MoonlightWeb v0.4.3 — the host PC's own browser, upright portrait screens
A corrective release for 0.4.2: the gaming PC's own browser streams again through your link, a screen turned on its side streams upright when MoonlightWeb runs as a Windows service, and updates go more smoothly. MoonlightWeb streams your gaming PC to any device with a browser — you install one app on the gaming PC, which captures and encodes that machine itself; every other device just opens a URL.
Signing in
- The gaming PC's own browser streams again through your link — in 0.4.2, opening your MoonlightWeb link in a browser on the host itself could be refused. It now opens and streams like any other device, without a PIN.
- A browser signed in before the update keeps working — it streams again without opening the link anew. If it ever cannot, the page says to reopen MoonlightWeb from its icon.
Displays
- A screen turned on its side streams upright on a Windows service — when MoonlightWeb runs as a Windows service, a portrait screen now arrives the right way up, at every angle.
Updates
- The update check is always fresh — when you open the update panel, the host looks at the releases again instead of answering from an old check.
- The page no longer freezes while the host restarts after an update.
- The local certificate survives a restart, so browsers on your network are not asked to trust a new one each time.
Reliability
- Steadier connections on Windows hosts — a few fixes in how the host handles its network traffic.
For the owner
- Behind a reverse proxy? The README now gives the settings for nginx and Apache; Caddy and Traefik need nothing more.
Downloads
Install on the gaming PC only. The quickest route on macOS and Linux is the one-liner curl -fsSL https://moonlightweb.top/install.sh | bash — it also sets up the repository, so updates come with the system:
| Platform | Asset |
|---|---|
| Windows x64 | MoonlightWeb-installer-0.4.3-win-x64.exe
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| Windows ARM64 | MoonlightWeb-installer-0.4.3-win-arm64.exe
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| macOS (Apple Silicon) | moonlightweb-0.4.3-macos-arm64.pkg
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| Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint) | moonlightweb-0.4.3-linux-x64.deb
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| Linux (Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE) | moonlightweb-0.4.3-linux-x64.rpm
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| Linux (portable) | moonlightweb-0.4.3-x86_64.AppImage
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Prefer a container? docker pull ghcr.io/linckosz/moonlight-web:0.4.3 (host networking). Playing from a phone, tablet or TV? Nothing to download — just open your server's URL in the browser.
Requirements
- A gaming PC running Windows, Linux or macOS — it streams itself; Sunshine is optional, and only if you want to pair a different machine.
- A modern browser on the client device (Chrome/Edge recommended for full codec, HDR and WebGPU support; Chrome or Edge on a computer to send a wheel or radio as itself).
- On Linux, a distribution no older than Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or Fedora 36 — Qt and OpenSSL are bundled, the system C runtime never can be.
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