LuminalShine 26.10.0

What's new in 26.10.0

LuminalShine 26.10.0
Important
Bundled virtual display driver: LuminalVGD v0.1.0-alpha.9
Signed driver 0.1.0.27 · protocol 0.10 · Build 27 — unchanged from 26.10.0-beta.1 and 26.09.1.
LuminalShine 26.10.0 Gold adds a host-persisted WebUI changelog, replaces the ViGEm gamepad backend with Nonary's VHF virtual gamepad driver, and fixes an encoder-probe inconsistency that could prevent streaming even when the requested codec worked. These notes cover the packaging baseline at e2662a44 through the Gold release commit. The PyroWave, Borealis compatibility, pairing, and reconnect improvements introduced in 26.10.0-beta.1 remain included; WebRTC remains enabled in the Windows build.
Changelog in Mission Control
- New Update Available! The WebUI displays eligible newer releases with their notes and a download link. Prerelease visibility follows the host's existing update-notification setting.
- Read the installed release once per user and host. On the first authenticated visit for an unseen installed version, a Changelog screen shows that version's notes. The acknowledgement is saved on the LuminalShine host, so it survives browser storage clearing, another browser, restarts, and normal upgrades. Reading a newer release before installing it does not mark the installed-version notes as read.
- Open and close the changelog whenever needed. Desktop navigation and the mobile menu provide access to release history. Notes are acknowledged only after content renders; unavailable notes are not marked as read.
- Featurebase and GitHub stay connected. Published GitHub releases are imported into Featurebase as drafts, with matching based on the dedicated original-release citation (#207, #208). Release timestamps are reconciled, and a public changelog feed supplies the WebUI. Until a corresponding Featurebase update is published, the feed uses the public GitHub release notes. Cached notes support offline reading.
VHF virtual gamepads and Xbox Bluetooth Helper
- New virtual gamepad backend. LuminalShine now uses Nonary's libvirtualgamepad UMDF/VHF driver, as implemented in Vibepollo, instead of ViGEmBus. The pinned package is v0.1.0-beta.9, driver 0.1.0.53, protocol 2; it requires x64 Windows 10 version 2004/build 19041 or newer, including Windows 11.
- Controller recovery and feedback. The backend preserves controller input, battery state, and supported feedback during recovery. DualShock 4 maintenance retains report cadence and gyro-stream recovery. …

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