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Most Recent Changes

--0.22.0--

Features

• Added per-system settings, with automatic fallback to the global value

• Added -n/--system flag to config to scope operations to a specific system (supports % globs)

• Added per-system settings to the web UI, from a dropdown on each system entry

• Added romfile download support to the web UI

• Added an About modal to the web UI, showing version, dependencies and statistics

• Added DAT import to the web UI

• Added Redump DAT download and update to the web UI

• Added notification history to the web UI

• Added -u/--update flag to import-dats to only import DATs for systems already in the database

• Improved ZIP support in import-dats to find .dat files in subdirectories (supports daily dat-o-matic packs)

• Added an optional native desktop app built with Tauri, sharing the CLI's database and settings

• Added an optional nod feature to handle RVZ and WBFS natively instead of shelling out to dolphin-tool and wit

• Added an optional sevenz feature to read archives and write ZIP natively instead of spawning 7-Zip

• Added real progress bars to RVZ and WBFS conversions with the nod feature

Changes

• Rewrote the web UI in Rust using Leptos, replacing the Svelte/Flowbite frontend

• Rebuilt the web UI on Web Awesome components

• Dropped Tailwind CSS, the UI is now styled by Web Awesome and a small stylesheet

• Made the web UI's three columns resizable, positions are remembered across visits

• Restored the per-field descriptions in the settings dialog

• Replaced the SKIP_PNPM build environment variable with SKIP_TRUNK

• Replaced the cdfs git dependency with a native ISO 9660 reader vendored from opticaldiscs

Improvements

• Sizes and notification times in the web UI now follow the reader's locale

• Notifications in the web UI now stack instead of replacing one another

• Checking an RVZ no longer extracts it to a temporary ISO with the nod feature

• Optimized dependencies in the dev profile, debug builds and the test suite are much faster

• Overhauled web UI colors for improved readability in both light and dark themes

• Fixed statistics table header color in light mode to match the systems and games table headers

• Overhauled CLI output for a cleaner, more consistent terminal experience

• Progress bars and log messages no longer overlap or corrupt each other

• Standardized messaging across all commands with clear icons and color coding

• Improved check-roms output with per-system pass/fail summary

• Revamped statistics card in the web UI with a tiled layout

• Revamped settings modal in the web UI with a two-column layout for easier navigation

• Cleaned up the entire codebase to be clippy-clean (~900 warnings)

• Modernized idioms: std::sync::LazyLock over lazy_static, no more extern crate

• Simplified the main() subcommand dispatch using matches.subcommand() destructuring

• Removed dead code, test-only helpers are now gated behind #[cfg(test)]

• Migrated error handling from simple-error to anyhow, errors now carry a full context chain

• Extracted the hashing and comparison helpers out of CommonRomfile

• Deduplicated the partition-by-extension blocks in convert-roms and export-roms (~560 lines)

• Unified convert-roms/export-roms CSO and ZSO handling behind a shared decoding layer (~440 lines)

• Moved convert-roms/export-roms NSZ, RVZ and WBFS handling onto the shared decoding layer

• Simplified convert-roms CHD handling

• Simplified convert-roms back-to-original handling

• Extracted CUE/BIN and CHD parsing helpers into transcode.rs

• Added a run_tool helper that centralizes external tool invocation

Fixes

• Fixed RVZ_COMPRESSION_ALGORITHM never having worked when set to bzip2, it was spelled bzip

• Fixed the notification list in the web UI not opening, it was clipped by the navbar

• Fixed the notification count badge sitting off the bell in the web UI

• Fixed the system actions menu in the web UI being clipped by its pane, and given proper alignment and hover

• Fixed the statistics card shifting up in the web UI whenever a modal opened

• Fixed the server not shutting down cleanly on Ctrl+C when SSE clients were connected

• Fixed convert-roms -f rvz --recompress leaving a stray intermediate .iso

• Fixed convert-roms -f chd failing on standalone RIFF (LaserDisc) images

• Fixed convert-roms -f original and export-roms -f original mispartitioning Switch files

--0.21.0--

Features

• Added sorting options for arcade systems

• Added -e/--extension flag to import-dats for setting custom extensions on original ROMs in the system

• Added support for exporting Dreamcast Redump images to GDI format in export-roms (based on gdidrop, credits to feyris-tan)

• Added -d/--delete flag to import-roms for hard deletion of unmatched and duplicate ROMs (alternative to --trash)

• Added -s/--save flag to download-dats for optionally saving downloaded DAT files to a specified directory

• Added purge system buttons in the frontend

• Added automatic detection of CHD parents in import-roms, provided they are in the same directory

• Added a romfiles card to the frontend

• Added new purge-irds subcommand to unassociate games from IRD files

• Moved invalid/duplicate ROM files in subdirectories of the Trash directory in import-roms

• Appended the first computed checksum to the trashed ROM filenames in import-roms

• Added an SSE endpoint for sending events to the web UI

Changes

• Retired the hash algorithm override in import-roms

• Repurposed the -a flag in import-roms to import files as-is (now supports non-original formats in DAT files)

• Improved ROM matching in unattended mode using similarity scoring

• Rewrote the frontend using Svelte/Flowbite

• Expanded on the -u flag of import-roms, now provides 2 options: skip (default) and first

Fixes

• Fixed an infinite loop when importing DAT files containing invalid parent references

• Fixed playlist names for games having stuff after the disc number

• Fixed JB folder game completion

• Fixed simultaneously importing ROM files that are shared between 2 or more systems (e.g. Commodore Amiga and Atari ST)

• Fixed importing of empty files, they are now ignored in import-roms and automatically created when a partial game needs them for completion

--0.20.2--

Add a new wanted game state in the web UI, replaces incomplete which now means games with some (but not all) its ROMs

Fix a regression when importing multi-track CHDs which contain tracks identical to other games

Fix parsing archives containing files with = signs in their names

Fix several issues affecting the import of MAME DATs

Fix regressions in rebuild-roms

Add a -f flag to rebuild-roms to force rebuilding with the same strategy

--0.20.1--

• Fix an import issue with Progetto MAME DATs

• Leave arcade CHDs untouched in convert-roms and rebuild-roms

• Fix a regression preventing directory imports

• Fix a crash in sort-roms when ROMs have no extension

--0.20--

• Dump isoinfo in favor of the native cdfs crate to parse IRD ISO headers

• Add a -x flag to import-roms to extract top-level archives before importing their contents

• Allow ordering CHD compression algorithms

• Use the new splitbin feature in chdman 0.265+, fixes Dreamcast CHD imports

• Add a new import-patches subcommand

• Add a new create-dats subcommand

• Fix special chars handling in 7z

• Make the ROM directory portable by storing relative paths internally

• Optimize the database upon exiting

• Add support for CHD HD and LD formats

• Allow importing multi-track CHDs without a CUE file (requires chdman 0.265+)

• Use mimetype infering using file magic where possible

• Add support for disk tags in the MAME CHDs DAT

• Apply GROUP_SUBSYSTEMS to custom system names as well

• Autodetect MAME DATs as arcade and remove the -a flag in the import-dats subcommand

• Iterate over all hash algorithms when matching and checking roms in all subcommands

• Remove the HASH_ALGORITHM setting

• Add support DATs with no size information such as the MAME CHD DATs

• Parse CHDs data SHA1 and match against it first where applicable when importing CHDs

• Support importing MAME CHDs based on the CHD SHA1 contained in the DAT (aka not the actual data SHA1)

--0.19.0-- 

• Add a -n flag to import-dats to override the system name

• Enhance the rom matching algorithm in import-roms to reduce prompts when multiple matches are found

• Use createcd/createdvd and extractcd/extractdvd appropriately for CDs and DVDs

• Add a -r flag to convert-roms to recompress files that already match the target format

• Add configuration options for chdman

• Add support for CHD parents, enable via the CHD_PARENTS settings

• Add a -u flag to config to unset nullable settings

• Add a -p flag to convert-roms to prompt for an optional CHD parent when converting to CHD

• Change -s in various subcommands to accept SQL wildcards

• Change -n to -g (for game) in various subcommands and make it accept SQL wildcards

• Change -g to -o (for one g one r) in various subcommands

• Add an option to scrub RVZ in export-roms

• Fix reimporting an orphan archive containing multiple files or a CHD ROM in import-dats and download-dats

• Sort CHD parent prompt by distance

• Fix converting archives to another archive format

• Fix an issue where converting an archive back to original would only delete the archive

• Support 7zz and 7z on all systems, in that order

• Improve the IRD game matching prompt when the IRD game name is all caps and the Redump name is not

--0.18.1--

• Bump minimum required chdman version to 0.264 for dreamcast

• Fix dreamcast system being skipped even with the correct chdman version

--0.18--

• Replace async-std with tokio

• Add an info subcommand to display basic system and dependencies information

• Only generate playlists for complete sets of games

• Exit gracefully in most places when missing an external program

• Use 7zz instead of 7z on mac

• Don't silently delete files in check-roms

• Add support for ZSO

• Add optional dependency on bchunk

• Allow filtering games by name in check-roms

• Traits! Makes parts of the code actually reusable

• Add an optional post-conversion check

• Fix importing a couple more bogus DAT files

• Accept ZIP files as input for import-dats

• Add a -u flag to import-roms to skip user prompts

• Add a -s flag to convert-roms to select systems by name

• Update the -s flag in import-roms to behave the same as in convert-roms

• Add a -f flag in purge-roms to track and delete foreign files in the ROM directory

• Add a new export-roms subcommand

• Add support for WBFS in export-roms

--0.17--

• Clean temporary files immediately in convert-roms

• Include Non-Redump DATs in the grouped subsystems

• Don't create empty directories

• Fix paths displayed on Windows

• Add support for importing CIA files

--0.16--

• Use original names for PSN stuff

• Add a language whitelist setting

• Always name archives after the game name

• Add support for NSZ

• Expose most settings in the web UI

• Make ignored status take precedence over complete status in the web UI

• Additionally match the whole flag string to allow discarding specific flag combinations

• Make purge-roms physically delete orphan ROMs

--0.15--

• Use archive name and directory names in the archive when importing arcade games

• Also use the file name in the archive when importing arcade games

• Rework import-roms to only ask for a system when desired or necessary

• Rework rebuild-roms to make it a lot faster

• Fix completion computation for arcade systems

• Don't automatically trash invalid roms, put the mechanic behind a flag

• Add a flag to force import existing roms

• Use native rust implementations by default (openssl-sys -> rustls, libz-sys -> miniz_oxide)

--0.14.1--

• Fix game filtering in the web UI with the new 1G1R system

--0.14.0--

• Add the ability to sort ROMs in alphabetical subfolders

• Add a catch-all region ZZ in REGIONS_ALL for the sort-roms hybrid mode

• Add a GROUP_SUBSYSTEMS toggle, if true merge variants of the same system in a single directory

• Support MAME DAT files that use non-standard machine instead of game tags

• Add various compression settings for 7Z, ZIP and RVZ

• Add a new generate-playlists subcommand

• Fix pure 1G1R sorting with parent-clone groups that have no ROMs

• Add a REGIONS_ONE_STRICT option to switch between strict and lenient 1G1R election

• Fix 1G1R sorting when revisions are clones

• Display an appropriate message when a ROM has already been imported

• Add a PREFER_FLAGS to give a boost to specific flags in the 1G1R election process

• Add PREFER_PARENTS, PREFER_REGIONS and PREFER_VERSIONS settings to influence the 1G1R election process

--0.13.0--

• Remove the ROM original extension from archives, it makes RetroArch name its saves differently between imported and non imported games

• Fix the sort-roms prompt to proceed

• Allow creating solid 7z archives

• Skip games with unparseable names in import -dats

• Fix successive import of invalid ROMs with the same name in import -roms

• Greatly speed up purge -systems

--0.12.0--

• Change --missing to --wanted in sort -roms to avoid confusion with the same purge -roms flag

• Add a purge -systems subcommand (WIP)

--0.11.1--

• Fix import-roms CLI flags

• Fix import-roms 7Z CRC parsing

--0.11.0--

• Put CHD, CSO and RVZ support behind features

• Add support for PS3 IRD files, along with a new import-irds subcommand

• Add support for PS3 updates and DLCs

• Allow selecting the checksum algorithm in import-roms (useful for JB folders which only provide MD5)

• Add a new benchmark subcommand (Linux only for now) to measure the performance of checksum algorithms

• Support moving files across different filesystems

• Fix a parsing issue on DAT files with duplicate "clrmamepro" fields

--0.10.1--

• Fix RVZ conversion

--0.10.0--

• Fix version sorting in 1G1R when parent is missing or unwanted

• Treat the first elligible clone as parent in 1G1R when parent is missing

• Greatly improve completion calculation in sort-roms

• Add support for the Atari 7800 header definition

• Embed some no-intro header definitions and use them as fallback

• Add initial support for arcade systems

• Add a new rebuild-roms subcommand for arcade ROM sets

• Add support for RVZ via dolphin-tool