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Botty+ 1.7.0 — Redesigned PS5 app

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@Portablelle Portablelle released this 11 Oct 12:38
· 12 commits to main since this release

The native app is redesigned around four tabs: Discover (Explore and search), Activity (downloads and file operations in one list), Library and System (remote access, updates, Reconnect and Close Botty+). Circle no longer opens a quit dialog.

Getting a game takes one Get game sheet: source, install-on disk and after-download mode, with the button focused first and the last disk and mode remembered for the session. Extraction uses one sheet with the archive picked automatically, an optional password entered with the PS5 keyboard and a destination. Pause, resume and verify run immediately; every destructive action still asks once more, inline, with Cancel focused. Successful requests show a short toast; failures stay on screen until Circle dismisses them.

The interface follows the new visual system: one accent color, a white focus ring, Manrope at two weights and cover art behind Discover and Details.

This bundle keeps manager 1.5.4, compression worker 1.3.1 and rTorrent 0.16.24-botty10; their versions and the service API are unchanged. The PS5 native version is 01.007.000.

Since 1.5.4

1.6.0 was merged but never published as a GitHub release, so this is the first release since 1.5.4. It also includes 1.6.0: one public version shared by the app header, footer and releases, the PS5 system keyboard for search and magnet entry, and the rTorrent descriptor fixes (stale errno after recovery, torrent file cache capped at 64 descriptors).

Portal+ (jailbreak, DNS and installers) now lives in Portablelle/Portal-Plus and is versioned independently. The release asset is therefore botty-plus-1.7.0.tar.gz instead of botty-portal-*.tar.gz. Full change list: v1.5.4...v1.7.0.

Validation

The native title is cross-built with the pinned SDK, and an independent rebuild reproduces every packaged file byte for byte. Host checks, renderer previews and package verification pass. A first launch on a PS5 opened the app, but full console acceptance (TV readability, the complete Discover → Activity → Library flow) is still pending.