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🚀 FoliCon v5.3 - Your icons, your style — Overlay Store is here
🚀 FoliCon v5.3. - Your icons, your style — Overlay Store is here
A little birthday surprise, made for the one who makes everything brighter 💖
For the one who brings warmth, joy, and color into every day — this release is a little celebration of you.
Today, we’re not just shipping a new update — we’re celebrating a birthday, a smile, and a whole lot of love. This release is dedicated to the beautiful soul who inspires creativity, happiness, and a little more magic in everything around them.
May every folder you style, every icon you customize, and every little detail you love feel like a tiny reflection of the joy you bring into the world.
Happy birthday. ✨💖🎉
We’d love to celebrate with you. If you’re watching this release, drop your birthday wishes in the discussion post below, and feel free to share any issues, feedback, or bugs you find so we can keep making FoliCon even better.
🚀 Your icons, your style — Overlay Store is here
Make every media folder look the way you want.
This release opens FoliCon’s icon system to the community, making it easier than ever to browse, install, and use custom overlays without touching the app internals. It’s a big step forward for the project — and a really fun one.
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✨ What’s new
🛒 Overlay Store — discover and install community icon styles
Poster icons no longer stop at the built-in looks.
From Poster Icon Config → Browse Overlay Store… you can:
- Browse the live community catalog
- Search by name, author, description, or tags
- Filter by category
- Preview overlays before installing
- Install, update, or remove overlays with one click
- Track download progress and status while the install runs
Overlays install into your user profile and appear alongside the built-in styles, ready to apply to folders immediately.
The catalog and package files live in the public FoliCon-Overlays repository.
🔌 Data-driven overlays — styles as simple packages
Overlays are no longer hardcoded controls. Each style is now a small package, making the system easier to extend, easier to redistribute, and much simpler for the community to build on.
This means:
- New styles can be shipped without waiting for a full app update
- Community creators can publish overlays independently
- The app can load and manage overlays in a more flexible, scalable way
🎨 Built-in overlay designer
A new WYSIWYG designer lets you create your own icon overlay directly inside FoliCon.
- Design overlays visually
- Adjust layout, positioning, text, and styling
- Preview the result in real time
- Save and reuse your own custom styles
✨ New Doraemon-themed example overlay
This release also includes a brand-new Doraemon-inspired overlay built with the designer, showing off what’s possible with the new ecosystem.
🖼️ Screenshots
🧩 Overlay Store
🎨 Designer
🖼️ Example overlay
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed rating text clipping so it automatically scales to fit within the badge.
- Improved rating text centering and anchor positioning for cleaner, more accurate placement.
- Fixed TMDB/IGDB re-initialization after closing the setup wizard so services reset reliably.
- Add Download Limit error message for DeviantArt's new download limit, it currently affects the
Extract Galleryfeature of professional mode - Duplicate title in Final result due to failures of any search in poster mode.
- API keys now properly stay encrypted at rest on system.
- Show error message to user if any during the FoliCon app update check.
- Add de-bounce to prevent stale changes to previewer.
- Show correct title on progress bar while searching/downloading/creating icon, earlier the main title always shown "Downloading".
- Show error notification for any failed icon download.
- Various performance improvements to improve icon creation/search process and UI responsiveness
🧩 Developer Updates
- Full test suite implementation.
- Continued quality and maintainability improvements across the codebase.
💻 System Requirements
- .NET 10 or higher
- WebView2 Runtime (pre-installed on Windows 11)
🔗 Full Changelog: v5.2.2...v5.3.1
FoliCon v5.2.2 - Fix preview library dependencies and update actions
🚀 FoliCon v5.2.2
✨ New Features
None in this release.
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fix clipboard issue - users were not able to copy paste in text boxes across FoliCon - Downgraded Microsoft libraries from preview version 11 for improved stability (#320)
📦 Dependency Upgrades
| Package | From | To |
|---|---|---|
crowdin/github-action |
2.16.3 | 2.17.1 |
actions/ai-inference |
2 | 3 |
actions/stale |
10 | 11 |
🌐 Localization
No translation updates in this release.
🧩 Developer Updates
- Version bump maintenance (#311)
💻 System Requirements
- .NET 10 or higher
- WebView2 Runtime (pre-installed on Windows 11)
🔗 Full Changelog: v5.2.1...v5.2.2
FoliCon v5.2.1 - bug fix release
🚀 FoliCon v5.2.1
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Resolved an app startup deadlock issue for smoother launches (#305).
- Made the constructor for
LangProvider.cspublicly accessible to fix (#310).
📦 Dependency Upgrades
| Package | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| actions/cache | 5 | 6 |
| actions/upload-artifact | 4 | 7 |
| dependabot/fetch-metadata | 2.4.0 | 3.1.0 |
💻 System Requirements
- .NET 10 or higher
FoliCon v5.2.0 - Enhanced localization and subfolder processing
🚀 FoliCon v5.2.0
✨ New Features
Subfolder Processing Options
- User can now chose to create icon for the parent/root folder.
- Subfolder depth can be customized.
- User can now chose to create icons for existing icon/processed folder.
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed issue #302 where HandyControl language settings caused a deadlock during application usage.
- Enhanced localization features with fresh updates from Crowdin.
📦 Dependency Upgrades
| Package | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| actions/stale | v9 | v10 |
| actions/github-script | v7 | v9 |
| actions/ai-inference | v1 | v2 |
| actions/checkout |
FoliCon v5.1.0 - Professional mode icon downloads and fixes
🚀 FoliCon v5.1.0
✨ New Features
🎨 Let users download icons in Professional mode (exclusive content for watchers)
This update introduces the ability for users in Professional mode to download icons specifically available to watchers of that particular deviation. A great addition for unlocking exclusive media content!Screenshots
If not using OAuth
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed LanguageClassGenerator project to ensure proper functionality.
📦 Dependency Upgrades
| Package | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| softprops/action-gh-release | 2 | 3 |
| actions/download-artifact | 4 | 8 |
| actions/cache | 4 | 5 |
| actions/checkout | 4 | 6 |
| actions/ |
FoliCon v5.0 - BYOK - Autonomus
🚀 FoliCon v5.0.0
Caution
This release is heavily targeted towards making the FoliCon repo highly autonomus to allow it to thrive without constant supervision from me, I'm making it easier to have faster releases and for anyone from the community to contribute to the project.
Folicon builds will now be automated and will require users to provide keys (TMDB/IGDB/DeviantArt) based on the feature they wish to use.
✨ New Features
🔑 BYOK Onboarding Wizard
A brand-new "Bring Your Own Key" onboarding wizard guides users through setting up their own API keys on first launch. API keys are securely stored using DPAPI encryption, giving users full control over their credentials.
⚙️ CI/CD Pipeline
Integrated CI/CD workflows for automated build validation and release management, improving development velocity and release reliability.
🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fix youtube trailers/videos showing error 153
- Fix exception "Cannot access disposed object"
- Build errors from dependency upgrades – Fixed build errors and adapted the codebase to accommodate breaking changes from major dependency upgrades.
(#282)
📦 Dependency Upgrades
| Package | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory | 10.0.0-rc.2 | 10.0.9 |
| Microsoft.Web.WebView2 | 1.0.3537.50 | 1.0.4022.49 |
| NLog | 6.0.5 | 6.1.3 |
| Polly | 8.6.4 | 8.7.0 |
| Prism.DryIoc | 8.1.97 | 9.0.537 |
| Sentry / Sentry.NLog | 5.16.1 | 6.6.0 |
| SharpCompress | 0.41.0 | 0.49.1 |
| System.Drawing.Common | 9.0.13 | 10.0.9 |
| TMDbLib | 2.3.0 | 3.0.0 |
| Vanara.PInvoke.Shell32 | 4.2.1 | 5.0.5 |
🌐 Localization
- Updated translations via Crowdin — new and improved localizations across supported languages.
🧩 Developer Updates
- Migrated to .NET 10, delivering improved stability and performance.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and releases.
💻 System Requirements
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.NET: Requires .NET 10 or higher
👉 Download .NET -
WebView2 Runtime: Required (pre-installed on Windows 11)
👉 Download for other versions
🔗 Full Changelog: v4.4.0 → v5.0.0
Folicon - v4.4.0 - Revival
🚀 FoliCon v4.4.0
✨ New Features
🖼️ Windows 11–Style Poster Icon Overlay
A sleek new Windows 11–style icon overlay for users who prefer a native Windows look.
Note: Best suited for horizontal posters.
🎮 Multiple Videos for Games
Poster Mode now supports multiple videos per game, rather than just one.
Previously, this functionality was limited to TV and Movie modes.
🔍 Transparency Support in Image Viewer
Image previews (on single-click) now correctly display transparency, allowing for accurate visualization of PNGs and other transparent formats.
🐞 Bug Fixes
- ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Poster Mode – Resolved an exception triggered during parallel icon creation.
(#239) - Overly Sharp Posters – Fixed overly aliased posters in Liaher and Faelpessoal overlays.
- Poster Mode Dependency on DeviantArt – Poster Mode now works even when DeviantArt is unreachable.
Professional Mode will display an error when DeviantArt services are unavailable. - Professional Mode Progress Bar Stuck – Progress bar now dismisses properly after search errors.
- Performance Enhancements & Library Updates – Improved responsiveness and updated all dependencies to their latest stable versions.
🧩 Developer Updates
- Integrated Crowdin for streamlined localization management.
- Migrated to .NET 9, delivering improved stability and performance.
⚠️ Known Issue
- DeviantArt Unreachable (Intermittent) – DeviantArt API may time out due to rate limiting.
The issue is being monitored, and the app will notify users in real time when it occurs.
💻 System Requirements
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.NET: Requires .NET 9 or higher
👉 Download .NET -
WebView2 Runtime: Required (pre-installed on Windows 11)
👉 Download for other versions
🔗 Full Changelog: v4.3.3 → v4.4.0
Folicon - v4.3.3 bugFix release
🐞 Bug Fixes
- fix #217 - Collection folder gives error when searching via poster mode Auto(movies & TV) search
System Requirements
- .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
- WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.
Full Changelog: v4.3.2...v4.3.3
FoliCon - v4.3.2
✨ New Features
- Multiple videos - Poster mode now lets you see all available videos for the media instead of only a single video.
🐞 Bug Fixes
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Professional Mode Search - Modify professional mode to replace removed API with new one (deviantArt revision 20240701)
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Search Window Behavior - Fixed an issue where the search window would appear even if 'ignore ambiguous' was enabled. If no results are found while 'ignore ambiguous' is true, the search result window will no longer be displayed, aligning it with the behavior for multiple results.
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UI Freeze During Icon Download - Resolved a UI freeze that occurred just before the final icon download process.
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Icon Creation Progress Indicator - Added a progress indicator for icon creation immediately following the icon download progress.
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Performance Enhancements - Implemented various performance improvements for a smoother experience.
System Requirements
- .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
- WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.
Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2
FoliCon - v4.3.2-beta-1
🐞 Bug Fixes
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Search Window Behavior - Fixed an issue where the search window would appear even if 'ignore ambiguous' was enabled. If no results are found while 'ignore ambiguous' is true, the search result window will no longer be displayed, aligning it with the behavior for multiple results.
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UI Freeze During Icon Download - Resolved a UI freeze that occurred just before the final icon download process.
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Icon Creation Progress Indicator - Added a progress indicator for icon creation immediately following the icon download progress.
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Performance Enhancements - Implemented various performance improvements for a smoother experience.
System Requirements
- .NET Framework: This application requires .NET 6.0 or higher. You can download it here.
- WebView2: FoliCon requires WebView2 Runtime. It comes pre-installed on Windows 11. Download for other versions.
Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2-beta-1
