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Hachidori 3.3 Beta 2 Released

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Hachidori 3.3. Beta 2 is now available, which fixes some toolbar icons that didn’t appear properly. Also, most of the frameworks are recompiled with the final macOS 11 SDK.

Your can update to the latest beta by doing an update. Make sure Beta channel updates are enabled if you want to install this version. The change log is below. If you want to download the release manually, you can do so here.

This is the second beta release of Hachidori 3.3 Beta 1 with macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon Support.

MAL Updater OS X Users: To receive a new format license, upgrade to the latest version of MAL Updater OS X 2.4.x and open the about window. The license key will appear. Copy that and use it to register Hachidori

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

  • Added contextual menu to download torrents and add automatic download torrent rules in the Torrent Browser
  • Start and End Dates for MyAnimeList can now be set automatically

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Fixed toolbar icons
  • Rebuilt all the frameworks to use the stable macOS 11 SDK

Hachidori 3.3 Beta 1 Released

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Hachidori 3.3 Beta 1 is now available to the public. This release adds macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon support, Hulu and Retrocrush stream detection support, and more. You can now update to this beta build by enabling the “Check for prerelease builds” option in the preferences under Software Updates.

The Changelog is below:

This is the first beta release of Hachidori 3.3 Beta 1 with macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon Support.

MAL Updater OS X Users: To receive a new format license, upgrade to the latest version of MAL Updater OS X 2.4.x and open the about window. The license key will appear. Copy that and use it to register Hachidori

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

  • Added macOS Big Sur support
  • Now Universal Binary 2 for Apple Silicon
  • Added stream detection support for RetroCrush and Hulu

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Fix Preference Window for macOS Big Sur
  • Reverted DiscordSDK to the old DiscordRPC framework for now
  • Removed old Patreon Support (Patreon Licensing replaces this)

Shukofukurou and Hachidori is now in Alpha Preview

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For the past two months, time permitting since I have a full time job and this is my side job I do during the weekends, we have begun work on the next versions of Shukofukurou and Hachidori.

Shukofukurou 3.4 for macOS will be a minor release adding macOS Big Sur and Universal Binary 2 compatibility and adding features from the iOS version. Shukofukurou 2.1 for iOS will primarily add some quality of life improvements. As for Hachidori, it’s the same deal, but the addition of new legal streaming site support, macOS Big Sur/Universal Binary 2 support, and the ability to reauthorize accounts.

The next few months will be big as Apple is set to release the first few Macs with Apple Silicon. Currently, we have our apps ready for Apple Silicon aka ArchARM64. While we haven’t tested them yet since I don’t have a developer transition kit, I plan to get a Mac stat uses these new processors when they come out with a new Mac mini. The Mac mini will serve as a dedicated developer machine that I can remote into or use locally.

Currently, the alphas for the macOS version of Shukofukurou and Hachidori are available for Patrons only. Once the apps reaches beta, it will be available to everyone. Monthly donations/support allows me to cover the development costs of developing all three apps, primarily the domain name, hosting (including the web services the apps uses), and Apple Developer Program membership. Besides gaining access to precompiled prerelease builds by becoming a Patron, you also unlock all the donor features, read weekly developer updates on upcoming new features, gain free updates to major releases of Shukofukurou and Hachidori, and access to TestFlight for beta versions of Shukofukurou for iOS.

In short, we should have all the releases out for macOS and iOS out this fall. With that, thanks for the support thus far.

macOS 11 Big Sur Compatibility and iOS 14/iPadOS 14

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Now that the dust has settled, we have finally tested our apps on macOS 11 and it seems that nothing broke. However, we want to start working on bringing some of macOS 11 Big Sur new features to Shukofukurou for macOS. With Shukofukurou for macOS 3.5, we will be dropping support for macOS 10.11 El Capitan, which is more than 5 years old at this point and we do not have any machines running that anymore. New versions will require macOS 10.12 Sierra or later. We will also work to get Shukofukurou compiled for Universal Binary 2 so it can work on Apple  new chips. This mean recompiling all the frameworks to Universal Binary, which we will be doing for Hachidori as well.

For Shukofukurou for iOS, once we release 2.0.9, which will have some fixes, we will begin work on 2.1, which will have support for iOS 14/iPadOS 14 support. Note that iOS 12 support will be dropped in the future after 2.1.x and we will only be supporting iOS 13 and iOS 14. This is because I do not have any devices that have iOS 12, which makes it difficult for me to test. Once a test version is ready, hopefully when public beta testing is underway, I will make the 2.1 beta builds available on TestFlight for active patrons. If you want to test the latest builds for iOS, you can learn how to support our projects by going to the donation page.

Hachidori 3.2.3 Released

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Hachidori 3.2.3 is now released, which fixes Funimation stream detection.

Also, we are aware of the crashes associated with the Discord Activities. We are trying to come up with an alternative solution such as a separate process to handle all the discord activities  so it won’t crash the whole application. We should have a fix ready in a few weeks.

The change log is below.

New Features

  • Fixed stream detection for Funimation

Known Issues

  • There is an issue with Discord support when the user quits Discord and relaunches it with Discord Activities enabled, it crashes. Will transition Discord support to a XPC Service to separate it from the Hachidori process to prevent future crashes.

Hachidori 3.2.2 Released and Updates

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Hachidori 3.2.2 is now released. This release fixes the Funimation history stream detection for Chrome based browsers. Also, this release adds Brave Browser and Opera (no support for sites that require HTML scraping or JavaScript) support for legal stream detection.

New Features

  • Fixed Funimation Watch History stream detection for Chrome-based browsers
  • Added support for Brave Browser and Opera for stream detection. (Opera does not support sites that require HTML scraping or Javascript)

Note for MyAnimeList Users

In Shukofukurou for iOS and macOS, there is currently no support for private lists. Apparently, this is a limitation with the official MAL API right now that we are trying to bring up to Media Do. I know this is stupid since you should be able to view your own list with your credentials, even if it’s private like with Kitsu and AniList with private entries. If you want to use the app, you would need to set the list to public for now. I will let everyone know once Media Do fixes this issue. For now, we apologize for the inconvenience.