dshmarket 1.73.6: Three Fixes, webp Covers (Oct 30, 2026)

dshmarket 1.73.6 Lands Three Fixes on the Eighth Release Evening in Nine — Explicit-Equals Version Constraints, a Quieter Discover Hover, and webp Theme Covers.

The eighth release evening in nine brought a single release: dsh-market published dshmarket 1.73.6, per the npm registry (fetched 2026-10-30) at 18:46:17 UTC — two minutes after the GitHub release page’s 18:44:13 stamp — and the latest dist-tag points at it. Per the release notes the version carries exactly three changes, all fixes, and all three PRs merged the same day between 09:15:16 and 16:39:59 UTC.

Version constraints with an explicit equals sign

Per PR #1062 (@g-yixuan’s first contribution), the market’s compatibility matcher treated version declarations written with an explicit equals sign as unknown. The trigger was real and published: the dsh-sidenote@0.7.6 package declares =0.2.0-rc.2 || =0.2.1-rc.2 || =0.2.1-rc.3, so on a DSH 0.2.0-rc.2 host the market’s findCompatibleVersion skipped the available 0.7.6 — and when the only declaration came from a peer dependency, a mismatched explicit-exact version also missed the directional-risk judgment. The fix treats = before a full version as the exact match it already knows how to handle, across the range matcher and the directional boundary resolver. Per the PR description the boundaries stay put: =1.2 and the bare partial version 1.2 remain unknown, illegal expressions remain unknown, pre-release admission rules and the upper bounds of ^ and ~ are unchanged — and no historical package needs republishing.

A quieter Discover card

Per PR #1059 (@liuwenji007), hovering a Discover card — or a recently-added mini-card — now paints only the official light hover background and no longer lifts the card; the install button keeps its outline until the pointer is over the button itself. The hover rules moved inside @media (hover: hover), so a tap on a touch screen no longer locks the light background on. Card tips — favorites, download count, stars, catalog version — now wait 700 ms before appearing, the same constant the recently-added row already used, and render downward in a portal so they stop covering plugin names; the host-version requirement keeps the native tooltip. The download-count tip collapses to one line: the last-30-days npm download count with its window dates. The check timestamp and the not-lifetime-downloads disclaimer are gone, an invalid window reports just the number, and per the PR description the strings are synced across Chinese, English and Japanese.

Theme covers stop slowing the theme page’s opening screen

Per PR #1063 (also @liuwenji007, closing issue #1060), the theme gallery’s cover image now requests an h=320 webp thumbnail — about twice the height of the four-column tiles — instead of the h=520 PNG the page used to pull, which could run to hundreds of kilobytes per cover. Only .png, .jpg and .webp sources are transcoded; GIFs and suffix-less GitHub attachments are resized without transcode, so an animated cover keeps all its frames. The lazy-load lead shrank to 80 px, README cover probing tries three images before spending its remaining tries (six at most), and the Discover card thumbnail stays at h=200 without webp while the lightbox keeps the original.

Eight evenings in nine

Per the same registry fetch, eight of the last nine evenings carried at least one dshmarket release — every evening from 10-22 through 10-30 except a quiet 10-25. dshmarket 1.73.4 + 1.73.5: Drain Mode (Oct 29, 2026) covered the previous pair. This release carries a first-time contributor, @g-yixuan, and @liuwenji007 authored two of its three changes.

Version constraints with an explicit equals sign

A quieter Discover card

Theme covers stop slowing the theme page’s opening screen

Eight evenings in nine

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