Release 5.10.0

This release contains a number of under-the-hood changes to EDMC designed to improve performance, code
maintainability, and stability of the EDMC application, while providing new features and quality-of-life fixes.

Note to plugin developers: modules.p and ships.p are deprecated, and slated
for removal in the next major release! Please look for that change coming soon.

Changes and Enhancements

• Added new modules.json and ships.json files to improve security and readability
• Added a core Spanch URL provider plugin
• Added a new auth response page for successful FDEV authentication
• Added a new Open Log Folder option to the Help menu
• Added a new --start_min command flag to force the application to start minimized
• Added a new pop-up if plugins fail to load or are not supported
• Updated commodities and module files to the latest versions
• Updated core EDMC and core Plugin menus to a standardized layout
• Updates the Inara URL formats to the new endpoints

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where indentation of text strings in certain settings windows under various languages
  would be unevenly indented
• Fixed an issue where the Plugins Folder label in the Plugins settings window would cut off the
  selection box for the plugin storage location

Code Clean Up

• Added future annotation imports to help with code compatibility
• Added a few conditional checks on input processing
• Simplified some RegEx expressions, complex functions, logic flows, and Import statements
• Simplified the WinSparkle GitHub Build Action
• Began to change single-character variables to more descriptive names
• Moved a number of global variables into their requisite classes
• Updated a number of dependencies to the latest versions
• Updated GitHub Actions to the latest versions
• Updated a number of resource-allocating functions to use more efficient closing logic
• Updated some calls to arrays to be more efficient
• Removed a number of old-style typing hints in favor of PEP 585 style hints
• Removed a number of redundant if - return - else or raise - else statements for code readability
• Removed some default parameter assignments
• Removed some obsolete calls to Object

Plugin Developers

• modules.p and ships.p have been deprecated, and will be removed in 6.0.
  If you are using these files, please update to use the new modules.json and ships.json files instead.
• A new method of standardizing the paddings used in settings panels has been applied to the core settings panels.
  We strongly encourage you to follow these style hints! A proper guide will be added to the wiki.