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Playnite 8 is now available!
🕑 Added 2020-09-30 08:39:23 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
Playnite 8 is finally available for download. Public release is scheduled on the 14th of October. Polls for Playnite 9 prioritization should be available in couple days.
Thanks to everyone for continued support!
Josef
Note about extension support:
Playnite 8 contains changes to protect itself from extensions crashing the application or causing other issues. This means that some extensions (mainly those using workarounds to inject new functionality) won't be loaded in Playnite 8 and will need to be updated by its author.
New:
- Software tools menus and configuration
- Library statistics view
- Show selection dialog when downloading conflicting metadata
- PlayStation library integration
- Option to only display used fields on Explorer/Filter panels
- Discord Rich Presence support
- All game fields can now be edited in bulk
- Safe Mode startup support
- Various SDK improvements
- Option to shutdown Playnite instance from cmdline
- Option to prioritize PEGI or ESRB ratings
- Option to force application mode from cmdline
- Option to cancel game media downloads
- Support for Steam user reviews score
- Removed option to start games without Epic client
- Option to specify game manual path
- Option to specify custom command to open directory location
- Option to set number of recent games in Jump List and tray menu
- Option to not show hidden games in Jump List and tray menu
- Option to disable global script execution on per game basis
- Option to collapse/expand all groups
- Option to assign game script to execute after game is started
- Option to add game to import exclusion list when removing it
- Grouping by Name (Letter)
- Game variables can be used in game links
- Game menu item for changing completion status (by V0idhead)
- Better UI for management of installed extensions and themes
- Better support for games on removable disk drives (by MopsiMauser)
- Better prevention from extensions causing application crashes
- Age rating, Region, Series and Platform fields supported by metadata downloads
- Added notes game field #766
- .pthm and .pext extensions can be installed by executing them
- Include .lnk and .bat files when scanning directory for executables
- Ask before shutting down system from Fullscreen mode
Fixed:
- Optimizations to application startup and library load times
- Various improvements to IGDB integration
- Window size is not saved when set to minimal allowed size
- Updated web view (CefSharp) component
- Some installed Xbox PC games not being imported properly
- Slow filtering of some game fields
- Playnite not detecting when Source mod games are running (by psychonic)
- Playnite is not opened properly after being minimized to tray
- Play time tracking not working properly if game is installed in path with unicode characters
- Play time is not recorded if game tracking is cancelled manually
- Official metadata for Epic games are not being downloaded properly
- Metadata download priority doesn't work if a plugin fails
- Installed Epic games not being detected on non-English Windows installations
- Increased maximum limits of various application settings
- Improved Humble game import
- Images in description field don't fit properly (by darklinkpower)
- IGDB game links have wrong descriptions
- Humble game import fails in some cases
- Game menu icons can't be changed via theme
- Game import fails on slower computers
- Freeze when removing unused companies
- Epic plugin is not loaded if Epic client installation is damaged
- Dialog boxes not accepting Enter and Esc keys properly
- Descriptions are not formatted properly for EGS games
- Category names are not displayed properly on category assignment window
- Battle.net authentication is invalidated very often
- Application window is off screen when using high DPI scaling with certain desktop resolutions
- Added date time is only accurate down to a day
- Clearing web cache doesn't work properly in some cases
- Adjusted min/max zoom values on Grid view
- Various fixes to Google Image seach download
- Update logic for checking if Humble games have keys for another service (by awbooze)
- Various crash fixes
Updated documentation for new SDK changes is temporarily available here, with new RC version of SDK nuget available here.
Comments
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