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Changelog

All notable changes to GTAV Mods Manager, newest first. This page is generated from the GitHub Releases — starting with v0.16.0, release notes (and this section of history) are produced automatically by .github/workflows/release.yml; see Building and Releasing.

v0.16.2 — 2026-08-25

Changes

  • Stop shipping the raw portable GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe as a release asset (f397b05)

Downloads

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_V0.16.2_setup.exe — recommended. Installer: Start Menu shortcut, optional desktop icon, clean uninstall via Add/Remove Programs. No administrator rights needed to install.
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip — portable, no installer, requires the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.

SHA-256

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_V0.16.2_setup.exe: 477273903F4DBCA57E189D90587D39548D3A22425684D817577CB89BF0082D17
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip: 0D67268B4A37E40D4EFAEEDEDE615C108270E3FB44E8965C877DE87F289DE92D

v0.16.1 — 2026-08-25

Changes

  • Add a proper Windows installer (GTAV_Mods_Manager_Vx.x.x_setup.exe) (c81d194)
  • Fix release notes: git log output was collapsed onto one line (45fb5e5)

Downloads

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_V0.16.1_setup.exe — recommended. Installer: Start Menu shortcut, optional desktop icon, clean uninstall via Add/Remove Programs. No administrator rights needed to install.
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe — portable, no installer, self-contained, no prerequisites.
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip — portable, smaller, requires the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.

SHA-256

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_V0.16.1_setup.exe: FE250F641DB9C84F3634FC64D534BDC1EF93F3DAB64034BA042CE3E819B1B7A3
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe: 8418A43F753E3B7A6E24430ADA71CA22EF3ACBA50D2C65F5333B1191BB99AF41
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip: D90B6658B8E9AC372EC78B2B9B5DBD75470BC210C7A43EFD310BDA96854832B3

v0.16.0 — 2026-08-25

Changes

  • Move build/test/packaging/release fully to GitHub Actions (07465a8) - v0.16.0: Launch Game/Clean, game-running guard, confident outcome messages (ffaf3ed)

Downloads

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe — recommended, self-contained, no prerequisites.
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip — smaller, requires the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.

SHA-256

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe: 829D6C8E0A26C9A8077CDB694DDE76846828A013659D88B8A24C1C750AB2AB11
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip: 03377D04A3C196F4533750D43AA2785BBB51C06DFAB4EADF2FF7EAC9B87054FA

v0.15.0 — 2026-08-23

Added

  • The mod installer now auto-extracts .zip archives. Selecting a .zip unpacks it into a private temp folder and analyzes its contents exactly like a folder - no more manually extracting before installing. .rar/.7z are still not extracted (no built-in .NET support, and this tool deliberately avoids a third-party dependency just for that); those now get a clear message pointing you to extract manually. A corrupt or password-protected .zip is detected and reported the same way, rather than silently producing zero deployable files.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 5C977524C8C382387D3F321DB93A27DEF853C573A4B3EE7DC8BA606FEEB6D14F

v0.14.0 — 2026-06-08

Added (SP -> FiveM Converter)

  • One-click OpenIV for encrypted archives. When a mod contains an AES/NG-encrypted .rpf (which this tool deliberately cannot decrypt - it does not ship GTA V's keys), an Open OpenIV button appears. If OpenIV is installed it launches directly; otherwise the button opens the OpenIV website so you can install it, extract the archive, and convert again.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): A784B9D22A09D1A61B22C0BD9D5B03D40E83360D134B4767934E2A3414C03F74

v0.13.0 — 2026-06-08

Added

  • Conflict detection across installed mods. The Installed Mods page now warns when two or more enabled mods overlap - either deploying to the same file (one overwrote the other) or registering the same dlcpack name. Each conflict and the mods involved are listed. Advisory only; nothing is changed automatically.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 31E44F187A19119E4B0F057CE8B4F5D9C4D54F8E11264B7EF02E12108FBFC7F8

v0.12.1 — 2026-06-08

Added

  • Optional framework-dependent build (~5 MB zipped) for machines that already have the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.

Downloads

  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe - recommended, self-contained, no prerequisites (~73 MB).
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager_framework-dependent.zip - smaller, requires the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime (will not start without it).

SHA-256

  • exe: 5D0C63BD2E7432B6ED3564C9AEF760AA934E9E5D698F27447FE80E240D936E99
  • zip: F0C6CEA5F271604A427B3738B966D130A62FA80F9AF35DDEEE61DEB40FE31652

v0.12.0 — 2026-06-08

Added (SP -> FiveM Converter)

  • Analysis and conversion now run in the background, with progress and cancel. Unpacking a large .rpf no longer freezes the window - a progress bar shows the item currently being processed, and a Cancel button stops the run cleanly. The Convert button is disabled while a run is in progress.

Under the hood, CancellationToken + IProgress<string> are threaded through the converter service and the RPF reader; cancellation is surfaced to the caller rather than reported as a failure.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 2599678CB8745B97CE36DEFCF865FF86CD7A4DC5D0EFE82C3AC3FA49EC9A9B7D

v0.11.0 — 2026-06-08

Added (SP -> FiveM Converter)

  • Audio assets are preserved, not dropped. .awc/.rel/.dat/.nametable are copied to an audio/ folder, with commented data_file template lines (best-effort AUDIO_* type) in fxmanifest.lua for you to finish - FiveM can't wire audio automatically, but nothing is lost.
  • Vehicle spawn names read from vehicles.meta are shown in the manifest header and the report (the name you type with /car).
  • The conversion report traces every file to its source, including the path inside an unpacked .rpf (e.g. stream/polrevent.yft <- rpf:/./vehicles.rpf/polrevent.yft).

Changed

  • .rpf reading is now fully streaming with bounded memory - nested archives are read in place (windowed over the same file) and assets are streamed straight to disk, so memory no longer scales with archive/asset size. Large add-on packs unpack without big allocations.

Fixed

  • Large compressed binary entries (24-bit size 0xFFFFFF) are inflated by streaming to the deflate end instead of being mis-read (previously only resource entries handled this).

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 6B3FD4248AB092AD47D725978B777FFDE5D481CAE80E3F7B3F855E65391D6FAD

v0.10.2 — 2026-06-08

Changed

  • The SP -> FiveM Converter now writes metadata into a common/ folder (instead of data/).

The generated fxmanifest.lua references it accordingly:

files {
    'common/vehicles.meta',
    ...
}
data_file 'VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE' 'common/vehicles.meta'

Meta files go directly under common/ (no extra sub-folder). The stream/ folder for models (.yft/.ytd) is unchanged. This matches the folder layout expected for FiveM vehicle resources.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): D0D908513742B00B7300906902019CF1A4B220D3586AE32EB78F2566550630DB

v0.10.1 — 2026-06-07

Fixed

  • .rpf reading now extracts large resource models (.yft/.ytd) correctly.

Vehicle and texture resources are large enough that their on-disk size field saturates (0xFFFFFF). The previous build treated that as a "skip" case and silently dropped every model, producing a resource with only .meta data files and no stream/ folder - which FiveM rejects as an invalid format (e.g. "FiveM Resources (format error)").

The reader now recovers the real size from the resource's on-disk header, strips the 16-byte container header, and emits a proper loose RSC7 resource (header + still-compressed body, as the game expects). Add-on cars packed as a single dlc.rpf (models inside a nested vehicles.rpf) now convert with their models intact. Verified end-to-end against a real 60 MB add-on archive.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): F74FED89072F22BC8C857E2C472CED152C87CED0593BD70912F821178B527146

v0.10.0 — 2026-06-07

v0.10.0 - The SP -> FiveM Converter now reads .rpf archives

Added

  • Direct .rpf reading. Unencrypted RPF7 archives (the OpenIV/CodeWalker "open" format) are unpacked automatically: the converter walks the archive directory tree, inflates deflate-compressed entries, and rebuilds the on-disk RSC7 header for resource assets (.yft/.ytd/.ydr ...) so the extracted files are usable. Nested .rpf archives (e.g. a vehicles.rpf inside dlc.rpf) are unpacked too. The unpacked contents - including any content.xml - flow through normal analysis, so add-on vehicles shipped as a single dlc.rpf convert without manually extracting them first.

Changed

  • .rpf files are no longer skipped with a generic warning. Encrypted (AES/NG) archives are detected and reported separately with guidance to extract them in OpenIV; only genuinely unreadable/corrupt archives produce the generic warning.

Security / Safety

  • RPF reading is read-only - archives are unpacked into a private temp staging folder, never the source or game directory.
  • GTA V's proprietary AES/NG decryption keys are deliberately NOT shipped. Encrypted archives are reported, not decrypted - keeping the tool legally clean.

Download: GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe (self-contained, win-x64, no .NET install needed). SHA-256: 22C01D8A98C74EB078704FD21369176DAA0C039D4BC1EE3AFD81461C97D4C43C

Tests: 91 passing (incl. a new RPF7 reader suite). Build: 0 warnings / 0 errors.

v0.9.0 — 2026-06-07

v0.9.0 - GTAV SP to FiveM Converter

A new conversion engine that turns GTA V single-player asset mods into FiveM server resources.

Added

  • SP -> FiveM Converter (new sidebar page):
    • Detects and converts add-on vehicles, peds/clothing, weapons, and maps.
    • Repackages stream assets (.yft/.ytd/.ydd/.ymap/.ytyp ...) into stream/ and .meta into data/, and generates a correct fxmanifest.lua with data_file lines.
    • Reads content.xml for authoritative data_file types; otherwise infers from well-known names. .ytyp gets DLC_ITYP_REQUEST automatically.
    • Honest about scripts: ScriptHookV .asi, ScriptHookVDotNet .dll/.cs, Lua, and Menyoo XML can't run on FiveM - they are detected, listed, and excluded (never silently dropped). Packed .rpf is flagged to extract with OpenIV first.
    • Read-only analysis with a live preview before converting. Output is a new folder you choose, plus a CONVERSION_REPORT.txt.

Safety

  • The converter only reads the source mod and writes a brand-new resource folder. It never touches the game directory and never deletes anything.

Notes

  • 16 new tests; 84 total, all passing.

Asset: GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe (self-contained, win-x64, ~72.9 MB) SHA256: 9E412C92B458B53DCA60162A5282BB158F6B24CA173143E2B1721E673D631AD9

v0.8.1 — 2026-06-07

v0.8.1 - Critical crash fix

Fixes a crash introduced in 0.7.0 where the app could crash on startup or whenever you right-clicked any text (Circular reference . ThemeStyle property on TextBlock).

Fixed

  • The "right-click to copy any text" feature declared its copy menu inside the implicit TextBlock style. The menu's own label is itself a TextBlock, so it re-inherited the style and re-attached the same menu - WPF's resource walker then hit a circular reference whenever any context menu opened. The copy menu is now attached in code, eliminating the cycle and also fixing the editor's native right-click menu.

Notes

  • The "right-click copy on all text" feature is unchanged - same behavior, no longer crashes.
  • Added a WPF smoke test that actually opens a context menu to prevent regression. 68 tests pass.

Asset: GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe (self-contained, win-x64, ~72.9 MB) SHA256: DC14E05DEB4491BCD9992A4753C4404318FED2478DE67729D8BB5EFA447AA575

v0.8.0 — 2026-06-07

GTAV Mods Manager v0.8.0

GUI polish following five principles: simple, plain, practical, good-looking, usable.

Improvements

  • Clearer active page - a left accent bar marks the selected page; each nav item has a simple monochrome icon.
  • Focus feedback - text boxes and the Install Mode dropdown highlight in the accent color when focused.
  • Page headers - every page has a short description under its title.
  • Empty states - friendly hints when Components / Installed Mods / Install Helper have nothing to show yet.
  • Buttons - added a pressed state and clearer disabled styling.
  • Status bar - a small dot turns green on success and red on failure.
  • Spacing and contrast tidy-up, keeping the minimalist dark style.

Notes

  • Pure presentation changes; install and safety logic are unchanged. 67 tests still pass.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 5056237564ACDF8E09755936A999D005F4CB9E26B620A4AF120981126F089FF8

v0.7.1 — 2026-06-07

GTAV Mods Manager v0.7.1

Fixes

  • Settings -> Install Mode dropdown text is now readable on the dark theme (the ComboBox and its dropdown are fully dark-styled).
  • Sidebar navigation no longer gets clipped - the page list scrolls and the default window is a little taller, so Backup / Editor / Install Helper are always reachable.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 58A8BA96EB8BC0746F47639F613FD3AF43264C665B2CA86F88A3EF661FDBB793

v0.7.0 — 2026-06-07

GTAV Mods Manager v0.7.0

New

  • Right-click copy everywhere - any displayed text has a right-click Copy; editor/document areas are fully selectable.
  • Editor page - manually edit any game file as text in-app (e.g. dlclist.xml, content.xml, vehicles.meta). Executables (.exe) can never be edited. Saving backs up the original first and requires double-consent; binary files are warned. One-click Open dlclist.xml from Settings.
  • Install Helper page - read-only assistant: pick a mod folder and it lists file types, shows README/changelog text, and explains how to install (add-on/dlcpack, .asi, .dll, .lua, .oiv, .meta). It never changes anything.

Notes

  • The Editor is fully manual; the only hard block is .exe. Every save goes through backup + double-consent, so originals can be restored.
  • 67 unit tests passing. Self-contained Windows build - keep GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe and the Localization folder together.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): B09DA1CA35C806301D9BF8151A63DF9618EC8ABAF2842297FD6C0CAEB6271BD9

v0.6.0 — 2026-06-07

GTAV Mods Manager v0.6.0

Reorganized into a tabbed interface

The sidebar is now a navigation menu that switches between dedicated pages, so the main screen is no longer crowded:

  • Game - game-path detection and manual override
  • Install Mods - with sub-tabs: General (files/folders), Menyoo XML (the four menyooStuff folder buttons), and Add-on (dlcpack folders)
  • Components - component check, Install Nightly, downloads
  • Installed Mods - enable/disable, edit, uninstall, Excel export
  • Backup - one-click full backup / restore

Settings, install mode, update check, language, and version stay in the sidebar footer; the status bar is shared across all pages.

Notes

  • Pure UI restructure - install and safety logic are unchanged (core binaries never modified; double-consent for destructive operations).
  • 54 unit tests passing. Self-contained Windows build - keep GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe and the Localization folder together.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 0C61514BBC61BE8AF144437193003E4B6CBFBA2FA00EFB803DE9558B25750F99

v0.5.1 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.5.1

New feature: Menyoo XML support

  • Auto-detect: selecting a Menyoo save (.xml) reads its XML root element and deploys it to the correct menyooStuff subfolder.
  • Manual placement: a Menyoo XML toggle reveals four buttons that force the file into a chosen subfolder:
    • menyooStuff\Outfit
    • menyooStuff\Spooner
    • menyooStuff\Vehicle
    • menyooStuff\WeaponsLoadout
  • Folder names are fixed to match Menyoo's on-disk layout exactly.

Menyoo XML installs through the same pipeline as every other mod (safety gate, conflict detection, double-consent on overwrite, backup, verify, rollback) and supports enable/disable and uninstall.

Docs

  • New "Menyoo XML Files" chapter in the tri-language user manual; README and Change Log updated.

Notes

  • 54 unit tests passing; safety rules unchanged (core binaries never modified).
  • Self-contained Windows build - keep GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe and the Localization folder together.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): B533F62C171024B425336B462C3EAA0FB13392E432F71D1CFC512E90621A225B

v0.5.0 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.5.0

New features

  • Script Hook V .NET nightly: one-click download & install of the latest nightly loader files.
  • Enable / Disable mods without uninstalling (files moved to a staging area).
  • Automatic update check on startup (toggleable) and on demand.
  • Mod conflict detection before installing (warns about overlapping files).
  • One-click full backup / restore of the entire mods\ folder.

Docs

  • Rewrote the tri-language user manual with a detailed per-feature chapter for every feature.

Notes

  • 41 unit tests passing; safety rules unchanged (core binaries never modified; double-consent for destructive operations).
  • Self-contained Windows build - no .NET install required. Keep GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe and the Localization folder together.

Asset SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): C12E0ABF99B7714565BC7FD3D4DF50B93838B8A387B0467A88E168C11D2A3CD9

v0.4.0 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.4.0 - Install modes, risk gating, add-on vehicles

New:

  • Settings with selectable Install Modes: Safe / Assisted (OpenIV) / Advanced (Auto-RPF, EXPERIMENTAL).
  • Every settings change requires an 'I know what I'm doing' confirmation.
  • Advanced is gated behind a mandatory risk waiver (extreme risk; may corrupt game files; you assume all risk; developers and owner not liable).
  • Add-on dlcpack handling: detects folders containing dlc.rpf and deploys to mods\update\x64\dlcpacks.
    • Assisted: copies the dlclist.xml line and opens the mods folder for OpenIV.
    • Advanced: auto-edits a writable dlclist.xml you configure; uninstall removes the entry and the files.

Note: Advanced does NOT write inside encrypted .rpf archives. It only edits a writable dlclist.xml you provide.

Includes source code (below) and the self-contained Windows x64 build. First run: if SmartScreen warns (unsigned app), click More info -> Run anyway.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 737A9025F49A3A58F8907B3407E058CDD933A1638ADFA64001523D6B8BBF3B4D

v0.3.0 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.3.0 - Install, track, and export

The mod installation engine is now usable from the UI, with installed-mods tracking and Excel export.

New:

  • Install mods from the UI (Select File/Folder -> Install) with the full safety pipeline: safety gate, double-consent dialog, on-demand admin elevation, backup, deploy, verify, rollback.
  • Manual game-path browse; component Download buttons.
  • Installed Mods list with Edit (curated details) and Uninstall (restores backups).
  • Export to Excel (.xlsx): two sheets (Install Mods / Uninstall Mods), nine columns, styled frozen header, hyperlinked Link column, sorted by Name.

Includes source code (below) and the self-contained Windows x64 build. First run: if SmartScreen warns (unsigned app), click More info -> Run anyway.

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 8201426F8AFC46D26D673CA8539113FA0C35CCDAE8B4E0D33C9AA35F29B83C9B

v0.2.0 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.2.0 - Opens without admin

The app now launches WITHOUT administrator rights, so it opens immediately with no UAC prompt. Administrator rights are requested on demand only when installing mods into a folder that needs them.

Changed:

  • Launch as asInvoker (no UAC at startup).

Added:

  • Elevate-on-demand (ElevationHelper): UAC only when actually writing to a protected folder.
  • Logs/backups fall back to %LOCALAPPDATA%\GTAV_Mods_Manager when the .exe folder is read-only.
  • "First Run on Windows" docs (SmartScreen / UAC) in all READMEs and the User Manual.

First run note:

  • If Windows SmartScreen warns (the app is not code-signed), click "More info" then "Run anyway".

This release includes:

  • Source code (auto-attached zip/tar.gz below).
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe - self-contained Windows x64 build (no .NET install required).

SHA-256 (GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe): 73555D66175FFA994CA6A23E35FAB4E55255D6FA926A787FA25EDB3E0F3AAD44

v0.1.4 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.1.4 - Critical startup fix

Fixes the bug where the app would not open (no GUI). Please use this build.

Fixed:

  • Startup crash from a XAML type mismatch (ColumnDefinition.Width bound to a Double instead of GridLength).
  • Startup crash from a read-only property bound TwoWay on a TextBox.

Improved:

  • The .exe now runs correctly even when copied alone (language packs are embedded).
  • Added a global error handler: on failure it writes crash.log next to the .exe and shows an error dialog instead of closing silently.

This release includes:

  • Source code (auto-attached zip/tar.gz below).
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe - self-contained Windows x64 build (no .NET install required).

Run GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe and approve the administrator prompt.

v0.1.3 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.1.3

Adds the project LICENSE (GTAV Mods Manager License).

License summary:

  • Free to download and use.
  • Modification, re-upload, or derivative works MUST conspicuously credit "Creators: SpaceSquare & Claude Code | Owner: SpaceSquare".
  • Ownership stays with SpaceSquare. Provided as-is, no warranty.
  • Contact: chin52696411@gmail.com

This release includes:

  • Source code (auto-attached zip/tar.gz below).
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe - self-contained Windows x64 build (unchanged from v0.1.2; this release contains documentation/license changes only).

v0.1.2 — 2026-06-06

GTAV Mods Manager v0.1.2

A minimalist, safety-first GTA V mod manager (WPF, .NET 8).

This release includes:

  • Source code (auto-attached zip/tar.gz below).
  • GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe - self-contained Windows x64 build (no .NET install required).

Highlights:

  • Game-path detection (Registry/Steam/Epic/Rockstar) with manual override.
  • Mod auto-installation engine for .oiv/.asi/.dll/.lua and folders.
  • Safety guard: core binaries are never modified; double-consent for overwrites/deletions.
  • Automatic backup and rollback.
  • Component checker (Script Hook V, Script Hook V .NET, OpenIV, .NET runtime).
  • Tri-language UI (English default / Traditional Chinese / Simplified Chinese).
  • Tri-language README, Change Log, and User Manual.

Run GTAV_Mods_Manager.exe (it requests administrator rights to write into the game folder). Keep the Localization folder next to the exe if you copy it elsewhere.

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