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2020.10.11:
- hotfix for systray icon quit action, issue #171.

2020.10.10:
- Added Schedule downloads feature.
- Manual audio selection for dash videos.
- Designed new application icon.
- Fixed handling pending downloads.
- Fixed gui freeze during some downloads.
- critical bug fix, Dash video resume - HTTP Error 416 Requested Range not satisfiable #166.
- Fix for download folder, issue #164.
- Remember last window size set by user.
- Download folder entry becomes editable.
- cleaner download folder by moving all download temp files into one temp folder.
- Added option to enable / disable systray icon, and fixed systray quit.
- fixed arabic file names display on linux.
- Added browse button to select cookies file.
- Added help button in "About window".
- Added log level menu in log tab
- added copy log button.
- Added flag in config.py to disable update feature completely.
- Added subtitles selection to playlist window.
- Added clear completed items, stop all downloads, clear all items.
- Fixed non initialized ffmpeg path to handle audio, issue #168
- Added option to download missing ffmpeg.exe on windows os.
- Added option to download thumbnail with video file, issue #169

2020.9.20:
    "This release has major changes"
- New GUI design based on tkinter.
- use tkinter clipboard module instead of pyperclip.
- No cpu usage when application is idle.
- Implement MVC design.

2020.8.13:
- Ability to delete any item while download in progress.
- added buttons for open log file, or log folder, issue #134
- Fixed arabic language display on linux issue #88
- Fixed failed downloads if target folder's name has spaces issue #130
- Fix for table colors on tkinter 8.6.9
- Stop log auto scroll if user scroll up.
- Added horizontal scrollbar for log window.
- Fixed fetching youtube channel videos as a playlist, issue #146
- Fixed metadata error issue #138
- interactive terminal support.
- Auto correct file name extension (ask user first) issue #137

2020.6.27:
- Write metadata info to media files issue #124, Settings>General
- fixed fragmented video download
- fixed downloads for itv.com
- revamp subtitles download, and fixes for issue #125

2020.6.15:
- Dynamic file segmentation, to improve speed issue #97
- Instant Theme change without restarting the application main window issue #87
- Added frame rate "fps" to streams description in quality drop down list issue #92
- Auto rename file if same name exists in download folder "Settings>General".
- Added md5 and sha256 checksum calculators, "Settings>Advanced"
- use proxy dns "LibCurl socks5h and socks4a" issue #95 "Settings>Network"
- Fixed empty downloads table after theme change.
- Fixed Application freeze on linux when using "open file" or "open download folder".
- Fixed some Application update issues for windows portable version.
- Fixed Truncated File size after done downloading issue #86
- Fixed audio manual selection for dash videos issue #90
- Fixed downloading direct HLS/m3u8 media playlist issue #91
- Fixed file corruption on download resume
- disable "video search" for non-video urls issue #102

2020.5.18:
- Fixed pyperclip error using gtk on Linux.
- Fixed systray icon on Linux
- Bug fixed: segment list doesn't get updated if user changed download folder.
- Bug fixed: error while downloading HLS Audio streams.

2020.5.10:
- Systray icon support for both Linux and windows.
- download subtitles for all selected videos in playlist window issue #82
- Set Auto Referee if there is no Referee set already.
- Reminder flashing text if critical options in use, i.e. proxy, and speed limit
- Fixed file rename problem, and allow file name length up to 255 characters. issue #83
- Fixed total size doesn't change with different quality selection.
- Playlist "select all" fixed "network surge connections blocked". issue #81
- Fixed proxy input can't be enabled.

2020.5.4:
- critical bug fix for version 2020.5.3, which affects dash HLS videos.

2020.5.3:
- Added cookies support issue #80.
- Major Fixes for "Resume download".
- Parsing subtitles from hls m3u8 files issue #77.
- SysTray icon, with options "minimize or close to systray", currently "available
  on windows", support for other platforms in progress.
- Filtered Ads. segments from hls video's manifest.
- Ask user permission before checking for update, issue #76.
- Portable windows version, upgrading to new versions can be done by using update
  button which will auto-download "updated files only - almost 5MB" instead of
  downloading the whole new version.
- cancel download for expired links or if no data received from network, with popup
  feedback on download error
- Added some keyboard keys action: Esc key for download cancel, Delete for item delete.
- play video on thumbnail click, "in downloads tab".
- Get direct streaming url without downloading, by clicking Thumbnail board at main tab.
- Fixes for "download speed chokes" at the end, when remaining only one worker only.
- Hls videos watch while downloading is now available for non-encrypted videos.


2020.4.17:
- Critical Bug fix for missing extensions in video filename and failed audio/video
  merging.
- Fixed Some "tvp.pl" and other links doesn't work issue #73.
- Better hls videos processing.
- Added 'srt' format to subtitle selection, issue #74
- used art-work icons for all buttons including standard Popup windows.
- Clickable links in "about window", issue #72
- dynamic connections manager to avoid server's max. connections error.
- fixed corrupted file contents if server sent an html instead of bytes, issue #75
- fixed thread manager quitting while there is segments didn't finish downloading.
- soft start, connections will be gradually increase over time to reach max.number
  set by user, this prevent impact on servers/networks, and avoid "service not
  available" response from server when exceeding multi-connection number set by
  server.
- dynamic tooltip for playlist and video quality comboboxes, "note these are only
  combos that can be scrolled by mouse wheel"
- added format id to every stream in video quality combobox.
- Similar streams/video quality which have different language now will be shown.
- better text display if it is longer than the widget, with 3 dots in the middle
  of string.


2020.4.8:
- website authentication option, issue #65.
- subtitles download,  issue #70
- support for famous Audio formats aac, ogg, and mp3 - issue #67
- Fixed some issues with hls videos i.e. problem downloading audio, and resume error.
- add extra redundant streams while showing format code to identify them, issue #68
- choose first item in downloads table by default if non is selected
- Fixed progress reporting 100% before completed merging audio/video or segments.
- Add referee link option, issue #66
- Fixed focus for "about window".
- added http-headers.
- fixed, thread manager exit without updating the "remaining parts" value
- unfortunately watch while downloading is no longer available for all hls videos.


2020.3.31:
- New design for downloads and settings Tab
- Handle big playlist faster and more efficiently, with option to save bandwidth to fetch information only for selected videos.
- Show video names in playlist while fetching info.
- Fixed "update youtube-dl module" in windows portable version with "rollback update" option
- Added option to Manually select audio format for dash videos
- better memory usage.
- auto select the row of current download item
- select table rows with keyboard up/down arrows
- fixed url_change triggered on ctrl or shift buttons pressed

2020.3.22:
- Quick bug fix for unrecognized pillow module, github issue #60

2020.3.20:
- New GUI design with fresh button icons for main tab.
- Thumbnail auto preview for selected video.
- Ability to show download window offline per user option.
- fixed resume/overwrite existing download item.
- Ability to cancel ongoing ffmpeg operation, i.e. merging audio/video or handling hls streams.
- arrange settings tab.
- right click options for url widget.
- various GUI tweaks.
- stop creating global settings folder automatically.
- playlist/video info extracting process becomes faster 2 times.
- Fixed problem of scheduled downloads

2020.3.13:
- Added support for more hls video streams / websites.
- Added support for http, https, socks4, and socks5 proxy
- Fixed high memory usage bug and possible crash.
- Speed up file manager performance
- Fixed number of live workers for fragmented downloads.
- Fixed file name extraction from headers.
- Add option to Select Setting folder, default to local folder.
- Natural sorting themes

2020.3.3:
- Critical Fix fpr application crash.
- include ffmpeg with portable windows version
- auto-save log events.

2020.3.2:
- Ability to use youtube-dl native downloader as an alternative option.
- add support for more websites.
- add log level option in log tab.
- user can select ffmpeg download folder.
- Fix about window.
- Download window re-design.
- Application restart on setting tab after selecting new theme.
- Changed default theme to "Topanga".
- some other bug fixes and tweaks.

2020.2.22:
- Add support for encrypted HLS streams.
- Critical bug fix for download playlist.
- add status for download window.

2020.2.21:
- Fixed resume issues.
- Fixed speed limit.
- Fixed hls stream resume.
- Fixed update func. called when click on empty area under App. name.
- Fixed progress bar and segment size for fragmented / live streams.
- better handling for m3u8 files.
- include user agent for download function

2020.2.20:
- fixed HLS streams doesn't work properly.
- Add button to save log text to disk.

2020.2.19:
- Add support to more streaming websites "all links will be checked for possible video streams"
- fix application crash because of proxy improperly set.
- fix some bugs.

2020.2.18:
- Add support for hls/m3u8 video streams.
- use indeterminate progress bar for unknown download sizes
- Some bug fixes and performance tweaks

2020.2.16:
- Add support for proxy.
- estimate fragmented video size.
- fixed all setting parameters can be stored and reloaded properly.
- Prevent application freeze momentarily during check for update.
- Fix youtube-dl update

2020.2.12:
- Add support for fragmented video streams
- Simultaneous download of video and audio streams
- some bug fixes

2020.1.30:
- bug fix, update notification message appear even if application is up to date.
- normalize version number to match pypi release
- change symbol infront of stream names

2020.01.27:
- support for other video stream websites
- check for app. updates.
- check for youtube-dl updates.
- ability to enable / disable  check for update on startup, "enabled by default".
- change mouse cursor shape when busy.
- source code splitted into small files.
- change version number scheme to date based release "yyyy.mm.dd"
- Support for windows 32bit and 64bit.
- pypi release

4.3:
- Ability to schedule download from right click menu, also added a schedule All button for batch scheduling all non completed downloads,

4.1:
- fix repeated qualities in stream menu and playlist download window

4.0:
- New stream menu design. screenshot
- some bug fixes and enhancements


3.8:
- Auto download ffmpeg.exe if missing "it will prompt user first".
- fixed quality bar not completed when loading playlist.
- fixed downloading unknown size file.
- exe file size is now under 15 MB instead of 35 MB before
- fix run command func problem since it causes the application to continue ask for downloading ffmpeg even if it actually exist

3.7:
- Ability to select which videos to include in playlist download, with individual video quality, also you can choose a general quality for all playlist videos at once.
- bug fix for random quality selection in playlist download page, now "normal video" quality will be chosen by default, mostly will be 720p-mp4, however you can choose different higher qualities like 1080p or lower as per your needs.


3.6:
- New right click menu for download table, now you can view all info for any download item, copy url, open file location.
- Ability to watch video files before it finish downloading.
- open files by double click, Enter button, or context menu from downloads tab.
- new animations for files status during download and merge.
- Speed limit option now more better than before.

3.4:
- use json to store downloads list to avoid pickle problems in frozen builds, and avoid future problem of pickled downloads.cfg file incompatibility with new version of the app. issue #11
- Feedback popups for download btn and pl.btn in case of not allowed ops.
- bring application to front if url copied to clipboard or try to run another app. instance

3.3:
- the table header colors match the color theme "pySimpleGui addition"
- sort themes names in setting tabs, 140+ themes
- proper setting folder location for linux and mac
- bug fixes for youtube audio track handling
- handle exception for notify function
- Change application name to pyIDM instead of old name Hanash.

3.2:
- Automatically install required python packages to run the application.
- better log text newer entries are now at the bottom.
- correct app. icon not appearing in windows


3.1:
- added functionality to download youtube DASH videos with audio merged using ffmpg.
- bug fixes.
- remove Pillow module from requirements
- new themes added from PySimpleGUI module are available for use in user
  setting (total of 105 themes)