LuminalShine 26.05.0 Update Beta 4
Note
LuminalShine is currently pre-release software. Please report any issues on GitHub Issues.
General
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Render GitHub release notes on the Dashboard as Markdown. The "Release Notes" panel that pops out from the update banner used to display the raw Markdown source (bold, # headings, link). It now renders proper formatting — headings, lists, bold/italic, links, tables, task lists, syntax-highlighted code blocks (via highlight.js with GitHub-dark colors), and GitHub-style autolinks for @username and #issue references — all sanitized through DOMPurify so untrusted release-body content can never inject script. Links open in a new tab so the Dashboard never gets navigated away from.
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About page with diagnostics, accessible from the navigation. A new read-only page that surfaces, in copy-friendly form: version / commit / branch, GPU vendor and VRAM, driver versions and dates, encoder probe results (H.264 / HEVC / AV1 with YUV444), reference-frame-invalidation support, virtual display backend status, HDR state on each connected display, Windows OS version and edition, and the Windows Insider channel and ring when applicable. Designed to be screenshotted or copied straight into a support ticket or GitHub issue.
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High Performance Streaming card on the Dashboard. New one-click profile that retunes virtual display, display automation, double-refresh workaround, encoder preset, NVENC HAGS, and minimum CPU thread count for high-end host setups. Vendor-aware: NVENC settings on NVIDIA, AMF analogs on AMD, QuickSync analogs on Intel. Snapshots the user's prior settings to local storage on enable, with explicit "Restore Previous User Settings" and "Restore to Default" actions on the card. Tested on an NVIDIA Blackwell 5080-class GPU, Intel Core i9-12900KS, 64 GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E to Wi-Fi 5 Moonlight clients, and 10 Gbps host networking.
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Correct "Windows 11" labeling in diagnostics. On Windows 11 hosts, the About page (and any other consumer of the platform product-name metadata, including support bundles) was showing "Windows 10 Pro" / "Windows 10 Enterprise" / etc. because Microsoft deliberately leaves the registry's ProductName value as "Windows 10 X" on Windows 11 for application-compatibility reasons. The product name now disambiguates by build number (≥ 22000 → Windows 11) and rewrites the marketing prefix accordingly. Idempotent: if Microsoft ever updates the registry value natively, the rewrite becomes a no-op.
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Web UI dark palette swap. Dark theme accent moved from Indigo to Alexa Cyan to align with the LuminalShine brand identity.
Windows 11 General Availability
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Wix bootstrapper sticky-footer layout. The Install / Update / Uninstall / Close buttons in the installer's bootstrapper window are now always visible. Previously, when the install section grew (driver chooser, currently-installed banner, tips, status), the content card pushed the footer row past the visible window bottom. Content above now scrolls; the footer stays pinned. Window minimum width was bumped 760 → 880 px (target 920 px) so the worst-case button row no longer clips the rightmost actions.
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Wix bootstrapper UI accent. The installer's accent color is swapped from Indigo to Alexa Cyan to match the web UI's brand direction.
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Streamlined installer downloads. The standalone .msi is no longer published as a separate release artifact. The bootstrapper .exe already contains the MSI as its embedded payload, so end users get a single installer (LuminalShine-Windows-AMD64-installer.exe) and the portable archive (LuminalShine-Windows-AMD64-portable.zip). No behavior change — installing the .exe writes the same Windows Installer database that the MSI did.
Windows 11 Insider Preview
- No Insider-specific changes in this build. All recent stability work for Canary builds (D3D11CreateDevice TDR backoff, SudoVDA/MTT QueryDisplayConfig handle reset, progressive WGC helper handshake) shipped in the previous release. This build's user-facing changes apply equally to GA and Insider hosts.
Automated release for 26.05.0-beta.4.
Full Changelog: 26.05.0-beta.3...26.05.0-beta.4