Mimas

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Changes since v1.12.0

Features

• [GUI] Updates to the text of some buttons, and change the check mark from blue to green. (plague006, #1352)
• [GUI] The main display shows the download size if known. (Postremus, #1399)
• [GUI] Suggested and recommended mods can now be (de)selected with a single click. (martinnj, #1398)
• [GUI] Mods can be searched by their abbreviation, which we generate by taking the first letter of each word in the title. For example, KIS will match Kerbal Inventory System. (Postremus, #1394)
• [GUI] The side metadata panel and its elements can now be resized. (martinnj, #1378)
• [GUI] Mod filters will no longer reset to 'compatible' each time the client is opened. (Postremus, #1384)
• [GUI] The repository list no longer has weird numbers visible that we only use internally, and may eventually remove. (Postremus, #1393)

Bugfixes

• [GUI] The CKAN client is less likely to believe that all mods are new when auto-updating metadata is enabled. (Postremus, #1369)
• [GUI] The latest CKAN-available version of a mod is always shown in the 'latest' column, even if that mod is not compatible with the installed KSP version. (Postremus, #1396)
• [GUI] Pressing a key with an empty modlist will no longer crash the client. (Postremus, #1329)
• [GUI] The 'mark for update' button no longer highlights when the only upgrade candidates are autodetected mods we can't actually upgrade. (Postremus, #1392)
• [Core] Installing from .ckan files (such as exported modlists) is more likely to succeed even when dependencies are complex. (#1337, Postremus)
• [Cmdline] ckan.exe --verbose and ckan.exe --debug now start the GUI with the appropriate logging mode. (#1403, Postremus)
• [Updater] We'll no longer try to download a CKAN release that hasn't finished building its assets yet.

Internal

• [Core] Additional tests against autodetected mods in the RelationshipResolver. (Postremus and pjf, #1226 and #1355)
• [GUI] Removed a spurious warning when building. (pjf, #1343)
• [NetKAN] Reading of information from .version files greatly improved, especially when mixing metadata from other sources like github and kerbalstuff. (dbent, #1299)
• [Core] Files can now be installed to saves/scenarios using the Scenarios target. (pjf, #1360)
• [Spec] Grammar corrections. (Postremus, #1400)
• [NetKAN] Files produced by netkan.exe have more stable field ordering. (dbent, #1304)
• [NetKAN] netkan.exe can use regexps to manipulate version strings. (dbent, #1321)
• [GUI] Refactoring to remove duplicated code. (Postremus, #1362)

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Veil Nebula

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Changes since v1.10.3

Features

• [GUI] Installed mods can now be exported as a "favourites list" via File -> Export Installed Mods. Imported favourites lists allow the user to choose which mods they get, and will install the latest versions available for the user's version of KSP. (Postremus, #972)
• [GUI] Enter and escape can be used to accept and cancel changes when editing the command-line dialog (Postremus, #1318)
• [GUI] Yes/no dialog boxes have a more descriptive title (plague006, #1312)
• [GUI] Downloading a file to the cache shows the download in progress, and refreshes the contents viewer when complete (Postremus, #1231)
• [GUI] On first start we always refresh the modlist, with an option to do so each time the CKAN is loaded (Postremus, #1285)
• [Core] KSP instance names now default to the folder in which they're installed (Postremus, #1261)
• [Core] Processing an updated mod list is now faster, and other speed enhancements (Postremus, #1229)
• [Core] Metadata is now downloaded in .tar.gz rather than .zip format, resulting in much faster downloads (pjf, #1344)
• [Spec] install_to can now target Ships/ subdirectories (dbent, #1243)

Bugfixes

• [GUI] Hitting cancel is much more likely to actually cancel an install-in-progress (Postremus, #1325)
• [GUI] Fewer crashes when double-clicking on an auto-detected mod (Postremus, #1237)
• [Cmdline] ckan compare fails more gracefully when called without arguments (Postremus, #1283)
• [Cmdline] ckan show more accurately displays the cached filename (mgsdk, #1266)
• [Core] We fail more gracefully when mod metadata can't be downloaded (Postremus, #1291)

Internal

• [NetKAN] Cached files have more descriptive file extensions (dbent, #1308)
• [NetKAN] A warning is generated if a file without a .netkan extension is processed (dbent, #1308)
• [NetKAN] We better handle null values in retrieved metadata (dbent, #1324)
• [NetKAN] Better handling of license strings with leading and trailing spaces (dbent, #1305)
• [Core] We no longer try to use libcurl on systems where the .NET web classes are sufficient (dbent, #1294)

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.
• This release was made in memory of Noirin; from star stuff we are made, and to star stuff we shall return.

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Dwarfiest Planet

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Changes since v1.10.2

Bugfixes

• [GUI/Bugfix] Fixed a regression introduced in v1.10.1 where mods that require users to choose dependencies could cause the client to crash or hang (Postremus, #1306)

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Dwarfier Planet

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Changes since v1.10.1

Bugfixes

• [GUI] Fixed a regression where v1.10.1 no longer displayed the latest available mod version in the GUI (pjf, #1297)

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Dwarf Planet

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Changes since v1.10.0

Features

• [GUI] The client provides additional data on which mods will be available after KSP upgrade (plague006, pjf, #1270, #1295)
• [GUI] Mod info columns resized to show more mod information from the get-go (plague006, #1270)
• [GUI] Double-clicking on a mod in the relationship tab will navigate to that mod (Postremus, #1082)
• [GUI] The client will infer more homepages for mods which don't explicitly specify one (plague006, #1254)

Bugfixes

• [GUI] The client will crash less often when clicking on column headers (Postremus, #1228)
• [GUI] For new CKAN installs, CKAN will start KSP with the -single-instance flag to prevent multiple-games starting on double-click (plague006, #1255, Linux/Windows only)
• [GUI] Columns are more likely to remember their size after refresh (plague006, #1278)
• [GUI] The client window no longer resists movement while updating metadata (Postremus, #1198)
• [Updater] The CKAN updater is less confused when directory paths contain spaces (Postremus, #1230)
• [Cmdline] ckan ksp forget is now case insensitive (RichardLake, #1055)
• [Core] The list of available repositories is fetched from a higher-availability host (hakan42, #1264)

Internal

• [Multiple] Numerous fix-ups and improvements (RichardLake, #1055)
• [Multiple] Utterly awesome rearchitecture of our indexing bot (dbent, #1218)

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Orion Nebula

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Changes since v1.8.4

Features

• [GUI] Double-clicking a row toggles mod selection (Postremus, #1217)
• [Cmdline] You can now ckan.exe remove --all to uninstall everything (martinnj, #1210)

Bugfixes

• [GUI] The GUI no longer says "about to remove" when there's nothing to remove (martinnj, #1203)
• [GUI] The client is more stable after cancelling a download (Postremus, #1185)
• [GUI] The auto-updater will try harder to set the execute bit when updating on Linux/Mac (Postremus, #1200)
• [GUI] The GUI is less likely to crash with an InconsistentKraken when related modules exist, but do not satisfy required version checks (RichardLake, #1219)
• [GUI] The previously misleading 'delete' KSP instance is now 'forget' a KSP instance (Postremus, #1196)
• [GUI] Even more dialog boxes have CKAN icons (Postremus, #1176)
• [Cmdline] Min/Max relationships are more accurately shown in ckan.exe show (dbent, #1183)
• [Core] Bad URL resources will no longer cause a module to be considered invalid (pjf, #1209)
• [Core] Spurious messages are no longer produced for conditions that are actually okay (pjf, #1222)

Internal

• [Multiple] Many classes now use interfaces rather than hard dependencies (RichardLake, #1167)
• [NetKAN] netkan.exe now strips x_netkan attributes during processing (dbent, #1193, #1201)
• [NetKAN] netkan.exe now supports version-specific overrides (pjf, #1197)
• [Core] CKAN spec v1.10 now supports the find_regexp install directive (dbent, #1089)
• [Spec] The human spec now matches the machine spec and current usage when describing version numbers (pjf, #1178)

We're aware that fewer mods than expected are showing for KSP v1.0.4. We're working overtime to fix this, and you can read the full details (including possible workarounds) here.

Notes

• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Hypervelocity

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Changes since v1.8.3

Features

• [GUI] The fancy release name is now also shown by the autoupdater (Postremus)
• [GUI] Users are asked if they're sure before clearing the cache (Postremus)
• [GUI] File -> Open KSP directory allows easy opening of the KSP directory in the system browser (Postremus)
• [CmdLine] The --debugger switch will start the client in debugging mode on systems which support it (dbent)

Bugfixes

• [Core] Fixed a bug where incompatible mod versions would be selected when resolving relationships, only to have the relationship resolver complain they were inappropriate (RichardLake)
• [GUI] Overwriting a .ckan file on export no longer crashes the GUI (pjf)
• [CmdlLine] A nicer looking error is shown when mods can't be found on upgrade (Postremus)

Internal

• [Multiple] Numerous code clean-ups (RichardLake)

Notes

• Due to a change in the CKAN registry file format, you will not be able to move back to the 1.6.x releases after using this release.
• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Richat Structure

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Changes since v1.8.2

Bugfixes

• [GUI] Installing or upgrading a mod that results in a file conflict no longer causes the GUI to hang (RichardLake)
• [Core] Autodetected mods can once again satisfy all relationships (pjf)

Notes

• Due to a change in the CKAN registry file format, you will not be able to move back to the 1.6.x releases after using this release.
• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Aerospikiest

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Changes since v1.8.1

Bugfixes

• [Core] Fixed a KeyNotFoundException that could be thrown when installing or upgrading a mod that results in a version conflict. (pjf/RichardLake)

Notes

• Due to a change in the CKAN registry file format, you will not be able to move back to the 1.6.x releases after using this release.
• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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Aerospikier

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Changes since v1.8.0

Bugfixes

• [Bugfix/Core] Fixed a bug where mods could conflict with themselves on upgrade.

Notes

• Due to a change in the CKAN registry file format, you will not be able to move back to the 1.6.x releases after using this release.
• Windows users must have .NET 4.5 installed.
• Linux users, please apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev or yum install libcurl-devel if you haven't done so.
• Mac/Linux/Mono users: please mozroots --import --ask-remove if you're a new user, to update mono's certificate store.

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