2.7.0-beta.1

First beta of the 2.7 release.

Added

• Let the user choose which actions sit on a toolbar (#23941)
• Load the adultBlurImages preference from the user's Nexus Mods account (#23957)
• showItemInFolder shell command (#23918)
• Steam overlay now loads when launching via Proton (#23832)
• Filter in the Version dropdown for mods with multiple versions (#23774)

Changed

• Translation locales now come from the API's locale tag (#24098)
• Removed the generic type parameter from VortexError (#24097)
• Migrated IPC error serialization to VortexError (#24091)
• Play button tooltip now says what it will launch (#24090)
• Removed the gameversion-hash extension (#24068)
• Removed the unused next update channel and preview-build switches; the updater no longer runs when started from source (#24061)
• Replaced DownloadError and UploadError with VortexError (#24045)
• Moved notifications from the header into the spine (#24032)
• Removed the attribution-only dashlets from bundled extensions (#24018)
• Replaced the database error classes with VortexError kinds (#24000)
• Updater: explicit state machine, live status polling, deliberate downgrade flow, and reworked notification UX (#23994)
• Updater: updates are now resolved by highest semver per channel instead of publish date (#23992)
• Updater: bumped electron-updater to 6.8.9, enabling differential updates (#23991)
• "Show hidden games" is now persisted (#23972)
• "Show bundled extensions" option is now persisted (#23969)
• Show the name of the missing primary tool where possible (#23966)
• Extension catalog is now sourced from the v3 extensions endpoint (#23962)
• Aligned the Pictogram props and drew the free/premium pictograms with it (#23944)
• Moved the Mods page onto the new page layout and toolbar (#23940)
• Reworked ExtensionInfo parsing and IExtensionState building; state.app.extensions is now keyed on generated short ids and info.json is no longer the source of truth (#23935)
• Toolbar panels, popover menus, and a consolidated header account menu (#23929)
• Consolidated extension state queries (#23926)
• Extracted the nxm:// protocol handler into its own module, fixing two download-queue bugs found on the way (#23862)

Fixed

• Error reporting fixes: VortexError instanceof checks, crash-report process not launching in dev builds, read-only filesystem error detection, and real stack traces in reports (#24109)
• Download ring not centred on its spine button (#24096)
• Bullets and release grouping in the What's New dialog (#24078)
• Health Check install failures: capped concurrency on bulk "install all" and kept the real error behind failed file-access checks (#24070)
• Restored the active state for the spine download button (#24029)
• LOOT not loading metadata for the whole load order when a plugin filename contains non-ASCII characters (#24026)
• Display options picker and header title truncating (#24013)
• Classic notifications popover could not be closed (#24011)
• Reconcilers wiping mod and download records when a state read came back short (#24003)
• Behaviour of some Health Check buttons for free users (#23979)
• Table reducer crash on persisted state without attributes (#23975)
• Download fixes: in-progress temp files no longer removed on startup, and incorrect error notification titles (#23968)
• Typo in the quick collection restrictions dialog (#23965)
• Extension state self-heals on startup and removal bugs (#23938)
• Startup crash from legacy or path-less extension entries in persisted state (#23937)
• Untracked on-disk archives now adopted when starting a download (#23934)
• Game info box going off screen in a small window (#23933)
• Ignored mods could not be removed from the collection mods tab (#23931)
• Parked downloads now all resume when the membership improves (#23864)
• Membership re-read when the API refuses a download, instead of a raw error (#23863)
• gamebryo-archive-check: wrong case for the Data directory (#23830)