Changelog — v0.9.x archive

Releases v0.9.0–v0.9.4, covering 2026-06-15 → 2026-06-18. The current changelog (v0.10.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.9.4 — 2026-06-18

A new Scrollbar setting (Settings → Interface → Slot List) shows the slot-list scrollbar Always (default), On hover, or Hidden.
A new Rating Change Notification setting (Settings → Playback) shows a desktop notification with the new star count when you rate by hotkey or CLI.

The slot list no longer shows a small gray corner artifact at its top-right and bottom-right edges when Rounded Corners mode is on.

The CRT / Film visualizer effect no longer distorts the image at the window edges and now stays pixel-sharp and flush to them.

The login screen now uses a responsive two-panel layout on wide windows that folds into a single centered card on narrow ones.
The login form now scrolls when the window is too short to fit it.
Login errors now name the problem (wrong username or password, server unreachable, or not a Navidrome server) and highlight the field at fault.
The login screen focuses the first empty field automatically, and Enter submits from any field.
Nokkvi now fills in the address scheme and trims trailing slashes on the server URL you type.
A subtle warning appears when an unencrypted http:// address points at a server outside your local network.

Pressing Tab on the login screen no longer moves focus the wrong way.
Resizing the window no longer cuts off the login form or the Login button.
Sharing nokkvi.log for a bug report no longer leaks a reusable Navidrome credential from logged Subsonic request URLs.

The player-bar Bit-Perfect button now cycles three modes: Off, Strict, and Relaxed.
Relaxed Bit-Perfect runs its own crossfade between back-to-back same-rate tracks, hard-cutting the rest.

Switching Bit-Perfect to Strict or Relaxed turns Crossfade off, and turning Crossfade on returns Bit-Perfect to Off.
In Relaxed Bit-Perfect mode, only the few-second blend between tracks is not bit-perfect.

Album art now shows in your desktop media controls and on the lock screen for tracks on multi-disc albums, instead of appearing blank.
A brief network glitch while loading album art no longer leaves the thumbnail permanently blank.
Album covers the server can’t resolve now show a placeholder instead of being re-requested on every scroll and playback tick.

A new Bit-Perfect playback mode sends audio to your DAC untouched, with no EQ, software volume, or limiter.
Bit-Perfect mode switches the output device to each track’s native sample rate.
A now-playing badge reads the real device clock and reports whether playback is bit-perfect, resampled, or unverified.

Hi-res tracks (24-bit and float) now play back at their real bit depth instead of being narrowed to 16-bit.
Turning on Crossfade now turns off Bit-Perfect, and vice versa.
The crossfade settings now explain that turning crossfade off plays tracks gapless, and that very short tracks always play gapless.

Turning the visualizer off now releases the CPU it was using during playback.
The crossfade duration slider no longer offers values above 12 seconds that silently reset to 12 on the next launch.
The Mini Player’s thumbnail now shows artwork when you skip to a track not visible in the queue, instead of a gray box.