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+author: samuel-lbryian
+title: 'LBRY Isaac Gravitates to a Browser Near You'
+date: '2019-12-20 10:00:00'
+cover: '.png'
+category: update
+---
+## LBRY Isaac, New Search, New Rewards
+
+
+Today, LBRY releases LBRY Isaac. This new release integrates an updated search service, new rewards and a ton of interface and performance improvements for lbry.tv and LBRY desktop.
+
+[Download Isaac for desktop](https://lbry.com/get) [Use LBRY in your browser](https://lbry.tv)
+
+Search improvements and new rewards are live for everyone, regardless of how you use LBRY. They are described in more detail below.
+
+Isaac improves decentralization through wallet server settings, enables YouTube partners to claim wallets, updates text and audio playback, and much more.
+
+![Isaac](https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.lbry.io/lbry-isaac.gif)
+
+### New Rewards
+
+- Creators now earn rewards for views and subscribers. This was announced yesterday and is covered in more detail here.
+- Rewards for YouTube publishers are now issued more frequently.
+- Additional tiers for some existing rewards for using LBRY, like views.
+
+### Search Improvements
+
+- Search document framework and query completely overhauled
+- Large bugs fixed for certain words, particularly short words
+- Additional weights added to prevent invalid and inaccurate results
+- Vastly improved channel search
+- Vastly improved title matches
+- Search engine codebase ported to Go (contribute here)
+- More search results show the winning LBRY URL at the top of results (help improve search by publishing!)
+
+### More about LBRY Isaac
+
+- Automatic text file rendering and improved text and HTML rendering.
+Ability to set your own wallet server in settings. More on this feature in the FAQ.
+- Dedicated Channel creation option from Channels page
+- Overall design improvements, especially for dark mode. Also includes channel thumbnails next to comments.
+- - Adds language support for: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi, Malay, Marathi, Panjabi, and Swedish
+- Fixes bugs related to pagination and mature content.
+- Enables background launch to help boost network participation. This can be disabled in Settings.
+- Adds a search box to your Downloads area.
+- No longer warns about external links.
+- Updated to [LBRY SDK 0.50.1](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/releases/tag/v0.50.1) for improved stability, performance, and security.
+- A number of bug fixes, with the broadest ones being issues related to wallet unlocking and preference syncing.
+
+For the full release notes, visit [GitHub](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.38.0). Note that this news announcement includes changes that were also in [0.37.2](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.37.2) and [0.37.1](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/releases/tag/v0.37.1), which were relatively substantial and not previously announced.
+
+
+### Extra Special We’re Smarter Than Physicists Bonus Code
+- The first 200 users to upgrade can use the code below for a 50LBC reward - so hurry up and start upgrading!
+
+`smarterthaneinstein`