v2.5.2 RC 1

Windows 10 1809+ or Windows 11 are now required due to the upgrade to Qt 6 and Python 3.11.
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 14.40.33810.0 required.

Starfield Creation Support

Various fixes and improvements for compatibility with the Starfield Creation update.

• Added new core plugins to the primary plugins list
• Utilize Starfield.ccc to 'fix' the load order of core plugins
  • By default, Starfield now loads core plugins after plugins.txt unless required by a dependent plugin
  • This forces the plugins to a default early load order, making the plugin memory addressing easier to predict and less prone to unintended record conflicts
  • The file is written to the active profile and virtualized to the game and My Games directories
• Removed various now-irrelevant checks
  • Plugins.txt Enabler is obsolete
  • Light-flagged plugins no longer generate warnings
  • Remove overlay-flag checks until such time as they actually become relevant
• Added support for new 'medium'-flagged plugins
  • These use FD memory addresses which will display in the plugin list
  • A warning will display if a plugin has both a light and medium flag in the header as this could indicate record reference corruption and could break the game
• Added creation kit to default executables
• Updated save parsing to handle the newer save format
• Added support for Creations parsing from ContentCatalog.txt
  • Creation mods pull both names and file lists from the content catalog
• BSA Packer now supports Starfield archive formats
  • Dummy plugins are now saved as light-flagged ESMs
• LOOT support is now automatically enabled with the addition of libloot 0.23.0

Game Fixes

• Add detection for Skyrim VR light plugin support SKSE plugin (#29)
• Allow TTW to pull Nexus categories from FNV
  • Still need a better solution for categories from secondary game sources
• Allows previewing and parsing the new BA2 versions of Fallout 4

Plugin List

• ESL plugin files are no longer displayed in the plugin list for games that don't support them (#2026)
• Removed the strike-through appearance for dummy plugins and replaced it with a flag icon (empty box) (#1941)
• Speed improvements for plugin list refresh (#2046)

Others

• USVFS can now ignore specified directories and file patterns (usvfs#61, #2033)
  • By default .mohidden files and .git directories are ignored
• Files from BSA archives can now be previewed (provided the corresponding plugin supports the feature) (#2056)
• Custom themes can now define a different base-style by putting a /* mo2-base-style: Fusion */ comment at the start of the .qss file (#2072)
• Added button to open log directory from diagnostic tab (#2028)

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash if no Nexus category is mapped to a MO2 category in the category editor when closing the editor
• Python
  • Fixes crashes with some characters in strings, e.g., emoji characters (#120)
  • Isolate MO2 python from system-installed python modules (fixes startup issues with python plugins) (#121)

Development

MO2 Plugin Interface

• Add displayGameName() and lootGameName() to the game plugin interface (uibase#141)
• Support for displaying preview from memory data (uibase#153)
  • Add IPluginPreview::supportsArchive() and IPluginPreview::genDataPreview()
• Non-game third-party plugins can now register custom mod content or mod checker. (uibase#146)
• Expose mobase.INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE to Python plugins (#131)

Others

• Improved debug support (mob#136, mob#137)
• Drop fmtlib for std::format (uibase#143)

Updated dependencies

• 7zip 24.05
• boost 1.85.0
• libloot 0.23.0
• openssl 3.3.0
• Qt & PyQt 6.7.1
• Python 3.12.3
• spdlog 1.14.1
• zlib 1.3.1
• explorer++ 1.4.0