Eliminate all code paths, configuration, and documentation related to running
without authentication. Require AUTH_SECRET and BASE_URL at startup, updating
middleware, server logic, and runtime checks to assume auth is always enabled.
Simplify onboarding, settings, and test helpers to reflect mandatory auth.
Update environment examples, Docker and deployment docs, and CI/test configs.
Remove no-auth-specific UI flows, test cases, and feature toggles.
Eliminate the smartSentenceSplitting configuration flag from application state, UI, and all TTS and audiobook adapter logic. Consolidate TTS segment planning to always include context units, streamlining code and reducing conditional branches. Update tests and type definitions to reflect the removal of this feature toggle.
Introduce sentence and word highlighting for HTML/TXT/MD documents, including new config options (`htmlHighlightEnabled`, `htmlWordHighlightEnabled`) and synced user preferences. Update the HTML viewer to support these highlights using custom spans, and add corresponding CSS styles. Extend document settings to allow toggling these features. Implement block-level locator sorting and display improvements. Add audiobook export support for HTML documents, including adapter and pipeline integration.
- Add `htmlHighlightEnabled` and `htmlWordHighlightEnabled` to config, user state, and Dexie storage
- Update HTML viewer to apply and manage highlights for sentences and words
- Add CSS for HTML highlight classes and scroll margin
- Extend document settings UI for HTML highlight toggles
- Support HTML audiobook export in modal and pipeline
- Improve block locator sorting and sidebar display for HTML
- Add HTML audiobook adapter and block parsing utilities
Remove fallbackProviderRef usage from settings and config context to streamline
provider resolution. Adjust normalizeLegacyProviderRef to retain 'default-openai'
unless a non-default fallback is explicitly provided. Update provider listing to
enforce deterministic ordering by updatedAt, createdAt, and slug. Expand unit tests
to verify provider ordering, legacy ref normalization, and selection logic.
Transition all TTS-related logic, types, and UI to use the new providerRef/providerType model in place of legacy ttsProvider fields. Introduce a centralized tts-provider-policy module to encapsulate provider/model capability checks, default value resolution, and compatibility logic. Update all API routes, contexts, hooks, components, and tests to use providerRef and providerType, ensuring consistent handling of built-in and shared TTS providers. Remove legacy defaultTtsModel config in favor of per-provider defaults and shared provider admin control. Add the showAllProviderModels runtime flag to restrict users to provider default models when desired.
BREAKING CHANGE: ttsProvider fields are replaced by providerRef/providerType throughout the codebase; defaultTtsModel config is removed in favor of per-provider defaults.
Add database-backed runtime configuration for feature flags and TTS provider credentials, editable via a new admin UI panel. Replace static NEXT_PUBLIC_* and TTS provider env vars with admin-managed settings stored in the database and injected at SSR for client access. Implement admin-only panels for managing shared TTS provider credentials (with encrypted API keys) and live site feature flags. Add schema migrations, API routes, React contexts, and hooks for SSR-injected runtime config and live updates. Update client and server logic to resolve configuration from the database at runtime, enforcing admin restrictions and supporting migration from legacy env-based config.
BREAKING CHANGE: Feature flags and TTS provider credentials are now managed at runtime via the admin UI. Environment variables are only used for initial seeding and are ignored after first boot. Existing deployments must migrate configuration to the admin panel.
Introduce configurable segment preloading depth, sentence lookahead, and TTS segment max block length for both PDF and EPUB readers. Add new settings to user preferences, config context, and document settings UI. Refactor TTS segment splitting logic to support per-user max block length and propagate these options through PDF/EPUB adapters and TTS segment generation. Update API, manifest pagination, and segment deduplication for improved performance and correctness. Add tests for new NLP options and manifest logic.
BREAKING CHANGE: TTS segment splitting and manifest APIs now require max block length and preloading parameters; user config schema updated.
- Move TTS provider resolution and voice-fetch logic into shared catalog and make
remote fetches more resilient (timeouts, abort handling, baseUrl normalization,
treat explicit empty custom-openai responses as valid).
- Add continuation guard to TTS feature set and update API voices endpoint error
logging to better surface auth/session failures.
- Extract and stabilize ebook pipeline and epub adapter:
- Cache prepared EPUB chapters to avoid repeated parsing and handle missing/empty
chapter titles safely.
- Fail early when created chapter lacks a bookId.
- Improve config/preferences handling:
- Replace JSON stringify comparisons with a deepEqual utility to compare defaults.
- Tighten ConfigContext effect dependencies and consolidate synced preference
queuing logic to include additional keys.
- Harden end-to-end test helpers and unit tests:
- Make settings dialog dismissal deterministic (use Enter/Escape and explicit
visibility/enabled checks) and simplify upload retry behavior.
- Add unit test to ensure custom-openai empty voice lists are preserved.
Why: Reduce runtime and test flakiness, centralize TTS logic for easier maintenance,
and make EPUB processing and preference diffing more robust. Breaking changes: none.
- Introduce a shared tts-provider-catalog to centralize provider/model/voice defaults
and feature flags (supportsTtsInstructions, providerSupportsCustomModel, resolveProviderModels,
getDefaultVoices, etc.). Replace ad-hoc provider logic across server and client with catalog calls.
- Replace inline voice/model UI logic in SettingsModal, AudiobookExportModal, TTSContext,
generate server code, and voice hook to use catalog helpers (resolveTtsSettingsViewModel,
supportsTtsInstructions, getDefaultVoices).
- Extract audiobook generation responsibilities into a small client-side pipeline:
- Add createEpubAudiobookSourceAdapter and createPdfAudiobookSourceAdapter adapter modules
to prepare chapters from EPUB/PDF sources.
- Add runAudiobookGeneration and regenerateAudiobookChapter pipeline functions to handle
chapter preparation, progress tracking, request header construction, and retry/abort behavior.
- Wire adapters/pipeline into EPUBContext and PDFContext to simplify and centralize audiobook flow.
- Move config preference helpers out of ConfigContext into dedicated client modules:
- buildSyncedPreferencePatch (lib/client/config/preferences.ts)
- applyConfigUpdate and getVoicePreferenceKey (lib/client/config/updates.ts)
- Use these helpers in ConfigContext to keep update logic small and testable.
- Add TTS settings view model resolver (lib/client/settings/tts-settings.ts) and tests
for the tts-provider catalog and config helpers (tests/unit/tts-provider-catalog.spec.ts).
- Minor usages updated: AudiobookExportModal, SettingsModal, useVoiceManagement, TTSContext,
server tts generation, and various context files to consume the new modules.
Why: Reduce duplication, improve testability, and separate concerns for provider metadata,
UI view-model logic, and audiobook generation flow. Breaking changes: none.
Add a test to verify selected voice persists instead of resetting to default.
Also refactors export tests to be UI-driven rather than backend-dependent.
Implement AbortController in ConfigContext, PDFContext, and preference sync to prevent race conditions during session changes or rapid navigation. Refactor document preview routes into shared utilities and add LRU caching for text previews to optimize memory. Update documentation for Better Auth schema ownership and migration workflows. Fix issues with Postgres system user seeding and better-sqlite3 configuration.
- Implemented user preferences management with a new API for GET and PUT requests.
- Added user document progress tracking with a new API for retrieving and updating progress.
- Introduced database schema changes for user preferences and document progress.
- Enhanced EPUB and TTS contexts to support syncing user preferences and document progress.
- Added functions to handle transferring user preferences and progress during account linking.
- Updated client-side logic to schedule syncing of user preferences and document progress.
This commit restructures the audiobook generation and serving layer to rely exclusively on S3-compatible blob storage, removing the dependency on local filesystem paths.
- Bundle `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe` binaries via npm to ensure portability across environments.
- Update API routes to stream audio directly from blob storage instead of local disk.
- Remove legacy migration endpoints and filesystem-based indexing logic.
- Add startup scripts to facilitate the transition from local to remote storage.
BREAKING CHANGE: Audiobook functionality is now strictly dependent on S3 configuration. The previous filesystem-based storage method has been removed.
Replaces local filesystem document storage with S3-compatible object storage.
Adds embedded SeaweedFS 'weed mini' for local development and Docker deployments.
Updates document upload flow to use presigned URLs with a server fallback proxy.
Refactors auth configuration to use BASE_URL and AUTH_SECRET.
BREAKING CHANGE: Renamed BETTER_AUTH_URL to BASE_URL and BETTER_AUTH_SECRET to AUTH_SECRET. Removed legacy document upload/content endpoints. Requires S3 environment variables (auto-configured for embedded SeaweedFS).
- Replace client-side IndexedDB with server-first document storage
- Add document caching layer for offline capability and performance
- Implement document transfer during anonymous-to-authenticated account linking
- Add database indexes for improved query performance
- Update document contexts to use new caching system
- Refactor document upload and deletion APIs
- Add audiobook pruning for missing files
- Improve test isolation with namespace support
- Add unit tests for document cache and transfer functions
- Introduce `/api/whisper` endpoint which uses `whisper.cpp` (via a `WHISPER_CPP_BIN` executable) and `ffmpeg` to generate word-level audio alignments from provided audio and text.
- Integrate word-level alignments into `TTSContext`, tracking the currently spoken word based on audio seek position and provided timestamps. Alignments are cached in-memory and fetched asynchronously.
- Add new configuration options (`pdfWordHighlightEnabled`, `epubWordHighlightEnabled`) to `ConfigContext` and `Dexie` for enabling/disabling the feature.
- Implement visual word highlighting in both `PDFViewer` and `EPUBViewer` by mapping TTS-aligned words to rendered text elements.
- Enhance `EPUBContext` and `PDFContext` with new `highlightWordIndex` and `clearWordHighlights` functions, utilizing fuzzy string matching (`cmpstr`) to robustly align spoken words with displayed text for accurate highlighting.
- Update `DocumentSettings` to include user-facing toggles for the new highlighting modes.
- Reorganized utility modules from `src/utils` to `src/lib` for clearer separation of concerns.
- Introduced new, dedicated type definitions in `src/types` for improved type safety in configuration and TTS API interactions.
- Replaced `src/types/appConfig.ts` with `src/types/config.ts`.
- Added `src/types/tts.ts` for TTS request payloads, error structures, and retry options.
- Updated module imports across several contexts (`Config`, `EPUB`, `HTML`, `PDF`, `TTS`) and components to reflect the new `lib` and `types` locations.
- Enhanced TTS API request and error handling in `src/app/api/tts/route.ts` and TTS-consuming contexts with explicit types.
- Simplified `ProgressCard`, `ProgressPopup`, and `AudiobookExportModal` components by removing the `isProcessing` prop, centralizing processing state management.
- Streamlined `HTMLContext` by removing `createFullAudioBook` and `isAudioCombining` properties, focusing its scope.
Migrates scattered configuration items and last document locations
from the legacy `config` table to new, dedicated Dexie stores.
- Introduces a singleton `app-config` table (`AppConfigRow`) to standardize
and structure all application settings in a single object.
- Creates a `last-locations` table for efficient storage of document read positions.
- Updates `ConfigContext` to utilize `dexie-react-hooks`' `useLiveQuery`
for reactive and simplified state management.
- Implements a database upgrade path (from DB_VERSION 4 to 5) to migrate
all existing user settings seamlessly.
- Simplifies config access and updates with new `getAppConfig` and `updateAppConfig`
utility functions.
- Removes the deprecated `config` table after successful migration.
- Updates consumers like `SettingsModal` and test helpers to align with
the new config structure.
- Offload computationally intensive text matching for real-time highlighting to a dedicated Web Worker, ensuring the main thread remains responsive during playback.
- Implement a new overlay-based highlighting system that renders independently of the PDF's text layer, providing smoother and more reliable visual feedback without interfering with document rendering.
- Introduce a new setting allowing users to enable or disable real-time text highlighting in PDFs, offering personalized control over the reading interface.
- Upgrade the underlying text comparison algorithm to Dice similarity for more accurate and context-aware matching of spoken words to on-screen text, improving synchronization precision.
- Improve sentence boundary detection, especially for quoted dialogue and complex structures, by enhancing the NLP processing logic, leading to a more natural audio-text flow.
Replaces custom IndexedDB implementation with Dexie ORM, eliminating 850+ lines of
boilerplate code and introducing reactive live queries across all document types.
Transforms document management from imperative refresh patterns to automatic
reactive updates using dexie-react-hooks.
Simplifies TTS backend by removing concurrency semaphore while maintaining
request de-duplication through in-flight tracking. Streamlines document hooks
by removing manual state management and refresh methods.
Updates package dependencies and type definitions to support new database
architecture while maintaining full backward compatibility for existing
documents and settings.
BREAKING CHANGE: Document hooks no longer expose refresh() methods as updates
are now reactive through live queries.
introduce configurable smart sentence splitting with persisted state,
UI toggle, and EPUB/PDF contexts that send continuation metadata.
enhance TTS pipeline to merge cross-page sentences, manage carryover,
and trigger visual page changes during playback for smoother narration.
update README with kokoro quick-start guidance, remove the legacy
issues mapping doc, and add deterministic TTS mocks plus sample audio
for Playwright tests.
Add comprehensive multi-provider TTS support enabling users to choose between OpenAI, Deepinfra, and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Implement provider-specific voice management with automatic voice restoration per provider-model combination, and migrate package manager to pnpm for improved dependency handling.
Key changes:
- Add TTS provider selection (OpenAI, Deepinfra, custom-openai) in settings UI
- Implement provider-specific model and voice lists with dynamic fetching
- Add voice persistence per provider-model combination in savedVoices
- Support Deepinfra models: Kokoro-82M, Orpheus-3B, Sesame-1B with their voice libraries
- Migrate to pnpm with frozen lockfile for reproducible builds
- Update Docker configuration to use pnpm and Deepinfra API defaults
- Add migration logic for existing users to infer provider from stored baseUrl
- Update test helpers and Playwright configuration for Deepinfra API
- Add example docker-compose.yml with Kokoro-FastAPI integration
BREAKING CHANGE: Voice selection is now provider-model specific. Previously saved voices will be migrated to the new savedVoices structure, but users may need to reselect voices if switching providers.
