PZServerLauncher v1.8.2

What changed

• Fixed the active mod load-order arrow buttons so reordered rows keep their new positions.
• Fixed mod drag-and-drop ordering, which was being reverted during the editor refresh.
• Fixed the same ordering rollback for active map rows.

Verification

• 215 automated tests passed locally in Release configuration.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully for version 1.8.2.

SHA-256: 9c2088263ada49027a14e6a129e7325ee061b12035d989efb705e97e82715f1e

PZServerLauncher v1.8.1

What changed

• Added graceful server shutdown: the launcher now sends save followed by quit.
• Waits up to 90 seconds for Project Zomboid to flush the world and exit cleanly.
• Falls back to force termination only if the console command fails or the server does not exit before the timeout.
• Shutdown backups now run after the final saved process exit.

Verification

• 215 automated tests passed locally in Release configuration.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with ProductVersion 1.8.1.

SHA-256: eca1fd023a6b7ff4096f12597d7eb65047ffa151b937eb35107650a562828a4e

PZServerLauncher v1.8.0

What changed

• Added an opt-in backup-after-shutdown policy with independent retention controls.
• Shutdown archives are created after launcher-requested stops, restarts, and app shutdowns, while crashes remain excluded.
• Added shutdown archives to recovery history, posture summaries, persistence, and database migration support.
• Prevented stale structured-settings pages from overwriting newer INI changes made on disk.
• Removed ResetID from ordinary Network and Admin editing so world identity changes stay inside the dedicated reset workflow.

Verification

• 213 automated tests passed locally in Release configuration.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with ProductVersion 1.8.0.

SHA-256: 52099ebfc146ca5cd30bebac66a6ea4e52b5e03743688d477142842f314c6354

PZServerLauncher v1.7.2

What changed

• Fixed Apply Settings crashing when large custom presets contain overlapping sandbox option paths from multiple active mods.
• Deduplicated conflicting mod-setting targets and made SandboxVars persistence collision-safe.
• Added an exception boundary so apply failures are reported in the launcher instead of terminating it.
• Automatically saves a recovery draft before applying, preserving edits if persistence fails.

Verification

• 210 automated tests passed locally.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with version 1.7.2.

SHA-256: 68044b3080c3a5788c517f745684c13026b8c1f9b075086e223548d7f55c5776

PZServerLauncher v1.7.1

What changed

• Fixed numeric sandbox and mod-setting fields losing keyboard focus after every character.
• Kept field controls alive while editing instead of rebuilding the category tree on each keystroke.
• Preserved immediate preset-match, category-summary, dirty-state, and validation updates without interrupting typing.

Verification

• 209 automated tests passed locally.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with version 1.7.1.

SHA-256: 87a55929bb8e8349cba63dbee4c8645bff317602edcc47094f771c80267e9ac5

PZServerLauncher v1.7.0

What changed

• Reworked live logs and console buffering with bounded queues, batched UI updates, cached display text, and native scrolling to keep the launcher responsive during noisy server startup.
• Compacted repetitive Workshop download and mod-override progress, and suppressed low-value engine warning families from the launcher display while preserving the server's raw log files.
• Made mod-settings discovery incremental and cached so large mod lists are not rescanned during routine navigation.
• Added the featured Horse Mod entry and refined Mods & Maps editing with clearer cards, state controls, load-order arrows, details, and corrected unsaved-change tracking.
• Streamlined the launcher navigation and page chrome, removed redundant status/actions, and restored the full Buy Me a Coffee support label.
• Improved launcher-managed server cleanup and runtime state handling around shutdown and stale processes.

Verification

• 209 automated tests passed locally.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with version 1.7.0.

SHA-256: 92922f3d290ae54f27fad91851c6a278510429dfed839a9a3706421fd243e01a

PZServerLauncher v1.6.0

What changed

• Added a preloaded Steam server-version picker to profile creation and install/update workflows.
• Added dark mode and refined launcher navigation.
• Added typed settings discovery for enabled mods that provide sandbox-options.txt, including category navigation and an option to open each mod definition file.
• Improved mod-settings performance by replacing broad Workshop media scans with a shallow cached definition index.
• Bounded the live console panels with native scrollbars and compacted repetitive asset warnings while preserving full raw logs.
• Attached launched servers to the launcher lifetime on Windows so server processes are cleaned up when the launcher exits unexpectedly.

Verification

• 181 automated tests passed locally.
• Windows x64 MSI built successfully with version 1.6.0.

SHA-256: 4df9fbeb16d34b48ca0a28610ab7ff2d7bc34dfc5fd1ebedaaa39d97135cd3b7

PZServerLauncher v1.5.0

What's new

• Rebuilt the launcher around an integrated desktop runtime, removing the separate web-host surface and keeping server management in one native Windows app.
• Refreshed the full desktop interface, including clearer server workspaces, settings editors, consoles, backups, logs, and responsive operational states.
• Added live Steam branch discovery. Available Project Zomboid server versions are loaded at startup and shown directly in the Create Profile popup.
• Saved the selected Steam branch with each profile and revalidated it before install or update, preventing retired anonymous branches from silently breaking SteamCMD installation.
• Added a persistent dark mode that applies across every workspace and popup.
• Improved Mods & Maps and Sandbox editing, runtime diagnostics, import handling, and local profile operations.

Assets

• PZServerLauncher.Setup.msi

PZServerLauncher v1.4.0

What's new

• Fixed missing inherited network and admin values so saving settings no longer materializes DoLuaChecksum or AntiCheat* unless you intentionally change them.
• Added Ordered Preset Manager quality-of-life improvements in Mods & Maps: live filtering by Workshop display name, mod ID, or Workshop ID, plus Remove from Editor directly from Workshop preview.

Assets

• PZServerLauncher.Setup.msi

PZServerLauncher v1.3.0

PZServerLauncher v1.3.0

• Adds workshop download count progress during startup so mod-heavy launches show which Workshop item is currently being installed.
• Surfaces the pinned progress signal across the desktop overview, logs, consoles, and host runtime summary.

Installer: PZServerLauncher.Setup.msi