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About xLights

About xLights

xLights is a free and open source program that enables you to design, create and play amazing lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

With it you can layout your display visually then assign effects to the various items throughout your sequence. This can be in time to music (with beat-tracking built into xLights) or just however you like.
xLights runs on Windows, OSX and Linux

For more information see the xLights User Manual, the Video tutorials, the wiki, the forum or our facebook group

Links to downloads are available from the menu at the top of the page

You can access our Privacy Policy here.

How to donate

xLights is free to all users – but if you wish to donate to help support the efforts please feel free to donate via:

Current Release

  • 2025.03 February 11, 2025

    – enh (derwin12) Use ispc on Windows to match Linux and MacOS

    – enh (keith) Start adding infrastructure for API/AI driven features

    – enh (keith) Experimental support for using AI to map importaed sequences

    – enh (MrPierreB) Enhanced HTML “Check Sequence” report

    – enh (derwin12) Allow for more than 48 strings for custom models

    – enh (derwin12) Use ispc to handle video frame to render buffer transfers

    – enh (cybercop23) Add ability to trim audio in sequence settings

    – enh (derwin12) Use case insensitive compared when handling import mappings

    – bug (dkulp) Fix rendering of brightness and 2 is unmask with ispc rendering

    – bug (dkulp) Fix Shadow 1 on 2, Shadow 2 on 1 blending with ispc

    – bug (derwin12) Updates for building Shader UI when effect is changed

    – bug (dkulp) Fix rendering of Canvas mode effects if layers are not explicitely selected