What's new — GolinksPRO Download Manager version history

What's new in version 0.5.2 2026-11-09

A big fixes release: YouTube and video downloads, crashes and freezes, downloads on slow disks, the Mac helper, plus a Safari extension, far more file types and a few new columns and options.

Added

Torrent → Files…: the list of a torrent's files for any torrent, running, stopped or finished, with a box to choose each (also a Files… button in File Properties).
Two columns for torrents in the download list (#357): Peers (those a torrent has connected while it runs, seeders and leechers alike) and Share ratio (what it has sent against what it took), after Transfer rate. A layout saved before them gets them there.
The extension's Media on this page can name a file after its page: Prefix media file names with the page title puts the page's title before the file's own name. Off as installed.
Far more file types taken from the browser by default (#382): AI models and datasets (GGUF, SAFETENSORS, CKPT, PT, ONNX, PARQUET...), 3D and CAD (GLB, FBX, OBJ, STL, BLEND, STEP...), design and camera RAW files, ebooks, Office files, DAT, disk images and split archives. A list you never edited gains them; one you edited stays yours.
A Safari extension, inside the Mac app: a click on a link to a file type GDM takes goes to GDM, and so do the right-click items, the button over videos and Media on this page, as in the other browsers. Safari gives extensions no access to its downloads, so a download a page starts by itself stays with Safari, and the browser's proxy is not shared. See Browser integration.
Help: what to do when an antivirus or VirusTotal flags GDM, and how to check your copy is the real one.

Changed

In English, the Last Try Date and Added columns follow the system's 12- or 24-hour clock: Oct 28 9:44:12 PM 2026 when Windows uses a 12-hour clock, and Added starts wide enough for it (#392).

Fixed

With no tray icon to come back from, closing or minimizing the main window now leaves it in the taskbar, with downloads still going, instead of hiding it with no way back. Options → General → Keep running when closing the window (on by default) makes closing quit GDM when unticked (#457).
Crash reports: a crash monitor that can't open its connection no longer makes GDM wait five seconds at start or stays behind as a second process (#458).
Download File Info no longer stays open but out of sight, with every later download waiting behind it (#440). The next one after answering Create folder came up as an invisible window, and on Windows one hidden with a minimized main window is now shown again, as is the duplicate question
A file name sent by a site in plain UTF-8 now reaches GDM readable from Firefox and browsers built on it, such as Floorp, Waterfox and Zen: an Arabic name was saved as unreadable symbols (#447). A name written with percent signs in the same header is decoded as well. The add-on carries the fix
A download saved under a numbered name because another file already had its name (master (1).mp4) now shows that name in the list and opens its own file, instead of keeping the old name and opening the other file (#442). Two downloads waiting under one name no longer collide when they start: the later one takes the next free name, instead of failing with "already being downloaded" or continuing the other one's data.
A link sent from the browser no longer fails with 403 on sites that refuse a browser's User-Agent on a connection that isn't a browser's: GDM asks once more with its own, as Add URL does (#372).
The video download button moves to a free corner instead of covering a control of the page, such as a thumbnail's watch-later button (#421). Dragging it still puts it where you want it.
Crash reports: no report any more when one of the download engine's background tasks panics while GDM is already closing (#422).
Crash reports: a freeze whose window had recovered by the time its dump was taken is reported as a freeze, not as a crash in GDM's own watchdog (#420).
Text in a script outside the interface language (a video title in Bangla, a playlist in Japanese) now shows its letters, instead of boxes: the font for that script is loaded the first time it is needed (#405).
Options → Proxy / Socks now applies to yt-dlp and gallery-dl too, so video look-ups and downloads no longer go straight out when a proxy is set (#363).
The window no longer freezes while watching the clipboard when the program holding it hangs, or while a cancelled download's files are removed from a slow disk (#418, #423).
Downloads at full speed no longer stop and go on a slow disk: writing the resume state flushed the file to the disk so often that every connection waited for it, and were then replaced as slow (#361).
A save folder shown as Downloads/Video could be taken literally, asking to create it in the wrong place or failing with "Read-only file system" on macOS.
macOS: Download video no longer stops with a Python error and a "Python.framework is damaged" alert on a copy of GDM downloaded by a browser (#330, #339). GDM now installs yt-dlp's folder build, which it unpacks once and checks against yt-dlp's signed list, instead of the single-program build that unpacks Python afresh at every start. The video window then offers to install it in place of a copy that came with an earlier version.
Browser link import: tighter handling of site data.
Crash reports: a freeze that was over before its snapshot was taken says so, instead of calling it a deadlock in code that was only waiting for events (#355).
Move/Rename was greyed out with several downloads selected, for example a set just added to a queue. It now asks for a folder and moves them all there (#333).
The extension no longer asks you to update GDM when only a bug-fix version separates them, which it did even when there was no update to get.
Download video shows a plain file's size, from its server, instead of "size unknown" (#320).
Download video finds the video on pages whose player loads a .mpd or .m3u8 address that answers something else first, as SVT Play does (#377).
RSS feeds: the boxes on the Download rules tab (Episodes, Must contain and the others) keep the keyboard while you type, instead of losing it after each key (#353).
A download refused by a site's bot check (Cloudflare's challenge) says so and how to get the file, instead of "the server answered 403 Forbidden" (#376).
Open folder works on a torrent that is still downloading (#354).
Alt and F10 open the menu bar while a button or the list has the keyboard focus, not only when nothing does (#328).
Hide tab in a download's window takes the Speed Limiter or Options on completion tab off its tab row, instead of only going back to Download status. Right-click the tab row and choose Show hidden tabs to bring them back (#326).
Windows: no more crash on a computer where Direct3D can't start, when a window opened during the switch to OpenGL (#337).
Windows: no more crash when a screen is unplugged, turned off or rearranged while GDM runs (#335).
A finished torrent that isn't being shared lets go of its files, so they can be moved or deleted while GDM runs.
A torrent says Checking 42% while its files are read and checked, and a Recheck no longer stops partway and stays there.
Video downloads: the progress no longer says 100 % while a video is still coming, when the site gives no total size, or between a video and its separate sound (#344). A video yt-dlp only knows by its address is named after the page, not a long hash (#345).
A YouTube playlist in Add URL (#338) opens the video window with its videos, instead of saving the page as a file named "playlist".
Dailymotion's embedded player (#359): its address is looked up as the video's own page, so the download button works on sites that embed one.
A download that a page starts by script (a thank-you page going to the installer, as obsproject.com's does) gets the file's address, not the page's, so GDM no longer saves that page under the installer's name (#374). A finished download also shows what really came down when the server gives no size.
Stop on a download in a running queue stays stopped, instead of the queue starting it again a moment later; Stop All too (#341).
Removing the last feed in the RSS feeds window no longer crashes the app (#321).
YouTube formats with Node.js or Bun installed (#360): yt-dlp needs a JavaScript runtime for them and looks for Deno alone, so GDM now tells it about Node.js (nvm's too) or Bun when there is no Deno.
YouTube's look-up failing with "Requested format is not available" (#352): signed-in cookies make yt-dlp use only YouTube's players that need a JavaScript runtime, and without one no video is left. The page is now looked up again without the cookies, and lists its qualities.
Download video offering only the sound, with no reason given (#351): when a page's better videos need ffmpeg and it isn't installed, the window now says so.
Adding a link again after its finished file was moved or deleted starts a new download, instead of asking about a duplicate that isn't there (#342).
Sharp, evenly spaced text on Windows: letters no longer run together or drift apart. English and other Latin, Greek and Cyrillic text is drawn the way Windows draws its own classic controls, with each letter's shape and width fitted together; every other script uses hinting suited to anti-aliased rendering (#323, #334).

What's new in version 0.5.1 2026-11-08

YouTube fixes for the Download video button, and the button in Chrome, Edge and Brave.

Added

The Download video button on YouTube in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi: the copy of the extension from the Chrome Web Store shows it now, as Firefox's does.

Fixed

The Download video button took the wrong video on YouTube (#311, thanks to @mayankmohan1992): YouTube moves from one video to the next without loading a new page, and the browser kept naming the page it first loaded, so GDM got the video watched before. On the home page, a search or a channel it got that whole page instead, and offered about 50 videos. The button now sends the video playing in the player it's on, and a Short as the Short it is.
Media on this page says why it's empty: on a player that streams in pieces there's no file to list, and it says to use the button over the video instead of asking you to play it again.
A page's own short sounds (a click, a voice-search chime) are no longer listed in Media on this page.

What's new in version 0.5.0 2026-11-08

Added

Themes Support

Now you can change GolinksPRO Download Manager's look and feel, and even its icons, with themes, and you can write your own.

9 built-in looks in View → Theme: Classic, Native, High contrast, Metro, Adwaita, Breeze, Luna, Aero, Aqua.
Write your own theme as a TOML or JSON file, or import a Base16 scheme or your pywal colours.

Remote Control and Headless Mode Support

GDM no longer has to be in front of you: manage your downloads from your phone, or keep it running on a machine with no screen.

Add links and manage your downloads and queues from your phone, on your own network: Options → Remote.
Run GDM with no window on a server, NAS, Docker or Unraid with --headless, and send it downloads from your browser.

Browser extension

The extension now installs from your browser's store, updates itself, and catches more of what you download.

Install it from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons.
See the streams, videos and sounds a page has loaded, with their qualities, and download any of them.
VPN and proxy support: send downloads through the browser's proxy or VPN extension (off until you turn it on).
See why a download stayed in the browser, and which setting to change.
More browsers supported: it now works in Zen, Helium, LibreWolf, Floorp and Waterfox too.

Video and Images

GDM now goes well beyond single videos: whole playlists, subtitles, sound on its own, and picture galleries.

Playlist and channel support: download a whole playlist or channel from a video site: tick the videos you want and pick one quality for all.
Subtitle support: download a video's subtitles, saved beside it or put into it.
Audio-only support: download just a video's sound, as MP3, Opus or FLAC.
Signed-in video support: download videos that need you signed in, using your browser's cookies.
Image gallery support: download whole galleries (Flickr, Imgur, DeviantArt and more) with gallery-dl.

Torrents

Torrents grew into a full client: watch while they download, follow feeds, or let your debrid service do the work.

Sequential download support: download a torrent in order, so you can watch it while it downloads.
RSS support: follow feeds and add new torrents automatically, by your own rules.
Debrid support: use your Real-Debrid, AllDebrid or Premiumize account for torrents and file-host links.
Limit seeding and upload, recheck files, reannounce, add trackers, and block IPs with a blocklist.

Downloads

Hand GDM a pile of links or a Google Drive link and let it get on with it.

Link grabber: paste many links, GDM groups them, checks which are online, and extracts archives when they arrive.
Google Drive support: links now download the actual file instead of Drive's web page.
Up to 128 connections per download, if you turn it on.
The Scheduler can wake the computer to run a queue.

Network

Decide exactly how GDM reaches the internet, and see where your files come from.

Send every download through one network adapter, such as your VPN's. If it drops, nothing goes out through your normal connection.
Custom DNS support: choose who looks up addresses: Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AdGuard, NextDNS or your own, over HTTPS, TLS or plain.
See each download's server: its country, flag and round trip.

Interface

Bigger when you need it, faster to open, and closer to your system.

Make every window larger, up to 200 %: View → Interface size, or Ctrl + and Ctrl −.
Direct3D 12, Vulkan and Metal support: GDM draws with Direct3D 12 on Windows; Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS are options.
Every file name now has its file-type icon, the one your system uses.
The built-in categories can now be renamed, given other file types, or deleted.
Hide a download's progress window to the notification area while it keeps going.
When GDM starts with the computer, it now waits in the notification area instead of opening its window.

Other

Smaller additions worth knowing about.

System keychain support: passwords and account sign-ins are now kept in your system's keychain, not in GDM's settings.
Use your own copies of yt-dlp and ffmpeg instead of GDM's.
AppImage tools support: the AppImage can update through them, downloading only what changed.
Website: a page for every feature, a Themes gallery, and a hall of fame.

Changed

GDM got much lighter, and Linux is now supported like Windows.

Linux is no longer experimental: checked on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon, and on clean Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.
Downloads are smaller: setup.exe 23 → 16 MB, AppImage 36 → 20 MB, .deb 27 → 17 MB.
Under 10 MB of memory in the notification area on Windows, from about 50 MB.
Machine translations in all 85 languages were checked again against the English and corrected.
Downloads from the browser keep the name, size and type the browser saw, so downloads behind a sign-in show correctly right away.
GDM follows every kind of redirect a browser does, including "your download starts in a moment" pages.
Freeze reports now say whether GDM was stuck in a loop, waiting on something, or the computer was too busy to run it.

Removed

No features were removed, only an old label and some bulky files.

The -experimental label on the Linux files (macOS keeps it).
The 80 MB universal Mac download: there's now one for Apple Silicon and one for Intel. Coming from 0.2.4, update once by hand: Download in Check for updates opens the release.
The separate 28 MB command-line program: now a 0.2 MB launcher, every command works as before.

Fixed

More than 80 fixes. The main ones:

Firefox and Waterfox: GDM now takes the download before the browser's file dialog, so the browser doesn't download it too.
The extension now reaches GDM from Ubuntu's Snap Firefox and from Brave Origin.
Download File Info and the progress window open in front of the browser.
No more black band across menus and windows on Windows 11 Insider builds.
Text is sharper on Windows.
A slow start no longer makes GDM give up on Direct3D and stay on OpenGL.
Linux: menus open in the right place and appear at once on Hyprland and similar compositors.
Linux: dark mode follows the desktop, and a slow keyring or sleep service no longer freezes the window.
No more crash when a magnet link or browser download arrives while GDM is minimized or in the tray.
A minimized GDM keeps running its queues and Scheduler.
Downloads no longer fail with "part file still in use" on a busy computer.
Links that work only once no longer fail with "403 Forbidden".
YouTube's "Requested format is not available" no longer stops a download: GDM takes the nearest quality below.
Stop now also stops yt-dlp, which used to keep downloading in the background.
Buttons fit their text in every language.
Screen readers read lists, menus and windows properly.

Security

This release tightens what GDM accepts from torrents.

Unsafe file names in torrents are refused.
When a torrent's files are already in the folder, GDM asks before writing into them.
Files from torrents are marked as downloaded from the internet, so SmartScreen and Gatekeeper check programs before they first run.
GDM no longer contacts torrent trackers on this computer or the local network.
The torrent library, librqbit, is updated to 9.1.0.

Every change in detail

Added

Themes and the look

Themes: View → Theme (#45). Classic is GDM's look, unchanged and still the default. Native takes your system's colours: Windows' accent colour and, when it is on, its contrast theme; the desktop's accent colour and higher-contrast setting on Linux (GNOME 47 and later, KDE Plasma); the accent colour on macOS; it follows them when they change. High contrast is black and white with a bright accent, every edge drawn and text at 7:1 or more. A theme applies at once, light and dark alike, and theme files in the themes folder (View → Theme → Open themes folder) are listed too; High contrast is itself such a file, in the same format. Six style themes keep the layout and bring their own control shapes, icons and, on Windows, a title bar GDM draws (resizing, Snap Layouts on Maximize, double-click and Alt+Space work as with the system's):
Metro, after Windows 8's flat look: square corners, flat buttons, boxes that take an accent border when focused, check boxes with a tick, a bordered progress bar, scroll bars with their arrows always shown, one-colour icons (Microsoft's Fluent UI System Icons, MIT) and a title bar in the theme's colour with the title centred.
Adwaita, after GNOME's look: round corners, flat grey buttons, a rounded focus ring, boxes that take a ring when focused, GNOME's check boxes and radio buttons, GNOME's Adwaita icons (LGPL-3.0), in colour for files and categories and one colour in the toolbar, and a header bar with the title in bold and round buttons.
Breeze, after KDE Plasma's look: rounded corners, buttons and boxes whose edge takes the accent under the pointer or when focused, KDE's check boxes and radio buttons (the accent's edge, a tick in the text's colour), a focus frame, KDE's Breeze icons (LGPL-3.0-or-later) and a title bar in KDE's style: the title centred, round buttons that fill under the pointer (Close in red).
Luna, Aero and Aqua, after Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Leopard), each with a light and a dark side and icons drawn for GDM in its era's manner. Luna: buttons shaded from white with a dark blue edge and an orange glow under the pointer, green ticks, square text boxes, progress in green blocks and a deep blue title bar with the title in bold and square buttons (Close red). Aero: glossy buttons in two halves that turn light blue under the pointer, quiet check boxes, a glossy green progress bar and a glassy title bar, the title on a soft glow, its buttons hung from the top (Close wider and red). Aqua: gel buttons round at the ends (the default one blue), glossy check boxes, a blue focus ring, a blue gel progress bar and a grey title bar with the title centred and small round graphite buttons whose glyphs show under the pointer. Every glyph and shade is GDM's own drawing; none of Microsoft's or Apple's pictures or fonts are used.
GDM's own icons where Metro, Adwaita and Breeze had none: Metro's Hide to the notification area, Adwaita's PDF, torrent file and Hide to the notification area, and Breeze's PDF and Hide to the notification area, drawn for GDM in each one's style (the one-colour ones in the theme's text colour).
Theme files: every colour and size GDM's controls are drawn with (corner radii, borders, font sizes, the list's row height, the icons' ink) comes from the theme, by role; the classic look is that theme, unchanged pixel for pixel. A theme file (TOML or JSON in the data folder's themes folder) can change any role, choose each control's style ([controls]) and an icon set, and a theme can be a folder that brings its own icons. An icon set can mix PNG pictures with SVG drawings, and one-colour icons (-symbolic.svg, -symbolic.png, drawn in the theme's text colour) with coloured ones, and hold pictures at 32 and 48 pixels, used on a screen scaled to 150 % and more: the style themes' pictures stay sharp there.
Base16 and pywal colour schemes as themes: a Base16 or Base24 scheme (.yaml, the classic layout and tinted-theming's palette: one) or pywal's colors.json (wallust's pywal-shaped one too), added with View → Theme → Add a theme file… or put in the themes folder, is a theme on the classic look: only the colours change. base00 and base01 are the backgrounds, base05 and base04 the text, base0D the focus, the selection and the progress bar (pywal: its background and foreground, color4); text is kept at 4.5:1 or more against every background and the accent at 3:1, moved a little where a scheme falls short. Once wal has run, View → Theme lists pywal, read from where pywal writes it (~/.cache/wal/colors.json, %USERPROFILE%\.cache\wal\colors.json on Windows), and GDM follows each new wallpaper's colours within two seconds. A theme file can inherits a scheme to change more than its colours.
View → Interface size (#262): every window larger, 100 % to 200 %, on top of the system's display scale; Ctrl +, Ctrl − and Ctrl 0 in any GDM window, as in a browser. Every open window follows at once (dialogs, menus, the drop target) and GDM starts at that size, the crash report window too. A window larger than the screen opens as large as the screen allows and scrolls the rest, its title bar on the screen.
View → Always dark (#60): GDM stays dark whatever the system says, for a desktop that reports no light or dark preference (GDM also reads it on Linux now, see Fixed).
A file-type icon before every file name or folder (#122): the download list, Download File Info, Properties, Download complete (its open folder), Add torrent (the torrent and its tree), a torrent's Files tab, the progress window's Save To, the Scheduler's files, Batch download's preview, and Download video's qualities and a playlist's videos (the file each one gives). Each is your system's own icon for that type, the one its file manager shows: Windows Explorer's, macOS Finder's, or your Linux desktop's icon theme (KDE's, GNOME's or GTK's choice, then the themes it builds on). It is sharp at every display scale (125, 150, 200 %), taken at the size the screen needs. Each type is looked up once, in the background, so a long list never waits for it. Where the system has no icon for a type (a Linux desktop without an icon theme), GDM draws one of its own, from the Tango icons (public domain).
Windows: GDM draws with Direct3D 12 (#89). Its windows open faster (about a quarter of a second sooner on our test PC), and Direct3D may avoid the stalls some graphics drivers' OpenGL has (#82). View → Draw with goes back to OpenGL, as before, from the next start; a choice of OpenGL is kept. The window always opens: when Direct3D can't start, its first frame doesn't come within 10 seconds, or a start with it ends before its first frame, GDM draws with OpenGL until Direct3D is chosen again (the menu says so, and why); without a usable OpenGL either, it draws with Microsoft's software renderer (Remote Desktop, virtual machines without a graphics driver). When the graphics card is reset while GDM runs (a driver update), GDM starts again by itself. Freeze and crash reports say what was drawing. Linux and macOS keep OpenGL by default.
Linux: Vulkan, and macOS: Metal, in View → Draw with (#206). Linux can draw its windows with Vulkan (on Wayland and X11), and macOS with Metal, the way Windows draws with Direct3D. OpenGL stays the default there until reports from real graphics cards are in: try it and tell us how it went. The same safety net as on Windows: when Vulkan or Metal can't start (no driver for it), its first frame doesn't come within 10 seconds, or a start with it ends before its first frame, GDM draws with OpenGL until it is chosen again, and the menu says why. A graphics card reset while GDM runs starts GDM again.
Hide to the notification area (#63): a download's progress window has a button that hides it in the tray while the download goes on: on Windows in its title bar, left of Minimize (the progress window draws its own Windows 11 title bar now, keeping the system's snapping, shaking, menu and shadow), and in its Alt+Space menu; on Linux and macOS at the end of its tab row. The tray menu's new Downloads in progress lists the running downloads to bring one's window back (double-clicking it in the list does too). With Options → General → Minimize to the notification area (on by default), Minimize hides the main window and progress windows there as well. Only where a tray shows GDM's icon.
Started with the computer, GDM waits in the notification area (#226): with Options → General → Launch GolinksPRO Download Manager on startup, GDM no longer opens its window in front at every sign-in. It starts hidden, its icon in the notification area, with its downloads, queues, Scheduler and browser hand-overs running; its icon, or starting GDM again, shows the window as before. The same on Linux and macOS; where no notification area shows GDM's icon (some Linux desktops), it starts minimized, and the option's tooltip says so (it waits for one up to 30 seconds after its icon is made, its window hidden: a desktop's can come up after GDM at sign-in). The startup entry now passes /startup (new on the command line); an entry written by an earlier version or its installer is written again at the next start, and the installer writes the new one.
Drop-down lists for screen readers: a screen reader or UI Automation can now set a drop-down list's choice by its text, and open or close the list.

Downloads

Downloads through one network adapter, with a kill switch (#35): Options → Proxy / Socks → Network adapter. Pick one, usually your VPN's, and every connection GDM opens goes out through it or not at all: downloads, FTP, the DNS you chose, GDM's own downloads and the update check. When the adapter disconnects, nothing goes out through your normal connection. Running downloads stop and start again when it's back. The command line's get takes --adapter. PAC scripts' myIpAddress no longer opens a network socket on Windows.
Video pages and image galleries go through it too, on Windows, Linux and macOS: video downloads (yt-dlp and the ffmpeg it starts) and galleries (gallery-dl) go through a proxy GDM runs on this computer, which opens their connections through the adapter as GDM opens its own, with the DNS you chose, IPv4 and IPv6. The same kill switch: when the adapter disconnects, their connections close at once and the downloads stop, then start again when it is back. Formats over RTMP, RTSP, MMS or FTP, which can't go through it, are refused. The command line's video-get and gallery-get take --adapter.
Torrents go through it on Windows too (#143): every torrent connection goes out from the adapter's address, with the same kill switch as downloads: peers, trackers, the DHT and the listening port. When the adapter disconnects, torrents stop, nothing goes out another way, and they start again when it is back.
Only ftps:// (FTP with implicit TLS) can't be held to an adapter yet, so it doesn't start while one is chosen.
Choose the DNS (#36): Options → Connection → DNS picks who turns names into addresses for downloads, FTP, GDM's own downloads and the update check. The system's (the default), Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AdGuard, NextDNS (with your configuration ID) or your own, asked over HTTPS (the default), TLS, or plain over TCP. Test shows how long it takes to answer. When it can't be reached, the download stops with a message naming it, unless you allow falling back to the system's DNS; your hosts file and local names stay with the system's. The command line's get takes --dns. Torrent trackers still use the system's DNS, and so do video pages and galleries unless a network adapter is chosen.
Where a download's server is (#140): Download File Info, the progress window and Properties show the server's country, with its flag, and its round trip, such as about 24 ms (near), in green, amber or red. The country comes from a table that ships with GDM (IP to Country Lite by DB-IP, CC BY 4.0, refreshed with each release), looked up on the computer: no address is sent anywhere. The time is measured from the download's own connections, with nothing extra sent. Through a proxy GDM says so instead of guessing, and a CDN's server (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly, Akamai and others) is said to be the CDN's, not the site owner's. Properties keeps what the last run saw. GDM is about 770 KB larger (the table 674 KB, the flags 95 KB).
More than 32 connections per download, if you want them (#12): Options → Connection now takes any number from 1 to 32, typed or set with the arrows, and Allow more than 32 connections raises that to 128, for server exceptions too. Servers that allow fewer are still noticed and asked for fewer. The command line's -c takes 1 to 128.
Google Drive links (#34): paste a Drive file's link (drive.google.com/file/d/…/view, …/uc?id=…, …/open?id=…) and GDM downloads the file itself, as it was uploaded, over several connections and resumable, with its real name and size in Download File Info. Large files get past Drive's "can't scan this file for viruses" page as Download anyway does. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides come as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. A private file downloads with the sign-in the extension passes from the browser. When Drive won't give a file (too many downloads lately, sign-in needed, no access), GDM says so in your language instead of saving Drive's page. The video button over a Drive video downloads the original file. Folders aren't downloaded yet: GDM says the link is a folder. See Google Drive links.
Link grabber, and archives extracted when they are downloaded (#37). The window that took the browser's "Download all links", Tasks → Import and dropped lists grew into Link grabber (also Tasks → Link grabber..., where pasted links go). Links come in packages: a split archive's volumes together, the other links of a page together, the rest in "Various files". Each link is looked up for its name, size and whether the server has it (Offline links come unticked), and each package has its folder, an archive password, "Extract when done" and "Delete archives after extracting". Start or Add to queue (IDM's import, unchanged: an .ef2 file still brings each download's referrer and cookies). GDM extracts ZIP (AES and Deflate64 too), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, GZ and XZ itself; 7z and RAR need 7-Zip (split .7z.001 and .partN.rar too), and a window says so when it isn't installed. It extracts when a package says so, for any download with Options → Archives → Extract archives when their download completes (off by default), or with right-click → Extract. A split archive is extracted once its last volume is in. Extracted files are marked as downloaded from the internet, as the archive is; names that would leave the folder, links, and archives that would fill the disk are refused; an existing file is never overwritten. The archive goes to the Recycle Bin (the Trash) only when you ask. Options has a new Archives page.
Image galleries (#58): a gallery's address in Add URL (a Wikimedia Commons category, a Flickr album, a DeviantArt or Imgur gallery and more) opens Download a gallery, which downloads its pictures with gallery-dl into a folder of their own, all of them or the first N. Started again, a gallery fetches only its new pictures. gallery-dl is an optional helper like yt-dlp: installed from its releases only when signed by its author's key, or your own copy (Helpers). On the command line: install-gallery-dl and gallery-get.
The built-in categories are yours to change (#93): Compressed, Documents, Music, Programs and Video can be renamed, given other file types and deleted, like your own categories (right-click → Properties or Delete). A renamed category keeps its folder. Deleting one asks what happens to its downloads: move them to General, or take them off the list; their files stay either way. Options → Save to → Restore the built-in categories brings them back as they came. General and Torrents still change only their folder.

Videos

Playlists and channels (#69): Download video from a page lists a playlist's or a channel's videos, with their lengths, all ticked, with Select all and Select none. One quality applies to all of them (the best, up to a height, the original sound, MP3, Opus or FLAC). Each video gets its own download, in a folder named after the list, and Download Now starts the main queue, which runs as many at once as its settings say. A playlist is listed as its videos come in; the listing can be stopped and taken up again (List the rest), and one the site breaks off says after how many videos and why. A channel is listed 50 videos at a time, with Load more. Lists of thousands stay quick, and adding more than 500 downloads asks first. On the command line: playlist-info and playlist-get.
Video subtitles (#68): Download video from a page lists the video's subtitle languages, the uploader's first, then the site's automatic captions (in the language spoken, English and yours). They're saved beside the video as <name>.<language>.srt, or put into the video with ffmpeg (MP4, MKV), and the choice is offered again for the next video. Subtitles a site refuses (YouTube limits how often they may be fetched) never cost the video: GDM asks once more after a pause, then says which are missing. On the command line: video-get --subs, --auto-subs, --embed-subs; video-info lists them. A finished video and its subtitles are now marked as downloaded from the internet, as other downloads are.
A video's sound as MP3, Opus or FLAC (#32, #70): Download video lists Audio only MP3 at its best variable bitrate (VBR) and at 320, 256, 192 and 128 kbps, after the sound in the site's own format, now named Audio only, original. ffmpeg converts it (on Windows GDM offers to install it, as for the best video qualities; on Linux and macOS it uses the system's), and the browser's Download video button offers the same. Under the MP3 ones, Audio only OPUS (YouTube's Opus is only moved into an .opus file, not converted) and Audio only FLAC (lossless, with an honest note in the window: it can't add quality the site's lossy sound doesn't have, the file is only bigger). The command line takes video-get --format mp3:192 (mp3:0 for VBR), -f opus: and -f flac:.
Cookies for video sites (#229): Options → Sites Logins can let yt-dlp read a browser's cookies on this computer (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Chromium, Whale; Safari on macOS), with a profile by name or folder, so a pasted link to a video that needs you signed in (YouTube's "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot") works. Off by default. When the browser's extension passes the page's own cookies, those are used instead. When the browser's cookies can't be read (Chrome, Edge and Brave lock them on Windows; a locked keyring on Linux), the Download video window says so in plain words.
Your own yt-dlp and ffmpeg (#51): Download video from a page → Helpers... shows where each comes from, and Use another program... takes a copy you already have instead of GDM's own (checked once, then used by the window and the command line alike; GDM leaves its updates to you). Use GDM's own copy goes back.

Torrents

Download in order (#39): to watch a video while it downloads, tick Download in order in Add torrent, or choose Torrent → Download in order in the list's right-click menu, even while it runs. A file's start comes first, and with First and last pieces first (on by default) its end comes early too, which most video files need before they play. Slower peers take pieces a little further on, so the start isn't waiting for them. Other torrents now download the rarest pieces first, as BitTorrent programs usually do: on GDM's test swarms they finished just as fast, and they finished where a scarce piece's only holder left. Torrents already in the list carry on, with nothing checked again. GDM also honours a peer's request to cancel a piece it no longer needs, so its upload isn't spent on data nobody wants.
RSS feeds (#39): Tasks → RSS feeds... watches RSS and Atom feeds of torrents, lists their articles (download one by hand), and its download rules add the new ones whose titles they match: words or regular expressions, words to skip, an episode filter (1x2;1x5-8;2x1-) that takes each episode once, a folder per rule. A feed's backlog is never downloaded by itself.
Torrent commands (#39): a torrent's right-click menu has Torrent → Recheck files, Reannounce, Add trackers... and Copy magnet link. Its Files tab can tick and untick files while it runs. A .torrent file's web address, in Add URL or from the browser, opens Add torrent with what the file holds. TORRENT is in Options → File types' defaults, so the browser hands .torrent files over; a list saved before keeps what it had.
Seeding and upload limits, and a share ratio that lasts (#39): under "Keep sharing torrents after they finish", Torrent settings can stop sharing a finished torrent at a share ratio, or after it has been shared for some minutes; both off by default. A torrent stopped so says it in its event log and isn't shared again at the next start. Torrent settings can limit what all torrents together send, and a torrent's progress window can limit its own, kept with it. Its General tab now counts what it sent and how long it shared over all its runs, so the share ratio no longer starts again at 0 after a pause or a restart.
Torrent settings: the network is yours to choose (#40): accept incoming connections or not, map the port with UPnP or not, a fixed port, the DHT, finding peers on the local network, a SOCKS5 proxy from Proxy / Socks (which turns off what would go around it), an IP blocklist (P2P or eMule format, fetched again every 7 days), and stopping the torrent engine when no torrent runs. A new help page, Torrents and your security, says what others can see and what each switch does.
Torrents through your debrid account (#44): with Send torrents and magnet links to the first account instead of to peers ticked (Options → Accounts), a magnet link or a .torrent file goes to the account. Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize download the torrent on their servers, and the list shows how far they are (45% at Real-Debrid). GDM then downloads its files over HTTP, with all its connections and resume, and removes the torrent from the account's list. Your computer never connects to the torrent's peers. Experimental, as the accounts are.

Debrid accounts, experimental

Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize (#44): Options → Accounts keeps your debrid service accounts. Real-Debrid signs in by code in the browser, or with your API token; AllDebrid by a PIN in the browser or with an API key, and GDM waits while it prepares a slow link; Premiumize with its API key. A link from a file host your service supports is unlocked through your account, then downloaded with all of GDM's connections, pause and resume, from Add URL, the browser's link menu and batch downloads. When the direct link expires, GDM asks the service for a new one. The direct link is never shown or copied, and the sign-in is kept like your other passwords (the system's keychain, below). Each service is asked well under its request limit. See Debrid service accounts. Experimental: built from the services' public API documentation, not yet confirmed with a real paid account.
One link directly, and the command line (#44): Download File Info says which account a link goes through (Download through Real-Debrid (your account)); untick it to download that link directly. File Properties has the same choice for a download in the list, and GDM keeps it after a restart. The command line's get and resume go through the accounts of Options → Accounts too, and --direct skips them. A download the browser had already started stays direct after a restart, and when one service doesn't answer, the other accounts still work.

The browser extension

In the stores: the Firefox add-on is on addons.mozilla.org, GolinksPRO Download Manager, installed with one click and kept up to date by Firefox (and by Zen and LibreWolf); the Chromium one is in the Chrome Web Store, GolinksPRO Download Manager, for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, installed with one click and kept up to date. Chrome offers it by itself once GDM is installed, and the website, the help and the README offer Add to Firefox and Add to Chrome first. The store's copy needs this release of GDM: the helper of GDM 0.2.x serves only the copy in GDM's own folder, and the browser refuses the store's (#208). The store's copy shows no Download video button on YouTube, whose downloads the store's policy forbids; Tasks → Download video from a page still takes any page.
GDM offers the browser extension: until a browser's extension has reached GDM, each start shows Add GolinksPRO Download Manager to your browser, with a button for every browser installed, which opens its store page (Install it by hand stays there for a browser that can't use its store). The window says when the extension is connected; Don't ask again stops it.
The extension's toolbar button says whether the browser reaches GDM. When it doesn't, a red ! and How to fix it lead to the new help page, The browser and GDM aren't connected, at the section for the reason. Its popup also pauses taking downloads, leaves the current site to the browser for good, and opens GDM or its Options.
Options → General → Test browser integration checks GDM's side in order (integration on, the installed copy, the browsers can find GDM, which browsers' extension connected) and offers Set it up when the browsers can't find GDM.
The extension lists the media a page has loaded (#38). The toolbar button's window has Media on this page: the HLS and DASH streams the page's players loaded (each once, with its qualities and length) and the video and sound files it played, with their size. Download sends a stream to the Download video window and a file to the list, with the page's cookies, the page as the referrer and the browser's User-Agent, so a stream a page won't give up can still be saved. Copy-protected (DRM) streams are listed as Protected and never sent. Nothing new to allow: the extension already watched the tab's responses.
Downloads from a browser behind a VPN or proxy extension go through it too (#42): the browser extension passes the proxy the browser uses for a download (an extension's, or its settings' manual proxy or auto-config script) with it. GDM downloads through the same proxy while Options → Proxy / Socks → Use proxy/socks from a browser's request is on, which is the default. A proxy that needs the VPN extension's own login can't be shared: the download says so rather than going without it. It is an opt-in, off as installed: Send downloads through this browser's proxy or VPN extension in the extension's popup. In Firefox the switch asks for the browser's proxy permission (to read the browser's proxy, never to change it). Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi can't make that permission optional, so their extension has it from the install; Chrome counts it under the access to every site the extension already has, so the update asks for nothing new. There the extension reads the browser's proxy settings: the server for the download's scheme (honouring their bypass list), or their auto-config script. Addresses on this computer (localhost, 127.0.0.1) go straight to it, as the browser sends them.
Zen, Helium and other browsers built on Firefox or Chromium (#41): the extension reaches GDM in them, also when one is the only browser on Linux or macOS (Zen reads Firefox's folder, which GDM now creates; Helium its own). Add GolinksPRO Download Manager to your browser lists them, Zen, LibreWolf, Floorp and Waterfox by their own names (Options too), and sends Firefox's family to the right page. On Windows GDM lists the browsers Windows itself lists, so Helium is no longer taken for Chrome. Flatpak browsers can't start GDM's helper, which the help page now says.
GDM says why the browser kept a download (#208): every download left to the browser by Options is a line in GDM's log naming the setting that decided (its type isn't in File types, its site or address is excluded, it's under the minimum size, the browser is unticked, browser integration is off, or the extension may not read the site), and the extension's button shows the last one, with the file's name. A download from a private window is logged without its name or site.
More file types taken from the browser by default (#208): today's installers and packages (DMG and PKG for macOS, DEB, RPM and APPIMAGE for Linux, MSIX, APPX, APPXBUNDLE and CAB for Windows, JAR), archives (XZ, ZST, TGZ, TXZ) and WEBM, FLAC and OPUS join Options → File types. A list never edited gains them on the next start; one you edited stays as it is. Options → File types → Don't take files smaller than leaves small files (a receipt, an icon) to the browser, and Edit list ... for the addresses left to the browser works.
PDFs, music and videos the browser would open itself are taken too, when their type is in Options → File types (Options → General → Keys... turns it off). Hold Alt while clicking a link to let the browser have it.
Download selected links and Download all links on the browser's right-click menu: the page's links go to Import, to tick there.
Downloads from forms (a button that posts and gets a file back) are posted again by GDM, with the form's data, instead of being lost. A form that sends a file (multipart) stays with the browser.

Remote control, servers and scripts

Control GDM from your phone (#141): Options → Remote, off by default. A phone or another computer on the local network, paired with a code (or a QR code) GDM shows, opens a page GDM serves over HTTPS: it adds links, magnet links and .torrent files, shows the list with its progress, pauses, starts and removes downloads, and starts and stops the queues, in the phone's language. Only paired devices are answered, each removable in Options, and only on the computer's private network addresses. Guide.
Run GDM on a server (#157): misterdownloadmanager --headless runs GDM without a window (a home server, a NAS, Docker, Unraid), its folders and port set by flags or the environment; a Dockerfile, a Compose file and an Unraid template come with it. Phones pair with the code it prints (or misterdownloadmanager-cli pair), and the browser extension can send downloads to another GDM. Guide.
The automation API's list also gives the queues, the categories and the free space; it starts and stops a queue by name, and an added address can choose its category and queue.

Accounts, the Scheduler and support

Sign-ins in the system's keychain (#44): debrid accounts, Sites Logins' passwords and the proxy's password are kept in Windows Credential Manager, in the system keyring on Linux (Secret Service: GNOME Keyring, KeePassXC and others) and in the macOS keychain, and the settings keep only a reference. Those already saved move there on the next start. A locked keyring is never unlocked and no keyring is ever asked for a password: without one, they stay in GDM's settings as before, sealed for your Windows account on Windows (the proxy's password now too, like Sites Logins' passwords). Options → Accounts says where they are. A portable copy keeps them in its own folder, and uninstalling with remove the download list and settings removes them from Credential Manager too.
The Scheduler wakes the computer to run a queue (#142): tick Wake the computer to run this queue under the start time, and a sleeping computer is woken a minute before the queue starts and kept awake while it runs; the line under it says when. On Windows it needs Allow wake timers in the power plan: when that is off the Scheduler says so, with a link to the setting. On Linux an administrator has to allow it once (the guide shows how); on macOS only an administrator can schedule a wake, so the option says why it's greyed. GDM never asks for an administrator's password. The Scheduler is 40 pixels taller for it.
Support GDM: Help → Support GDM and a line in About open the creator's GitHub Sponsors page in the browser; the website, the README and the browser extension's popup link to it too. Only when asked: GDM stays free, with no reminders, and nothing changes or unlocks.

Linux

The AppImage updates through AppImage tools too (#24): it carries the address of its updates, and each release has its .AppImage.zsync, so AppImageLauncher, Gear Lever and AppImageUpdate download only the parts that changed. Update now works as before.
The Linux files are named without -experimental: the AppImage, .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz are MisterDownloadManager-<version>-linux-x86_64.<ext>, and the .deb's and .rpm's descriptions no longer call them an experimental build. Update now, the AppImage tools and the website find them by either name. The macOS .dmg files keep -experimental.

The website

A page for every feature, and a Themes page (#260): each feature has a page of its own, with the real window, where to find it in the app, since which version, and what it can't do yet; the home page lists them all, by group. The Themes page shows every built-in theme in its light and dark side, and how to make your own theme file, try it without building GDM, and share it, with a prompt to give an AI assistant. What isn't in a release yet says so.
Made possible by these amazing humans: the home page's first view thanks everyone who sent a pull request, opened an issue or joined a conversation on GitHub, with their round photos; the new Contributors page shows what each one did; each release, on the News page and in its notes on GitHub, ends with the people who helped since the one before; and the README thanks everyone too.

Changed

Downloads and the browser

A download from the browser keeps the browser's name, size and type: Download File Info no longer asks the server again, so a link's own name (download="…"), a Unicode name and a download behind a sign-in show right away, and correctly. When it must ask (an address typed in), it asks with the cookies, referrer and User-Agent the download will use.
The address the browser was given is kept along with where its redirects led, so an expired signed link (a GitHub release, a cloud drive) is renewed when resumed, and a site excluded in Options is left alone even when it redirects to another.
GDM follows every kind of redirect a browser does (#28): any HTTP redirect (301, 302, 303, 307, 308), up to 20 in a row instead of 10, and the pages download sites put in between ("your download starts in a moment"), which lead on with a Refresh header or a <meta http-equiv="refresh">: their wait is kept (up to 10 seconds), and the cookies they set go along while the download runs (not into a resume later). A page that leads on only through its own script still stops there.
The download button over videos passes the page's referrer, cookies and the browser's User-Agent to yt-dlp, so videos that need a sign-in or play only where they're embedded work.
Files downloaded from the web are marked as downloaded from the internet, as the browser marks its own: Windows' Mark of the Web (SmartScreen, Office's Protected View), macOS' quarantine.
Downloads from a private window are kept out of the saved list.
Torrents behind a proxy open no UDP socket toward the network: UDP trackers were already left out there; now their client stays on this computer too.
Proxy auto-config scripts (PAC) run in QuickJS, a much smaller JavaScript engine, with limits on memory and running time: a script that loops or grows forever now fails, as a broken script does (the download goes on with the default proxy settings), instead of holding it.
The extension is called GolinksPRO Download Manager.

Smaller and lighter

GDM's programs and downloads are much smaller (#25): on Windows, the programs went from 93 MB to 41 MB (misterdownloadmanager.exe from 61 MB to 38 MB, the command line from 28 MB to a 0.2 MB launcher), and setup.exe from 23 MB to 16 MB. On Linux the AppImage went from 36 MB to 20 MB, the .deb from 27 MB to 17 MB.
The command line runs in the app's own program, so the download engine ships once. Every command, --json, Ctrl+C and exit code work as before.
The translations (85 languages besides English) are packed, 12 MB of text in under 1 MB without the translators' notes, and unpacked once at start.
Release signatures are checked by GDM's own small verifier instead of a full OpenPGP library.
The code that draws the windows is optimised for size (the engine stays optimised for speed), and the programs are optimised as a whole.
Crash reports name functions from the release's symbol files only, without the debug-info reader a build from source can add.
The installer packs tighter, and GDM's own code no longer carries the build machine's folder paths (a bundled C library still keeps a few of its own).
Later, the program is built for size (#158), which takes the installer from 16.1 to 13.6 MB and the zips from 19.3 to 15.6 MB, with the same features and the same download speed.
Two smaller macOS downloads (#25): a .dmg for Apple Silicon (-macos-arm64, about 14 MB) and one for Intel (-macos-x86_64, about 16 MB) instead of one universal .dmg of 80 MB. From 0.2.4 or older, update once by hand: Download in Check for updates opens the release; pick your Mac's .dmg. Update now works again after that.
Less memory in the notification area (#72): closed to the tray, or minimized there (on by default), GDM gives the memory it isn't using back to Windows. Task Manager's Memory drops from about 50 MB to under 10 MB (with 500 downloads in the list, from 58 to about 14 MB). It gives it back again 2 minutes after hiding, when the clock's ticks and a one-time allocation have brought some back, then every 10 minutes while GDM stays there. After the language list (which needs a font for every script) closes, those fonts are let go: about 70 MB less than before. On Linux the heap's free memory goes back to the system the same way. GDM uses a lot of memory explains Task Manager's figures.

Reports, translations and help

Freeze reports say what kind of freeze it was (#57): GDM measures how much processor time the window got while it didn't answer. The report then says whether it ran all along (a loop), waited (a deadlock, or the disk or the network), or hardly ran at all, which means a computer too busy to run GDM or slow to load it from disk, most likely not a bug in GDM. Those last ones share one signature, so they find one issue instead of many.
Better translations in every language. Every machine-translated text of the program and of the website was read again against the English, with a style guide for each language (how it writes commands, questions and labels) and the terms native reviewers settled, and fixed where it was wrong or unnatural. Texts a person reviewed (all of Italian and Arabic) were left as they are. New texts are translated the same way from now on.
Translators: a reviewed translation is never replaced by machine translation. A row whose #, machine line a person deleted is kept by tools/i18n/translate.py in every case (--redo included; a check it fails is printed for the person to decide), and CI fails a pull request that drops such a row or marks it #, machine again (tools/i18n/reviewed_guard.py). The first reviewed catalog is Italian (#150).
The help shows what it describes (#228): every guide and the main help pages now have pictures of the windows they explain, cropped to what matters, numbered where a step points at one control, and step strips for the usual flows (a download from the browser, a first download, a video, a torrent, a queue overnight). On the website they follow its light or dark theme, keep their place while they load, and open larger with a click; their descriptions and captions are translated with the page. The pictures are made by a script from one list (tools/shots/), so they can all be taken again in one go.

For developers

A Linux test machine, scripted (part of #164): tools/lab/linux-vm/ sets up an Ubuntu 24.04 desktop in VirtualBox from a Windows host (vm.ps1: hardware, headless start, linked clones; setup.sh: packages, Rust, Node, the browsers, UI automation, an unlocked keyring), builds any branch or pull request there with a quick test profile (build.sh), and checks pull requests on it: windows shot and compared pixel by pixel (shots.sh, shot-host.sh, pixdiff.py), HLS and DASH hand-overs from the Snap Firefox and Google Chrome (streams.mjs, streams-chrome.mjs), the extension's proxy switch (proxy-optin.mjs), hand-overs and the Scheduler while minimized, torrents without a network, and GDM's start-up time (measure.sh). Every change is now checked on Linux as on Windows. The machine also has copies on KDE Plasma, Cinnamon and XFCE (desktop.sh), which get a build copied over instead of making one (vm.ps1 deploy); a window harness shoots many windows from one running GDM in any language, mode and theme, with real clicks and keys inside the machine (win.sh, win-host.sh); and a store package is checked before it ships (store-check.mjs, chrome-menu.mjs).
Linux builds and window shots in minutes, on WSL2 (part of #164): tools/lab/wsl/ sets up mdm-lab, an Ubuntu 24.04 WSL2 distribution of its own, which builds any branch or pull request for Linux at the computer's full speed (build.sh: about 5 minutes from scratch, under a minute after a change, against 15 to 60 in the VirtualBox machine), shoots GDM's windows in any language and mode on a virtual screen that never shows on Windows (shots.sh: about a second a window, against 40), compares OpenGL and Vulkan pixel by pixel (renderers.sh), and hands a build to a VirtualBox machine for what needs a real desktop (deploy.ps1).
The engine tests no longer fail on a busy computer (#123, #136, #201):
the pause-and-resume and event-log tests no longer depend on how fast the machine is: the lab server can hold a byte back until a test lets it go (stall_at), and a test can wait until every request it made is in the server's log (#123);
three end-to-end tests depended on timing: a refused connection coming back, the learned connection limit, and a dead address (a server without ranges was fixed earlier). Each now waits for the state it checks. The lab server can hold a connection slot for a test (hold_slot), and settled() now also means every slot is free (#136);
nine more tests checked a time, a speed or a byte count that a starved CPU or a busy CI runner can't keep. Each now checks the state itself, or times from the event it is about: a slow request's own duration, a stop measured from Stop against a wait of minutes, the first bytes before a pause, a speed limit against a download the server paces at the same time (and every byte paid for once), parts asked again instead of a deadline, links that expire after a number of requests instead of milliseconds, range attempts a server without ranges answers slowly enough not to fill the sockets, and the bytes a sparse file takes on the drive. The slow-connection test now fails without shedding (it passed without it before). The lab server can hand out such links (/redirect?uses=N) and pace answers to range requests on their own (range_rate) (#201).
The host connection limit test tells a reconnect from a connection too many (#224). A server sees that a client dropped an answer only when it next writes to it, so on a busy computer a connection that reconnects can be refused once while the server still counts its old answer. The lab server now logs, with each refusal, how far the answers holding the client's slots had been sent; the test fails only for a refusal none of them explains.
Tests no longer make Windows Firewall ask about them. The torrent tests and test tools listen on 127.0.0.1 only (a new setting of the torrent engine, its listen address), so each new build of a test no longer opens sockets on every address.
/show menu:<n> opens the menu bar's menu even with downloads in the list; it opened the first download's right-click menu instead.

Fixed

The progress window's Download status tab is balanced: its rows sat 10 px below the tab's top edge but touched its bottom edge; there are now 7 px above and below.
Where a download's server is says "this computer" or "the local network", each with its own icon in the flag's place, instead of "this computer or the local network" with nothing; the dot between the place and the time is round, where the font's thin "·" read as an apostrophe.
Windows: a slow start no longer turns Direct3D off (part of #280): GDM gives Direct3D 10 seconds to show its first frame, and goes back to OpenGL when it doesn't. Those 10 seconds counted GDM's own loading too (the list, the fonts, the icons), which can take that long by itself on a busy computer just after it starts, so Direct3D was taken for failing and OpenGL drew from then on. Only Direct3D's own time counts now. Crash and freeze reports say what drew, on which graphics card and driver (OpenGL's too), and why, near their top, where a report cut to fit still has it.
Linux: torrents work on a system without CA certificates too (part of #264): the torrent engine built its own connection for the trackers, which can't be made without them, so no torrent or magnet link started there. It now uses GDM's: peers, the DHT and http:// trackers work, and an https:// tracker fails saying there are no certificates to check it with.
Linux: uninstalling the .deb or .rpm leaves no browser files behind (#266): GDM wrote the files that tell each browser where its helper is in every user's home folder, and apt remove or dnf remove left them there, naming a program that was gone. The packages now install them for everyone, in each browser's own folder (Chrome and Brave, Chromium and Vivaldi, Edge, Firefox, the Snap Firefox included), and remove them with the package; GDM writes none in the home folder for those browsers, and takes away the ones an earlier version wrote. The AppImage and the tar.gz, and Opera, Helium, Thorium and Firefox's forks (which read them only in the home folder), still get them there.

Windows, menus and dialogs

Sharper text on Windows (#262): Segoe UI and Tahoma are grid-fitted across as well as up and down, and each letter starts on a whole pixel, as Windows draws its own grey text: upright strokes were two grey pixels wide at 100 % and 125 %, which read as blurred.
Menus opened near the screen's right or bottom edge flip inside it at every display scale and interface size: the screen's edge was measured in pixels and the menu in points.
A menu shut with Escape opens again at the first click on its title: a menu opened from the menu bar and shut with Escape, the pointer still on its title, was left marked open. On Linux the next click on that title only "shut" it, and a second click was needed; on Windows Escape seemed to do nothing (the menu came back at once). Escape, or GDM losing the focus, now shuts the menu whatever the pointer rests on; a press on a title still shuts its own menu or opens another.
Menus and the drop target without a black band across their top (#208): on a Windows 11 Insider build (22635), every menu and submenu showed a black band a title bar tall across its top and a thin one down its left side, its items moved down by as much and its last ones cut off; so did the drop target (Tasks → Show drop target), its icon moved down. Each of these windows had a title bar's style, hidden by GDM, and something on that build placed the window's picture where the title bar would have ended. Menus and the drop target are now plain pop-up windows, as Windows' own menus are, with nothing above their contents to take for a title bar; every window of GDM without a title bar is made one the same way.
The progress window, and the windows with a style theme's title bar, without a black band across their top (#208): on the same Windows 11 Insider build, the progress window showed a black band a title bar tall above its own title bar and a thin one down its left side, its contents moved down and cut off at the bottom; so could every dialog and the main window with Metro, Luna, Aero or Aqua. GDM draws these title bars itself, in windows that kept the system's title bar style, hidden. On Windows 11 they now have no title bar style at all: the progress window and the dialogs are plain windows, all theirs; the main window keeps the system's resizing edges, so it still resizes, snaps and maximizes as before, with a thin strip of its title bar's colour above it. Moving them by their title bar, their taskbar button, Alt+Tab and the window menu (Alt+Space, or a right-click on the title bar) work as before. Windows 10 keeps the frames it had.
Windows: Download File Info and the progress window open in front of the browser (#208): a download handed over by the browser could open its window behind the browser, and stay there. Windows lets a program in the background take the foreground only with the browser's say-so, which the user's next click or key ends, and a window refused it opens under the program in front. Every dialog and progress window of GDM that opens without the foreground now goes above the other programs' windows, without taking the keyboard from the one being typed in: a click on it does, as with Download complete.
A window closed with its title bar's × no longer turns black first (#207): every dialog and the progress window turned black for a moment when closed with the × or Alt+F4, rather than with Esc or one of its buttons: one to several seconds on Linux, a few hundredths of a second on Windows. The window now keeps its contents until it goes.
Dark mode: grey notes and error texts are easier to read (#45): they now have the contrast WCAG asks for (4.5:1) on every dark surface, Options' failed checks no longer use light mode's dark red on the dark dialog, and an editable drop-down's arrow is tinted dark under the pointer.
Download complete shows above other programs' windows, as IDM's does, so the end of a download isn't missed (#77): it doesn't take the keyboard from the program being typed in, and once clicked it is a window like any other. Options opened from the extension's Button settings... comes to the front (#77), instead of opening behind the browser on Windows.
Dragging the file out of Download complete works in every language (#78): the handle looked for the English window title, so outside English the drag did nothing. The handle now says what it does on hover. It is Windows only, and no longer shown on Linux and macOS, where it did nothing.
Help opens the website's help pages, in your language (#227): Help contents, Tutorials, Scheduler and queues, Video downloads, the Help buttons of Options and the Scheduler, and the browser extension window's tutorial and help links opened the docs on GitHub (the Options and Scheduler buttons a page that wasn't there). They open misterdownloadmanager.com now, at the same section, in the interface language when the website has it (else English), and Home Page opens the website too. The command line's and the MCP server's help name the website's guide. Problem reports, releases and the source stay on GitHub.

Every language

Buttons fit their text in every language, in every window (#192): many windows gave their buttons a width made for English, so a longer translation was cut with "..." (German Später herunterla... in Download File Info, Hilfsprogramme... in Download a gallery, Russian Открыть с помощью... in Download complete, French Nouvelle file d’attente in the Scheduler). Each button is now as wide as its translated text, and the buttons beside it move along with the same gaps, the row keeping its end; a box or caption beside a widened button ends before it. Where a window has no room left, the buttons wider than their text give some back first. English is unchanged, and in Arabic and the other right-to-left languages the buttons widen the mirrored way.
Three more controls (after #212): in Russian and a few other languages, Download File Info's Preview, Options → Proxy's Get System and the Scheduler's drop-down after Turn off computer when done still ended in "...". Download File Info grows by what Preview's label needs (Russian, Ukrainian, Telugu, Belarusian and a few more), the Proxy page's title moves left to give Get System its room, and the Scheduler's drop-down widens towards its caption.
The last languages (after #247): Options → Proxy's title takes two lines where one leaves Get System too little room (Bulgarian, Armenian, Tamil), and where it ran over the page's icon or past the window's left edge (Greek, Finnish, Catalan, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Serbian, Afrikaans). In Greek and Malayalam, the Scheduler's "Turn off computer when done" and its choices have shorter machine translations, so the drop-down fits beside the caption; in Belarusian, Welsh, French, Russian, Tamil and Ukrainian, the longer ones the translation review brought (such as Russian's Hibernate) are back to their earlier, shorter wording.
Download video: the buttons fit their text in every language (#172): in German ffmpeg installieren showed as "ffmpeg installie...", and in Russian Helpers... and Install ffmpeg were cut too. Each button is now as wide as its translated text (English is unchanged), and the page's title stops before the Install button instead of running under it. In Arabic and the other right-to-left languages, a widened Hide tab in a download's window now grows into the room beside it instead of towards the window's edge.
"Hide tab" was cut in longer languages (German "Registerkarte au..."): the button grows to fit its label where there is room, through a shared helper other buttons can use.
Add torrent: the labels fit in every language: in German, Speichern unter ran under its field.
A long file name ran out of the progress window (#62): on the Options on completion tab, a longer translation of "Save To:" (Turkish, German…) ran into the path, and the path ran past the window's edge. The label now takes the room its language needs, and the path is shortened in the middle, keeping the file's name in sight, and shown whole on hover; right-to-left languages included.
The crash report window in other languages (#204): in any language but English, the report in its box ran together on a few long lines, as its line breaks were taken for a translation's and flowed again. The report now keeps its own lines in every language, and in Arabic and Persian it reads left to right, from the box's left edge, as the English data it is (the window around it stays right to left). The release notes in Check for updates keep their lines the same way. End and restart GDM showed cut in German, French, Russian and Arabic: the buttons are now as wide as their text, the others giving back room they don't need.
The crash report window's status line stays inside the window (#164): the line above the check box ("The symbols couldn't be fetched: …", an issue's title, a translation) ran past the window's right edge, or its left edge in Persian. It is now cut with "…" at the margin and shown whole under the pointer. Its title ("GolinksPRO Download Manager crash report") is now in GDM's language too; it was always in the system's. On Windows that also gives its title bar GDM's light or dark again in every language: outside English it kept Windows' own mode.
The extension's popup: Open GolinksPRO Download Manager shows whole (#164): on Linux, whose fonts are wider, and in longer languages, the button was cut to "Open Mister Do…". Each button is now as wide as its text, and Options moves below it when both don't fit on one line.
Numbers are written the interface language's way (#128): counts, sizes, speeds, percentages and the list's columns group and point their digits as the chosen language does (German 10.200 and 1,50 MB, French 10 200, Hindi 1,00,000), whatever the Windows region; a region in the same language keeps its own way (Swiss German 10’200). English is unchanged.
Download complete's Open with... stayed in English in every other language (#80). The tool that collects GDM's texts for translation now also finds labels given through a window's own helpers, and checks in CI that it keeps finding them.
Download File Info's errors are worded in the interface language, as the list's are.
Bangla shows Bangladesh's flag instead of India's, in the language picker, on the website and in the README (#27).

Linux

Ubuntu's Firefox reaches GDM (part of #164): the Snap Firefox never makes the folder GDM looked for, so browser integration wasn't set up for it and its extension couldn't find GDM. It is now, and the Snap goes through the desktop, which asks once (Allow); the help says how to be asked again after Don't allow. Chromium as a Snap ran GDM's helper inside its sandbox, away from GDM (it started a second, sandboxed GDM): GDM no longer offers it, and the help says why.
Brave Origin connects, and the AppImage's helper is always there (#253): Brave Origin keeps its settings in a folder of its own (~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Origin), which GDM didn't know, so its extension said GDM wasn't installed. GDM now sets up Brave Origin, the Beta, Dev and Nightly versions of Brave, Chrome and Edge, and Vivaldi's snapshot; on macOS, Brave reads Chrome's folder, which GDM now writes for it. From the AppImage, GDM copies the helper program the browsers start out of the AppImage under a new name and swaps it in, so a browser still running the old copy no longer keeps the new one out, and puts it back at each start if it went missing. A copy or setup that fails is written to GDM's log, and Test browser integration says when the helper program is missing, when no browser was found, or why setting it up failed.
Dark Mode support follows the desktop, on every desktop (#156): View → Dark Mode support did nothing on Linux: GDM asked the window system for the desktop's light or dark setting, and X11 never says. It now asks the desktop itself (the freedesktop portal, which KDE, GNOME, Cinnamon and most others answer) and follows it as it changes. Where the portal doesn't answer, as on XFCE and MATE, GDM stayed light under a dark theme: it now reads the theme the desktop gives its programs (a name such as Adwaita-dark, Mint-Y-Dark or Greybird-dark is dark), GNOME's own dark style setting when there is no portal, and GTK's settings with no desktop at all, and follows changes as they happen. The portal still comes first. A change now shows at once too: the window waited for its next theme check, up to 20 s on a busy machine, on every desktop.
Menus open where they belong: in a Wayland session they opened in the middle of the screen (#50), as Wayland lets no program place its windows, and GDM's menus and drop-down lists are windows it places; GDM now runs through XWayland when it is there (MDM_WAYLAND=1 keeps Wayland). Under tiling compositors such as sway (#267), through XWayland, the menu bar's menus, their submenus, the right-click menus and the drop-down lists still opened in the middle of the screen, as the compositor placed them like windows. They are now menu windows no window manager places, as X11 menus are, so they open where GDM puts them, on every window manager.
Linux: menus appear at once, as menus, on compositors that animate windows (Hyprland, picom with fading, #277). Before the fix above, Hyprland gave GDM's menus a window's border and slid each one down from the top of the screen. And moving from title to title along the menu bar closed one menu window and opened another, so such a compositor faded each menu out and the next one in at every switch. The menu bar's menus now share one window that moves from title to title, as a submenu's window already did from item to item, and each menu window says which menu it is (a drop-down menu, a right-click menu, a drop-down list), as GTK's and Qt's do.
Leaving a submenu no longer closes the whole menu (#250): with a submenu open (Tasks → Import, Downloads → Speed Limiter), moving the pointer back onto its menu, to another item, closed the menu itself as well. Some window managers (KWin, sway) give a submenu's window the focus; when the submenu closed, its window handed the focus on, and for a moment no window of GDM had it, which counted as GDM losing the focus. A menu now closes for that only when the focus stays away (a click in another program). A submenu also closes when the pointer rests on another item without moving, instead of waiting for the next move.
The window couldn't be closed on desktops without a tray, such as MangoWC (#59): closing hid it to a tray that wasn't there. Closing now hides to the tray only when a tray shows GDM's icon, and quits otherwise. (The menus and dark mode there: see #50 and #60.)
The first window opens seconds sooner, and no longer freezes on a busy computer (part of #164): GDM asked fontconfig for its fonts one at a time (one program for each of some thirty scripts, more each time the language list opened) while the window waited, 2 s on an idle computer and long enough on a busy one for a freeze report on the very first start. It now asks once, all together, while the rest of GDM starts.
Open folder no longer freezes the window (#222): Download complete's Open folder asks the desktop's file manager (over D-Bus) to show the file, and GDM waited for its answer on the window's own thread. A file manager slow to start, or one that never answered (seen on Pop!_OS), froze the window until the freeze report caught it. GDM now asks in the background and, when the file manager hasn't answered within 5 seconds, opens the folder instead. Every other program GDM starts from a window goes the same way, on every system: Test browser integration's Set it up, moving an extracted archive to the Trash (on a Mac the Finder may ask first), putting an update in place (Installing the update..., with Cancel greyed while it runs), opening pages and folders, reading the icon theme on Linux and, on a Mac, the accent colour (every 2 seconds with the Native theme) and the system's version for a bug report.
The window no longer freezes when the system's sleep or keychain service is slow (follows #222): a queue set to Wake the computer to run this queue asks the system to keep the computer awake while it runs. On Linux that is logind, which can be slow to answer just after the computer wakes, exactly when such a queue starts, and GDM waited for it on the window's own thread (asking again every 5 seconds while it refused). It is now asked in the background, on every system; the queue's downloads, retries and log lines are the same. A keyring that doesn't answer at start (a stopped GNOME Keyring) is now waited for once, at most 5 seconds, instead of once per saved password, and saving the list no longer asks it at all. On Linux the check for a tray to hide windows in, and in Download File Info the check that Save As isn't a folder (slow on a network share that doesn't answer), no longer run on the window's thread on every frame.
The .deb and .rpm bring what GDM's window needs (part of #164): on a system without libxkbcommon-x11 (a minimal install, a container), GDM installed from them stopped at start under X11 and XWayland, and without the CA certificates (Debian's minimal install) no download started. They now require both, and EGL for Wayland windows. They also require the glibc the programs were built against, read from the programs themselves, instead of a fixed version: a package built on a newer system no longer installs on an older one where it can't start.
A missing window library is named, with how to install it (#265): from the tar.gz or the AppImage, on a system without libxkbcommon-x11 (or another library X11 windows need), GDM stopped at start with a crash. It now says which library is missing and the command that installs it (apt, dnf, zypper, pacman or apk, by the distribution), on the terminal and in a message box (zenity or kdialog, when there is one). In a Wayland session it opens its window on Wayland instead, saying so.
Plain HTTP downloads work on a system without CA certificates (#264): on a minimal install without the ca-certificates package (the tar.gz, the AppImage or a source build), no download started, http:// ones included ("No CA certificates were loaded from the system"). Plain HTTP and FTP now work there, and each HTTPS or FTPS download fails at once, without retrying, saying that the computer has no certificates to check the server with and to install ca-certificates.
Galleries work with the gallery-dl a Linux distribution ships (#236): with Ubuntu 24.04's gallery-dl 1.26.9 chosen in Helpers, every gallery failed at once ("unrecognized arguments: --no-input"): GDM passed options that only newer releases know. GDM now reads the chosen gallery-dl's version and passes only what that release accepts, from 1.20 (Ubuntu 22.04) to today's; checked against every release from 1.17 to 1.32. An older one (Debian 11's 1.17) is refused when chosen, saying it is too old and which version GDM needs, and one chosen before is passed over for GDM's own copy, which Helpers says. gallery-dl 1.30.0, whose version starts with an empty line, is no longer taken for another program.
Update now asks the package manager which package GDM is: a copy in /usr/bin was taken for the .deb on a Debian-like system and for the .rpm anywhere else, so a copy installed with another package manager (pacman on Arch) would have fetched and opened an .rpm. GDM now asks dpkg, rpm and pacman which one owns its program; the .deb and .rpm update as before, and a copy of another package manager is left to the system's updates: Check for updates shows the new version's notes and says to update it there.
Update now finds the Linux and macOS files by either name: a release's AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz and .dmg were named …-experimental; GDM now looks for the name without it first and still takes the older one, so Update now keeps working whichever a release uses.

Downloads

A minimized GDM keeps working: with the main window minimized (not to the notification area), queues didn't start their next file, the Scheduler's starts and stops didn't fire, download limits, the network adapter's kill switch, the clipboard monitor, the update check, the taskbar's progress and saving the list all waited until the window was restored. They run in every window state now, and their windows (Download complete, a limit's notice) open at once.
A download or magnet link sent while the window is minimized opens at once (#162): with the main window minimized (not to the notification area), a download from the browser or a magnet link was accepted but its window waited until GDM was restored. Download File Info and Add torrent now open right away, as they do with the window open or in the notification area.
GDM closed with an internal error when a window opened while the main window was minimized or hidden in the notification area, for example Download File Info for a download from the browser, or Add torrent for a magnet link opened in the browser (#22, #145). The cause was in egui, the toolkit GDM is drawn with (emilk/egui#8470), and is fixed in GDM's copy of it.
A finished download no longer fails with "part file still in use" on a busy computer (#201): when the last bytes came in, the connections still running were cut off. One cut off while it read or wrote the part file (checking the bytes before a reconnect, for example) left that read or write to finish on its own, with the file still open, and renaming the finished file failed. The connections are now told to stop and waited for, when a download completes and when it is stopped or fails, so none of them outlives it. A stopped download's last writes are also in its saved progress now.
A download's progress file could be written again just after it stopped (#106), and a download could fail as it finished, with "part file still in use" (#116). GDM saves a download's progress every few seconds, in a file beside it. A download paused or finished during one of those saves could stop before the save was done; that save then wrote an old progress file a moment later, or, when the last bytes arrived during it, still held the file. A download now stops only once its save is done.
A download too big for the drive is refused on a busy computer too (#224): before a download starts, GDM checks the drive has room for it. It gave up checking after 5 seconds (a network drive that no longer answers can hang), counted from when it asked; on a very busy computer the check could wait longer than that just to start, and a download too big for its drive started anyway. The 5 seconds now count from when the check runs, and it asks only the folder's own drive instead of listing every drive, which takes well under a millisecond. A shared network folder (\\server\share) is checked too, which it wasn't before, and a folder that doesn't exist yet is checked on the drive it will be made on.
A server without ranges no longer sends the file twice (#136): when the extra connections' answers came late (a busy computer), the download could finish and then start over on one connection, fetching the whole file again. GDM now stops its other connections once every byte is in, and a server that never said it takes ranges is known for one at its first full answer (a CDN that says it does and misses a range now and then still gets several connections).
Stopping a download under a low speed limit took seconds: each connection first waited for its turn under the limit. Stop now ends those waits at once.
Links that work only once (or hosts that allow one download at a time) failed with "403 Forbidden" after Download File Info had looked them up (#28): the window's look and the download each asked the server. The download now continues from the answer the window got, and asks again only if that connection has closed meanwhile.
A download whose address ends in a long token (file hosts such as AnkerGames' mirrors) failed with "the path is too long for Windows" before it started (#28). Every new download's name is now shortened to fit its folder (keeping the extension), and when nobody named the file (no name from the browser, no answer to the look-up, not edited), it gets the name the server gives, as in a browser: Call-of-Duty-Infinite-Warfare-AnkerGames.zip rather than the address's token.
Resuming after a waiting page: when a download's address had to be asked again (an expired link), GDM now goes through the same waiting pages and redirects as the first time, instead of giving up on them.
A Google Drive link saved Drive's web page (a file named view or download) instead of the file (#34).
File names can no longer hide a right-to-left mark (invoice‮fdp.exe), and a server's Unicode filename* name wins over its plain fallback.
A freeze while GDM handles a command is reported again (#202): since the clock and what comes in from outside (a second launch, the browser, the automation API) run in every window state, a freeze there opened no crash report window and wrote no freeze report, minimized or not. The watchdog now times that part of each frame too.

The browser

Waterfox (and Firefox set to ask what to do with each file): the download stayed in the browser (#208). Firefox's family hands an extension the download only after its What should … do with this file? dialog, by which time it has already downloaded the file behind the dialog. GDM now takes the download as the server's answer arrives, before the dialog: for a file GDM takes, the dialog never shows and the browser downloads nothing. Other files open the dialog as before.
A second browser download arriving while Download File Info was open replaced the first, which was lost (the browser had already given it up). They now wait their turn, and those still waiting when GDM quits are kept in the main queue (Download Later).
When Firefox started GDM for a download, closing its helper could close GDM too.
A download with very large cookies made the browser's helper start a second GDM and wait 5 seconds; GDM only starts now when it isn't running, and takes what the browser sends.
GDM listens for the browser before its window is up, and the browser's helper waits 20 seconds for a slow first start instead of 5.
Browser downloads are no longer taken when the extension may not read the site (its access set to On click): without the site's cookies they would fail.
The extension's right-click menu, and its translation, are set up again cleanly after an update.
The browser extension's Download video menu: an item's highlight ran past the menu's edge (#81).

Videos

HLS and DASH videos from the browser, as their stream (#155): a video played as a stream (most sites' long videos) failed with yt-dlp's "Unsupported URL" when the extension sent the page instead of the stream. Download with GolinksPRO Download Manager in the right-click menu on such a video now sends the stream its player loaded, as the button over videos and Media on this page do. In Firefox it did nothing at all. The cookies sent are those of the stream's own server, not the page's.
Streams served as plain text, from addresses without .m3u8 or .mpd (#171): some players load their stream from such an address, and the extension didn't know it as one. The button over the video, the right-click menu and Media on this page then sent the page alone, which yt-dlp answered "Unsupported URL". Now, when one of them is used and no stream is known, the extension reads the start of what the player fetched (a few kilobytes, never on sight) and recognises an HLS playlist or a DASH manifest.
Videos that need a sign-in (#229):
from the button over them: the button's cookies reached the Download video window's look-up but not the download's own, which then failed with "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot";
from YouTube Music and YouTube's mobile site: the button over a video on music.youtube.com or m.youtube.com passed the page's cookies for that host only, while yt-dlp asks www.youtube.com, so the sign-in didn't reach it. The extension now sends each cookie with the domain the browser keeps it for, and GDM gives yt-dlp each one for that domain: youtube.com's sign-in reaches every YouTube host, and a host's own cookie stays with that host. With an older extension, a YouTube page's cookies (or a site's mobile page's, m. and mobile.) go to the whole site.
A video download could fail in GDM while yt-dlp went on and finished it (#79). A line yt-dlp printed in the system's code page rather than UTF-8 (a title in Turkish or Russian on some Windows) ended GDM's reading there, and the finished file was then "not said". yt-dlp now always writes UTF-8, every line is read to the end, and the saved file is also found by its name. Whenever GDM gives a video download up, it ends yt-dlp and everything yt-dlp started, so nothing goes on downloading unseen.
Stopping a video download left yt-dlp downloading in the background on Windows (#61): yt-dlp.exe starts a second process that does the work, and only the first was ended. Resuming then failed ("yt-dlp did not provide information") and a new try crawled, sharing the line with the old one. Each helper now runs in a job of its own that Stop ends whole.
YouTube: "Requested format is not available" after GDM moved a video to another server (#94). When the servers this computer can reach don't serve the chosen quality, GDM downloads the nearest quality below it (always a video, never the sound alone) and says so in the download's log. With no video left at all, it tries the page's own servers. A server yt-dlp couldn't resolve or reach is avoided on the next look-up. The log also names the qualities a move left out.
ffmpeg could fail to install with "the release has no an LGPL Windows build": BtbN, whose builds GDM installs, publishes a dated build each day and then remakes its latest release, and meanwhile GitHub's "latest" is the dated one, whose files are named differently. GDM now reads BtbN's newest releases, either naming, and takes the newest complete build. Errors while installing yt-dlp or ffmpeg are also worded in the interface language now.

Torrents

A magnet link could wait minutes for its file list (#92): in 0.2.4 on Windows, the DHT (how GDM finds peers without trackers) could stop for the rest of the session once a computer it asked was gone, so a magnet its trackers didn't serve never got its file list. The updated torrent library keeps going, and a test keeps it that way. Add torrent now shows the wait: the peers found, from the trackers, the DHT or the local network, and how many answered. After 30 seconds without an answer, it says what may be in the way.
Speed limits now work as they do for other downloads (#39): a limit set in a torrent's progress window changed every torrent's limit, a remembered limit was ignored, the Speed Limiter's "for one file" was shared by all torrents together, and "Limit all downloads together" left torrents out. Each torrent now has a limit of its own, a remembered one applies again when it resumes, and torrents and other downloads share the global cap evenly: each side gets at least half of it, and the rest when the other side needs less. A limit under 16 KB/s, which made a torrent drop its peers and stall, gives it 16 KB/s. A torrent started again while its files were still being checked no longer stays paused, and of two torrents started at the same moment, the second no longer fails with "the torrent is no longer there".
A finished torrent's progress window lost its tabs while it was still shared: Files, Peers, Trackers, Pieces and General (with the share ratio) said "Shown while the torrent is downloading." They now stay for as long as the torrent is shared.

Screen readers

Every row of a list, not only those in view (#111): a list's rows out of view (the last qualities of Download video, a long playlist, the downloads) are there too, named, with their place ("12 of 40"), and can be scrolled into view or selected. A list of thousands offers 300 rows around the view, so it stays as fast.
Lists read as blank items (#95): the rows of Download video's qualities, Add torrent's files, the language picker, Options (browsers, sounds, the file-type and site lists), the Scheduler and Import now have their names (a format and its size, a file's name and size), their check boxes theirs, ticked or not, and their selected row; Download video's list is called Quality, Add torrent's Files and the sounds' Sounds. Choosing a row from a screen reader (UI Automation's Select) now shows the new choice at once: it used to wait for the next mouse move.
List rows sit inside their list (#102): they used to be listed beside it. A screen reader now says which row of how many ("4 of 12"), choosing from the list itself works (UI Automation's Selection), and a tree's check box belongs to its file's row. The language picker's list and the Options browser list and the Scheduler's two lists have names now too.
The Categories pane and the menus (#113): the pane reads as a tree (each category named with its count, open or shut, selected), the menu bar and every right-click menu as menus whose items can be run, and Shift+F10 or the Menu key opens the selected category's menu. A menu opened from the keyboard no longer stays invisible until the mouse moves.
A window's contents the first time they read it (#131): a window read for the first time (Link grabber, Options, About...) showed only its title bar until it was drawn again. It now answers with what it shows at once, as soon as a screen reader is running.
The progress window's Speed Limiter took a speed set with a screen reader or UI Automation only after the focus moved on, and its "Remember Speed Limiter settings for this file" check box had no name. A speed set that way applies at once, and the box is named.

Security

Torrents: file names are checked more strictly (#40): a torrent with names the system can't write safely is refused, saying which name, and so are torrents kept from an earlier run.
The torrent library is updated (librqbit 9.1.0).
No silent overwrite: when some of a torrent's files are already in the folder, GDM asks before writing into them (No is the default). The command line's torrent-get stops and names them, unless given --use-existing.
Files from torrents are marked as downloaded from the internet, as web downloads are: SmartScreen checks a program before it first runs, Office opens documents in Protected View, and Gatekeeper checks apps on a Mac.
Torrents' trackers on this computer or the local network aren't contacted, and a .torrent file over 10 MB isn't read (it isn't one). Peers see GDM's major version only.

What's new in version 0.2.4 2026-11-01

A fix for 0.2.3, whose toolbar buttons did nothing (only their drop-down arrows worked), and for dark mode, which drew everything a little bigger and in other places than day mode.

Added

The video helpers are offered on the first start. A window explains what yt-dlp and ffmpeg do and downloads both on Yes, download them (recommended); Not now leaves them for the video window. Upgrading? It asks once too, if one of them is missing.

Changed

GDM's own downloads use its own downloader: yt-dlp, ffmpeg, GDM's updates and a crash report's symbols now come down with several connections, resume after a cut connection and go through your proxy settings. Each file is still checked against its publisher's signed checksums before use.

Fixed

The toolbar's buttons work again: Add URL, Add Torrent, Delete Completed, Options, Scheduler, Start Queue and the others did nothing when clicked in 0.2.3; their drop-down arrows did.
Dark mode has day mode's sizes and places: the menu bar, the toolbar, the panes, the list's lines and selection, buttons and the progress window's table measure the same in both modes. Only the colours change.
Texts that were always in English are translated in every language: the empty list's message, buttons of the crash report window, and why OK or Verify is greyed in some windows.
Menus fit their texts: they were wider than needed, so short commands looked lost in them.
The language list scrolls with the mouse wheel.
A cut file name's full text shows at the pointer, not under the list.
Toolbar buttons have as much room under their label as above their icon when the pointer is over them.

What's new in version 0.2.3 2026-11-01

A fix for 0.2.2, which froze on every system as soon as Add URL opened, and crash reports, so the next problem like it is caught and fixed sooner.

Added

Crash reports. If GDM closes unexpectedly or stops responding, a report window opens. It shows what happened and where in GDM's code, lets you read the whole report, and Send on GitHub opens a crash report form in your browser, filled in. Nothing is sent by itself. When the same problem was already reported, it takes you to that issue instead. A frozen GDM can be ended and restarted from there. Reports leave out your download addresses and file names. See Crash reports.
A log, kept in GDM's data folder (logs), so a report can show what led to a problem.
GDM checks for updates every time it starts (it was once a week), and once a day while it stays open; a new version's window opens in front. Check for updates at every start in that window turns it off.

Changed

One look for every kind of control, in both themes: text boxes, read-only fields, check boxes, buttons, drop-downs, tabs, lists and their headers, popups and progress bars are each drawn one way everywhere (dark mode drew some windows' controls in an older style, with bright borders). A number and its arrows are one box now, as Windows 11's are; text is centred in controls of any height; one blue for selection and focus.
A tour of the features on the website instead of a wall of screenshots.

Fixed

The window froze for seconds while a big download was writing: GDM saved its list on the window's thread, and the save waited for the disk. It saves on a thread of its own now (the new crash reports caught it).
Add URL froze GDM (Tasks → Add new download, the toolbar's Add URL, Ctrl+N), and so did Download File Info: their address and Save As boxes took the keyboard focus and GDM waited on itself. Everything clicked after that seemed to do nothing. A test now opens Add URL the way you do, and a stricter check looks for this kind of hang in the whole app.

What's new in version 0.2.2 2026-11-01

A sweep through every window for the small things that make a program feel finished: how each control looks and answers the mouse and the keyboard, dark mode everywhere, screen readers, and a long list of fixes found by reviewing all of it (issue #7 and more).

Added

A status strip under the list: how many downloads it shows and how many are selected, how many are running and how fast in all. The tray icon's tip says the same.
Drag and drop on the main window: drop a link to add it, several links or a list (.txt, .ef2) to choose them in Import, a .torrent file to add it.
GDM comes back as you left it: the window's place and size, the Categories pane, its open branches and the node shown.
Download counts in the Categories tree, an empty list that says why (with Clear filters or Add new download), a right-click menu on the list's blank space, a double-click on a column border to fit it, and Reset columns.
Screen readers (Narrator, NVDA): every window, dialogs and menus included, now tells them what each control is, its name and its state; the download list reads each download.
Keyboard everywhere: arrow keys in radio groups and tab strips, Ctrl+Tab between tabs, type a name to jump to it in any list or drop-down, Up/Down through Add URL's and Save As' history, Home/End in menus, Tab between the Categories tree and the list (the tree answers the arrows), F2 to rename, held arrows repeat, the date picker's calendar works from the keyboard and has Today.

Changed

Windows 11's look in light mode: rounded text boxes and drop-downs (no more black corner dots), pressed states on every button (issue #7), focus rings only when you use the keyboard, tooltips with Windows 11's corners and padding, and dark mode in every window.
Every list in the dialogs scrolls, highlights and takes the keys the same way, and the Scheduler's list of a queue's files now scrolls at all.
Numbers are typed in one kind of box everywhere: arrows step them, a value out of range is outlined in red and set right when you leave the box (some were changed silently before).
Things that fail say why: opening a file that was moved, a file that can't be deleted or moved, the list that can't be saved, a computer that won't shut down, a check closed early.
System file dialogs no longer freeze GDM's other windows while they are open.
The mouse wheel scrolls as many lines a notch as Windows' mouse settings say, in every list, tree and text box; Page Up / Page Down in the download list go to the edge of what's shown first, as in Explorer; text boxes of several lines have the lists' scroll bar.
The toolbar's right-click menu is gone: it offered button sizes and styles that don't exist.

Fixed

Options' OK undid changes made meanwhile (the toolbar's Speed Limiter, Torrent settings…), and the Scheduler's Close undid downloads added to or removed from a queue.
Shift+Delete's answer was remembered: after one Shift+Delete, a plain Delete with "Don't show again" erased files from disk. Shift+Delete now works on macOS and Linux too.
Sleep when done hibernated the computer on Windows.
Enter did two things: with Cancel or a check box focused, Enter also pressed OK.
Download File Info ignored an edited address and accepted an empty Save As.
Find could select a download hidden by the column filters; the selection vanished when the list lost focus; Delete now selects the next download.
The keyboard focus got lost when a button greyed itself or Escape closed a drop-down: Tab started over at the top of the window. It now moves on, or comes back, as in Windows.
Help → Report a problem filled the form's System and Installed with only for a moment; they stay filled now.
A torrent's progress window: its tabs touched the buttons above them, and Resume capability's Yes / No stood apart from the other values. A long list of file types in Options ran out under its box.
Deleting a queue asks first; a running queue stops when deleted; the toolbar's Start / Stop Queue arrows always work.
Many more: the checksum dialog, the progress window's completion options and speed limit, the torrent and video windows (Stop a look-up, stale video choices), Batch's letter ranges, addresses without http://, duplicate links arriving together, imports that doubled downloads, menu titles that shared access letters in French and other languages, and more.

What's new in version 0.2.1 2026-10-31

Added

Update now in Help → Check for updates: GDM downloads the new version, checks it, puts it in place and restarts, on Windows (setup, portable and plain zip), Mac and Linux (AppImage, .tar.gz; a .deb or .rpm opens in the system's installer). It installs only files listed in a checksum list signed by GDM's release key, which every release now carries (SHA256SUMS.txt.sig). The first update this way will be from 0.2.1 to the next version.

Fixed

Ghost windows while a menu is open (issue #4): faded copies of the main window titled "egui window" opened and closed with every redraw of an open menu, and the toolbar's hover flickered under them. On a Mac in full screen they opened a space of their own and froze GDM (issue #5). They came with 0.2.0's menu keyboard support, which asked about a submenu's window that wasn't open, and that made one.
Check for updates: the release notes scroll (the wheel, a trackpad, their scroll bar, and the arrow, Page and Home/End keys); their lines no longer break mid-sentence, and links show as their text (issue #5).
Controls that didn't react to the mouse: the ▾ of Address and Save As (Add URL, Download File Info), the drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, the Categories pane's ×, the Scheduler's date button and calendar, scroll bars and the list's column headers now show when the pointer is over them and when they're pressed, as Windows' own controls do; an arrow stays pressed while its list is open.

Changed

Help → Report a problem opens GitHub's new bug report form with your GDM version, your system and its version, how GDM was installed and its language filled in. Every report now says which system and version it comes from.

What's new in version 0.2.0 2026-10-31

Mac fixes from the first round of real use, found on every system and fixed there too; the menus and text boxes work as in any desktop program; and GDM works with AI assistants.

Fixed

Menus on macOS and Linux: clicking a menu item did nothing (the click moved the focus to the menu's own window, which closed it first). The list's right-click menu and the toolbar's drop-downs had the same fault.
Paste from other programs into any text box (Ctrl+V, ⌘V): GDM kept a clipboard of its own.
The app icon on macOS: the Dock showed a small, blurry icon while GDM ran; it keeps the app's own now. Elsewhere windows take their icon from a large size (sharp at any scaling).
The download list's file icons were drawn over the Categories pane when the list was scrolled sideways (the Categories tree and the Scheduler had the same fault).
The download progress window could be stretched on macOS and Linux without its contents following; it keeps its size, as on Windows.
Questions ("Create this folder?", delete, a duplicate download, the turn-off countdown) could open behind the window that asked them; they stay in front now.
Video downloads' progress went back and forth (a stream in fragments re-estimates its size, and picture and sound arrive one after the other); it only moves forward now, from the size the video window showed.

Added

The menus show each command's keys (Ctrl+N, on a Mac ⌘N) and work from the keyboard: F10 or Alt (on a Mac Ctrl+F2), the underlined letters, the arrows, Enter, Esc.
Right-click any text box for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select all.
Address (Add URL) and Save As (Download File Info) list the last 20 addresses and folders from their arrows; ... beside Save As chooses a folder, + beside Category makes one.
Help → Keyboard shortcuts shows the Mac's keys on a Mac.
AI assistants: misterdownloadmanager-mcp, an MCP server that comes with GDM, lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP assistants list, add, pause, resume and remove the running app's downloads and start its queue, through the automation API (how to set it up).
--json for misterdownloadmanager-cli: every command prints JSON for scripts and AI agents, downloads as one progress line per half second and then done or paused (the formats).
The automation API's JSON Schema, automation-api.schema.json, made from the code the app answers with. Each download in its list now says why it failed (error), and the "it is off" answer carries "code": "api-off" for programs to check.
The website has llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and every help page as Markdown, for AI tools.

Changed

misterdownloadmanager-cli status, pause, start, remove, delete and api exit with code 1 when the app answers with an error (the API is off, an unknown action), as they do when the app isn't running.

What's new in version 0.1.0 2026-10-30

The first release: a free download manager for Windows, laid out the way Internet Download Manager users expect, with experimental builds for macOS and Linux.

The download engine: up to 32 connections per file, re-splitting the slowest part until the last byte, and crash-safe resume after a restart or a dropped connection. HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS (ftp://, ftpes:// explicit TLS, ftps:// implicit TLS), proxies, SOCKS and proxy auto-config (PAC) scripts.
The main window you know: categories, the download list, the progress window with every connection's share, queues and the Scheduler, the speed limiter, Sites Logins, and Options where you expect them, every control working. Day and dark mode.
Browser integration for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi (Firefox in testing): downloads hand over to GDM with their cookies and referrer, right-click Download with Mister Download Manager, and a Download video button over videos on any page, which can be dragged along the video's edge, hidden on a video or a site, or turned off in Options.
Copy a link, get the download window: copying a link to a file type on the File types list opens Download File Info with it, ready to start, also without the browser extension (Options → General → Offer to download links copied to the clipboard, on by default).
Videos from web pages through yt-dlp (installed and kept current from GDM, with ffmpeg for the qualities that need merging), and BitTorrent and magnet links through librqbit: choose the files, see peers, trackers and pieces, keep sharing if you like.
86 interface languages, every language Windows 11 offers, chosen by flag on the first start or in View → Language...; right to left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Uyghur; fonts for every script from the system itself. The installer speaks the same languages, and the browser extension speaks your browser's (50 languages).
Options → Regional: dates and times as your region writes them, or your own way (day, month or year first, 12- or 24-hour clock, the week's first day); the list and the Scheduler follow.
Command line and automation: IDM's switches (/d /p /f /a /n /s), misterdownloadmanager-cli (files, videos, torrents) and a local, token-protected automation API that lists, pauses, starts, removes and deletes downloads.
Downloads: the Windows installer, a portable zip and a plain zip, the browser extension on its own (a zip for Chromium browsers, an .xpi for Firefox, always the app's version), and macOS and Linux to try: a universal .dmg and an AppImage, .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz, marked -experimental because they are untested by us. There, GDM connects itself to Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox, has its tray icon, follows the system's light or dark look and uses the system's fonts and ffmpeg. Tell us how they work for you.
Help opens the user guide and tutorials.

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