(v2.2.1 was scheduled to be released yesterday, but I ran into some issues with my Windows VM.)
Major changes:
- Handle JPEG images using Exif containers. A good number of boxarts from the PS1/PS2 section of RPDB use Exif containers, so this ensures they can be loaded properly.
- Windows: Fix weird thumbnail aspect ratios for non-square images on current Windows versions.
- KDE: Fix metadata extraction.
- Preliminary support for Windows on ARM. The Windows distribution includes DLLs compiled for ARM, ARM64, and ARM64EC, and svrplus has been updated to register these DLLs if an ARM system is detected. Note that svrplus has not been tested on any ARM systems yet. Also, libgnuintl-8.dll has not been compiled for ARM yet, so minimal localization is available on ARM.
See NEWS.md for the full changelog, including a list of bugs fixed.
Ubuntu packages are available from an Ubuntu PPA for the following Ubuntu release:
- Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" Xerus
- Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" Beaver
- Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" Fossa
- Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" Jellyfish
- Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar" Lobster
To add the PPA and install rom-properties, run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerbilsoft/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rom-properties-all
This will install all rom-properties frontends and executables. Individual frontends can be installed by installing the relevant rom-properties-* package.
NOTE: If upgrading from v2.1 or earlier, you may get a file conflict regarding /usr/share/thumbnailers/rom-properties.thumbnailer. This file was moved from rom-properties-gtk3 to rom-properties-utils so it can be used by the GTK4 UI frontend. You will need to manually remove rom-properties-gtk3 before upgrading.
NOTE: If upgrading from v2.0, you may get a dependency error due to libromdata1. You will need to uninstall libromdata1 before upgrading.