Playlite v4.2.0

[4.2.0] - 2026-07-13

Added

• Automatic advance for the Hero carousel on the Home and Trending pages (manual navigation via the arrow buttons
  remains available at any time)

Fixed

• Hero banner on Home repeatedly canceling in-progress cover image requests whenever the recommendation-based slide
  resolved after other sources — the "highlighted game" was being recalculated on every render instead of computed once
  with a stable, append-only slide order
• Rendered more/fewer hooks violation on the Trending page caused by hooks being called after conditional early return
  statements; all hooks now run unconditionally before any early return
• Toggling a favorite in the Library or Favorites pages re-rendering every card in the grid instead of just the one
  affected, caused by the full games array being listed as a dependency of an unrelated playlist callback

Improved

• Library and Favorites pages now render through a virtualized grid (react-window v2), mounting only the cards
  currently visible on screen instead of all of them at once — removes the 300+ms render commits seen on larger
  libraries and keeps performance flat as more platform integrations add more games over time
• Game card components (StandardGameCard, ActionButton, GameActionsMenu, CachedImage) memoized with
  React.memo, with callbacks stabilized end-to-end across GameLibraryContext, UIContext, and every page that
  renders game cards
• Duplicated card markup and logic between Library and Favorites consolidated into a shared LibraryGameCard component
• CachedImage no longer reads localStorage on every render (moved to a one-time lazy initializer) and skips its
  async local-cache resolution cycle entirely when the "save covers locally" setting is off

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