v0.3.0

hearthstone-linux-gui v0.3.0 — Hearthstone Linux Launcher

Feature release. The launcher is now translatable, has a compact single-button
layout, and gains the settings and diagnostics that were most requested in
issues: GameMode / MangoHud, a game settings editor, and a one-click system
information report for bug reports.

Highlights

• System information for bug reports: the gear menu shows launcher
  version, install kind, distribution, kernel, session type (Wayland / X11),
  graphics driver, OpenGL renderer, Mesa version, GameMode, MangoHud, GTK and
  libadwaita versions, with a button that copies everything. Please paste it
  into new issues; it answers most "which GPU / compositor?" questions up
  front (#37).
• Translatable launcher: English, German and Simplified Chinese are
  included, selectable from the gear menu with a flag per language. By default
  the launcher follows the system locale, and region and game language are
  preselected from it on first start (#29).
• GameMode and MangoHud switches: the game starts as
  gamemoderun mangohud <game>. A switch is disabled with an explanation when
  the tool is not installed or, in the Flatpak, not reachable from the sandbox
  (#30).
• Game settings editor: frame-rate limit, VSync and graphics quality, plus
  plain editors for options.txt and extra client.config entries. Extra
  client.config entries now survive Install / Update (#31).
• Compact layout, one Login/Play button: the window opens at its smallest
  size and the content is centred. The button reads Login while logged out
  and Play once logged in; Log Out and Switch Account are in its menu
  (#33). While a login is pending, a hint explains that Blizzard's login page
  is built for the game's own browser and can be hard to read in a regular one
  (#34).
• Optional update check, off by default: when enabled, a newer launcher
  release shows an upgrade button that opens the release page. Nothing is
  downloaded or installed by the launcher (#35).
• New name and icon: "Hearthstone Linux Launcher — Unofficial community
  launcher", with an original logo. Binary name, package name and application
  ID are unchanged (#32).

Thanks

A big thank you to @SoulInfernoDE, who
contributed almost everything in this release: the translatable launcher, the
GameMode / MangoHud switches, the game settings editor, the compact layout,
the login hint, the optional update check, the system information report and
the new branding (#29–#35, #37). This release would not look like this
without that work.

Upgrade notes

• No action needed. Existing installs, logins and settings are kept.
• Users on 0.2.0 or earlier should upgrade: the CoreFoundation import fix
  (the DllNotFoundException ... CoreFoundation error in Player.log) shipped
  in 0.2.1.
• Packagers whose distribution upgrades the launcher itself can build with
  HEARTHSTONE_LINUX_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1 to remove the update check.

Downloads

• AppImage — portable x86_64; needs glibc >= 2.34 (RHEL/Alma/Rocky 9,
  Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 35+, and newer).
• DEB / RPM / Pacman — system GTK 4 (>= 4.0) and libadwaita (>= 1.0); same
  glibc floor.
• Flatpak — sandboxed x86_64 bundle, attached a few minutes after the other
  files.
• Nix — nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.3.0

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from the GitHub release and run:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Notes

Rendering problems on some AMD/Wayland setups (flicker or black screen, see
#13) are still under investigation. If you hit one, please attach the new
system information report.

v0.2.3

Automated release for v0.2.3.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build. Needs glibc 2.34 or newer (RHEL/Alma/Rocky 9, Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 35 and every newer release); bundles GTK 4/libadwaita, never glibc.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages using the system GTK 4 (>= 4.0) and libadwaita (>= 1.0); same glibc 2.34 floor.
• Flatpak: hearthstone-linux-gui-0.2.3-x86_64.flatpak, sandboxed x86_64 bundle on the GNOME 51 runtime (installed from Flathub automatically). Install with flatpak install --user ./hearthstone-linux-gui-0.2.3-x86_64.flatpak, run with flatpak run io.github.hearthstone_linux_gui.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.2.3.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.2.2

Automated release for v0.2.2.

What's Changed

• Registered the blizzard-hearthstone:// login callback for all regions, so
  the browser hands the login token back to the launcher automatically instead
  of redirecting to localhost:0, which browsers block (#12, #14).
• Accepted login tokens with any account id length instead of hard-coding 45
  characters, which rejected valid tokens from accounts with shorter ids
  (#10).
• Made ELF interpreter patching best-effort: a broken or missing patchelf
  no longer aborts the launch, the system patchelf is used as a fallback
  when the bundled one crashes, and the game starts with its existing
  interpreter otherwise (#9).
• Added zlib to the Nix FHS runtime so the bundled Mono runtime can load on
  NixOS (#8).
• Expanded the troubleshooting documentation in both READMEs, covering the
  browser login flow and its manual fallback, TLS certificate setup on
  rolling distributions, and the known white-screen shader limitation on
  some AMD GPUs (#9, #13).

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.2.2.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.2.1

Automated release for v0.2.1.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.2.1.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.2.0

Automated release for v0.2.0.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.2.0.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.1.9

Automated release for v0.1.9.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.1.9.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.1.8

Automated release for v0.1.8.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.1.8.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.1.7

Automated release for v0.1.7.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.1.7.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.1.6

Automated release for v0.1.6.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB/RPM/Pacman: native packages built by the Docker packaging pipeline.
• Nix users can build the native package with nix build github:DawnMagnet/hearthstone-linux-gui/v0.1.6.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

v0.1.5

Automated release for v0.1.5.

Downloads

• AppImage: portable x86_64 build for general Linux use.
• DEB: installs the AppImage payload and desktop integration on Debian/Ubuntu-style systems.
• RPM: installs the AppImage payload and desktop integration on Fedora/RHEL-style systems.
• Native DEB/RPM/pacman: distro packages built directly from the native Dockerfile, marked with the -native filename suffix.

Verification

Download SHA256SUMS.txt from this release and verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt