• Fixed unhandled exception when launching games without installed collections/mods (#18022)

• Improved collection install tracking

What's New

• Fixed inability to export using replicate when deleting files. (#17982)
• collections: Fixed intermittent download version resolution error when installing collections.
• collections: Greatly simplified checksum matching when exporting with replicate
• plugin-management: fixed plugin info not retrieved if plugin contains no metadata (light plugins identification). (#17962)

• MSVC 2022 distributable will now install alongside Vortex to fix crashes for Windows 10 users
• Fixed downloads going into the wrong game folder
• The File Based Overrides not working as expected in some situations
• plugin-management: Fixed plugins not auto-sorting on deployment

• Fixes the recursive sorting loop. (#17842, #17810)
• Updated libloot to 0.27.0

• Fixed crash if reference version matching property is nullish. (#17801)
• Fixed wrong domain assigned to downloads if dlInfo is incorrect. (#17808)
• Reduced log spam for when installing collections
• Fixed race condition causing file not found errors. (#17799, #17808)
• collections: Use new urls when opening collection related pages
• witcher3: Improved error handling when game is missing native xmls. (#17776)
• plugin-management: Fixed sorting action failing if an invalid plugin is detected
• modtype-bepinex: Fixed couldn't find matching BIX asset error for pre 6.0.0 versions

• Fixed failure to install game extensions through app

A bigger patch than planned but it's all for a very good reason! In v1.14, there was a bug fixed in the deepest darkest depths of Vortex, in a function called getSafe(), that developers use to provide a default value when accessing the state. This bug could cause the default value to be ignored, or even provide an unexpected value. The multiple issues fixed in this patch are ones that had always been broken but were never apparent until now. Users (and extension developers) should see more consistent behaviour going forward.

• Fixed override instructions not being applied correctly
• Fixed instances where collection claimed mods are uninstalled
• Fixed dependency installation errors if game becomes unmanaged. (#17685)
• Added error handling for completed downloads that can't be processed. (#17707)
• Avoid render attempts of invalid LO entries. (#17669)
• Log attempts to find a mod using an undefined reference. (#17680, #17710)
• Consolidated loadOrder db queries across FBLO API. (#17703, #17719)
• Fixed potential attempts to start downloads that have already started. (#17713)
• Bypass file override checks if no instructions were generated. (#17708)
• collections: Fixed incorrect crc hash mismatch errors blocking collection publish. (#17748)
• collections: Fixed checksum exception when using replicate install mode. (#17712)
• witcher3: Improved error handling when merging xml files. (#17700)

• Load order entry restoration is now profile-based
• Fixed fuzzy version mod reference check. (#17676)
• Fixed override instructions ignored by fomod installer
• collections: Added checksum tests when exporting a collection with replicate. (#17368)
• plugin-management: Avoid sorting ghosted plugins. (#17677)
• plugin-management: Fixed mod name column not rendering correctly. (#17678, #17652)

• Fixed deployment issues when file overrides are defined