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Nexus 1.0

The whole app is rebuilt around a new layout: a top bar replaces the sidebar, Home becomes a dashboard that spotlights what to play next, and every page — Library, the game page, Stats, Achievements, Twitch and Settings — has been redesigned. Retro mode is unchanged and still one click away, and the classic layout is a switch away in Settings.

The new Home in Nexus 1.0

New

  • New layout — A top bar with search, your streak and level, a Now Playing strip while a game runs, and a quick-view drawer that slides in beside the library.
  • Home — A spotlight on what you're playing (or the best game you haven't started), plus Up next, your week, streak, level, achievements, who's live, and shelves like Finish in a weekend and Critics' favourites.
  • Game page — A full page with a ratings scorecard, How Long to Beat, screenshots, similar games and Twitch.
  • Open a pack — “What should I play?” now rips open a pack and flips over a card with your next game.
  • Wrapped — Now a story you step through, with animated stats and optional autoplay.
  • Get started — A checklist and library overview for new libraries, and a proper welcome when the library is empty.
  • Sync progress everywhere — Artwork and metadata fetching shows under the top bar on every page.

Improved

  • Stats — Side-by-side cards, comparisons with the previous period, a new activity chart, a streak heatmap and mastery tiers.
  • Achievements — Progress towards locked achievements, an Almost there row, and rarity filters.
  • Twitch — A following list, a featured stream, game filters, and channel pages with more live streams and top clips.
  • Settings — A full page with search; every section rebuilt, with a confirmation before anything destructive.
  • Onboarding — A cleaner step-by-step setup.
  • Smoother dialogs — No more flicker behind pop-ups.

Fixed

  • API keys — SteamGridDB and IGDB keys can be added in Settings again.
  • Import library — Importing a library export works again.
  • Re-scan — Re-scanning no longer drops games found in your own folders.
  • Settings that didn't stick — Animations and window transparency now survive a restart.
  • Late-night sessions — Sessions near midnight count on the right day in Stats.

v0.5.5

Security

A security release. A full audit of Nexus tightened how games launch, what the app can read from disk, and how your Twitch and Google Drive sign-ins are stored. There's nothing new to learn — Nexus works the same, just safer and a little lighter.

Improved

  • Sign-ins locked to your PC — Twitch and Google Drive sign-in keys are now protected by Windows, so they only unlock for your Windows account on this machine. Existing sign-ins carry over.
  • Tighter file access — Nexus only reads images from its own cache and the custom covers you pick, “Open folder” only opens folders, and stats export checks everything that goes into the zip.
  • Stop game safeguards — Stop can no longer target Nexus itself or Windows system processes.
  • Lighter app — Unused features and two libraries removed; copying a certificate image now uses the built-in clipboard.

Fixed

  • Safer game launches — Games no longer launch through the Windows command prompt, so unusual characters in a game's path or link can't run anything extra.
  • Epic launch links — Epic games with &silent=true in their launch link no longer get it cut off.

v0.5.4

HowLongToBeat lookups are working again. HLTB didn't move its search API this time — it changed the handshake, dropping the fingerprint values Nexus required alongside the session token. Nexus now works with the token alone and still sends the fingerprint if HLTB brings it back.

Fixed

  • HowLongToBeat lookups — Automatic and manual HLTB searches no longer fail with “could not obtain session”.
  • Flexible HLTB handshake — The HLTB client accepts token-only sessions and keeps optional support for the older fingerprint pair.

v0.5.3

HowLongToBeat is back. HLTB moved its search API again, which silently broke completion-time lookups for every game — the third move this year. Nexus now follows the new endpoint and, if HLTB moves it again, finds the new path on its own at runtime instead of waiting for an app update.

Fixed

  • HowLongToBeat lookups — Automatic and manual HLTB searches work again after the site relocated its search API.
  • Self-healing HLTB client — When HLTB moves the endpoint, Nexus re-discovers the path from the site itself, so future rotations shouldn't need a release.

v0.5.2

A quick patch for Retro Mode's ANSI cover art. Production builds were blocking the dither pipeline's image loading, so covers showed a NO SIGNAL card instead of art — dev builds were unaffected, which is how it slipped through. Covers now render correctly in the released app.

Fixed

  • ANSI cover art — The dithered cover pipeline now loads images correctly in production builds; covers no longer fall back to NO SIGNAL.

v0.5.1

Nexus goes retro. Flip the new Retro Mode switch and your library becomes a DOS-era terminal — complete with a BIOS boot sequence, CRT scanlines, ANSI-dithered cover art, and PC-speaker beeps. Everything runs from the keyboard: stats, play queue, collections, a random picker, and a WRAPPED.EXE year-in-review slideshow.

  • Full DOS-style retro mode with BIOS boot, CRT effects & PC-speaker audio
  • ANSI-dithered cover art, starfield & matrix-rain screensavers, Konami surprise
  • WRAPPED.EXE year-in-review plus keyboard-driven stats, queue & random picker

New

  • Retro Mode — A full DOS-era interface for your library, with a prominent switch in the modern UI to jump between the two. Complete with retro-styled toasts, session note prompts, and an authentic BIOS boot with the NEXUS ASCII logo, boot chime, and floppy-seek sounds.
  • CRT vibe pack — Scanlines, screen effects, and screensavers (starfield and matrix rain), plus a shutdown screen when you leave retro mode.
  • ANSI cover art — Game covers rendered as ANSI-dithered terminal art in the detail view, with a SETUP toggle.
  • Keyboard everything — F1 help, F4 collections filter, F6 stats & player progress, F7 play queue, F10 random picker, E edit title, R refetch metadata, M IGDB search.
  • WRAPPED.EXE — A year-in-review slideshow of your play history, retro style.
  • Abort, Retry, Fail? — Launch errors get the classic DOS prompt, and a certain 30-lives code triggers fireworks.

Improved

  • Update prompts in retro — In-app update notifications now appear inside retro mode too, and your chosen view persists between sessions.
  • PC-speaker audio — Key beeps and boot sounds are on by default, with readable ON/OFF states in retro setup.

v0.5.0

The Twitch tab has been rebuilt from the ground up. A persistent, searchable channel rail now sits beside a tabbed main area, and selecting a channel opens an in-app preview with stream and game details instead of immediately launching a window. Pop-out viewing windows now match whichever theme you have selected.

  • Two-pane Twitch layout with a searchable channel rail
  • In-pane stream preview & game details per channel
  • Themed pop-out stream & clip windows

New

  • Channel rail — A persistent, searchable list of your followed channels (live and offline) sits alongside the main view, with favorites sorted to the top.
  • In-pane channel detail — Picking a channel opens a preview with the stream thumbnail, title, viewers, uptime, and game details — plus Watch and Open-on-Twitch actions — instead of jumping straight into a window.
  • Trending tab — "Trending in your library" is now its own tab with a poster grid and aggregate viewer & live-stream stats.
  • Themed viewing windows — Pop-out stream and clip windows are styled to match your selected app theme.

Improved

  • Faster previews — The detail preview now shows a loading state while switching channels so the previous thumbnail no longer lingers.
  • Cleaner layout — Replaced the oversized featured banner with a focused, space-efficient two-pane design.

v0.4.3

Nexus now updates itself. When a new version is released, the app checks on launch, downloads the new build in the background, and installs it on the next restart — so you stay current without hunting down an installer. Releases are cryptographically signed and verified before they're applied.

  • Automatic in-app updates with background download & install
  • Signed releases verified before installation
  • Update prompt on launch and a refreshed known-issues feed

New

  • Automatic updates — Nexus detects new versions and downloads + installs them in the background, applying on restart. No more manually downloading each release.
  • Signed & verified — Every update is cryptographically signed; the app verifies the signature before installing.

Improved

  • Update notifications — A prompt on launch (and an hourly check while running) lets you know the moment a new version is available.
  • Known issues — The in-app known-issues list now updates independently of app releases.

v0.4.2

Nexus is now yours to style. The new Theme Studio in Settings lets you customize every color and font in the app, choose from 14 hand-crafted presets or generate a random theme, and share your creations with friends through a single import/export file. Changes apply live, with no restart required.

  • Full color & font customization with live preview
  • 14 built-in presets plus a random theme generator
  • Import & export shareable .nexustheme files

New

  • Theme Studio — A new section in Settings to customize colors, fonts, border radius, and font scale, with curated swatches plus an advanced mode for every token.
  • 14 presets + Random — Ship with presets like Obsidian, Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Cyberpunk, and more — or roll a fresh random theme instantly.
  • Import & export — Save your theme to a shareable .nexustheme.json file and import themes made by others.
  • Fonts — Bundled font choices (Inter, Roboto, Poppins, Montserrat, IBM Plex, JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, and more) plus the ability to pick any font installed on your system.

v0.4.1

A core tenet of Nexus is that your data stays local — so instead of an online profile, this release lets you export your stats. A new Export Stats section in Settings turns any date range into a beautifully designed, self-contained HTML page you can share with friends or host anywhere, or a data-only JSON file for the technically minded. Nothing leaves your machine unless you choose to share it.

  • Shareable HTML stats page, zipped with its artwork
  • Full all-games breakdown with play time & completion %
  • Data-only JSON export for your own tools

New

  • Export Stats (HTML) — Export the selected date range as a self-contained HTML page, zipped together with its cover, hero, and logo art via relative paths. A progress bar tracks image packaging.
  • Cinematic design — The page mirrors the Nexus look: a Most Played hero banner, KPI cards, Top Games, Completed, genre/platform breakdowns, activity charts, fun facts, and a full all-games breakdown with play-time bars and completion %.
  • Export Stats (JSON) — A versioned, data-only JSON document (schema v2) including the full report, completed games, all played games, and detected CPU/GPU — ready to integrate into your own systems.
  • Get Nexus footer — Exported pages include a tasteful call-to-action and your CPU/GPU hardware in the footer.

v0.4.0

A focused quality-of-life release for active sessions and Twitch reliability. When you open the detail screen for the game you are currently playing, Nexus now brings the live controls with you: Stop, elapsed time, and the process finder state are all visible in the action bar. Twitch EventSub reconnects also stop reporting normal WebSocket closes as API errors.

  • Stop running games from the detail screen
  • Live elapsed time on active game details
  • Quieter Twitch EventSub reconnect handling

New

  • Running controls in game details — The game detail action bar now switches to a Stop button when that game is actively running, so you can end a session without going back to the Now Playing widget.
  • Live session timer — The detail screen shows the elapsed play time for the active game using the same timer formatting as Now Playing and manual tracking prompts.
  • Process-finder visibility — If Nexus is still trying to identify the running process, the detail screen keeps the process finder affordance visible for the current game.

Fixed

  • Twitch EventSub reconnect noise — Normal Twitch WebSocket close frames are now treated as reconnect lifecycle instead of being logged as API error: eventsub server sent close. Real connection and API failures still surface as errors.

v0.3.6

A maintenance release focused on keeping the lights on. HowLongToBeat's internal API was rotated again and broke search inside Nexus — the client has been pointed at their new endpoint. The Wrapped “Your #1 Game” screen gets a richer layout with the game’s banner, cover, and logo. Under the hood, five RUSTSEC certificate-validation and networking advisories have been patched.

  • HowLongToBeat search works again
  • Richer “Your #1 Game” Wrapped card
  • Certificate-validation and QUIC DoS patches

Fixed

  • HowLongToBeat search restored — HowLongToBeat rotated their internal API path again; auto-fetch and manual search started returning a “Search failed — HLTB may be temporarily unavailable.” error. Nexus now points at the current endpoint with the same three-part authentication scheme and resumes normal HLTB lookups without any action from you.

Improved

  • “Your #1 Game” Wrapped card redesign — The full-bleed background now uses the game’s landscape banner (with a fallback to cover art), and the title area shows a prominent portrait cover plus the game’s logo. When no logo exists it falls back to the previous big-text title. Smaller Wrapped tiles still use cover art, which suits their portrait framing.

Security

  • Certificate validation patches (4 advisories) — Bumped rustls-webpki from 0.103.9 to 0.103.13 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0049, RUSTSEC-2026-0098, RUSTSEC-2026-0099, and RUSTSEC-2026-0104 — covering CRL authority handling, URI and wildcard name-constraint bypasses, and a panic in CRL parsing. These affect HTTPS validation for all outbound requests (IGDB, SteamGridDB, Twitch, HowLongToBeat, Google OAuth).
  • Quinn DoS patch — Bumped quinn-proto 0.11.13 to 0.11.14 to resolve RUSTSEC-2026-0037 (denial of service in Quinn endpoints, pulled in transitively via reqwest).
  • Dev toolchain hardening — Patched eight GHSA advisories across Vite, PostCSS, Picomatch, brace-expansion, Hono, and path-to-regexp. None of these packages ship in the installed app — they only run on developers’ machines during build — but this keeps the local dev server, build pipeline, and CLI tooling clean.

v0.3.5

How Long to Beat estimates now translate raw hours into real calendar time. Each metric on a game's detail page shows a ~N days figure based on a play pace you set in Settings → Library, so "45h for Completionist" becomes ~30 days at 1.5 h/day. Links in the Twitch chat sidebar also finally open — in your default system browser — instead of doing nothing.

  • HLTB "~N days" alongside each hour estimate
  • Configurable daily play pace (0.5 – 8 h/day)
  • Twitch chat links open in your default browser

New

  • Days-at-pace for HowLongToBeat — Under each HLTB metric (Main Story, Main + Extras, Completionist) the detail page now shows a muted ~N days estimate in addition to the raw hour figure. Numbers are rounded up so the day count always represents enough time to actually finish at your chosen pace.
  • Configurable daily play pace — A new Daily play time dropdown in Settings → Library → How Long to Beat lets you pick anywhere from 0.5 to 8 hours/day. The choice persists across restarts and updates every HLTB card immediately. Default is 1.5 h/day.
  • Screen-reader-friendly HLTB rows — Each metric's row announces both the hours and the day estimate together (e.g. "Main Story: 12 hours, approximately 8 days at 1.5 hours per day"), with the visual days line marked aria-hidden so assistive tech doesn't hear it twice.

Fixed

  • Twitch chat links open in your default browser — Clicking a link inside the Twitch chat sidebar of a pop-out stream (usernames, shared URLs, Twitch videos, mailto: addresses) used to do nothing — the target="_blank" request was swallowed by the embedded webview. New-window requests are now intercepted in Rust and handed off to your OS default browser via the opener plugin. Dangerous schemes (javascript:, data:, file:, and friends) are logged and dropped rather than launched.

v0.3.4

Nexus now uses native desktop notifications for the moments you care about while the app is running: XP level-ups, session milestones, and followed Twitch channels going live. This release also tightens Twitch go-live toast behaviour and keeps archived games out of Random Picker results.

  • Native desktop alerts
  • Click-through navigation
  • Cleaner random picks

New

  • Native desktop notifications — XP level-ups, session milestones, and Twitch go-live events now raise OS-level notifications while Nexus is running or minimized to the system tray.
  • Notification click routing — Activating an XP notification opens Stats and scrolls to XP & Level. Milestone notifications open Stats and scroll to Session Milestones. Twitch go-live notifications open Twitch and attempt to pop out the stream.
  • Developer notification tester — Non-production builds now include a Developer settings section with buttons for spawning XP, milestone, and Twitch test notifications.

Improved

  • Notification controls — Desktop notifications now have a global toggle plus separate XP and milestone category toggles. Twitch notifications continue to respect the existing Twitch and favorites-only settings.
  • Level-up detection after sessions — Session-end XP refresh now compares the previous and current levels so level-up notifications are not missed when XP was awarded by the backend session flow.

Fixed

  • Twitch go-live toasts stay inside Nexus — Clicking an in-app go-live toast now opens the stream in Nexus's pop-out player instead of handing off to twitch.tv in the system browser.
  • Random Picker skips archived games — Games that have been archived or uninstalled are no longer included in the random picker pool, so "what should I play?" only suggests installable library entries.

v0.3.3

A focused reliability release for the Twitch integration. Fixes the overnight token-refresh bug that was silently signing people out, and routes Twitch clips through the same local-origin pop-out pattern the stream player already uses so they render in packaged builds.

  • Overnight Twitch token refresh
  • Clips open in an in-app pop-out

Fixed

  • Twitch integration stops working overnight — The background token-refresh worker was omitting client_secret on the refresh grant, which Twitch rejects with 400 invalid_client: missing client secret. Once the refresh failed, the stored tokens were cleared and the whole integration went dark until you signed in again. The refresh call now forwards the same client_secret the initial exchange already uses, so tokens rotate cleanly overnight.
  • Top clips refused to connect in packaged builds — Clicking a clip on a game's detail page opened an in-app modal whose clips.twitch.tv iframe was blocked by the same frame-ancestors=localhost CSP that required the stream-player pop-out. Clips now open in their own Tauri window loaded from the local embed server, matching the live-stream UX — one window per clip, draggable and resizable, native close button.

v0.3.2

A complete Twitch overhaul. The integration was rebuilt from the ground up to fix recurring token-expiry issues and to unlock a stack of features people have been asking for: a pop-out stream viewer, push-based go-live alerts, top clips for every game in your library, watch-time stats that follow your date range, a Twitch diagnostics panel, and a one-time in-app sign-in that makes every embed logged-in.

  • In-app Twitch stream viewer
  • Push go-live alerts (EventSub)
  • Top clips per library game
  • Twitch watch time in Stats & Wrapped

New

  • Watch streams without leaving Nexus — Click a live streamer anywhere — from the Twitch panel or the "Live on Twitch" section of a game's detail page — and the stream opens in its own Nexus-owned window with chat alongside it. It's a regular Windows window: drag it, resize it, minimise it, throw it on a second monitor, no always-on-top. One window per channel, and clicking the same streamer again just focuses the one that's already open. A built-in "Open on Twitch" button hands off to your default browser if you'd rather watch there.
  • Sign in to Twitch from inside the launcher — A "Sign in" button in the player chrome opens a small twitch.tv login window. Once you sign in there, every embed in Nexus is automatically logged in — chat works, the follow button works, mature-content gates auto-confirm. The session persists across restarts.
  • Push-based go-live alerts — A new EventSub WebSocket connection means you get notified the moment a streamer you follow goes live, instead of waiting for the next polling tick. Polling stays on as a 10-minute safety net.
  • Top clips on every game page — Each game in your library now shows a row of the top Twitch clips for it (last 7 days). Click a thumbnail to watch the clip in place — no second app, no browser tab.
  • Twitch watch time in Stats & Wrapped — Every stream you watch through Nexus is logged. Stats and Wrapped both follow the global date-range selector, so you can see your last 7 days, last month, last year, or any window you choose — total time, sessions, top channels, and top games.
  • Twitch diagnostics panel — A new collapsible section in Settings → Twitch shows your current token state, refresh history, EventSub connection state, rate-limit usage, and last error. There is a one-click "Test connection" button and a copy-to-clipboard button if you ever need to share diagnostics.
  • Branded HTML callback page — The Twitch sign-in flow now returns to a styled, auto-closing success page (matching the Google Drive flow) instead of a blank tab.

Improved

  • Self-healing Twitch tokens — Token management was rebuilt around a centralised, refresh-aware manager. A background worker proactively renews access tokens before they expire, so the integration stops silently breaking after a few hours. Your avatar is also fetched and cached at sign-in time.
  • Hardened OAuth callback — Both Twitch and Google Drive sign-in flows now correctly send the full HTML response on Windows before closing the local socket, fixing the blank-page issue some users hit on first connect. The Twitch flow also now validates a CSRF state parameter end-to-end.

Fixed

  • Twitch embeds render in packaged builds — Installed builds previously showed a "refused to connect" placeholder instead of the actual stream because Twitch's security policy blocks the Tauri webview origin. Nexus now hosts the embed pages from a local origin that Twitch accepts, so streams, chat, and clips all render correctly from the MSI installer.
  • Settings and onboarding work again after sign-in — An earlier embed workaround stripped a required header from internal app calls, which could leave existing users stuck on the onboarding screen or seeing "500 Internal Server Error" toasts. That workaround is gone; existing preferences and API keys are detected correctly on launch.
  • Close button works during onboarding — The close-to-tray / minimise / cancel dialog is now mounted at the top level of the app, so the title-bar close button behaves the same whether you are in onboarding or the main launcher.
  • Quieter logs — Benign "connection error (os error 10060)" entries from the browser's preconnect pool no longer spam the embed server log.

v0.3.1

A polish release focused on personalisation and reliability. Nexus now ships with a full Light / Dark / System theme, the close confirmation dialog gives you a way out, and the Stats screen finally refreshes in real time after a gaming session ends.

  • Light, Dark & System themes
  • Cancel option on close
  • Live Stats refresh after sessions

New

  • Light, Dark & System themes — A new appearance setting lets you switch between a clean light palette, the original Obsidian dark theme, or follow your operating system. The choice persists across restarts and updates live when your OS toggles between light and dark.
  • Cancel from the close dialog — When you press the close button, the confirmation dialog now offers a third option — Cancel — that keeps Nexus open without closing or minimising to tray.

Fixed

  • Stats screen refreshes after each session — Level, XP, total play time, top games, activity charts, and the session histogram now update as soon as a gaming session ends, instead of waiting for the next app launch. The launcher-wide level-up toast also fires when you stop a game manually.
  • Light-mode contrast across charts & achievements — Recharts tooltips, hover cursors, and grid lines now adapt to the active theme. Achievement cards, mastery tier legends, and the CPU / GPU hardware branding chips stay readable in both modes.
  • Close-confirm dialog button wrap — The Cancel / Close / Minimise actions no longer wrap onto two rows at typical window widths.

v0.3.0

A major release focused on progression and motivation. Nexus now tracks your play streak, rewards milestones mid-session, gives every game a mastery tier, unlocks achievements as you play, levels up your profile with XP, and celebrates the games you retire with a full ceremony and shareable certificate.

  • Retirement ceremony
  • XP & level system
  • Native achievements
  • Game mastery tiers
  • Session milestones
  • Daily play streak

New

  • Game retirement ceremony — When you mark a game as completed or dropped, Nexus plays a cinematic retirement ceremony with a hero card, play stats, and a final send-off. Generate a shareable certificate image for any retired game from its detail view.
  • XP and level system — Every play session, completion, and achievement earns XP. Watch your launcher-wide level climb with a progress bar in the sidebar and a dedicated profile view showing your tier, total XP, and recent level-ups.
  • Achievement system — Dozens of Nexus-native achievements unlock as you play, spanning play time, streaks, library curation, backlog conquests, and ceremony milestones. Track progress and unlock history from the new Achievements page.
  • Game mastery tiers — Each game now has a mastery tier (Novice → Adept → Veteran → Master → Legend) driven by your play time, completions, and ratings. Tiers show up on game cards and the detail overlay with a custom visual treatment.
  • Session milestones — Mid-session toasts celebrate in-the-moment achievements — first hour, longest session, streak extended, new personal best — without pulling you out of the game.
  • Play streak tracker — A current-streak counter in the sidebar tracks consecutive days played, with freeze protection, streak history, and a milestone celebration when you extend a long streak.

v0.2.1

Archive and Completed views — track game completions across your entire library, even after uninstalling. The Completed page gets a full Trophy Room redesign with stats, a spotlight hero, and entrance animations.

New

  • Archive view — Browse games that were uninstalled and removed by library sync. Right-click to mark as completed or view details.
  • Completed view (Trophy Room) — Dedicated page for all completed games with a stats banner (count, total play time, average rating, top genre), a spotlight hero for your most-played completion, and staggered card entrance animations.
  • Completed flag — New persistent completed field that survives uninstallation. Mark any game as completed and it stays tracked even after removal.
  • Stats click-through — Games in Library Stats and Wrapped views are now clickable, opening the detail overlay. Uninstalled games show a visual indicator.

Improved

  • Archived game detail — Play button disabled for uninstalled games; status toggle simplified to Completed / Not Completed.
  • Sidebar badges — Archive and Completed counts shown as badges in the sidebar navigation.

v0.2.0

Google Drive cloud backup — back up your entire Nexus library to Google Drive and restore it on any machine. Automatic scheduled backups with configurable frequency and retention.

New

  • Google Drive cloud backup — Link your Google account from Settings to back up your library database to Google Drive. Supports manual and automatic backups (daily or weekly) with configurable retention (how many backups to keep).
  • Restore from backup — Browse your cloud backups and restore any previous snapshot. Schema version checks prevent restoring a backup from a newer version of Nexus.
  • OAuth callback page — After authorizing with Google, the browser now shows a styled confirmation page matching the Nexus dark theme instead of a plain text response.

Improved

  • Settings sidebar — All accordion sections now start collapsed when opening Settings, giving a cleaner overview.

v0.1.21

HowLongToBeat integration fix and progress tracking improvements — HLTB data fetching works again after their API endpoint changed, and milestone drag-and-drop reordering is now reliable.

Fixed

  • HowLongToBeat integration restored — Updated the HLTB client to use the current /api/find endpoint with the new three-part authentication scheme (token + fingerprint pair). Auto-fetch, manual search, and refetch all work again.
  • Milestone drag-and-drop — Replaced the broken native HTML5 drag-and-drop in the progress milestones list with the same @dnd-kit library used by Play Queue and Collections. Reordering now works reliably in WebView2.

Improved

  • HLTB error messages — Manual search now shows a clear error message when HLTB is temporarily unavailable instead of silently returning empty results.
  • Milestone drag handle — Drag-and-drop is now initiated only from the grip handle, so clicking checkboxes and delete buttons no longer accidentally starts a drag.

v0.1.20

Edit game usability and session housekeeping — browse for files directly from the Edit Game modal, and bulk-delete short play sessions that clutter your stats.

New

  • File picker in Edit Game — Browse buttons next to Executable Path, Custom Cover Art, and Custom Hero Art fields open a native file dialog so you no longer need to paste paths manually.
  • Bulk delete short sessions — A new tool in Settings lets you find and remove play sessions shorter than a threshold you choose (seconds or minutes). Game stats are automatically recalculated after cleanup.

Fixed

  • Empty library "Open Settings" button — The Settings shortcut on the empty library screen now works correctly instead of doing nothing.

v0.1.19

Smart collection reliability and collection management improvements — smart collections now reactively refresh when game data changes, and you can remove games from collections via the context menu.

Improved

  • Reactive smart collection refresh — Smart collections now re-fetch from the backend whenever game data changes (status, rating, metadata, etc.), ensuring membership is always up to date instead of relying on frontend-only filtering.
  • Unified collection refresh — Replaced the separate smart collection refresh with a single refreshCollections function that re-fetches all collections, simplifying the data flow.

New

  • Remove from Collection — Right-click any game in a manual collection to remove it directly from the context menu.

Fixed

  • Smart collections in context menu — Smart collections are now filtered out of the "Add to Collection" context menu picker, since their membership is rule-based and can't be manually edited.

v0.1.18

Hardware branding and UI polish — your CPU and GPU brand logos now appear in the sidebar, GPU detection works on modern Windows without wmic, and the donate link moves to Settings.

New

  • Hardware detection backend — New get_system_hardware Tauri command detects CPU brand via sysinfo and GPU brand via WMI/PowerShell, with discrete-GPU preference for multi-GPU systems.
  • Hardware branding sidebar — CPU and GPU brand logos (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA) now display in the sidebar footer. Expanded mode shows logo + model name; collapsed mode shows icon-only with tooltips.

Improved

  • GPU detection fallback — When wmic is unavailable (removed in newer Windows builds), GPU detection falls back to PowerShell Get-CimInstance automatically.
  • Support link relocated — "Support this project" moved from the sidebar to the Settings > About section for a cleaner navigation experience.
  • Game card progress bar — Completion progress bar is now thicker and more visible with a dark background track.

v0.1.17

Twitch token resilience and website improvements — Twitch API calls now automatically recover from expired tokens with force-refresh and retry, and the website features section has been redesigned with categorised lists.

Improved

  • Twitch 401 auto-recovery — When a Twitch API call returns 401 (invalid token), Nexus now force-refreshes the access token and retries the request automatically. This covers followed channels, live streams, streams-by-game, and trending games — no more silent failures or stale data after token expiry.
  • Website feature section — The features section on the landing page has been redesigned with categorised feature lists grouped by Library Management, Tracking & Stats, Organisation, Integrations, and Experience.

Fixed

  • Trending games cache fallback — Deduplicated the trending-games cache fallback logic into a shared helper, fixing inconsistent stale-data handling across error paths.

v0.1.16

Smart Collections and Progress Tracking — build dynamic, auto-updating collections with a visual rules engine, and track your completion progress with milestones and HLTB integration.

New

  • Smart Collections — Create dynamic collections that auto-populate based on rules. Build complex filters with a visual rules builder using AND/OR logic across status, source, genre, rating, play time, tags, and more.
  • Smart Collection Presets — Quick-start with built-in presets like "Quick Plays", "Forgotten Gems", "Recently Added", "Highly Rated Unplayed", and "Weekend Warriors". Customize them after creation.
  • Game Progress Tracking — Track completion percentage for any game with a visual progress bar on game cards and the detail overlay. Set progress manually or let it auto-calculate from milestones.
  • Milestones — Define custom milestones for each game (e.g. "Beat Act 1", "All side quests") and check them off as you go. Progress auto-updates based on milestone completion.
  • HLTB Time Remaining — See how much time you have left based on your actual play time vs HowLongToBeat estimates, right in the detail overlay.

Improved

  • Smart collection refresh — Smart collections update automatically whenever your library changes (resync, status update, rating change).
  • Progress bar on cards — A subtle progress bar appears at the bottom of game cards, colored by status. Toggle it in Library Preferences.

v0.1.15

Game Tags — organize your library with freeform, color-coded tags. Create, assign, filter, and manage tags across your entire collection.

New

  • Game Tags — Create freeform tags (e.g. "couch co-op", "podcast game", "comfort game") and assign them to any game. Tags support custom colors from a 10-color palette.
  • Tag Management — Full tag CRUD in Settings: create, rename, recolor, and delete tags with game-count awareness.
  • Tag Display — Colored tag chips in the game detail overlay, color dots on game cards, and a Tags submenu in the right-click context menu for quick tagging.
  • Tag Filtering — Filter your library by tags from the sidebar with AND/OR logic. Active tag filters appear as removable chips in the filter bar.
  • Tag Search — Type tag: in the command palette to search and filter by tags instantly.
  • Play Queue — A new Play Next queue in the sidebar lets you line up games to play. Add from context menu or detail overlay, drag to reorder.
  • Session Notes — After ending a play session, a prompt lets you jot down notes about your session. Notes are searchable and visible in stats.

v0.1.14

Continue Playing row, personal game notes, and build fixes — pick up where you left off with a new "Continue Playing" section at the top of your library.

New

  • Continue Playing — A new row at the top of your library shows recently played and in-progress games so you can jump back in instantly. Configurable max cards and can be toggled off in Settings.
  • Personal Game Notes — Add free-form notes to any game from the detail page. Notes are stored locally and searchable.

Fixed

  • Manual process match lost on resync — If you manually identified a game's process via the picker, resyncing your library would overwrite that match. Manually selected executables and process names now persist across library resyncs.
  • TypeScript build errors — Resolved unused import warnings in test files and a type mismatch in the library source filter.

v0.1.13

Twitch integration reliability — the connection now survives sleep, overnight idle, and network interruptions without requiring manual re-authentication.

Fixed

  • Twitch stays connected after sleep — The app now re-validates your Twitch token and refreshes data immediately when you return from sleep or minimize, instead of waiting for the next polling interval.
  • No more false disconnects — Expired tokens during network hiccups no longer cascade into clearing your auth, which previously showed the "Connect your Twitch account" prompt even though you were still linked.
  • Faster token refresh — Token validation now runs every 15 minutes (previously hourly), ensuring tokens are refreshed well before they expire.
  • Smoother Twitch panel loading — The panel now shows a loading skeleton while checking auth on mount, instead of briefly flashing the connect prompt.

v0.1.12

HowLongToBeat integration — see how long games take to beat right from the detail page, with auto-fetch, caching, and manual search when the match isn't right.

New

  • HowLongToBeat times — Games now display HLTB completion estimates (Main Story, Main + Extra, Completionist) on the detail page, fetched automatically and cached locally.
  • Manual HLTB search — If the auto-match is wrong or missing, use the inline search to find the correct game on HowLongToBeat.
  • "Wrong game?" override — A button on matched results lets you re-search and pick a different HLTB entry at any time.

v0.1.11

Bug fixes for Wrapped stats, genre charts, and collection loading — making your library data more accurate and reliable.

Fixed

  • Wrapped genre chart — Genre pie chart percentages now display correctly, chart tooltips are visible, and the "unplayed" count in stats is accurate.
  • Collections on startup — Collections are now loaded from the database on app startup, and hidden games are excluded from sidebar counts.

v0.1.10

Smarter game process detection — when Nexus can't automatically identify a running game, a process picker now lets you select the right executable. Plus a new Wrapped podium visual.

New

  • Process Picker — When Nexus can't detect which process belongs to a launched game, a modal now lists running processes so you can pick the right one. Your choice is remembered for future launches.
  • Auto-Prompt on Grace Period — If the game process isn't found within the grace period, the process picker opens automatically instead of silently failing.
  • Force Identify Button — While a game shows "Launching…", a new button lets you manually trigger the process picker without waiting.
  • List Running Processes — New backend command that enumerates running processes for the picker UI.
  • Wrapped Podium — The Library Wrapped hero card now shows a top-3 podium visual for your most-played games.

Fixed

  • Process picker performance — Resolved a freeze and slow loading issue when opening the process picker on systems with many running processes.

v0.1.9

Close-to-tray support, system tray integration, a live known-issues viewer, and a fix for the close-confirmation loop.

New

  • Close to Tray — When you close Nexus, a dialog lets you choose between quitting or minimizing to the system tray. Toggle it off in Appearance settings.
  • System Tray — Nexus now lives in your system tray with Open and Exit options. Double-click the icon to restore the window.
  • Known Issues Dialog — Check current known issues from the About section in Settings, fetched live so you always see the latest.
  • Discord Link — Quick link to the Nexus Discord community added to the About section, replacing the old email bug-report link.

Fixed

  • Close confirmation loop — Fixed a bug where the close dialog could reappear endlessly, preventing the app from exiting.

v0.1.8

Session analytics arrive — drill into per-game sessions with pattern charts and histograms, explore your library-wide session distribution, and enjoy a more reliable Twitch connection.

New

  • Per-Game Session Analytics — Expandable session details on the game detail page with three tabs: Sessions list, Patterns (play time by month and day of week, return rate), and Distribution (session length histogram).
  • Library Session Histogram — See how your sessions break down by length across your whole library, with scope toggle, source filter pills, and summary stats (mean, median, p75, longest).
  • Session Analytics Backend — New commands powering distribution buckets, per-game breakdowns, monthly/day-of-week aggregations, and gap analysis.

Fixed

  • Twitch double-refresh — Fixed a race condition where rapid token refreshes after 8+ hours offline would clear your Twitch login. A cooldown guard now prevents duplicate refreshes.
  • Session date format — Session list now shows dates in a cleaner dd MMM yyyy format.

Improved

  • Website launched — Nexus now has a landing page with hero section, feature grid, screenshot gallery, and video showcases.
  • SEO & metadata — Full Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data on the website.

v0.1.7

Library Wrapped arrives — a Spotify Wrapped-style experience for your game library with shareable poster cards, fun extras, and smarter session linking under the hood.

New

  • Library Wrapped — A full Spotify Wrapped-style experience for your game library. See your top games, genres, play patterns, milestones, and fun stats across any time period.
  • Wrapped Share Card — Generate a shareable 1080×1080 poster of your Wrapped stats. Download it or copy it straight to your clipboard.
  • Fun Extras — Wrapped now includes a mood tagline, hidden gem pick, and trivia about your play year.

Fixed

  • Wrapped session linking — Orphaned sessions are now correctly linked to games using a smarter three-step fallback strategy, so your stats are more accurate.
  • Game detection — Fixed a missing field in game detection that could cause issues with hidden games.

Improved

  • Genre parsing — Wrapped handles both JSON array and comma-separated genre formats reliably.
  • Share card images — Replaced external cover art with letter avatars to prevent image export failures.

v0.1.6

Branding, smarter onboarding, collections from the context menu, persistent play stats, automatic update checks, and a batch of reliability fixes.

New

  • Branding — We have a logo and primary color!
  • Onboarding — Choose which games to import with a checkbox list; deselected games are hidden and won't reappear on resync.
  • Collections — Right-click any game to add it to a collection or create a new one directly from the context menu.
  • Stats persistence — Play sessions now survive a full library reset and relink automatically after rescans.
  • Version check — Nexus checks for updates on launch and once per hour, showing a toast when a new version is available.
  • Twitch — OAuth tokens are validated hourly per Twitch policy, keeping your session alive automatically.

Fixed

  • Collections — Game-to-collection assignments now save correctly to the backend.
  • Context menu — Menu stays within window bounds and flips submenus when near the screen edge.
  • Stats — Cover art and click-through navigation resolve correctly after a library re-import.
  • Twitch — Network timeouts and server errors no longer force a full re-auth; only invalid tokens are cleared.
  • Metadata — Game titles with ™, ®, or © symbols now match correctly in IGDB and SteamGridDB lookups.

v0.1.5

Twitch integration lands in Nexus — live streams, followed channels, trending games, and go-live notifications woven throughout the app. Plus a settings redesign and key bug fixes.

New

  • Twitch Integration — Nexus now connects to Twitch. Link your account and get live stream info woven throughout the app:
    • Sidebar nav — Twitch has its own spot in the sidebar with a live count badge that pulses when streams are active.
    • Followed streams panel — Full live and offline view of everyone you follow, with stream uptime and a connect prompt if you haven't linked yet.
    • Live badge on game cards — Games with active streams show a pulsing badge. Click to jump to the streamer or Twitch panel.
    • Live on Twitch in game detail — See who's streaming a game right from its detail page, with followed streamers sorted to the top.
    • Trending in Your Library — See which games you own are trending on Twitch right now, with a dedicated section and horizontal scroll.
    • Go-live toast notifications — Get notified when followed streamers go live. Favourites-only mode available in Settings.
    • Streamer favourites & pinning — Star your favourite streamers to pin them to the top of the Live Now list. Up to 20 favourites.
    • Offline resilience — Twitch panel and badges fall back to cached data when you're offline so you still see recent state.
  • Update Artwork button — Dedicated button on game detail to search and update artwork, with auto-search on first open.

Fixed

  • Session not ending on new launch — Play time is now properly saved when you launch a new game while another is running.
  • Onboarding links — API key setup steps now have clickable links to SteamGridDB and IGDB so you can grab keys without leaving the app.

Improved

  • Settings redesigned — Settings are now grouped into an accordion (Library, Appearance, Integrations, Data & Health) for easier navigation.