2.7.0

A beta channel, for the people who asked to be first

A few accounts now get builds before everybody else. If yours is one of them, Settings has a
switch under Discord; if it is not, there is nothing there and nothing to miss. Signing out of
Discord gives up the beta with it.

The list is held in a signed file the app reads on its own, so being added or taken off it does
not wait for an update, and it holds a fingerprint of a Discord account rather than the account.

Staged rollout was dropped here for a good reason: an urgent fix has to reach everybody at once.
This is the other half of that argument, a few people who know they are running what has not been
released yet.

The Download button works again in the portable build

A portable copy that found an update answered "no update" when you pressed Download, and has
done since 2.3.0. It read which version to fetch once at start-up, before any check had run, so
the answer was always empty. Installed copies replace themselves and were never affected.

Fonts and cursors stop coming back after you remove them

Since 2.0.0 the app put back any font or cursor that Steam's file check had replaced, and it
decided what to put back by comparing files. A mod that ships some of Valve's files unchanged
looked identical at once: one install logged the same cursor set as "restored after verify" 29
times in August, and removing such a mod could leave its files behind as if they were the game's.

Every font and cursor the app writes is now recorded by its hash. A file holding what the app
wrote is the app's file, and it is no longer mistaken for the game's. A copy installed before this
reports the old way once more, and putting it back writes the record.

A cosmetic pick, called what it actually is

The window and the site used to say "free cosmetics". That was never quite true, and it hid the
part worth knowing: the app takes the standard item your account already has and draws it with the
look of another one, in its own copy of the game's item table. Nothing is bought, nothing enters
your inventory, and only you see it. Every text now says that instead.

Every release is scanned, and the result is published

Two false positives reached people before anybody here knew there was something to answer. Each
release is now looked up on VirusTotal by the checksum it already carries, and the verdict goes
into the release notes as a table with a link for every file, whatever it says.

Smaller things

• The app can be told about another place to download mods from without shipping an update, which
  matters on the day GitHub is unreachable.
• A damaged VPK tree or archive is refused in this app's own words rather than crashing or
  reaching you in a library's.
• A language folder that has to be created is created in one step, so a slow disk cannot leave it
  half made.

Checked with VirusTotal

File	Engines	Flagged	Report
Dota-2-Mod-Manager-Portable.exe	66	0 of 66	open
Dota-2-Mod-Manager-Setup.exe	65	0 of 65	open
Dota-2-Mod-Manager.AppImage	60	0 of 60	open

Read on 2026-09-20. An engine count is a reading, not a verdict: an installer without a paid
signature is flagged by a few engines as a matter of course.