v0.18.2 (2023-05-21)

• Fixed:
  • When a Lutris game file does not include the game > working_dir field, Ludusavi will now try to fall back to the game > exe field and cut off the file name. Ludusavi will also log a more specific message when an expected field is missing.

v0.18.1 (2023-05-21)

• Fixed:

  • Cloud backups would fail if the cloud path contained a backslash (\).

  • On Windows, if the default terminal application was the Windows Terminal (as opposed to the older Windows Console Host), then a couple of problems would happen when Ludusavi was launched from Windows Explorer:

    • An empty console window would stay open along with the GUI.
    • Asynchronous Rclone commands would fail.

    This was ultimately related to how Ludusavi hides the console in GUI mode. Now, instead of removing the console from the currently running instance, Ludusavi simply relaunches itself in a detached state.

v0.18.0 (2023-05-20)

• Added:

  • You can now upload backups to the cloud. This integrates with Rclone, so you can use any cloud system that it supports, and Ludusavi can help you configure some of the more common ones: Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, FTP servers, SMB servers, and WebDAV servers.

    For the GUI, refer to the "cloud" section on the "other" screen. For the CLI, use the cloud command group (e.g., ludusavi cloud upload).

  • The Lutris launcher is now supported as a root type. Ludusavi can find saves from Wine prefixes configured in Lutris.

  • The EA app is now supported as a root type.

  • On the restore screen, you can lock a backup so that it is kept indefinitely regardless of your retention settings.

  • Progress bars now show additional information (operation label, elapsed time, exact progress count).

  • Backups now record the operating system on which they were created. For the GUI, this is shown as a badge on the restore screen if you select a non-native backup. For the CLI, this is included in the output of the backups command.

  • Ludusavi now supports Flatpak IDs (if present in the manifest) in order to infer the correct XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME. At this time, the primary manifest does not specify Flatpak IDs for any games, but any such additions can be supported transparently in the future.

  • GUI: You can use (shift+)tab to cycle through text fields.

  • GUI: Input fields show an error icon for paths like http:// and ssh:// since these are not supported and will be mangled into a local path.

  • CLI: A standalone manifest update command.

• Changed:

  • The "merge" option has been removed, and merging is now always enforced. This option made sense before Ludusavi supported differential and cloud backups, but there was not much reason to turn off merging anymore.

    The CLI backup command's --merge/--no-merge flags are now ignored and will be removed in a future release.

  • CLI: The backup command's --update/--try-update flags are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It was confusing because Ludusavi could still update the manifest without either flag, and other commands would also update the manifest but without equivalent flags to adjust the behavior.

    To simplify this and for consistency with the GUI, now the CLI will update the manifest automatically by default. To disable this, use the new --no-manifest-update global flag, which works across commands. To ignore errors in the update, use the new --try-manifest-update global flag.

  • CLI: The deprecated --by-steam-id option has been removed from the backup, backups, and restore commands. You can use the find command to replicate this functionality.

  • CLI: Using --api mode would silence some human-readable errors that would otherwise go on stderr. Since the API output itself goes on stdout, there's no harm leaving the other messages on stderr, so they are now allowed to print. In the future, these messages may be integrated into the API output directly.

  • GUI: If you try to close the program while an operation is ongoing, Ludusavi will cancel the operation cleanly first before closing. To skip the cleanup and force an immediate close (like in previous versions), you can simply try to quit a second time, but this isn't recommended if you can help it.

  • GUI: Subsections now have a slightly distinct background color to help tell them apart.

  • GUI: Adjusted some spacing/padding. A few more scanned games can fit on screen now.

  • Log files now include timestamps.

  • Some obsolete fields were removed from the config file. This won't have any effect on you unless you were using a version older than v0.14.0. If so, then just update to v0.17.1 first so that Ludusavi can migrate the affected settings. Fields: manifest.etag, backup.recentGames, restore.recentGames, and restore.redirects.

  • Some config fields weren't serialized if they matched the default value. Now they're serialized anyway in case the default value were to ever change. Fields: backup.filter.excludeStoreScreenshots, scan.showDeselectedGames, scan.showUnchangedGames, and scan.showUnscannedGames.

  • Updated translations. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)

• Fixed:
  • Significantly improved performance of zip file extraction. Ludusavi had been unnecessarily reopening the zip for each file inside. In the most extreme case tested (40,864 files and 8.70 GB for a single game), the time was reduced from 12+ hours to 4 minutes.
  • In secondary manifests, relative paths (beginning with ./ and ../) were not correctly resolved.
  • GUI: In some cases, the scroll position would be set incorrectly when changing screens or when closing a modal.
  • CLI: A bare manifest command was allowed, even though it did nothing. You can still use manifest --help for subcommand info.
  • The log message "ignoring unrecognized Heroic game" could be recorded incorrectly when doing partial scans.

v0.17.1 (2023-04-10)

• Fixed:
  • GUI: As part of the thread configuration feature in v0.17.0, Ludusavi started defining a custom Tokio runtime initialization. However, this did not enable Tokio's IO and time features, resulting in a crash when attempting to display timed notifications.
  • GUI: When using the "customize" option from the scan list, the new custom game's fields were not filled in properly.
  • GUI: If a game was disabled, then the "back up" option in that game's "..." menu would not do anything.
  • GUI: If you scanned a few specific games in the list, but there were others in an unscanned state (recent games from a previous session), then the next full backup would only process the few games that were scanned.

v0.17.0 (2023-04-09)

• Added:
  • A new "removed" status (icon: x) is now displayed for saves. This indicates that a save from the latest backup no longer exists on the system. If a game has some removed saves, then that game will be marked as updated and will trigger a new backup. If 100% of a game's saves are removed, then the game won't be listed, and no backup will be performed.
  • Support for secondary manifests bundled with games. If a game includes a .ludusavi.yaml file, then it will be incorporated into the backup scan.
  • Option to sort games by status: new -> different -> same -> unscanned. This is now the default sort order for new installations of Ludusavi.
  • Option to override the maximum threads used for scanning games in parallel. You can also override this via the LUDUSAVI_THREADS environment variable.
  • GUI: On the backup/restore screen, you can click on the "duplicates" badge next to a game to filter the list down to just the games that conflict with it. You can click the badge again to reset the filter. If the badge is faded out, that means the conflicting saves have been resolved.
  • GUI: On the backup/restore screen, you can use the filter icon to show games based on whether they are enabled and whether they have duplicate or ignored saves. These filters are reset when you close the program.
  • GUI: On the other screen, there are new options to hide certain kinds of games. You can now hide games that are deselected, unchanged, and unscanned. These settings are saved between sessions.
  • CLI: Backup comments are now included in the output of the backups command.
  • CLI: Registry values now have the duplicatedBy field, like files and registry keys.
• Changed:

  • The standalone Linux release is now compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 18.04 because of a change by GitHub.

  • When making a new backup for a game, if the backup retention limits are reached for that game, but your full backup limit is only 1 and you have differential backups enabled, Ludusavi will now prune only the oldest differential backup and then make a new differential.

    Previously, Ludusavi would prune the full backup along with its associated differentials and then make a new full backup. That is still the case when your full backup limit is 2 or more, but there is now a special exception when it is only set to 1.

  • GUI: In the save file hierarchy, if a folder is disabled, it will now be collapsed by default. Also, when you re-scan a single game, its folders remain expanded or collapsed as you had them instead of reverting to the default state.

  • GUI: On the backup and restore screens, the search icon has been replaced with a filter icon, which reveals the existing title search along with the new filters described above. The sort settings are now always visible, and the "reversed" checkbox is replaced with an ascending/descending icon.

  • GUI: On the backup screen, the gear icon is now on the top row.

• Fixed:
  • Ludusavi only pruned old backups that exceeded your retention settings when making a new full backup, but not when making a new differential backup. Now, pruning is also performed as needed after a differential backup.
  • The backups command needlessly performed a full restoration preview when determining the available backups. Now, it only reads the mapping.yaml file for each game.
  • When using Heroic on Linux to run Windows games, save paths in the game install folders are now checked case-insensitively.
  • When a registry key was toggled off, but one of its values was toggled on, the key and value would not be backed up. Now, the key will be included along with just the selected values. The inverse (key toggled on and values toggled off) was working correctly.
  • GUI: The window would lock up briefly at the start of a backup/restore. This was more noticeable on slower systems.
  • GUI: On the backup screen, in the list of saves for each game, you can now toggle the file system root when it is on a line of its own. Previously, it did not have a checkbox in this case.
  • GUI: On the other screen, backup exclusions could be formatted incorrectly if you tried to undo/redo before making any changes to them.
  • GUI: On Mac, if a backup included multiple direct children of the root directory, then the first entry in the list would be displayed blank. It now correctly shows "/" to indicate the root directory.
  • GUI: On Mac, undo now uses the standard shortcut cmd+z instead of ctrl+z.

v0.16.0 (2023-03-18)

• Added:

  • Registry values are now listed individually, not just keys. This also means you can exclude specific values from the backup.

  • Registry backups now include binary values.

  • Registry backups now handle alternatives to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. For example, when Ludusavi tries to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\example, it will now also look for:

    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\example
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\example
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\example

  • GUI: In restore mode, you can create a comment on each backup. You can use this to keep track of how each backup reflects your game progress.

  • GUI: You can now reorder custom games, roots, redirects, and ignored paths/registry.

  • CLI: manifest show command.

  • CLI: --compression-level option for the backup command.

  • Updated translations, including new/partial translations for Dutch, French, Russian, and Ukrainian. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)

    A translation for Japanese has also been added, but it only has experimental support because of a technical limitation. You can enable it by editing the config file directly with language code ja-JP,

• Fixed:
  • When a save file failed to be backed up, Ludusavi would still record that file in the backup's mapping.yaml. Because of this, when Ludusavi would later check whether a new backup was needed, it would assume that the failed file had been backed up previously. Now, failed files are not recorded in mapping.yaml, so subsequent scans will detect that they still need to be backed up.
  • Heroic Wine/Proton prefixes containing a pfx subfolder were not detected.
  • Along with any explicit installDir entries in the manifest, Ludusavi tries to find each game's install directory based on that game's title. However, if that title was not valid as a folder name, then Ludusavi would never find it. Now, Ludusavi will ignore characters like : and ? that cannot appear in folder names.
  • For native Linux games installed with the Heroic launcher, the <storeUserId> path placeholder is now handled in order to detect more saves. (Contributed by sluedecke)
  • Ludusavi currently cannot back up registry keys whose names contain a forward slash. This limitation still exists, but now such keys are no longer listed incorrectly as two separate keys. This was only a display issue, because such keys were not included in the backup regardless.
  • GUI: If some saves failed to back up, then the scan buttons would stay deactivated, and you would have to reopen the program in order to do another scan.
  • GUI: If a game had a new registry value inside of a key that also contained other keys, then the game would be flagged as changed, but not the key with the new value. Now that values are listed individually, you can tell what changed.
  • GUI: Scrollbar position on the other screen overlapped some content.
  • GUI: Scroll position is once again preserved when switching between screens.
  • GUI: Some inconsistent element sizes and spacing.
• Changed:
  • GUI: Moved roots to the other screen.
  • GUI: Thanks to updates in Iced:
    • Text fields now have a blinking cursor.
    • Text fields now support shift+click to select text.
  • Thanks to updates in steamlocate, the titles of Steam shortcuts for non-Steam games are now looked up case-insensitively.

v0.15.2 (2022-12-22)

• Fixed:
  • Native registry saves on Windows were not restored.
  • When switching between dropdowns, they would briefly flicker with incorrect content.
  • Game titles starting with a lowercase letter were listed after all titles starting with an uppercase letter.
  • When using the folder picker for roots and custom game files, glob special characters were not escaped.

v0.15.1 (2022-11-25)

• Fixed:
  • The placeholder <winProgramData> was incorrectly interpreted as C:/Windows/ProgramData when it should have been C:/ProgramData. This affected the lookup of the normal location on Windows, but it did not affect Wine/Proton or VirtualStore paths.
  • For Wine prefixes from Heroic and Wine prefixes passed by CLI, the prefix's *.reg files were backed up even if the game in question was not known to have registry-based saves.
• Changed:
  • Updated translations. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)

v0.15.0 (2022-11-07)

• Added:
  • Steam shortcuts for non-Steam games are now detected. On all platforms, the shortcut's "start in" folder is used as the <base> path. On Linux, the shortcut's app ID is used to check steamapps/compatdata for Proton saves.
  • In Heroic roots, Ludusavi can now recognize games by their GOG ID. This helps resolve cases where Heroic and Ludusavi use different titles for the same game. The CLI find command now also has a --gog-id option.
  • GUI: On the Steam Deck, an "exit" button has been added to the other screen, to make it easier to exit the program while using game mode. Ludusavi checks if /home/deck exists in order to determine whether it is running on the Steam Deck.
  • CLI: --config option to set a custom config directory. (Contributed by sluedecke)
  • Updated translations. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)
• Changed:
  • Manifest updates now use gzip compression, cutting the download size to about 10% (e.g., 11.4 MiB -> 1.5 MiB).
• Fixed:
  • GUI: Notifications did not disappear when the window was inactive.

v0.14.0 (2022-10-29)

• Added:
  • Ludusavi now shows which games and files are new/changed compared to the last backup or restore. This is indicated by a + or Δ badge next to applicable games and files.
  • The Heroic launcher is now supported as a root type. Both GOG and Epic games are detected, as well as any Wine prefixes (on Linux).
    (Contributed by sluedecke)
  • Compression levels can now be customized for zip backups.
  • In addition to restoration redirects, there are now also backup redirects and bidirectional redirects. The redirect editor is now on the "other" screen instead of the "restore" screen.
  • GUI: On startup, Ludusavi will ask if you'd like to add any missing roots. It will remember your choice and won't ask twice for the same root.
  • GUI: The custom games screen now has a button to preview a specific game on demand. This lets you preview a custom game even if it's not yet in the backup screen's main list.
  • GUI: When previewing a specific game on demand, if it disappears from the list because save data can no longer be found for it, then a notification is shown to explain what happened.
  • GUI: The "other" screen now shows when the manifest was last checked/updated. There is also a button to refresh on demand. While the manifest is updating, a small notification is displayed at the bottom of the window.
  • GUI: Tooltips for some icons that may not be self-explanatory.
  • CLI: find command to look up game titles from the manifest. This incorporates the --by-steam-id option from the backup/etc commands and adds some new ones, like --normalized to look up games by an inexact name.
  • CLI: Backup options: --format, --compression, --full-limit, --differential-limit.
  • On startup, Ludusavi will prune any useless blank configurations (e.g., roots with a blank path).
  • Updated translations. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)
• Changed:
  • Increased scanning speed by 10% by avoiding some duplicate path lookups.
  • CLI: Deprecated --by-steam-id in the backup/backups/restore commands, in favor of the new find command.
  • Ludusavi will no longer migrate pre-v0.10.0 configurations to the current location.
  • A new cache.yaml is now used for some fields from config.yaml, specifically the recent game caching and manifest update tracking.
  • On startup, Ludusavi will only check for manifest updates if the last check was 24 hours ago or longer. Previously, it would check automatically on every startup. This was changed to avoid excess network traffic, because the manifest itself will be updated more frequently.
  • GUI: Styling is now more consistent for disabled buttons.
  • GUI: When adding a new root or custom game, the list automatically scrolls to the end.
• Fixed:

  • Backup files did not store the correct modification time on Linux and defaulted to the current time. This also affected Windows, but only for zip backups. (Contributed by sluedecke)

  • Zipped backup files did not store the correct permissions on Linux/Mac.

  • Proton and Wine files are now searched case-insensitively on Linux.

  • When Ludusavi tried to find a rough match for an install folder like "Some Game", it did not recognize that "Some - Game" was close enough.

  • GUI: Crash if you started a scan, clicked "find roots", and then clicked "cancel" while the scan was still ongoing.

  • GUI: When the manifest finished updating in the background, any currently open modal would be closed.

  • CLI: If you had the merge option disabled and passed --merge to override and enable it, it would be respected for the main --path folder, but not for game subfolders. When Ludusavi detected that a specific game needed a new backup, that game's subfolder would be cleared out first. If you had the merge option enabled by default, then this did not affect you.

  • CLI mode asked for confirmation when restoring, but backups behaved differently:

    • If the target folder did not exist, then the backup would happen without confirmation.
    • If it did exist, then the --force or --merge option had to be specified, even if you already had merging enabled in your config.

    Now, backups ask for confirmation unless you specify --force or --preview, and the confirmation phrasing is aligned with GUI mode.