Cleaning up the mess from the previous release, the Wiikey Fusion should now work better than ever, including 2-disc support.

A long-standing bug causing crashes with DVD/GCLoader and patch fragments has been fixed.

There's now the option of booting games through the GameCube Main Menu. This feature has some issues still, but it mostly work. Current game settings apply, so it can be seen in progressive scan.

@Extrems committed:

Add exception for PAL games booted through IPL.
Show disc number when other disc has been found.
Generalize text encoding patch for early SDK.
Remove debug log spam.
Add text encoding patch for BS2.
Add region patch for BS2.
Add video patches for BS2.
Port Wiikey Fusion over to the new patches.
Add boot through IPL feature.
Rewrite workaround for CPU lockup on EFB Z peek during a copy operation.
Fix DVD read starting in the alignment for a previous patched file.
Don't allocate audio streaming buffer for new patches.
Reimplement DVD-R spin-up.
@EBLeifEricson committed:

Added check of SP2 slot for cheats when on a different device

For this release, @cristofercruz has kindly contributed a new interface theme. We hope you'll like it.

A new fastboot apploader has been introduced. Users with an optical drive emulator can now enjoy near-instant access to Swiss. You can use the boot through IPL feature to bring back the boot animation when loading games.

Patching certain late EA titles with non-stripped ELF binaries has been fixed.

The music in Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean has been fixed for devices using full DI emulation.

To commemorate these changes, we've bumped the version number to 0.5.

@cristofercruz committed:

Correct highlight button image dimensions to 4x4, raise menu bar slightly, adjust spacing between menu bar and file browser.
Updated file type image templates.
Updated interface images for backdrop, file type and menu buttons. Minor tweaks to text positions.
Remove redundant condition.
Split cli and dcp reading to allow loading arguments from both.
@emukidid committed:

Bump version to 0.5
Update BNR credits
Add patreon supporters list to credits
@Extrems committed:

Patch DVDGetTransferredSize.
Only read portion of ELFs we care about.
Don't use compressed DOL for ISOs.
Update apploader build date.
Force IPL menu on exit.
Use new fastboot apploader.

A bug that appeared in v0.4r775 preventing Game Boy Interface presets from working has been fixed.
Some interface rendering tweaks have been done, and using Swiss as igr.dol should now work again.
Compatibility with 10-15 years old Kingston SD cards has been fixed through a libOGC patch.

@Extrems committed:

Trigger IGR on game crash.
Add __OSBootDolSimple signature found in Kururin Squash!
Don't setup progressive scan for BS2 NTSC Revision 1.0.
Use point sampling for upscaling banners.
Fix UI projection matrix.
Improve text downscaling quality.
Apply pixel center fix.
Fix crash when igr.dol overlap critical section of game executable.
Fix .dol+cli files.
Code space optimizations.