Haruna 1.5

posted on Tuesday, 30 September 2025 by George Florea Bănuș

Haruna version 1.5.0 is released.

The highlight of this release is the playlist, which got a lot of features:

multiple playlists through tabs (Muhammet Sadık Uğursoy)
drag and drop reordering (Muhammet Sadık Uğursoy)
add files and folders through drag and drop (Muhammet Sadık Uğursoy)
filtering (Muhammet Sadık Uğursoy)
option to control playback behavior when a file ends: repeat playlist, repeat file, stop after last file in playlist, stop after current fille and play a random item

Another big change is to the Mouse settings, now you can use a mouse button + modifier key combo (ctrl + left click, shift + scroll up/down etc.).

Windows version:

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Changelog

On Windows the Shortcuts and Custom Commands settings pages don't work.

Settings

General
- added single instance setting to play new file when appending to the playlist
- removed the "File dialog location setting"
Playlist: added settings to control playback behavior
Mouse
- changed to allow modifier keys
- added support for Mouse Forward and Back buttons
Subtitles: if a relative folder name in the Load subtitle from list starts with an * (asterisk) then subtitles will be searched in all folders contaning the folder name. Example: If the Load subtitle from list contains an entry *sub and you have the following folders next to the video file subs, more subs and subtitles all of these folders will be searched.
the settings window now has a minimum width and height

PlayList

added support for multiple playlists
items can be reordered manually through drag and dropdown
items can be selected, ctrl+click to select multiple items, shift+click to select a range
items can be filtered
added setings to control playback behavior when a file ends
when saving the playlist the file extension is set to m3u
can add files and folders through drag and drop
multiple files can be added through the option in the header
hide playlist when mouse leaves window while maximized, prevents opening the playlist when moving mouse to another monitor

Playback

if a file can't be played now an error is shown and playback stops instead of trying to play the next file (prevents a potential infinite loop when no file in the playlist can be played)
can play files starting with a dot (hidden files)
an error is shown when failing to get youtube playlist

Other

mpris: add support for Shuffle and LoopStatus
changed the action selection popup to use Kirigami.SearchDialog
replaced the spinning icon with a progress bar and label
the drop area of the video is split in 2 parts now
- top part always appends to the default playlist
- bottom part clears the default playlist and adds the dropped files and folders, when only one file is dropped it behaves as the open file action (clears the playlist and loads sibling files if enabled in settings)
recent files are now stored in a sqlite database
time positions used to restore videos are also stored in the database
sleep is blocked on Windows too
all strings should be translatable now

fixed the loop action, osd was not showing and progress bar was not highlighting the loop range
before loading check that the file exists
fixed loading wrong subtitles when using recursive subs
fixed the progress bar getting taller when the chapters menu becomes visible
fixed a bug where the video would pause after clicking the progress/seek bar