v2.4.0-rc.2

What's Changed

• Fix Titlebar issues

v2.4.0-rc1

What's Changed

• Add more file manager options for Linux
• Build caching automation
• UI settings fix
• Move project form PyQt5 to PySide6
• Popup window refactor

v2.3.2

What's Changed

🛠️ Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the console would be shown despite the Hide Console on Startup option being turned on.
• Fixed a bug where old Blender builds were filtered out due to the new platform change.

v2.3.1

What's Changed

🛠️ Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that made the Daily/Experimental and Bforartists builds unavailable for download.

v2.3.0

What's Changed

💡 Features:

• Bforartist builds are now downloadable directly through the Blender Launcher.
• Added the ability to launch .blend files directly with the Blender Launcher! File Association
• New option for the delete build action (Send to trash / Delete).
• Pressing Shift in the right-click menu will show alternative options for removing a build.
• Blender Launcher is now available through Winget on Windows.
• macOS builds are now available to download (bugs are suspected).
• New option to open the Blender preferences folder.
• New settings panel to hide and stop scraping specific branches of Blender (e.g., daily).

🛠️ Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the ARM64 version would be downloaded instead of the x64 version on Windows.
• Fixed a bug not displaying the LFS label for the LFB version.

⚙️ Others:

• Implemented a basic Blender Launcher API to reduce the number of requests to the Blender Foundation server.
• General tag settings rework.
• Added tooltips to all the settings.
• Improved the connection header for the Blender Foundation web request (implementation of a user UUID).
• Improved app build workflow.
• Created a new project page on GitHub to better track the development of the program. Blender Launcher Project page
• Blender will now launch without the console in the background by default.
• Changed the default main window size.

v2.3.0-rc.2

What's Changed

• Remove launch target by @zeptofine in #143
• Create Github Action to release winget package by @jo-chemla in #142
• add dateparser functionality by @zeptofine in #147
• Support the major Blender fork Bforartists by @devesnosy in #151
• Replace Resources ImportError with Graphical Warning by @zeptofine in #148

Full Changelog: v2.3.0-rc.1...v2.3.0-rc.2

v2.3.0-rc.1

What's Changed

• move launching logic outside of LibraryWidget by @zeptofine in #126
• remove cache fallback by @zeptofine in #133
• Add Cli launching, file associations, shortcut generation by @zeptofine in #127
• Connection header improvements by @Victor-IX in #129
• Settings Tooltips by @Victor-IX in #137
• Settings General Tab Rework by @Victor-IX in #138
• Basic API Implementation by @Victor-IX in #136
• Allow sending files to trash instead of deleting by @zeptofine in #135

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0-rc.1

v2.2.0

What's Changed

💡 Features:

• Add a message to notify the existence of tray icon feature for Windows version
• Library Folder can now be relative to the Launcher location
• Improve Column Ordering, it's now possible to have ascending and descending ordering
• Add option to show archived builds for daily and Experimental Download

🛠️ Fixes:

• Fix a build ordering bug in the download tab
• Fix a bug caused by specific timezone on Windows

⚙️ Others:

• Documentation Update
• Improve GitHub Action to create automatic build
• UI improvement in the Settings menu
• Blender Launcher has been added to the Archlinux User Repository (maintained by @sakarimo)

v2.2.0-rc.3

What's Changed

• fix: scraped list not sorted by @dshot92 in #113
• Add option to scrap archive builds by @Victor-IX in #115
• Allow relative library folders by @zeptofine in #116
• Invert Columns Order by @Victor-IX in #120

Full Changelog: v2.2.0-rc.2...v2.2.0-rc.3

v2.2.0-rc.2

What's Changed

• Add a message to notify the existence of tray icon feature by @zeptofine in #107
• Fix build error for Linux by @sakarimov in #111
• Filter Windows build with CPU Architecture @zeptofine @Victor-IX in #106
• Adding a Dropdown menu to select the minimum blender version by @Victor-IX in #102

Full Changelog: v2.2.0-rc.1...v2.2.0-rc.2