v0.8.8

Dockable workspace, profile-aware texture resolution, unified media
preview, and a slimmer setup wizard.

Added

• Dockable workspace — every panel is a QDockWidget with persistent
  layout state and a Window menu (toggle docks, Reset Layout).
• Auto AES prompt — when CUE4Parse reports unmounted archives, the
  prompt opens with affected names and GUIDs.
• Unified Media Preview tab plays audio and video with one auto-
  switching player and side-by-side per-kind history; replaces the
  Audio Preview tab.
• Video export — FileMediaSource resolves its embedded FilePath
  to a VFS entry; raw .bk2/.mp4/.webm/.mov extract byte-for-byte.
• Per-profile texture preset, material overrides dialog, and a
  keyword auto-detect fallback when suffix/param matching leaves
  slots empty.
• regex_suffixes in texture_presets.json; ships Obduction-style
  _DIFF/_NRM/_MASK/_METALLIC_MASK patterns.
• Tree right-click Expand/Collapse and Alt+click recursive expansion
  across the asset trees.

Changed

• AES key editing lives only in Manage Profiles; the Unpacker AES
  table is gone.
• Setup wizard drops the Game Folder and Output Directory pages
  (per-game settings live in profiles); replaced by a single Profile
  page with "Open Profile Manager…".
• Help menu sits to the right of Window in the menu bar.
• Bink (.bk2) and other Qt-undecodable formats fall back to an
  Open Folder shortcut so the asset is still recoverable.
• Legal language refreshed across README, About dialog, and first-run
  wizard. No license change.

Fixed

• Stale presets_path heals to the bundled file when the stored
  path is missing — fixes Verify Setup reporting a dead Google Drive
  path after the repo move.
• Texture resolver no longer pads Obduction master materials with
  unrelated keyword textures when the main pass resolved any slot.
• Unpacker hand-off only feeds Send-to-Queue files written this
  session, not stale PSKs from previous runs.
• Categorization fallback — case-insensitive game_folder, UE
  Content/Game marker, on-disk top-level folder name as last
  resort; reason surfaced in the asset detail dialog.

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v0.8.7

Unpacker performance and ergonomics: type-cache-backed asset filtering,
visual type indicators, and dropdown polish.

Added

• Type cache + heuristic scan — asset-type filter resolves without
  re-walking the archive, large trees stay responsive.
• Visual type indicators on Unpacker rows (mesh / texture / audio / etc.).

Changed

• Headless test suite — Qt tests run with no visible windows.

Fixed

• Unpacker filter dropdowns no longer get stuck or mismatch their state.

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v0.8.6

Mesh preview tab plus type-aware right-click previews across the Unpacker
and PSK Picker.

Added

• 3D Mesh Preview tab — full 360° orbit, see-through wireframe, fast load.
• Right-click "Preview Mesh / Texture / Audio / Properties" in the Unpacker;
  unexpanded .uasset rows offer all kinds, expanded rows show only the
  preview buttons matching their contained types.
• Right-click "Preview Mesh" + "Open containing folder" in the PSK Picker.
• Auto-detect UE version from the game executable's FileVersionInfo.

Changed

• More descriptive preview-failure status — "This asset has no data
  to preview" instead of "file exported but file not found".
• Optional dependencies cleanup and minor UI polish.

Fixed

• First mesh preview no longer fails with a stale "file not found" — the
  resolver rescans the temp dir for both flat and nested CLI layouts.
• Mesh previewer: UV-grid crash and wireframe leak between loads.
• Build script clears stale .NET artifacts before publishing CUE4ParseCLI.

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v0.8.5

Resilience and UX pass on top of v0.8.0. Full notes:
docs/architecture.md,
docs/troubleshooting.md.

Added

• Queue checkpoint + startup resume prompt for interrupted batches.
• Crash reporter writes redacted JSON under logs/ with a one-click
  "Open GitHub issue" path.
• Color Scheme dialog: live preview toggle and Reset to Default.
• Settings dialog: Restore Defaults button.
• Synthetic end-to-end pipeline test in CI (no external binaries).

Changed

• Defensive profile loading — corrupt JSON is quarantined to
  <name>.json.corrupt-<ts> and the GUI keeps running.
• "Set the game folder in Settings" prompts now point at Manage Profiles.
• Architecture / troubleshooting / release notes moved into docs/.

Fixed

• Theme-aware alert banner and swatch borders pick contrast from the
  active scheme instead of hardcoded values.
• Long asset paths in the detail dialog wrap and are selectable.
• Several minor cleanups: dead _terminate_then_kill removed, duplicate
  QGroupBox import dropped, hot-loop status-color lookup hoisted.

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v0.8.0

Pre-1.0 hardening release. Sweeping security, reliability, and UX pass across
the GUI, Blender pipeline, CUE4ParseCLI, and the CI/release chain.

Added

• Manage Profiles dialog — per-profile game/output/unpack paths, AES keys,
  mappings, and UE version live in a dedicated dropdown + editor instead of the
  global Settings panel.
• Custom color scheme editor with live swatches alongside the four built-in
  themes.
• Release verification — every ZIP ships SHA256SUMS and a signed
  build-provenance attestation; release notes embed sha256sum --check and
  gh attestation verify snippets.
• Setup wizard reachable from the Help menu (previously first-run only).
• CHANGELOG enforcement — release workflow refuses to publish a tag without
  a matching changelog block.
• CUE4ParseCLI --help / -h / /? usage banner.
• Per-run nonce protocol — Blender stdout is only trusted on
  ##ASSET_STATUS:<nonce>## lines so unrelated output can't masquerade as
  status. Mirrored in the blend combiner.
• Test coverage grew from ~250 to ~470 tests across unit / integration / Qt
  tiers; new e2e smoke suite for the real CUE4ParseCLI binary under
  tests/e2e/.

Changed

• Profile bar collapsed to a dropdown plus a single Manage Profiles button.
  Unpacker-tab edits no longer leak back into the saved profile unless
  auto_save_paths is set.
• PathPicker widget hoisted into gui/widgets.py for
  consistent path field UX.
• Filter rebuilds in PSK picker, asset browser, and text viewer are
  debounced — 40k-asset folders stay responsive while typing.
• Audio and image previewers decode and rmtree on QThreadPool with
  token-based invalidation so stale loads can't overwrite the active selection.
• Texture classifier uses longest-suffix-wins with priority_order from
  the preset JSON breaking ties — _OR can no longer shadow _ORM.
• Material parent chain capped at depth 32; case-mixed cycles terminate.
• Closest-path tiebreaker deterministic (path-len, then lower-cased
  string), insulating picks from candidate-list shuffles.
• Scan cache version mismatches archived to scan_*.json.bak.<ts>; backups
  older than 30 days pruned on launch.
• Processed-state auto-detect symmetric — deleting a .blend flips state
  back to False on the next load.
• JobManager terminates the live Blender subprocess on cancel and emits
  asset_updated(idx, state_dict) for GUI-thread state application instead of
  cross-thread mutation.
• MainWindow tracks worker threads, drains them on close, and writes scan
  caches off-thread.
• build.bat runs the fast test tiers as step [0b/5] and aborts on
  failure; CI builds fail if the CLI cannot be built or version_info.txt
  generation errors out.
• build_cli.bat uses --self-contained true + PublishSingleFile so
  dev rebuilds match the shipped artifact.
• sync.ps1 restore is non-destructive; backup additive unless -Force.
• Dependabot collapsed to a single weekly grouped PR for GitHub Actions
  updates.
• CI actions pinned to full SHA + version; default permissions
  contents: read, write scopes opted into per-job.
• PY_PYTHON=3.11 pinned in CI so the py launcher doesn't pick the
  runner's 3.14 (no PySide6 wheels). PySide6 upper bound bumped to <7.0.

Fixed

• Alert banner colors and swatch borders now follow the active scheme.
• Long asset paths wrap and are selectable instead of clipping.
• Blender pipe-drain failures are logged instead of swallowed.
• Settings dialog validates path-typed fields before save, clamps the timeout,
  and opens presets via QDesktopServices.
• Theme.apply skips no-op reapplies and only registers fonts once per process.
• Splash always closes even if the finish callback throws.
• Detail dialogs use WA_DeleteOnClose; menu actions gain &-mnemonics and
  standard shortcut keys.
• PSK MATT chunk parser bound-checks dims, returns (names, ok) so corrupt
  PSKs surface as scan_failed, and falls back utf-8 / cp1252 / ascii on
  material name decode.
• blender/material_setup.py uses named mix-node
  sockets and a BSDF_RENAMES table for Blender 4.x socket names
  (Subsurface / Specular / Transmission / Sheen / Clearcoat).
• blender/process_asset.py treats CANCELLED and
  "no mesh produced" as hard failures; .blend save is atomic (tmp file →
  os.replace) with a non-zero size check.
• blender/combine_blends.py refuses to save when
  nothing was appended.
• core/props_parser.py reads utf-8-sig, parses RGBA
  in any order, logs JSON errors with lineno/msg.
• build.bat parens inside if (...) blocks escaped — fixes the
  was unexpected at this time. abort at step [3/5].
• test_validate_re_runs_when_mtime_changes flake — explicit os.utime bump
  instead of relying on two consecutive write_bytes calls landing in distinct
  NTFS mtime ticks. Was the sole cause of the recent CI test-gate failures.

Security

• Path traversal — ProfileManager CRUD routes through _safe_path,
  blocking ..\, reserved Windows device names, and inputs that resolve
  outside profiles/. CUE4ParseCLI gains SafeJoin() at every write site
  (mesh / texture / anim / props / Wwise audio).
• DLL planting — Everything64.dll loader requires an absolute path and
  passes LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_SYSTEM32; bare filenames rejected.
• Secret redaction — new core/log_redaction.py
  masks key / aes / password / token / secret fields and inline hex
  blobs ≥ 32 chars across the root logger, the Blender cmd/stderr surface, and
  job log entries.
• AES error messages no longer echo raw bytes.
• Update check — GitHub responses capped at 64 KB, tag_name
  shape-validated, off-host redirects refused, non-github.com release URLs
  stripped before render.
• NDJSON DoS — CUE4ParseCLI child killed if its stdout buffer exceeds
  16 MB without a newline.
• Blender identity probe — --version checked once per session; refuses
  to spawn the render subprocess if the banner isn't Blender. Manifest
  allowlist (psk extension, absolute output path, .blend suffix,
  outputs-root containment, image-extension texture paths) enforced both
  Python-side and Blender-side.
• Supply chain — Oodle and vgmstream downloads pinned to tag + SHA-256;
  per-entry zip extraction blocks zip-slip.
• vgmstream invocation uses ProcessStartInfo.ArgumentList, eliminating
  the prior shell-quoting injection surface.
• Newtonsoft pinned to TypeNameHandling.None.
• Stdin oversize cap — 4 MB per-line limit on CUE4ParseCLI.
• Release tag must be an ancestor of origin/main before publish.

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v0.5.0

Initial public beta release.

Added

• Asset Scanner with Everything SDK for
  instant search across game directories.
• Material Resolver — parses .props.txt metadata, follows material
  inheritance chains, classifies textures by PBR slot (Base Color, Normal,
  ORM, Emissive, Roughness, Metallic, Mask).
• Headless Blender pipeline — imports PSK/PSKX, builds full PBR shader
  node graphs, saves .blend files. Reuses bundled io_scene_psk_psa
  extension.
• VFS Unpacker — built-in CUE4Parse CLI mounts .pak/.utoc archives
  with AES decryption and exports meshes, textures, animations, and audio.
• Batch processing queue with progress tracking, logging, and cancel.
• Per-game profiles for game folder, AES keys, UE version, and processed
  asset lists.
• Texture preset system with per-material overrides
  (data/texture_presets.json).
• WWise audio support — scans AkAudioEvent assets, exports WEM, and
  converts to WAV/OGG via vgmstream.
• Blend Combiner — merge multiple .blend files into a single grid
  scene.
• First-run setup wizard with auto-detection for Blender, Everything,
  and the .NET runtime.
• Auto-update check against the GitHub Releases API on startup
  (cached for 24 hours, fails silently when offline).
• Themeable UI — 4 built-in colour schemes (Dusk, Bloom, Slate,
  Midnight) plus a custom scheme editor.
• PyInstaller --onedir build producing a portable
  EfficientAssetRipper-win-x64.zip.
• CI/CD — GitHub Actions workflows for PR/main builds and tag-driven
  releases.
• Test suite — pytest unit / integration / Qt tiers (~8s),
  plus opt-in requires_blender / requires_everything /
  requires_dotnet_cli e2e markers.
• MIT License and legal disclaimer for asset extraction usage.