Release notes

Desktop app

• YouTube downloads fixed. YouTube began refusing the stream client that older yt-dlp builds relied on, so every video failed with an instant HTTP 403. The bundled yt-dlp is now 2026.08.19, which uses a client YouTube still serves.
• yt-dlp keeps itself current. Fame idm now checks for a newer yt-dlp shortly after launch (at most every 6 hours) and, if a YouTube download ever hits a 403, updates immediately and retries on the fresh build — so this class of breakage heals without waiting for an app release. Works with both the bundled exe (stored per-user, no admin needed) and a system Python install.

Desktop app

• Cleaner download rows: one state-aware action button (Pause / Resume / Retry) plus a compact menu holding everything else — Open file, Show in folder, Copy URL, Remove.
• Removing a download now asks first, and can optionally send the finished file to the Recycle Bin (recoverable) — removing from the list never touches files by default.
• "Pause all" now truly pauses the queue — queued items no longer sneak into freed slots.
• New Paused filter in the sidebar with live count.
• Open file / Show in folder give clear feedback when a file was moved or deleted instead of silently doing nothing.
• Add-download validates the URL up front, and Enter submits the dialog.
• Native folder pickers on every path field in Add, Batch, and Settings.
• Sort choice is remembered across sessions; source-host chip on each row; colored status edges; better narrow-window layout; keyboard navigation and focus rings throughout.
• First hide-to-tray shows a notification so the app no longer seems to vanish.
• New --data-dir flag runs a fully portable instance (own settings, list, and cache).

Browser extension

• Re-hosted privacy policy at fame.proxaslab.com/privacy with a dedicated standalone page — the previous GitHub Pages URL was rejected by Chrome's reviewers because owner-site URLs aren't considered valid privacy policies.
• Added a public terms-of-service page at fame.proxaslab.com/terms.

Documentation

• New support page consolidating troubleshooting, FAQ, and bug-report guidance.

Desktop app

• Faster cold start: deferred Chaquopy / yt-dlp init until the first probe.
• Multi-connection probe falls back to GET Range when the server rejects HEAD (some servers reject HEAD).

Browser extension

• HLS/DASH manifest detection switched to observation-mode webRequest (MV3) — no blocking, lower CPU.
• Per-tab filtering of the sniffed-streams list.

Desktop app

• Header-pass-through from extension to the engine so signed URLs survive the handoff.
• Auto-detection of newly-installed installers.

Desktop app

• First public hosted installer artifacts at fame.proxaslab.com/v0.9.9.X/.
• Native Messaging host (matata-host.exe) wired so the browser extension can hand downloads to the engine.
• 32-connection segmented downloads with .mtpart sidecar for resume.