheel" - thx bereld
* Add OmniVoice TTS
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Add Swedish translation
* Improve csv/xlsx/ods import - thx Dubbing-Nerd
* Improve save-as-file-name after translate - thx wjcarpenter

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v5.0.0-beta22 (5th May 2026)

* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update CrispASR to v0.5.7
* Add "Close translantion" file menu item - thx emwgee
* Add NVIDIA API for autotranslate - thx subof 
* Fix for Piper Linux espeak symlink - thx Ironship
* Handle original subtitle save failures better - thx Ironship
* Fix crash when using "Generate video with subtitles" - thx AndroidTS007
* Fix remove color from WebVTT - thx wjcarpenter 
* Add more functions to batch-convert
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Fix crash for binary ocr in batch-convert 
* Fix download/unpack title - thx sam12345 
* Fix change-speed - thx JelmdtcSings

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v5.0.0-beta21 (3rd May 2026)

* Update Simplified Chinese localization - thx Monstercate
* Try to improve vulkan loading for Qwen3TTS/Vulkan
* Try to fix full screen video controls at startup - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix for video full screen player right margin - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix grid-auto-fix-columns for large font sizes - thx JDJD777
* Remove blur when zooming nocr images
* Allow 0 lines for nOCR auto-draw - thx Zoltán
* Testing different nOCR drawing algorithms
* Minor improvements to speech-to-text with 1 file + improve video file check when opening subtitles
* Minor UI fixes/improvements for OCR in batch convert
* Fix for click on video player (regression) - thx JDJD777
* Fix ASSA toolbar not visible when default format is ASSA - thx farisruhi 
* Add Bulgarian translation - thx jekovcar
* Improve alignment detection for OCR
* Binary edit - allow import of image subs from mkv
* Seveal fixes for nOCR + subtitle text import/export
* Add "/batchconvertui" / "--batchconvertui" command line options to open batch convert UI only
* Update CrispASR to v0.5.5 + add Granite 4.1 models (base/plus/nar) + add Kyutai STT backend (en/fr)
* Minor fixes for undo/redo - thx rRobis
* Fix for speech-to-text encoding UI log
* Fix remove color from WebVTT - thx wjcarpenter

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v5.0.0-beta20 (29th April 2026)

* Add menu toggle for waveform toolbar - thx Ironship
* Add auto-language for CrispASR glm/parakeet/Qwen3
* Append missing extension on save as - thx Ironship
* Allow speech-to-text ETA to increase - thx Ironship
* Preserve line breaks in compare HTML export - thx Ironship
* Update Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Korean translation - thx Hackjjang
* Update CrispASR download links
* Update Kokoro TTS engine to v0.1.1
* Try to make toolbar more accessible - thx kylesskim-sys
* Fix Flatpak release bundle publishing
* Fix repeated video surface click toggles - thx Ironship
* Fix regex multiline anchors with CRLF text - thx Ironship
* Fix adjust duration percent calculation - thx Ironship
* Fix TT family properties export - thx Ironship
* Feature complete "seconv" (command line conversion tool) 
* Atomic save and shared lock for NOcrDb - thx Zoltán
* Add "Merge selected lines bilingual" shortcut - thx jackqk
* Stamp executable with version from Se.cs in publish steps - thx Zoltán

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v5.0.0-beta19 (26th April 2026)

* Rename "Whisper" folder to "SpeechToText"
* Rename "TTS" folder to "TextToSpeech"
* Improve nOcr quality in Batch Convert
* Auto-detect pixels-is-space and language for BinaryOcr/nOcr in Batch Convert
* Add BinaryOcr engine in Batch Convert
* Delete temp files between batch speech-to-text items - thx xjlin0/cookesan
* Add speech-to-text for new waveform selection - thx Ivo
* Remember size/pos for translate window - thx Milo
* More user friendly single-file-batch-speech-to-text - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Check for large file in open to avoid crash - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Update CrispASR urls
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Improve "Center text in subtitle text box" - thx enji1000
* Improve position detect for OCR
* Improve Qwen3 TTS (Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B model + Windows-CPU-only-build) 
* Update Jananese translation - thx hisui3393
* Add Kokoro TTS

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v5.0.0-beta18 (24th April 2026)

* Improve auto-translate error messages - thx hisui3393
* Add a few ignore words for spell check
* Fix renumber after splitting subtitle - thx rRobis
* Improve Qwen3 TTS
* Add Polish translation - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Update Korean translation
* Download silero vad for most speech-to-text engines
* Check libmpv/libvlc at load - thx Aesthermortis
* Fix spectrogram remains visible after disabling "Generate spectrogram" - thx Aesthermortis
* Fix Crisp ASR Qwen3 + Granite
* Add Crisp ASR Omni
* More work on Crisp ASR
* Pick Crisp ASR cpu/vulkan/cuda engine for Windows
* Fix WebVTT STYLE italic/bold/color loss on conversion (Apple TV) - thx OtaStrom
* Fix for context menu on mac in several windows 

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v5.0.0-beta17 (21st April 2026)

* Add Korean translation - thx  Hackjjang
* Add Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Add new language tags - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Add setting for single-letter shortcuts in text box - thx rRobis/darnn
* Fix subtitle file delimiter problem for seconv - thx rRobis
* Update Chrome-lens-standalone to v3.4.0 - thx timminator
* Add "alignment" as preview video sub setting - thx Mimikaki
* Dialog fix for GoogleLensSharp - thx ArturAlekseev
* Improve one-line detection for GoogleLens OCR - thx darnn
* Fix possibly wrong data in time code control - thx JDJD777 
* Add TT family properties menu - thx ryzen88
* Fix split line issue - thx benji1000
* Add waveform import/export/theme - thx benji1000
* Add customizable waveform shot change color - thx benji1000
* Black background for libmpv id (regression from earlier beta) - thx rRobis
* Fix ASSA Style not changing in preview after switch style - thx rRobis
* Fix text box info value reset after making new file - thx rRobis
* Add some support for reading embedded lyrics from audio files - thx MG240
* Allow video - Cut, from/to mp3/wav
* Fix video not playing when Loaded from URL (Mac) - thx Keysz
* Update Crisp ASR to the latest version + add more models - thx Oplay66
* Improve live spell check - thx benji1000
* Try to Add custom model loading for Whisper - thx Adelio860
* Add separate parameter settings foreach speech-to-text engine

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v5.0.0-beta16 (15th April 2026)

* Update to Avalonia UI V12
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Add "edit/export" from ocr window - thx donjondejota-art
* Add new language tags - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Minor improvements for main layout
* Fix IsSpelledCorrect splitting hyphenated words by space instead of dash - thx ivandrofly
* Fix Word spell check - thx moob158
* Fix grid sync when playing without waveform - thx vsemozhetbyt 
* Fix display preview on video panel for audio files - thx benshgit 
* Add Crisp ASR: Parakeet, Canary, Cohere
* Fix bugs in NextWordInDoNotBreakList - thx ivandrofly 
* Add check box for custom start/end in remove text for HI - thx aaroncledge
* Fix crash in OCR change allways - thx Ronaldvr
* Some dictionary improvements for OCR
* Add new setting for open-file-on-start - thx shotfirer
* Allow more single-click-keys in text box - thx darnn
* Fix Adjust-all-times in edit-image-based subs - thx AlexPaynes
* Fix for EdgeTTS on mac

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v5.0.0-beta15 (12th April 2026)

* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Fix for import source-view text with BOM - thx MG240
* Fix OCR user dictionary add-actions - thx Hellbringer
* Fix prompting for unknown words in Tesseract OCR - thx Ryu481
* Fix ASSA style issue - thx esprit-mi
* Fix language tags + update Polish spell check directory - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Add more Qwen3 ASR model options - thx Ironship
* Fix issue with undo - thx Dravic
* Add empty waveform when video has no audio
* Add Windows-system-menu to many windows (alt+space)
* Add total adjustment text in Sync - Adjust all times - thx kvalle22
* Try to add Word spell check - thx moob158

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v5.0.0-beta14 (8th April 2026)

* Add Romanian translation - thx zildan
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Fix click on libmpv-wid to toggle play/pause - thx vsemozhetbyt
* VLC now shows subtitle
* Fix italic in text box for edit image ocr db
* Fix for mpv refresh for full screen player
* Fix: Allow large text files in batch-convert - thx phannhanhn201
* Add toggle select sub while playing to video menu (+shortcut) - thx vsemozhetbyt
* Add "Extend only" to adjust durations - thx Dravic
* Fix for nOCR load - thx HellbringerOnline
* Fix for nOCR expanded view - thx HellbringerOnline
* Fix toolbar separator visibility not updating when setting changes - thx ivandrofly

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v5.0.0-beta13 (2nd April 2026)

* Add Turkish translation - thx Hayri
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Add Inno Setup Portuguese.isl - thx Blackspirits
* Update pt_PT_se.xml with new words - thx Blackspirits
* Fix for binedit not setting correct position - thx KingGainer999 
* Fix a few binedit issues
* Fix extend to line after - thx laccka
* Go to line: clamp out-of-range value to max subtitle count - thx ivandrofly
* Fix a few batch convert issues
* Improve multiple-replace context menu - thx ivandrofly
* Add check-for-updates menu item - thx ivandrofly
* Fix re-calc duration issue
* Fix split issue
* Fix issue with toggle tags in text box for ASSA
* Add parameters for ASSA advanced karaoke effect - thx peruchali
* Fix mpv not updating after change (regression from beta12)
* Fix some missing entries in the language file - thx potplayer-fanpack
* Add experimental Qwen3 TTS

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v5.0.0-beta12 (30th March 2026)

* Add Ukrainian translation - thx iohomenetyou
* Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Add Mistral TTS engine
* Add Qwen3 ASR engine
* Nice performance fixes - thx Ironship
* Fix ASSA save storage style (in some cases) - thx writetome1/Ironship
* Add setting for waveform-auto-focus - thx abc16361 
* WebVTT now auto-merges lines with same time codes - thx xiaomotalktech/Ironship
* Fixes for fix-names - thx ivandrofly
* Fix duration cell not turning red on subtitle overlap - thx papioski1111/ivandrofly
* Fix for "Convert frame" reverse conversion (and other improvements) - thx larsk2 
* Disable space key for waveform buttons (use "Enter" if you want to use keyboard) - thx darnn
* Check for subtitles in ".m4a + .m4b" files - thx Battletoadz
* Fix for ErrorColor update after Options - Setting
* Fix mpv native resize flicker on Windows - thx Ironship
* Prompt for delete rules/groups in Multiple Replace - thx ivandrofly

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v5.0.0-beta11 (26th March 2026)

* Fix pixel-width error column background color - thx rRobis 
* Fix Remove Text for Hearing Impaired not working in batch convert - thx MKBB-85/ivandrofly
* Mac: Option+Backspace deletes the previous word - thx derzz
* Add Edge-TTS engine + TTS audio improvements - thx Ironship
* Fix burn-in logo preview hidden under video on Windows with libmpv wid - thx Ironship
* Improve mpv rendering on Linux - thx Ironship
* Add Linux flatpak installer - thx Ironship
* Add more ASSA advanced effect
* Allow "manual sync" in visual sync - thx Bas
* Fix for "count" in find-window - thx ivandrofly
* Fix for missing space in italic text in IMSC 1.1 - thx Ironship
* Update whisper.cpp to 1.8.4
* Add ASSA override tag history
* Fix for Baidu Translate - thx Ironship
* Fix: prevent portable from creating AppData\Subtitle Edit\Dictionaries - thx Ironship
* Improve Find-window - thx ivandrofly
* Update yt-dlp
* Add more ASSA background boxes
* Add keypad horizontal scrolling to the audio visualizer - thx derzz
* Fix for merge lines selected item/original - thx derzz
* Fix gap is shown in ms, not in frames - thx accessallareas 
* Fix build for mac with SIP disabled - thx Ironship/ilikepeaches

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v5.0.0-beta10 (22th March 2026)

* Multiple replace: Add find rule window (Ctrl+F)
* Multiple replace: Add rule context menu + make "..." buttons optional
* Multiple replace: Click on applied rules, now selects the rule 
* OCR window: Ctrl+/Ctrl- now zoom images in/out
* Fix PaddleOCR crash - thx max2000777 
* Add ASSA advanced effect: word spacing - thx rRobis
* Add ASSA advanced effect: TV close (transition)
* Add pixel-width column - thx rRobis
* Fix numeric up/down null safety - thx rRobis
* Fix for Grid-lines-all option
* Add export to Cheetah (.cap) 
* Add tool Renumber - thx ivandrofly
* Fix WPM info update in grid
* Fix translate-via-copy-paste - thx truubo
* Fix content alignment for image export - thx oxie93
* Allow toggle on/off "Start time" column - thx abc16361
* Add color chang coloring for Fix-common-error-fixes

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v5.0.0-beta9 (17th March 2026)

* Work on installer - thx bovirus
* More customization possible for waveform toolbar buttons
* Reload toolbar after UI language change - thx bovirus
* Fix: Burn-In dialog crash on Linux - thx Ironship
* Build macOS: Finish implementing signing/notarization - thx jdpurcell
* Build: Update to V5 github actions
* Italian language update - thx bovirus
* Implement syntax-color-if-pixels-is-too-wide - thx Louis
* Fix for WebVTT in mp4 - thx xiaomotalktech
* Expose start and end line waveform colors in options - thx rRobis
* Add margin for subtitle view preview - thx darnn
* Fixes for Speech to text selected lines incl. option for default prompt settings - thx rRobis
* Multiple-replace: Coloring, expland/collapse, remember expanded state, show rule matches for fixes - thx rRobis/TR-9970X

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v5.0.0-beta8 (14th March 2026)

* Use language from installer at first use - thx bovirus
* Option for showing change log in installer
* Translate about box - thx bovirus
* Minor spectrogram fixes (you can toggle style live via a shortcut)
* Add classic/legacy icon theme - thx Cyberyoda1411
* Add NOcr CaseFixer warmup
* Rename Purfview-Whisper-Faster to Purfview-Faster-Whisper-XXL
* Fix TTML Rosetta alignment - thx james
* Add new ASSA advanced effects
* Add Video -> More -> Open seconds subtitle - thx matmaggi
* Fixes for ASSA styles font handling
* Add "fixed duration" to import plain text
* Allow some sorting of waveform toolbar buttons
* Double click in edit-binary-sub-grid goes to video position

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v5.0.0-beta7 (13th March 2026)

* Work on installer - thx bovirus
* Fix inclusion of Italian and Portuguese translations - thx bovirus
* Fix for interjections - thx Hunique
* Fix for ASSA font names - thx Hunique
* Work on Video -> More -> Open seconds subtitle (not complete) - thx matmaggi
* Enable gen-transparent-video with no subtitles (start in batch mode)
* Work on OCR fix/replace lists