v1.8.0

[1.8.0] - 2026-07-12

Rewrote the GUI using a custom ImGui framework, improving code quality and maintainability.

Information

Games no longer pop in due to an oversight when rewriting parts of the detection system,
This will be fixed in the next release

Core

Added

• Manual restoration of select files within a backup (Using a modal in the GUI)
• Multi-value tags on snapshots
  • Labels are automatically converted to tags however; tags are empty by default!
• Known-hosts verification for SFTP transfers: on first connect, the host's SHA256 key fingerprint is trusted and stored; on later connects it's compared and the connection is refused if it doesn't match (protects against MITM / a swapped host key)

Fixed

• Downloading a save from an SFTP server places the save in the path/to/savemanager/backups/ instead of it's corresponding game folder
• Possible race condition during parsing of the steam app manifest files
• Zip Slip vulnerability during backup extraction due to not resolving the output path in a safe manner
• Backup extraction now aborts if a restored file's SHA-256 hash doesn't match the manifest
• Manifest could reference files not actually in the archive
• Detection crash on permission-denied dirs (ubi / rsg)
• Backup creation could silently produce a corrupted archive if writing finalized (closing) the zip file failed
• Backup rename failure no longer logged as a successful backup
• Restored file's modification time is no longer set before its hash is verified, so a failed/corrupted restore can't leave a mismatched file with the original timestamp
• Backup restore no longer aborts entirely when a single file fails to write or fails its hash check; remaining files are still restored and failures are reported individually
• Fixed an incorrect file path being reported for a failed file when adding a directory to a backup archive
• GTA:SA save editor no longer loads a save with garbage data when BLOCK0 fails to parse
• GTA:SA save editor no longer reads past a truncated version ID
• Directory backups (Minecraft, other folder-based saves) stored an incorrect manifest key
  • Caused the backup to silently fail to finalize and leaving a stray .tmp file behind
• An unhandled exception when reading a file's last-modified time during backup finalization
  • Could crash the app mid-backup with no error logged
• Handle NULL case for fileInfo.name in backup extraction
  • Skips the file instead of trying to extract it from the archive, edge case
• Write to temp file before overwriting live save during extraction
• Config not saving the SSH keyphrase and auth method
  • This is obviously not handled very well as its just plaintext but I plan to improve this by using the OS keyring in a future release.
• Original save not being placed back upon restore from backup failure
• Undo backup used wrong comment path for directory saves
  • Caused an issue with minecraft worlds because 'backup_to_path' always assumed it was a regular file, which is not the case for minecraft.
• GTA:SA save editor did not close the file after saving
• Incorrect file size used in the remote transfer's file download view
• Not catching an SFTP read error during file download
• Prevent some all around file corruption by writing to tmp files first
• Close save file in the editor on all failure paths, no longer causing leaks
• Opening a folder in the file manager on linux crashes the main application
• False detection of conflict files during extraction of a backup

Changed

• Config load failures no longer kill the app, a new config is generated instead preserving the old one.
• Plugin loading errors are now caught per-plugin; remaining plugins continue loading
• Plugins returning entries with missing game_name or save_path are now skipped with a warning
• Game detection groupings now use a unified identity key system for better merge accuracy
• Restoring backups without a manifest now allowed (instead of failing silently)
• Improved error handling

Performance

• Detection runs independent platform scans in parallel for faster startup

Removed

• Launcher support configuration (All are on by default now)

Development

• Blacklist and Translations moved from global state to instance-owned objects, injected by reference
• Private headers moved from lib/include/ to lib/src/

GUI

Added

• Auto scroll in the log tab
• Minecraft filter in dashboard
• Total games found in dashboard
• Total detection time in dashboard

Fixed

• Displayed file time in the save / backup rows
• Possible deletion of a 'real' save during conflict resolution
• Crash when shader had not fully initialized on startup
• Upload worker race condition in transfer tab
• Opening the config or a directory does no longer exit the app on failure
• Uploading/downloading a file in the transfer tab now shows a success/failure notification instead of failing silently
• Grouping issues with unknown / partially supported games (improved since #2
  • This was a known issue for a long time but some great effort has gone into making sure all games are reportedly uniquely even if there are multiple versions installed on the system, i.e. for Ubisoft games
  • All games that are known just simply show up as "N/A" under their own cards.
• Removal of undo backup if backup fails to be restored
• Prevent possible UB when downloading / uploading files through SFTP
• Disable save config button when connecting in Transfer tab
• Disable backup button when backing up already
• Pressing Q would exit the app (Could happen when inputting text anywhere, now gated to just be in debug builds)
• Settings view constantly writing to the blacklist json file when not doing anything
• Missing EndDisabled() before early return in the transfer view's download button
• Some missing EndChild calls in the transfer view in failure paths
• Disable per game buttons whilst scanning or backing up
• GTA:SA save editor now correctly saves the tag and stunt jump statuses
• Notifications pushed from a background thread could race with rendering; notifications are now queued behind a mutex and drained on the render thread
• Translations and Blacklist not being fully initialized before using them

Changed

• Empty files no longer shown as save entries in the dashboard
• Remote file browser entries in the transfer tab are now disabled while a transfer is in progress (previously still interactable during fast transfers)

Performance

• Cache rebuilds after detection now run asynchronously, eliminating frame stalls on large game libraries
• Deduplication of game entries is now O(n) instead of O(n²)
• Backup, delete, restore, and conflict-resolution actions now invalidate the cache for just that game directly, instead of relying on the game-count changing to trigger a full cache rebuild

Development

• GUI has been re-written using a custom ImGui framework I have been cooking up
• Lib's detection systems have undergone an overhaul which now allows for better future addons
• hash_file moved into CZipArchive; no longer compiled into every translation unit

Known Issues / Limitations

• Original Anno editions not supported due to install path limitations (a plugin can be written for this)

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0