No more loading screen! Images and metadata are now downloaded on-the-fly, and you are dropped immediately into the app listing (by rw-r-r_0644!)
Abstracted UI components into the standalone library Chesto
Chesto is a declarative, element-based library for creating lightweight user interfaces in SDL2. Along with the App Store console client, it also powers vgedit.
Chesto uses resinfs rather than switch/wiiu romfs for storing and loading compressed assets from memory (by rw-r-r_0644)
Want to give it a try? Have a peek at CompuCat's example, ChestoTesto!
Shows progress while extracting files from the zip package
Detailed Credits page to fairly highlight importance of people's contributions in the scene
Recovery mode added, accessed by pressing repeatedly L/R immediately after launching
Can be used to clear all cached/config data, and install/remove packages without a GUI
Bugfixes and Oversights
Fixes issues when package structure totally changes (libget#8)
Sorting button no longer occasionally crashes
Files download to disk to avoid being stored in memory (Thanks TotalJustice!)
Onscreen quit button added (Thanks jacquesCedric!)
Platform Specific
Switch: Uses https for default Switch repo (sorry for dragging feet on this!)
Switch: Themes are now excluded from the "All Apps" category
Switch: If launched in applet mode, uses Wii U style banners
Wii U: Fix crackling/popping during music playback (by Quarktheawesome)
Wii U: Fix bug that duplicates appstore entries in HBL upon upgrading... (see Notice*)
TL;DR: after updating on Wii U there will be two appstore apps in HBL. Launching either one will work, and it will clean up the extra one
Move primary development from GitHub to GitLab
We’ll continue to upload releases to GitHub for the moment, but that repo will eventually be deprecated and direct users to GitLab. :leftwards_arrow_with_hook:

Virtual amiibo emulation
emuiibo was updated to latest libnx and libstratosphere, what might fix possible bugs those had before. (libstratosphere's new IPC API is far more accurate now)

Internal heap usage was decreased from 0x75000 to 0x5000. (almost 24 times less heap!)

Several implementation mistakes were corrected, which might have caused issues.

Those problems with certain amiibos (mainly BOTW ones) have been fixed, which were caused by a bad handling of amiibo IDs (N sends them in a slightly different way)

Now emuiibo has a settings file: settings.json inside emuiibo's directory. The only setting it has for now is whether input combos are enabled, and this defaults to true.

If you want to disable input combos, just edit the file and change the field comboEnabled from true to false, or the opposite to re-enable them.

Added logging, so that most interactions are logged to a logging file (emuiibo.log) in emuiibo's directory, to help with potential issues.

Custom service (nfp:emu)
API changed, some commands' implementation is slightly different now.

Version now isn't 3 u32, it's a struct made of 4 u8s (major, minor micro and dev - whether it's a dev build).

emutool (emuGUIibo was renamed to emutool)
Small corrections in texts.
Have fun with those amiibos which didn't work before : )

Changelog
This a basic version to support latest libnx and Atmosphere, so not many features were added.

General
Added support for latest Atmosphere, libstratosphere and libnx, fixing potential bugs they all could have had.
USB viewer
USB viewing has been force-disabled for this version, since it is completely broken.
Main menu
Fixed a bug where homebrew couldn't be launched from main menu, even in applet mode, when there is an application suspended.

Added the option to rename folders by pressing X on the main menu (with the folder selected)

Next release will be way more complete ; )

Changelog
General
Updated to latest libnx. This simplifies the code, and fixes potential issues? old libnx could have had.

Some parts of the code were rewritten or simplified, in order to try to improve Goldleaf's performance. A lot of nonsense or unused code was removed, and much stuff was simplified thanks to latest libnx changes.

Removed forwarder support. There are less ban-baity ways to launch homebrew as applications (via uLaunch or using Atmosphere's title override)

Application
Fixed a bug where deleting the currently selected user would leave Goldleaf in a buggy state (because it would still think that the user is valid)

Now amiibo dumping is done via "debug" amiibo/NFP services. Since emuiibo intercepts user (and soon system) services, using debug services means Goldleaf will be able to dump real amiibos even if emuiibo is activated.

Custom exception/crash handling: now, when a crash happens (usually segmentation faults), it won't cause a fatal error, Goldleaf will instead save a simple crash report to /reports and exit normally. Same thing for fatal crashes, which also log fatal reports there.

Now rebooting will reboot to RCM/payload, same way as if you rebooted from HOME menu's power menu.

The web browser system was improved, adding now a custom menu, and the possibility to save a page as a bookmark after having browsed it.

Added an integrated emuiibo v0.4.0 manager! This simplifies a lot using virtual amiibos:

Unlike other managers, Goldleaf checks the amiibo and attempts to get its picture from AmiiboAPI, otherwise displays a default icon.

You can change emuiibo's status (on, on for one use and off) and select a certain amiibo to use.

Quark / USB
Quark's target version was changed to Java 9 or higher, since trying to support Java 8 too made it complicated to get it working.

USB system was changed, and it won't work with previous versions (latest Goldtree for instance, which supported up to 0.7.3)

Fixed file/directory copying between different filesystems (SD and PC in this case), so it should work fine now : )

Now Goldleaf takes advantage of string descriptors on its USB communications:

Goldleaf's USB will have "Goldleaf" as the product string, so Quark can identify if the homebrew detected is actually Goldleaf. This particular change kills compatibility with any previous versions.

Goldleaf also sets it's version as the serial number descriptor, so Quark can use it. Development builds have "-dev" after the version ("0.8.0-dev", for instance), which will make Quark warn about its possible unstability.

Quark now displays the time anything was logged in the log box. That way, one can easily identify if USB connection is still working, for instance, with installs or long file copying.

Thank you for a wonderful year with this project : )

Fixed BIS key off-by-one index issue for new consoles
New consoles also introduced new handling for keys in PRODINFO, so fixed titlekey regression