Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Release (1.23) Highlights

This release focuses on memory and load speed optimisations.

Launcher Changes:

Added: Support for assigning tags to mods, mods can now use tags to help end users filter their mod collection.
This includes support for some automated tags, e.g. Has Code Injection.
Fixed: Bug that prevented users from selecting other mods after updating a mod in Edit Mod menu.

Space and Memory Related Changes:

Changed: Loader now uses hooking functionality from Reloaded.SharedLib.Hooks mod, as opposed to including its own hooking library. (Saves ~1.4MiB)
Changed: Bootstrapper library now dynamically links with Visual C++ Runtime using custom build of .NET Runtime's libnethost. (Saves ~300KiB)
Removed: JSON parser from boostrapper, now uses Environment Variables (Saves ~200KiB)
Added: Full GC After Loader Initialisation. In practice most mods idle outside the occasional hooks.
Mods can now use ExcludeAssets="runtime" in NuGet PackageReference(s) to not unnecessarily include DLLs from interfaces/DI packages.

Load Speed Related Changes:

Changed: Mod loading logic/model now is singlethreaded (again) but with merged preparing and initialising step. Will not interface/DI DLLs unused at runtime from disk.
Added: Mod loader now caches whether mods can unload and/or have exports as part of ModConfig.json.
This change is what allows for preparing and initialising to be done in one step.

CI/CD

Other

Changed: Ensure Libraries are built as Deterministic in CI/CD b5870dc
Changed: Mod Load Model to Load Non-Parallel in Single Step w/o Preload 6f836d7
Updated: Reloaded Bootstrapper to not use JSON for smaller binary & faster boot. 7fb61db
Updated: NetHost Library 02e7543
Improved: Reduced DLL Size via Visual C++ Dependency & custom libNetHost ff3375b
Bootstrapper: Optimise Exports for File Size 914a753
Optimised: Removed RTTI from Bootstrapper 1a08ee8
Added: Load Reloaded.SharedLib.Hooks from Mod into ModLoader f8c0f90
Changed: Reorder Set Process & System Env Vars because System is Slow! be84335
Added: Download Loader Dependency Mods from Launcher & Error Report ea6a8ba
Fixed: Typo in Loader Project 556ac09
Changed: Class to Struct in Loader, idk what I was smoking here f1f22a5
Fixed: GetHashCode overwritten by Fody.Equals where not intended. 4a1c27d
Bumped: IO Version 860701d
Changed: Don't replace full mod list on addition/reload. be311e7
Added: Support for adding tags in the GUI 1c8c0f0
Added: Filter Mods by Tag f6fc3cb
Bumped: Project Version(s) e2a6a45
Added: Auto-tag for Code Injection a9e5c33
Added: Auto-tag for No Code Injection d553e02
Added: No Universal Mods Tag dd78503
Removed: Code Injection Tag (now Auto-Tag) 60cf1ef
Added: Auto-tag for Native Mods 8461736
Changed: Order Auto Tags by Name 774a26e
Added: Force Full GC in Loader ad3e271
Added: Changelog for 1.23.0 f8d9849
Added: Logging of unsuccessful call to GetController. 9ce3d90

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