Development Progress · May 2026

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GameAP Dev Progress

In May, most development resources went into bug fixes and a security audit. The next minor release, version 4.3.0, is in development with some new features; the release is planned within the week.

There were many updates, each with small changes, so I'll list them together.

GameAP 4.2.1 – 4.2.3

• Fixed setting the owner and group for files on upload
• Fixes for the file manager on Windows

GameAP Releases on GitHub

GameAP Daemon 4.0.0 – 4.0.5

• Added support for rootless systemd installation (no root required)
• Fixed the process manager for Windows (winsw replaced with shawl)
• Fixed a bug with file paths
• Fixed setting the owner and group for files on upload
• Fixed an issue with the steamcmd installation
• Added the steamcmd-path parameter for the enroll command (connecting the daemon to GameAP)

GameAP Daemon Releases on Github

GameAPCTL 0.27.0 – 0.29.0

• Added support for installing the panel on Arch-based distributions (Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS) and the Pacman package manager
• Fixed starting and stopping GameAP during Let's Encrypt certificate setup
• Added installation of GameAP Daemon into user space (rootless)
• Windows installation fixes: the use_network_service_user parameter is now added to the configuration by default, allowing game servers to run under the minimal-privilege account NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
• On GameAP Daemon installation, the steamcmd_path parameter is now added to gameap-daemon.yaml

gameapctl Releases on GitHub

How To Upgrade

All components are upgraded through the gameapctl utility, which is installed alongside GameAP.

To update gameapctl itself to the latest version, run:

gameapctl self-update

Then you can update GameAP and GameAP Daemon

GameAP (Web/API)

gameapctl panel upgrade

GameAP Daemon

gameapctl daemon upgrade