When multi-backup was enabled and Ludusavi backed up a game for the first time, it would first insert an empty backup in that game's mapping.yaml and then insert the real backup after. This behavior was meant for updating old backups from before multi-backup was added, but it was mistakenly being applied to brand new backups as well.

Ludusavi will automatically detect and fix this. If the empty backup has a differential backup associated, then the oldest differential backup will replace the empty full backup. Otherwise, Ludusavi will remove the entry for the empty backup.

If you use Ludusavi's cloud sync feature, please run a preview in restore mode, which will automatically fix any of these incorrect initial backups, and then perform a full cloud upload on the "other" screen.

For Lutris roots, after reading pga.db, Ludusavi did not properly combine that data with the data from the games/*.yml files. (Verified by nihaals)

Ludusavi assumed that a Lutris root would contain both games/ and pga.db together. That's true for new installations of Lutris, but older/existing installations would store them separately (e.g., ~/.config/lutris/games and ~/.local/share/lutris/pga.db). To fix this, you can now specify a different pga.db path explicitly. In some cases, Ludusavi can prompt you to update the root automatically.

CLI: The find command's --steam-id and --gog-id options only considered primary IDs from the manifest. They will now also consider secondary IDs (e.g., for DLC or different editions).

The way Ludusavi parses file paths internally has been overhauled. The majority of the observable behavior is the same, but it is now more predictable and correct when parsing Linux-style paths on Windows and vice versa.

Some behavioral changes worth noting:

• You can now configure redirects that change Windows/Linux-style paths into the other format. For example, if you configure a backup redirect from C:\games to /opt/games, then the backup will contain references to /opt/games. (Previously, /opt/games would turn into C:/opt/games when parsed on Windows, and C:\games would turn into ./C_/games when parsed on Linux.)
• On Windows, you can no longer write /games as an alias of C:\games. These are now treated as distinct paths. (Previously, on Windows, Linux-style paths were interpreted as C: paths.)
• If you try to restore Windows-style paths on Linux or vice versa, it will now produce an error, unless you've configured an applicable redirect.

GUI: On Windows, the way Ludusavi hides its console in GUI mode has changed, in order to avoid a new false positive from Windows Defender.

Instead of relaunching itself, Ludusavi now detaches the console from the current instance. This reverts a change from v0.18.1, but care has been taken to address the problems that originally led to that change. If you do notice any issues related to this, please report them.

GUI: Previously, when you changed settings, Ludusavi would save each change immediately. It now waits for 1 second in case there is another change, so that typing and other fast, successive edits are batched.

CLI: Previously, the restore and backups (not backup) commands would return an error if you specified a game that did not have any backups available to restore. This was inconsistent with the backup command, which would simply return empty data if there was nothing to back up. Now, restore and backups will also return empty data if there are no backups.

CLI: Some deprecated flags have been removed from the backup command: --merge, --no-merge, --update, and --try-update.

When synchronizing to the cloud after a backup, Ludusavi now instructs Rclone to only check paths for games with updated saves. This improves the cloud sync performance.

The following are now configured as default arguments for Rclone: --fast-list --ignore-checksum. These should improve performance in most cases. You can change or remove these on the "other" screen.

GUI: During a backup or restore, if the "synchronize automatically" cloud setting is enabled, then the progress bar will display "cloud" instead of "scan" during the cloud operations.

Differential backup names now end with "-diff". This does not affect existing backups.

On the restore screen, there is a "validate" button to check whether your backups are missing any files declared in their mapping.yaml. This is intended to help rectify a bug identified below.

Automatic detection of non-Flatpak Lutris roots (~/.config/lutris).

Updated translations. (Thanks to contributors on the Crowdin project)

A partial translation for Thai has been added, but it only has experimental support because of a technical limitation. You can enable it by editing the config file directly with language code th-TH,

If you had configured a backup-only or bidirectional redirect and you were using simple backups, then the first backup for a game would complete successfully, but a subsequent backup would fail because Ludusavi would mark the redirect target as a removed file.

If you had configured a backup-only or bidirectional redirect and you were using zip-based backups, then the redirected files would not be included in the backup.

You can check if this affects you by going to the restore screen and clicking the "validate" button. If it finds any issues, it will prompt you to make new full backups for the games in question.

Compatibility with Heroic 2.7.0 , which now uses store_cache/gog_library.json instead of gog_store/library.json.

For Lutris, the game_slug field is no longer required, since Ludusavi only uses it for logging when available.

The Spanish and Russian translations were set incorrectly in the config file. If you selected Spanish, it would display normally, but the config file would be set to Russian. If you selected Russian and restarted the app, it would display in Japanese.