Release Notes

Version 2024.6

🆕 New Features

• Queue tab now displays recently played episodes
• Pull to refresh library on home, inbox & library tab
• Per podcast settings now highlights settings that differs from global default
• Bulk select all episodes above / below current episode

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed drag to reorder flicking issue on queue tab
• Fixed scroll state lost when switching between show notes and other tabs
• Fixed show notes tab height when switching between tabs
• Fixed auto add new episodes to queue not working
• Fixed dynamic theme not working when custom podcast cover is used
• Fixed RSS feed parsing when sharing URL to the app
• Fixed crash on browse screen
• Fixed episode row animation inconsistency issue
• Fixed app not recognized as an media player

🐱 Other Changes

• Click on empty widget now opens the app
• Library refresh timestamp now shows relative time since last refresh
• Performance improvements when loading playlist / folder screen
• Podcast categories are now translated when non-English language is used

Version 2024.5

🆕 New Features

• Widgets!
• Browse mode to catch up on your inbox or podcast backlog
• New tab dedicated to show notes links
• Option to show unplayed episode count badge on subscriptions and folder screen
• Seasons selector on podcast screen

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skip forward / backward duration format
• Clear override button not working consistently

🐱 Other Changes

• Android 15 Support
• Performance imporvement when refreshing podcasts

Version 2024.4

🆕 New Features

• Save web audio content to listen later (unlimited episodes for miaocast+ users, otherwise limited to 3 episodes)
• Add local audio files such as audiobooks into miaocast (unlimited episodes for miaocast+ users, otherwise limited to 3 episodes per sideloaded podcast)
• New sticky tab setting to reopen the last opened tab after app restart
• Customize which navigation tabs to use and reorder them
• Sort episodes by name, duration, queue order etc on podcast screen
• More options to set custom podcast cover
• Filter by categories and search your podcasts on subscription screen
• Delete podcasts manually

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash that can happen when adding new podcast

Version 2024.3 (2024.3-beta02 promoted to production)

Second beta release of 2024.3

🆕 New Features

• Initial support for searching podcasts and episodes within user's library
• Search episodes within podcast screen
• Add support to automatically add new episodes to top of queue
• Add localization for Chinese, Czech, German, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix now playing sheet not being dismissed properly when all episodes in queue finish playing
• Fix manual episode selection sheet text color
• Fix sort button settings clear podcast episodes settings

First beta release of 2024.3

🆕 New Features

• Filter episodes by published time in playlist
• Filter episodes by length in playlist
• Show notes now are displayed in inbox, podcast and playlist screen and provide quick access to episode detail page

🐱 Other Changes

• Upgrade code dependencies
• App will prompt user to review/rate the app when appropriate

Version 2024.2 (2024.2-beta01 promoted to production)

First beta of version 2024.2

🆕 New Features

• initial support for Android Auto
• ability to share a link to an episode

🐱 Other Changes

• playback will now pause/resume when notification sounds are played
• minor UI updates to bulk selection UI on podcast screen

First official release of miaocast.

2024.1 Beta 7

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fixed a RSS parsing bug where episode publish date was not correctly parsed in certain locales
• fixed some minor UI inconsistency on podcast screen
• fixed autoplay issue when audio is paused/resumed outside the app using notification controls

🐱 Other Changes

• user can now switch their miaocast+ subscription plan in the app (for example, switch from monthly plan to the annual plan)

2024.1 Beta 6

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix a crash caused by purchase SDK initialization

2024.1 Beta 5

🆕 New Features

• edit podcast cover so you can choose a custom image for a podcast, useful when the original feed contains invalid image URL
• sort playlist episodes by remaining time

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix showing delete button on create folder screen incorrectly that causes crash when clicked
• fix incorrect progress info when previewing playlist when creating or editing playlist

2024.1 Beta 4

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix download notification persisting after download has finished
• fix not being able to pick certain files when importing subscription during onboarding
• fix parsing of OPML files not picking up subscriptions from OPML files generated from some apps

2024.1 Beta 3

2024.1 Beta 2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix search result navigation

Initial Beta Release