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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
2025.05 April 14, 2025
– enh (cybercop23) Add optional status led for each controller on Controllers tab (enabled in settings)
– enh (derwin12) Add popup menu option to close gaps between effects
– enh (derwin12) Add “Alternate Nodes” option to Sphere model
– enh (derwin12) Adjust Save and Save As tool tips to reflect if Render on Save is enabled
– enh (derwin12) Allow Seconds + Millisecond for timeline instead of m:s:ms
– enh (scott) Sub Model Dialog – add ability to pad the front/rear of rows to make them uniform
– enh (derwin12) Colorize X/Y/Z coordinates for BoxScreenLocation based models
– enh (keith) Render Progress dialog can save position/size
– enh (derwin12) Handle IPV6 proxy addresses if hostname resolves only to IPV6
– enh (dkulp) MacOS – point Mac VAMP users to new 2.0 plugin pack
– enh (cybercop23) Show stated of effect render status in popup menu
– enh (derwin12) Add number of effects to left side of Import Mapping
– enh (cybercop23) Add Export Faces & States to other Models
– enh (derwin12) Add leftright text effect option
– enh (keith) Mark sm16804 as a supported pixel type
– bug (derwin12) Only enable media adjustment buttons if media is actually found
– bug (derwin12) Fix problems rendering some multi-path SVG’s
– bug (derwin12) Tweak preference panes for smaller screens
– bug (cybercop23) Fix populating properly list when searching for model
– bug (cybercop23) Fix some problems with fade in/out of audio with the prepare audio functions
– bug (cybercop23) Fix settings not properly reflected after bulk edit
– bug (MartinMueller) Fix some issues with ESPixelStick uploads
– bug (derwin12) Fix some crashes with the Video effect
– bug (derwin12) Fix a crash with Pinwheel effect
– bug (derwin12) Fix F48v3 discovery
– bug (derwin12) Account for alt nodes when display node layout
– bug (dkulp) Hopefully fix crash on Mac when using keys to navigate/select choice options on property grids
– bug (derwin12) Abort render if effects moved to prevent crashes
– bug (dkulp) Fix crash with effects on empty groups, don’t add render jobs for models/groups with no nodes
– bug (dkulp) Make sure only “active” models are used to compute nodes of groups with named cameras
– bug (dkulp) Catch Crashing Emoji Effect on single line buffer styles
xLights User Manual
