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Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented here.

[1.8.0] - 2026-08-27

New

  • touchdesigner terminal command — ~/.local/bin/touchdesigner is now symlinked to the launcher, so touchdesigner [project.toe] works from any terminal (parity with the AUR package's /usr/bin/touchdesigner). It works from the host and inside the container, and is removed on uninstall. The command answers -h/--help (usage) and -v/--version (tool version + installed TouchDesigner versions) without launching TD, --list adds full paths, and unknown -* flags are rejected with a usage hint instead of being treated as a .toe path. Flags parse in a loop, so they combine (touchdesigner --no-patch --verbose foo.toe): --no-patch skips the automatic .toe font-fix pass, --verbose enables Wine debug output. The tool version is baked into the launcher at generation time, so -v stays in sync with the installed version after each update.

  • Fix: --exe <path> on the launcher never worked — a stray ] in the template ([ -n "$2" ]]) broke argument parsing at runtime (invisible to bash -n). Both --exe <path> and --exe=<path> now parse correctly.

  • Container mode (Distrobox / Podman) — td-install --container <action> runs the whole install inside an isolated container, leaving the host untouched: no sudo, no 32-bit repository setup, works on immutable distros and SteamOS. First run creates a touchdesigner-linux container (Ubuntu 24.04, NVIDIA auto-detected via --nvidia, label=disable on SELinux hosts) and re-executes the requested action inside it.

    • The launcher, desktop shortcuts and .toe associations work from the host through a self re-entering shim (guarded by DISTROBOX_ENTER_PATH), and the Wine prefix stays in the shared $HOME.
    • --container-create recreates the container; --container-remove deletes it.
    • TD_CONTAINER_NAME / TD_CONTAINER_IMAGE env vars override the defaults.
    • New docs/container.md with GPU notes and known limitations.

  • --diagnose now reports container-mode status (distrobox installed, backend, container state, inside/outside).

  • CodeMeter runtime installation without msiexec — td-install --codemeter install <path> extracts a CodeMeter Runtime installer natively on the host and lays the files into the Wine prefix, bypassing the Wibu MSI that hangs under Wine's msiexec. Handles both Inno setups (innoextract) and WiX/MSI bundles (7z) — the official 7.60d download is a WiX bundle. Also copies the Wibu system DLLs (WibuCm64.dll/cpsrt.dll) into the prefix's system directories. First real test (runtime 7.60d): cpsrt.dll loads fine under Wine 9.0 (the c000007b failure only affects 8.41a/9.10), but CodeMeter.exe still stalls during startup — see docs/codemeter.md for the updated status and next steps.

Fixes

  • The one-liner (curl | bash) now works in minimal environments without git (e.g. a fresh distrobox container ships curl/wget but not git): install.sh falls back to downloading the installer tarball. Its /dev/tty reconnect also tests the open instead of the node's existence, so containers without a controlling terminal no longer error.
  • xdg-utils and file added to all distro package lists — the editor bridge (winebrowser.exe → xdg-open) and DXVK/winetricks both shell out to those commands, and minimal containers ship neither. Found by the first real container-mode install.
  • td-install --container install (bare action word) now works: argparse has no positional actions, so a leading install/update/uninstall (optionally after --container/--container-create) is translated to the flag form. --version is also handled before the container bootstrap now, so it answers without entering the container.
  • tests/test_distrobox.sh rewritten for the current flow (the old one referenced the long-gone python-rewrite branch).
  • DXVK installs were silently skipped on prefixes where Wine had already copied its builtin wined3d DLLs into system32: the "already installed" probe matched any PE32 DLL, so DXVK never activated and TouchDesigner ran on wined3d. The probe now rejects Wine-built DLLs (file → "for WINE"), and the DLL overrides are always (re)registered so Wine loads the DXVK copies from system32. DXVK bumped to 2.7.1.
  • Syphon/Spout Out TOP works with a real DXVK install (shared-texture path); with wined3d it errors with "Unable to share DirectX Texture". DXVK 3.x is not used: it crashes on the Spout node under Wine 9.0.

[1.7.0] - 2026-08-20

New

  • CodeMeter dongle / network-shared license tooling (td-install --codemeter). Detects the runtime in the Wine prefix, manages the client's Server Search List (add-server / remove-server / servers) via Wibu's official cmu32 --add-server / cmu.exe tools with a registry fallback, and the launcher auto-starts CodeMeter.exe when installed. The server side (native Linux daemon or the official docker-codemeter image, UDP/TCP 22350) is validated; the client side under Wine is currently blocked (the CodeMeter service won't start; see docs/codemeter.md for details and test results).
  • GitHub issue templates (bug report + feature request).

Fixes

  • Launcher failures are logged to logs/launcher.log and surfaced with a desktop notification instead of failing silently on icon clicks.
  • SteamOS is auto-detected and its read-only root filesystem is disabled before pacman steps (no more manual steamos-readonly disable).
  • openSUSE: zypper repos are refreshed before package installation.
  • Headless mode attempts wineboot in SSH/CI environments (fixes winetricks/vcrun when there is no display).
  • Interactive menu banner showed a hardcoded stale version (v1.4); it now shows the real package version.
  • AUR: licenses preserved across updates. The AUR launcher's ProgramData refresh no longer touches ProgramData/Derivative/ (the user's activated ins*.dat), and the license is backed up before wineboot/package ProgramData copies and restored after. This addresses a report that a paru -Syu (v1.6 → v1.6.2) update changed the System Code and consumed a second activation; the package ProgramData copy was the only code path that touched the license files, so it is now excluded entirely.

Docs

  • New docs/codemeter.md: dongle & network license guide (server setup on Windows/Linux/Docker, firewall, same-machine caveats).
  • docs/compatibility.md: added CodeMeter licensing status row.
  • docs/how-it-works.md: CodeMeter runtime section.
  • Runner test findings recorded (Wine 11 / Soda 11 hang, GE-Proton 11).
  • CI notes for maintainers.

CI

  • Weekly smoke test runs under xvfb so MS installers (vcrun2022) can create windows; verifies TouchDesigner.exe is actually installed; headless wineboot fallback; AUR-launcher/version drift guards in the test suite.

[1.6.2] - 2026-08-12

Tagged and shipped to the AUR, but never announced as a GitHub release; these changes are included in 1.7.0 for anyone upgrading from v1.6.

Fixes

  • Version-aware font-fix re-patch. wine_ui_fixes.tox injections are now fingerprinted; when a new fix ships, already-patched projects are re-patched automatically instead of keeping a stale fix. Stale .toc entries are also deduped so re-patching can't corrupt a collapsed .toe.
  • NVIDIA driver guard. The launcher no longer forces NVIDIA_only; it auto-detects the dGPU via nvidia-smi -L and only sets Prime offload vars when the driver actually works (fixes black screens on broken/missing NVIDIA drivers).
  • AUR launcher now auto-patches .toe files with the font fix, matching the curl-install launcher.
  • Full uninstall warns before deleting your TouchDesigner license activation (issue #26).
  • safe_rm hardened with a blocklist protecting /usr, /etc, /home and other system paths from accidental deletion.

Maintenance

  • tdascode/ (experimental .toe editing) removed from the repo; it lives on as its own project, TDAsCode.