v0.6.0

[Vysp3r]

This release expands ProtonPlus with new launcher support, controller navigation, safer tool management, improved Steam integration, and a redesigned launch-options editor.

Highlights

• Added Faugus Launcher support.
• Added controller navigation with contextual hints, optional haptic feedback, and a first-run guide.
• Added scheduled background updates and notifications.
• Added Breeze Light, Breeze Dark, SteamOS, and OLED themes.
• Added a built-in MangoHud editor and proxy settings.
• Added CPU-aware x86-64 and ARM64 tool variant selection.
• Added ARM64 Flatpak support.

Steam and games

• Reworked the launch-options editor with hardware-aware options and exact command previews.
• Custom and unknown safe launch options are now preserved during single-game and mass edits.
• Added Steam shortcut creation and guided Steam restarts, including SteamOS Gaming Mode.
• Added migration for Steam's default compatibility prefix.
• Improved custom executable launching, multi-user Steam handling, VDF configuration, and shortcuts.

Tools and reliability

• Added an active downloads indicator and direct links to tool repositories.
• Improved Games and Tools navigation, searching, filtering, and selection.
• Improved stable-release filtering, Latest handling, and variant selection.
• Timed-out downloads are now retried automatically.
• Downloaded archives are validated before being cached.
• Tool updates better preserve custom settings and recover from failed replacements.
• Improved startup resilience when some Steam library or profile data cannot be loaded.
• Fixed release and installation issues affecting Proton-TKG, Proton-CachyOS, DXVK, VKD3D, Lutris, and Steam Tinker Launch.
• Improved command-line validation and error reporting.

Localization

• Added Arabic and Slovak.
• Updated Simplified Chinese, German, and Italian.

New contributors

• @JanGalek made their first contribution in #1009.
• @chenxiex made their first contribution in #1010.
• @Youseffo13 made their first contribution in #1148.
• @Samueru-sama made their first contribution in #1171.
• @Mujtaba-Alsaleh made their first contribution in #1170.

Thank you

A huge thank you to all our contributors, translators, testers, and sponsors. Your code, feedback, bug reports, testing, translations, and continued support helped make ProtonPlus v0.6.0 possible.

View the full changelog

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This discussion was created from the release v0.6.0.

[JanGalek]

Thank you too @Vysp3r

now I'll start work on #1091 :)

[Vysp3r]

Good idea!
I will start working on adding better support for tools installed from package managers.

[nebadon2025]

is flatpak not updated yet?

[Vysp3r]

It will take a few hours to propagate in their system, but it's been pushed.

[nebadon2025]

it seems to be available now, thanks!