[boxlore-master-pusher]

Release

• Version: 0.0.29 (29) → 0.0.30 (30)
• Date: 2026-11-01
• APK asset: boxlore-v0.0.30.apk
• AAB asset: boxlore-v0.0.30.aab
• Listener notes: release-notes/v0.0.30.md (the notes list starts afresh for the next release)

Every PR merged since the latest release has a CHANGELOG entry.

What's new, as listeners will read it

Announcement title:

Highlights

1. Listening history has a new Insights tab: your listening time, top shows, when and where you listen, how much of it is new episodes, and your records. (feat(history): listening history insights, timeline, monthly story and richer listening totals #1207)
2. Each month, Echo tells the story of your last month of listening: your numbers first, how you listened, your records, and something new to say each time, ready to share. (feat(history): listening history insights, timeline, monthly story and richer listening totals #1207)
3. Subscriptions has a cleaner look, and making a folder takes a few short steps: pick shows yourself, follow one genre, or let Auto make a folder for every genre. (feat(library): redesign Subscriptions folders, sorting and New Episodes #1198)

New

• Timeline lets you search your listening history, jump to any day and pick up where you left off. (feat(history): listening history insights, timeline, monthly story and richer listening totals #1207)
• The Vergecast, Conspiracy Theories, Waveform, Crime Junkie, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rotten Mango and The Daily now have show pages in their own style, with a boxlore "Made for" tag, the latest episode up top and a short moment when you subscribe. (feat(info): add Showcase pages for three shows #1204, feat(info): add Showcase pages for four more shows #1219)
• Show pages can list episodes straight from a show's own feed, keep them for offline viewing, and tell you when boxlore is showing its own episode list instead. Rolling out gradually. (feat(info): read show pages from the feed #1184)
• On New Episodes, swipe right to add an episode to your queue or left to mark it played, and pull down to check for new episodes. (feat(library): redesign Subscriptions folders, sorting and New Episodes #1198)
• Listening in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian or Dutch? You can now turn English off in Library settings › Languages, and boxlore then adds English shows to recommendations, search and suggestions only when there aren't enough in your languages. (feat(settings): let listeners switch English off for deep-pool languages #1187, fix(discovery): keep English out of requests when the listener switched it off #1191)
• Free up space with Clear saved shows in Library settings: it removes the episode lists saved for shows you opened but don't follow. (feat(settings): add a control to clear saved shows #1192)
• Feedback is now a conversation: pick a type, write your message and send, no email needed. The boxlore team's reply shows up in Feedback, Home's Feedback button lights up, and a notification tells you when it arrives if you turn them on.

Improved

• Your listening time, longest sessions and where you listened carry over with cloud sync and backups, backups include your whole listening history, and listening on each of your phones counts once. (fix(history): back up and count every played episode #1200, feat(history): record and sync listening dates, play details and played shows #1201, feat(history): listening history insights, timeline, monthly story and richer listening totals #1207)
• Cloud sync keeps your progress, likes, finished episodes and queue in step across all your devices, including ones on older versions of boxlore, and episodes you remove from the queue stay removed everywhere. (feat(sync): carry episode identity through cloud sync #1179)
• Restoring a library backup keeps your played and liked episodes on the right episodes, and exported OPML files point other apps to each show's own feed. (feat(backup): add episode identity to library backups #1188)
• Subscriptions remembers whether you chose grid or list, and shows you follow later are added to their genre folder automatically. (feat(library): redesign Subscriptions folders, sorting and New Episodes #1198)
• Show pages load more smoothly, with the page's shape appearing right away and clearer messages while episodes load. (fix(info): keep loading when completed episodes are hidden, and redo loading states #1196)
• In light mode, the player keeps a light Play icon on a deeper cover colour and uses a soft dark shade of the cover for its text, and its quick-action buttons use cleaner, matching icons. (feat(player): outlined tray icons and softer light-mode colours #1199)
• On Android 17, the Cast button asks once for permission to find devices on your network. If you'd rather not allow it, it opens Android's own picker, so you can still cast.
• Shared episode links open the right episode for friends on any version of boxlore, even episodes only in a show's own feed, and keep your plays, progress and downloads on the episode you already have. (feat(app): resolve episode links, pushes and Android Auto by show #1181)
• Library settings has separate rows for your chart country and your languages, and changing your country keeps your languages. (feat(settings): let listeners switch English off for deep-pool languages #1187)
• After importing your library or picking shows in search, choose whether to see similar shows or go straight to Home, and skip to Home anytime while suggestions load. (feat(onboarding): ask before suggesting shows after search or import #1194)
• When boxlore needs a quick check that you're a person before Echo can suggest shows, Echo asks for it in its own voice, and the check fits in with the rest of the screen. Fewer phones need it: phones that are slow to confirm they run genuine boxlore now get more time to finish in the background. (feat(session): Echo asks for the human check in its own voice #1205)
• New-episode notifications arrive sooner after a release. (chore(notifications): run the checker on the VPS; GitHub keeps a manual fallback #1151)
• boxlore asks to send notifications only when you turn them on for a show or finish importing your library, not every time you open Home. (fix(analytics): ask for notifications on intent and fix misreported events #1226)
• On Explore, tap the Explore tab again to start searching. From a show or episode you opened in Explore, the first tap takes you back to Explore.
• Every few months, right after you finish an episode, Echo asks how likely you are to recommend boxlore, with one short follow-up question. It never pops up as you open the app, and it uses your theme's colours. (feat(analytics): own NPS survey sheet, asked after an episode finishes #1227)

Fixed

• Shows whose feed stopped working or moved to a new address get new episodes and notifications again: boxlore follows the new address, checks the shows you follow after updating, and passes the fix to your other devices through sync. (feat(notifications): working feed addresses and stable episode IDs in new-episode pushes #1150, fix(episodes): match up to 1,000 episodes, never replace another show's episode, sync corrected feed addresses #1159, fix(sync): re-check dead feed addresses, fall back to /sync for failing feeds, follow moved feeds #1160, feat(catalog): update feed addresses in one place and check them daily #1182, feat(app): repair saved feed addresses after the update #1183)
• New-episode notifications no longer repeat for the same episode when one show's feed misbehaves. (fix(notifications): skip a stuck show and save each show's state as it changes #1202)
• Turning off episode notifications for an RSS feed stops sharing its feed link from your device. Links already shared stay in earlier public backups. (fix(catalog): keep tracked node when removing RSS notifications #1140)
• Shows that changed their catalog number stay followed once: no more Subscribe button or duplicate follow, and the episodes you played before the change stay played. (fix(catalog): treat a show Podcast Index renumbered as one show #1186)
• Shows with more than 100 episodes keep progress, history and downloads on their newer episodes, and an episode of one show no longer replaces an episode of another show that uses the same feed. (fix(episodes): match up to 1,000 episodes, never replace another show's episode, sync corrected feed addresses #1159)
• Shows no longer list the same episode more than once after refreshing. (refactor(rss): keep feed document order for episode identity #1176, fix(rss): stop re-adding episodes whose GUID starts with U+FEFF #1190)
• Hiding completed episodes no longer empties a show's page: boxlore keeps loading until it finds episodes you haven't finished, and tells you when you've finished them all. (fix(info): keep loading when completed episodes are hidden, and redo loading states #1196)
• On foldables and tablets, and when Android closes boxlore in the background, a show's search, open dialogs and selected episodes stay where you left them. (fix(info): keep show page search, dialogs and selection across window changes #1174)
• The Subscribe button on a show's page no longer stays stuck in its pressed shape after you tap it.
• Full episodes that a show's feed labels as trailers show as normal episodes and can play next in Smart Queue. (feat(info): add Showcase pages for three shows #1204)
• Episodes you queue from another show, or play from Downloads, appear under the right show in the player, even after you restart boxlore. (fix(playback): keep each queued episode under its own show #1203)
• Swiping the mini player aside to dismiss it no longer leaves its shadow behind. (feat(info): add Showcase pages for four more shows #1219)
• Downloaded episodes that the Smart Queue adds play from your download. (feat(playback): keep one listener state per episode across its IDs #1178)
• boxlore no longer crashes on some tablets and foldables when you scroll to the end of the top row on Home. (fix(home): stop the tablet hero carousel crashing at the end of the row #1193)
• Marquee hero cards with Artwork or App theme cover colours show the cover clearly instead of a dark blur. (fix(home): keep Marquee covers bright in Artwork and App theme #1195)
• Covers for CBC shows load right away instead of after a long wait. (feat(info): add Showcase pages for four more shows #1219)
• Home and Explore keep the picks and trending shows you already see when boxlore can't reach the server. (feat(catalog): use v2 discovery and briefing routes with translated episode IDs #1180)
• Listening insights count every episode you've finished, started or liked, not just recent ones. (fix(history): back up and count every played episode #1200)
• If boxlore can't check Google Play for updates, it offers to open its Play Store page so you can update there. (fix(updates): offer Google Play when a Play build's update check fails #1197)
• Clearing boxlore's data no longer opens a random episode on the next launch. (fix(catalog): open an install link only on a fresh install #1185)
• On an episode's page, More from shows the show's cover instead of a placeholder, and its header stands out from the episodes below it. (feat(info): add Showcase pages for four more shows #1219)
• The prompt to rate boxlore appears only right after you finish an episode, counts only episodes you finish in boxlore on this phone, waits two days after you install or import your library, and doesn't ask twice for the same milestone. (fix(analytics): ask for notifications on intent and fix misreported events #1226, feat(analytics): own NPS survey sheet, asked after an episode finishes #1227)

Announcement draft

boxlore v0.0.30 is here

• Listening history has a new Insights tab: your listening time, top shows, when and where you listen, how much of it is new episodes, and your records.
• Each month, Echo tells the story of your last month of listening: your numbers first, how you listened, your records, and something new to say each time, ready to share.
• Subscriptions has a cleaner look, and making a folder takes a few short steps: pick shows yourself, follow one genre, or let Auto make a folder for every genre.

Edit the wording in release-notes/v0.0.30.md and README What's New in this PR if anything needs changing.

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