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@mnadareski mnadareski released this 18 Dec 19:53
· 1543 commits to main since this release

This is the next pre-release that I had alluded to in 1.0.5. The big thing this time around is the .NET Framework is no longer supported as a platform for SabreTools. This frees up development to include a lot of new language features as well as focusing on actual, broad compatibility across platforms. This doesn't have much that takes advantage of the Framework removal, but I'll be taking a look at that for the next pre-release or stable release. Still haven't figured that out yet. So let's get on it:

Notable Changes:

  • .NET Framework 4.8 Removal - This is the reason that this release exists. No more .NET Framework 4.8 and the special exclusions that were made for it. Old-style switch statements in code and the ability to use RIPEMD160 hashes have gone with this change.
  • Console Color Fixes - For the longest time, if you were running the .NET Core build or you were running on mono, you didn't see a blue header when starting the program. Turns out, it was something dumb on my part completely unrelated to color that I had gated off. That's been fixed, so it should look identical cross-platform now.
  • Better Field Logging - Starting in the 1.0.5 cycle and ending in this cycle, the generic Field type has gone away internally. This was an unwieldly beast that included reference to every single field in a DatFile. Now, that's been split up into 3 different pieces and the last remnants of this behemoth have gone away. With that change, a lot of "hacky" stuff went as well, such as supporting non-standard field names for filtering and exclusion. This caused some confusion with those who tested 1.0.5, so better logs have been put around these cases to make it clear that a field name was not accurate (anymore).

A lot of lines changed, but not a lot actually changed. Next round will be making things look prettier internally with the hopes that I might even be able to move to .NET 5.0 entirely. record types anybody?