papi-ux/polaris v1.2.1

Polaris v1.2.1

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Patch release focused on CachyOS/Arch Settings reliability, Linux audio/capture diagnostics, and safer Moonlight-compatible host troubleshooting.

Highlights

• Fixed Settings saves being blocked by an internal SteamGridDB clear-key flag, allowing unrelated Network and trusted-subnet changes to save normally.
• Improved Settings pending-change handling so cancelled SteamGridDB key clears no longer reappear as phantom unsaved edits.
• Added clearer backend error details for failed Settings saves so support can identify rejected config keys instead of treating every failure like a filesystem permission issue.
• Improved PipeWire audio overrun diagnostics so stream support bundles and logs better explain audio-path failures during launch/connect attempts.
• Clarified GPU-native Stream relaunch/fallback reporting for Linux hosts, including AMD/VAAPI SHM fallback messaging and vendor-neutral capture diagnostics.
• Hardened Linux private/windowed compositor capture policy so cage/labwc runtime probes happen against the intended streaming runtime instead of a missing display context.
• Refreshed public docs, screenshots, and install guidance for Moonlight-compatible users arriving through Fedora, Arch/CachyOS, Ubuntu, and Bazzite paths.

Install

Arch Linux / CachyOS

wget https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris/releases/latest/download/Polaris-arch-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U ./Polaris-arch-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo polaris --setup-host
systemctl --user restart polaris

Fedora 42/43/44

fedora_version="$(rpm -E %fedora)"
wget "https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris/releases/latest/download/Polaris-fedora${fedora_version}-x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install "./Polaris-fedora${fedora_version}-x86_64.rpm"
sudo polaris --setup-host
systemctl --user restart polaris

Ubuntu 24.04

wget https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris/releases/latest/download/Polaris-ubuntu24.04-x86_64.deb
sudo apt install ./Polaris-ubuntu24.04-x86_64.deb
sudo polaris --setup-host
systemctl --user restart polaris