VitaForge v0.1.1-beta.1

⚠️ Pre-release

New

• Full localization migrated to Fluent (.ftl) — English and Spanish
• Native PS Vita IME (in-house on-screen keyboard, replaces the generic one)
• New catalog API layer (VitaDBtoo + PKGj/NPS)
• Rewritten install pipeline: BGDL, PKG parser, PBP, licensing, notifications
• Settings screen with runtime language selection
• 3-step install progress stepper, GeForce Now–inspired
• vitaGL hardware-accelerated rendering backend

Performance

• Raised concurrent icon fetch limits (3→4, large 1→2) and switched the icon evictor to sort_unstable_by_key
• HTTP client reuses idle connections (pool_max_idle_per_host, tcp_keepalive)
• Texture upload now does a raw memcpy instead of a per-pixel float round-trip — was the main cause of dropped frames on catalog scroll
• Removed the eager catalog-wide icon preload that queued hundreds of fetches behind 2-4 concurrent slots; grid lazy-loading (visible rows + one-row lookahead) now covers it
• Added a low-priority background disk-cache warmer for off-screen icons, paced well behind the foreground fetch rate, so scrolled-to icons decode instead of re-fetching

Fixes

• Fixed: going back from a detail screen (or a background catalog refresh while viewing one) reset scroll position and selection to the top of the list instead of keeping your place
• Fixed a corrupted zRIF decoder (puff.c's fixed() never decoded, and the dictionary table was truncated) that silently rejected real zRIFs
• Removed the "Tool" category from the catalog filter pills (data is still parsed/labeled correctly, just no longer a selectable filter)
• Removed Select/Back as an app-exit shortcut
• Added Start button to open Settings
• Removed the 0x80010114-triggering auto-update flow

Docs

• Added CONTRIBUTING.md
• Added a Contributors section to the README
• Revamped README and added the project logo

Contributors

• @theheroGAC — vitaGL integration and rendering/fetch performance work