Nexus-Mods/Vortex v2.5.0-beta.1

2.5.0-beta.1

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First beta of the 2.5 release.

Added

• Persisted extension metadata (#23783)
• Health check now handles external (non-Nexus) mod requirements (#23780)
• Health check severity badge on the left-menu item (#23749)
• Error parser (#23696)

Changed

• Cleaned up i18n methods, replacing Bluebird with native Promises (#23796)
• API compat error subclasses now use VortexError (#23794)
• Marked FS API methods as deprecated (#23791)
• Extension tracking moved fully to the new installed-state system; IExtension renamed to ExtensionInfo (#23787)
• Store helper API cleanup, marking APIs as public or deprecated (#23782)
• Updated nav icons and renamed the per-game Preferences page to "Game settings" (#23769)
• Updated the dependencies endpoint to the new /ranges/ route (#23767)
• Mod requirement checks now keyed by mod_uid (#23766)
• Removed GitHub as an extension source (#23761)
• Settings & Preferences: new Page + Tabs layout (#23759)
• Health check QA polish: menu item resets to the listing, unified file-requirement copy (#23754)
• Files now hashed on a main-process worker pool, so finalizing a large download no longer blocks the UI (#23747)
• Replaced PageRoot with a composable Page component family (#23746)
• Health check: redesigned and modularized the requirement detail UI (#23729)
• API events rework with typed event maps; breaking: emitAndAwait and withPrePost now return a native Promise instead of Bluebird (#23728)
• Removed the announcement and mod spotlight dashlets (#23701)
• Added a flat PageRoot layout and rebuilt the Games page on new design-system components (#23700)
• Improved load order page performance for large mod counts (#23699)
• Modernized the category modal and improved subcategory management (#23583)

Fixed

• i18n module type regression from the i18n cleanup (#23803)
• Renderer memory leak crashing installs on large mod libraries (#23781)
• Health check showing the archive filename instead of the friendly mod name (#23770)
• Missing thumbnails for downloaded files in the health check (#23768)
• Stale mod requirements by switching to a session cache rather than persistent storage (#23762)
• Cyberpunk 2077 community game extension showing as official (#23760)
• modsByUid not returning all results (#23756)
• PageHeader collapse jitter on barely-scrollable pages (#23755)
• Tabs broken in non-English languages; tab identity is now an explicit id independent of the label (#23752)
• Reversed/inconsistent arrows in the plugin group editor (#23739)
• Blurred portrait images reduced to a barely-visible smear in landscape frames (#23732)