Releases & Timeline

Changelog.

All notable updates, feature additions, and bug fixes for dracula-dl.

v1.1.3Latest Release

July 31, 2026

Subtitle Downloading & Embedding Fixes

Subtitle Embedding Fixed — Fixed critical bug where opts.update(extra) overwrote the subtitle/thumbnail postprocessors list, causing FFmpegEmbedSubtitle and EmbedThumbnail to be silently dropped.
Subtitle Format Conversion — Added FFmpegSubtitlesConvertor (to SRT) before embed and set subtitlesformat to srt/ass/best for reliable MP4/MKV embedding.
--embed-subs Without --subs — Using --embed-subs alone now auto-enables auto-generated subtitle download instead of silently doing nothing.
TUI Auto-Generated Subtitles — Added "Include auto-generated subtitles?" prompt and writeautomaticsub support to the interactive TUI.

Quick Upgrade

pip install --upgrade dracula-dl

v1.1.2Previous Release

July 28, 2026

Config preference persistence, batch mode & subcommands, subtitle & thumbnail flags, dry-run, rate limiting, playlist retries, and unified package architecture.

v1.1.0Previous Release

July 28, 2026

Added TOML config manager (config.toml), JSONL download history log (history.jsonl), and initial Rich TUI workflow enhancements.

v1.0.4Initial Release

January 15, 2026

Initial release of The Dracula YouTube Downloader CLI featuring video quality selector, audio extraction, playlist downloading, and Rich interactive TUI.