Preface
This release includes some new features, many usability improvements and also lots of bug fixes.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding AML, you are welcome to join our Discord channel on the "XCOM 2 Modding" server.
If you encounter a bug/issue, please consider reporting it. You may want to include the AML.log and/or settings.json files in the issue report. Those files are located in the AML folder.
Special thanks to @Xymanek, for helping out with tons of pull request reviews!
Thanks to Puma_The_Great for creating the AML logo!
Thanks to everyone else who contributed in any other way!
Changelog
- Menu
- Added option to manually search for updates (Menu→About->Check for Updates).
- New option for category management (Menu→Settings→Categories).
- Added links to AML GitHub project page, Wiki and discord server (Menu->About).
- Revised designations and added tooltips.
- Settings-Dialog
- Moved category management to a separate dialog.
- Added OK/Cancel buttons, to be able to dismiss changes instead of being forced to save.
- Revised layout and tooltips.
- Modlist
- Added “Author” column, showing the mod author name. (by @bountygiver)
- Show filter indicator, if filtering is currently active for that column. #100
- Grouping can now be disabled/enabled manually.
- Tags now use white text on dark colors for better contrast. (by @bountygiver)
- Improved Mod-Info “Inspect” tab view. Added categorization and improved handling. (by @bountygiver)
- Mod-Info description box now supports rich text formatting. (by @bountygiver)
- Option to manually “Save” changes to the description (by @bountygiver) and to “Undo” changes instead of always saving.
- Context menu: Added option to download tags from Steam. (by @bountygiver)
- Context menu: Hide "Rename" on mod context menu when multiple mods are selected.
- Context menu: Re-ordered menu items to have related entries listed below each other.
- Misc
- Added functionality to be informed about Pre-Release versions (optional). #80
- Prevent running multiple instances of AML simultaneously (optional). #88
- Quick launch arguments: Replaced check-boxes with drop-down-list to prevent cluttered GUI and added additional arguments.
- If some changes to the settings require the application to be restarted, this is now indicated by showing a message in the status bar.
- Integrated Sentry error reporting (optional). #90
- Confirmation dialog to prevent overriding categories and tags accidentally, when importing a profile. (by @bountygiver)
- Fixes / technical:
- Implemented logging (AML.log in AML folder). #113
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 (4.6 before) is now required.
(Supported by Win10, 8.1 and 7 but only pre-installed on Win 10 with Update 10.4.2018 or later. - Updated Steamworks.NET from v8.0.0 to v12.0.0.
- Improve handling for local mods that have a workshop id. #107
- Category name changing to "" when renamed dialog is canceled. #70
- Exception/crash when trying to remove the default category "Unsorted". #71
- Exception when trying to remove a Tag from all mods. #79
- Column "Hidden" visibility wasn't updated properly. #74
- Fixed tags with white spaces causing empty strings as tags. (by @bountygiver)
- When deleting a mod folder with locked files, an IO exception occurred. #6
- Mods were updated with uninitialized/invalid data if the Workshop request failed. #9.
- Improved mod path processing. #55
- Mod ID comparison is now case insensitive. #94
- Fixed issue where "Toggle groups" wouldn't collapse if there was only one single group.
Lots of other small fixes and improvements made it into this version. If you are interested in the details, check the commit logs.