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v5.2.0-rc3 (5th of September 2026)

* Add text drag-and-drop in the subtitle text boxes (e.g. from original to working text) - thx bichitoxxx
* Add "Move first word to previous subtitle" shortcut, and make the word-moving shortcuts follow the focused text box - thx saltarob
* Add "Export..." to the transcription quality report - thx andor1999
* Add the Vietnamese Parakeet model to Crisp ASR speech to text - thx ruonghieu
* Add LFM2.5-VL 3B to the llama.cpp OCR model list
* Accept OpenRouter transcription models that reject verbose_json - thx muaz978
* Batch convert: hide the main window while the tool window is open - thx m0ck69
* Let a user-assigned Alt+Space shortcut beat the Windows system menu - thx kadrimarzouki
* macOS: change the default "Open Subtitle Edit folder" shortcut to Ctrl+Option+Shift+Cmd+D - thx GitGianluc
* Sync/Cut video: zoom the waveform on Shift + main-row plus/minus too - thx perkesfurmah-collab
* Text to speech: per-line voice clone pads short references, and audio.cpp engines can share a models folder - thx invio-a11y
* Fix waveform cursor and time display freezing during playback, and play starting away from the cursor - thx Davanix
* Fix undo/redo scrolling the current subtitle to the top of the grid - thx saltarob
* Fix auto-translate rows shifting when an abbreviation period is added to a merged row - thx claudemartin
* Fix "Show Plugins menu" not toggling the native macOS Plugins menu - thx GitGianluc
* Fix OCR fix word list rejecting case variants of an existing word - thx Pemicope
* Fix Generate button unreachable in burn-in/transparent video dialogs on short screens - thx sukuna0322
* Fix audio.cpp TTS server not restarting after an engine update
* Update whisper.cpp to v1.9.3
* Update Crisp ASR to v0.8.32
* Update audio.cpp TTS runtime (Higgs Audio v3 end-of-clip hiss fix)
* Update French translation - thx Need74
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert
* Update Turkish translation - thx bilimiyorum

v5.2.0-rc2 (4th of September 2026)

* Add waveform vertical zoom shortcuts to the Point sync and Visual sync dialogs - thx perkesfurmah-collab
* Add "Auto detect" language to the remaining Crisp ASR backends (Ark, Canary, Cohere, FireRed, Fun-ASR Nano, Granite, Kyutai) - thx subof
* Add "Guess end time from waveform", and offsets for both guess commands - thx m0ck69
* Add the subtitle type (normal / hearing impaired) to the DVB teletext export
* Burn in Blu-ray sup subtitles from the image-based editor and in batch convert - thx josemorgado107
* Export image: honor inline <font face> and <font size> per segment - thx Victory61
* Second subtitle: follow the preview font and add a Bold option - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Keep "Open second subtitle file..." available while a second subtitle is shown - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Text to speech: judge silence relative to the clip's peak so quiet voice clones keep their last word - thx invio-a11y
* Fix "guess start time from waveform" only firing while the waveform had focus - thx m0ck69
* Fix the subtitle grid churning and slowing down when merging with a read-only original - thx torvchen
* Fix the grid selection and view jumping after merging lines with the same text / time codes
* Fix an extra character from DVD OCR when the leftmost glyph has a descender - thx FunkyKnilch
* Update Catalan translation - thx jmontane
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27

v5.2.0-rc1 (3rd of September 2026)

* Add "Open recent video" to the Video menu - thx ghostminhtoan
* Add "Break at first space from cursor position" text box shortcuts - thx saltarob
* Text to speech: per-line voice cloning on the audio.cpp engines (IndexTTS 2.5, Higgs Audio v3, Fish Audio S2 Pro) - thx invio-a11y
* Text to speech: a language picker for Zonos (CrispASR) - thx subof
* Ask before the first voice clone in Confucius4-TTS and Pocket TTS too
* Blu-ray sup export: render overlapping subtitles together instead of dropping one - thx josemorgado107
* Sync dialogs: make the waveform under the video drag-resizable - thx perkesfurmah-collab
* Waveform: offer the ffmpeg download instead of failing silently when ffmpeg is missing - thx Marethyu2000
* Source view: use the appearance font and readable light-mode syntax colors - thx GrampaWildWilly
* JSON syntax highlighting: color string values that follow a property name
* Update llama.cpp to b10760
* Fix the waveform cursor landing a GOP away and hopping a frame forward on click and mouse wheel - thx bichitoxxx
* Fix "Set position" previewing rotation differently from libass - thx bichitoxxx
* Fix split and merge not keeping an editable original in sync - thx saltarob
* Fix closing Settings jumping back to the first subtitle - thx saltarob
* Fix recalculate duration landing just over max CPS, and the CPS readouts disagreeing - thx saltarob
* Fix a plugin result dropping the original column - thx fraternl
* Fix the spell check staying on the old language after a translation - thx fraternl
* Fix the video player not opening files on Windows paths longer than MAX_PATH - thx HindiAnimeVerse
* Fix the beautify time codes profile editor clipping its numeric fields - thx matmaggi
* Fix Compare lining the two grids up before the mirrored selection had scrolled
* Fix "set end time and go to next" firing on key down instead of key up - thx ghostminhtoan
* Fix the SMPTE preview stretch not reaching the VLC reloader and the secondary subtitle - thx ghostminhtoan
* Fix the theme not following OS light/dark changes after the first switch
* Fix 16 bugs found in a random-file hunt (subtitle formats, Google Lens, speech to text, TMPGEnc)
* Minor performance improvements from immutable brushes and pens for every static color
* Update French translation - thx Need74
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Portuguese (Brazil) translation - thx igorruckert

v5.2.0-beta32 (2nd of September 2026)

* Add a "Columns..." dialog to reorder and hide subtitle grid columns - thx m0ck69
* Export the "List errors" report to clipboard, text file, Excel or web page - thx AuroraMartell
* Binary edit: open DVD sup, XSUB (avi), MP4 VobSub, image based WebVTT/TTML and more transport streams, and export DVD sup and D-Cinema
* ASSA: offer to resample the subtitle when the video resolution differs from the script resolution - thx hisui3393
* Add Confucius4-TTS (CrispASR), Higgs Audio v3 and Fish Audio S2 Pro (audio.cpp) voice cloning TTS engines
* "Point sync via other subtitle": a gap column that highlights likely sync points - thx alexchexes
* Move "Open second subtitle file..." to SE 4's spot in the Video menu - thx m0ck69
* macOS: open Finder files in a new window, and start the video picker in the subtitle's own folder - thx muaz978
* seconv: add the full frame image export option - thx smt-joen
* Faster waveform scrubbing on long-GOP video - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Faster Sami and IMSC 1.1 reading, PAC/EBU STL/D-Cinema saving and Blu-ray image export
* Fix audio dropouts when pausing or seeking - the beta 31 mpv option did nothing - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix Alt+Tab still not bringing undocked windows to the foreground - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix the playhead jumping when repeat playback wraps to the next line - thx marcpbailey
* Fix the "Guess time codes" window losing its buttons at a high UI scale
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus

v5.2.0-beta31 (1st of September 2026)

* New subtitle format: Csv Excel - thx matmaggi
* Mark lines as forced narrative, with a "Forced" column and "Save forced lines as..." - thx matmaggi
* New subtitle format: EBU-TT (Tech 3350), carrying teletext colors, boxing, rows and the GSI metadata
* EBU-TT-D and IMSC Rosetta: read and write font colors - thx Scryper
* DVB teletext (.dvbttx): write Level 2.5 colors, and make it a toolbar format with alignment picker, video preview and batch convert - thx René
* Add Pocket TTS (CrispASR) voice cloning, and offer VibeVoice again
* CrispASR: update to v0.8.31, and offer Windows CUDA 13
* Subtitle image previews: a configurable background color, and a Blu-ray sup overlay that scales with the video - thx Lukewarm1141
* Advanced TTS settings: hint icons instead of a wall of text, so the window fits the screen again - thx nielka98
* Fix audio dropouts by keeping the mpv audio device open while paused - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix Alt+Tab not bringing undocked windows to the foreground - thx GrampaWildWilly
* Fix playing selected lines in repeat mode replaying a line at the cue boundary - thx marcpbailey
* Fix the subtitle grid jumping to the end of the list after cut + auto-break - thx St0rmXtr00per
* Fix the Matroska track picker opening twice on macOS - thx marcpbailey
* Update Italian translation - thx bovirus
* Update Japanese translation - thx hisui3393
* Update Korean translation - thx 12si27
* Update Turkish translation - thx bilimiyorum

v5.2.0-beta30 (31st of August 2026)

* Read Wistia json, DVD Junior SPC, Sonic DVD Producer and YouTube srv3 (.ytt) subtitles
* Add "Center text in subtitle grid" (SE 4 parity) - thx matmaggi
* Settings import: accept an SE 4 Settings.xml - thx JDario16
* Teletext: write G2 characters like the music note, and read the national option sub-set and the Level 2.5 colours - thx René
* Make dialogs keyboard-navigable: initial focus and Tab, across the UI - thx GrampaWildWilly
* ASSA style window: scale the preview with the window and give it the whole panel
* Auto-translate: make Enter press the default button
* Keep ASSA override blocks out of auto-translate too - thx MrGoraj
* Sort the OCR fix list alphabetically in Options - Word lists - thx Anth70
* seconv: give Ollama OCR the sam...

Create/adjust/sync/translate subtitle lines
Convert between SubRib, MicroDVD, Advanced Sub Station Alpha, Sub Station Alpha, D-Cinema, SAMI, you-tube sbv, and many more (300+ different formats!)
Cool audio visualizer control - can display wave form and/or spectrogram
Video player uses mpv, DirectShow, or VLC media player
Visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed)
Audio to text (speech recognition) via Whisper or Vosk/Kaldi
Auto Translation via Google translate
Rip subtitles from a (decrypted) dvd
Import and OCR VobSub sub/idx binary subtitles
Import and OCR Blu-ray .sup files - bd sup reading is based on Java code from BDSup2Sub by 0xdeadbeef)
Can open subtitles embedded inside Matroska files
Can open subtitles (text, closed captions, VobSub) embedded inside mp4/mv4 files
Can open/OCR XSub subtitles embedded inside divx/avi files
Can open/OCR DVB and teletext subtitles embedded inside .ts/.m2ts (Transport Stream) files
Can open/OCR Blu-ray subtitles embedded inside .m2ts (Transport Stream) files
Can read and write both UTF-8 and other unicode files and ANSI (support for all languages/encodings on the pc!)
Sync: Show texts earlier/later + point synchronization + synchronization via other subtitle
Merge/split subtitles
Adjust display time
Fix common errors wizard
Spell checking via Libre Office dictionaries (many dictionaries available)
Remove text for hear impaired (HI)
Renumbering
Effects: Typewriter and karaoke
History/undo manager (Undo=Ctrl+z, Redo=Ctrl+y)
Compare subtitles
Multiple search and replace
Change casing using names dictionary
Merge short lines/split long lines
Export to PNG images (+bdn xml), Adobe Encore FAB image script, VobSub, Blu-ray sup, EBU stl, PAC, and plain text