Betacraft Launcher v2 progress update

by Moresteck

Update to LegacyFix v2

In prelude to the next stage of Betacraft Launcher v2 development, we’ve decided to push LegacyFix v2 for every version in the current build of the v2 launcher (20230623, or 20240401 for macOS).

We’ve done that mostly because I’ve promised to do that now to a handful of people who were experiencing issues with LegacyFix v1, but also to dust off our json generating script and get ready for more rapid development.

Recent development regarding Betacraft Launcher v2

Since our last post, we’ve implemented in full:

Accounts UI

Instances UI

and instance creation UI

We have also experimented with aarch64 builds for Windows ¹⁰⁄₁₁ and builds for macOS 10.14-10.15, which were successful and will be coming with the full release of Betacraft Launcher v2.

Currently we are implementing instance editing UI, and will then move on to launching itself. Most of the launching code is already ready, however it needs to be brought up to a higher standard (as we based it on the pre-rewrite v2 C code and only adapted it for C++).

Once we deem the launcher usable again, we will publish the code of the rewrite on Github and release the first build of the launcher after it’s been rewritten. The next stage after that is going to be about polishing the UX (such as adding a first run guide), bugfixing and testing. We hope to release the first stable build of the v2 launcher before GTA6 (May 26, 2026).

About Betacraft Launcher v1

We don’t have any plans to shut down the v1 launcher. It will continue to function as it has, and will likely receive one last ‘goodbye’ release, making it more standalone and independent from our server and proxy. Not sure when we’re going to push that update, though. It’s about 90% ready as of now, but our current focus of development is the v2 launcher.