Pathoschild/SMAPI 2.8.2 on GitHub

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SMAPI 2.8 mainly adds support for the latest Stardew Valley 1.3.32 and makes quality-of-life changes for players:

added a mod compatibility page and privacy page;
added support for organising your mods into subfolders and ignoring mod folders;
moved most SMAPI files into a smapi-internal subfolder (so your game folder is less messy) and save backups into a save-backups folder (so they're easier to find);
enabled update checks even for mods that have no update keys in many cases;
improved various error messages to be more clear and intuitive;
now auto-recovers crashes caused by broken modded dialogue;
now recommends the correct SMAPI version when you have an older game version;
improved compatibility for some Linux players;
fixed a number of issues.

For modders, this mainly adds new features and improvements:

added a multiplayer API and events to send/receive messages and get connected player info;
added a data API to store mod data in the save file or app data;
added optional verbose logging;
added support for writing to JSON files in content packs;
added support for semi-transparent overlays when patching images;
added more events for the upcoming SMAPI 3.0;
improved support for the -unofficial version convention (e.g. 1.0-unofficial < 1.0-beta);
enabled IntelliSense documentation when using the non-developers version of SMAPI;
removed restriction against loading images during a draw cycle;
fixed a number of issues.

Minor releases:

Requires Stardew Valley 1.3.32 or later on Linux/Mac/Windows.