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# MultiMC 0.6.5

Finalizing the translation workflow improvements and adding fixes for sounds missing in old game versions.

### New or changed features

- UI for the language settings has been unified across the application

- GH-2209: Sounds in old (pre-1.6) versions should now work again

  The launcher now downloads the correct assets and reconstructs the `resources` folder inside instances. This mirrors the same fix implemented in vanilla.

  Also, a minor issue with the reconstruction being done twice per launch has been fixed.

# Previous releases

## MultiMC 0.6.4

Update for a better translation workflow, and new FTB API location.

### New or changed features

- FTB API location has changed

  MultiMC now uses the new location and should keep working.

- Translations have been overhauled, again

  It is now possible to put the translation source `.po` files into the `translations` folder and see changes in MultiMC immediately.

  The new translation workflow is like this:
  * Get a `.po` file from here the [translations repository](https://github.com/MultiMC/MultiMC5-translate).
  * Alternatively, get the `template.pot` and start a new translation based on it.
  * Put it in the `translations` folder.
  * Edit it with [POEdit](https://poedit.net/).
  * See the changes in real time.
  * When done, post the changed files on discord, or github.

  When using a `.po` file, MultiMC logs which strings are missing from the translation on the currently displayed UI screen(s), and which one are marked as fuzzy. This should make it easy to determine what's important.

## MultiMC 0.6.3

This is a release mostly aimed at getting all the small changes and fixes out of the door.

### Potentially breaking changes

- Local libraries are only loaded from inside the instances now.

  Before, MultiMC allowed loading local libraries from the main `libraries` folder.
  This in turn allowed existence of instances which could not be transported from one installation of MultiMC to another.

  GH-2475: A bug that allowed the launch to continue with missing local libraries has also been fixed.

  Effectively, you will get errors from launching such instances. You can fix the errors by copying the libraries to the locations indicated in the error log.

### New or changed features

- FTB import now has support for third party modpack codes.

  Better late than never?

- Instance creation can now be interrupted / aborted.

- GH-2053: You can now inspect and change the `servers.dat` file from MultiMC.

- MultiMC now uses the https protocol for many more network requests.

- GH-2352: There is now a button to open the `.minecraft` folder inside the selected instance.

- GH-2232: MultiMC can now use `.gif` icons (not animated).

- GH-2101: Instance renaming is now done inline, in the actual instance list.

- GH-2452: When deleting a group, MultiMC asks for confirmation.

- GH-1552: PermGen is no longer shown when it's not appropriate (java 8 and up).

- GH-2144: When changing versions of a component like Forge, the current version is marked with `(installed)`.

- GH-2374: World list has been improved:

  - Alternating line background colors have been added.
  - The world game type is now shown in a column.

- GH-2384: When installing a mod, existing mod with the same file name will be replaced.

- The background cat sometimes wears a silly hat.

### Bugfixes

- GH-2252: Fixed odd drag and drop behaviour on Windows

  Drag and drop of URLs from a browser locked up the browser. This needs further fixes on macOS.

- Instance naming fixes:

  - GH-2355: Whitespace prefix or suffix is no longer allowed.
  - GH-2238: Newlines in instance names are no longer allowed either.

- GH-2412: MultiMC no longer leaves behind zombie processes after launch on linux.

- GH-2382: Version filter for the forge/liteloader version lists was not matching the whole version name.

- GH-2488: More issues with broken relative URL redirection in Qt have been fixed.

- Some memory leaks of downloaded data have been fixed.

- MultiMC now handles instance groups and instance group saving better.

  Long deleted groups no longer persist in the group list.

- GH-2467: Broken (and nonsensical) sorting indicators have been removed from the versions page header.

## MultiMC 0.6.2

### New or changed features

- MultiMC now has FTB integration:

  - Official and third-party modpacks work.
  - Codes for private modpacks are not implemented yet.

- Version lists now show release dates where available.

- New instance dialog:

  - It has been completely overhauled and now uses the same kind of paged dialog design as the rest of MultiMC.
  - Vanilla version list now has a filter for version types.
  - FTB integration gets a page here, along with zip import and vanilla.
  - Technic integration is a definite possibility in the future.
  - If there is a decent way to list Twitch modpacks, proper Twitch modpack integration is a possibility too.
  - There still is no modpack updating. Much more work is needed for that.

- Other Logs page:

  - Now has a search bar, just like the main log page.
  - GH-604: Uses the same font settings as the main log.

- Icon selection dialog now has a button for opening the icons folder.
- MultiMC now has a shinier, updated logo.
- GH-2150: Custom commands have been split from the java settings into a new page.

  The use of variables in custom commands is now better documented.
  The label shows that they need to be prefixed by `$`.

- Player name is no longer censored in logs.
- MultiMC now probes the system for the name of the linux distribution as part of analytics. This will be used to focus future packaging efforts.
- Secret cheat code has been added... What does it do?

### Bugfixes

- VisualVM integration now works when VisualVM is bundled inside the MultiMC folder (uses a relative path).
- When reinstalling a component, or changing a component version, the custom version is now removed first.
- GH-2134: Fix multiple issues with the skin upload:

  - When uploading a skin, the model selection now works correctly again.
  - When the new skin file is specified using the `file://` URL scheme, it will now work correctly.

- GH-2143: Mojang services status display now reflects the current set of services.
- GH-2154: MultiMC now ignores the `hidden` flag of instance folders and they should show up correctly.
- When migrating Legacy instances, custom `minecraft.jar` will be preserved.

## MultiMC 0.6.1

### New or changed features

- GH-2087: The version page now has a button that will download all the necessary files without launching the game.

### Bugfixes

- Several issues related to bad URLs returned by the Curse servers have been fixed.

  The Curse platform does not use valid URLs according to [RFC 3986, section 2](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2) by including spaces and UTF-8 characters without percent encoding them.
  MultiMC has been improved to handle these invalid URLs and report errors in case other invalid URLs are encountered.
  This affected pretty much all modpack imports. You may want to reimport them if you were affected by this.

- GH-1780, GH-2102, GH-2103: Multiple issues with the build system and packaging on linux have been fixed.

  - Installed libraries now no longer have `RPATH` set and have the correct file permissions when using the `lin-system` layout.
  - Installation using the `lin-bundle` layout has been fixed on platforms that use position independent code.
  - `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` and `DESTDIR` now behave as expected on linux platforms.

- MultiMC no longer logs the process environment and launch scripts to its log files.

- GH-2089: Mention of instance tracking has been removed from the deletion confirmation dialog.

- GH-2087: The obsolete 'revert to vanilla' logic that was previously applied to versions has been removed.

  This should remove some confusing situations that could happen while changing and manipulation instance versions.

- The temporary `Minecraft.jar` is now removed from the instance after it stops running.

- GH-2119: The main instance view scrollbar now correctly updates when the window is resized without changing the number of icons that can fit into it horizontally.

## MultiMC 0.6.0

### New or changed features

- Contact with Mojang, Forge and LiteLoader servers is no longer handled by MultiMC, but a metadata server. Instead of generating and storing the files at the point of installation, they are updated hourly on the server and can be fixed when something goes wrong.

  This goes along with some changes to the instance format and to the metadata format.

  Instead of including the metadata JSON files directly in the instances, the instances now contain a new `mmc-pack.json` file that specifies versions to be used.

  The metadata can be found at [v1.meta.multimc.org](https://v1.meta.multimc.org), the [meta.multimc.org](https://meta.multimc.org) endpoint that was used during development will be replaced by documentation.

  This should be a much more reliable solution going forward, because it allows fixing issues without releasing new versions of MultiMC or reinstalling Forge/LiteLoader/others.

- Tracking of FTB launcher instances has been replaced with direct import of Curse modpacks.

  You can import the modpack zip files from CurseForge and FTB:
  - Get the zip, for example from [here](https://www.feed-the-beast.com/projects/ftb-retro-ssp/files/2219693).
  - Drag & Drop it on top of the main window, or select it in the new instance dialog.
  - Let the magic happen.

  If you need help moving over your old instances or worlds from the FTB launcher, stop by in the MultiMC discord server.

  The Curse import functionality is there thanks to the work [@Dries007](https://twitter.com/driesk007) and [@NikkiAI](https://twitter.com/NikkyAI) have done on [CurseMeta](https://cursemeta.dries007.net/).

- GH-1314: MultiMC now allows replacing the main jar in an instance without having to mod the Mojang jars.

  This goes along with changing the wording of the jar mod button to make it clear that it adds files to the main Minecraft jar instead of installing mod files with the `.jar` extension.

- Because the current instance format can now handle replacing the main jar, Legacy format instances are no longer directly supported.

  Instead of launching, you will be prompted to convert them to the current instance format.
  If the automated process fails, stop by in the MultiMC discord server and ask for help.

- Main window UI has been changed for increased clarity.

  Many people had issues finding the settings and instead ended up using the per-instance overrides. The main toolbar now has labels and the per-instance overrides have been deemphasized by removing the direct path to them from the main window. In general, it should be easier to find the right settings menu without getting things completely wrong on the first try.

- GH-1997: MultiMC now supports Java 9.

  This does not mean that the current mod loaders and mods do, but you can run Vanilla Minecraft with Java 9 now.

  However, Java 9 will come up last in the lists when multiple versions are installed and its use is strongly discouraged.

- GH-2026: You can launch Minecraft 1.13 snapshots - and hopefully also 1.13 once it is released.

  The bare minimum of changes needed for 1.13 to launch has been done.

  This does not mean support for modded 1.13!

  It is not yet clear what it will even look like and what exactly will be needed for Forge to be able to install properly.

- Bundled Qt libraries have been updated to version 5.6.3 on macOS and Windows

  This means less issues with SSL encryption on macOS and better support for HiDPI/retina displays, along with many bug fixes.
  The workarounds for SSL problems on macOS have been removed thanks to this.

- Linux builds were moved to a newer version of Ubuntu (14.04)

  This means better support on newer distribution releases, and dropping support for older distributions.

- Bundled OpenSSL library on Windows no longer requires Visual Studio runtime libraries.

  This should avoid issues with missing runtime libraries.

- GH-1855: The instance window now has an offline launch button.

- GH-1886: UI now clarifies that MultiMC proxy settings do not apply to the game.

- It is now possible to package MultiMC on linux without hacks.

  The build system has a concept of 'install layouts'. Example Arch linux package that uses this (multimc-git) is [available in the AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/multimc-git).

- Wrapper commands now support arguments.

  Previously, they would be treated as a single command -- spaces and all.

- UI elements that set maximum JVM memory are now limited to the amount of system memory present.

  Before, they were hardcoded.



  This is to accommodate the needs of some new mods for ancient Minecraft versions that do not work well with the applet wrapper.

- On instance launch, the used GPU and graphics driver are reported - but only on linux.

  Other platforms will hopefully get this in the future.

- There are some under the hood improvements for ancient Minecraft versions and versions not provided by Mojang.

    - The `haspaid` parameter is set for the applet wrapper.
    - MultiMC will prefer to use `.minecraft` instead of `minecraft` folder inside the instances now.
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