2023 Started with the release of 0.9.0 and we've seen 14 releases since then! A huge shoutout to everyone who's worked on the utility, helped with support as well as bug fixes throughout the year. It's been a great year for the GoXLR and the Utility, so I'm looking forward to 2024! Anyway, down to business.
As you may recall, in the 1.0.0 release I noted that I consider the Utility 'Complete', so with that in mind, here's some new stuff!
Sleep / Wake Actions
The 'Shutdown Actions' button on the System tab has been replaced with a 'Power Actions' button, and now includes options for what to do when your PC is entering and leaving Sleep mode. This allows you to (for example) load the Sleep Colour profile when your PC goes to Sleep, then reload your normal profiles colours when it wakes up, amongst other things.
For those using a Mini which powers off when your computer sleeps, there's a 'Reload Settings' option, which should bring your Mini back to life with the previous settings when your PC wakes up.
This feature is currently only available on Windows and Linux, and for Linux your environment needs to implement the org.freedesktop.login1.Manager dbus signals.
Sampler Changes
Some changes have been made to the way Samples are recorded in an effort to bring better volume consistency to added vs recorded samples. This is the first situation in which the utility does NOT behave identically to the official app on a common feature, but overall I feel it's an important change. Because of the nature of this change, I've created a Wiki Page which details the context as well as 'Before' and 'After' behaviours.
Change Log
- Prevent Visual C installation from Rebooting PCs on install.
- Improve PnP Handler's readiness check
- Add option to System -> Utility Settings to always show the UI on Launch
- Add Sleep / Wake Power State Actions (#79, #127)
- Properly Handle process names as UTF-8 when doing Process Check (#134)
- Normalise recorded Samples to match Added sample Volumes
- Bundle VC Redist and WebView2 Bootstrapper with the Windows Installer
- Correctly update the DeEsser UI Element when the Value is changed (#132)
- Added a Pre-Flight check on Windows to ensure the Driver is present before launching, and error otherwise.
- Properly Log errors when Spawning the HTTP Server
- Have the the WebUI automatically attempt to reconnect when it loses connection
- Change the Labels in Mic Setup to better reflect their behaviour
- The UI will now correctly load external links (such as updates, or discord) in the users external browser.
- Various Dependency Updates
While I normally attach credits to the issue, this release has been a little difficult just to the number of people involved! So I'll list all Discord contributors / suggesters / helpers below:
ViP3R_76, DSL_Installateur, Cob Kurtain, S N Λ K Σ, Turbo_David, Caniso, Parzival, JulanDeAlb, SirWizardLizard, Pally, Kable, ThicChan, lily<3, tekidoko, catherine, Le Gâté, xargs, bryaudio, Zerovu, Paolo
If I've missed you, gimme a poke on discord and I'll fix it!