From 9d7b548ce020cb3d15c56ea796cc2caac1c84234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Scire Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:00:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ams: add changelog for 0.10.2 --- docs/changelog.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md index 87e259076..6c112f402 100644 --- a/docs/changelog.md +++ b/docs/changelog.md @@ -1,4 +1,38 @@ # Changelog +## 0.10.2 ++ hbl configuration was made more flexible. + + Up to eight specific program ids can now be specified to have their own override keys. + + This allows designating both the album applet and a specific game as hbl by default as desired. + + Configuration targeting a specific program is now mutually exclusive with override-any-app for that program. + + This fixes unintuitive behavior when override key differed for an application specific program. ++ Loader's external content fileystem support was fixed (thanks @misson20000!). ++ KernelLdr was reimplemented. + + This is the first step towards developing mesosphere, Atmosphere's planned reimplementation of the Switch's Kernel. + + The typical user won't notice anything different, as there are no extensions, but a lot of groundwork was laid for future development. ++ Improvements were made to the way Atmosphere's buildsystem detects source code files. + + This significantly reduces compilation time (saving >30 seconds) on the machine that builds official releases. ++ Certain device code was cleaned up and made more correct in fusee/sept/exosphere (thanks @hexkyz!). ++ A number of changes were made to the way fs.mitm builds images when providing a layeredfs romfs. + + Some games (Resident Evil 6, Football Manager 2020 Touch, possibly others) have enormous numbers of files. + + Attempting to create a layeredfs mod for these games actually caused fs.mitm to run out of memory, causing a fatal error. + + The code that creates these images was changed to be significantly more memory efficient. + + However, these changes also cause a significant slowdown in the romfs building code (~2-5x). + + This introduced a noticeable stutter when launching a game, because the UI thread would block on the romfs creation. + + To solve this, fs.mitm now lazily initializes the image in a background thread. + + This fixes stutter issues, however some games may be slightly slower (~1-2s in the worst cases) to transition from the "loading" GIF to gameplay now. + + Please note: the slowdown is not noticeable in the common case where games don't have tons of files (typical is ~0.1-0.2 seconds). + + Once the image has been built, there is no further speed penalty at runtime -- only when the game is launched. ++ A number of other bugs were fixed, including: + + Several minor logic inversions that could have caused fatal errors when modding games. + + Atmosphere's new-ipc code did not handle "automatic" recvlist buffers correctly, so some non-libnx homebrew could crash. + + fs.mitm now correctly mitms sdb, which makes redirection of certain system data archives work again. + + In 0.10.0/0.10.1, changing the system font/language did not work correctly due to this. + + A bug was fixed in process cleanup that caused the system to hang on < 5.0.0. ++ The temporary hid-mitm added in Atmosphere 0.9.0 was disabled by default. + + Please ensure your homebrew is updated. + + For now, users may re-enable this mitm by use of a custom setting (`atmosphere!enable_deprecated_hid_mitm`) to ease the transition process some. + + Please note: support for this setting may be removed to save memory in a future atmosphere release. ++ General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience. ## 0.10.1 + A bug was fixed that caused memory reallocation to the system pool to work improperly on firmware 5.0.0 and above. + Atmosphere was always trying to deallocate memory away from the applet pool and towards the system pool.