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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
2024.18 November 14, 2024
– enh (keith) Add ability to “Level” the brightness of color components
– enh (scott) Windows installer works on Arm64
– enh (dkulp) Remove some optimizations that were helpful in the old 32bit builds, not for SSE/Neon (should help Galaxy, plasma, butterfly, etc…
– enh (scott) Add align to closted timing mark for effects
– enh (scott) Add group count support for Genius controllers
– enh (scott) Ability to “invert” channels in DMX mapping
– enh (derwin12) Add last render date to Batch Render dialog
– enh (keith) Optionally disable key acceleration when nudging models on layout panel
– enh (scott) Import layer names from original sequences
– enh (cybercop23) Add sequence number progress indicator to FPP Connect
– enh (cybercop23) Allow models to be “visualized” in either base or show folder
– enh (KyleGrymonprez) Add rondomization functionality to metronome timing track generation
– enh (derwin12) Add submodel support to auto mapping
– bug (dkulp) Fix a potential crash when using host names instead of ip addresses from a base folder
– bug (scott) Windows Upgrade Available notification not working
– bug (derwin12) Don’t trigger a save when clicking on a locked model
– bug (scott) Add some internal checks to prevent overlapping and zero length effects
– bug (dkulp) FPP Connect would not delete some tmp files
– bug (dkulp) MacOS – also delete the bookmarks file when -w passed to reset permissions
– bug (dkulp) MacOS – make sure we have access to the base directory, ask for permission if required
– bug (scott) Fix crash with negative values in audio editor
– bug (MrPierreB) Fix Single Strand Fade type “Head and Tail” for all blending types
– bug (PeteMatthews) Fix color order inheritance issue on ILightThat controllers
– bug (degracode) Fix problems with property grid now being updated when protocol switches to Twinkly
xLights User Manual
