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1.0.0 (2026-10-22)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• connection: Tender requires RomM 5.3.0 or newer; older servers are refused at connect.

Features

• artwork: fill only a game page's empty artwork slots and record what SteamGridDB had (#2392) (b0d7d1c), closes #1766
• artwork: give a shortcut its SteamGridDB icon once its ROM gains an id, and record the icon like the wide grid and the logo (#2417) (baacc7e)
• artwork: give every shortcut its SteamGridDB icon from a background job (#2182) (f3ea3a1)
• artwork: give every shortcut its wide grid and logo from the shortcut artwork job (#2401) (5a9101b), closes #2295
• artwork: keep an icon somebody set on the game page's first visit, and fetch the page's icon through the per-slot path (#2424) (8c7ebf4)
• artwork: record the hero and the user's choices, and recognise an image set in Steam (#2499) (536065e), closes #2497
• atlas: run on emu-atlas 0.22.0 and name a RetroDECK not set up (#2266) (7eb0a19), closes #2265 #2234
• bios: judge one-of BIOS groups by region on emu-atlas 0.21.0 (#2172) (2da2b81), closes #1912 #2144
• bios: read the BIOS state of every platform the library lists (#2475) (e516ca0), closes #2456
• cleanup: the cleanup dialog says per game and per version what a cleanup would do (#2473) (ecb0967), closes #2432
• collections: name standard collections without a suffix under by_label (#2033) (49d2892), closes #1833
• connection: require RomM 5.3.0 (#2006) (c3b93f0)
• downloads: unpack a single zip that holds a disc image (#2480) (2f13843), closes #910
• emulators: vendor a zstd codec for the resolver where the system Python has none (#2310) (129409e), closes #1848
• folder: give Tender its own folder, at a place the user chooses (#2487) (b4057f1), closes #2385
• frontend: the panel runs without Decky Loader (#1932) (6f71fda), closes #1899
• gamepage: put Tender's section on Steam's game page through a seam of its own (#1968) (449a943), closes #1944
• host: serve the backend over a loopback HTTP and WebSocket server (#1920) (6e47c53), closes #1898
• inject: reload steam's js context when an earlier backend's panel is still loaded (#2038) (8f53704), closes #2009
• inject: the backend loads the panel into Steam itself (#1937) (7558291), closes #1900
• install: one-line installer, user unit, XDG layout (#1969) (73d7771), closes #1902
• install: run on Python 3.12, for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Linux Mint 22 (#2471) (7589175), closes #2467
• install: try the new version before anything is stopped (#2138) (c4856b2), closes #2126
• install: update an existing install and roll back when the new version does not answer (#2075) (3b5bd4b), closes #2011
• launch: never start a game through a switched-off emulator source (#2317) (2b13f84), closes #2269
• library: a shortcut whose version is gone from RomM stays bound to it, and its game page says so (#2428) (dde144f), closes #2407
• library: forward each collection's in-Steam count and owner name (#1994) (25001f4), closes #1833
• prune: load the cleanup list by itself and send its text whole (#2261) (b43c75f)
• qam: a setting for whether Tender's Quick Access entry sits above or below Decky's (#2324) (9726857), closes #2194
• qam: list the collection kinds with their collections beside them (#2002) (d47ef68), closes #1833 #1020
• qam: make Data Management an inventory of what this device holds (#1977) (1098819), closes #1817
• qam: mount Tender's panel behind its own Quick Access entry (#1946) (6af1586), closes #1942
• qam: redraw the removed-games review so its controls are within reach (#1986) (ec9fef7), closes #1817
• release: the tarball and its checksum ship with every release (#1975) (9ff3c06), closes #1904
• saves: take the save directory from the resolver and follow it when it moves (#2005) (89ea4ed), closes #1660 #1811
• settings: show an update as one block in Settings › Updates, and let Check now ask whatever the switch says (#2142) (5c504e3), closes #2123
• toasts: raise toasts through Steam's own notification store (#1953) (259aa99), closes #1943
• ui: the fallback page can install the update that repairs it (#2451) (a2331c1), closes #2437
• update: announce a newer release with a toast and three dots (#2180) (46ef739), closes #2125
• update: check for a newer release and show it in the panel (#2028) (c53ad5a), closes #2010
• update: install the offered release from Settings › Updates, and check for one while running (#2127) (a917ecb), closes #2012
• update: notify a failed update and show what its installer said (#2161) (5dacf4e), closes #2128
• update: tell the user what the last update did, and count a release only with its checksum file (#2110) (fb3b8b9)

Bug Fixes

• adoption: use these files keeps the file another version is recorded at (#2410) (fb6a65f), closes #2408
• artwork: a SteamGridDB key can be removed, Refresh Artwork downloads anew, and a refusal says what it is (#2412) (1d889e2), closes #1044
• artwork: the IGDB lookup for a SteamGridDB id never resolves, and the guide does not say how RomM provides the id (#2402) (7312191), closes #2336
• atlas: close the gaps the review of the RetroDECK folder work found (#2289) (df305e5), closes #2285
• atlas: use no root folder the resolver only assumed (#2359) (5af4649), closes #2294
• backend: close the gaps the epic #2023 fit audit found (#2345) (a030be2), closes #2337
• bios: take a library firmware file's platform from RomM's platform_id (#2503) (cfb7418), closes #2187 #1872
• bios: take the BIOS verdict from the resolver, per launching emulator and per file (#2457) (710448f), closes #2190 #1883 #1803
• call Tender by its name, not a plugin, in everything a user reads (#2245) (c705f15)
• ci: let release-please's version bump past the docs check (#1927) (f541941)
• cleanup: the cleanup's list shows a game gone from RomM that the library reached through a collection, or whose platform RomM no longer lists (#2445) (4976507), closes #2431
• deps: update dependency @decky/ui to v4.13.0 (#2462) (22e4682)
• deps: update dependency @decky/ui to v4.15.1 (#2483) (d8cc64b)
• downloads: leave an ended download alone when a late callback lands (#2062) (f1787c7), closes #2060
• gzip on JSON reads, refuse a conflict without a save id, count each BIOS file once (#2059) (7f3e649), closes #403 #1728 #1762
• host: tell a stranded panel so, instead of failing quietly (#2291) (55c07f7)
• host: unmask a websocket payload in one pass instead of per byte (#2020) (a75eab8)
• inject: call the globals installer before loading the panel (#1965) (1c85d2c), closes #1958 #1964
• installs: show a missing download instead of forgetting it (#2252) (fcbc26a), closes #2242
• install: the piped run mislays the greeter and the rows, and a backend outside the service goes unnoticed (#1980) (abda748), closes #1976
• launch: end a launch check that gets no answer in the fallback dialog (#2198) (8aafd87), closes #2173
• launch: gate the starts the launch watcher catches by the game ID Steam reports (#2157) (fe9f4ba)
• launch: let an observed stop overrule Steam's running-app list (#2171) (3cef99a), closes #2167
• launch: quote the ROM path for Steam's shell (#2304) (3037e37), closes #2302
• launch: start RetroDECK without its Wayland socket so Steam Input reaches the game in Desktop Mode (#2277) (c78c3b1), closes #2270
• launch: tell a running game by its display status, not by Steam's running list alone (#2312) (91894bb)
• library: a failed collection listing stops the run instead of reading as empty (#2116) (57301b5), closes #2112
• library: a platform listing that is not a list stops the run instead of reading as empty (#2120) (e902865), closes #2118
• library: drop the reachable_count fallback and say which syncs close the right > left window (#2083) (b47cd41), closes #2079
• library: full-fetch a platform holding a bound row its stamp's fetch did not return (#2093) (064c1a6), closes #2084
• library: keep a platform's stamp and revoke its skip when games it holds are unbound outside its apply (#2108) (9232cfc), closes #2094
• library: name a batch's failed BIOS files and re-read after a partial delete (#2375) (242365b), closes #2362
• library: put a refused platform sync write back to what is stored (#2066) (c443d6d), closes #2021
• library: skip a collection by the platform skip's rules (#2486) (e4510b3), closes #2477
• library: skip a platform only when its visible id set and its latest updated_at say nothing changed (#2472) (1f8f713), closes #2469
• library: the stale removal deletes the stamp of a collection holding a game it unbinds (#2114) (d636a86), closes #2106
• logging: record a frontend log line at the level its caller named (#1956) (b5ab0a5), closes #1954
• panel: offer no press a stranded panel cannot carry out (#2299) (69e8256)
• panel: the notifications-unavailable notice says a few failures are reported only by a notification (#2132) (0f62d86), closes #2130
• qam: answer the QAM's visibility where no navigation tree exists (#1970) (4553861), closes #1948
• qam: judge a focusable row by what Steam's nav node reads (#1972) (72a855b), closes #1930
• qam: keep the focus ring's room in every scroll region (#1982) (5e13dc0), closes #1981
• qam: keep the grid images count honest after a removal (#1985) (c86339f), closes #1817
• qam: landing on Tender's Quick Access icon takes focus off the strip (#2422) (cc5b81f), closes #2418
• qam: name the set the BIOS held ratio counts over (#1971) (0a81e75), closes #1910
• readme: read the release badge's version from the release manifest (#1926) (79323db)
• romm: a reply from the server or a local disk fault is never read as the server being unreachable (#2393) (269740f)
• romm: keep credentials out of error texts, tracebacks and logs (#2495) (b15543a), closes #1184
• saves: keep the active slot when a copy fails, and leave no partial download behind (#2514) (c1e3937), closes #2379
• saves: sync no save at a place the resolver did not read from the emulator's own settings (#2350) (187db4f), closes #2286
• saves: warn before leaving a version whose saves were never synced (#2500) (52c2f97), closes #1683
• saves: write the save-slot list's state under the ROM's lock (#2376) (ea26578), closes #2361
• services: hold every background task until it ends, and fail CI on one created outside BackgroundTasks (#2433) (c0e01cf), closes #1161
• session: toast the migration sentence after a game exits, and nothing while save sync is off (#2489) (fa5eb9c), closes #1021
• shortcuts: confirm a launch-options write from Steam's shortcut file when its re-read shows the old value (#2358) (a0d4601)
• shortcuts: log what the re-read saw when a launch-options confirm fails (#2351) (0700ac5)
• shortcuts: re-read launch options before reporting a failed confirm (#2287) (dc435b8), closes #2279
• six small backend fixes — atomic retroarch.cfg write, 0600 settings backup, and four more (#2049) (77464c0), closes #1871 #1166 #941 #1016 #1132 #810
• startup: the check asks the module registry, never steam's runtime state (#1947) (269671f), closes #1945
• steam: the backend and the frontend fold collection names by one rule (#2135) (5c45843), closes #2131
• sync: a sync that fails is reported by a toast and on the Sync page (#2122) (6a4271a), closes #2117
• sync: prefer a version with a file and refuse to download one without (#2377) (da5c20f), closes #2196
• sync: the preview counts collection changes by the names Steam holds (#2129) (f304c55), closes #2101
• sync: walk RomM's list pages in id order so a concurrent scan cannot shift them (#2349) (a9b6ae3), closes #2346
• ui: a game whose local file is missing says up front when RomM holds no file to download again (#2400) (2779956), closes #2399
• ui: a refused restore or copy says nothing, and the slot panels' expanded state is lost or stale (#2396) (8712b60), closes #1020
• ui: eight small fixes — the game's own BIOS answer, slow Steam entries keep their binding, Manual archive, and five more (#2053) (c6442ca)
• ui: read what Force Full Sync clears, and catch a render failure on the game page (#2344) (a63803f), closes #1859 #1018
• version-switch: rank the version picker's default by the default version RomM states live (#2476) (867938d), closes #743

Performance Improvements

• build: transpile typescript per file instead of compiling the program (#2095) (bbf4fec), closes #2039
• firmware: read the synced platforms with one query (#2326) (7f5824e), closes #2256
• gate: run the gate's independent steps side by side (#2086) (5114375)
• romm: read liveness probes and sibling stubs from /api/roms/{id}/simple (#2355) (a376e7d), closes #2353
• saves: scope negotiate to the ROMs the device asks about (#2352) (f4d6034), closes #1978
• sync: walk a collection only for the members no platform unit (762d8c1), closes #2356
• sync: walk a collection only for the members no platform unit delivered (#2372) (762d8c1)
• test: run the backend suite in parallel with pytest-xdist (#2063) (aacd485), closes #2039
• test: run the frontend suite on vmForks and import jest-dom per file (#2070) (a584d9b)

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