Playnite 9 development update (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

This is an update about what's happening with Playnite 9's development.

As always, thank you very much for continued support.

Josef

General

I'm currently focusing on housekeeping and refactoring needed for theme/extensions auto-update support. This requires major changes to the code base.

This includes split of all built-in plugins (library integrations and IGDB support) into separate repository. The main advantage for end users is that I will be able to publish updates for these extension without need to release new Playnite update. You'll receive bug fixes and new feature for built-in integrations in the same way they will be distributed for 3rd party extensions.

Add-on browser and updates

Add-ons (extensions and themes) can be now installed and updated directly from Playnite. There's now a new dialog you can use to search existing add-ons, manage installed ones or update to new versions.

Sidebar improvements

Extensions can now provide custom items to the Sidebar. They can also show progress status on a sidebar button (for example for long running background tasks).

You can now also choose to display individual items from Software Tools on Sidebar.