SSUI v5.3 💎

[JacksonTheMaster]

🚀 StationeersServerUI v5.3 - The "Smooth Sailing" Release

After weeks of intense development, refactoring, and three major versions in the past few weeks that should have been a beta, I'm thrilled to announce that StationeersServerUI v5 is finally here and ready to stay! This is THE version that's going to stick around - my great refactoring saga is (nearly) complete!

Important

Apologies from JacksonTheMaster
Hey existing StationeersServerUI users,
I owe you all a big sorry for the wild ride lately. Dropping releases like confetti, only to present v5 now? Yeah, I fumbled the ball there. The v4.1.12 mess and those "should’ve been beta" moments weren’t my finest hour. I know I’ve made you wrestle with configs and pray your servers didn’t implode. My bad—truly.
My vision for this project has evolved, and I’m sorry for the bumpy ride. Thank you for sticking with me.
With v5, I’m aiming to make things right: stable, polished, and no more surprise chaos. Thanks for sticking with me despite the bumps. You’re the real MVPs.

• Jackson

💎 Major Features

🔐 Authentication & Multi-User Support

• Create multiple user accounts
• Secure login system protects your server from unauthorized access

🧙‍♂️ First-Time Setup Wizard

• Sleek guided setup to get your server running quickly
• Clean UI with helpful placeholders
• Works for both new and authenticated users
• Easy Discord integration and network configuration
• Clear instructions with visual aids at every step

📊 Real-Time Server Management

• At-a-glance server status indicators
• New /api/v2/server/status endpoint
• Improved shutdown handling for crash prevention

📝 Supercharged Logging

• Subsystem-specific logs for easier troubleshooting
• Colorful debug filters to find what you need
• Optional file output with configurable verbosity
• Optional log system filter via config.json stringmap

🔄 Smart Updates

• Auto-updater enabled by default for seamless patches
• Auto validation and patching of UIMod folder files
• Control which update types you receive from the config.json

🎨 Polished UI Experience

• Sleek revamped space background with improved visuals
• Click-to-expand config sections to reduce clutter
• Fixed that annoying text overlap bug in the console, finally!

🚨 EXISTING USER ADVISORY 🚨

DROP IT IN A NEW FOLDER! For the best experience with v5.3, install in a fresh directory rather than upgrading an existing installation, or just delete the old UIMod folder and executable and drop the new one in.

AUTO-UPDATES ARE ON! The updater is now enabled by default and will keep your minor versions and patches current. Major updates will be logged as found with advisory steps to take action yourself. You can configure this in config.json.

THIS IS THE STABLE ONE! After several rapid releases, v5.3 is built for stability and longevity. Future updates will maintain compatibility with this version, meaning this is the last major change you'll need to adapt to for quite a while.

I promise!

🛠️ Minor Technical Improvements worth noting

• Reorganized folder structure for better organization
• Thread-safe operations throughout for rock-solid stability
• Fixed race conditions and deadlocks

🔮 What's Next?

With the major refactoring complete, future updates will focus on polishing existing features. The shipped Event detections are currently pretty low balled as they resemble the few Ideas I had while coding, so taking the time to think about what the system could else detect would benefit it greatly.
The same goes for the wizard. While it is stable and widely extensible, adding more fields and options would be a great addition to the system. Also, adding a "Difficulty" field to the Server config is long overdue. The current fields the config supports for the gameserver are also "just" what I came up with while coding, so a big tinkering session would be great for this too. All of these changes will be made as minors and patches for v5, (v5.3.1, v5.3.2, v5.4.1) and will not break existing setups.

The foundation is solid, and now we build upward, not sideways!

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Full changelog: v4.6.10...v5.3.0

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