FLAtlas v0.8.9

FLAtlas v0.8.9

This release adds an Omarchy/Arch Linux build and improves Base Builder interaction, News Editor workflows, and editing reliability across several tools.

Added

• An Omarchy/Arch Linux x64 release ZIP with a launcher and SHA-256 checksum.
• Linux support for reading and atomically editing IDS strings, infocards, and version resources in Freelancer PE files.
• Direct manipulation and magnetic snapping in the Base Builder preview.
• Searchable base assignments and in-game base names in the News Editor.

Changed

• WAV preview uses Qt Multimedia on Linux. Freelancer and external Windows tools can be launched through Wine.
• Linux updates select Linux release assets. Windows and Linux packages are built and checked in separate CI jobs.

Fixed

• NPC Editor changes are preserved when switching entries; deleting an NPC no longer overwrites the next entry. Rumor previews and unresolved name IDs are handled consistently.
• Faction Editor filtering, selection, dirty state, and relationship editing now stay in sync. Background loading can finish safely after the editor closes.
• IDS Editor CSV import and export now handle quoted multiline fields correctly. Dataset changes, new entries, and infocard previews update the editor state reliably.
• Mod Manager export now validates its inputs and reports unreadable references before writing an archive. Changing paths invalidates an earlier export plan.
• News Editor saves preserve comments and CRLF line endings. Failed loads retain unsaved work, and an older asynchronous save cannot replace a newly opened document.
• Model Viewer selection and details now update correctly when the model catalog changes or a model is missing.
• Registering resource DLLs preserves comments and CRLF line endings in freelancer.ini.
• Windows PE version strings no longer include trailing NUL characters.

System requirements

• Windows: Windows 10 or newer, x64. The release ZIP includes Qt 6.8.3 and the MinGW runtime.
• Omarchy/Arch Linux: x64 with qt6-base, qt6-3d, qt6-multimedia, and qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg installed. Start the extracted package with ./run-flatlas.sh. Wine is needed to launch Freelancer or external Windows tools; unzip is needed for ZIP updates.
• An existing Freelancer or mod installation supplies game data. Keep backups of mod files before editing them.

The Linux ZIP uses system Qt libraries and has been tested on Omarchy. It is not a self-contained package for other Linux distributions.

Verification

• Windows and Linux x64 Release builds each passed all 284 automated tests on the same private source commit.
• The Windows package passed checks for architecture, version, bundled runtime and licenses, ZIP integrity, and startup. Resource editing was also exercised on a copy of a Freelancer DLL.
• The Linux package passed checksum verification and a startup test from a fresh extraction on Omarchy.

Build source: private Forgejo commit 3e47e339c0948196ee15e8b54c42a33771a6abc1, CI run 268.

Included commits (19)

• 166f856 Improve base builder UI, direct manipulation and magnetic snapping
• 11a8769 Improve news editor with searchable base assignments and ingame names
• a21839b Bump development version to 0.8.9 and update changelog
• c5f0ee3 Fix NPC editor data loss and improve usability
• e10a8f0 Fix faction editor state handling and improve relationship editing
• b5c7663 Fix IDS editor CSV round trips and editor state handling
• 71443b7 Fix Mod Manager export validation and installation selection
• 5563952 Fix News Editor save races, file loading and selection state
• 1f09057 Fix Model Viewer selection, catalog refresh and loading state
• 5f37629 Add repository-scoped Windows CI workflow for Forgejo
• 544941d Fix faction loader callbacks after editor destruction
• af5ee20 Enable Omarchy development and dual-platform CI
• 1bad25d Improve Linux feature compatibility and PE resource reading
• 1c37e1b Support atomic PE resource editing on Linux
• 7faeafb Package Windows release candidates in CI
• 9e149a4 Launch external Windows tools through Wine on Linux
• d99685c Trim NUL from Windows PE version strings
• 0208f33 Package smoke-tested Linux release candidates
• 3e47e33 Document v0.8.9 dual-platform release

The GitHub repository is the public release facade. Its automatically generated source archives contain release documentation; use the Windows or Linux ZIP to run FLAtlas.

FLAtlas is an independent Freelancer modding tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft or Digital Anvil.