v1.3.9

Added

• Installer now reads the RSI Launcher's settings file to auto-detect the Star Citizen
  install path during setup — most users no longer need to browse for it manually
• App settings also fall back to the RSI Launcher path on first launch if no path
  has been configured
• Uninstaller now offers to remove the DataForge game data cache (~1.4 GB) as an
  optional cleanup step

Fixed

• App settings are now stored as a plain JSON file in %APPDATA% instead of the
  Windows registry — settings survive reinstalls and are portable between machines
• Star Citizen install path chosen during installation is now correctly applied on
  the app's first launch — previously it was silently ignored when a settings.json
  already existed from a prior install
• Workers module failed to load on startup due to a stale import reference introduced
  when the string-loading service was moved — corrected
• Status bar text was clipped on narrower windows; body font size increased to 11 pt
• Variant string resolution now prefers the richer (longer) value when an _SCItem
  mirror key and its canonical form conflict — prevents short or empty values winning

Changed

• Activity spinner in the status bar now alternates between light blue and light
  pink while operations are in progress

Open Strings 1.3.1

What's fixed

Enhancements generation crashed immediately after DataForge extraction with \No module named 'xml.etree'.

Root cause: \generate_enhancements_ini.py\ is bundled as a data file so PyInstaller does not analyse its imports. \xml.etree.ElementTree\ lost its only analysed reference when \dataforge_patcher.py\ switched to lxml in 1.3.0, so it was silently dropped from the bundle.

All other 1.3.0 features are intact. If you installed 1.3.0, upgrade to this release to restore enhancements generation.

Assets

• \OpenStrings-1.3.1-Setup.exe\ — installer (recommended)
• \OpenStrings.exe\ — standalone portable executable

v1.3.0

Warning

This release has a critical bug. Enhancements generation crashes with \No module named 'xml.etree'. Please upgrade to v1.3.1.

Added - Frontend_PU_Version watermark written into global.ini on every Apply — marks which Open Strings version produced the file and stamps the SC build version alongside it - DataForge cache directory relocated to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Open Strings\<channel>\cache\dataforge to keep the ~1.4 GB XML tree outside OneDrive sync scope; one-shot startup migration from the old Documents path - Apply dialog per-category enhancement breakdown (Ships, Components, etc.) with category counts - Blueprint scanner widened to include the full blueprintrewards/ subtree for SC 4.8 compatibility - Versioned lookup cache keyed by "<version>:<fingerprint>" to invalidate stale generator caches across SC releases ## Fixed - Enhancement generators now correctly detect DataForge changes — a path prefix bug caused dirty_categories() to always return empty, so generators never re-ran after a DataForge update - Enhancement generation now skips unchanged categories instead of always regenerating all — reduces unnecessary DataForge re-processing after clean extractions - DataForge extraction progress dialog now stays open across the extraction→enhancement handoff and closes correctly on failure - g_language key detection is now case-insensitive (g_Language, G_LANGUAGE, etc. all matched) - Double-separator paths on Windows fixed at all path-setting call sites - "Copy Filtered" clipboard export now shows the true stock base.ini value in the "Original Value" column - Misleading "retrying…" log message on download timeout corrected ## Changed - Preview pane and Help/About panels now render with Atkinson Hyperlegible font - Log export filename changed from sc_loc_editor_{timestamp}.log to open_strings_{timestamp}.log - "Preview Merge" renamed to "Preview Apply" in the Config tab - "Smart Citizen Enhancements" label updated to "Open Strings Enhancements" in Apply dialog - Apply success dialog shows per-category enhancement counts - lxml >= 6.1.1 added as a dependency

v1.2.0

What's changed

Added

• Export Loc-Pack button — packages the applied global.ini as a shareable zip from the toolbar
• Enhanced status badge — Status column now shows Enhanced (blue) for auto-generated enhancements entries and Modified (green) only for user edits
• Mission Engagement Type — enhancements generator derives FPS, Ship, or FPS & Ship from mission loc-key naming and includes it in the mission stats block
• Mission Turret counts — enhancements generator extracts turret counts and hostility from DataForge spawn XML and includes them in the mission stats block

Fixed

• Tutorial Skip preference now persists correctly across app version updates
• mypy attr-defined error: QCoreApplication narrowed to QApplication before setFont call
• Import INI download: replaced deprecated urlretrieve with size-capped HTTPS-enforced downloader (50 MB cap)
• Tools download: urlopen now uses timeout=60 to prevent worker thread hanging on stalled server

Changed

• Preview pane height cap raised to 120 px
• _COMPONENT_CODES now defined in one canonical place (string_model.py)
• Ruff bugbear (B) rules added to linting
• Removed dead source_category_filters block from ini_parser.py
• Build signing simplified: always self-signs, no interactive prompts

v1.1.2

Add Atkinson Hyperlegible as default body font with OpenDyslexic opt-in via Appearance settings; add configurable data folder; various fixes and optimisations.

Open Strings 1.1.1

Open Strings 1.1.1 — Attribution and legal patch

Changes

• Add MIT attribution for bundled unp4k / unforge tools to NOTICE.md
• Add RSI / Data.p4k disclaimer to README
• Install LICENSE and NOTICE.md alongside app via installer

Install

Download and run \OpenStrings-1.1.1-Setup.exe. Requires Windows 10/11 x64 and a Star Citizen installation.

Licence

GPL-3.0-only. See NOTICE.md for upstream and third-party attribution.

Open Strings v1.1.0

Initial fork release of Open Strings, based on Smart Citizen 1.0.0 by Osiris DevWorks.

Changes from upstream

• Rebranded to Open Strings
• Removed Smart Citizen / Osiris DevWorks branding, donation links, and ODW Discord references
• Data directory changed from \Documents\Smart Citizen\ to \Documents\Open Strings\
• Added Check for Updates (checks jonigirl/open-strings GitHub releases on startup and via toolbar)
• Journal annotation tag changed from [SmC]\ to [OS]\

Installation

Run \OpenStrings-1.1.0-Setup.exe. Requires Windows 10/11 x64. No other dependencies needed.