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Changelog

Changes since V5.4.13.4:

• [!] ASF is now based on .NET 8 platform. While mostly transparent and compatible for end-users, new .NET major version brings a lot of improvements, enhancements, bugfixes and optimizations. It also opens new ASF version cycle, V5.5, due to potential breaking changes (@JustArchi).
• .NET 8 dropped support for some obsolete OSes, check out compatibility wiki section for up-to-date requirements. All currently supported OSes should work without any issues. Naturally, people running generic ASF variant will need to update their SDK/runtime to version 8.0 (@JustArchi).
• Dropped support for generic-netf platform. Check relevant issue for more details if you're affected (@JustArchi #3060).
• Our systemd units got upgraded with latest security enhancements, this requires acceptably recent v247 version or newer, which is the case with all currently supported OSes (@JustArchi).
• Improved PublicListing announcements logic to decrease amount of traffic and workload, which should be especially visible on bots with huge inventories. This change is experimental for now, hopefully it'll prove itself reliable before we close this pre-release cycle (@JustArchi #3073).
• Fixed relative path in ASF_CRYPTKEY_FILE not working when using custom ASF_PATH (@JustArchi).
• Fixed regression introduced while fixing #3051 that sometimes made interactive console non-operative (@JustArchi #3075).
• Fixed Bosnian language not being recognized out of the box for ASF (@JustArchi).
• Latest ASF-ui with new features, improvements and bugfixes (@MrBurrBurr).
• Updated localization provided by our community (@JustArchi-ArchiBot).
• Usual amount of other core improvements, optimizations and bugfixes (@JustArchi).

Changes (mostly breaking) for plugin creators:

• In general, we recommend all plugins to be retargetted and recompiled for .NET 8 and ASF V5.5 family. While ASF V5.5 supports .NET 7 plugins (and earlier), due to amount of breaking changes across both .NET and ASF, their stability is doubtful at best. If you've used our plugin template for your plugin, pulling the template changes or pushing something like this will be sufficient (@JustArchi).
• It's especially important to watch out for potential native dependencies changes if you expect your plugin to work in OS-specific scenarios. I don't expect a lot of breaking changes here, but with major .NET upgrade the runtime bundled with OS-specific builds of ASF naturally has changed, so you should be aware of potential incompatibilities with that (@JustArchi).
• ArchiCacheable<T> now supports cancellation. You most likely don't want/need to use it, but recompilation with existing code is required if you reference any (@JustArchi #3066).
• ArchiWebHandler and WebBrowser now support cancellation. You most likely don't want/need to use it, but recompilation with existing code is required if you reference any (@JustArchi #3067).
• IBotsComparer and IWebInterface plugin interfaces now come with interface-default values for their properties. This is code-compatible, but may require a recompilation (@JustArchi #3072).

Support

ASF is available for free, this release was made possible thanks to the people that decided to support the project. If you're grateful for what we're doing, please consider a donation. Developing ASF requires massive amount of time and knowledge, especially when it comes to Steam (and its problems). Even $1 is highly appreciated and shows that you care. Thank you!