Release 26.10a · qrrk/Catapult

Highlights

Retroactive Discovery of Stable Game Releases: Catapult can now check its own repository (or a different custom source) for new stable game releases without requiring a launcher update.
Native Zip Extraction: Replaced external unzipping utilities with Godot's native archive reader running across background worker threads. No more spooky console windows popping up.
Engine Upgrade: Upgraded to Godot 4.7, resolving long-standing platform and networking issues:
- TLS Handshake Fix: Resolved RESULT_TLS_HANDSHAKE_ERROR failures connecting to GitHub API endpoints following upstream root certificate updates.
- Wayland & Linux: Fixed startup crashes on modern Linux distributions (Arch, Fedora) caused by an accessibility iterator panic in Wayland sessions.
- Display & Font Scaling: Mitigated high-refresh-rate monitor freezes on Linux with NVIDIA drivers.

Added new stable releases of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Bright Nights to date (#256, #260, #235 by @ushkinaz).
Added the sounpack Otopack-BN-Mk-2 for Bright Nights.
Fixed archive extraction for the soundpack CC-Sounds-sfx-only.
Fixed an HTTP 422 error preventing the Bright Nights changelog from loading due to the upstream GitHub organization rename (#253 by @TheMrBakit).
The game selection dropdown is now correctly disabled during ongoing downloads, installations, and backups to prevent accidental state conflicts or corrupted folders.
Fixed an issue in the Backup Manager where compressed save files inside save were not handled correctly and broke the backup process.
Generalized game executable detection on Windows to reliably find and run custom or renamed game binaries.
Fixed a launcher crash on Linux caused by broken pipes when launching the game process.
Fixed the proxy mode dropdown in Settings being empty and unpopulated (#240 by @1208nn).

Full Changelog: 25.11a...26.10a