2.5.5

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Updated our download URL scheme to account for the operating system you are using

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.5.4

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Fixed an issue on macOS causing users to get stuck on the JRE downloading step
   

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.5.3

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Optimized the launcher updater
• Made sure client libraries get updated & fixed if corrupted

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.5.2

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Fixed an issue preventing the launcher auto updater from working properly
  • You’ll need to redownload the launcher manually from our website if your launcher was already upgraded to 2.5.0 or 2.5.1

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.5.1

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Reverted to Java 8u51 for systems with Intel HD Graphics 4000 (or older) GPUs to fix launching issues
  • Other systems will still use Java 8u401

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.5.0

💥 Upcoming breaking change

• Our next major launcher release will use a newer version of Electron, thus removing support for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.13-10.14
  • You will have to upgrade to Windows 10+, macOS 10.15 (Catalina)+ or move to Linux to keep playing
  • Linux support will be unaffected by this update (2018+)

🗃 Backend

• Added native ARM64 support for both macOS and Linux (in the launcher and the game itself)
  • This change should boost performance on Apple Silicon Macs and add support for ARM64 devices (like the Raspberry Pi) on Linux
• Upgraded JRE to 8u401 (8u111 is now unsupported)
• The JRE will now be redownloaded after a launcher update (unless you're using your own JRE)
• The game downloader will no longer attempt to download or cache Mojang’s metadata JSONs
• Fixed GPU info reporting in the log file

🖥️ UI

• The settings page will now show Unknown instead of Loading… when unable to detect a GPU

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Linux (ARM64) • Windows

2.4.3

💻 Backend

• Fixed an issue with the version manifest causing conflicts with our libraries - they have been completed omitted as we use newer versions.
  • This will fix certain game errors or crashes.
• Updated various dependencies to their latest versions for improved performance, security, and stability.
• GPU controllers will be easier to identify in logs

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Windows

2.4.2

📇 Auth

• Fixed some accounts not getting their tokens refreshed

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Windows

2.4.1

Bump various dependencies to their latest revisions.

No new bug fixes or improvements, unless a dependency issue gave you an issue.

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Windows

2.4.0

🎮 Assets/Game Updates

• CheatBreaker assets will no longer be prepackaged on game releases.
  • Future game updates will be at a vastly smaller size.
• There is now a backup assets file that will update more frequently.

💻 Backend

• Updated various dependencies to their latest versions for improved performance, security, and stability.

🛡️ VirusTotal analysis:

macOS • Linux • Windows