🚀 Local Lens v0.2.0 — Major Media Suite Upgrade

We are thrilled to announce Local Lens v0.2.0, a major upgrade transforming Local Lens into a high-performance, 100% private, offline desktop media organization and conversion suite for Windows.

This release introduces audio batch conversion, SQLite FTS5 document content search, rule-based auto-organization, exact & perceptual image duplicate detection, and 1-click execution rollback.

✨ What's New in v0.2.0

🎵 Audio & Image Batch Converter Engine

• Image Conversion: High-speed batch processing across PNG, JPG, WEBP, and TIFF formats with quality control sliders.
• Audio Conversion: Added native batch audio conversion supporting MP3, WAV, FLAC, and OGG formats.
• Hardware Concurrency: Multi-threaded QThreadPool worker execution leveraging all available CPU cores.

🔍 FTS5 Search & Asset Manager

• SQLite FTS5 Full-Text Search: Search media files with sub-200ms query response times.
• Deep Document Content Search: Index and search text inside PDF, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown (.md) files.
• Category-Aware Extraction: Metadata indexing for Images, Audio, Video, Documents, Archives, and Vector graphics.
• Dynamic Views: Grid cards (S / M / L size presets) with blurred-fill thumbnail backgrounds and list view modes.

📂 Auto-Organizer & Rule Pipelines

• Declarative Rule Builder: Match files with flexible conditions (==, !=, >, <, contains, in, not_in, matches regex).
• Dynamic Path Templates: Organize folders automatically using {year}, {month}, {ext}, {category}, {artist}, {album}.
• Dry-Run Preview Modal: Inspect file moves before executing, complete with conflict detection and skip warnings.
• Nested Folder Guard: Built-in safety check preventing infinite recursive loops during move operations.

👯 Exact & Perceptual Duplicates Finder

• Exact Hash Detection: Fast partial MD5 hashing (file size + head 64KB + tail 64KB) for instant duplicate identification.
• Perceptual Image Near-Duplicates: Pillow dhash visual comparison with configurable Hamming distance thresholds (0–6).
• Disk Space Recovery: Visual side-by-side thumbnail comparisons showing total wasted disk space.

🔄 History Audit Trail & 1-Click Rollback

• Audit Logging: Comprehensive task execution history with output sizes and error reports.
• 1-Click Undo: Instant rollback engine to restore moved files back to their exact original folder locations.

🎨 Visual Themes & Desktop Experience

• Theme Support: Standalone Light, Dim, and Dark native themes.
• Windows 11 Compliance: Native dark/light window titlebar theme binding via Windows DWM API.

📦 Downloads & Installation

🔒 Privacy & Offline Guarantee

• 100% Local Processing: Zero cloud uploads, zero telemetry, zero accounts required.
• Data Protection: All database indexes, thumbnails, and conversion caches stay strictly on your machine.

🌐 Useful Links

• Gumroad Pro Upgrade: https://khthisald.gumroad.com/l/local-lens
• Bug Reports & Issues: https://github.com/thisal-d/local-lens/issues
• Discussions: https://github.com/thisal-d/local-lens/discussions

Full Changelog: https://github.com/thisal-d/local-lens/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0