i486/VxKex Version1.1.2.1428

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Hey everyone! Got some news to share about VxKex.

Great news first - vxiiduu (the real creator of VxKex) dropped a fresh update on Discord on October 10th! Just found out about this recently, which is why this update is a bit late. The update brings some great improvements:

VERSION 1.1.2.1428
    - Fixed a race condition which affects Chromium and Electron-based
      applications.

    - Fixed a propagation bug which caused VxKex to not be able to run on
      32-bit operating systems.

    - Fixed an issue where a non-standard %Path% environment variable could
      cause VxKex to fail to start for all programs.

    - Added support for applications:
        - Life is Strange: True Colors

I've personally tested a couple things with this version:

1. Life is Strange: True Colors runs great without the starting error!

VxKex 1.1.1.1375 (Fatal Error appears after starting the game)

VxKex 1.1.2.1428 (No more error)

1. The Windows 7 32-bit fix works now - the previous version (1.1.1.1375) was broken on updated Windows 7 32-bit systems, but this version is working fine.

Now for the not-so-great stuff. There's a situation with GitHub that you should know about. After vxiiduu deleted his GitHub account due to personal reasons, someone grabbed their old username (GitHub frees up usernames 90 days after deletion) and made another fake VxKex repo. This isn't the first time someone has pretended to be vxiiduu. I suspect it's likely the same impersonator as last time.

Here's the current situation:

• Right now they're hosting the same files as the original releases (checked the hashes myself)
• BUT they've added some sketchy stuff like a fake vxiiduu mom sob story and Bitcoin donation address
• The problem is they could swap in malicious files anytime
• Even worse, all prior VxKex files (EXE/DLL/shell extension) still point to that repo since it used to be the real one

What I've done:

• Replaced all mentions of https://github.com/vxiiduu/VxKex/ (FAKE) from this release's files with https://github.com/i486/VxKex/ (THIS REPO)
• Working on cleaning those references from the source files
• Submitted an impersonation report to GitHub regarding the fake repo and suggest you do the same.

Download the Release installer unless:

- you have been instructed to use a Debug build,
- you need PDB files, or
- you are developing VxKex.

Feel free to discuss on the Issues section if you have any questions.

What's Changed

Full Changelog: 33f6a5d