05 Aug 11:38

c8b27ff

1.71.5 [Codename: TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.5: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.5 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

What's New?

1.71.5

[Honkai Impact 3rd] Fixed Cache Update to detect "asb.dat" file as an "unused file"
[Honkai Impact 3rd] Fixed double slash while writing Verify.txt lines for Cache Update
[Honkai Impact 3rd] Fixed Game Repair causing redownload on the CG files in-game
[Honkai Impact 3rd] Fixed Game Repair not being able to detect CG file list
[Honkai Impact 3rd] Fixed broken HI3 cache & game repair functionality
[Honkai Impact 3rd] Adjust Honkai Cache changes to legacy property
[Core] Removed unused CheckIntegrity code
[Core] Enabling ReadyToRun compilation
[UI] Fixed background disappeared after cancelling update

1.71.4

This preview release is pretty big, with the most noticeable change being the early implementation of parallel download support, as well as background download support.

Please report any issues through the usual channels, thanks!

New strings for locales
Upgrade WinAppSDK to 1.3.230724000
Reducing overhead while fetching launcher's sprites by using local FallbackCDNUtil's HTTP Client method.
Using direct JSON deserialization from FallbackCDNUtil's DownloadAsJSONType<T>() for fetching launcher's API
Improving Color Palette generation by using the latest ColorThief changes.
Moving unrelated methods from BackgroundManagement to RegionManagement
Revert to legacy download mechanism for downloading game packages, where merging the chunk files is required before verification and extraction.
Removing overused GC.Collect()
Minor UI Changes, including:
- Adding the ability to go back to the previous page
- Making title icon clickable for "Back to Homepage" button (Issue: #131)
- Adding the ability to disable acrylic effect (Issue: #190)
- Adding failsafe if the user chooses invalid folders to be used as "App Folder" for the launcher during the first set-up.
Replace Crc32.NET with System.IO.Hashing
Always try and catch while disposing session stream in Hi3Helper.Http routines
Simplify value comparison by using Generics method of TypeExtensions.IsInstancePropertyEqual<T>() to compare property values between settings class for all Game Settings
Removing unused legacy CheckIntegrity and SteamConversion function calls from Hi3Helper.Core library
Make ApplyAccentColor() run asynchronously
Migrate from HDiffPatch to SharpHDiffPatch
Fixing broken HSR game repair and cache features
Fixing a rare state bug, where the foreground image is shown outside of the home page.
Making Game Conversion feature work again due to regression from InstallManagement rewrite.
Avoid deletion of certain files while using Honkai Impact 3rd's Game Repair feature
Fix GetVersion logic and package preload detection
Fix preload slices being detected as unused assets

1.71.3

Updated locales
Fixed small UI mode causing scaling issues for some elements
Several bugfixes for installation management & update extraction functions
Hot fix for ApplyUpdate since Bitbucket mirror no longer works
Added Cloudflare R2 as a temporary alternative to Bitbucket mirror
Temporarily removed Bitbucket as a repository mirror

1.71.2

Fixed error where game would somehow continue installing in the background
Fixed locale ID mismatches
Fix community tool order
Changed Discord Rich Presence to be able to show the game title instead of the launcher title

1.71.1

Fixed some strings
Fixed app crashing in certain circumstances when changing the Gamma slider value
New community tools
Code cleanup

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Assets 4

04 Aug 06:11

Cryotechnic

CL-v1.71.4-pre

88bed73

1.71.4 [Codename: TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.4: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.4 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

What's New?

1.71.4

This preview release is pretty big, with the most noticeable change being the early implementation of parallel download support, as well as background download support.

Please report any issues through the usual channels, thanks!

New strings for locales
Upgrade WinAppSDK to 1.3.230724000
Reducing overhead while fetching launcher's sprites by using local FallbackCDNUtil's HTTP Client method.
Using direct JSON deserialization from FallbackCDNUtil's DownloadAsJSONType<T>() for fetching launcher's API
Improving Color Palette generation by using the latest ColorThief changes.
Moving unrelated methods from BackgroundManagement to RegionManagement
Revert to legacy download mechanism for downloading game packages, where merging the chunk files is required before verification and extraction.
Removing overused GC.Collect()
Minor UI Changes, including:
- Adding the ability to go back to the previous page
- Making title icon clickable for "Back to Homepage" button (Issue: #131)
- Adding the ability to disable acrylic effect (Issue: #190)
- Adding failsafe if the user chooses invalid folders to be used as "App Folder" for the launcher during the first set-up.
Replace Crc32.NET with System.IO.Hashing
Always try and catch while disposing session stream in Hi3Helper.Http routines
Simplify value comparison by using Generics method of TypeExtensions.IsInstancePropertyEqual<T>() to compare property values between settings class for all Game Settings
Removing unused legacy CheckIntegrity and SteamConversion function calls from Hi3Helper.Core library
Make ApplyAccentColor() run asynchronously
Migrate from HDiffPatch to SharpHDiffPatch
Fixing broken HSR game repair and cache features
Fixing a rare state bug, where the foreground image is shown outside of the home page.
Making Game Conversion feature work again due to regression from InstallManagement rewrite.
Avoid deletion of certain files while using Honkai Impact 3rd's Game Repair feature
Fix GetVersion logic and package preload detection
Fix preload slices being detected as unused assets

1.71.3

Updated locales
Fixed small UI mode causing scaling issues for some elements
Several bugfixes for installation management & update extraction functions
Hot fix for ApplyUpdate since Bitbucket mirror no longer works
Added Cloudflare R2 as a temporary alternative to Bitbucket mirror
Temporarily removed Bitbucket as a repository mirror

1.71.2

Fixed error where game would somehow continue installing in the background
Fixed locale ID mismatches
Fix community tool order
Changed Discord Rich Presence to be able to show the game title instead of the launcher title

1.71.1

Fixed some strings
Fixed app crashing in certain circumstances when changing the Gamma slider value
New community tools
Code cleanup

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Assets 4

19 Jul 05:37

Cryotechnic

CL-v1.71.3-pre

c0b4197

1.71.3 [TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.3: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.3 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

What's New?

1.71.3

Updated locales
Fixed small UI mode causing scaling issues for some elements
Several bugfixes for installation management & update extraction functions
Hot fix for ApplyUpdate since Bitbucket mirror no longer works
Added Cloudflare R2 as a temporary alternative to Bitbucket mirror
Temporarily removed Bitbucket as a repository mirror

1.71.2

Fixed error where game would somehow continue installing in the background
Fixed locale ID mismatches
Fix community tool order
Changed Discord Rich Presence to be able to show the game title instead of the launcher title

1.71.1

Fixed some strings
Fixed app crashing in certain circumstances when changing the Gamma slider value
New community tools
Code cleanup

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Full Changelog: CL-v1.71.1-pre...v1.71.2-pre

Assets 4

05 Jul 05:02

Cryotechnic

v1.71.2-pre

fe33b6c

1.71.2 [TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.2: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.2 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

Note: Due to the overwhelming amount of commits that are done to this repository (almost 400 since the last major patch), it is no longer possible for us to individually tag each commit to explain what they do. Should you feel inclined, feel free to peruse our commit history. Thank you for supporting Collapse!

What's New?

1.71.2

Fixed error where game would somehow continue installing in the background
Fixed locale ID mismatches
Fix community tool order
Changed Discord Rich Presence to be able to show the game title instead of the launcher title

1.71.1

Fixed some strings
Fixed app crashing in certain circumstances when changing the Gamma slider value
New community tools
Code cleanup

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Full Changelog: CL-v1.71.1-pre...v1.71.2-pre

Assets 4

01 Jul 18:20

Cryotechnic

CL-v1.71.1-pre

c2167ec

1.71.1 [TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.1: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.1 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

Note: Due to the overwhelming amount of commits that are done to this repository (almost 400 since the last major patch), it is no longer possible for us to individually tag each commit to explain what they do. Should you feel inclined, feel free to peruse our commit history. Thank you for supporting Collapse!

What's New?

1.71.1

Fixed some strings
Fixed app crashing in certain circumstances when changing the Gamma slider value
New community tools
Code cleanup

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Assets 4

30 Jun 10:35

Cryotechnic

CL-v1.71.0-pre

96e95a1

1.71.0 [TBD] Pre-release

Pre-release

Collapse 1.71.0: Pending Name

Welcome to Collapse version 1.71.0 [Version Name TBD]! This is a PREVIEW BUILD. NOTES ARE NOT FINAL. Please report any issues here!

Note: Due to the overwhelming amount of commits that are done to this repository (almost 400 since the last major patch), it is no longer possible for us to individually tag each commit to explain what they do. Should you feel inclined, feel free to peruse our commit history. Thank you for supporting Collapse!

What's New?

New Feature: Game Settings for Genshin Impact

Major Changes

New community tools
Locale updates

a842f79 !

Assets 4

15 Apr 21:58

Cryotechnic

CL-v1.69.23

c82ccfc

1.69.23 [Codename: Version Kiana]

Attention

This build is supposed to provide some hotfixes for some bugs found in the last release. Please update your launcher to this v1.69.23 release if you encounter any issues with the game installation with the last v1.69.20 release.

Update: 2023/06/07 - 09:50 +7

We've noticed that the launcher still asking for another package to download while updating Honkai: Star Rail even the pre-load has already been downloaded. In this regards, please update your launcher to this latest v1.69.23 release to fix the issue.

We apologize for the issues occured

Thank you~

1.69.23: Version Kiana

We can't believe it's been over 2 years since this project was first launched. A big thank you to all our developers and users for continuing to work and use this application. We hope you're having as much fun using it as we did making it!

It's been a while since the last major release of Collapse (almost 4 months ago ^.^). We wanted to make sure we get this release right, as its name coincides with one in a game we (hopefully) all hold dear in our hearts. Honkai Impact 3rd was a turning point for a lot of us from the Collapse development team, and so we wanted to take the time to make this version extra special to commemorate its launch. That being said, please take note that we are all volunteers working on this project. This means that Collapse can receive slower, maintenance updates for an extended period of time should we have more pressing matters to attend to in the real world.

This release changelog is going to be structured a bit differently than the other ones (someone else is writing it, teehee). Without further ado, buckle up, because this is biiiiiiiig update \o/

What's New?

Change in Versioning Scheme (again)

Starting with Codename: Version Kiana, Collapse is officially switching from a 4 number denomination to 3 number denomination. This is a breaking change for the end user, but ensures that we adhere to the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (SemVer for short) versioning scheme, so we felt it was in our best interest to transition to this version scheme. To boil it down, this means the following:

Instead of having a version number of, for example, 1.0.64.0, the new version format will now be 1.64.0. Previous versions are not subject to the versioning scheme. The explanation below will use the aformentioned example.
- 1 is the MAJOR version number. Unless otherwise stated, this number should never change (unless we make a drastic overhaul to the launcher, such as a full application rewrite)
- 64 is the MINOR version number. This is the number that gets incremented whenever we release new features
- 0 is the PATCH version number. This is incremented whenever we make bug fixes on the current release lifecycle.

It's important to note that you will no longer be able to downgrade to a version prior 1.69.0 once you apply this update due to a backend code update to accommodate for this change. While we will do our best to offer help should you encounter any issues to versions prior to 1.69.0, support is not guaranteed, so if you choose to stay on the old version, proceed at your own risk.

This change will allow us to more easily determine version numbers when we release them to you. Thanks for understanding! ❤️

New Feature: Improved New User Experience

Shipping with Collapse 1.69.0 is a new setup experience that streamlines the setup process, while also introducing some new features!

And here's more UI tweaks!
Click here to see the preview

Here's the new setup process for Collapse!
Click here to see the preview

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New Feature: Window Resizing

Yet another requested feature that is now available in Collapse 1.69.0. This allows the user to make the launcher window smaller, which means that Collapse now also supports 4:3 monitors! Yay!

e2db756 !, 10257f2 !

New Feature: Release Channel Switching

As the title says, this enables the user to directly switch from the Stable, battle-tested version of Collapse to a more experimental branch of Collapse, which is updated more frequently but can contain more breaking changes.

Should you consider switching to the experimental branch ("Dev"), please make sure to report any bugs that you may encounter by creating an issue over on GitHub (https://github.com/neon-nyan/Collapse/issues). Thanks for helping us make Collapse a better launcher!

ca524ed !

New Feature: Admin Restart Prompt

Starting with Collapse 1.69.0 (originally introduced in Collapse 1.0.64.0-preview), the launcher will prompt you for privilege escalation if you are running it as an unauthorized (without administrator permissions) user. To make it clear: Collapse has always asked you for these privileges and will continue to do so for the foreseeable, because of some Win32 API calls we've made, as well as to read data from the registry, installing games and customising the launcher experience.

The prompt looks like so:

1._Admin_Restart_Prompt.mp4

Should you choose to ignore this, Collapse will terminate itself and require you to run it as an administrator. By integrating it into the launcher itself, we hope to make it more user friendly for people that just want to use this as a better alternative to the default launcher.

Special thanks to @Cryotechnic for the initial proposal & implementation!
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New Game – Honkai: Star Rail, coming April 26th!

This game needs no introduction, but we all knew it was coming. Honkai: Star Rail is officially launching on April 26th 2023. We're super excited to play it, and hopefully, so are you! Collapse will support the preloading (on April 23rd 2023) and installation of Honkai: Star Rail, assuming everything works as expected. As stated before, you will not be able to access Honkai: Star Rail in Collapse before April 23rd due to a backend configuration update that we will manually push out once we complete our preparations for supporting the game. The launcher will automatically apply the latest configuration update once it is pushed out, so you don't need to do anything on your end!

See you aboard the Astral Express, Trailblazer!

9692060!, ebd8d9b!

New Feature: Running Multiple Instances of Collapse

CollapseMultipleInstance.mp4

Previously, users were not able to run multiple Collapse processes without running into issues. This has now been resolved! This is a feature that was necessary to implement while we work on implementing background installation for new games and/or updating existing ones. While we understand that the aformentioned feature is highly requested, the implementation for it has proven to be quite a challenge and will require more time to fine-tune before it is made available for the general public. We appreciate your patience and can't wait to show you it in action once it's ready!

To allow Collapse to spawn multiple instances, you must first enable that option in the launcher settings.
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QoL Improvement: Smaller Installation Size

Yup, you heard it right! Collapse is shrinking in size soon, and this updates serves as an intermediary step to achieve that goal. The first part of this update will focus on the update mechanism that powers Collapse. While it was good and served us well, it was quite bandwidth hungry and had no way of only downloading the patched files. This changes with our new...

Contributors

Cryotechnic, neon-nyan, and 2 other contributors

Assets 4

16 May 19:18

neon-nyan

CL-v1.70.8-pre

c82ccfc

1.70.8-preview Pre-release

Pre-release

Attention

This build is supposed to provide some hotfixes for some bugs found in the last release. Please update your launcher to this v1.70.8 release if you encounter any issues with the game installation with the last v1.70.4 release.

Update: 2023/06/07 - 09:50 +7