Small release to support updating Logos and Screenshots in the future. Metadata updates will continue to work on 14.0.2 until the necessary server side changes are complete.

Changed

• Logo and Screenshots now store their relative path inside the metadata

Fixed

• Games imported via the Curate tab are no longer missing tags
• Prevent rare cases where write operations can collide causing SQLITE_BUSY crashes

New

• All games in a playlist can be downloaded at once via the right click menu. (Legacy games excluded)
• The verification uri is copied to the clipboard when authenticating with FPFSS, useful in case automatic opening in the browser fails

Fixed

• Fix wrong tag being removed when selected in the meta editor
• Prevent inconsistent scroll behaviour for Dropdowns on screens with different sizes
• Make button placement of Ok and Cancel consistent in dialogs
• Game data zips should be manually importable
• Fix an issue where file permissions for the ruffle executable failed to change on Linux (@Maoijoon)

Contributors

New

• Search Dropdown Filter - Ruffle Support - Filter whether games are ruffled supported.
• Ruffle Config Options - Graphics Mode - Swap between different graphics modes for use running content in Ruffle.

Fixed

• Games can be removed from playlists
• Playlist notes show and can be edited
• Disabled DNS over HTTPS because of difficult to solve issues with some users
• Prevent the dropdowns failing to load before the database is ready in rare circumstances
• Legacy Game Dropdowns now show for Ruffle possible games
• Ruffle properly executes on Linux machines

New

• Games:
  • When launching a game, if there is existing game data and there has been new game data added via a metadata update, then the user is asked whether it should update to the new game data or stay on the existing one
    • If the launch command has changed in the new game data, the user is warned that updating could cause existing save data to break
  • Play / Download button now additional dropdown options for Flash games which will override Ruffle settings:
    • Run with Flash Player - Force the game to use the default launch command
    • Run with Ruffle - Force the game to use Ruffle. This will change to tell you if the game is not marked as Supported by Flashpoint.
• Playlists:
  • Playlists can now utilize all search features
  • Playlist ordering can disabled to use the traditional ordering dropdowns inside them
  • You can now create Playlists from the current Search Results. (Very large results views will cause significant lag when being created or viewed)
• Search:
  • Checkbox selections for - Installed, Legacy Game, Use Playlist Order
  • Dropdowns selections for - Library, Developer, Publisher, Series, Play Mode, Platform and Tags
    • Dropdown selections can include or exclude individual items, as well as toggle between AND / OR search operations
  • New keybinds:
    • Ctrl+F - Focus the search bar
    • Ctrl+D - Clear the search text
    • Ctrl+Shift+D - Clear the search text and filters
• Extensions:
  • getAccessToken() - Returns the FPFSS access token for the logged in user to allow extensions to perform actions on their behalf. User will be prompted to allow or deny when called. (@dot-mike)
  • DialogState now contains an mdx boolean field and textAlign string field. Setting this to true will compile and run the message as MDX. (Markdown + JSX)
• Misc:
  • About Page now has viewable launcher changelogs
  • DNS over HTTPS via Cloudflare is now supported for all Launcher web requests. This should fix some connectivity issues in countries with overly aggressive censorship such as the Philippines.
• Config Options:
  • Restore Search Results - (default: on) - Saves and restore a copy of each search page (text, filters, selected game and playlist) whenever you open the application.
  • Restore Search View Text - (default: on) - Restores the text field of a search view when restarting the launcher.
  • Enable Custom Search Views - (default: off) - Replaces the Library search tabs with custom named search tabs and adds a Library option to the advanced filters.
  • Default Opening Page - (default: Home) - Default page to open to, either the Home Page or a chosen Search Page
  • Hide New View Button - (default: off) - When using custom views, hide the new view (+) button in the header. You can instead press 'Create New Search View' under the context menu for tabs.
  • Auto-Clear WinINet Cache - (default: off) - Automatically clear the Windows web cache when running a curation from the Curate tab.
  • Clear WinINet Cache - (button) - Clears Windows web cache, which may help resolve loading issues in curations and other rare cases.
  • Ruffle - Enable (Supported Games) - (default: off) - Enable Ruffle for games that have been marked as properly supported.
  • Ruffle - Enable (Unsupported Games) - (default: off) - Enable Ruffle Standalone for all games regardless of whether they have been checked as supported. Results my vary.

Changed

• Search Bar has been moved from the Header to the Browse page (Search Views)
• Clear Search Button can now clear both text and filters if Shift is held while clicking it.
• Ctrl+Shift+R to reload the window will now also reload all extensions (@dot-mike)
• Linux:
  • Wine installations bundled inside FPSoftware are now automatically added to PATH for launched games (@Maoijoon)
• Importing games in the Curate tab now uses 7zip instead of Bluezip
• Tags page now follows a custom sort order, starting with default.
• All web request from the launcher use a consistent user agent (@dot-mike)

Fixed

• Non-unicode characters inside preferences no longer prevent the Preferences file from saving
• Search results are now correctly ordered with case insensitivity
• Existing path values are no longer wiped from existing Game Data when a Game has a metadata update
• Launching a game can now recover the path value when it is missing, preventing a launch error
• 401 errors from Fpfss functions should now properly get the user to re-authenticate instead of throwing an error
• Closing processes will work on new Windows distributions without WMIC installed
• New platforms now correctly sort alphabetically on the Extras box of the Home page
• Multiple blacklist conditions now properly use AND comparisons
• Additional Apps now use the same proc launch function as Game with a randomized ID instead
• Joint clauses (Application Path + Launch Command) now properly use inner ORs for blacklist conditions
• Open Flashpoint Manager will now wait 2.5 seconds to fully open FPM before exiting the main process. Cheap, but effective.

Removed

• Search bar no longer has tag: autocomplete. This may return in the future, the tags filter dropdown should be a reasonable replacement.
• Playlists can no longer have multiple copies of the same game.
• Bluezip is no longer included as an external tool

Contributors

Fixed:

• Primary platform not causing a meta.yaml update
• Starting a search by clicking on a right sidebar field incorrectly retains the search result count of the previous query
• Race condition causing service info to not be synced correctly introduced in the last update
• Tags / platforms not being added to a curation when entering their alias
• Platforms not being added to a curation where the platform exists but has zero associated game entries

Changed:

• Tags and Platforms blacklists are treated as an OR despite the rest of the query being treated as an AND. This should make it easier to exclude several tags at once

New:

• Ctrl+Shift+R will now restart the renderer, without restarting the backend. Good for local dev.

• Significantly faster search times
• Ordering by Last Played or Playtime now behaves like a history page by excluding games with no playtime from the search results.
• Improved search capabilities
  • Date comparisons for dateAdded, dateModified, releaseDate and lastPlayed (e.g releaseDate=2009)
  • Numerical comparisons for tags, platforms, addApps, gameData, playCount and playtime (e.g tags>3)
    • Date and Numerical comparisons support >, < and = comparators (: is equal to =)
  • Numerical values support time values, e.g playtime>1h30m for secs, mins, hours, days, weeks, Months and years.
• Search results can now also be ordered by Release Date and Platform
• Improved log page visuals (Theme authors will need to update)
• More information about the boot sequence is included in the logs page
• Verbose logging (enabled via Config page) to display detailed database queries and launcher event execution time.
• Game context menu buttons to:
  • Show Logos / Screenshots in Explorer
  • Delete individual game playtime tracking data
• Playlists now respect active Tag Filter Groups
• Playtime tracking no longer modifies Date Modified
• Grid view is now the default, you can change back to List with the bottom right dropdown
• Simplified extension API interactions with tags and platforms** (Extension authors may need to update, consider using the @fparchive/flashpoint-archive npm package)**
• Game configurations (middleware) are no longer supported. The functionality will be reintroduced at a later date.
• Fixed tags / tag categories not being editable via their respective pages.

Minor fixes for Flashpoint Manager integration

Added archive state variables

Fix tags page stutter @prostagma-fp

Contributors

I'll update this later down the line - This includes a massive amount of changes.

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