This release expands ProtonPlus with new launcher support, controller navigation, safer tool management, improved Steam integration, and a redesigned launch-options editor.
Highlights
- Added Faugus Launcher support.
- Added controller navigation with contextual hints, optional haptic feedback, and a first-run guide.
- Added scheduled background updates and notifications.
- Added Breeze Light, Breeze Dark, SteamOS, and OLED themes.
- Added a built-in MangoHud editor and proxy settings.
- Added CPU-aware x86-64 and ARM64 tool variant selection.
- Added ARM64 Flatpak support.
Steam and games
- Reworked the launch-options editor with hardware-aware options and exact command previews.
- Custom and unknown safe launch options are now preserved during single-game and mass edits.
- Added Steam shortcut creation and guided Steam restarts, including SteamOS Gaming Mode.
- Added migration for Steam's default compatibility prefix.
- Improved custom executable launching, multi-user Steam handling, VDF configuration, and shortcuts.
Tools and reliability
- Added an active downloads indicator and direct links to tool repositories.
- Improved Games and Tools navigation, searching, filtering, and selection.
- Improved stable-release filtering, Latest handling, and variant selection.
- Timed-out downloads are now retried automatically.
- Downloaded archives are validated before being cached.
- Tool updates better preserve custom settings and recover from failed replacements.
- Improved startup resilience when some Steam library or profile data cannot be loaded.
- Fixed release and installation issues affecting Proton-TKG, Proton-CachyOS, DXVK, VKD3D, Lutris, and Steam Tinker Launch.
- Improved command-line validation and error reporting.
Localization
- Added Arabic and Slovak.
- Updated Simplified Chinese, German, and Italian.
New contributors
- @JanGalek made their first contribution in #1009.
- @chenxiex made their first contribution in #1010.
- @Youseffo13 made their first contribution in #1148.
- @Samueru-sama made their first contribution in #1171.
- @Mujtaba-Alsaleh made their first contribution in #1170.
Thank you
A huge thank you to all our contributors, translators, testers, and sponsors. Your code, feedback, bug reports, testing, translations, and continued support helped make ProtonPlus v0.6.0 possible.