Clover r5169 releases

[Hnanoto]

Hi everyone! 👋

First of all, a massive thank you to @Slice for the endless dedication to this project, and a big shoutout to everyone involved in the recent r5168 / r5169 releases: @YBronst @MakAsrockfor the heavy lifting on the Quirks menu refactoring and bug squashing, @chris1111 for the awesome Tahoe/Christmas themes, and I @Hnanoto was also glad to contribute by completing the PT-BR translations! 🇧🇷

With the new Clover r5169, the developers did a fantastic code cleanup and restructured the GUI menus to make them much more robust and aligned with the modern Quirks configuration logic. It looks perfectly structured now!

However, because the release notes didn't dive deep into this, some users downloading the latest version might be confused because a few famous buttons have "disappeared" from the GUI (specifically under Options -> Binaries patching).

Here is a quick guide on what changed and how to adapt your config.plist:

1. Where is "Unlimit XHCI Ports" and "Provide CPU Info"? They are not gone! They were simply moved from the "Binaries patching" menu into the new, dedicated "Quirks" menu. They also received their proper technical names: 

XhciPortLimit
 and 

ProvideCurrentCpuInfo
.

2. Where is the "Block SkywalkFamily" button? The dedicated GUI button for this was removed in favor of a much cleaner and standardized approach. If you rely on Broadcom Wi-Fi cards on macOS Sonoma (14.x) or Sequoia (15.x) and need the Allow IOSkywalk Downgrade patch, you must now use the 

KextsToBlock
 dictionary in your config.plist.

How to block IOSkywalkFamily in r5169: You need to add the blocking rule under <key>KernelAndKextPatches</key> -> <key>KextsToBlock</key>. You can find an exact example in the new 

config-sample.plist
.

Here is the exact XML code you can paste:

xml
<key>KextsToBlock</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Comment</key>
            <string>Allow IOSkywalk Downgrade</string>
            <key>Disabled</key>
            <false/>
            <key>MatchOS</key>
            <string>14.x,15.x,26.x</string>
            <key>Name</key>
            <string>com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily</string>
        </dict>
    </array>
⚠️ Important Note: Pay attention to the <key>Disabled</key> flag. It must be set to <false/> to ACTIVATE the block! (It feels counter-intuitive, but it means "The blocking rule is NOT disabled").

I hope this helps anyone migrating to r5169 who might be wondering why their Wi-Fi stopped working or why their USB ports changed behavior!

Cheers and long live the Clover project! 🍀

Edited February 24 by Hnanoto