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v6.0 - Usenet Downloads, Library Import, Split File, & More

v6.0 is the biggest release CLU has shipped in a while, and most of it is about getting comics into your library and keeping that library organized. The headline feature is full Usenet (newsgroup) download support — SABnzbd/NZBGet clients, Usenet indexers, and end-to-end search, grab, and import that sits right alongside the existing Direct Download flow.

On top of that, the Pull List received new features: monitoring flags, color-coded collection health, bulk actions, and a series.json and .cvinfo based Import that maps your existing library in one scan.

There's also a new Split File tool for breaking multi-issue CBZs apart, a smarter and more configurable rename engine, and a set of reliability fixes for folks running CLU on FUSE/mergerfs mounts and issue matching speed improvements for large libraries and pull-lists. Here's the tour.

  • 5 min read

v4.14 - External API, Smart Rename, Trash Restore, & More

v4.14 turned out to be a much bigger release that I had planned. With no bugs surfacing, I was able to add little features here and there over the past few weeks. Combine that with a work trip that spurred development of the external API and great feedback from Discord users on a few things, and here we are.

In this release I've started building out an external API, added a metadata-driven Smart Rename for the File Manager, updated the Trash to restore files directly to their previous location,, and a proper backup/restore flow for the database. Plus a long list of quality-of-life fixes and a faster, paginated All Books and Missing XML view.

v4.11 & 12 - Manga Metadata, Reading Lists, & More

These back-to-back releases bring a highly requested additions to CLU — Manga metadata support and an absolute overhaul of Reading Lists. Additionally, we've added another metadata provider with Grand Comics Database (GCD) API support and added the ability to hide directories from your library views.

Let's go over what's new in these releases.