VPKEdit 5.0.0.4

What's new in 5.0.0.4

VPKEdit 5.0 is coming soon! It brings with it a bunch of bug fixes and features. I want to delay the proper release to add more features and properly test everything that's changed, so in the meantime here's a beta release.
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Changes made in this beta have an exclamation mark emoji (❗) and old changes may be struck out and replaced where applicable. This changelog is a collection of every beta release up to this point and will continue to be appended to until the final release.
General Changes
- Add macOS as a supported platform (thanks @Charles-Bao and @EricZhang456!)
- ❗Change macOS code signing process to reduce install friction
- Update logo to New VPKEdit logo from Old VPKEdit logo
- Add 16x16 variant for better scaling (thanks to The Pixel for the design!)
- ❗Add create/read/write support for FGP pack file format
- Add read/write support for SiN (SIN) pack file format
- Add read support for Xbox Zip (XZP) pack file format
- ❗Add read support for Xbox Zip v2 (XZP2) pack file format
- ❗Fix baking PAK/SIN formats by ensuring directory is written to the end of the file and filenames are always null-terminated
- ❗Accelerate BSP/XZP2/ZIP read/write times by 3x in uncompressed scenarios
- Properly set RPATH on Linux for standalone builds
- Fix GCF checksum verification algorithm
- Add support for parsing contents of encrypted GCFs
GUI Changes
- ❗Greatly accelerate pack file load time
- ❗In my Windows 10 VM the speedup was 20x, but I have heard reports of lower end systems which took minutes to open certain pack files now opening them near instantly
- Create a plugin system to be able to load new previews not packaged with the program at runtime
- ❗Add plugin information dialog to show metadata of active plugins
- Migrate DMX and MDL previews to new plugin system
- ❗Migrate ICE encyption context menu entries to VCrypt plugin
- Qt updates
- Upgrade to Qt 6.8.3 on Windows
- Use system Qt for Linux installers (third-party vendors are already doing this)
- Fixes system themes being inaccessible
- U̶p̶g̶r̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶Q̶t̶ ̶6̶.̶8̶.̶2̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶a̶l̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶L̶i̶n̶u̶x̶ ̶b̶u̶i̶l̶d̶s̶ Rolled back after bugs with Qt on some distros
- Improve translations
- Add Vietnamese translation
- ❗Add Slovenian translation
- Update Japanese translation
- Update Spanish translation
- Fix pack file name possibly being renamed to a translated text in the status bar …

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