Happy New Year!

[malware-dev]

Another year is behind us. There's been a few roadblocks this year, one which I'm still working to fix... but we're getting there.

These are the preliminary plans for the first part of 2025:

• First of all; fix the dotnet9 problem: When Microsoft updated Visual Studio, they decided to remove the .NET 8 SDK and replace it with .NET 9. This meant that MDK was unable to find compatible build tools causing failures. At the same time, if I just naively update MDK to dotnet9, everyone who have not yet updated will get an mdk that doesn't work.., because dotnet9 is not installed. The solution to this is to build an MDK version that includes everything it needs, so it's self-sufficient. The problem with this is that WPF doesn't tolerate that kind of packaging, so I need to rewrite the notifier app to use Avalonia instead - which does.

• Second thing is to finally add mod support. This means modding templates, as well as a packager that works for mods, as it does for scripts.

Both of these tasks have been started on, and the holidays allowed me to put a fair bit of work in too. As usual I can't say anything on when specifically these features will be released... When they're done, I guess :D

• Third thing... I really have to get that documentation moved, which means finishing the new documentation generator... this one is also started on, but it's tedious so I have a hard time finding time to work on it 😅

I wish you all a very happy new year!