2.9.0-beta.1

First beta of the 2.9 release.

Added

• Power off after downloads on Linux (#24393)
• SelectField, SwitchField and CheckboxField built on Headless UI (#24353)
• Apply button beside Play while there are changes to deploy, showing deployment progress (#24348)
• Zoom control under Settings → Interface → Accessibility, with Ctrl+=/-/0 and Ctrl+wheel shortcuts in both layouts (#24340)
• TextField built on Headless UI's Field (#24336)
• Remaining FS operations over IPC: enumerateDirectory, readFile, writeFile and createStream (#24335)
• Health Check issues grouped into Warnings and Suggestions sections, each with its own install all and hide all (#24316)
• Gamebryo plugin management on Linux (#24269)

Changed

• registerMigration now accepts a PromiseLike instead of a Bluebird promise (#24349)
• Updated libloot to 0.29.6 (#24261)
• LOOT failures now tell the user what went wrong, in the LOOT application's words (#24231)
• Removed the legacy gamebryo-bsa-support extension, which overrode versioned BSA creation for archive invalidation (#24121)
• Folded gamebryo-archive-check into plugin management (#24119)
• Folded gamebryo-plugin-indexlock into plugin management (#24118)
• Folded gamebryo-plugin-management into the renderer as a core extension (#24111)

Fixed

• Log files flooded by an EPIPE loop when Vortex outlived the console it was started from (#24426)
• Stored load order replaced by an empty one when the game reports none, e.g. Cyberpunk 2077 losing its REDmod order during deployment (#24407)
• War Thunder's native Linux version not discovered (#24400)
• Kerbal Space Program's Windows build not discovered on Linux (#24399)
• Team Fortress 2's native Linux version not discovered (#24398)
• Starbound using the Windows executable on Linux (#24397)
• Prison Architect using the wrong mods folder on Linux (#24396)
• UAC elevation offered on access errors outside Windows (#24395)
• Executable versions not read on Linux (#24394)
• File permission errors (EACCES) reported as firewall problems (#24390)
• Garden Paws, Oxygen Not Included and Pathfinder: Kingmaker failing to set up outside Windows (#24388)
• Skyrim and Enderal My Games folders looked up with the wrong casing on Linux (#24386)
• The Sims 3 Steam version not discovered outside Windows (#24385)
• The Witcher 2 Steam version not discovered outside Windows (#24384)
• The Witcher Steam version not discovered outside Windows (#24383)
• Dragon Age 2 Steam version not discovered outside Windows (#24382)
• Spine leaving the game selected when global settings were opened from a game (#24362)
• Health Check mod suggestions using different titles in the list and the detail page (#24359)
• Header menus not closing when the title bar was clicked (#24357)
• Witcher 3 menu mod merge error when a game config XML is missing (#24344)
• Health checks held during a collection install not running again until restart (#24319)
• Plugin state issues: plugins without a load order position written ahead of the natives, plugin sync still running with plugin management turned off, and sorts running mid profile switch (#24294)
• Ghosted plugins losing their flags, author and masters in the plugins table (#24273)
• Persistent Missing Masters warning: plugins a collection ships left disabled, and ghosted masters counted as removed (#24260)
• State sort running on an empty load order while plugin management was turned off (#24258)
• Collections with no plugins section failing to apply mod rules (#24255)
• "Unhandled error" when changing a plugin's light flag while the file is in use (#24254)
• A dead libloot instance failing to restart (#24231)
• Plugin sorts failing with "Plugin not loaded" (#24196)
• lootSortAsync not answering its callback, or answering with an unsorted list (#24193)
• Plugin sorts failing during deployment, and "LOOT sorting successful" shown for sorts that didn't run (#24190)
• Locked index not shown for mixed-case plugins, and locking a plugin lowercasing every name in the plugins table (#24188)
• Spurious conflicts when the game is installed in a path containing a . (#24089)