.rar support!
In the past, we tried really hard to wipe .rar off the surface of the earth. But there'll always be old builds of games around that are packed with RARs.
I'm happy to report that the app will now extract .rar files without complaining. This means you can now play The Wild Eight demo, or the classic Momodora II with itch.
In order to do so, we switched away from 7-zip to a new decompression engine (see discussion). unarchiver handles .rar files (and all archive types 7-zip supports) without any license restrictions, making it feasible for us to ship this feature.
The app should still be able to install anything it did before, and more! If it doesn't, please use the Send feedback button (from the main menu, bottom-left) so we can get it fixed.
HTTP proxy support
The app is now usable behind HTTP proxies (useful for universities and work environments, for instance). Simply export the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, if the automatically-detected settings don't work for you.
Translation highlight: Swedish & Turkish
Thanks to, respectively, Local Minimum and Talha Kaya, we now have highly-complete (97%+) translations of the app in Swedish and Turkish:
These languages join the list of highly-complete translations of the app, along with Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Anyone is welcome to contribute translations on our translation server!
Better documentation
The app guide had gotten a bit out-of-date since v0.14. I promised to keep it a living document, so it was given a complete overhaul, including among other things, answers to questions we frequently get from both players and game developers.
In particular, it now includes a handy contributor guide that lets you know what you can do to help, if you want to!
Install & download locations
Historically, the app used to install games to an apps subfolder. Now it only does so in the initial install location (so it doesn't clash with the rest of the app install). The app now installs directly in the folder given.
Additionally, it used to download always to the initial install location, filling up your SSD with files. It now downloads to whichever install location is set to default.
Known issue: the app keeps around more files than is strictly needed in downloads folders. This will be resolved in a future release. In the meantime, you can delete the whole folder without causing any issues.
Minor fixes
- The app no longer makes any requests to an HTTP server on its own, only HTTPS. You're still able to visit HTTP websites from the in-app browser, that's on you! #659
- diego (our reporting tool) has been improved to report processor architecture (32 or 64-bit) on Windows.
- Switching to unarchiver has allowed us to simplify some parts of the code quite a bit, and to drop the
file(1)utility, which is no longer required to detect self-extracting CAB archives (#836) - A bug almost sneaked into the final release (#846) but the combined forces of our QA process thwarted it.