Azrak Launcher v1.23.4

PC games with a subtitle show as themselves, and every game page says which release you're getting.

Fixed

• PC games no longer show up as an older game in their series. Some releases were shown as
  the game they follow, with its name, cover and description: Splinter Cell: Blacklist as the
  first Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the first Assassin's Creed, Kingdom Come:
  Deliverance, Sniper Elite: Resistance and Life is Strange: Reunion as other games. The catalog
  now keeps a game's subtitle when it looks it up on Steam, and those releases are looked up
  again with the next catalog update.

Improved

• The game page shows the release's own name under the title when it says more than the
  title does, like "Release: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Deluxe Edition" or which
  edition you're downloading.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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Azrak Launcher v1.23.3

Back on the Downloads page is where it is everywhere else.

Improved

• Back is top left on the Downloads page. It used to sit at the far right, after the
  download and upload speeds. Now it's the same button, in the same place, as in the Game Hub,
  and the page title is gone: the download's art and logo already say where you are.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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Azrak Launcher v1.23.2

A ready update now shows on the Settings icon.

Improved

• A dot when an update is ready. While an update for the launcher or KytyPS5 is ready, or
  installed and waiting for a restart, the gear in the top bar has an amber dot. In Settings,
  Updates has one too, beside "1 ready" or "Restart". Both go once the update is done.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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Azrak Launcher v1.23.1

Forum covers load again, and more PC games get their details.

Fixed

• Covers from the forum load again. Most releases' own covers are on fastpic.org, which
  stopped answering the launcher's requests. About 4,600 releases showed a plain placeholder
  instead (eFootball PES 2021 among them). They show their cover again.

Improved

• More PC games get their details and artwork. Steam's search leaves out games that are no
  longer sold (eFootball PES 2021, Deadpool, WWE 2K15) and some with short names. These are now
  found another way, so roughly 300 more PC games get their About, screenshots and key art.
  They arrive with the catalog over the next days; there's no need to update for this part.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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Azrak Launcher v1.23.0

Downloads, Settings and the top bar are redesigned. A game now goes from download to Play in one go, and the launcher has no more pop-ups.

New

• Download & install in one step. Download opens a panel beside the Game Hub: choose which
  files to get (a plain file list, a checkbox each) and where the download and the game go, with
  the free space on each drive. When the download finishes, the game installs by itself, and
  real problems (a release that can't be installed, not enough space) show on the file or drive
  they're about.
• A new Downloads page. Each download shows its key art and one bar running from download
  to install to Play. Filters: In progress, Needs you, Ready to play. Delete… asks what to
  remove: the download, the game, or both. Share again seeds a finished download. Installing
  never deletes what you downloaded.
• Verifying. Resuming a stopped download first checks what's already on disk. This now shows
  as Verifying in teal, with its own progress.
• The top bar is one glass pill. Downloads, Settings, battery and clock sit together. While
  something is happening, Downloads becomes a ring with its progress (Downloading, Installing,
  Verifying, Download stopped). When a game finishes while you're elsewhere, the ring turns green
  and says Ready to play until you open Downloads.
• Settings is a glass sheet with sections. Sections are on the left, their options on the
  right, and Quit (or Restart and Shut down on AzrakOS) sits under the sections.
• No more pop-ups. Messages show where you pressed: on the Settings row, under a game's
  buttons on Home and in its Game Hub, or on a download's row. A problem with a Library card
  opens that game's Game Hub, so you can read it there.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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v1.22.0: more PC games install, the rest aren't offered

Hundreds more PC games now install, and the Library stops offering the ones that can't.

New

• Self-extracting installers install. Releases shipped as a single .run or .sh installer
  (a YAD Simple Installer: Balatro, most Linux releases from LinuxRulez and the Wine repacks
  named …_wine_repack) are unpacked like any archive, whatever they're compressed with. Their
  scripts never run; Play starts the game's own start script.
• Every RAR installs. RAR archives are now read by RARLAB's own decoder, built in. Archives
  packed with a large dictionary (common on RuTracker) used to fail with "Nothing in this release
  can start the game".
• Releases that can't be installed aren't offered. The Library leaves out PC releases whose
  files show Azrak can't install them: Debian packages, CrossOver bottles, PlayOnLinux packages
  and disc images. One you've already downloaded stays.
• No wasted downloads. If a release turns out not to be installable once its file list
  arrives, the download stops before any of it is downloaded and tells you why, so you can pick
  another release of the game.

Also: Wine packs made with Wine Launcher (extract.sh beside static.tar.gz) install, and
.txz archives are unpacked.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

A download that failed to install before this update: open Downloads and choose Retry install.

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v1.21.0: the newest version of a game by default

Every game's page now opens on its newest version, and tells you when the one you're looking
at is older, so you don't spend hours downloading something that's already out of date.

New

• The newest version first. When a game has several releases on a platform, its page
  opens on the newest one that people are sharing, instead of whichever was uploaded first.
• Newest and older versions are labelled. The release picker says newest version or
  older version next to each release of the same game, edition and region.
• A note before you download something old. An older release says so in amber under
  Download, with the version you'd get and the newer one you can pick instead:
  "Older version 1.12: 1.19 is under Choose another release". If the newer one has nobody
  sharing it right now, the note says that too.

Versions are only compared where it makes sense: the same edition (a Gold Edition or a
Director's Cut numbers its own patches), the same region, a native Linux port apart from a
Windows game under Wine, and never a firmware, backport or tool version written beside the
game's. When a release's version can't be read for sure, it's never called older.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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v1.20.1: the same game on every platform's page

A game's page stays the same game on every platform, clearer platform tags, and fixes for
one card per game.

Improved

• The game's details on every platform's page. Switching a game's page from PS4 to PC
  (or back) keeps its About, rating, age rating, screenshots and trailer. What differs by
  version stays its own: how it plays on this PC, size, availability, release and store page.
• Platform tags under each card. A card's platforms are small coloured tags next to its
  size (PS5 white, PS4 blue, PC green), and the cover is clean again.
• Store pages. Each version links to its store: the PlayStation Store for PS5 and PS4,
  Steam for PC. The forum topic link is gone.
• Best for this PC stays on the same platform while you look through its releases.

Fixed

• Two different games with the same name could end up on one card when a release had no
  date (Doom and Doom 2016, Prey 2006 and 2017).
• A Windows game with a good ProtonDB rating showed as playable on a PC without Proton or Wine.
  It now says Needs Proton or Wine.
• The highlighted card in the Library could jump to another game when the list refreshed in
  the background, after an install, or when this PC's check finished. It stays put now, also
  under an open game page.
• A game's About could mix the text of two different editions.
• A tile and the game's page could describe a game differently.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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v1.20.0: one card per game

One card per game: a game on PS5, PS4 and PC is one card, and its page says which version to
play on this PC.

New

• One card per game. A game released for several platforms is one card in the Library,
  with a badge for each platform (PS5, PS4, PC). The Library is about a thousand cards shorter.
• Play it on. A game's page has a tile for each platform: how it should play on this PC,
  how easy it is to download and its size. Best for this PC marks the one to pick, and
  choosing a tile shows the game there. Each version keeps its own saves.
• The right version first. A card opens on the version you have installed, else on the one
  that should play best here and can be downloaded. On a tie: PC (no emulator), then PS4, then
  PS5.

How it decides

• PS5 and PS4 versions: the emulator communities' results and what this PC has.
• PC versions: native Linux games first, then Wine with ProtonDB's rating.
• Nothing more is promised than that: no guessed frame rates.
• Same-name games years apart stay separate: Prey (2006) and Prey (2017), the 1996 Tomb Raider
  and the 2013 one, the classic Doom and Doom (2016).

Improved

• A release without its own pictures shows the game's official art from another release.
• Director's Cut and "+ DLC" or soundtrack bundles count as editions of the game.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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v1.19.0: search that finds the game you mean

Search that finds the game you mean, a search keyboard for controllers, and clearer
notifications.

New

• Search forgives how you type. Words together or apart (spiderman, witcher3),
  numbers either way (final fantasy 7 finds VII), initials and nicknames (tlou, re4,
  gow, cod, spidey), and genres (racing, horror). A typo still finds the game:
  assasins creed shows Assassin's Creed and says what it searched for.
• Best matches first. A game whose name starts with what you typed comes before one that
  only contains it; your chosen sort orders the games that match equally well.
• Search with a controller. Press △ and an on-screen keyboard comes up under the results,
  which update with every letter. The row above the keys has the best matches to open
  straight away, or your recent searches before you type. □ deletes, △ adds a space, R2 shows
  the results. Searching from a keyboard works as before.

Improved

• Notifications say who they're from, glide in and out, show the time they have left, and
  a button says what clicking does.
• Update notifications take you to the update. "Version X is ready" opens Settings on the
  Azrak Launcher row, where one press restarts into the new version. "Update available" goes
  to the same row.

Fixed

• A double-click on a notification no longer clicks the screen it opens (it could switch on
  Download only through a VPN).
• Clicking a notification no longer clicks what's behind it.

Update

Launchers on v1.3.0 or later update themselves if automatic updates are enabled. Otherwise:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/AzrakHQ/azrak-launcher/releases/latest/download/azrak-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz && ./azrak-linux-x86_64/install.sh

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