Internal Optimizations

This update contains no functional changes, but has a large amount of internal tweaks which should slightly increase efficiency.

No functional changes since last pre-release.

Internal Optimizations

This update contains no functional changes, but has a large amount of internal tweaks which should slightly increase efficiency.

Async Downloads

• Made url downloads asynchronous - multiple should run in parallel, making load times significantly faster if you're downloading a lot of mods.
• Prevented files downloaded from a url from running exec commands.
• Added a log file, and a flag to enable more detailed debug logging.
• Improved the display name of downloaded urls in the list of loaded mods.

News Article Links

• Made the OHL news item link to the releases page
• Allowed mods to set their own news article links
• "Upgraded" to a full release, due to lack of reported stability issues

URL Downloads

• Allowed importing mods from a url, by using Windows .url shortcut files - just drag a link into the folder in explorer.
• Allowed mods to inject their own news items.
• Allowed mods to execute other mod files.
• Fixed that type 11 hotfixes with leading whitespace were not detected properly.
• Made command detection case insensitive (the game may still check cases however).
• Fixed some encoding issues with --hotfix-dump.

Better load order sorting.

• Changed the mod load order to prioritize numerical sorting, in the same way as Windows Explorer - 9.txt will load before 10.txt

Minor Fixes

• Fixed that utf8 wasn't properly being converted. Other file encodings are not supported.
• Allowed mod files to include leading whitespace.
• Prevented the game from caching the news icon, meaning updates get downloaded immediately.
• Fixed "1 hotfixes loaded" message.

Inital Release

Inital release.

This release is considered a beta to test stability. It should however be fully functional.