🚀 Openterface QT – Release 0.5.6

(Skipped 0.5.5 due to upgarded by script from both developers)

This release includes major improvements across packaging, serial communication, Windows camera handling, build automation, and cross-platform testing. It also fixes multiple user-reported issues and adds new keyboard support.

✨ Highlights

🔧 Packaging & Build Improvements

Significant enhancements to Linux, Windows, and AppImage packaging to ensure more stable and portable builds.

• Improved packaging process and bundled Qt in .deb packages
• Fixed multiple Debian build issues, including missing libqt6svg on arm64
• Fixed RPM build failures and missing library dependencies (e.g., libmfx.so)
• Added desktop icon and removed unnecessary libqt6svg6 dependency
• Improved AppImage AppRun script, fixed wrong paths, and eliminated dead loops
• Enhanced AppImage entrypoint script with verbose trace
• Improved Docker-based build & test workflow (using build-push-action)
• Added automated Fedora test build
• Added Windows Docker testing and fixed Windows test repo config
• Updated artifact patterns for .exe and .zip installer builds

🖥️ Application Features & Fixes

🎮 KVM & Input Fixes

• Fixed mouse 1px movement bug
• Fixed mouse wheel bug
• Fixed KVM GO inability to switch serial port
• Added SD card switching support for KVM GO
• Added audio mute control button

💡 UI & Usability

• Fixed unresponsive File/Edit menu bar clicks
• Added processing time display per frame (performance visibility)

🔌 Serial Communication Improvements

A major refactor to improve stability, correctness, and responsiveness:

• Clear stale serial buffer data
• Header validation for incoming packets
• Better error handling and recovery logic
• Improved responsiveness with refactored event handling
• Fixed serial write failure at startup
• Fixed issues preventing serial port thread usage
• Overall serial communication stability enhanced

📷 Windows Camera Module

Completely refactored to use FFmpeg with hardware acceleration, improving compatibility and performance on Windows.

🌐 Cloud & CI/Automation

• Migrated test image uploads from imgbb → Qiniu
• Added Windows build testing
• Improved auto-installation and Docker-based test pipelines

🌍 Localization

• Added Spanish (Spain) keyboard support

🆕 New Contributors

Huge thanks to our new contributors:

• @geodesic42 – Added Spanish keyboard support
• @Copilot – Cleaned up GitHub workflow duplication

📄 Full Changelog

See all changes between 0.5.3 → 0.5.6:
0.5.3...0.5.6