Turn off automatic updates then restart the app to trigger the update dialog to update the app to 7.0.2. After that you can turn on the automatic updates again.
Hotfixes
7.0
- Now compatible with SteamOS! It can be installed as usual in any other distro: the installer script will use the new official appimage package
- Official appimage release returns: built using quick-sharun
Features
- added Amethyst Mod Manager to Gaming
- added OpenBoardView and Thunderbird to Office
- added Zotero, Texmaker and ZenNotes to Education
- added Save Desktop to Theming
- added Hardinfo2 to System Administration
- replaced broken Minecraft Bedrock Launcher with BedrockOnLinux, which uses the Windows Store version of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
- HTTPie and Rclone UI now installed through their official appimages
- discontinued scripted
rclonesetups in favour of Rclone UI, which now has a better short description - Postman, Android Studio and Zed now installed through their official tarballs
- added x86_64v3 repositories for Ubuntu to Optimized Defaults
- several features changed categories to better reflect their main use cases
UI/UX
- new Media & Streaming category: some stuff in Utilities and Office was feeling out of place
- new App Pages: learn about the apps before installing them, with screenshots, longer descriptions and even donation, purchase and subscription options! only available for a few apps for now
- featured apps section now has animations and a reworked timer that suspends on hover and is set dynamically to amount of items/window size
- updated footer
Backend
- System Update now handles git repository packages obtained through LinuxToys
- feature repository cache sync on startup for GUI now performed asynchronously
- optimized and reworked cache building and GTK rendering call procedures
- linuxtoys now automatically updates itself in the background by default
- improved compatibility with supported distributions under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Developers
For more information on new features and how to use them, refer to the [docs](https://dev.linux.toys/repositorylists.html)
- added single binary and tarball installation support: as types for
git-like behavior, or asurls - added LinuxToys URI protocol, linking directly to an app to be installed
- added
os-keyed types support - added GitLab support for
git-type repository list entries - added
git-type entry database builder to automatically fetch and list available packages from latest release (atdev/git_db.py) - added .desktop app menu shortcut generator function
desktop_shortcut - added PATH linking function
path_link - repository cleanup
Fixes
- fixed featured scripts not following window size
- fixed a version mismatch causing the photogimp patch to fail
- fixed update dialog version label always in english
- fixed uninstallation not working as intended for repository list apps
- fixed unwanted sudo request after removal of user-level flatpaks
pkg_fromurlcan now fetch filenames correctly after redirects- fixed #1220, #1222, #1224, #1231, #1232, #1236, #1237, #1241, #1242, #1250, #1252, #1255, #1259, #1260, #1267