Minigalaxy version 1.3.0 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Fix Remove forward slash from desktop filename for Shenzhen I/O (thanks to slowsage)
• Fix race when preparing download location (thanks to viacheslavka)
• Fix multithreaded downloads of Windows games (thanks to viacheslavka)
• Fix DLC installation for Windows games (thanks to viacheslavka)
• Allow users to specify the download directory (thanks to viacheslavka)

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.2.6 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Fix changing the install path causing an exception
• Fix error detection & reporting on wineprefix creation failure (thanks to LeXofLeviafan)

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.2.5 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Fix short freeze on startup (thanks to LeXofLeviafan)
• Fix game information not showing in list view (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Hide A Plague Tale Digital Goodies Pack (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Remove round corners from top of the "play" button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Move the Gametile menu button alongside the Play button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Update Spanish translation (thanks to manurtinez)
• Capitalize first letter of the "play/download/..." button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Update Traditional Chinese translation (thanks to s8321414)
• Added additional tooltips to buttons, labels, menu items and radio buttons (thanks to orende)
• Hide CDPR Goodie Pack Content
• Add notifications on successful download and installation of games (thanks to orende)
• Add category filtering dialog for game library (thanks to orende)
• Parallelize api.can_connect function with threads, futures (thanks to orende)
• Fix available disk space being checked in parent directory (thanks to Unrud)
• Create new config if reading it fails

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.2.4 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Fix short freeze on startup (thanks to LeXofLeviafan)
• Fix game information not showing in list view (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Hide A Plague Tale Digital Goodies Pack (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Remove round corners from top of the "play" button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Move the Gametile menu button alongside the Play button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Update Spanish translation (thanks to manurtinez)
• Capitalize first letter of the "play/download/..." button (thanks to lmeunier)
• Update Traditional Chinese translation (thanks to s8321414)
• Added additional tooltips to buttons, labels, menu items and radio buttons (thanks to orende)
• Hide CDPR Goodie Pack Content
• Add notifications on successful download and installation of games (thanks to orende)
• Add category filtering dialog for game library (thanks to orende)
• Parallelize api.can_connect function with threads, futures (thanks to orende)
• Fix available disk space being checked in parent directory (thanks to Unrud)
• Create new config if reading it fails

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.2.2 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below. This is a small release which fixes some bugs and makes the life of packagers a bit easier.

Changes

• Fix progress bar not showing up for downloads
• Fix downloads not being cancellable
• Fix incompatibility with python 3.6
• Fix connection error texts (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Show DLC titles in English (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Fix version not being updated during a release
• Update Norwegian Bokmål translation (thanks to kimmalmo)
• Update Czech translation (thanks to jakbuz23)

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.2.1 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. This is a small bug fix release, making it easier to package in Flatpak. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Fix downloads failing when content length is not returned by the server
• Allow different types of downloads to happen at the same time (thanks to jgerrish)
• Fix metadata file having releases in wrong order

Please also look at the 1.2.0 changelog from earlier today for more changes.

Note: If you're a package maintainer, make sure to set the version in version.py while packaging. As it's now always set to git.

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

It has been a while since the last release, but Minigalaxy version 1.2.0 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. It adds a ton of features and brings some interface changes. It also adds Greek and Romanian translations. The download and a breakdown of the changes can be found below.

Changes

• Split game information and properties into different windows (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Add list view (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Allow DLC to be queued up for downloading (thanks to flagrama)
• Fix changing library to a directory with special characters in the name (thanks to makson96)
• Fix signing in with Facebook (thanks to phlash)
• Always use cached DLC icons and thumbnails (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Cache information covers (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Fix installers not being cleaned up like expected (thanks to Kzimir)
• Fix error when opening game properties window when wine is not installed (thanks to lmeunier)
• Fix freeze for games generating a lot of output (thanks to lmeunier)
• Fix extracting rar based games with innoextract (thanks to Kzimir)
• Allow setting wine executable per game (thanks to Kzimir)
• Add GameMode support (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Add MangoHud support (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Add option to use Winetricks (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Fix updates not always being detected directly after opening Minigalaxy (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Fix desktop files generated not always being able to launch (thanks to otaconix)
• Show percentage when hovering over download progress bar (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Add option to disable update check per game (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Add forum, GOG Database and PCGamingWiki URLs to game information (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• List genre as unknown in game information when none is found (thanks to mareksapota)
• Fix changing installation path causing crashes in rare cases (thanks to makson96)
• Fall back to English when locale cannot be determined (thanks to flagrama)
• Add gettext to build dependencies (thanks to larslindq)
• Improve error handling upon API errors
• Fix several issues with launching Windows games from Minigalaxy
• Fix some games getting stuck on in queue
• Fix Windows game installation not caring about preferred language (thanks to Kzimir)
• Add Greek translation (thanks to Pyrofanis)
• Add Spanish (Spain) translation (thanks to mbarrio)
• Add Romanian (Romania) translation (thanks to xSlendiX)
• Update Norwegian Bokmål translation (thanks to kimmalmo)
• Update Czech translation (thanks to jakbuz23)

As usual, a deb file for installing this release on Debian and Ubuntu can be found below. Packages most distributions will most likely become available soon. See the website for installation instructions.

Minigalaxy version 1.1.0 is finally available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. This release is the biggest one yet. It contains many new features, bug fixes and translations. A breakdown of all of them is found below. Highlights are the per game properties window with information and the possibility to set launch options, being able to select the language Minigalaxy will be displayed in, dark mode support and new translations to Czech, Finnish, Italian, Swedish and Ukrainian.

Changes

• Improve integrity check after downloading (thanks to makson96)

• Show an error showing Windows games cannot be enabled

• Add properties menu for games where game specific actions can be made like setting launch options and opening the store page (thanks to Odelpasso and makson96)

• Add a disk space check before downloading (thanks to SvdB-nonp and makson96)

• Use a different color for the play button for installed games

• Put installed games at the top of the list

• Store saved installers in ~/GOG Games/installer by default again (thanks to makson96)

• Remember if the user had the installed filter enabled (thanks to makson96)

• Extract Windows games in the background if Innoextract is available (thanks to makson96)

• Extract Windows games in the background (thanks to Odelpasso)

• Fix installing DLC for Windows games (thanks to makson96)

• Fix an error showing if the user has no games (thanks to makson96)

• Add option to hide games (thanks to TotalCaesar659)

• Ask user if they are sure when logging out (thanks to TotalCaesar659)

• Add a dark theme (thanks to TotalCaesar659)

• Run post install script after installation. This fixes Full Throttle Remastered (thanks to makson96)

• Fix games being shown twice

• Fix crash when GOG is down (thanks to lmeunier)

• Make the language configurable (thanks to TotalCaesar659 and zweif)

• Add the following translations:

  • Czech (thanks to jakbuz23)
  • Finnish (thanks to heidiwenger and jonnelafin)
  • Italian (thanks to koraynilay)
  • Swedish (thanks to Newbytee)
  • Ukrainian (thanks to karaushu)

• Update the following translations:

  • Dutch
  • German (thanks to zweif)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (thanks to LordPilum)
  • Polish (thanks to ArturWroblewski)
  • Russian (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
  • Simplified Chinese (thanks to dummyx)
  • Spanish (thanks to LocalPinkRobin and advy99)
  • Turkish (thanks to fuzunspm)

  As usual a deb file for installing this release on Debian 11+ and Ubuntu 20.04+ is listed below.

  Packages for all other supported distributions are expected to be updated in the coming days. See the README for info on how to install them.

Minigalaxy version 1.0.2 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. This release is aimed at fixing a number of bugs found in version 1.0.1.

Changes

• Fix updates sometimes not working
• Fix some games always showing an update is available
• Fix DLC not downloading (thanks to stephanlachnit)
• Fix DLC update option not showing up (thanks to makson96)
• Fix show store page button not showing anymore (thanks to makson96)
• Fix missing thumbnails not being downloaded for already installed games (thanks to makson96)
• Fix the login screen crashing in some cases (thanks to makson96)
• Use the system's icon theme for icons used (thanks to stephanlachnit and makson96)

As usual a deb file for installing this release on Debian 10+ and Ubuntu 18.10+ is listed below.

Packages for all other supported distributions are expected to be updated in the coming days. See the README for info on how to install them.

Minigalaxy version 1.0.1 is now available. For new users, Minigalaxy is a simple GOG client for Linux. This release mainly fixes bugs found in version 1.0.0 and adds a Swedish translation. A breakdown of all the new features and fixes follows below.

Changes

• Open maximized if the window was maximized when last closed (thanks to TotalCaesar659)
• Kept installers are now stored in ~/.cache/minigalaxy/download
• Fix about window displaying wrong version number
• Fix show store page button not showing anymore (thanks to makson96)
• Fix the download manager crashing when an installer has been damaged during downloading (thanks to makson96)
• Fix games showing an update is available while the latest version is installed (thanks to makson96)
• Fix loading the library taking a long time when many games are installed (thanks to makson96)
• Fix Gex not launching
• Add the following translations:
  • Swedish (thanks to Newbytee)
• Update the following translations:
  • Polish (thanks to ArturWroblewski)
  • Russian (thanks to TotalCaesar659)

As usual a deb file for installing this release on Debian 10+ and Ubuntu 18.10+ is listed below.

Packages for all other supported distributions are expected to be updated in the coming days. See the README for info on how to install them.