CURATOR v2.0.0-beta.1 — major SQLite overhaul for LaunchBox-ready collections

[maortiz1969]

Hi everyone,

CURATOR v2.0.0-beta.1 is now publicly available.

This is the first public release on the v2 track and a major architectural overhaul—not an incremental update to the old v1 pipeline. CURATOR now uses persistent, indexed SQLite authority and relational contracts across Stages 1–10 and Reporting. The redesign changes how CURATOR preserves state, exchanges evidence between stages, resumes interrupted work, audits results, and processes large collections.

What changed in v2.0.0-beta.1:

• Persistent SQLite authority database and relational contracts for Stages 1–10 and Reporting.
• Indexed, set-based SQLite processing replaces the principal heavy in-memory paths in Stages 6–9.
• Stage 10 now executes a frozen relational publication plan with durable receipt checkpoints, resumable publication, verified Append reuse, and optimized cleanup.
• Capability-based startup activates only the Core services required by the selected action.
• Complete output receipts, company manifests, placement evidence, recovery state, and collection-audit workflows.
• Clearer progress and completion announcements across Gateway, numbered stages, Reporting, database loading, cleanup, and publication.
• Updated operator documentation, legal notices, attribution, dependency records, and component identities.

This release also fixes Gateway pause behavior, unresolved archive-review lineage and nested paths, Stage 5 missing-source handling, Stage 7 relational validation scaling, optical CUE membership reconstruction, and redundant cleanup enumeration.

The v1 release line is now closed and locked. All eight v1 prereleases, tags, packages, checksums, and downloads remain available as immutable history, but all continuing development proceeds under v2.

Important beta guidance:

• Work only with copies of your collection.
• Keep verified backups of the originals.
• Review generated output, receipts, manifests, and reports carefully.
• Verify curated output in its intended emulators before replacing existing material.
• CURATOR does not include or distribute ROMs, game content, BIOS files, preservation DAT files, or rights to obtain them. Users must supply their own legally obtained content and authority data.

Current limitations:

• MAME support remains limited and preliminary and does not replace a dedicated MAME ROM manager.
• Some otherwise valid Alcohol MDF/MDS images may be incompatible with the bundled decoder; CURATOR preserves those sources and routes them for review.

Verified release:

Version: v2.0.0-beta.1
Package: CURATOR_v2.0.0-beta.1.zip
Size: 29,168,713 bytes
SHA-256: 7A06D6F70EA4CB21CB8DD215EF198C84F4D030E3F85C18AE62D0BB4AB552580E

GitHub Release:
https://github.com/Jiraiya1969/myOrganizer-CURATOR/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1

Project website and release archive:
https://myorganizerhq.com/
https://myorganizerhq.com/releases

Source, documentation, changelog, and issue tracking:
https://github.com/Jiraiya1969/myOrganizer-CURATOR
https://myorganizerhq.com/changelog

CURATOR remains a standalone, open-source community tool. It is not an official LaunchBox product or plugin and is not affiliated with or endorsed by LaunchBox or Unbroken Software.

Feedback from LaunchBox users is especially welcome around collection organization workflows, platform mapping, documentation clarity, recovery behavior, and the usefulness of the generated reports.

[maortiz1969]

CURATOR v2.0.0-beta.5 is now available (September 11, 2026).

Hi everyone — I'm Miguel, CURATOR's developer. This fifth v2 beta continues work on the free, open-source Windows tool for validating and organizing user-supplied retro-game collections into LaunchBox-ready outputs.

Highlights in beta.5:
• Separate ZIPs for supported disk and tape images, preserving each file's DAT filename. Incomplete sets remain flagged for attention.
• Faster ZIP creation, collection copying, completeness checks, and final publication.
• Fixes for filename capitalization, output paths, ZIP collisions, repeated additions, and distinct DAT sets that share files or names.
• Recovery fixes for removed review output and interrupted additions; resume now stops when previously written files have changed.
• Experimental MAME software-list fixes for set titles, SPLIT dependencies, and file-size checks.
• Updated administrator, user, quick-start, and API guides.

Every beta requires a clean run: earlier databases, saved run state, and output plans are incompatible. Work with copies, keep backups, and verify your output. MAME support remains VERY EARLY and experimental; continue using clrmame as the definitive MAME ROM manager. Media conversion and broader recovery scenarios remain subject to open acceptance work.

Release and downloads:
https://github.com/Jiraiya1969/myOrganizer-CURATOR/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.5

Full changelog:
https://myorganizerhq.com/changelog#v2-0-0-beta-5

Website:
https://myorganizerhq.com/

Application: CURATOR_v2.0.0-beta.5.zip
Size: 33,609,003 bytes
SHA-256: 99FD2BBB1A57E64B0CC67C59AD3A835C413D869891E97F735B36DC283166D714

CURATOR is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by LaunchBox or Unbroken Software. Feedback on organization, documentation, and reporting is welcome.

Jiraiya1969 (Miguel A. Ortiz)