This issue is only present in VO 1.8.641, not in 1.8.640, so may be related to the recent fix in gkini.ReadString(). I use gkini.ReadString2 rather heavily to register plugins in my Neoloader project. This function is also used when custom skins provide custom text color in their own config.ini

in VO 1.8.640:
console_print(gkini.ReadString2("modreg", "id", "null", "plugins/BuddyCount/registration.ini"))
-> lx_buddy_count

in VO 1.8.641:
console_print(gkini.ReadString2("modreg", "id", "null", "plugins/BuddyCount/registration.ini"))
-> null

The correct value is as *.640, in this occasion.

gkini.ReadInt2() does not seem to be affected.

Tested on both my Windows PC and Android 12 devices.

This should be fixed in tonight's release.