Upscayl v2.11.5! 🥳

Cute small update for cute users 🥰

Shoutout 🫶

• @furkansimsekli made their first contribution to our issue templates 😎
• @MrPenguin07 for fixing building and adding experimental notification icon support🫡
• You for using the app and helping it become better 😄

Special changes 🤵

• Changed nothing about the UI 🥰

What's Changed 👇

• Fixed notification icons in Linux 🤗 Contribution by @MrPenguin07
• Fixed skill scale issue for Double Upscayl 🙃 #841
• Fixed the issue with Upscayl not recognizing non-ASCII characters in image path #802 😵‍💫
• Fixed the issue with Windows not being able to upscale with custom width #794 🫠
• Fixed the issue with logs having the urge to output "100.00%" #847 😤
• Security fixes so that nobody can steal your upscayl images 🔓😎

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.11.0...v2.11.5

Upscayl v2.11! 🥳

Haha gotcha! You thought it was gonna be v3 didn't you?

Shoutout 🫶

• Thanks to @aaronliu0130 as always for taking care of everything here!
• Thanks to @TGS963 for fixing NCNN issues like a 🥷 !
• Thanks to my mother for giving me birth so that I could work on Upscayl 🙇
• Thanks to you all for using this app, thank you for accepting our small offering 🙏

What's Changed 👇

• Revamped the Upscayl Backend! 🥳
• Above 4X scaling is now available! Enjoy up to 16X upscale (4X base and resize after 4X)! 🥳
• Custom width option has now been updated! 🆕
• Sidebar can now be made to hide! 🫣
• No more post-processing! Images are saved only after processing. 💾
• JPG and WebP now have lossy and lossless compression! PNG has lossless compression. 🗜️
• Scale option has been added to the main screen now 📺
• Added new tile size option in the settings 🀄️
• Updated Upscayl Docs page 📄
• Fixed the issue that caused errors for images with non-english characters #770 🇨🇳 🇪🇸
• Changed the logos to SVG for better performance 🐌
• Did a lot of code refactoring 👨‍💻
• Added logic to stop resizing for default scales ⚖️
• New error toasts that let you copy the errors easily! 📋
• Fixed the upscayl resolution when using custom width/double upscayl 💯
• Made slider the default view 🛝
• Fix 'remember output folder path' option ✅ Upscayl will now permanently remember the output path!

Special changes 🤵

• Added emojis in the top 2 buttons in settings 🥰

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.10.0...v2.11.0

Upscayl v2.11 Pre-release! 🥳 (Please report bugs)

BIG CHANGES THIS TIME!

What's Changed 👇

• Revamped the Upscayl Backend! 🥳
• Above 4X scaling is now available! Enjoy up to 16X upscale (4X base and resize after 4X)! 🥳
• Custom width option has now been updated! 🆕
• No more post-processing! Images are saved only after processing. 💾
• JPG and WebP now have lossy and lossless compression! PNG has lossless compression. 🗜️
• Scale option has been added to the main screen now 📺
• New error toasts that let you copy the errors easily! 📋
• Fixed the upscayl resolution when using custom width 💯
• Made slider the default view 🛝
• Sidebar can now be made to hide! 🫣
• Fix 'remember output folder path' option ✅ Upscayl will now permanently remember the output path!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.10.0...v2.10.9

A small update for a big number

What's Changed 👇

• 🛠️ Fixed the PNG ➡️ JPG conversion issue resulting in no output.
• 🛑 Resolved issue where stop button would not stop upscayl process

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Notice ⚠️⚠️⚠️

We've got a bit of an announcement to make. Our fearless leader, NayamAmarshe, took a well-deserved vacation 🏖️ (refer to release 2.9.9). Unfortunately, it seems GitHub wasn't too keen on his absence, and his account has been suspended for a while 😔. This means that development on upscayl will be on ⏸️ until he's back and ready to code again. ‍

We know this might be a bit of a bummer, but we promise to keep you updated on the situation. In the meantime, feel free to explore the latest version of upscayl!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.9...v2.10.0

Upscayl v2.9.9 🥳

ok bye!🫥

What's Changed 🤓

• New sidebar for image options 🫲
• Added NEW LENS VIEW feature ✨🔍
• Added a new custom width option, unlimited upscaling yay! 👏
• Fixed an edge case where Upscayl would output a PNG for a JPG (#653) 🖼️
• Fixed another edge case where Upscayl wouldn't output anything for JPG in batch mode 👻
• Updated the Real-ESRGAN (Fast) model name, batch output folders will now have a different name (Breaking change for saved models) 🙏
• Batch output folders will now have the custom width in the name if that option is used ℹ️
• The comparison slider can now be controlled by the keyboard and be accessibility friendly thanks to @nerdyman (#655) ♿
• Upscayl's binary distributions should now install its icon in its correct path! 🪁
• @MrPenguin07 has provided a Gentoo ebuild package (#665) 9️⃣
• Upscayl's Mac version should now correctly report a minimum version requirement of Monterey 🍎
  • With this update, we finally have a Homebrew cask! 🍺

Backend changes ©️

• Updated https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl-ncnn to latest Vulkan version 🔃
• Upscayl will now ignore hidden files and folders automatically! 😀
  • desktop.ini files will now be ignored under Batch Upscayl (#615)🪟
• Uppercase file extensions will now be processed correctly 🔠

New Contributors 🫡

• @nerdyman made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/655
• @MrPenguin07 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/661

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.8...v2.9.9

Upscayl v2.9.9 Pre-release 🥳 (Please report bugs if any!)

What's Changed 🤓

• New sidebar for image options 🫲
• Added NEW LENS VIEW feature ✨🔍
• Added a new custom width option, unlimited upscaling yay! 👏
• Fixed an edge case where Upscayl would output a PNG for a JPG (#653) 🖼️
• The comparison slider can now be controlled by the keyboard and be accessibility friendly thanks to @nerdyman (#655) ♿
• Upscayl's binary distributions should now install its icon in its correct path! 🪁
• @MrPenguin07 has provided a Gentoo ebuild package (#665) 9️⃣
• Upscayl's Mac version should now correctly report a minimum version requirement of Monterey 🍎

Backend changes ©️

• Updated https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl-ncnn to latest Vulkan version 🔃
• Upscayl will now ignore hidden files and folders automatically! 😀
  • desktop.ini files will now be ignored under Batch Upscayl (#615)🪟
• Uppercase file extensions will now be processed correctly 🔠

New Contributors 🫡

• @nerdyman made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/655
• @MrPenguin07 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/661

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.8...v2.9.9

Upscayl v2.9.8 🫵🏻

Hotfix update for v2.9.7

What's Changed 🤓

• Fixed the issue that caused batch mode to only output PNG files 🫡
• Added helpful hint for custom model option 📧
• Added turn off notification option in the settings 🙈
• Upscayl will now delete desktop.ini, .DS_Store and other hidden files before performing batch upscale 😀
• Fixed a bug that caused Fast model to not work when custom models are enabled 🧿

v2.9.7 Changes 🙈

• Improved automatic model scale detection (For example, it now detects '2x' and 'x2' both) 😎
• Added WEBP as an export option! 🥳
• Fixed Batch Upscayl direct output. Now JPG/WEBP will directly output their own format! ✅
• Fixed Batch Upscayl transparent PNG processing bug 🐞
• Added Upscayl success/failure system notifications! 📢
• Fixed overwrite image bug 🐞
• Added Upscayl News 📰
• Fixed the 'Release Notes' bug that causes the updater dialog to close 📝
• Added extra information hint to Batch Upscayl progress 🫡
• Fixed encode image failure issue for Mac App Store build 🖥️
• Added Email Developer button for Mac App Store users 📧
• Added helpful information hint for Mac App Store users ℹ️
• Updated Upscayl Progress animation 🦄
• Polished the UI some more 💅🏻

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.7...v2.9.8

We're getting close to 3.0 😳

Upscayl v2.9.7 🥳 (don't ask me what happened to 2.9.6 😳)

What's Changed 🤓

• Improved automatic model scale detection (For example, it now detects '2x' and 'x2' both) 😎
• Added WEBP as an export option! 🥳
• Fixed Batch Upscayl direct output. Now JPG/WEBP will directly output their own format! ✅
• Fixed Batch Upscayl transparent PNG processing bug 🐞
• Added Upscayl success/failure system notifications! 📢
• Fixed overwrite image bug 🐞
• Added Upscayl News 📰
• Fixed the 'Release Notes' bug that causes the updater dialog to close 📝
• Added extra information hint to Batch Upscayl progress 🫡
• Fixed encode image failure issue for Mac App Store build 🖥️
• Added Email Developer button for Mac App Store users 📧
• Added helpful information hint for Mac App Store users ℹ️
• Updated Upscayl Progress animation 🦄
• Polished the UI some more 💅🏻

Special Thanks 😊

• @aaronliu0130 for being so proactive with the issues and the project. Your help is greatly appreciated!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.5...v2.9.7

Upscayl v2.9.5 🥳

Changelog

• Fixed batch upscayl bug #585

Upscayl v2.9.4 🥳

As always, working hard to give all of you free updates

What's Changed 🤓

• Fix Batch Upscayl scaling bug ⚖️
• Fix Batch Upscayl hidden files/folders error issue 🙈
• Add new compression for PNGs, it'll work way better! 🗜️
• Compression, Scale, Overwrite and other options now work in real-time! No need to restart Upscayl anymore! 🥳
• Make the file select dialog only show images 🪭
• Better logging 🪵
• Upscayl news delivered right to you 📰
• Bump sharp from 0.32.5 to 0.32.6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/570 🫡
• Fix a typo on decoding error message by @headquarter8302 in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/575 🫡

New Contributors

• @headquarter8302 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/575

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.9.1...v2.9.4

Upscayl v2.9.1 🥳

ok, no bugs this time!

What's Changed 🤓

• NCNN update! Vulkan SDK and a lot of libraries have been updated, expect bug fixes and performance improvements💯
• Fix MacOS App Store build. Launching soon! 📂
• Updated dependencies 🔗
• Fix #499 - Remove redundant upscaled files 🗑️
• Fix #488 - Batch Upscale empty progress bug 🪹
• Security updates 👮‍♀️
• Skip conversion for 4x PNG upscaling ⏭️

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.8.6...v2.9.1

Upscayl v2.9.0 🥳

[!NOTE]
PRE-RELEASE ONLY FOR OUR LINUX GANG 🐧❤️
Please report bugs if you notice any 🙏

What's Changed 🤓

• We're launching Upscayl on the Mac App Store soon 🥳
• NCNN update! Vulkan SDK and a lot of libraries have been updated, expect bug fixes and performance improvements💯
• Fix #499 - Remove redundant upscaled files 🗑️
• Fix #488 - Batch Upscale empty progress bug 🪹
• Security updates 👮‍♀️
• Skip conversion for 4x PNG upscaling ⏭️

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.8.6...v2.9.0

Proudly releasing v2.8.6 to fix a single bug #485 🫡

Upscayl v2.8.5 🥳

Minor bug-fix update to v2.8.

What's Changed 🤓

• Updated electron version ⚡️
• Fixed scaling and conversion ⚖️
• Added 4:4:4 subsampling by default 🌈
• Added the option to switch of post-processing ⌥
• MacOS builds are now signed, which means no weird security warnings (App Store soon 😉)
• Fixed macOS issue with closed Windows (#471) ❌
• Fixed grainy picture issue (#474) 💥
• Fixed compression 🗜️

New Contributors

• @wenbin-collab made their first contribution to our README in #479!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.8.1...v2.8.5

Upscayl v2.8 🥳

We pre-released v2.8.0 for Linux users a few days ago. Based on the feedback and testing, we are now releasing v2.8.1 for all platforms 😄

What's Changed 🤓

• We're introducing MacOS Apple Chip support in v2.8.1 🥳
• HUGE codebase refactor, to save us devs some time 🥇
• Batch upscale will now show you progress 💯
• We've integrated better compression and scaling ♻️
• Fixed the empty upscaled image bug 🗑️
• Added helpful tips for Upscayl options in settings 💁🏻‍♀️
• Added performance mode reminder for Windows users 🏇🏻
• Fix large image upscale performance bug 🐌
• Auto-update for MacOS, sorry for ignoring for so long 😅
• Fixed the annoying Upscayl Cloud bug. It won't appear again and again and you can make it disappear like it's MAGIC! 🪄
• Fix re-upscayl folder progress bug 🐞
• Fixed #457 👶🏻
• Fixed #453 👶🏻
• Fixed #452 👶🏻
• Fixed #445 👶🏻
• Fixed #444 👶🏻
• Fixed #443 👶🏻
• Fixed #433 👶🏻
• Added #432 👶🏻

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.7.5...v2.8.1

Upscayl v2.8.0 🥳

[!NOTE]
PRE-RELEASE ONLY FOR OUR LINUX GANG 🐧❤️
Please report bugs if you notice any 🙏

What's Changed 🤓

• We're introducing MacOS Apple Chip support in v2.8.0 🥳
• Batch upscale will now show you progress 💯
• We've integrated better compression and scaling ♻️
• Fixed the empty upscaled image bug 🗑️
• Added helpful tips for Upscayl options in settings 💁🏻‍♀️
• Added performance mode reminder for Windows users 🏇🏻
• Fix large image upscale performance bug 🐌
• Fixed the annoying Upscayl Cloud bug. It won't appear again and again and you can make it disappear like it's MAGIC! 🪄
• Fix re-upscayl folder progress bug 🐞
• Fixed #457 👶🏻
• Fixed #453 👶🏻
• Fixed #452 👶🏻
• Fixed #445 👶🏻
• Fixed #444 👶🏻
• Fixed #443 👶🏻
• Fixed #433 👶🏻
• Added #432 👶🏻

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.7.5...v2.8.0

Upscayl v2.7.5 🥳

Major Update to v2.5.5.

Please report bugs 🙏🏻 Let's pave the road to 2.8 🥇

What's Changed 🤓

• New website launch! 🎉
• Fixed 2x, 3x scale issue #303 😌
• Added compression and fixed JPEG/PNG output forever 😤
• Added output type and compression options for batch upscale 💪🏻
• Added fix for empty upscaled image #354 🫙
• Added a totally new Upscayl theme. 💅🏻
• Fix scale resolution #433 ⚖️
• Started to integrate Upscayl Cloud (more at https://upscayl.org) ☁️
• Added toggle to allow overwriting upscaled photos. 🚨
• Added new Upscayl theme and macOS look. 🥰
• Batch upscale will now delete .DS_Store files in macOS. 🗑️

Contributors 🤩

• @udu3324 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/355

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.5.5...v2.7.5

Upscayl v2.5.5

Minor Update to v2.5.1.

What's Changed 🤓

• Added wiki option in the settings 📚
• Added DMG background 👉
• Added warnings for Scale issue ⚠
• Fixed upscale resolution warning above 32k #332 🧐
• Fixed batch folder output folder bug #319 📁
• Updated macOS icons #306 🖼
• Disabled auto install on new updates #305 ⚡

Contributors 🤩

• Update bug_report.yml's logging info by @aaronliu0130 in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/304 👨‍💻
• Add Flathub button and some Linux-specific info to README.me by @Danik1601 in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/301

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.5.1...v2.5.5

🚀 Upscayl v2.5 is here! 🥳

🤖 This is a major release with a lot of new features

🤓 See what people say about Upscayl:

• "In ventures bold and tales retold, with 'upscayl' we shall prevail." - ROBOTOCRACY
• "nice clean interface, stunning quality how is this free?" - wo0tgh0st
• "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye" - Bully Maguire

💅 New Release, New Me:

• UNLIMITED NEW AI MODELS! 🤖 Upscayl now allows you to import your own models! (Wiki to be updated soon)
• Upscayl will now remember all your settings, even after you close it ;) ✍
• New Settings tab! 😎
• Flathub release! 🐧
• We're now on Snap Store! 📸
• Reduced size since v2.0.1. 🙃
• Updated Ultrasharp model ⚡
• Added FAST Real-ESRGAN Model ⏩
• New custom models repository! 📂
• A cancel upscaling button, finally! 🛑
• More visible progress bar 🚧
• New log area. Now you can directly see the logs and report bugs. 👨‍💻
• Batch Mode is now persisted across sessions. 👬
• Output Folder is now persisted across sessions. 👬
• New experimental scale option. ⚖
• Removed sharpen option (it was useless tbh) 🥶
• Fixed issue with upscaling images with special characters in their name. 🉐
• Massively improved logging. 💆
• Bug fixes Bug fixes Bug ̢̭͇̱̬̩̜ͦͣͪ̎f̨̺̳͎̓͊ͯī̸͔̺̫̲ͅxͤͬ҉̲͖̗̪̪͇e̛̟̦̠̗͇̭̲ͩ̎̿͒ͅs̫̰̘̻̙̍͊̓͜
• Bug additions Bug additions B̵̩̰͋͑̀̽u̙͖͔ͤͦ͗͝g̩̳ͪ̆̔̀̚ ̧̝̣͈̲̜̖ͤͨͅA͇̜ͪ̓ͨ͢d̔ͫ͋͆͏̮̠̩ḑ̞̱̻̲̖͔͇̘̾̇i̛̩͙̻͙̮͓̠ͬͥ̂t͕̲̑̒̀i̧̘͉̫̞̜̘̬ͩo̗̞̰͖͔͍̞̤̒͑ͩ͜n̛͙̘̅͊̄̚ (hope not 🤫)

📢 We're on Flathub! 🥳 Upscayl will also be available on Mac App Store and Microsoft Windows Store in the future.

🗿 Chad Contributors:

• @aaronliu0130 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/176
• @illright made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/208
• @TheEvilSkeleton made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/231
• @yoavain made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/216
• @AyliasTheCoder made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/274
• @nbuechner is maintaining the snap version.

🤓 This release does not contain the option to upscale your bank account balance.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.0.1...v2.5.1

[PRE-RELEASE FOR LINUX USERS] Please report bugs

🚀 Upscayl v2.5 is here! 🥳

🤖 This is a major release with a lot of new features

🤓 See what people say about Upscayl:

• "In ventures bold and tales retold, with 'upscayl' we shall prevail." - ROBOTOCRACY
• "nice clean interface, stunning quality how is this free?" - wo0tgh0st
• "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye" - Bully Maguire

💅 New Release, New Me:

• UNLIMITED NEW AI MODELS! 🤖 Upscayl now allows you to import your own models!
• Upscayl will now remember all your settings, even after you close it ;) ✍
• New Settings tab! 😎
• Reduced size since v2.0.1. 🙃
• Updated Ultrasharp model ⚡
• New custom models repository! 📂
• A cancel upscaling button, finally! 🛑
• More visible progress bar 🚧
• New log area. Now you can directly see the logs and report bugs. 👨‍💻
• Batch Mode now is persisted across sessions. 👬
• Output Folder is now persisted across sessions. 👬
• New experimental scale option. ⚖
• Removed sharpen option (it was useless tbh) 🥶
• Fixed issue with upscaling images with special characters in their name. 🉐
• Massively improved logging. 💆
• Bug fixes Bug fixes Bug ̢̭͇̱̬̩̜ͦͣͪ̎f̨̺̳͎̓͊ͯī̸͔̺̫̲ͅxͤͬ҉̲͖̗̪̪͇e̛̟̦̠̗͇̭̲ͩ̎̿͒ͅs̫̰̘̻̙̍͊̓͜
• Bug additions Bug additions (hope not 🤫)

We're prioritizing Flatpak release. As soon as Flatpak is published on Flathub, We'll release for other platforms as well.

🗿 Chad Contributors:

• @aaronliu0130 made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/176
• @illright made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/208
• @TheEvilSkeleton made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/231
• @yoavain made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/216
• @AyliasTheCoder made their first contribution in https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/pull/274

🤓 This release would hopefully cure any depression, however if it does not, PRs are welcome.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl/compare/v2.0.1...v2.5.0