Hello everyone!
We are very happy to bring you one of our biggest releases yet. Panels 2.8.0 is packed with new features and bug fixes, we hope you enjoy it. It will be available in a few days and we will appreciate if you can help us testing it.
Here are some highlights:
New iPad library UI
We have adapted iPad UI to feel more iOS 14 and adopted a side bar, leaving even more space for the content and making it easier to navigate.
Multiple remote libraries
In addition to connecting with different importing services, Panels now adds support for remote libraries like Komga or Ubooquity. That means, your can navigate your server’s content from within Panels and only download the files you want to read.
Streaming
In hand with remote libraries, Panels now supports streaming with OPDS services. You will see a cloud symbol with some waves indicating that comic supports streaming. For those files, Panels will default to stream them and open the comic directly without downloading the file. You still have the option to long-press to download the comic.
Substack
As announced last week, we are working with Substack to offer Panels’ users more content. This is the first step of that integration. Substack users will be able to open comics directly into Panels. In future releases, we plan to add much better integration so you will not need to leave Panels to fetch new content.
Much more
We have also fixed many bugs and added smaller features. Please join our beta program. As always, we really appreciate you helping us testing that everything is ready for release.
Let us know what you think!
PS: We are still working on a few bugs!