craftablescience/VPKEdit v5.0.0.1

v5.0.0-beta.1

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VPKEdit 5.0 is coming soon! It brings with it a bunch of bug fixes and features. I want to delay the proper release to add more features and properly test everything that's changed, so in the meantime here's a beta release.

I have very limited time these days, and I want to add some big features to VPKEdit like a plugin API for previews, tools, etc. as well as improve some pain points like load time. The 5.0 update is probably a few months out at minimum, but I didn't want to wait that long to make a release. This release should be just as stable as 4.4.2. The 4.x series will no longer be receiving updates.

General Changes

• Update logo to from
  • This is much nicer to look at :3
• Add support for Xbox Zip (XZP) pack file format
• Properly set RPATH on Linux for standalone builds

GUI Changes

• Qt updates
  • Upgrade to Qt 6.8.2 on Windows
  • Use system Qt for Linux installers (third-party vendors are already doing this)
    • Fixes system themes being inaccessible
  • Downgrade to Qt 6.4.2 for standalone Linux builds
• Improve translations
  • Add Vietnamese translation
  • Update Japanese translation
  • Update Spanish translation
• Fix pack file name possibly being renamed to a translated text in the status bar
• Stop crashing when given a DMX file that fails to parse
• Stop listing elements at the root of a DMX file if it has been referenced in a different element previously
• Reorganize About dialog
• Fix possibility of Steam library icons not being populated
  • Used to use a heuristic, now it parses assetcache.vdf directly
• Explicitly set GLSL profile in shaders to fix model preview breaking on some machines (thanks @Exotic0015!)
• Add .vint_doc and .vint_proj to text preview
• Add .qoi to image preview
• More to come...

CLI Changes

• Allow the editing commands (add/remove file/directory) to be repeated

Installer Changes

• Add Fedora and Fedora-based distro support (RPM installer)
• Stop shipping the Qt image format plugins on Windows and in standalone builds, they are not needed anymore
• Bake Qt base translations into the executable rather than installing as unpacked files
• Become a more normal application on Linux - depend on system Qt, install to /usr/bin instead of /opt, and start following convention
  • Standalone builds are unchanged
• Merge standalone CLI and GUI builds into one zip, should make install process slightly easier to figure out
• Fix program icon install directory on Linux + some mimetypes being incorrectly formatted (thanks @HurricanePootis!)