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

Fixed: Error if Steam Stub bypass ptrs are generated outside 2GB range. 40983b5

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