v0.2.0

📃 Release notes

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.2.0

Added

• Support for adding new cats and dogs to a save, with unique IDs and species-appropriate defaults.
• Dog-specific skill editing for shelter, utility, and combat skills, including available skill points and bulk training controls.
• Support for adding and removing item stacks from shelter storage and overflow inventories.
• Category filtering and catalog search for finding existing inventory stacks and adding new items.
• A Set all to 3 stars action for updating the quality of every inventory stack.
• A comprehensive item catalog with friendly names, categories, and locally packaged artwork.
• Privacy-filtered rolling application logs and an Open logs folder button under Settings → Diagnostics.

Changed

• The Pets editor now identifies cats and dogs and displays species-appropriate training controls.
• Partially trained dog skills remain unchanged unless a new training state is selected.
• The Inventory editor now uses clearer item cards, star-based quality controls, improved container summaries, and confirmation before deleting stacks.
• Character, pet, inventory, and supporting pages now use content-based responsive layouts with improved accessibility metadata.
• Save parsing and writing now run away from the UI thread, while navigation is temporarily disabled during active load and save operations.
• Diagnostic logging now captures application, navigation, file-operation, and unhandled-error information without recording decrypted save contents or local file paths.
• Release automation now creates a reviewable draft with a structured changelog template and appends VirusTotal results without publishing the release automatically.
• Updated the README with application branding, status badges, current feature details, and diagnostic-log guidance.
• Updated the application version to 0.2.0.

Fixed

• Fixed inventory quality values being interpreted as one-based instead of the game’s zero-based format; the editor’s one-to-three-star display now writes the correct save values.
• Fixed item-specific quality restrictions, including Petrol Cans being allowed to use unsupported quality levels.
• Fixed known inventory items being shown as unmapped when their definition-key casing differed.
• Fixed dog training changes not being written to the dog-specific skill data in the save.
• Fixed malformed decrypted content with an unexpected root element being presented as an empty editable save instead of being rejected.
• Fixed responsive layouts selecting unsuitable arrangements when the navigation pane reduced the available content width.
• Prevented the application window from being resized below the minimum usable size for the navigation and editor controls.

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis

• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-x86-v0.2.0.zip
• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-x64-v0.2.0.zip
• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-arm64-v0.2.0.zip

v0.1.2

📃 Release notes

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

Added

• Drag-and-drop support for opening Sheltered 2 .dat save files.
• A Remember last opened save setting, enabled by default.
• A startup prompt for reopening the previously loaded save.
• An Open save folder button for quickly accessing the Sheltered 2 save directory.
• Automatic VirusTotal scanning of release archives, with analysis links added to the GitHub release notes.

Changed

• Redesigned the Home page with a clearer load, edit, and save workflow.
• Added responsive layouts for compact and wide window sizes.
• Improved status messages and visual feedback for loaded and modified saves.
• Updated the Save button to better reflect the current workspace state.
• Improved feedback when dropping unsupported files or multiple files.
• Release automation now creates a draft release, uploads and scans its archives, and publishes it after the scans complete.
• Updated the application version to 0.1.2.0.

Fixed

• Content dialogs now follow the application’s current light or dark theme.
• The stored save path is cleared when remembering the last opened save is disabled.
• Missing previously opened saves are detected and removed from the stored settings.

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis

• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-x86-v0.1.2.zip
• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-x64-v0.1.2.zip
• SaveOver-Sheltered2-win-arm64-v0.1.2.zip

v0.1.1

📃 Release notes

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

Added

• Configurable backup folder under Settings → Save games.
• Controls to choose, open, or reset the backup folder.
• Backup retention options for keeping the latest 5, 10, 20, or all backups for each save file.
• Save confirmation before overwriting the original save, enabled by default.
• A Never show again option in the save confirmation dialog.
• A setting to re-enable or disable save confirmations.
• Unsaved-change tracking across characters, pets, relationships, skills, and inventory.
• A confirmation prompt before loading another file when the current save contains unsaved changes.
• Dedicated project documentation for support, contributing, community conduct, and release history.
• Lightweight pull-request CI for packaged and unpackaged x64 builds.
• A dedicated tag-triggered release workflow for x86, x64, and ARM64 artifacts.

Changed

• Backups are now stored outside the Sheltered 2 Steam Cloud directory by default:
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\SaveOver\Sheltered2\Backups
  • This is to prevent Steam Cloud backing up the backups, which would then lead to an increasing number of backup saves not easily removed.
• The Save file button is now enabled only when the loaded save contains unsaved changes.
• Saving without making changes no longer overwrites the save or creates an unnecessary backup.
• Successful save messages now show the backup destination.
• Backup retention applies independently to each source save file.
• Backup cleanup now recognizes only files produced by SaveOver.
• Selecting the Sheltered 2 Steam Cloud directory as the backup location resets the setting to the safe default and explains why.
• Backup pruning is disabled inside the Steam Cloud directory to avoid files being restored and repeatedly deleted by synchronization.
• Pull requests now run representative x64 validation instead of the complete release matrix.
• Documentation-only pull requests skip the expensive Windows builds while still receiving a completed CI result.
• Full release builds now run automatically only for version tags.
• GitHub Actions dependencies are pinned to immutable commit hashes.
• Workflow permissions, concurrency handling, and execution timeouts have been tightened.
• The README has been reorganized with clearer installation, quick-start, requirements, support, technology, and licensing sections.

Fixed

• Prevented unsaved edits from being silently discarded when another save file is loaded.
• Fixed save-button state becoming inconsistent after edits, saves, or file changes.
• Fixed change tracking for items added to or removed from observable collections.
• Fixed stale event subscriptions after replacing or resetting editable collections.
• Fixed detached model objects continuing to mark the active save as changed.
• Fixed unnecessary backup creation when serialized save content has not changed.
• Fixed backup retention potentially matching unrelated files with similar names.
• Fixed backup filename ordering and cleanup when multiple backups share the same timestamp.
• Fixed the contributing guide's global.json path.
• Fixed README links to the project support and community documents.

Removed

• Removed the repository-level GitHub funding configuration for an organization-wide.

v0.1.0

📃 Release notes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/saveover/Sheltered2/commits/v0.1.0/

Added

• Support for loading, editing, and safely writing Sheltered 2 save files.
• Character editing for:
  • Names and personal information.
  • Health and status values.
  • Attributes, needs, traits, and relationships.
  • Skill levels and skill-tree progression.
• Pet editing for names, age, health, hunger, and training skills.
• Partial inventory editing for:
  • Shelter water.
  • Existing item stack quantities.
  • Item integrity and quality.
  • Inventory containers and categories.
• Work-in-progress Crafting and Factions pages.
• Automatic timestamped backups before modifying a save.
• Staged, atomic save replacement to protect against interrupted writes.
• Strict save-file decoding, validation, and error reporting.
• Native x86, x64, and ARM64 builds.
• Packaged MSIX and self-contained portable distributions.
• Adaptive left and top navigation layouts.
• Light, dark, and system theme preferences.
• Persistent navigation, sound, and spatial-audio preferences.
• A responsive Home page with adaptive navigation tiles.
• An About section with version, dependency, source, licence, and issue-reporting links.
• A Donate page with:
  • Patreon, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee links.
  • Cryptocurrency donation addresses.
  • Copy-to-clipboard feedback and animations.
  • Non-monetary contribution guidance.
• Application icons, tiles, splash screens, and light/dark artwork variants.
• Accessibility metadata, heading levels, live-region feedback, keyboard-friendly controls, and adaptive layouts.
• Local crash logging for unhandled managed and XAML exceptions.

Changed

• Migrated observable models and commands to CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.
• Migrated applicable controls, layouts, extensions, and triggers to the Windows Community Toolkit.
• Replaced custom observable and trigger implementations with framework and toolkit abstractions.
• Replaced most Windows Runtime file operations with standard .NET file APIs.
• Refactored save handling around ordinary file paths for simpler and more reliable file access.
• Reworked the Donate and Home pages around data-driven templates and reusable models.
• Standardized page layouts, margins, spacing, typography, cards, and scrolling behavior.
• Improved responsive behavior using visual states and adaptive control sizing.
• Improved integer input handling and percentage normalization.
• Improved save-file selection feedback and disabled conflicting actions while a file is loading.
• Updated the application identity and display name to SaveOver for Sheltered 2.
• Renamed the portable executable to SaveOver for Sheltered2.exe.
• Aligned assembly, file, product, package, and About-page versioning.
• Embedded release debugging symbols instead of distributing a separate PDB file.
• Compressed portable executables to substantially reduce their distributed size.

Fixed

• Fixed unpackaged WinUI initialization and deployment failures.
• Fixed portable-build crashes caused by trimming WinRT and Windows SDK projection assemblies.
• Fixed stale or missing assets in unpackaged builds.
• Fixed backup filename collisions when multiple backups are created close together.
• Fixed interrupted writes potentially leaving partially written save files.
• Fixed InfoBar colors not updating correctly after changing the application theme.
• Fixed inconsistent navigation selection and layout behavior.
• Fixed scrolling and content-sizing problems across several pages.
• Fixed clipboard feedback animations becoming inconsistent after repeated use.
• Fixed controls accepting fractional values where the save format requires integers.
• Fixed application metadata, icon, tile, splash-screen, and manifest inconsistencies.
• Fixed portable release archives containing unnecessary loose files.