Shukofukurou 3.4 (Released April 9, 2020)

Shukofukurou for macOS is now updated to support MyAnimeList. You can now managed your anime and manga lists on MyAnimeList in addition to Kitsu and AniList lists in one app.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later

New Features

• MyAnimeList support restored
• Added Local Update History

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where parsing of some Kitsu entries or viewing of some title information on Kitsu causes the app to crash.
• Fix Stream Links retrieval.

Shukofukurou 3.3.5 (Released January 16, 2020)

Minor bug fixes involving Kitsu

Requires macOS 10.11 or later

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where parsing of some Kitsu entries or viewing of some title information on Kitsu causes the app to crash.

Shukofukurou 3.3.4 (Released August 15, 2019)

Minor bug fixes

Requires macOS 10.11 or later

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix title refreshing when title cache is enabled.
• Fix crash when airing notifications are being refresh on services besides AniList.

Shukofukurou 3.3.3 (Released July 8, 2019)

Minor Bug Fixes

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug when the app crashes while edit operation fails when the app attempts to send analytic data when enabled
• The view for the “Not Logged In” view should apply the appropriate appearance mode (Light/Dark) instead of being just light.

Shukofukurou 3.3.2 (Released June 14, 2019)

Bug fixes and add analytics opt out setting

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

New Features

• Added setting to allow users to opt out of analytics and crash report collection

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed bug where the app crashes if the list is refreshed and an invalid selection is made before it.

Shukofukurou 3.3/3.3.1 (Released May 14, 2019)

Adds various improvements, new list import options and ability to view more search results and refine them.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

New Features

• Transition away from Fabric to Microsoft AppCenter.
• Added option to disable statistics and crash log reporting (Donors only)
• Added JSON and CSV list exporting (Donors only)
• Added contextual menus for list management, search views, and airing views.
• Added ability to increment volumes through a contextual menu for manga library management. (Donors only)
• Added advanced search option and ability to view more search results

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Added start/end dates
• Improve retrieval of user’s own AniList Anime/Manga lists
• Fix crash when user refreshes list and there is an invalid item section.
• Fixed poster image sizing
• Remove mention of usernames in Kitsu login and instead, have users input email for login.
• Fix crash when user attempts to load manga title information on Kitsu.
• Removed old Patreon licensing system

Shukofukurou 3.2.8 (Released March 22, 2019)

Fixes AniList Authorization and minor bug fixes

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

New Features

• List of active patrons are now viewable from the about dialog

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix AniList Authorization (does not affect accounts that are logged in already)
• Fixed advanced entry editing.

Shukofukurou 3.2.7 (Released March 8, 2019)

Stability fixes

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix crashing issues with Trending data being refresh for Kitsu.

Shukofukurou 3.2.6 (Released February 25, 2019)

Minor improvements and fixes. Adds improved support for unlocking donor features for active patrons.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

New Features

• Added improved system to unlock donor features for active Patrons.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Implement new Title ID Mapper
• Add character browser support for Manga (AniList)
• Fix Reddit related links
• Clear user id and user name for the service the user logged out of.

Shukofukurou 3.2.5 (Released February 14, 2019)

Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improve loading of poster images, avatars, episode images, etc, especially in the Season and Trending Browser.
• Fix rendering of the about section for AniList user profiles
• Fix bug where Shukofukurou attempts to create an air notification with some missing information, causing the program to crash.

Shukofukurou 3.2.4 (Released February 5, 2019)

Minor bug fixes.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where the app appears logged out because it couldn’t retrieve a stored credential for a service.

Shukofukurou 3.2.3 (Released January 21, 2019)

Minor bug fixes.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where the App crashes when it attempts to refresh air notifications with a title that has no mapped AniList id.

Shukofukurou 3.2.2 (Released January 13, 2019)

Minor bug fixes.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where the air schedule refresh button does not refresh the airing data.
• Add a loading indicator when the air schedule data is being refreshed.

Shukofukurou 3.2.1 (Released December 21, 2018)

Minor bug fixes.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where Shukofukurou attempts to schedule a notification with no next air date, causing the program to crash.

Shukofukurou 3.2 (Released December 20, 2018)

This release adds airing notifications, episode details (Kitsu), redesigned season browser, trending browser, and a redesigned Person browser.

Requires macOS 10.11 or later.

New Features

• Added Airing Notifications
• Added Episode Details (Kitsu)
• Added Trending Section
• Added ability to cache title information for faster loading and offline viewing
• Redesigned Person Browser with ability to search for staff and characters (AniList)
• Redesigned Season Browser
• Related titles can now be viewed for both Anime and Manga on AniList and Kitsu

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Added additional anime title information for AniList
• Fixed View Profile button in the review view when AniList service is used
• Season Data is now loaded from the current service.
• Tweaked toolbar icon sizes so they are consistent.

Shukofukurou 3.1.6 (Released December 11, 2018)

Minor bug fixes

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where incorrect export options appear when AniList is selected as the current service

Shukofukurou 3.1.5 (Released October 10, 2018)

This release fixes some bugs.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix a bug where manga publications associated to a staff member is being placed in Anime Staff section. (AniList)
• Improve loading of reviews (AniList)
• MyAnimeList API message will no longer show. Service is now defaulted to AniList.
• Removed Messages functionality (MyAnimeList)

Shukofukurou 3.1.4 (Released September 13, 2018)

This release adds macOS Mojave compatibility

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format. We are awaiting updates regarding the MyAnimeList API

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Add Dark Mode support for macOS Mojave
• Airing/Publishing titles will appear as bold in the user’s anime and manga lists.
• App is now notarized for macOS Mojave.

Shukofukurou 3.1.2 (Released August 28, 2018)

This release fixes some minor bugs.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format. We are awaiting updates regarding the MyAnimeList API

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fix crash when a mapping containing a null title id is attempted. It will be skipped instead.
• Title ID Mappings when a user exports a list will only be imported once during the initial export. Title mappings for new titles that does not exist in the title id mappings will be looked up individually instead.
• Fix importing lists functionality.

Shukofukurou 3.1.1 (Released August 21, 2018)

This release fixes some minor bugs.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format. We are awaiting updates regarding the MyAnimeList API

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fix bug when a user tries to advanced edit a Manga entry and causes the app to crash.
• User won’t automatically get logged out after an attempt to refresh user information fails since there is no internet connection. It will only logout now if the account information is invalid.

Shukofukurou 3.1 (Released August 13, 2018)

This release adds a number of improvements such as faster list updating, Custom List support (AniList only),adds the ability to set update_on_import for MyAnimeList XML export under preferences. and exporter improvements. In addition, the Air Schedule provider is switched to AniList.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format. We are awaiting updates regarding the MyAnimeList API

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

New Features

• Custom List support for AniList (Donors only)
• Add Update on Import options under Preferences for AniList/Kitsu to MyAnimeList XML exporting
• Switched Air Schedule provider to AniList
• Add ability to register the app via Patreon (currently limited to one user/one mac)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Faster list updates compared to the previous version. Shukofukurou will no longer retrieve the whole list with each list update besides adding new titles and automatic/manual list refreshing.
• Converted List Exporting is now faster.
• The list views will keep the same scroll position when an entry is updated or the list is refreshed.
• Fix a potential bug if the MAL Title ID is null for an AniList title (e.g. does not exist on MAL)
• Shukofukurou will now save the last selected season in the Season Browser.

Shukofukurou 3.0.9 (Released July 12, 2018)

This release fixes a few minor bugs with AniList/Kitsu MyAnimeList XML export and now uses AniList for season data for the Season Browser.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later

New Features

• Use AniList Season Data for the Season Browser.
• User can now view season data dating back to 1990 to the current year.
• Show dialog at login notifying users how to switch between list services.

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• AniList/Kitsu to MyAnimeList XML Exporter improvements.

Shukofukurou 3.0.8 (Released June 22, 2018)

This release adds the ability to edit the number of times a user rewatch/reread a title and fixes some bugs.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later

New Features

• Added ability to edit the reconsume/rewatch/reread count in Advanced Edit
• The status bar will now show the current list service name

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• Fix bug where the incorrect list entry status is loaded when a user opens the Advanced Edit dialog
• List edit toolbar icons will disable when a list refresh is in progress.

Shukofukurou 3.0.7 (Released June 19, 2018)

This release fixes a bunch of bugs discovered in the past several days.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers in addition to exporting AniList and Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML format.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• Fix numerous crashes for title information loading and importing
• Fix bug where the incorrect search term appears after user views title information from search and switch back to the Search View.

Shukofukurou 3.0.6 (Released June 15, 2018)

This release improves the AniList/Kitsu to MyAnimeList XML List Exporter and adds a button to cancel the operation.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• Improve conversion of AniList/Kitsu lists to MyAnimeList XML so it doesn’t hang during conversion.
• Add a cancel button in the progress window for Export to cancel the export operation.

Shukofukurou 3.0.5 (Released June 12, 2018)

This release adds the ability to increment episodes or chapters without having to use the edit popover. Also, the ability to export converted MyAnimeList XML Anime or Manga lists is added for AniList and Kitsu services.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later

New Features

• You can easily increment episodes for Anime or chapters for Manga without opening the Edit Popover
• Add ability to export converted MyAnimeList Anime or Manga XML lists

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• Include missing fields in MyAnimeList XML so they can be used with MyAnimeList, Kitsu or AniList MyAnimeList XML import.
• Toolbar buttons in List View are disabled while a list update operation (Add/Update/Delete/Increment entries) is in progress.

Shukofukurou 3.0.3 (Released June 2, 2018)

This releases fixes a crash when a user logs in Kitsu and in some instances, crashes since the user doesn’t have a profile name. Now, Shukofukurou will use the display name and use the profile name as a fallback.
Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers.

Anime-Planet list importing will be added in the next release.

Requires macOS 10.10 or later.

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• Fix a crash when a user logs in Kitsu and in some instances, crashes since the user doesn’t have a profile name. Use the display name as the username and the slug as a fallback.

Shukofukurou 3.0.2 (Released May 27, 2018)

This release fixes some bugs that causes Shukofukurou to crash.

Note: Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers.

For Mac App Store users, if you downloaded MAL Library on March 1st, 2018 or later, you can obtain a free upgrade key. You can do this by going to the Shukofukurou menu, select “Add Donation Key” from the menu and click the Upgrade button. This option is not available in the Mac App Store version.

Requires macOS Yosemite 10.10 or later

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix crash when user refreshes a Kitsu list which have a title with no poster image.
• Fix crash when user tries to load anime or manga lists or title information with no episode, duration or chapters/volumes, or synopsis
• Fix crash when user refreshes an AniList list and have start and end dates missing either a year, month or day.

Shukofukurou 3.0.1 (Released May 25, 2018)

Due to DeNA’s disablement of the MyAnimeList APIs, MyAnimeList support have been temporarily removed from the Application. I highly advise users to consider transitioning to Kitsu or AniList. You may import MyAnimeList Anime XML lists through our built in importers.

For Mac App Store users, if you downloaded MAL Library on March 1st, 2018 or later, you can obtain a free upgrade key. You can do this by going to the Shukofukurou menu, select “Add Donation Key” from the menu and click the Upgrade button. This option is not available in the Mac App Store version.

Requires macOS Yosemite 10.10 or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Show message explaining MyAnimeList removal
• Remove MyAnimeList Support (temporarily)
• Fix MAL ID > AniList ID translation

Shukofukurou 3.0 (Released May 8, 2018)

Final release. No changes from Beta 2 release.

For Mac App Store users, if you downloaded MAL Library on March 1st, 2018 or later, you can obtain a free upgrade key. You can do this by going to the Shukofukurou menu, select “Add Donation Key” from the menu and click the Upgrade button. This option is not available in the Mac App Store version.

Requires macOS Yosemite 10.10 or later.

New Features

• Add Kitsu Support ?
• Add AniList Support
• Ability to switch between MyAnimeList, Kitsu, and AniList
• Add Web toolbar icon in Title Information to allow users to view information about the title on different sites (AniDB, Anime News Network, Baka-Updates, Reddit, TVTropes, Pixiv Encyclopedia, and Wikipedia)
• Add Advanced Edit Dialog to allow users to edit list-service specific fields, start and end dates, and change reconsuming status
• Add “Show 18+ Content” option in Preferences (not available in the Mac App Store version)
• Add Tip Jar menu item (only after registering). For Mac App Store users, he or she may leave a tip via in-app purchase.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Tweaked No Title View for Title Information and No Profile Loaded in the Profile Browser
• Fixed memory leak with CocoaOniguruma framework
• Show progress wheel indicating that a list is being synchronized/refreshed.
• Reset Profile Browser and Character Browser windows when they are closed
• Close the List Statistics for a profile when the Profile Browser window is closed
• Replace toolbar icons and use icons provided by Icons8.
• Title columns will now automatically resize with the window
• Hide background section in the Title Information view if there isn’t any
• Fix the button positions (Recommended Titles, Adaptations, Stream Information) in the Title Information View
• Open in Shukofukurou (formerly Open in MAL Library) Safari Extension is now operable.
• Updated AFNetworking framework to 3.2.0
• Various code improvements.
• Updated help, removed screenshots and included third party open source licenses.

Shukofukurou 3.0 Beta 2 (Released May 2, 2018)

This is a beta release and it may have bugs, but it’s mostly stable.

MAL Library is now Shukofukurou

This is the second build, which fixes a few minor bugs. If things go well, Shukofukurou will be ready for the final release sometime in May.

For Mac App Store users, if you downloaded MAL Library on March 1st, 2018 or later, you can obtain a free upgrade key. You can do this by going to the Shukofukurou menu, select “Add Donation Key” from the menu and click the Upgrade button.

Requires macOS Yosemite 10.10 or later.

New Features

• Add Tip Jar menu item (only after registering)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Improve importing of MAL XML lists into AniList
• Various code improvements
• Fix episode length crash if the value is null for AniList.
• Fix crash if the status of the title is null, set to NOT YET RELEASED by default.

Known Issues

• Character browser still using MyAnimeList data when Kitsu service is used. This is because the Character and Staff APIs are incomplete on Kitsu.

Shukofukurou 3.0 Beta 1 (Released April 25, 2018)

This is a beta release and it may have bugs, but it’s mostly stable.

MAL Library is now Shukofukurou

This is the first beta that fixes a lot of bugs found in regression testing of the 6th alpha build.

For Mac App Store users, if you downloaded MAL Library on March 1st, 2018 or later, you can obtain a free upgrade key. You can do this by going to the Shukofukurou menu, select “Add Donation Key” from the menu and click the Upgrade button.

Requires macOS Yosemite 10.10 or later.

New Features

• Add Reset Mapping button to allow users to reset the Title ID Mappings
• Add “Show 18+ Content” option in Preferences (not available in the Mac App Store version)
• Start and End dates can now be set for AniList and Kitsu library entries

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix updating of volumes for AniList
• Standardize subtypes for Kitsu and AniList
• Replace toolbar icons and use icons provided by Icons8
• Title columns will now automatically resize with the window
• Hide background section in the Title Information view if there isn’t any
• Fix the button positions (Recommended Titles, Adaptations, Stream Information) in the Title Information View
• AniList Authorization now works on macOS Yosemite and El Capitan.
• Authorization Web View cookies will only clear on High Sierra or later.
• Fix AniDB > Kitsu Importing
• Added missing share items for AniList
• Fix display of character names in the Character Browser for AniList
• Fix crash when a title on AniList does not have a status specified. It will default to “not yet aired” or “not yet published.”
• The current view will not change besides History when the service is changed
• Fix position of the score and status fields when an Anime entry is being edited.
• Fixed UI not on main thread issue
• Open in Shukofukurou (formerly Open in MAL Library) Safari Extension is now operable.
• Updated help, removed screenshots and included third party open source licenses.

Known Issues

• Character browser still using MyAnimeList data when Kitsu service is used. This is because the Character and Staff APIs are incomplete on Kitsu.

Change log continues here.