Changelog

All notable changes to Balatro Mod Manager.

[0.4.1] - 2026-05-30

🚀 Features

• Enable native Wayland by default with automatic crash recovery
• Add GPU fallback chain (DMABUF → Vulkan → OpenGL → software)
• Add fade-in transition to mod view descriptions
• Add network status store for offline mode support
• Add error mapping utility for user-friendly messages
• Add health checks and state recovery commands
• Add atomic staging for mod extraction
• (about) Add status page button and external-link tests
• Add Umami analytics integration
• Detect and surface mods removed from remote index
• (ui) Add Submit Mod tab
• (search) Fuzzy mod search with typo tolerance and ranking

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Bulk uninstall now properly deletes mod files
• Sync mods to Proton prefix on Steam Deck when Mods dir exists
• Prefer longer description to avoid truncation (#355)
• Handle lenient JSON parsing in mod detection
• Improve Steam detection for Flatpak sandbox
• Auto-cleanup empty directories in Mods folder
• (tests) Resolve $lib alias and localStorage issues in CI
• (tests) Import afterEach in Settings test
• (windows) Prevent blank screen and hidden window on startup
• (clippy) Drop redundant .into_iter() on stream::iter arg
• (mods) Sync enabled state with Steamodded for nested mod folders
• (settings) Default compat helper toggle to off before settings load
• (popup) Watchdog releases stuck transition blocker
• (perf) Hoist LazyImage state into shared singletons
• (mods) Deduplicate mod entries to prevent each_key_duplicate crash
• (images) Prevent load-slot leak that causes all thumbnails to vanish
• (mods) Stop UI freeze when toggling a mod on/off
• (installer) Keep all top-level dirs when extracting mod zips
• (mods) Show all enabled mods in Installed Mods tab

💼 Other

• Switch macOS bundles to ad-hoc signing

🚜 Refactor

• Extract shared catalog loading logic and add mod details cache TTL

⚡ Performance

• Defer non-critical startup tasks to background
• Defer startup tasks and optimize network requests
• Cache mod details to disk to avoid repeated API calls
• Persist Lovely version cache to disk across restarts
• Remove duplicate fetch_repo_mods call on startup
• Pre-fetch mod requirements on view open
• Close performance and stability gaps across stack

🧪 Testing

• Add unit tests for command modules
• (backups) Cover BackupsPanel actions and states
• (settings) Add action-level coverage for Settings view
• (mods) Add BulkActionBar selection-action tests

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• Update dependencies
• Update version
• Update dependencies
• Update dependencies
• Update dependencies
• Update dependencies
• (lint) Ban unsafe type annotations
• Update dependencies
• Update dependencies
• Update more dependencies
• Bump GitHub Actions off the deprecated Node 20 runtime
• Bump version to 0.4.2
• Revert version to 0.4.1

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