Nexus-Mods/Vortex v2.8.0-beta.1

2.8.0-beta.1

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First beta of the 2.8 release.

Added

• Support bundle in the Help menu, packing the logs, app state and recent crash dumps into a single .7z (#24251)
• scrim colour family in the design system, plus a light-theme proof of concept (#24203)
• FileSystem exposed over IPC (#24166)
• Temporal polyfill (#24149)
• Spinner while an Image loads, then a fade-in (#24133)
• Download flyout announcing a download beside the spine's download button (#24131)
• "Reduce motion" setting under Settings → Interface (#24113)
• "Always use compact headers" setting under Settings → Interface (#24108)
• BG3 SE Config mod type (#24080)

Changed

• Centralised game store scanning with snapshots (#24243)
• Removed the game version provider pattern (registerGameVersionProvider) (#24239)
• Cleaned up the GameStoreHelper API surface (#24229)
• Rebuilt the Games page sections and tiles (#24217)
• Removed the IGameStore API export and registerGameStore (#24214)
• Moved the Xbox game store into the renderer (#24210)
• Pill now takes brand and appearance props in place of pillType (#24208)
• Replaced the util.steam and util.epicGamesLauncher APIs with deprecated shims over GameStoreHelper (#24205)
• Reworked native path handling in the FS library (#24198)
• Deploy and Purge are now pinned to the mods toolbar by default (#24194)
• Removed adaptor-api and the adaptors; FS now lives in shared (#24187)
• Rebuilt the game cards on the Games page (#24167)
• Removed AssertSerializable and simplified the IPC types (#24161)
• Reworked and consolidated BCP 47 language tag handling (#24144)
• Moved the GOG, Origin and Uplay game stores into core, removing the bundled extensions (#24138)
• Upgraded Electron to 44.2.0 (#24137)
• Cleaned up EpicGamesLauncher and exposed the correct game IDs (#24124)
• Simplified classifyErrorCode (#24122)
• Manage Rules button now takes the info brand while conflicts are unresolved (#24110)

Fixed

• API rate limits are now handled instead of surfaced to the user (#24262)
• lastActiveProfileForGame skipping memoisation whenever no game was active (#24228)
• OAuth2 session control: the v3 API now refreshes its token when needed (#24216)
• Undefined profile in the install manager (#24211)
• Oblivion failing to activate on case-sensitive Linux filesystems because of the executable's casing (#24202)
• Incorrect game domain assigned to a mod via MD5 lookup (#24195)
• Steam discovery crash from an error check that read the message instead of the code (#24171)
• Notification tray taking focus out of a text field when it opens itself (#24170)
• Component crash when FlagService had not been initialised (#24162)