September 26th, 2024

NOTE: We've changed the Windows release to be a ZIP file you have to extract first. This was necessary to address antivirus false-positives caused by it extracting itself (dumb, I know). If you have concerns, please see #126.

Since the Last Release

• Use PyInstaller's onedir instead of onefile for Windows release builds (since the latter keeps making AV flip out; should help #126)
• Update PyInstaller to v6.10.0 (and disable bootloader building, to see if it helps with AV false-positives)
• Update/pin upstream steam/vdf packages (fixes UnicodeDecodeError with appinfo.vdf sometimes)
• Fix not resolving symlinks for Steam install paths on Linux (fixes #122)
• Add support for Pop_OS!'s new "Cosmic Terminal" (#121)
• Fix potential duplicate Steam install paths on Linux
• Steam Library Folders Config is no longer loaded twice
• Local version is now hardcoded inside of the script

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July 15th, 2024

Since the Last Release

• Fixed "Invalid magic" error caused by new Steam Client Beta appinfo.vdf format (fixes #117)
  • Special thanks to @sonic2kk and @Matoking who submitted pull requests to fix it in the upstream repos!
  • Those PRs still haven't been merged upstream, but their efforts enabled us to fix it in our forks of ValvePython's vdf and steam
• Added -steam_path argument (fixes #113)
  • Add this to your GModCEFCodecFix command line to override Steam path detection with a path of your choosing
  • Example: ./GModCEFCodecFix-Linux -steam_path "/opt/customsteamdir"
  • Useful if you must have multiple Steam installs for some reason (not recommended!), or installed Steam somewhere non-standard
• solsticegamestudios/gmod-html@333505b: Flatpak/Snap/AppImage are now ACTUALLY supported on Linux
  • Special thanks to @Davilarek for reverse-engineering the gmod executable on Linux and patching it!
  • If you want to know more about the efforts that went into this, check out this comment
• Fixed the Join Discord button on the main menu "CEF failed to load" warning
• Updated the app icon
• Updated to PyInstaller 6.9.0 for our app builds

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May 30th, 2024

Since the Last Release

• Fixed crashing issues caused by CEF 124.3.0-124.3.4 (by updating to 124.3.5)
• Downloading patch files no longer times out, ever (fixes #108)
• Added multi-Steam install detection for Linux
• Updated Proton warning for Linux to say what version is needed for GMod/CEF to work with it

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May 2nd, 2024

Since the Last Release

• Updated to CEF 124.3.5 (Chromium 124.0.6367.119)
  • Note: CEF updates happen independently of CEFCodecFix releases, with updates to the manifest. This is just an FYI!
• We've made a new guide for installing/using GModCEFCodecFix
  • We think it's more user friendly than the old forum posts. Let us know if you have any suggestions for improving it!
• Steam installed through Snap is now supported on Linux (#105, fixes #102)
• solsticegamestudios/gmod-html@f25e088: chromium.log is now rotated so log files don't stay on disk and grow forever
• solsticegamestudios/gmod-html@92ebc22: GMod's -multirun launch option now works again
• solsticegamestudios/gmod-html@3e7d15f: Flatpak/Snap/AppImage are now supported on Linux and disable CEF sandboxing which prevented it from working before (fixes #64)

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Hotfix: March 17th, 2024

Since the Last Release

• Replaced the libraryfolders.vdf approach for locating GMod installs (because it wasn't very reliable) with one that looks for the GMod appmanifest instead

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March 13th, 2024

Since the Last Release

• Updated to CEF 120.2.7 (Chromium 120.0.6099.234)
  • Note: CEF updates happen independently of CEFCodecFix releases, with updates to the manifest. This is just an FYI!
• The requests library has been replaced with httpx
  • This should improve patch download speeds (with brotli) and solve a couple of edge cases with HTTP proxies
• Changed how we locate GMod installs by leveraging libraryfolders.vdf
• Patching for Windows 32-bit is enabled again, but isn't stable and probably won't work
  • This is pretty much just so devs can use -tools with GMod patched. We continue to recommend using 64-bit for all other scenarios
• Updated to Python 3.12 and PyInstaller 6.5.0
• Updated relevant SGS website links

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September 29th, 2023

Since the Last Release

• Updated to CEF 116.0.27 (Chromium 116.0.5845.190) CEF 120.2.7 (Chromium 120.0.6099.234)
  • Note: CEF updates happen independently of CEFCodecFix releases. This is just an FYI!
  • This includes the fix for CVE-2023-4863
• The tool now uses a temporary directory for patch files (solves certain scenarios with read/write issues)
• Fixed Steam path detection for Flatpak

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July 31st, 2023

Since the Last Release

• Fixed Proton detection in some scenarios

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July 27th, 2023

Since the Last Release

• Added Steam Proton support (#34, thanks @snowkat!)
  • GMod in Proton may or may not work for you! We don't recommend using it over the Native Linux build in most circumstances
  • On Steam Deck / Arch Linux at least, there's a noticeable improvement in performance and typing works (#53), at the cost of missing emojis and some font rendering issues
  • You'll likely need to add PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE=1 %command% to GMod's launch options for Proton to work
• Fixed issues with GMod's main menu following Site Isolation being re-enabled

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June 21st, 2023

Since the Last Release

• Improved GMod state checking, so we no longer try to do stuff to GMod while Steam is already working on it
• Added check to see if GMod has an update pending (and stop the script going further until it's done)
• Added check for -nochromium launch option
  • Some guides include it, which leads to confusion when CEF doesn't work
• Fixed re-downloading Patch files every time the tool is run against unpatched GMod

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