Release 5.11.0
Pre-emptive upload to VirusTotal. (Unsigned Installer)This release includes a number of new features and improvements, including a new Beta Update Track for testing future updates, enhanced context menus for text entry fields and UI elements, a revamp to the existing translation system and logging capabilities, and more. This release includes the Python Image Library (PIL) into our core bundle, adds a number of stability and configuration checks to the tool, and adds new schemas and configuration values to senders.
This release also includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and updates to various aspects of the code to enhance maintainability are included. Notably, MacOS support has been removed due to a lack of support for this OS in Elite, and a number of functions have been deprecated and will be removed in later versions. Plugin developers, take note!
What's Changed
- Established a Beta Update Track to allow users to assist in future update testing
- Added a global context menu for text entry fields that includes cut, copy, and paste options
- Added a context menu for Ship, System, and Station UI elements which allows opening the respective link in any of the available resource providers.
- Added translation hooks to the update available status string
- Added additional status logging when we're awaiting game log-in
- Added the Python Image Library (PIL) to the core EDMC library bundle
- Added respect for EDSM API limits to the default plugin
- Added EDDN stationType and carrierDockingAccess schemas to the sent events
- Added MaxJumpRange and CargoCapacity events to the Inara sender
- Added a high-level critical error handler to gracefully terminate the program in the event of a catastrophic error
- Added the ability to override the default language for a translation by adding the optional 'lang' parameter to the translate function for individual functions
- Added an updated template and new security reporting guidance to the documentation
- Added a new updater for the FDevID Files to keep the dependency up to date without requiring a new patch version push
- Added a System Profiler Utility to assist with gathering system and environment information for bug report purposes
- Added a new security policy for responsible disclosure of identified security issues
- Adds Additional Error Processing to the System Profiler when launched from EDMC
- Adds the ability to resize the Settings window to larger than the initial default size
- Enabled security code scanning on the GitHub repository
- Tweaked a few list length checks that could just be boolean to be bool
- Updates the look and feel of the "Already Running" popup to reduce overhead and improve the look of the popup
- Updated translations to latest versions, including a new language: Ukranian!
- Updated documentation to reflect certain changes to the code
- Updated the GitHub Bug Report template
- Updated the GitHub Pull Request template
- Updated internal workflows to more recent versions
- Updated util_ships to avoid using Windows reserved file names as output
- Converted all usages of the unnecessary OrderedDict to use the standard dict
- Clarifies the hierarchy of parent classes for custom MyNotebook classes
- Renamed the default translation function from
_()totr.tl() - Renamed the Translations base class to conform to Pythonic standards
- Deprecated the
_Translationsclass - Deprecated the
Translationssingleton in favor oftranslations - Unpinned several dependencies that were already dependencies of other dependencies to prevent dependency conflicts (say that 5 times fast)
- Updated a few type hints to allow updates to more updated dependencies
- Changed the translation function import to no longer rely on forcing it into Python's builtins
- Handed over a few tk classes to their ttk equivalents for better styling
- Reworked the Plugin system to no longer use the deprecated importlib.load_module()
- Deprecated nb.Entry and nb.ColoredButton as they simply point toward other classes with no processing
- Removed macOS support
- Removed deprecated modules.p and ships.p files
- Removed deprecated openurl() function
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where certain types of exceptions from the Requests module wouldn't be handled properly regarding killswitches
- Fixed a rare bug where source builds running on 64-bit Python could generate an OverflowError in the monitor system
- Fixed a bug where EDMC would open directories in the webbrowser instead of the file explorer on Linux
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause the EDSM plugin to crash due to missing configuration values
Plugin Developers
- nb.Entry is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to nb.EntryMenu
- nb.ColoredButton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to tk.Button
- Calling internal translations with
_()is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to importingtranslationsand callingtranslations.translateortranslations.tldirectly -
Translationsas the translate system singleton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to thetranslationssingleton -
help_open_log_folder()is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to open_folder() -
update_feedis deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate toget_update_feed(). - modules.p and ships.p are deprecated, and have been removed
- The
openurl()function in ttkHyperlinkLabel has been removed. Please migrate towebbrowser.open()
