chore(release): bump to 1.44.0-rc1 (#339)

CHANGELOG entry covers everything merged on top of v1.43.0:
LUFS loudness normalization, Orbit multi-user listen-together,
Now-Playing dashboard, Tracks library hub, Lucky Mix, sleep-timer
ring UI, Genres tag-cloud, queue undo/redo, settings refactor +
perf suite, plus the usual fixes.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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 >
 > **📦 Version jump 1.34.x → 1.40.0:** The 1.34.x patch series was bumped a lot as each small feature landed. 1.40.0 consolidates the last few weeks of work — macOS signing + auto-updater, the Device-Sync overhaul, theme work and contrast audits — into a single coherent release. The next major bump (2.0.0) is planned once Windows code-signing + Windows auto-updater are active as well.
 
+## [1.44.0-rc1] - 2026-04-27
+
+> **🧪 Release Candidate:** This is `1.44.0-rc1` — a release candidate for `1.44.0`. It is distributed as a draft release only and does not push via the auto-updater. Test feedback welcome before the final tag.
+
+### Added
+
+- **Loudness Normalization — EBU R128 / LUFS, persistent analysis cache** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh) and [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#315](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/315) / [#317](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/317) / [#326](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/326) / [#333](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/333))*: The headline feature of this release. Psysonic now performs full **EBU R128 integrated-loudness analysis** on every track and applies a per-track gain so that quiet recordings, mastered-for-streaming albums, and "loudness war" pop tracks all play back at a consistent perceived level. Default target is **`-10 LUFS`** (a touch hotter than Spotify / Apple Music) and is configurable in Settings → Audio → Normalization. Cold-cache analysis costs **~35–40% on a single CPU core for ~1 minute per track**, after which the result is persisted and replays cost **0% CPU**. Settings UI is restructured into a single Normalization section with mutually-exclusive modes (Off / ReplayGain / LUFS). Follow-up PRs stabilize the LUFS computation loop, serialize CPU-heavy seed work, fix target-slider sync with the active engine, trim a stray pre-analysis silence, and clean up queue + Settings copy. Mixed mean/peak waveform bins were introduced alongside so the new analysis pass also feeds richer waveform data without a second decode.
+
+- **Orbit — Multi-User Listen-Together** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#304](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/304))*: The other big-ticket feature. Orbit is a real **synchronized listening session for multiple Psysonic users** — host starts a session, shares a magic-string link, guests paste it and instantly mirror the host's queue, current track, and playback position. Guests can suggest tracks (single-track suggestions, not full queue replacements); the host approves them with auto-approve as an opt-in. A live participant strip in the queue shows everyone connected, host-presence badge tracks the host's network state and auto-leaves stalled sessions, per-guest mute is supported, and a 9-section in-app help modal walks new users through the flow. Every interactive song surface (Tracks Hub, Albums, Playlists, Random Mix, Favorites, Artist pages, Search, Advanced Search) routes through the Orbit hook when a session is active so a single click suggests / host-enqueues instead of broadcasting a full queue. Full i18n across all 8 locales. There is no equivalent feature in Navidrome itself — this is the killer feature that pulls a Spotify Group Session into a self-hosted setup. Documented end-to-end in `ORBIT.md`.
+
+- **Now-Playing — info dashboard with draggable widget cards** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#266](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/266) / [#267](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/267))*: The Now-Playing page is rebuilt from a flat card list into a two-column **info dashboard** centred on context and data density rather than duplicating the fullscreen / mini players. Hero cover gets a richer info block (release-age tagline, full tech-badge row, Last.fm love, lyrics toggle, star rating, per-user playcount). Left column carries a sliding-window album tracklist (tracks 21–30 of a 30-track album when track 30 is playing — no more scrolling past dozens of irrelevant rows), top-songs by the same artist, and OpenSubsonic credits. Right column carries a Subsonic-bio Artist card with Last.fm fallback, a 10×2 contact-sheet discography (with hover tooltips for title + year), and Bandsintown tour dates. Every card is now **draggable + resizable** with the layout persisted per user — users arrange the dashboard however they want and the layout sticks. All cards are `React.memo`-isolated, with module-level TTL caches for song meta, artist info, top-songs, discography, Bandsintown and Last.fm — same-artist track switches don't refetch.
+
+- **Tracks — full library hub page** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#300](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/300), closes [#299](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/299))*: A new sidebar entry between *All Albums* and *Build a Mix* that surfaces the full library at the **track level** rather than as albums. Three sections: a "Track of the moment" hero (rerollable random pick with play / enqueue), a "Random Pick" rail of 18 song cards (also rerollable, deduped against the hero), and a virtualised, paginated browse list with a search input on top. Browse uses Navidrome's native `/api/song?_sort=title&_order=ASC` for proper A–Z order (Subsonic `search3` has no sort param) with a graceful fallback to `search3` on non-Navidrome servers. New `enqueueAndPlay()` helper appends to the queue and jumps to the track instead of replacing the queue. Full 8-locale coverage including Russian Slavic plurals.
+
+- **Lucky Mix — instant mix from listening history and ratings** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PRs [#278](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/278) / [#332](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/332))*: A one-shot "feeling lucky" action that builds a **~50-track queue** seeded from your most-frequently-played albums + 4★+ rated songs, expanded with AudioMuse `getSimilarSongs` batches, then topped up with random fill — all while skipping 1★–2★ tracks and honouring the active library scope. Surfaces only when AudioMuse is enabled on the active Navidrome server (plain Subsonic similar-track results are too weak for this UX). Cancellable mid-build via a clickable dice control in the queue, restores the pre-build queue snapshot if assembly fails before the first track plays, and emits structured debug logs when logging mode is `debug`. Available in the sidebar (configurable visibility), mobile overlay, and the Mix landing page. The follow-up PR fixes the mix-rating filter against Navidrome's OpenSubsonic rating fields.
+
+- **Library deep links — `psysonic2-` share scheme** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#261](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/261))*: Building on the `psysonic1-` server-invite scheme from #258, you can now share **tracks, albums, artists and entire queues** as base64url-encoded magic strings. Pasting one anywhere in the app (Login screen, Settings, the main window — anywhere) auto-switches to the matching server and plays / navigates to the target. Queue links resolve track IDs in chunks of 12 and report a `played / total, skipped N` toast when the receiving server is missing some tracks. Toolbar actions in `AlbumHeader`, `ArtistDetail`, `QueuePanel`, plus context-menu entries for tracks, albums and artists. Unit-tested for encode/decode roundtrips, URL normalisation, malformed tokens and version gating.
+
+- **Sleep Timer — circular ring UI + in-button countdown** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#272](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/272))*: The sleep-timer / delayed-start UI is rebuilt around a **circular SVG progress ring** drawn around the play/pause button with a gradient stroke (Accent → Lavender), counter-clockwise depletion synced to the armed deadline, and a soft accent glow. The Play/Pause icon inside the button is swapped for a two-line stack while a timer is armed: a small Moon (sleep) or Sunrise (delayed start) glyph on top, the live `m:ss` / `h:mm:ss` countdown below — no more floating pill that gets clipped by the viewport edge. The modal that arms the timer is also redesigned: mood-tinted header with accent-circle icon, soft radial accent glow, slide-up open animation, and a live "Pauses at HH:MM" / "Starts at HH:MM" preview that updates as the user hovers presets or types into the custom field. Works in PlayerBar, FullscreenPlayer and MobilePlayerView.
+
+- **Genres — tag-cloud refactor** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#311](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/311))*: The Genres page used to mount ~60 large Lucide-SVG cards per infinite-scroll batch, freezing the WebKitGTK renderer for several seconds on large libraries. Replaced with a **flowing tag cloud** of compact pills — one per genre, font size log-scaled by `albumCount`, deterministic colour from the existing CTP palette hash. No SVGs, no pagination needed, instant open even on libraries with hundreds of genres. Pills sit calm at rest (text in `--text-primary`, only the border / background carry a faint genre tint) and reveal full genre colour on hover.
+
+- **Queue — undo/redo with hotkeys + scroll restoration** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#331](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/331))*: **Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z** undoes the last queue edit, **Ctrl+Shift+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z** redoes it. Snapshots capture queue order, current track, playback position, play/pause state and the queue-list scroll offset; bounded at 32 entries. When the restored snapshot still refers to the same playing track (typical reorder / remove-other-row / enqueue flows) playback is left alone — only queue UI state updates. When the snapshot points at a different track, the Rust audio engine is resynced to the snapshot's track + seek position + desired play/pause. Clearing the queue and automatic next/gapless advances are intentionally not recorded. The queue-list scroll position is also restored, with a one-shot suppression of the existing "scroll next track into view" effect so the list does not jump away from the restored offset. Editable fields (inputs / `contenteditable`) are correctly skipped so native undo keeps working there. The mini player forwards Ctrl+Z / Shift+Ctrl+Z to the main window via Tauri events.
+
+- **Now-Playing Info tab in queue panel** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#244](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/244))*: A third tab next to Queue + Lyrics in the right-side panel, surfacing context for the currently playing track. Three sections: an **Artist card** with bio + image from Subsonic `getArtistInfo` (clamped to 4 lines with a "Read more" toggle that only appears when the bio actually overflows); **Song info** with OpenSubsonic `contributors[]` rendered stacked (name prominent, role muted, redundant "artist" rows filtered out); **On Tour** with opt-in Bandsintown integration (off by default, in-place opt-in card with privacy info-tooltip when disabled). Bandsintown is fetched Rust-side via a `fetch_bandsintown_events` Tauri command using the whitelisted `js_app_id` (arbitrary `app_id` strings now return 403). RAM-cached per artist with inflight-promise dedup.
+
+- **Discover Songs rail on Mainstage (Home)** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#301](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/301))*: A new song-discovery rail on the Home page surfacing fresh tracks alongside the existing album rails.
+
+- **ReplayGain — Auto mode** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#242](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/242))*: The ReplayGain mode picker gains an **Auto** option that picks track gain or album gain based on queue context — album-gain when the queue is currently a contiguous album, track-gain otherwise — so the user no longer has to switch modes manually when jumping between full-album listening and shuffled mixes.
+
+- **Magic-string server invites + Navidrome admin share + add-user validation** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#258](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/258))*: The original `psysonic1-` magic-string scheme that #261 builds on top of. Server admins on Navidrome can generate a single-paste invite that prefills the add-server form on the recipient's side, plus inline validation on the add-user dialog so non-admins can't be saved with zero libraries.
+
+- **Settings — refactor: thematic tab regroup, accordion, in-page search** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#259](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/259) / [#263](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/263) / [#264](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/264), closes [#257](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/257))*: Settings tabs are reorganised thematically into **Servers · Library · Audio · Lyrics · Appearance · Personalisation · Integrations · Input · Storage · System · Users (admin)**. Every tab is broken into accordion sub-sections via native `<details>` for a calmer landing view. A magnifier icon next to the Settings header opens an **in-page search** that auto-expands accordions to reveal matches, with cross-tab fuzzy-search support, keyboard navigation, Ctrl+F binding and a results-flash animation. Last.fm / Discord / Bandsintown / Now-Playing-Share live in the new Integrations tab with a privacy banner at the top. Sidebar / Artist / Home customizers live in the new Personalisation tab. Contributors get their own card grid in System (sorted by contribution count, maintainers separated).
+
+- **Artist page — user-configurable visibility and section order** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#254](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/254), closes [#252](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/252) from [@bcorporaal](https://github.com/bcorporaal))*: The Artist Detail page lets the user reorder and toggle visibility of every section (Top Songs, Albums, Similar Artists, Bio, etc.). Persisted per user. Customizer lives in Settings → Personalisation.
+
+- **Album cover + context menu + multi-select toolbar — "Enqueue"** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#256](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/256), closes [#253](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/253) from [@bcorporaal](https://github.com/bcorporaal))*: Album covers grow an "Enqueue" hover button alongside Play, the right-click context menu gains an Enqueue entry, and the multi-select toolbar gets an Enqueue action. All three append to the existing queue instead of replacing it.
+
+- **Sidebar — long-press drag to reorder + drop-outside to hide** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#269](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/269))*: Hold for 1s on a sidebar nav item, then drag to reorder; drop outside the sidebar to hide the item entirely (same hide-state as the Settings sidebar customizer). A trash-hint shows near the cursor when the drop would remove. Shared reorder helpers extracted into `src/utils/sidebarNavReorder.ts` and reused from the Settings customizer.
+
+- **Playlists — Navidrome smart playlists workflow** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#289](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/289), proposed by **bequbed** on Discord)*: Real server-side smart playlists (rule-based, auto-updated by Navidrome) are now first-class citizens in the Playlists page — no separate menu or page. Create / edit / delete with the same UI as regular playlists; smart playlists get a distinct icon in the list, sidebar and detail header. Edit on a smart playlist opens the rule-parameter editor (not the generic metadata modal), loads existing rules into form fields, and gracefully falls back when rules are temporarily unavailable. Rich filters: multi-genre include/exclude, year ranges, rating filters, plus arbitrary metadata. Polling + clock indicator while Navidrome materializes the playlist content. 8-locale coverage.
+
+- **Playlists — bulk-delete button + duplicate-add confirmation** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#290](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/290) / [#329](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/329))*: The Playlists page header gets a bulk-delete action while in selection mode. Adding a song that already exists in the target playlist now prompts for confirmation instead of silently adding a duplicate.
+
+- **Search — unified SongRow + paginated song results** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#303](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/303))*: Search results, Advanced Search and the Tracks Hub all share a single `SongRow` component. Song-result lists in search pages are now paginated with infinite scroll, replacing a single capped batch.
+
+- **Login — language picker** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#328](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/328))*: A language picker on the login page so first-run users in non-English locales aren't stuck with English UI before they have a server profile to persist their choice into.
+
+- **Song Info — copy fields via double-click** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#323](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/323))*: Double-clicking any field in the Song Info modal copies its value to the clipboard. Useful for grabbing track IDs, MusicBrainz tags, exact bitrates, etc.
+
+- **Mobile UI overhaul** *(by [@kilyabin](https://github.com/kilyabin), PR [#238](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/238))*: Comprehensive pass over the mobile / narrow-viewport layouts across the app — sidebar drawer, player view, queue, search, album / artist / playlist details. Many small layout fixes consolidated into a single coordinated PR.
+
+- **Logging — runtime log levels + debug log export** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#241](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/241))*: A new Settings control toggles between `info` and `debug` log levels at runtime (no app restart), plus a one-click export of the current debug log for bug reports. Used by Lucky Mix's structured debug pipeline (#278) and the LUFS analysis pipeline (#315).
+
+- **CLI — logs subcommand with tail / follow** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#337](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/337))*: The `psysonic` CLI gains a `logs` subcommand with `tail` and `--follow` flags for streaming the running app's log output, plus shell-completion entries for the new mode.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Performance suite — 7 PRs** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#245](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/245) / [#246](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/246) / [#247](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/247) / [#248](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/248) / [#249](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/249) / [#250](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/250) / [#251](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/251))*: A coordinated audit landed seven targeted optimisations. (1) Search results use `CachedImage` for thumbs to stop re-render download storms. (2) Device Sync parallelises `getAlbum` calls when syncing an artist source (eliminates N+1 on Navidrome). (3) Albums infinite-scroll prefetch margin bumped from 200px to 1500px so scrolling never visibly stalls on tile decode. (4) Resolved lyrics are now persisted to IndexedDB so they survive app restarts (no more re-fetching the same LRCLIB / NetEase / YouLyPlus result every launch). (5) Bundle splitting: rarely-visited pages are lazy-loaded and vendor chunks are split, shrinking the initial bundle. (6) Artists list-view filter pipeline + grouping are now memoised. (7) Genres grid is paginated with sort memoisation, fixing a 30-second cold-start freeze on libraries with many genres.
+
+- **Navidrome admin API — resilient calls + UI polish** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#260](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/260))*: The Navidrome admin REST client (`/api/user`, smart-playlist endpoints, etc.) is hardened against flaky upstreams. HTTP/1.1 forced (HTTP/2 sometimes deadlocks against Navidrome's own reverse proxy), TLS 1.2 minimum, automatic retry on transient errors, and a graceful UI retry surface in the admin tabs instead of bare error toasts.
+
+- **Subsonic — align Rust HTTP UA with main WebView UA** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#235](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/235))*: Rust-side HTTP requests (admin client, range-source, audio chain) now send the same `User-Agent` header as the main WebView's `fetch` calls, so server-side rate-limiters / WAFs don't see two different "clients" from the same Psysonic install.
+
+- **Linux — prefer PipeWire / Pulse over raw ALSA default** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#288](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/288))*: On Linux, the audio engine now explicitly tries the `pipewire` and then `pulse` ALSA aliases before falling back to `cpal`'s default-device resolution. On PipeWire-based distros (Debian 13, Ubuntu 22+, many GNOME setups) cpal's default sometimes resolves to a null sink — the stream opens cleanly, progress ticks fire, but no audio reaches the user. Choosing a device manually in Settings has always been the workaround; this makes that workaround unnecessary on first launch. Explicit user choice in Settings is still honoured. macOS / Windows code paths unchanged.
+
+- **Tauri devtools — disabled in production builds** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#307](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/307) / [#310](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/310))*: Devtools no longer auto-open in dev, and are entirely disabled in production. Use **Ctrl+Shift+I** in the dev build.
+
+- **Dependencies — rustls-webpki + postcss bumps** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#306](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/306))*: Routine security bumps.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Streaming-seek UI freeze + progress snapback** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#236](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/236), closes [#218](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/218))*: Seeking on a streaming track could freeze the player UI for the seek duration and then snap the progress indicator back to the pre-seek position before settling. The seek path no longer blocks the render thread on the HTTP range request, and progress ticks during the pending seek window are suppressed so the playhead doesn't jitter.
+
+- **Cross-device resume — flush queue position on pause + all exit paths** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#318](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/318))*: Server-side play-queue position was effectively pinned at 0 on long sessions: `syncQueueToServer` only fired on track-change / seek / queue edit (with a 5s debounce), so listening to a long track for minutes without seeking and then closing the app would make Device 2 restart from byte 0. Fixed via a 15-second heartbeat from `audio:progress` while playing, an immediate flush on pause, and a shared force-quit path used by Tray Exit and the macOS red close button (both previously called `app.exit(0)` directly and bypassed the JS close handler).
+
+- **imageCache — per-component object URLs (no shared LRU)** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#313](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/313) / [#321](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/321))*: The shared blob-URL LRU cache could revoke a URL while another component still rendered against it, producing `Failed to load resource: blob:` floods. Cover URLs are now refcounted across consumers and only revoked when the last consumer unmounts.
+
+- **Queue — preserve scroll context on manual click** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#314](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/314))*: Clicking a track in the queue list while scrolled away from the now-playing position used to snap the list back to the current track. The queue list now preserves the user's scroll context on manual clicks.
+
+- **Mini player — drop saved position when its monitor is gone** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#280](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/280))*: Persisted mini-player coordinates from a disconnected monitor would re-place the mini off-screen on next launch. The persisted position is now sanity-checked against the current monitor layout and discarded if no monitor covers it.
+
+- **Mini player — portal volume popover so it cannot be clipped** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#279](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/279))*: The mini-player volume popover is now portal-rendered so the small mini window's `overflow` cannot clip it.
+
+- **WebView2 idle hooks on Windows** *(by [@peri4ko](https://github.com/peri4ko), PR [#273](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/273), follow-up by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#276](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/276))*: On Windows, hiding a window via Tauri's `win.hide()` does not stop WebView2's compositor and main-thread work — CSS `@keyframes`, decorative canvas loops and periodic JS timers can keep running, with `document.hidden` / `visibilitychange` not aligned with native hidden state. A new `__psyHidden` JS flag + `data-psy-native-hidden` attribute are set from injected eval before `hide()` on tray, mini, native mini-close and related paths, walking `#root` descendants to pause `animation-play-state` for `@keyframes`. CSS rules pause portaled UI globally. `MiniPlayer`, `WaveformSeek` (drops to a 400ms poll), `Hero` (skips its 10s carousel interval), `PlaybackScheduleBadge` and `usePlaybackScheduleRemaining` all skip work while hidden. Linux / macOS paths are not gated — same flows are safer or unchanged. Follow-up PR tightens the inject targets after review.
+
+- **Linux — stop Wayland GTK drag proxy and PsyDnD ghost** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#268](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/268))*: Drag operations on Wayland could leave a GTK drag proxy + PsyDnD ghost lingering on the screen until the next pointer move. Both are now torn down on drag end / cancel.
+
+- **Audio — defer chained-track volume to gapless transition** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#277](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/277))*: Volume changes applied during a gapless preload could affect the still-playing track instead of the upcoming one; volume is now deferred to the actual transition.
+
+- **Search — right-click context menu on artist + album rows** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#302](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/302))*: Artist + album rows in the search results page now respond to right-click with the full context menu, matching song rows.
+
+- **Search — enqueue on live-search click + reposition CM with right-click** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#298](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/298))*: Clicking a live-search result correctly enqueues + plays; right-clicking re-positions the context menu instead of opening a second one.
+
+- **Server switch — keep cached playback alive + Settings tab-id typo** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#262](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/262))*: Switching the active server used to tear down playback even when the same track was still cached locally. The cache is now consulted before tearing down. A typo in the Settings tab id that broke deep-linking to specific tabs is also fixed.
+
+- **Mainstage — refresh Home when active server changes** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#291](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/291))*: The Home page didn't refresh when the user switched servers; it now reloads its rails for the new active server.
+
+- **Queue panel resize handle no longer blocked by main scroll hit-test** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#324](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/324))*: The main page's scroll capture region overlapped the queue panel's resize handle in some viewport widths, making the handle un-grabbable. Hit-test fixed.
+
+- **Queue full album after current; filter smart playlists in add-targets** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#322](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/322))*: "Queue full album" now reliably enqueues the entire album after the currently-playing track. The "Add to playlist" target list now filters out smart playlists (you can't manually add tracks to a rule-based playlist).
+
+- **Persist queue panel visibility + drop dead loudness binding** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#336](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/336))*: Queue panel open/closed state now persists across app restarts. A dead loudness-store binding left over from the LUFS branch's pre-merge state is removed.
+
+- **Analysis cache — waveform logging fix** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#320](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/320))*: Logging in the analysis cache was wrong about which waveform path was active in the LUFS pipeline; corrected.
+
+- **Toolbar icons — swap Gapless / Infinite Queue** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#284](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/284), closes [#274](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/issues/274))*: The Gapless and Infinite Queue toolbar icons were swapped; correct icons now match their actions.
+
+- **UI perf spike on pointer-gesture overlap** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh) and [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PRs [#281](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/281) / [#282](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/282) / [#283](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/283))*: A short-lived perf spike caused by overlapping pointer gestures was first patched in #281, reverted in #282 after a regression, and re-landed cleanly in #283.
+
+- **Subsonic — log pingWithCredentials failures** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#312](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/312))*: The credentials ping no longer fails silently on auth errors; failures are logged so server-side issues are diagnosable from the debug log.
+
+- **Fullscreen — remove WebKitGTK halo ring on mesh blobs** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#239](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/239))*: The fullscreen mesh-blob background showed a faint halo ring on WebKitGTK due to a layer compositing artefact; replaced with softer gradient stops that don't trigger the halo.
+
+- **Titlebar — hide traffic-light glyphs until hover** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#243](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/243))*: The macOS-style traffic-light glyphs in the custom titlebar now match real macOS behaviour: hidden at rest, only revealed on hover.
+
+- **Discord — debug logging for Rich Presence IPC path** *(by [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical), PR [#330](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/330))*: Debug-build only logging on the Discord Rich Presence IPC pipe to make connection issues diagnosable from the debug log.
+
+- **UI — overlay scrollbars + resizer hit-test + Linux mini wheel** *(by [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh), PR [#255](https://github.com/Psychotoxical/psysonic/pull/255))*: A trio of related UI fixes: overlay-scrollbar mode now reports scrolling state correctly, the column-resizer hit-test is widened, and Linux mini-player mouse-wheel scrolling is responsive again.
+
+### Contributors
+
+- [@cucadmuh](https://github.com/cucadmuh) — Loudness Normalization headline (#315), LUFS stabilisation (#326), Lucky Mix (#278), Queue undo/redo (#331), Sleep Timer ring UI (#272), Library deep links (#261), Magic-string invites (#258), CLI logs subcommand (#337), runtime log levels + debug log export (#241), smart playlists workflow (#289), several streaming + UI fixes.
+- [@Psychotoxical](https://github.com/Psychotoxical) — Orbit (#304), Now-Playing dashboard (#266 / #267), Tracks Hub (#300), Genres tag-cloud (#311), Settings refactor (#259), perf suite (#245–#251), and most of the cross-device + admin-API hardening work.
+- [@peri4ko](https://github.com/peri4ko) — Windows WebView2 idle hooks (#273).
+- [@kilyabin](https://github.com/kilyabin) — Mobile UI overhaul (#238).
+
 ## [1.43.0] - 2026-04-20
 
 ### Added

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "psysonic",
-  "version": "1.43.0",
+  "version": "1.44.0-rc1",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",

src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -3706,7 +3706,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "psysonic"
-version = "1.43.0"
+version = "1.44.0-rc1"
 dependencies = [
  "biquad",
  "discord-rich-presence",

src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "psysonic"
-version = "1.43.0"
+version = "1.44.0-rc1"
 description = "Psysonic Desktop Music Player"
 authors = []
 license = ""

src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://schema.tauri.app/config/2",
   "productName": "Psysonic",
-  "version": "1.43.0",
+  "version": "1.44.0-rc1",
   "identifier": "dev.psysonic.player",
   "build": {
     "beforeDevCommand": "npm run dev",