Changed

• Tag Searches (Whitelist) will use AND comparison rather than OR
• Hidden WINE fixme messages from logs
• Removed PHP check on Mac

Fixed

• Random Dialog opening after closing an extension dialog. Hopefully? Fingers crossed.
• onDidUpdatePlaylist and onDidUpdatePlaylistGame events should trigger for more scenarios than before
• Various Mac PATH fixes

Changed

• Renamed secret.txt to secret.dat to avoid upsetting Avast

New

• Help Page that uses onlineManual (url) or offlineManual (rel path) preference to display inside an iframe

Changed

• Right Sidebar is hidden on Logs, About and Help pages

Fixed

• Playlist Games can now be removed
• Playlists won't deselect after a Game has been removed from it
• The frontend socket server will no longer try and reconnect more than 5 times if it disconnects from the backend
• The backend socket server will no longer try reconnecting once a client disconnects

Fixed

• Bumped Electron to v19 to address window not rendering until moved or resized electron/electron#33103

New

• Selected Game in the right sidebar is persistent across all screens
• "Please Wait..." will be displayed during a game launch on the Play button
• Default Preferences can be loaded from .preferences.default.json at the Data folder root
• If an invalid preferences.json is detected, prompt will appear to load defaults
• Copy Diagnostics button added to Logs page for quick copy paste to Discord
• Logs page can now be split into a separate Logger window via a button on the page
• Tab you're on is not bold and underlined in the nav bar
• Browse pages now display 'Searching...' text when searching, with a Fancy Animation spinner
• FP_PATH environment variable included in env for launched games #359
• flashpoint:// protocol support
• • flashpoint://open/<uuid> will show the game in the right sidebar
• • flashpoint://run/<uuid> will run the game as well as show in the right sidebar

Changed

• Updated to Electron 17 and React 17
• Changed to better-sqlite3 (Estimated 20% faster perf)
• Preferences writing is atomic if the temp folder is on the same filesystem as the preferences. (Fourth time's the charm?)
• Build: replace ttsc with swc for the frontend #351
• Unsupported :flash: browser mode removed #358

Fixes

• Extensions: deactivation won't crash backend
• Extensions: Input fields are now editable in Config
• Extensions: Playlist functions correctly broadcast changes to frontend #353
• Extensions: findTags now works when given no input
• onWillLaunch events are properly awaited before returning result to frontend
• Fixed logoset caching #342
• Resizing sidebar no longer causes a search
• Fixed empty preferences file hanging electron window #340
• 'No Game Selected' now shows 'Game' or 'Animation' correctly depending on library
• Browser mode now works on Mac and Linux #345
• Mac: FP path is no longer canonicalized on startup #364

Mostly a maintenance patch (especially for Linux / Mac), feature patches will be coming at a later date.

New

• Exec mapping now supports Wine overrides (independently for Mac and Linux)

Changed

• Updated to Electron 17
• Other dependencies updated to support Node 16+
• Treekill has been swapped with a solution which supports closing Linux + Mac process trees better

Fixed

• Proxy env var properly applied to Mac processes
• PATH env var is properly set for launched Mac processes
• Wine processes should behave properly as a service (Play button state)
• Various fixes to Mac pathing
• meta.yaml files in nested folders will be ignored when finding the metadata in a Curation
• Clicking links on the About page will no longer cause a crash
• Window size has a minimum to prevent impossible to resize situations
• Preferences no longer possible to wipe during certain process exit conditions (Third times the charm)
• EACCES error when starting the backend will retry with a new port number

Hotfix updating dependencies to support SSL connections using the ISRG Root X1 root certificate.

Breaking: Pepper flash support for Browser mode is no longer supported.

New

• Update Feed (Url specified in preferences.json, downloads and processes as markdown)
• onLog API event
• Tag Filter Groups can contain Descriptions
• Fancy Animations setting (Currently affects checkbox slider animations and the color changing logo on the home page)
• Can now add a Search Limit to results via the Config page

Changed

• Notes and Original Description are hidden if empty
• Headers can be clicked to sort by them instead of using the dropdown field
• Tag Filter Groups have been visually updated to be more understandable
• WebSocket, Electron, TypeORM and Axios have been updated to fix vunerabilities
• Node typings bumped from v12 to v14 (Extensions should match typings)
• Swapped category ID order in Tags page to ascending
• Right Game Sidebar now has more predictable element locations

Fixed

• Logo Set images are centered correctly
• The launcher backend will no longer close until preferences.json has finished writing
• Preferences syncing is now throttled (Should help delays on the UI, especially with the Zoom slider)

Will fill this out later (Maybe)

New

Extensions

There is now a TypeScript / JavaScript API available to interact with the Flashpoint Launcher. Please check /docs/extensions.md and /docs/api for more information. Live API documentation can also be found at https://flashpointproject.github.io/launcher_ApiDocs/

• Register listeners to lots of Events to get changes in Games, Playlists, Tags and Services
• Include buttons on the Developer page to run commands / functions
• Include context menu buttons when right clicking Games and Playlists to run commands / functions with them given as context
• Package Themes and Logo Sets, optionally choosing to apply Logo Sets when applying a Theme
• Provide application entries to run files / functions when launching a specific Application Path
• Read and write User Configs and User Preferences
• Provide their own Config values and optionally display them on the Config Page (Currently limited to Checkboxes, Inputs and Selects)
• Modify the launch parameters of games at runtime via the onWill function parameters
• Run their own registered services and processes

Various

• Games marked as Extreme will show an Extreme logo in the upper left of the grid, or left of the list.
• Logo Sets can be provided in /Data/LogoSets or via Extensions which override the Platform logo and Extreme logo. Expected layout to be the same as /Data/Logos.
• Themes can specify a Logo Set to apply automatically when chosen itself. (if the Logo Set is also available)
• Daemons can now be run as specified in services.json. See /docs/services.json for detailed information.
• Playlists can now be flagged as extreme. (Extreme playlists are hidden while the "Extreme Games" config is disabled)
• App Path Overrides can be given in Config. These (when enabled) will replace the matching application path with its other half when a game runs.

Changed

• Flash Mode (:flash: applicaton path) has now been reworked into a general use Browser Mode so it can be used by Extensions.

Fixed

• Playlists no longer falsely show duplicate entries
• On Demand Images no longer crashes the backend when there is no internet connection
• New lines are handled correctly when logging service output