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# Cordial 0.18.0 — no more grey screen on launch, and ARM builds

## Cordial starts again

On 2026-09-24 Cordial started coming up as a flat grey window, signed in or
not. Roblox had changed the settings document Cordial fetches at startup,
and that document no longer starts the current client. Cordial now fetches
the same settings document the Roblox client itself asks for.

Measured on a fresh signed-out profile: the old document gave a grey window
10 times out of 10, the new one reached the Roblox landing page 10 times out
of 10. Signed in, 3 of 3 launches reached Home.

Your FastFlags still apply on top, as before. If this release makes things
worse for you, `CORDIAL_ENGINE_SETTINGS=0` in the environment puts the old
document back — and please open an issue if you need it.

## ARM64 (aarch64) builds

Cordial now builds for 64-bit ARM Linux: the Flatpak, AppImage, `.deb` and
`.rpm` are published for aarch64 alongside x86\_64, and Roblox is fetched for
your architecture. There is no aarch64 Arch package yet, because there is
no official Arch image for aarch64 to build it in.

**This is untested on real ARM hardware.** Under emulation the client loads
Roblox and gets as far as reading its settings; rendering, input and joining
a game have not been seen working. If you run Cordial on an ARM machine,
the maintainers would like to hear how far it gets, working or not.

## Smaller fixes

* Installing the Flatpak from the `stable` channel failed with
  `Commit has no requested ref ... stable in ref binding metadata`
  ([#57](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/57)). Fixed; this release
  is the first build published to `stable` with the fix.
* Downloading a Roblox build in Settings → Version now shows its progress
  bar where you can see it, above the list rather than below it.
* Deno installed with Homebrew or with deno.com's installer is found even
  when it is not on the launcher's `PATH`. Inside the Flatpak, the plugin
  error now points at Settings → Plugins → Download instead of a package
  you cannot install there.
* Shorter text in the Roblox Build dialog and Settings → Version.
* A `cordial-bin` AUR package that installs the prebuilt release, thanks to
  [#60](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/pull/60).

## What is still broken

**The signed-in startup freeze is not fixed.** An early measurement looked
as if this release's settings change had removed it; later runs the same day
froze 3 times in 10. If the client freezes on startup for you, the tracker
still wants to hear about it.

**The client can still grey out when a text box takes focus**, in chat or a
game's own text box ([#53](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/53),
[#54](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/54)). This is a different
problem from the grey screen on launch, and it is not fixed. It has not
been reproduced on a test machine; reports so far come from Hyprland.

**On first click, a text box's cursor can land in the wrong place.** Later
clicks are right.

**A game's `DF` FastFlags, such as `DFIntTaskSchedulerTargetFps`, can reset
partway through a session**, because the Roblox client refreshes those from
Roblox's servers on its own schedule.

Still open from earlier releases: a crash after a second launch
([#44](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/44)), a freeze and crash
leaving fullscreen ([#39](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/39)), a
crash on first touch with a touchscreen
([#36](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/36)), a crash on launch on
some machines ([#35](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/35)), no
window on COSMIC, KWin or wlroots compositors
([#38](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/38)), a hang on exit
([#52](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/52)), pointer drift during
camera drags on Hyprland
([#56](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/56)), and a rare crash just
after startup ([#63](https://github.com/luohoa97/cordial/issues/63)). VR is
not supported.


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