Haruna 1.9

posted on Friday, 30 October 2026 by George Florea Bănuș

Haruna version 1.9.0 is released.

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Availability of other package formats depends on your distro and the people who package Haruna.

Feature requests and bugs should be posted on bugs.kde.org, ignoring the bug report template can result in your report being ignored.

Chapter markers can have different widths when using fractional scaling
The animation for the playlist can be stuttery/slow when playback is active. You can improve it by creating two custom commands that run on startup:
- set display-fps-override 75 (replace 75 with your monitor's refresh rate)
- set video-sync display-resample
These don't work for variable refresh rate monitors.

open folder, available in the file menu, hamburger menu, context menu and through the Ctrl+Alt+O shortcut
Osd settings page, with control over which actions show the osd
transcript panel that shows the subtitles, can be accessed with Ctrl-P and from the subtitles menu
explanatory tooltips can be turned off in Settings > General > Show explanatory tooltips (can still be shown by pressing alt key)
for youtube urls the seekbar shows the buffered part of the video that can be immediately seeked to
youtube urls are resolved in a better way, instead of one yt-dlp process per url, now one process handles multiple urls and only 3 processes run at the same time
Database settings page, allows clearing database tables
file metadata is cached in the database for faster loading, can be updated through the playlist's context menu
simplified chapter marker to just a vertical line, chapter title is shown in a tooltip together with the time position and preview thumbnail

only active playlist is loaded at startup, the others are loded when switched to
playlist tabs are closed immediately with middle click rather than having to hold the button pressed
moved toolbar under the tabs
default playlist is saved and restored like the other playlists too, rather than being populated based on last played item
extended M3U playlists are supported now, only title and duration
removed compact style

wrong playlist item marked as playing after removing an item before the playing one
broken thumbnail generation
subtitles settings page being slow to open