Release 5.2

Version 5.2

• performance improvements on Waifu2x
• rebuilt using Xcode 15 beta, should perform even better on macOS 14
• memory optimization of processing videos
• piped the stream of processing video of memory only mode, improving performance and memory usage
• fixed missing localizations

Release 5.1

New Features

• Redesigned the main view such that images of different ratio would be presented in a better way
• Support for processing pdfs: The images would be extracted and processed separately. Note that all data except for images are discarded.
• A new progress reporting method was implemented under the hood.

Known issue

• The progress reporting might not be presented properly, due to the concurrent-unsafe built-in Progress.

Release 5.0

New Features

• The settings is re-designed, it is now more elegant
• The app would now reminder your last choice of parameters
• The image models are provided by default
• Now you can choose your video / image output format and codec
• Now in the memory only mode, you can choose to encode the intermediate frames in heic to reduce memory usage

UI Improvements

• Fixed the freaky issue where the alignment is wrong
• Adjustments to make the views more compact

Localizations

• Localized into Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)

Optimizations

• Some minor memory optimization
• Waifu2x performance improvements
• Redesigned the progress reporting workflow, making UI simpler, and introduced some bugs (maybe)

Model updates

• Updated the pre-installed models to the latest version

Bug fixed

• Fixed UI Issues
• Fixed the issue where the file name for images is not preserved
• Fixed Waifu2x issue where it may quit unexpected on intel-based Macs
• Fixed the issue where the app may crash unexpected if the output image is extremely large
• Fixed the error where the progress cannot be shown.
• Fixed the async issue mentioned in Release 4.1.3
• Fixed the error considering the grid view
• Fixed the extra memory allocated issue (The memory was not freed!)
• Fixed the concurrent perform memory issue (finally!)

Clean ups

• Removed the redundant Welcome View
• The structure of source code is reorganized, making the developer satisfying
• Removed the None destination option, it is confusing to use!

Language improvements

• Adopted the latest Swift Syntax (Swift 5.7).

Release 5.0 Beta 9

• Added noneDestination

• Restructured Source code, making the developer happier

• Some minor memory optimization

• Fixed the issue where the app may crash unexpected if the output image is extremely large

• May have allowed installed models to run on multiple GPUs.

• The LazyVGrid is working again.

• Updated the pre-installed models to the latest version

• Fixed the model settings view

• Now you can choose your video / image output format

• Waifu2x performance improvements. Note: From now on, it would only check 10% of the pixels for checking whether an image contains alpha. Please inform me if you encounter any issue caused by this.

  • Now a standard 1080p image takes only 464ms with waifu2x anime scale level 2, on M1 Max.

Release 5.0 Beta 8

• Finally fixed the freaky issue where the alignment is wrong
• A few adjustments to make the view more compact
• Fixed UI Issues
• Now TTA defaults to false. You can change this in preference.

Known Issue:

• LazyVGrid is not working properly.

Release 5.0 Beta 7

5.0 Beta 7

• UI Improvements
• Removed the redundant Welcome View
• Removed some test UI which are only available in MacOS 13 introduced in Beta 6
• Fixed the issue where the file name for images is not preserved.

Release 5.0 Beta 6

5.0 Beta 6

• Fixed localization issues.
• Fixed Waifu2x issue where it may quit unexpected on intel-based Macs.
• Introduced some new UI for Macs running MacOS 13, which is currently in Developer Beta.

Release 5.0 Beta 5

5.0 Beta 5

• Localized into Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)
• Minor bug fixed
• This version is signed, so from now on your Mac should not inform you that this software is from unidentified developer.

Release 5.0 Beta 4

Per @blacklein's request, from this release, the image models are provided by default. However, you would still need to install the frame models by yourself.

• Tiny UI improvements
• The structure of source code is reorganized, making the developer satisfying.

Release 5.0 Beta 3

5.0 Beta 3
The app would now remember your last choice of model.