Hi!
It is being a wild 5 months since the last Heroic release in August and some people thought the project was dying but far from it, we never had received so many code contributions as in recent months from people fixing bugs or implementing new features. Of course we suffer a bit from AI slop here and there but it's part of the new way of development and no coming back and has its goods and bad as all things in life.
About the new release, called "Punk-01 Shaka", one of the Vegapunks sattelites in One piece. This is mostly a transitory release since we are working hard in adding new integrations, long asked features and more for the next release that it will be big for sure.
But this one has some nice features and a lot of background work for all platforms that will prepare the road for what is too come for Heroic's future.
Highlights
- Added experimental integration for games from the Zoom platform, Linux only for now. Next release we will bring it to the others.
- macOS - Added support for DXMT -M chips only- (Install a version of Wine-Staging and 2 variants will appear, it only applies to new Wine-Staging installations, so if you want the DXMT variant of a version you already have installed, reinstall it)
- Added new Launch Options setting for games that supports it.
- Added Import button to the game page so its easier to find it.
- Added some Sync-Saves options to the Game page as well.
- macOS - Removed the ability to install Steam with a button since it is not working anymore, we are investigating other ways of automate that, but for now we preferred to remove it.
- Cleaned up several options that are not relevant for Linux and macOS anymore.
- Improved gamepad navigation in general
- Linux - Added initial support for AppImage auto-update.
- Windows - both the Setup and Portable versions are signed with certificate now.
- Updated Electron to v39
- Updated gogdl and legendary with fixes for a few bugs related with game listing, updates and more.
- Linux - The DXVK Frame Rate option was removed since it was removed from DXVK completely and it was not doing anything already (it's still available on macOS)
- Added Irish translations
- Accessibility - Added an option to disable all animations
- Several other fixes and improvements.
New Contributors
- @aidalgol made their first contribution in #4885
- @victorsouzaleal made their first contribution in #4975
- @SkyePh made their first contribution in #4990
- @UlyssesZh made their first contribution in #4968
- @neuromancer made their first contribution in #4882
- @sanmont made their first contribution in #4225
- @AAnzel made their first contribution in #4855
- @justinbrewer made their first contribution in #5071
- @AMS21 made their first contribution in #5075
- @theDrake made their first contribution in #5114
- @a5ehren made their first contribution in #5097
- @gert7 made their first contribution in #5157
- @niStee made their first contribution in #5150
Full Changelog: v2.18.1...v2.19.0