Kura 1.0.1
Kura 1.0.1
A focused stability release. Kura no longer crashes while scanning large network shares / NAS drives, plus broader memory hardening for very large libraries.
Fixed
🛑 Crash scanning a network share / NAS
Pointing Kura at a big SMB/NAS share (e.g. a 16 TB drive) could hard-crash the app mid-scan. The cause was an out-of-memory crash: while detecting "loose" decrypted dumps, Kura read candidate metadata/cover files (param.json, param.sfo, icon0.png) with no size limit — and fired hundreds of those reads in parallel per folder across 20 scan workers. A single oversized or corrupt file on the share could blow the memory ceiling instantly. Every such read is now size-gated before anything is loaded, so a huge or malformed file is skipped instead of crashing the scan.
🧠 Memory hardening for very large libraries
- The scanner no longer holds every game's full-resolution cover in memory for the whole scan.
- The library view now caps how many cards/rows are mounted at once (with a "showing first N of M — narrow the search" notice) instead of trying to build tens of thousands of live cover images — which could exhaust memory on huge collections.
- Covers are down-converted in the background after they arrive, so a five-figure library stays light on RAM (≈100× lower peak in testing) while still rendering and saving correctly.
- Folder-size calculation on slow SMB shares no longer fans out an unbounded storm of lookups.
Downloads
| Platform | File |
|---|---|
| Windows | kura.exe |
| macOS · Apple Silicon | Kura-1.0.1-arm64.dmg |
| macOS · Intel | Kura-1.0.1-x64.dmg |
| Linux | Kura-1.0.1.AppImage |
| PS5 payload | kura-loader.elf |
macOS — first-launch note
If macOS says "Kura is damaged and can't be opened", open Terminal and run:
xattr -cr /Applications/Kura.app
Then launch normally. This is a Gatekeeper block on unsigned apps — not actual damage. One-time fix; Kura is not yet Apple-notarized.
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