Anki 26.05

What's new in this version:

New Installer:
This release replaces the terminal-based launcher introduced in 25.07 with a more standard installation process:
- Anki no longer shows a terminal on installation/update
- Installation no longer requires network access
- Updates can be installed using Tools>Check For Updates
- A standard MSI installer is provided for Windows
- A Windows ARM64 build is available
- The macOS builds require macOS 13 or later
- The Linux x86_64 build requires glibc 2.35+
- The Linux aarch64 build requires glibc 2.39+
- The minimum supported Python version is now 3.10 (The official builds still ship Python 3.13)
- Qt has been updated to 6.11
- Note: The Tools>Upgrade/Downgrade option in 25.07+ cannot be used to upgrade to this version due to packaging changes
- All user/developer documentation is now unified under a single website deployed from the main repo. The different docs repos will be archived and existing issues moved soon.
- Python API docs can now be viewed in dev-docs.ankiweb.net

FSRS/Scheduling Changes:
- Rework the efficiency ratio graph in FSRS Help Me Decide
- Require three left-clicks to unlock FSRS parameter editing
- Speed up FSRS memory state updates by batching calculations
- Improve performance of reviews_for_fsrs function
- Fix/first and latest review dates should only consider entries with a rating
- Fix/Ensure fuzz doesn't go backward during rescheduling
- Fix/Per deck retention not used when card is moved to filtered deck
- Restore retrievability SQL fix that was accidentally reverted
- Fix/rounded corners on FSRS Simulator modal
- Fix FSRS short-term schedule being ignored when using default parameters
- Use quantiles for FSRS retrievability stat ranges
- Make descending retrievability a pure R sort
- Don't reschedule suspended cards
- Apply deck-specific load balancer settings to filtered deck study
- Prioritize previously-attempted cards in the intraday learning queue
- Improve sibling dispersal in the load balancer, including across presets
- Fix desired retention not refreshing when switching deck option presets
- Improve FSRS invalid parameters error message with FAQ link
- Clarify ambiguous "this value" wording in desired retention tooltip
- Expose setParameterUnlockClickTimeoutMs for FSRS parameter unlock timeout
- Export last_interval to Python
- Expose card decay and desired retention to the custom scheduler
- Remove broken retention rate help link in stats

Other Notable Changes:
- Show saved custom colours in the image-occlusion fill tool colour picker on mobile
- Add support for tag:nc:... (case-insensitive) tag searches
- Treat newlines as term breaks in search queries
- Add syntax for multi-card cloze deletions
- Remember image-occlusion translucency toggle between sessions
- Fix "Restore to Default" picking the wrong template for basic notetype variants
- Let the "Limit to" spin box grow with its content in the filtered deck dialog
- Fix unescaped HTML in correct type-in answers
- Always show text boxes on image-occlusion cards during review
- Fix FindDuplicates dialog size exceeding screen bounds
- Fall back to Apple Samantha for TTS on macOS when no requested voice matches
- Allow variable field counts per row when CSV import uses a notetype column
- Improve handling of media files differing only in letter case
- Keep non-breaking spaces outside cloze deletions when wrapping text
- Start decoding images immediately
- Revert ForceDarkMode change that interfered with Anki's native dark theme
- Apply the nightMode class to the editor in dark mode so custom HTML styles correctly
- Auto-select the relevant note type in the Manage Note Types dialog after add/rename
- Fix field rename by matching on the old name rather than field position
- Allow horizontal scrolling on the deck options screen so AnkiDroid handles large font sizes
- Fix {{#Tags}} conditional not triggering card generation
- Silence console spam from image decoding errors during preload
- Add note type and GUID column headers to deleted.txt for easier reimport
- Apply Ctrl/Cmd+W window-closing shortcut globally to all dialogs
- Fix overlapping date ranges in graphs when "all history" is selected
- Add a preference to disable the startup add-on update check
- Add dir="auto" to cards so text direction no longer depends on the UI language
- Accept images with capitalized extensions in the Browse "Attach" dialog
- Re-enable WindowsRT TTS player on Windows 11
- Fix HTML editor collapsing after toggling sticky fields and adding a note
- Fix image occlusion editor layout for right-to-left languages
- Speed up tag autocomplete by using the Rust backend's complete_tag()
- Detect cloze fields nested inside conditionals during card generation
- Prompt to save unsaved changes when closing or switching debug console scripts
- Roll back the sidebar tag name when the backend rejects a rename
- Improve word wrapping on the Deck Options screen for narrow viewports
- Update to mpv 0.41.0
- Bundle Fcitx plugin on Linux
- Install required Linux system dependencies in install.sh
- Render sync server messages as rich text

Other Improvements:
- Fix progress bar overflow crash when one-way uploads exceed 2 GB
- Fix fatal error from rapidly double-clicking the Add button
- Use the native crypto.randomUUID() instead of a custom UUID implementation
- Credit Arabic translation contributor in the About window
- Tighten Collection.add_notes type annotation so single-pass iterables aren't accepted
- Set a friendly process job name for mpv on Windows
- Add Rust unit tests for the card-generation logic
- Add punctuation, convert raw URLs to markdown links in READMEs
- Reorder and comment .ftl files in UI order to help translators
- Show tooltips for truncated sidebar items in the Browse window
- Stop showing an error toast when saving an image-occlusion note twice on mobile
- Render <br> as a line break in card template error messages instead of literal text
- Use a true minus sign instead of a hyphen in the deck browser
- Fix sync login dialog ignoring a freshly-set custom sync server URL
- Add plural forms to unit labels next to spin boxes in the Custom Study dialog
- Don't expose collection.media.db2 over the API
- Update media sync progress dialog correctly after an error occurs
- Disable the Custom Study OK button when the selected deck is empty
- Warn the user when renaming a profile would exceed the OS path length limit
- Fix regex error
- Preserve browser focus after note export
- Avoid loading unused cacert.pem
- Strip HTML from note type names in Empty Cards dialog
- Parameterize inputs of prop:cd* queries
- Validate add-on zip entries
- Repaint UI after answer reveal to reduce glitches on cards with images

Developer Improvements:
- The release build process is now fully automated using GitHub Actions
- Migrate CI from BuildKite to GitHub Actions
- Update to Rust 1.92
- Add Dependabot config with monthly grouped updates
- Update PyCharm docs
- Update VS Code config
- Treat proto/i18n's implicit outputs as inputs
- Respect .python-version when generating pyenv
- Add more required packages to Linux build guide
- Only run cargo-deny if there are dependency changes
- Remove old GPG public key
- Raise dependabot open-pull-requests-limit to 3
- Add release-age controls for uv and Yarn dependencies
- docs: add contributing guidelines for add-ons, linked issues, and AI-assisted PRs
- Add pre-commit for automated pre-push checks
- Add a standardized pull request template
- Exclude BackendFrontendService from write_python_interface
- Add regression test for #1909 (media check long filenames)
- Update docker build command for syncserver
- Exclude more folders from build actions
- Add Windows quick start guide for new contributors
- Update Windows developer docs
- Ignore Fluent message errors in TypeScript
- Drop QDialog argument from grade_now() to make it add-on friendly
- Wrap previewer type field syntax replacement in separate method
- Document that add_deck requires refetching the deck to see its new ID
- Update security.md
- Add missing PyPI metadata to anki package
- Fix beta/rc suffix handling in int_version()
- Prevent Windows elevation errors when running ninja_gen's update binaries
- Fix atomic_rename to work with single-component relative paths
- Add Python test coverage
- Add Rust test coverage
- Add TypeScript test coverage
- Add test coverage docs
- Add tests for build_installer.py
- Add Playwright end-to-end test infrastructure
- Cache coverage baseline from main for regression checks
- Replace print() logging in pylib with Python logging
- Avoid broad warnings filter
- Enforce linked issue requirement on PRs
- Fail PR if line coverage regresses
- Import some modules lazily
- Add hash script for GitHub Actions
- Add unit tests for CSV export and import-export service layer
- Add tests for attribute and tag stripping in HTML filter
- Add unit tests for learning and relearning state transitions
- Replace deprecated global map-get/map-merge with sass:map namespace
- Remove unused Bootstrap imports from _button-mixins.scss
- Integrate Complexipy for Python complexity analysis
- Consolidated security dependency updates (Dependabot batch)
- Add just recipes for run, web-watch, rebuild-web, and clean, and add AGENTS.md
- Expand contributing guide with PR process and test requirements
- Prevent duplicate 'missing linked issue' comments on PR edits
- Use commit SHAs for GitHub Actions dependencies
- Use PowerShell to run just commands on Windows
- Exclude github-actions[bot] from contributor check