chore: prepare 6.0.0 release

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/trouble.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ labels: ["troubleshooting"]
 assignees:
   - aclist
 body:
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+    attributes:
+      value: |
+          ### WARNING: When posting log/config data, redact any sensitive information like API keys.
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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,85 +1,52 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [6.0.0-beta.17] 2026-01-14
+## [6.0.0] 2026-01-14
-## Added
-- More descriptive help dialogs when initial dependencies are missing
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.16] 2026-01-04
-## Fixed
-- Regression introduced in previous hotfix
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.15] 2025-12-27
-## Fixed
-- Path discovery during first-time setup when parsing filepaths with whitespaces
-- First-time setup dialog continuously triggering when DayZ install path had whitespaces in it
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.14] 2025-12-09
-## Fixed
-- Dialogs with newlines breaking output in log table
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.13] 2025-11-29
-## Fixed
-- Server filter panel not being hidden when entering other page contexts
-- Path to remote changelog being constructed incorrectly
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.12] 2025-11-14
-## Changed
-- Require Python 3.13
-## Fixed
-- Normalize beta version
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.11] 2025-11-13
-## Added
-- Support sandboxed flatpak
-
-## Changed
-- Preferred client from radio toggle to combobox
-
-## Fixed
-- Config file erroneously getting updated when populating settings menu
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.10] 2025-11-10
-## Fixed
-- Python 3.14 error in finally block
-- Require Python version between 3.11 and 3.12
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.9] 2025-11-05
-## Fixed
-- UI not being constructed correctly if CHANGELOG.md was missing
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.8] 2025-11-04
-## Added
-- Internal flag to allow distribution packaged releases to disable in-app updates
-- Pre-boot check to test whether script was invoked directly
-- Commandline usage help text
-
-## Fixed
-- ESC key destroying wait dialogs while a thread is pending
-- Tooltip signals being erroneously drawn on main menu
-- Leaky variable name in dialog titles
-- Prevent extraneous signals from propagating when column width is adjusted
-- Script failing to start when remote endpoints are unavailable (GaryBlackbourne)
-
-## Changed
-- Optimize time complexity of pre-boot checks (GaryBlackbourne)
-- Moved location of notes file
-- Rewrote distance calculation module (GaryBlackbourne)
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.7] 2025-09-20
-## Added
-- Users can save text notes to describe servers
-
-## Changed
-- State file serialization methods
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.6] 2025-09-12
 ## Added
 - Support DayZ Experimental
-- Show additional client information in Options menu
+- Ping display on server tables
-- Warn user of client version mismatches
+- Save descriptive text notes on a per-server basis
-- Support clickable hyperlinks
+- Speed up load time and navigation of server tables
+- More robust threading and cache system when filtering servers
+- Show additional DayZ client information in Options menu
+- Warn user of DayZ client version mismatches
+- Support clickable hyperlinks in dialogs
+- Rich server metadata details dialog (right-click on server table)
+- Filter by modded servers
+- Breadcrumbs showing current menu context
+- Dedicated changelog page
+- Dedicated keybindings page
+- Dedicated settings page ("Options")
+- Support sandboxed version of Flatpak
+- Vim-style navigation keybindings
+- Added "Return to main menu" button to dialog windows when failing to load server table
+- Dynamic context menus for modded servers
+- Additional keybindings for new filter toggles
+- If a server is locked, prompt user when connecting
+- Internal flag to allow distro-packaged releases to disable in-app updates
+- Pre-boot checks to test whether script was invoked directly
+- Commandline usage help text (GaryBlackbourne)
+- More descriptive help dialogs when initial dependencies are missing
 
 ## Fixed
+- Script failing to start when remote endpoints are unavailable (GaryBlackbourne)
+- Key stickiness when quickly navigating through entries in tables
+- Servers returning malformed A2S_INFO blocking server browser from loading
+- Normalized buttons in dialogs and restored proper padding
+- GTK errors being emitted to stdout when inserting debug table
+- Entry dialog sensitivity when validating API keys
+- Additional validation on entry dialogs to prevent submitting empty text
+- Suppress errors during pre-boot checks when mods are not installed
+- Centered filter checkboxes within panel
+- Do not pop unhighlight/select stale buttons if no stale mods exist
+- Improved keybinding interaction with side panels
+- Suppress typeahead search in mod dialogs
+- Do not trigger global API cooldown if no LAN/favorite servers are found
+- Fix table column expansion in server mod dialogs
+- Missing parameters when closing application via window decorations
+- Statusbar contents not updating on certain pages
+- Prevent debug button from activating when in certain input fields
+- Window size not updating correctly when unmaximizing window after changing "fullscreen at boot" setting
+- Branch toggle signal being emitted when entering Options menu from other contexts
 - Mods rarely not appearing in local mod list if download completed too quickly
 - Statusbar not updating when clicking a row after spamming keyboard input
 - Extraneous logs being generated when subscribing to mods
@@ -87,342 +54,188 @@
 - Newline terminators in history file
 - Floating point number calculation
 - Window resizing too small if no prior resolution was set
-
+- ESC key destroying wait dialogs while a thread is pending
-## [6.0.0-beta.5] 2025-08-20
+- Tooltip signals being erroneously emitted on main menu
-## Fixed
+- UI not being constructed correctly if CHANGELOG.md was missing
-- Servers returning malformed A2S_INFO blocking server browser from loading
+- Config file erroneously getting updated when populating settings menu
-
+- Leaky variable name in dialog titles
-## [6.0.0-beta.4] 2025-08-13
+- Prevent extraneous signals from propagating when column width is adjusted
-## Fixed
+- Server filter panel not being hidden when entering other page contexts
-- Branch toggle signal being emitted when entering Options menu from other contexts
+- Path to remote changelog being constructed incorrectly
-
+- Dialogs with newlines breaking output in log table
-## [6.0.0-beta.3] 2025-08-08
+- Path discovery during first-time setup when parsing filepaths with whitespaces
-## Added
+- First-time setup dialog continuously triggering when DayZ install path had whitespaces in it
-- Additional server metadata to details dialog
-- Prompt user when connecting if a server is locked
-- Dedicated settings page ("Options")
-
-## Fixed
-- Statusbar contents not updating on certain pages
-- Breadcrumbs not updating when returning from keybindings page
-- Wrap long descriptions in server details
-- Prevent debug button from activating when in certain input fields
-- Window size not updating correctly when unmaximizing window after changing "fullscreen at boot" setting
-
-## Dropped
-- Extraneous information from right statusbar
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.2] 2025-07-29
-## Fixed
-- Missing parameters when closing application via window decorations
-
-## [6.0.0-beta.1] 2025-07-29
-## Added
-- Ping column to server browsing contexts
-- Server details dialog to server browsing contexts
-- Filter by modded servers
-- Breadcrumbs showing current menu context to top of window
-- Speed up load time and navigation of server tables
-- More robust threading and cache system when filtering servers
-- Dedicated changelog page
-- Dedicated keybindings page
-- Vim-style navigation keybindings
-- Additional validation on entry dialogs to prevent submitting empty text
-- Added "Return to main menu" button to dialog windows when failing to load server table
-- Dynamic context menus for modded servers
-- Additional keybindings for filter toggles
-
-## Fixed
-- Entry dialog sensitivity when validating API keys
-- Normalized buttons in dialogs and restored proper padding
-- GTK errors being emitted to stdout when inserting debug table
-- Suppress errors during pre-boot checks when mods are not installed
-- Centered filter checkboxes within panel
-- Do not pop unhighlight/select stale buttons if no stale mods exist
-- Improved keybinding interaction with side panels
-- Key stickiness when quickly navigating through entries in tables
-- Suppress typeahead search in mod dialogs
-- Do not trigger global API cooldown if no LAN/favorite servers are found
-- Fix table column expansion in server mod dialogs
 
 ## Changed
+- Require Python 3.13
 - Reduced global API cooldown from 60s to 30s
 - Clarify dialog messages when DayZ path could not be found
 - Auto-focus first item when opening context menus
 - Opacity setting on side buttons when in a different context
 - Refactored BM API key validation to account for new key format
+- State file serialization methods
+- Optimize time complexity of pre-boot checks (GaryBlackbourne)
+- Rewrote distance calculation module (GaryBlackbourne)
+- Changed preferred client setting from radio toggle to combobox
 
 ## Dropped
 - Ping readout in statusbar
+- Extraneous information from right statusbar
 
-## [5.8.0-beta.2] 2025-07-06
+## [5.8.3] 2026-01-04
+## Fixed
+- Normalize checksum numbers and dates
+
+## [5.8.2] 2026-01-04
+## Fixed
+- Fix regression in symlink routine introduced by previous hotfix
+
+## [5.8.1] 2025-12-27
+## Fixed
+- Path discovery during first-time setup when parsing filepaths with whitespaces
+- First-time setup dialog continuously triggering when DayZ install path had whitespaces in it
+
+## [5.8.0] 2025-07-06
 ## Added
 - Filter servers by official/unofficial status
+- Automatically fetch geolocation records
 ## Changed
 - Updated internal versioning of helper files
-
-## [5.8.0-beta.1] 2025-06-05
-## Added
-- Automatically fetch geolocation records
 ## Fixed
 - Corrected erroneous 2024 date in prior changelog entries
 
-## [5.7.1-beta.1] 2025-04-17
+## [5.7.0] 2025-04-17
-## Changed
+## Added
-- Updated geolocation records
+- Save application dimensions when quitting and restore on subsequent boot
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.13] 2025-04-17
 ## Fixed
-- Updated checksum for UI helper file
+- Issues with the window exceeding the bounds of the screen when displaying some table contexts
+## Changed
+- More direct server ping query method that should return marginally more accurate times
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.12] 2025-04-04
+## [5.6.7] 2025-04-04
 ## Dropped
 - Removed extraneous pre-boot API checks that could cause error messages to be printed if the user had not set up an API key yet
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.11] 2025-03-20
+## [5.6.6] 2025-03-16
-## Fixed
-- Reduce startup time when testing remote APIs
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.10] 2025-03-15
-## Added
-- Restore application size on subsequent startup
-## Fixed
-- Grid scaling causes table to exceeds bounds of display viewport
-- Window exceeds taskbar on Steam Deck
-- Reduce possibility of timeouts when pinging servers
 ## Changed
-- Packed filter checkbox buttons into a 3x3 grid
+- Update IP database records for 2025-03
-- Updated IP database to 2025-03 records
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.9] 2025-03-04
+## [5.6.5] 2025-03-04
 ## Fixed
 - Livonia server results being dropped from batch queries
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.8] 2025-02-10
+## [5.6.4] 2025-02-10
-## Changed
+### Changed
 - Drop launch flag and check for invocation through Steam automatically
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.7] 2025-02-09
+## [5.6.3] 2025-02-09
-## Changed
+### Changed
 - Update IP database records for 2025-02
 
-## [5.7.0-beta.6] 2025-01-10
+## [5.6.2] 2025-01-22
-## Fixed
-- Resolve regression introduced with IP resolution feature in 13c6813
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.5] 2025-01-10
-## Changed
-- Stricter redacting of usernames (again)
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.4] 2025-01-10
-## Fixed
-- Clerical hotfix
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.3] 2025-01-10
-## Changed
-- Support legacy jq syntax for Ubuntu variants
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.2] 2025-01-07
-## Fixed
-- Stricter redacting of usernames
-- Omit nested directories when traversing symlinks
-
-## [5.7.0-beta.1] 2025-01-07
-### Changed
-- Normalize version number
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.21] 2025-01-06
-### Added
-- Add in-app documentation link to Codeberg mirror
-- Hover tooltips to most buttons
 ### Fixed
-- Prevent ArrowUp/ArrowDown input when inside keyword field
+- Resolve regression introduced with IP resolution feature in 5.6.0 (restores functionality of right-click action: Add to My Servers)
+
+## [5.6.1] 2025-01-10
+### Fixed
+- Add fallback support for jq 1.6
+
+## [5.6.0] 2025-01-06
+### Added
+- Application header bar and controls
+- Menu context subtitle in header bar
+- Bulk delete mods (via 'List installed mods' list). Not compatible with Manual Mod install mode
+- Highlight stale mods in mods list
+- Added --steam launch parameter
+- Open Steam workshop subscriptions dialog when switching from Manual to Auto mode
+- Hover tooltips to most buttons
+- Add in-app documentation link to Codeberg mirror
+- Additional logging
+### Fixed
+- Avoid sudo escalation if system map count is sufficient (jiriks74)
+- Duplicate dialog title on Steam Deck
+- Resolve remote IP when saving records for game servers with multiple hosts
+- More performant symlink traversal when checking for legacy links
+- Only iterate on missing symlinks at boot (400% performance uplift)
+- Fix for server list truncation causing some servers to not appear in results
+- Empty dialog popups if user manually deletes local mods while application is running
+- Update statusbar when removing servers from list/repopulating
+- Abort DayZ path discovery if Steam files are not synched
+- Race condition when checking for installed mods
+- Favorite server message not updating correctly
+- Improved handling for cases where there are no locally installed mods
+- Set up mod symlinks at boot, rather than only on server connect
+- Prevent context menus from opening when table is empty
+- When reloading table in-place, prevent duplicate panel elements from being added if already present
+- Clean up local mod signatures from versions file when deleting mods
+- Focus first row when opening mods list
 ### Changed
+- Redact usernames in log files
+- Prevent ArrowUp/ArrowDown input when inside keyword field
+- Admonish user to restart Steam in error dialog if DayZ path could not be found
+- Refactor control flow for more robust contextual parsing
+- Stop sending modal dialog hints to outer window
+- Clean up signal emission
+- Clarify some error messages and normalize text formatting
 - Update forum URL
-- Reword Help section links to include destination
 - Update README.md
 - Update IP database to 2025-01
 - Reduce IP database size by 50%
 - Update documentation to 5.6.x standard
 ### Dropped
-- Removed temporary mod ID output in debug logs
+- Hall of Fame section from button links, to be moved inside documentation
-- Removed Hall of Fame section from button links, moved inside documentation
+- Unused imports
-- Remove unused imports
 
-## [5.6.0-beta.20] 2024-12-23
+## [5.5.3] 2024-12-13
-### Added
-- Output real and resolved mod ids to logs (temporary)
-- Added -steam launch parameter
-### Fixed
-- Only iterate on missing symlinks
-- Move logging up
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.19] 2024-12-18
-### Added
-- Redact usernames in log files
-### Fixed
-- More performant symlink traversal when checking for legacy links
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.18] 2024-12-14
-### Added
-- Open Steam workshop subscriptions dialog
-- Additional logging
-### Fixed
-- Empty dialog popups if user manually deletes local mods while application is running
-- Abort DayZ path discovery if VDF if Steam files are not synched
-- Avoid sudo escalation if system map count is sufficient (jiriks74)
-### Changed
-- Admonish user to restart Steam in error dialog if DayZ path could not be found
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.17] 2024-12-14
-### Added
-- Additional logging
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.16] 2024-12-13
 ### Fixed
 - Add remote resource health checks before downloading updates
 ### Added
 - Add fallback repository
 
-## [5.6.0-beta.11] 2024-12-07
+## [5.5.1] 2024-12-03
 ### Fixed
-- Add missing function definition
+- Support localized decimal separators when parsing installed mod sizes
 
-## [5.6.0-beta.10] 2024-12-04
+## [5.5.0] 2024-11-10
-### Fixed
-- Untoggle highlight button when repopulating mod list
-- Resolve remote IP when saving records for game servers with multiple hosts
-- Update statusbar when removing servers from list/repopulating
-### Added:
-- "Select stale" button to bulk select mods marked as obsolete
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.9] 2024-12-03
-### Fixed
-- Normalize user locale when parsing floats
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.8] 2024-11-28
-### Fixed
-- Normalize user locale when parsing floats
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.7] 2024-11-28
-### Changed
-- Add additional logging when fetching installed mods
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.6] 2024-11-28
-### Fixed
-- Race condition when checking for installed mods
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.5] 2024-11-21
-### Added
-- Highlight stale mods in mods list
-### Fixed
-- Duplicate dialog title on Steam Deck
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.4] 2024-11-20
-### Added
-- Application header bar and controls
-- Menu context subtitle in header bar
-### Changed
-- Refactor control flow for more robust contextual parsing
-- Stop sending modal dialog hints to outer window
-### Fixed
-- Favorite server message not updating correctly
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.3] 2024-11-18
-### Fixed
-- Improved handling for cases where there are no locally installed mods
-- Set up mod symlinks at boot, rather than only on server connect
-- Prevent context menus from opening when table is empty
-- When reloading table in-place, prevent duplicate panel elements from being added if already present
-- Clean up signal emission
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.2] 2024-11-15
-### Fixed
-- Clean up local mod signatures from versions file when deleting mods
-
-## [5.6.0-beta.1] 2024-11-12
-### Added
-- Bulk delete mods (via 'List installed mods' list). Not compatible with Manual Mod install mode
-### Fixed
-- Fix for server list truncation causing some servers to not appear in results
-- Suppress signal emission when switching menu contexts
-- Focus first row when opening mods list
-### Changed
-- Clarify some error messages and normalize text formatting
-
-## [5.5.0-beta.5] 2024-11-03
-### Changed
-- Use updated A2S_RULES logic
-### Fixed
-- Servers in saved servers list would populate context menu with same option when right-clicking in server browser
-
-## [5.5.0-beta.4] 2024-10-31
-### Added
-- Expose a toggle setting for whether to launch the application in fullscreen
-### Fixed
-- Enable adding/removing servers to/from My Saved Servers when in Recent Servers context
-
-## [5.5.0-beta.3] 2024-10-31
-### Fixed
-- Prevent maps combobox from duplicating contents
-
-## [5.5.0-beta.2] 2024-10-31
-### Fixed
-- Restore keyboard input to keyword entry field
-
-## [5.5.0-beta.1] 2024-10-30
 ### Added
 - Support servers running DLC content (fixes Frostline servers)
-- Text autocompletion in maps search field
+- Expose a toggle setting for whether to launch the application in fullscreen
-- Add disk space warning to popup dialog
+- Text autocompletion in maps search field (partial search)
+- Add disk space warning to popup dialog when downloading mods
 ### Fixed
+- Servers in saved servers list would populate context menu with same option when right-clicking in server browser
+- Enable adding/removing servers to/from My Saved Servers when in Recent Servers context
+- Prevent maps combobox from duplicating contents
+- Restore keyboard input to keyword entry field
+### Changed
 - Abort fallback query method if DLC is required
 
-## [5.4.2-beta.1] 2024-10-05
+## [5.4.2] 2024-10-05
 ### Fixed
 - Sanitize third-party API IDs to remove UGC collisions
 
-## [5.4.1-beta.2] 2024-09-12
+## [5.4.1] 2024-09-25
-### Fixed
-- Use fallback logic for modlist queries when user traverses networks
-
-## [5.4.1-beta.2] 2024-09-10
-### Fixed
-- Fix signal handling control flow for checkbox toggles
-
-## [5.4.1-beta.1] 2024-09-10
 ### Added
 - Pre-boot validation check for users with self-compiled version of jq
 ### Fixed
+- Use fallback logic for modlist queries when user traverses networks
+- Fix signal handling control flow for checkbox toggles
 - When reloading the server browser, the map combobox selection would revert to the last selected map instead of All Maps
 - Server filter toggle signals were accessible from the main menu when switching between menu contexts
 - Global cooldown dialog could sometimes block filter toggles after cooldown reset
 - Normalized minor version number due to a previous clerical error
 
-## [5.4.0-beta.5] 2024-08-27
+## [5.4.0] 2024-08-27
-### Added
-- Freedesktop application icons for system taskbar, tray, and other dialogs
-### Fixed
-- Errors being printed to the console when Exit button was explicitly clicked
-
-## [5.4.0-beta.4] 2024-08-21
-### Added
-- Emit CPU model name when exporting system debug log
-### Fixed
-- Detect Steam Deck OLED APU variant during initial setup
-
-## [5.4.0-beta.3] 2024-08-04
 ### Added
 - Scan local area network for DayZ servers
-
+- Freedesktop application icons for system taskbar, tray, and other dialogs
-## [5.4.0-beta.2] 2024-08-03
+- Emit CPU model name when exporting system debug log
-### Fixed
-- Clerical hotfix for previous player names fix
-- Test if DayZ directory is empty at startup, implying that the game was moved to a new library collection
-
-## [5.4.0-beta.1] 2024-07-16
 ### Fixed
+- Errors being printed to the console when Exit button was explicitly clicked
+- Detect Steam Deck OLED APU variant during initial setup
 - Encapsulate player names correctly so that names with whitespace in them are supported
+- Test if DayZ directory is empty at startup, implying that the game was moved to a new library collection
+- Report WM_CLASS name to the window manager
 
 ## [5.3.2] 2024-07-02
 ### Fixed

dzgui.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ set -o pipefail
 
 src_path=$(realpath "$0")
 
-version=6.0.0.beta-17
+version=6.0.0
 
 #CONSTANTS
 aid=221100
@@ -624,10 +624,10 @@ fetch_helpers_by_sum(){
     [[ -f "$config_file" ]] && source "$config_file"
     declare -A sums
     sums=(
-        ["funcs"]="3c35e4d19b8c69971c564afb6ac22728"
+        ["funcs"]="8e281479d7b7e6bab9e81fcdf0205ce9"
         ["query_v2.py"]="55d339ba02512ac69de288eb3be41067"
         ["servers.py"]="ed442c3aecf33f777d59dcf53650d263"
-        ["ui.py"]="8edf48e6780460bd8ea7b01614592296"
+        ["ui.py"]="3d67e5e8e85a23dde1fd0e85a9be62a9"
         ["vdf2json.py"]="2f49f6f5d3af919bebaab2e9c220f397"
         ["pefile.py"]="21531f2c0d9dfa5f110cf6779f9d22c0"
     )

helpers/funcs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -o pipefail
-version="6.0.0-beta.17"
+version="6.0.0"
 
 #CONSTANTS
 aid=221100