Latest Launcher Release Notes

**Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.3 6/30/2016 **

Build Info:
2.12.3-3033190+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Addition of Arabic to launcher

**Bugs Fixes: **

  • Fixed an issue where a user does not receive any feedback when they get no results in the Learn Tab’s search bar
  • Fixed localization issues when signing out of the launcher
  • Fixed an issue when signing out of the launcher while a download is initializing will not cancel the download
  • Fixed an issue where Arabic characters appear for punctuation marks
  • Fixed an issue with Arabic font not being called correctly when OS language is set to English
  • Fixed an issue with composite fonts not applied to text boxes around the launcher does not allow Arabic and other non-roman languages to render properly
  • Fixed an issue with Asian and Russian fonts not being called correctly when OS language is set to Arabic
  • Added an incompatible version pop-up when attempting to purchase Paragon on OS X
  • Fixed an issue with Fortnite background image not properly right aligned to the window
  • Changed Modding subtabs to be treated as their own section
  • Fixed a crash with self updating in bootstrap

**Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.4 7/14/2016
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Build Info:
2.12.4-3050184+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Made a change to the text displayed when downloading and installing a patch to better communicate to the user when the launcher was downloading and installing files
  • Added visual notifiers for the user to display the users logged in state. will help users identify when they are offline and attempt to reconnect.
  • Improved user experience on Learn page
  • Provide Styling solution for Learn search bar that supports Bing and Google.
  • Minor Bug Fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.5 7/21/2016

Build Info:
2.12.5-3056631+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:
Implemented a system dialog for notifying the user a crash occurred that may have resulted from a 3rd party application

Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue which would prevent the launcher window to be moved while an image viewer overlay was active
Fixed some untranslated strings found from Windows launcher installer

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.7 8/11/2016

Build Info:
2.12.7-3084639+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Simple Install Verification - To reduce installation times we developed a system that allows us to select just a quick file exists and is correct size check when performing application patches

  • Application Auto Updates - Adding auto update ability to the Launcher. will allow a user to select for each application whether updates should be downloaded and installed automatically when they become available. Note: will be turned on by default for all games found within the launcher. functionality will not be available for engines.

  • Pause download queue when an application is launched. Whenever an application is launched, and a download is in progress, it will be paused. When there are no longer any launcher apps running, any app still paused by the launcher will be resumed. The user is free to alt-tab back to the launcher at any point and resume downloads themselves. Note the Launcher will not resume downloads that the user has paused.

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.9 9/1/2016

Build Info:
2.12.9-3108101+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Various refactors and bug fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.12 10/06/2016

Build Info:
2.12.12-3151550+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Add additional command line options per app on launch - Similar to the Auto Update setting, each installed app has Additional Commands setting which are appended to the cmdline when launching an app if the setting is enabled. If the setting isn’t enabled the text box is disabled too - note the commands can only be edited when the setting is enabled.

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.13 10/20/2016

Build Info:
2.12.13-3167524+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Improved Windows 10 installation support
  • Improved OS X/macOS self update support

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.15 11/10/2016

Build Info:
2.12.15-3190700+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Settings Menu style conversion - update will have some changes to our menu style to help uniform our style in the settings menu.
  • Profanity Filter - We have added a profanity filter to chat, is turned on by default.

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.16 12/01/2016

Build Info:
2.12.16

Release Notes:

  • Fortnite Global Chat removed from Launcher Social Panel.

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.17 01/12/2017

Build Info:
2.12.17

Release Notes:

  • Subtle Install Notifications: When an update is received, the user will see an indicator above the cog icon of the Settings menu; from there, users can find a link to patch notes and choose whether or not to apply the update at that time

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.18 01/24/2017

Build Info:
2.12.18

Release Notes:

  • Optimization of our backend content delivery pipeline
  • Some bug fixes for logging and vault caching

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.19 01/25/2017

Build Info:
2.12.19

Release Notes:

  • Custom install location for Unreal Engine
  • Naver social network linking on the Unreal Engine tab
  • Added proper messaging for UE 4.15 compatibility on OS X
  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from immediately adding purchased Marketplace content to projects

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.20 01/27/2017

Build Info:
2.12.20

Release Notes:

  • Hotfix for an issue that caused users to crash when cloning a project in the UE Library

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.21 02/07/2017

Build Info:
2.12.21

Release Notes:

  • Fixed an issue that caused users to crash when trying to sign into the Launcher after minimizing to system tray more than once and signing out
  • Fixed an issue in which OpenSSL tried to open a config file from disk at startup

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.22 02/09/2017

Build Info:
2.12.22

Release Notes:

  • Minor bug fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.23 02/21/2017

Build Info:
2.12.23-3309863+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Introduction of Marketplace Shopping Cart: Users may now track multiple items for purchase from either the store front or individual item detail pages, and may bulk purchase them at one time
  • Crash and minor bug fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.24 02/24/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.12.24-3321064+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Updates to Launcher UI
  • Fixed a bug that caused Arabic not to display correctly on certain pages in the Launcher

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.25 03/15/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.12.25-3343384+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Bug Fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.26 03/22/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.12.26-3356385+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Bug Fixes

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.28 04/10/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.12.28-3382967+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Hot fix for an issue that prevented detail text from appearing on UE Editor slots

Release Notes - Launcher 2.12.27 04/03/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.12.27-3374222+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Hot fix for an issue that prevented uprojects from being associated with the Editor

Release Notes - Launcher 2.13.0 04/13/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.13.0-3386540+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Numerous crash fixes and stability improvements
  • Force major update: causes the launcher to force an update when it detects that its current version is significantly out of date

Release Notes - Launcher 2.14.0 04/20/2017

Build Info:
Build Info: 2.14.0-3399308+++Portal+Release-Live

Release Notes:

  • Optimization and bug fixes