v2.3.1 Brook (Hotfix #1)

Hello!

This is the first Hotfix for the latest release.
This Addresses 2 Issues we found after releasing 2.3.0

• Glitches during Login that were making it impossible to login on any platform #1308
• Some UI issues with a few inputs and missing styling on the Wine Manager and Context menu

v2.3.0 Brook

If you got here following a link, don't download this version 2.3.0, check version 2.3.1 with a hotfix for some login and style issues here: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/tag/v2.3.1

Hello!
After more than two months Heroic reaches version 2.3.0 Brook, the new Stable version for all platforms.
And this is one of our biggest releases ever, bringing several new features, improvements and, of course, fixes and more stability.

Whats New?!

Themes

One of the most requested features since Heroic started is now live and Heroic now comes with 5 built-in themes and some of them with other variations. Ofc the Infamous Dracula Theme is available :D

Video:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26871415/168445132-4d92b3ff-9311-4d78-a500-d1be0b3bd79f.mp4

Platform Install Selection (Linux and macOS)

Another feature that was requested long ago, was the ability to install Windows versions of a native game since some of them runs better under Wine/Proton then the native one, that sometimes requires some outdated libs.
This feature is available for Epic Games and GOG on macOS and for GOG on Linux, since there is no native games for Linux on Epic games as of now.

Auto Update

From now on, if you are using Heroic on Windows (installed) or AppImage on Linux, when a new stable version is released, Heroic will tell you that there is a new version and will download it in the background. After restarting Herioc it will be on latest version :)

Favorite or Hide your Games

Now it is possible to organize your libraries by adding favorites or even hide games that you have already finished or don't want to play at all.
A new setting was also added for you to choose what to show on the highlight row on the library. Now you can choose to show Favorites, recent played games or even don't show anything if you would like.

Accessibility Screen

Since version 2.0 we have focused on make Heroic easy to use for people with visual impairments and on version 2.3 we are adding a screen with a few options to help even more with that and bring Heroic and gaming to even more people.
It is possible to Zoom the interface and select alternative fonts for now. New high contrast themes will be added soon as well.

Quality of life improvements

Besides the features above, other UI/UX improvements were added, for example:
- It is now possible to order the game list alphabetically or by installed status

- When installing, Heroic will show how much space left there is on the device that you selected to install the game

UI

Several other improvements were made on the UI of Heroic to make it more consistent

Tech stuff

Behind the scenes a lot of things happened on Heroic as well. A lot of refactoring tech stack updates, etc.

• The Launch command was basically redone from scratch to bring more scalability options and more stability across platforms.
• Several bugs were fixed on GOGDL, adding support for more games and completely fixing it on Windows.
• The way we get and show the game status also got some pretty good refactoring.

Bugfixes

There were dozens of bugs fixed since 2.2.6. Would be hard to sumarize them all but lets try to put some of them here:

[macOS]: Fixed Progress bar not working
[General]: Fixed an issue where sometimes the recently played games were showing duplicates.
[Linux]: Fix and issue where Heroic was becoming blank after navigating out of the Wine Manager.
[macOS]: Fixed an issue where Heroic was failing without a message when there was no space left on the device.
[General]: Filter was being reset after getting out of the library or refreshing it.
Several others fixes...

And that's it!
Great thanks as always to all our contributors being code or translations, especially @arielj, @imLinguin, @Nocccer, and @CommandMC.

Special Thanks to all our supporters on Patreon, Ko-fi, and Github sponsors! :D

Full Changelog: v2.2.6...v2.3.0

New Contributors

• @dawidgarus made their first contribution in #1109
• @Pl1y made their first contribution in #1178
• @JakobDev made their first contribution in #1172
• @Aikufurr made their first contribution in #1196

2.3.0 Beta 3

Hi!
This is a small release to fix the issue with the Settings and some wrong colors on the Old School Theme.
Stable should come next :D

2.3.0 Beta 2

Hi!
So this is a new Beta from Heroic and with new exciting features.

Highlights

• Theming. Now its possible to change the default Heroic theme.
• Platform Selection when installing a game for Linux and macOS. This means installing a Windows version of a native game.
• Added the ability to favorite a game.
• Now it is possible to choose to hide or replace the Recently Played row with the favorites one.
• GOG now should work just fine on Windows.
• Ability to sort installed games by title and Installing status
• Several refactors, UI fixes and performance improvements.

What's Changed

• [UI] Show heroic version on Settings by @flavioislima in #1241
• [Fix] Epic library empty after coming from a Linux Native GOG filter by @flavioislima in #1244
• [UX] Fetch libraries in the background after login by @arielj in #1245
• [Fix] keys in config file for recent games by @arielj in #1248
• [UI] Allow installing wine versions using the controller by @arielj in #1246
• [UI] Dim hidden games by @arielj in #1255
• [UI] Add options to sort games by title and status by @flavioislima in #1249
• [UI/UX] Add favourites feature and library top section config by @arielj in #1253
• [UX] Keep installing if the pause/stop dialog is closed by @Aikufurr in #1196
• [UI] Show space left on disk on Install Dialog by @flavioislima in #1262
• [UI] Add basic themes support by @arielj in #1265
• [Fix] Use vertical_image value only if present by @arielj in #1277
• [UI/UX] Add Platform selection on Install dialog by @flavioislima in #1270

Full Changelog: v2.2.6...v2.3.0-beta.2

2.3.0 Beta 1

Hello!
Welcome to the first Beta for version 2.3 of Heroic this one has a huge amount of changes so bugs are expected.
Please report new bugs for this version by putting BETA under the Issue Title. You can also use the discussion linked to the release :D
2.3.0 Stable should be ready in a couple of weeks after we get enough feedback on the Beta and also fix them of course :)

What's Changed

• [Windows] Fix "Show log file in folder" once and for all by @CommandMC in #1100
• [Fix] Not able to enable Steam Runtime by @imLinguin in #1108
• [Linux] Integrate Winetricks by @flavioislima in #1090
• [General] UX improvements in header and scrollbar by @dawidgarus in #1109
• [General] UX improvements in webview by @dawidgarus in #1106
• [UI] Align text and icons in sidebar, fix sidebar shadow, sidebar css clean up by @dawidgarus in #1105
• [General] UX improvements in loading screens by @dawidgarus in #1112
• [UI] Add more UI effects, fixes w/ user-select, other tweaks. by @8Bitz0 in #1064
• [General] Improvements in language selector when installing game by @dawidgarus in #1127
• [General] UX improvements in ActionIcons by @dawidgarus in #1126
• [Tech ]Refactor Legendary/GOGDL handling by @CommandMC in #1092
• [General] Improvements in install dialog by @dawidgarus in #1129
• [Fix] Flags not displayed when user don't have a font with flags emoji by @dawidgarus in #1134
• [Fix] Override exe file for GOG games, launch exe on prefix now sets working directory to the location of exe file by @dawidgarus in #1133
• [Fix] Gogdl issues don't fail gracefully #1125 by @dawidgarus in #1138
• [Fix] Cancel/pause downloading of GOG games by @dawidgarus in #1137
• [Fix] Dialogs hiding behind app window by @dawidgarus in #1151
• [Webview] Open game store page in webview and refactor by @arielj in #1149
• [Other] Remove MimeType from Shortcut by @JakobDev in #1172
• [Other] Add German translation to .desktop by @JakobDev in #1185
• [Linux] Fix Special characters on Wine Prefix Folder by @flavioislima in #1186
• [UI/UX] Sidebar Improvements, consistency fixes and Advanced Settings by @flavioislima in #1199
• [General] Auto-Update In the background for AppImages, Windows Setup and Mac DMG by @dragonDScript in #830
• [UI] Add 'report a problem' action in game screen by @arielj in #1208
• [FIX] Don't reset the filterText when refreshing the library by @arielj in #1218
• [UI] Fix grayscale/color for games with logo image by @arielj in #1217
• [Ui] Add an option to disable the controller navigation by @arielj in #1222
• [Ui] Order games by status and remove header Filter by @arielj in #1221
• [macOS] Fix install progress, install failling and no space error message by @flavioislima in #1203
• [UI] Improve logs readability by @arielj in #1227
• [Gog] Setup improvements by @imLinguin in #1174
• [UI] Add option to hide games from the library by @arielj in #1228
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #1195
• [UI] Small fixes by @flavioislima in #1232

New Contributors

• @dawidgarus made their first contribution in #1109
• @Pl1y made their first contribution in #1178
• @JakobDev made their first contribution in #1172

Full Changelog: v2.2.6...v2.3.0-beta.1

2.2.6 (Hotfix #5 - Hopefully the last one)

Well, four hotfixes in 4 days, that's not ideal but since we changed a lot of things in the code, especially to fix some old issues on Windows and to support Flatpak, was expected that we could break some things 😅 .

So this one basically should fix an issue on Linux and Mac where the Login is not working for the Epic Games.
Lets hope it solves for good now 🤞🏽

2.2.5 Oden (Hotfix #4)

What's Changed

• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #1075
• [FIX] Issues with Epic Login and refresh Library by @flavioislima in #1073

Full Changelog: v2.2.4...v2.2.5

2.2.4 Flatpak and other fixes

Another small release to adjust some things for the Flatpak.

What's Changed

• [General] Fixes Games Logs and Games settings path since they were pointing to the wrong folder on v.2.2.3.
• [Linux] Disable check for updates by default on Flatpak.
• [Linux] Fixes Default wine prefix for Flatpak
• [General] Handle 404 errors from GOGDB.

2.2.3 Windows and MacOS fixes

Hi!
This is just a small release that fixes some Login issues on Windows and Mac that were introduced on v2.2.2.
Also fixes an issue when using an alternative legendary binary on all platforms.
A new Setting is available now to Minimze Heroic after launching a game. This can be useful for the Steam Deck :D

What's Changed

• Fixes Config Path on Windows and Mac and add minimize to tray on launch setting by @flavioislima in #1059

Full Changelog: v2.2.2...v2.2.3

2.2.2 - Fixes and Preparation for Flatpak Release

Hello!
Today we have a new Heroic release. Not major though, but brings several fixes for the GOG implementation for both Linux and Windows (there are still a few bugs on Windows though).
The most important about this release is that it brings several settings to work with the new Flatpak that will be published soon on Flathub. This will bring Heroic to more distros and also for the Steam Deck, which works already with the AppImage but needs several workarounds to grab the inputs.
The first flatpak won't be perfect though and some things might not work as expected. But of course, we will do our best to fix the upcoming issues :)
Especial thanks to @mirkobrombin from the Bottles Team for all the help with the Flatpak build :D

What's Changed on this release

• [GOG] Several improvements and fixes for GOGDL by @imLinguin in #1046
• Fixup protocol handling when Heroic is already running by @CommandMC in #1019
• [General] Improve navigation on touchscreen and gamepad and revert some colors by @wiryfuture in #964
• [Linux] Improve Wine version handling by @CommandMC in #1008
• [General] Added missing alternate exe parameter for GOG Linux by @redromnon in #1024
• [General] UI improvements and additions by @8Bitz0 in #1041
• [Linux] Wine-GE-Proton Compatibility by @nezd5553 in #1040
• [Linux] Flatpak preparations by @flavioislima in #515
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #1035

New Contributors

• @redromnon made their first contribution in #1024
• @8Bitz0 made their first contribution in #1041
• @nezd5553 made their first contribution in #1040

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.2.2