What’s New 2.22.11
There's a new "Pre-Order" ownership status for books you've paid for or committed to buy but haven't received yet. Pre-orders sit alongside Purchased, Borrowed, Wishlist, and Gift — you can record the pre-order date, price, format, source, and edition; they get their own count on the dashboard, their own filter chip in the library, and their own banner color in the legend. Pre-orders also count toward your total spend.
Published 2026-04-29 · Reviewed 2026-04-29
Version 2.22.11 brings 5 customer-facing changes to ARC Library. Role or platform labels appear only where a change is specific to that experience.
New
Track Pre-Ordered Books
There's a new "Pre-Order" ownership status for books you've paid for or committed to buy but haven't received yet. Pre-orders sit alongside Purchased, Borrowed, Wishlist, and Gift — you can record the pre-order date, price, format, source, and edition; they get their own count on the dashboard, their own filter chip in the library, and their own banner color in the legend. Pre-orders also count toward your total spend.
Fixed
Authors No Longer Disappear After Refresh on iOS
Fixed an iOS-only issue where pulling to refresh — or hitting the refresh option in the library's 3-dot menu — could wipe author names from your books and replace them with "Unknown author". Publication dates, page counts, series names, and other card fields could also vanish at the same time. Every refresh now keeps your full book metadata intact.
Self-Healing Library Cache
If your library was opened on an older version of the app and any books ended up missing fields locally, ARC Library now repairs those rows automatically the next time you open the app or sync. No reinstall needed.
Refresh Button Actually Refreshes
The refresh option in the library now genuinely pulls fresh data from the server. It used to be a silent no-op in some places, which is why a stale book detail could persist even after tapping refresh.
Large Libraries Load More Reliably on iOS
Lookups are now broken into smaller pieces, with an automatic fallback to the locally cached author list if a lookup fails. This prevents the whole library from briefly flipping to "Unknown author" on a flaky connection or when you have hundreds of books.