# Kavita v0.8.6 — v0.8.6 - Spring Cleaning

- Product: Kavita (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kavita)
- Vendor: Kavita
- Date: 2025-04-14
- Version: v0.8.6
- Original notes: https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/releases/tag/v0.8.6
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kavita/releases/v0.8.6

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- **added** — Ability to delete Smart filter streams from Customize Side Nav and Dashboard
- **added** — Ability to rename Smart Filters in Customize settings
- **added** — Ability to reorder the side nav without using customize screen by clicking the actionable on Home -> Reorder
- **added** — New cleanup task that scans media errors and clears them out if they are ingested fine into Kavita
- **added** — New preference option for allowing Kavita to automatically switch into webtoon reader mode based on image resolution
- **added** — Ability to see all people across a reading list, the time it would take to read, and age rating
- **added** — Support for partial (0.5) volumes for Korean filename parsing
- **changed** — Allow volume title card overlay for more than just book libraries
- **changed** — Updated hostname tooltip text to be more clear
- **changed** — Added a toast message for backfilling events on scrobble page
- **changed** — Button on Scrobbling Errors to a match button which can directly fix the issue, rather than the old edit and add weblink
- **changed** — Improved the tooltip for the scrobbling button to be clearer if it is on or off
- **changed** — Overhauled the reading list detail page to be more aligned with series detail page
- **changed** — Reading lists will be in non-edit mode by default with a new edit button to toggle edit mode
- **changed** — PDFs will now fall back to the Title in metadata for series
- **changed** — Updated Angular to 19
- **changed** — Don't create scrobble events for specials as they will never match on AniList
- **fixed** — Webtoon reader now tracks the last page read when using the continuous reader
- **fixed** — Non-English locales now work properly across Kavita
- **fixed** — EPUB reader scrolling issues, especially on iOS

v0.8.6 is here and it's only fair to call this the Spring-Cleaning release as over the past 3 weeks, Amelia (@Fesaa) and I have closed out 65 issues from Github and polished a ton of the app. This release is packed with a lot of OLD issues finally being tackled and a few of them are quite annoying, so let's get started with the breakdown. 

First, let's talk about the few enhancements that made it into the release. One of these enhancements was around Smart Filters and removing them from your customize list or renaming them. Both are features that weren't thought about in the initial implementation and just kept slipping through the cracks. Amelia took it upon herself to not only implement but also add some drag and drop reordering on the side nav for those that don't want to go into customize screen. 

Another nice enhancement is around Media Errors. I implemented Media Errors after being inspired by Komga feature, but never gave it much more thought after that. You know what's annoying? Having 300 media errors that aren't actually reflective of the state of your media. The original thought was manually clearing the alerts, but why can't Kavita just do most of those checks for you? So that's what this feature brings. Kavita will check if files were successfully imported with at least 1 page or 1 word and clear out the issue for you. 

The last big enhancement is around Reading Lists. I'm not a huge reading list user, but the folks over in CBL project have been discussing some polish that is needed and raised a great [Feature Request](https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/discussions/3671). Some of these were no-brainers, so I took a few days and implemented some much-needed polish and exposed more metadata around the reading list. My favorite is not being in edit mode by default. If you have ideas on how to make the Reading List experience better, please add your ideas to the Feature Request. I have already confirmed I will be doing a big overhaul once I have a good picture of the features user's want and need. 

With the enhancements out of the way, let's focus on the meat of this release, the bugfixes and polish. I'll open with one I know many readers are going to enjoy--the webtoon reader finally tracks the last page read when using the continuous reader 100% of the time. The nightly users and I tested this by reading a combined 700 chapters (500 of those were just @duplaja, go figures). Shoutout to @reinar for providing some code that helped me get the needed fix. 


Another major fix, with the help yet again of Amelia, is the localization fix. Non-English locales have been having issues with Kavita for the last few releases and due to me not being able to reproduce the issues, I used a shotgun approach to fixing the issue. Luckily Amelia has such a setup and was able to fix it. Docker users can now remove the `DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=true` from their compose file and Kavita should work across the board. 


###### Docker users
> Remove `DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=true` from your compose files. It is no longer needed. 

Lastly, Amelia polished a lot of the UI for the epub reader, closing out some annoying issues around scrolling, especially on iOS (which I cannot test against) and I focused on the backend, allowing for loosened parsing requirements, but still reporting the issue to Media Errors (Thanks to @vers-one for enhancing their library). 

This overall feels like a great release with a lot of polish and stability. Many other issues were fixed, and I feel very confident in this release. The next release is planned to focus on the Scanner and see if some more instability can be ironed out and apply some more performance improvements. Amelia and I have been brainstorming and doing some research to see what overhauls we can make. 

Lastly I want to end with an update that my time is still extremely constrained and will likely be this way going forward, so expect longer windows

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