release notes

Release Notes

The full release history, with commit-level detail and downloadable zips, is available on the GitHub Releases page.

2.8.0

Highlights

• Archive support for .zip, .7z and .rar using SharpCompress, with the bundled 7-Zip 26.03 standalone executables (7za.exe, 7za_arm64.exe) as a fallback for reading and creating archives.
• DAT generation from a folder of ROMs with CRC32, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256, duplicate detection and a No-Intro compliant XML export.
• Validation against No-Intro XML DAT files with automatic renaming when the hash matches a different file name, including files inside archives.
• Safe result organization: _success, _fail and _duplicate folders; deletion is opt-in and confirmed.
• Automatic update checks against GitHub releases.
• Diagnostics: rolling log files, F8 screenshots, and automatic bug reports for Warning, Error and Fatal events.
• Fluent dark theme built on WPF-UI.

Notes

• The release zip is framework-dependent and requires the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime.
• Only No-Intro XML DAT files are accepted; ClrMamePro, MAME and binary formats are rejected with a clear message.

Earlier releases

See GitHub Releases for release notes of earlier versions.

Related pages

• Updates
• Getting Started