v0.28.0 (2025-01-15)

[mtkennerly]

• Added:
  • On Linux, for Lutris roots that point to a Flatpak installation, Ludusavi now checks $XDG_DATA_HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME inside of the Flatpak installation of Lutris.
  • Custom games now let you specify installed folder names. This can be used to satisfy the <base> and <game> path placeholders in cases where Ludusavi can't automatically detect the right folder. For more info, see the custom games document.
  • On the "other" screen, there is a new option to skip backups when saves are only removed but not added/updated. This can be useful because uninstalling a game may cause some of its data (but not all) to be removed, but you may not want to exclude that data from your backups yet.
  • CLI: config show command.
  • CLI: The backup, restore, cloud upload, and cloud download commands now support a --gui option for graphical dialog prompts.
  • CLI: The backup and restore commands now support a --dump-registry option, which includes the serialized registry content in the output. This may be useful if you're consuming the --api output to back up with another tool, but don't have a good way to check the registry keys directly.
  • CLI: The find command now supports --fuzzy and --multiple options. This is also available for the api command's findTitle request.
  • CLI: The wrap command now supports several options from the backup command: --path, --format, --compression, --compression-level, --full-limit, --differential-limit, --cloud-sync, --no-cloud-sync.
• Changed:
  • When the game list is filtered, the summary line (e.g., "1 of 10 games") now reflects the filtered totals.
  • The enable/disable all buttons are now constrained by the active filter.
  • GUI: Changed some icons to a softer version.
  • CLI: When using the --gui option of any command that supports it, errors at the end of the process will also be reported via dialogs. This does not apply to CLI parse errors.
  • Application crash and CLI parse errors are now logged.
  • Updated translations, including partial support for Vietnamese and Swedish. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)
• Fixed:
  • If a custom game's title begins or ends with a space, that custom game will now be ignored. Previously, Ludusavi would make a backup folder for the game including the space, but the OS (namely Windows) would remove the space from the folder title, causing unpredictable behavior when Ludusavi couldn't find the expected folder name.
  • GUI: In backup mode, if Ludusavi failed to prepare the backup target folder, it would get stuck where you couldn't cancel/restart the operation.
  • CLI: find --normalized now better prioritizes the closest match when multiple manifest entries have the same normalized title.
  • Some default paths are now formatted more consistently.
  • GUI: There was an error when the backup/restore paths were relative to the working directory.
  • When backing up a read-only file using the simple format, Ludusavi would fail to set the backed up file's modified time.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.28.0 (2025-01-15).