Release v9.3.0

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,12 +1,51 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## v9.2.7
+## v9.3.0
 
 **Added:**
+
+- **Online skin browser** — Browse and search skins from crafty.gg directly in the skin manager.
+- **Use skins instantly** — Pick a skin and it gets downloaded, added to your library, and applied automatically.
+- **Better translations** — Hindi and Bangla are now fully translated, with several broken translation strings fixed.
+- **Skin browsing improvements** — Online skins are cached, so previously viewed textures don't need to be downloaded again.
+- **Discord Rich Presence** — Shows when you're browsing skins and gives more accurate launcher and game status.
+
+**Changed:**
+
+- **Faster startup** — Reduced unnecessary work while the launcher is opening.
+- **Faster instance list** — Large instance folders now sort and load more efficiently.
+- **Better caching** — Icon and screenshot cache is now limited to 128 MB.
+- **Cleaner window titles** — Window titles now use a simpler launcher and version format.
+- **Improved toolbar** — Related options are now grouped into clearer menus.
+- **Better tooltips** — More launcher menus and settings now have helpful tooltips.
+- **Improved packaging** — Linux, Windows and `.deb` builds now handle version and dependency details more reliably.
+
+**Fixed:**
+
+- **Instances no longer disappear after updates** — The launcher can now detect certain data-folder changes and help recover stranded instances.
+- **Portable installs work more reliably** — Portable mode now correctly finds its marker regardless of where the launcher is started from.
+- **Windows upgrades are safer** — Updates no longer risk removing important portable or instance data.
+- **GitHub star reminder** — Fixed animation and resizing issues with the star reminder.
+- **Linux compatibility** — Bundled libraries now prevent launch failures on some distributions.
+- **World imports** — World ZIP files with `level.dat` at the root are recognized correctly again.
+- **Skin applying** — Expired launcher tokens are refreshed before uploading a skin.
+- **Discord Rich Presence** — Fixed several cases where launcher and game status could be missing, outdated or incorrect.
+- **Skin search** — Searching by player, tag or style now returns the expected results.
+- **Translation fixes** — Fixed numerous broken placeholders, formatting issues and missing translated text.
+
+**Removed:**
+
+- **Unused files** — Removed old installer and release files that were no longer needed.
+
+## v9.2.7
+
+**Added:** 
+
 - Linux binary tarball release artifact (`PollyMC-Continued-*-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz`) — portable install with the same layout as the Windows portable zip
 - Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, and Laotian translations completed to 100%
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Release `.deb` and `.pkg.tar.zst` artifacts renamed to the `PollyMC-Continued-*` naming scheme (package install names unchanged)
 - Mods page table columns now resize proportionally with the window — Name, Last Modified, and Provider stretch; the Enable checkbox column sizes to its content
 - Dropped the unused pacman database files (`pollymc-continued.db`/`.files`) from build artifacts
@@ -16,6 +55,7 @@
 - Bot Manager now checks for Node.js and the required modules when opened, prompting the user to install them when missing
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Launcher ignored display scaling at 125% and 150% on Windows and macOS (the rounding policy floored fractional scales to 100%); the policy now only applies on Linux
 - Closing the Java wizard after enabling automatic Java download crashed the launcher (double-free of a layout item)
 - Jar mods were leaked on every launch (`getJarMods()` returned unowned objects)
@@ -28,25 +68,30 @@
 ## v9.2.6
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Debian/Ubuntu apt repository — `.deb` packages installable via `sudo apt install pollymc-continued`, hosted on GitHub Pages (optionally GPG-signed)
 - Arch Linux pacman repository — `.pkg.tar.zst` packages installable via `sudo pacman -S pollymc-continued`, hosted on GitHub Pages
 - `deploy-repos.yml` workflow publishing both repositories to GitHub Pages on every release
 - README "Install" section covering both package managers
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Releases now include `.deb` and `.pkg.tar.zst` packages
 - Account page button now reads "Add &Authlib-injector"
 - Translations now load from the `translations` subdirectory of our GitHub Pages site
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Afrikaans translation now 100% complete
 
 **Removed:**
+
 - Joke languages (`en@pirate`, `en@uwu`, `grc`, `jam`, `peo`, `rue`) and their translation files
 
 ## v9.2.5
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Bundle Qt image format plugins in Linux AppImage
 - Repair malformed plural entries in all translations so every language compiles again
 - Custom Skin not loading on singleplayer world
@@ -55,6 +100,7 @@
 ## v9.2.4
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Linux man page (`pollymc.6`) for the launcher
 - Installer now asks before creating a desktop shortcut
 - Silent installs skip the desktop shortcut prompt automatically and don't touch the desktop
@@ -64,16 +110,19 @@
 - CONTRIBUTING.md with the translation contribution flow (fork, edit `.ts`, open a PR)
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - NeoForge 1.21.x (and modern Forge) instances no longer crash on launch when using an offline account: the skin agent no longer claims the one-time slot — it now registers a protocol handler leaving the slot free for NeoForge/Quilt
 - Auto-updater now detects new releases published under the same version number
 - Installer and uninstaller now use the PollyMC icon instead of the NSIS default
 
 ## v9.2.3
 
 **Added:**
+
 - More bugs to fix later. You're welcome. (It's this changelog entry, but let's be honest: it reads as a feature at this point)
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Language selection now lists all available translations instead of only English
 - "Help us with translations!" link now points to [NEEDS UPDATE — Weblate reference is stale, tell me the correct current target]
 - Minecraft 1.8.9 and other Java 8 instances no longer fail to start when using an offline account: the skin agent's module options, which only Java 9+ understands, are no longer passed to Java 8
@@ -83,32 +132,38 @@
 - Help buttons that previously opened a dead link (and did nothing at all) now say what's what instead of silently failing — pending documentation, they politely tell you the page is "coming later"
 
 **Removed:**
+
 - Cat feature: "Meow" button (toolbar and View menu), cat packs folder entry, cat background/overlay rendering, cat pack selector and cat scaling/opacity settings in Appearance, the CatPack/CatPainter classes and all cat icon assets, and "And cat :3" from the Linux AppStream metadata
 
 ## v9.2.2
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Linux AppImage bundles the KDE Breeze widget style
 - Fractional screen scaling rounds sanely under KDE Plasma; per-screen scale factors logged at startup
 - Java diagnostics redact secret-looking environment values (TOKEN/KEY/SECRET/PASSWORD/AUTH)
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Portable Windows zip now includes `portable.txt`, so the launcher and auto-updater detect and update portable installs correctly
 - Windows installer asset renamed to include "Windows" (e.g. `PollyMC-Continued-9.2.2-Windows-Setup.exe`) so the auto-updater can match it
 
 ## v9.2.1
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Bot Manager: commands that act on a bot no longer take a username — you must select the bot(s) in the table first; multi-selected bots are targeted together, and `/quit` now disconnects the selected bot(s) instead of `<username>`
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Quilt instances no longer fail to launch when using an offline account
 - "Not enough RAM" warning now compares the allocation against total installed RAM instead of momentary free RAM
 - Updater no longer reports a new version when the installed version matches the latest release (macOS builds now carry a build number distinct from the marketing version)
 
 ## v9.2.0
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Bot system: manage Minecraft bots in the new Bot Manager window (Help menu) — add, edit, remove, start and stop bots, multi-select rows
 - Bot Manager: console commands `/join <server> [username] [port]`, `/quit`, `/list`, `/say <message>`, `/follow <player>`, `/stop`, `/goto <x> <y> <z>`, `/home`, `/pos`, `/health`, `/inventory`, `/drop <item> [count]`, `/equip <item>`, `/whisper <player> <message>`, `/respawn`, `/players`, `/help`, `/clear` (clears the console)
 - Bot Manager: Commands button showing every command with its usage
@@ -117,13 +172,16 @@
 - System tray icon with Show/Quit menu — "Minimize to Tray" no longer makes the app unreachable
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Bot Manager: Send button now inherits the launcher theme instead of a hardcoded green
 
 **Removed:**
+
 - Bot Manager: "Microsoft account" login option (not implemented)
 - Dead BotTerminalPage code
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Auto-updater: release list fetch blocked by a malformed repo URL
 - Updater layout: restore checkboxes no longer overlap the interval spinner
 - Discord Rich Presence: IPC probing no longer freezes the UI
@@ -140,24 +198,28 @@
 ## v9.1.1
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Detect auth server downtime and launch offline with clearer dialog ("Auth servers offline" vs "No internet connection")
 - Retain network error info across auth steps for better offline fallback messaging
 - Skip pointless retries on HTTP 404 responses in NetJob
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Update README: remove downloads section, add contributor avatars
 - Add Discord badge and enable Discord Guild menu item in launcher
 - Installer now uses CI version instead of hardcoded "1.0.0" for registry DisplayVersion
 - Enable auto-updater (Windows/Linux via GitHub releases, macOS via Sparkle)
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Memory leak and potential crash in data packs modal dialog (non-modal with WA_DeleteOnClose)
 - Infinite update check loop when timer fires during an ongoing check (re-entrancy guard)
 - Updater now builds and runs on all platforms (removed `NOT APPLE` guard); macOS falls back to PrismExternalUpdater when Sparkle feed URL is empty
 
 ## v9.1.0
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Yggdrasil (authlib-injector) account support
   - New AccountType::AuthlibInjector
   - AuthlibInjectorStep for /authserver/authenticate and /authserver/refresh
@@ -169,12 +231,15 @@
 - macOS derives version from git tag (like Windows/Linux)
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Add ccache to CI builds (Windows, Linux, macOS) for faster rebuilds
 
 **Removed:**
+
 - Unused accountIsOnline variable
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Cancel button not working in Yggdrasil login dialog
 - Yggdrasil accounts not fetching player skins
 - Old PollyMC accounts with missing auth server URL now show clear error
@@ -185,6 +250,7 @@
 ## v9.0.9
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Portable macOS build and DMG
 - Reliable local macOS build script
 - Local macOS build setup hardening
@@ -195,10 +261,12 @@
 - Branch name check skips main/master/develop
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Revise README for clarity and feature highlights
 - Shorten README
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Use --codesigning=off for Qt 6.9+ macdeployqt
 - Remove codesign flags for Qt 6.9+ macdeployqt
 - verify_bundle.sh for Qt 6.11: handle @rpath/Frameworks and bundle-internal framework deps
@@ -207,12 +275,14 @@
 ## v9.0.8
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Dll Checks in Github Action
 - Enhance build script with DLL checks and updates
 - Enhance release workflow with additional triggers
 - Enhance versioning logic in build.yml
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Refactor CI workflow for Windows and Linux builds
 - Refactor DLL dependency handling in build workflow
 - Refactor CMake build process and improve logging
@@ -222,6 +292,7 @@
 - Improve DLL deployment logic
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Filter Windows system DLLs from recursive dep check; add installer DLL test step
 - Add msvcp_win.dll to Windows system DLL skip list
 - Replace libgamemode-dev with gamemode-dev for Ubuntu 24.04
@@ -234,46 +305,56 @@
 ## v9.0.7
 
 **Added:**
+
 - Bundle OpenSSL into AppImage
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - NSIS script and DLL copy locations
 
 ## v9.0.6
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Reduce parallel jobs to -j2 for Windows build
 
 ## v9.0.5
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - NSIS installer output directory bug
 
 ## v9.0.4
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Limit parallel jobs in build step
 
 ## v9.0.3
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Add error checking to Windows build steps
 
 ## v9.0.2
 
 **Other:**
+
 - Debug: Add more file verification steps
 
 ## v9.0.1
 
 **Changed:**
+
 - Update CI workflow
 - Update pollymc icon, remove old files
 
 **Fixed:**
+
 - Deploy MinGW runtime DLLs in Windows build
 - Resolve release conflict in CI workflow
 - Let GitHub auto-generate release notes from commits
 
 **Other:**
+
 - Debug: Verify release files exist before upload

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25) # Required for features like `CMAKE_MSVC_DEBUG_INFORMATION_FORMAT`
 
-set(Launcher_VERSION "9.1.0" CACHE STRING "Launcher version in MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format")
+set(Launcher_VERSION "9.3.0" CACHE STRING "Launcher version in MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format")
 if(Launcher_VERSION STREQUAL "")
     set(Launcher_VERSION "9.0.10" CACHE STRING "Launcher version in MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format" FORCE)
 endif()
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
     set(CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
     set(CPACK_STRIP_FILES TRUE)
     set(CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES "pollymc" "PollyMC-Continued")
-    set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS "gamemode;mangohud")
+    # Debian fields need commas; a ';' makes dpkg reject the package.
+    set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RECOMMENDS "gamemode, mangohud")
     include(CPack)
 endif()

README.md

@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ sudo pacman -Syy
 sudo pacman -S pollymc-continued
 ```
 
+### Installing a downloaded package file
+
+The `.pkg.tar.zst` asset on the [releases page](https://github.com/corecommit/PollyMC-Continued/releases) is a package archive, **not** a program — running it directly (`./PollyMC-Continued-…pkg.tar.zst`) just makes your shell try to interpret the compressed bytes as a script and fail with a `syntax error`. Install it with `pacman -U` instead:
+
+```bash
+sudo pacman -U ./PollyMC-Continued-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
+```
+
 A `PKGBUILD` is also available in [`packaging/arch/`](packaging/arch/PKGBUILD) — it can be built locally with `makepkg` or submitted to the AUR for `yay -S` / `paru -S` installs.
 
 ## Build