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Borea v0.5.2

A patch release with Simplified Chinese and a few fixes. Update with "Update now" on the Home banner, or with borea update-self.

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Simplified Chinese

Borea is now available in Simplified Chinese. Choose it in Settings > General > Language.
The whole translation, all of its about 1,500 texts, is by @kuxiaowo, who also translated the README on GitHub. Thank you, and welcome!

Settings > About now lists the translators of every language.

Fixes

  • A setting that Borea could not save, for example because the file was locked for a moment, is no longer lost: Borea saves it with the next change.
  • One broken text in the content index no longer stops Borea from reading the whole index. Only the entry with that text is skipped.
  • Page and download links of a SpaceDock mod always lead to SpaceDock. A release whose download would lead to another site is skipped.
  • A mod that the content index delisted no longer shows from SpaceDock instead.
  • When a mod stops the game on Linux, Borea now also names it when its folder name differs from the mod id in upper and lower case.
  • When Borea compares a mod you installed by hand with a release from the index, it removes its unpacked copy also when it cannot delete the download.
  • When you leave a page while another page loads the same listing data, the other page no longer fails to load it.
  • When the content index cannot be read, the message now names the reason.

Good to know

  • On Linux, Chinese text needs a font with Chinese characters, such as Noto Sans CJK (fonts-noto-cjk on Debian and Ubuntu). Most desktops that are set up for Chinese already have one.
  • This version is tested with KSA 2026.10.19.5638.
  • Borea is a community project by the KSA Modding team. It is not made by RocketWerkz.

Downloads

File SHA-256
Borea-0.5.2-linux-x64.tar.gz b8ce340f8c7369fa1dcd6225e254617da2e0989c2fa405a7603ebaa591593695
Borea-0.5.2-macos-arm64.tar.gz ed02631c7817a0b0c34a2dff7a05aab282ac8bf58bf8c0aa77cba581b83e1b27
Borea-0.5.2-win-x64.zip 8fb919921fb7748e8f302d847293c8247d86094324c39cf1908ecebd4aacbb7e
Borea-0.5.2.cdx.json aec9bb39b6bb5480db7d9aaf5d28c337af83410808c8aab3569110326402e3bb
Borea-Cli-0.5.2-linux-x64.tar.gz 5ab2786f1f6e44e7b0ce74e9945cb7922574e70f059faac47a23068f7cece750
Borea-Cli-0.5.2-macos-arm64.tar.gz 05390a373fe1a6f45e662b95b5d0915220db131169caf15c7ece35fd2b3bd8bd
Borea-Cli-0.5.2-win-x64.zip a72e581c9fd6d6fa26ad01ab619d6c85a51534a468f9bfe03ef8fb8e934b9721
Borea-Cli-0.5.2.cdx.json d8af6d7bc160f63473b2d7da47764b6efdda85571b1b835e5f1c1c1f39d9c041

Each platform has two archives.
The App archive, for example Borea-<version>-win-x64.zip, contains the program borea.
Without arguments, borea opens the desktop App, and with arguments, it runs a command.
Most users want this archive.
Archives whose names start with Borea-Cli- are a smaller download that contains only the command line.

The builds include the .NET runtime and are self-contained, so there is nothing to install first.

Each archive contains borea (borea.exe on Windows), LICENSE and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt, in a folder named Borea, or Borea-Cli for the CLI archive.
The App archive also contains BRANDING.md, because the Borea logo in the App is not covered by the MIT License.
On macOS, the App archive unpacks into Borea.app instead, with the same files inside.
Put that folder where it can stay, for example %LocalAppData%\Programs\Borea on Windows, ~/.local/share/Borea on Linux or Applications on macOS, because Borea updates itself into the folder it runs from.

First start

These builds are not code signed, so the first start might take an extra step on Windows and macOS. The README has the long explanation.
Code signing policy: https://ksamodding.github.io/Borea/code-signing.html

Windows. Right-click the zip, open Properties and select Unblock.
Then unpack the App archive and start borea.exe, or run .\borea.exe --help in PowerShell in the unpacked folder of either archive.
Without that step, Windows shows "Windows protected your PC". This is because the file might not be downloaded often and is not signed. Select "More info", then "Run anyway".

Linux. Unpack the App archive and run ./borea for the App, or run ./borea --help in the unpacked folder of either archive.
After the App has started once, Borea is in the application menu and starts from there without a terminal.
Both need the ICU and OpenSSL libraries of your distribution, and only the App also needs the X11, ICE, SM and fontconfig libraries. Most desktop installs already have them. See Readme.

macOS. Double-click the App archive to unpack it, drag Borea.app into Applications and open it.
macOS says that Apple could not verify Borea. Select Done, then open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and select "Open Anyway" there.
For the command line, run /Applications/Borea.app/Contents/MacOS/borea --help, or unpack the CLI archive and run ./borea --help in the new folder.
The macOS builds are for Apple silicon. Intel Macs are not supported.

Provenance

To check that a file came from this workflow:

gh attestation verify <file> --repo KSAModding/Borea \
  --signer-workflow KSAModding/Borea/.github/workflows/release.yml

Borea-0.5.2.cdx.json is the software bill of materials for the App archives, in CycloneDX JSON.
The App contains the command line, so this list includes the NuGet packages of the App and of the CLI.
Borea-Cli-0.5.2.cdx.json is the software bill of materials for the CLI archives and includes only the packages of the CLI.
Each list includes the version, license and hash of every package.
Each list is attested only to the archives that it describes, and you can use this command to prove that it belongs to one.
With --format json, the output includes the attested list.

gh attestation verify <archive> --repo KSAModding/Borea \
  --signer-workflow KSAModding/Borea/.github/workflows/release.yml \
  --predicate-type https://cyclonedx.org/bom

Signing is prepared in #678. Until it is in place, the checksums and the attestation above are how a file is checked.
Code signing policy: https://ksamodding.github.io/Borea/code-signing.html

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2

Contributors

Maximilian-Nesslauer and kuxiaowo
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