v26.7.9

DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobookv26.7.9Jul 9, 2026by ROBERT-MCDOWELL

AI Summary

This release focuses on improving how dependencies are loaded during the setup process and provides updated troubleshooting steps for Windows users. It addresses installation conflicts by adding the requirements.txt file to the sdist manifest.

Key Highlights

Added `requirements.txt` to sdist manifest for setup-time dependency loading
Updated installation instructions to warn about deleting ./tmp and ./run folders
Added troubleshooting steps for Windows DLL missing errors

New Features

Setup-time dependency loading via sdist manifest

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

* v26.6.30 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1956
* v26.7.7 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1961
* v26.7.7 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1963
* v26.7.7 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1964
* v26.7.7 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1962
* Fix directory path in README for E2A-SML by @DrewThomasson in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1953
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1966
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1967
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1968
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1969
* Include `requirements.txt` in sdist manifest for setup-time dependency loading by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL with @Copilot in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1970
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1972
* v26.7.8 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1973
* v26.7.9 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1975
* v26.7.9 by @ROBERT-MCDOWELL in https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/pull/1976

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/compare/v26.7.8...v26.7.9

!!! IMPORTANT !!!
IF YOU UPDATE with "git pull" DELETE THE CONTENT OF ./tmp and ./run FOLDER BEFORE INSTALLING THIS VERSION.
after that if you stilll have errors on installation, remove Miniforge3 and scoop if possible (windows only) from your user root directory.

NOTE: if you are on windows and crash with DLL missing etc.... just uninstall completely ffmpeg and calibre then reinstall E2A.