0.21.0 - Lowlife

After years of slumber legendary-gl upstream is back with new 0.21.0 release, with some highlights like:

• ChunksV5 manifests, including encryption support
• Ubisoft games launch with uplay protocol support
• Legendary now requiring at least Python 3.10 (pypi, zipapp)

Together with multitude of improvements and bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Detect games specifying "the EA app" for their ThirdPartyManagedApp as Origin games by @CommandMC in #632
• Skip library items with no appName by @CommandMC in #649
• fix: add required arg name for FileLock >=3.15.3 by @kloon15 in #656
• Update Ubisoft game instructions by @SpyGuy0215 in #591
• fix: update graphql host by @imLinguin in #713
• [utils/cli] Accept empty string as a falsey value in strtobool by @loathingKernel in #701
• fix: prevent .netrc credentials from being injected into api calls by @badboybeyer in #736
• ci: update actions by @imLinguin in #739
• feat: support encrypted manifests and chunks by @imLinguin in #738
• Move to pyproject.toml and the uv build system by @CommandMC in #741
• Handle file tasks case-insensitively by @CommandMC in #690
• [core] check for STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH in default.env too when resolving save paths by @loathingKernel in #714
• tech: make python 3.10 a minimum required version by @imLinguin in #746
• fix: add 3rd param to setexchangecode callback by @imLinguin in #745
• fix: save-sync chunk read crash by @imLinguin in #747
• feat: support launching games with uplay protocol by @imLinguin in #750
• tech: ensure boolean types are always returned by @imLinguin in #752
• Bump urllib3 from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #754
• fix: support non-encrypted variants of v5 manifests by @imLinguin in #756
• [cli/core]: report grant date information with info by @loathingKernel in #748
• Add achievement handling by @loathingKernel in #729
• Display UAC prompt for games which requires admin rights by @hawkeye116477 in #668
• cli: remove redundant if statement by @imLinguin in #762
• fix: unset old_manifest for all types of repair by @imLinguin in #697
• ci: automate pypi and releases drafting by @imLinguin in #761
• Bump idna from 3.11 to 3.15 by @dependabot[bot] in #755
• Add Ruff by @CommandMC in #743
• release: 0.21.0 Lowlife by @imLinguin in #765
• fix: avoid KeyError when game metadata is missing id/namespace by @SAY-5 in #769
• Make case_insensitive_file_search a no-op on Windows by @CommandMC in #772
• chore: fix typo by @loathingKernel in #771
• ci: add id-token permission by @imLinguin in #773

New Contributors

• @kloon15 made their first contribution in #656
• @SpyGuy0215 made their first contribution in #591
• @badboybeyer made their first contribution in #736
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #754
• @hawkeye116477 made their first contribution in #668
• @SAY-5 made their first contribution in #769

Full Changelog: 0.20.34...0.21.0