Final-build candidate: Setup 1.4.0 / Game 3.0.9
Download LauSetup.zip below. Extract the whole ZIP, open its LauSetup folder, then run LauSetup.exe on Windows or LauSetup.sh in your supported Linux/Wine environment. Close WoW first.
- Choose the folder containing WoW.exe.
- Choose your extras. Patch-Y HD or Non-HD is selected for your detected client. Extras start off: compatible WoW.exe + loading screens (one checkbox), Enhanced Consecration, New Spell Visuals (HD clients), and maps/minimaps. Already installed maps are kept.
- Click Next, review the list, then Install upgrade. Wait for Finished.
- Start WoW and type
/pyversion: it should report 3.0.9 Lau.
What changed
- Wizard layout follows the approved mockup: numbered steps, larger headings, grouped option/review panels and right-aligned actions.
- Selecting options no longer rescans files or disables the controls. Next prepares the final plan with an activity indicator.
- Progress covers download, staging, installation and verification.
- All six Patch-Y archives are compacted before download packaging, saving 58,774,086 bytes (56.05 MiB) in total compared with 3.0.8. Each player downloads only their selected edition.
- Your backups are untouched by compaction. Setup preserves the exact original bytes before replacement. Keep LauSetupBackups for Restore previous install.
- Maps include Lau maps/minimaps plus Trimitor WDM dungeon/raid and beta cave maps with support addons; independent of the EXE/loading-screen option.
- Automatic/manual interface language and case-insensitive game locale detection remain available. One ZIP serves Windows and Linux/Wine.
Unrelated patches, including renamed duplicates, are left alone. Only an empty Patch-V is automatically backed up; nonempty Patch-V is kept with a warning. No Patch-Y DBC edits; the optional map component adds documented upstream map DBC overrides.
Windows and Wine verified upgrades from all six original 3.0.8 editions, already-installed detection and exact rollback. See VALIDATION.json for evidence and remaining gates. This remains a prerelease pending player acceptance of maps and the final interface. Stable latest is unchanged.