0.1

[Renegade]

After over two years of development, six weeks of delays, 13 release candidates, with 10 minutes left to midnight in the US-Pacific time zone, we finally, ultimately, released Ares 0.1.

As of right now, we have six locations for the Ares Standalone Package, and Launch Base should be serving 0.1.
We will probably gain more during the course of the day.

We have tested Ares thoroughly for weeks and months, so we do not expect big problems, but if issues become apparent, we will quickly update the files - this is just one of the many reasons we highly recommend using Launch Base to work with Ares. Should there be an issue, LB will detect an available update and offer it to you automatically, rather than you having to check back whether you're outdated.

There isn't much more to say that I haven't said already in the previous posts of the past two months - promo shots are not done right now, but I have them open in the other window. I'll link them once they're done.

We would like to take this moment to thank all our supporters and helpers, the coders and contributors who helped craft Ares, our testers, who provided us with invaluable feedback, and especially Marshall, whose work on the manual and never ending cooperation with Launch Base development have ensured that Ares is easily usable by the masses.

And lastly, thank you for waiting for so long until we were finally ready to release our first public version - we hope Ares was worth the wait. Feel free to ask any questions remaining after reading the readme and the manual, and, most importantly, have fun using Ares!

Download Launch Base
or
Download Ares Standalone Package 0.1

Features list, if you don't want to download and read the manual there.

P.S.:
For those interested in metrics: 143 new flags or sections in 137 bugfixes, restorations and additions. And those are just the ones quickly countable through text search.

Edit: To rule out confusions and errors, please make 100% sure the YR you're running is unmodified, that is, it's neither RockPatch nor NPatch.
Ares is not compatible with RockPatch or NPatch, and failure is expected if you combine them.

Edit 2: It has transpired that the Custom Foundation Generator returns false values when used in Google Chrome. We'll investigate the reason - for now, please try to use it in Firefox if at all possible.