release: 0.86.0 notes

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,29 @@ edit the release notes and re-run the generator.
 
 Upgrading, pinning a version and rolling back: [docs/self-hosting.md](docs/self-hosting.md#upgrading).
 
+## 0.86.0 — 2026-09-14
+
+A failed download now tells you why it failed and what you can do about it, instead of repeating yt-dlp's raw error. Facebook comes first: downloads that used to die on “Cannot parse data” go through, and a Facebook group post downloads its own video instead of a different one from the page.
+
+### Features
+
+- A failure says why, in your language: the row names the cause (“Facebook needs you to be signed in”, “Facebook did not accept your cookies”, “No video found in this post”) and its details window says what to do next. The raw error text is still there below it.
+- A Facebook download with your cookies that stops at “Cannot parse data” is tried again as Chrome, which gets past it.
+- A Facebook group post link downloads the post's own video. Before, yt-dlp either found nothing or quietly downloaded another video from the page; a post without a video now says so.
+- Retry and Re-download use a cookie you added after the failure, so the Retry the message asks for actually goes out signed in.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- A Re-download of a download that needed your cookies used to rebuild without them.
+- A job queued behind a download that already failed shows that failure's explanation instead of a bare “Download failed”.
+- A download yt-dlp reports no length for takes its length from the file, so its Edit / trim action appears.
+- Pressing Pause, Stop or Remove twice, or in two tabs, can no longer free a file another download still uses.
+- The confirm buttons in Downloads name the action (Stop download, Re-download, Remove) instead of repeating the question.
+
+### Internal
+
+- Four sprints, each Facebook behaviour measured on the development server with a real cookie before it was built. Two epic-end review rounds (20 → 17 fixed, then a targeted 4 → 4), every regression test mutation-checked.
+
 ## 0.85.0 — 2026-09-13
 
 Siftlode can now be driven from the keyboard, and Back, dialogs and menus stop losing your place. j/k and the arrow keys walk every list and grid, Enter opens what you are on, and Back puts you on the item you opened a view from instead of at the top of the page.

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.85.0
+0.86.0

frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,28 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.86.0",
+    date: "2026-09-14",
+    summary:
+      "A failed download now tells you why it failed and what you can do about it, instead of repeating yt-dlp's raw error. Facebook comes first: downloads that used to die on “Cannot parse data” go through, and a Facebook group post downloads its own video instead of a different one from the page.",
+    features: [
+      "A failure says why, in your language: the row names the cause (“Facebook needs you to be signed in”, “Facebook did not accept your cookies”, “No video found in this post”) and its details window says what to do next. The raw error text is still there below it.",
+      "A Facebook download with your cookies that stops at “Cannot parse data” is tried again as Chrome, which gets past it.",
+      "A Facebook group post link downloads the post's own video. Before, yt-dlp either found nothing or quietly downloaded another video from the page; a post without a video now says so.",
+      "Retry and Re-download use a cookie you added after the failure, so the Retry the message asks for actually goes out signed in.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "A Re-download of a download that needed your cookies used to rebuild without them.",
+      "A job queued behind a download that already failed shows that failure's explanation instead of a bare “Download failed”.",
+      "A download yt-dlp reports no length for takes its length from the file, so its Edit / trim action appears.",
+      "Pressing Pause, Stop or Remove twice, or in two tabs, can no longer free a file another download still uses.",
+      "The confirm buttons in Downloads name the action (Stop download, Re-download, Remove) instead of repeating the question.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "Four sprints, each Facebook behaviour measured on the development server with a real cookie before it was built. Two epic-end review rounds (20 → 17 fixed, then a targeted 4 → 4), every regression test mutation-checked.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.85.0",
     date: "2026-09-13",