2026.07 Released

2026.07 Released

2026.07 April 28, 2026

-enh (MrPierreB) Add node animation playback to SubModels dialog.

-enh (dkulp) Media-compatibility “Convert Now” now special-cases animated GIFs that were used as

Video effects and turns them into normal Pictures effects that properly handle animated GIFs

-enh (dkulp) Waveform (macOS 12+): four new “Stem — Drums / Bass / Other / Vocals (ML)” right-click

filters run Apple CoreML inference against HTDemucs to split the audio into its constituent

parts. Both the waveform and the playback signal follow the picked stem — so “Stem — Drums”

lets you see and hear just the drum line for timing work. First activation prompts to

download the model (~65 MB) into an `ai-models/` subdir of the show folder or any media

folder; subsequent picks are instant cache hits. Inference runs on a background thread

with a progress dialog so the UI stays responsive.

-enh (dkulp) AI services backend moved to wx-free core (src-core/ai/). Services now expose their

settings as a declarative ServiceProperty schema; secrets go through an injectable

IServiceSettingsStore so platform secure storage can be plugged in.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: new “View as spectrogram” right-click entry replaces the peak polygons with an

STFT magnitude view (log-frequency y-axis, dB-scaled magenta→yellow colormap). Computation

happens once per track; zoom/scroll just resample the cached buffer into a new texture.

-enh (dkulp) Timing tracks: new “Audio Chords” option in the “Add Timing Track” dialog (after the FPP

entries, before VAMP plugins). Builds a chromagram, matches against 24 major/minor templates,

estimates key via Krumhansl–Schmuckler, and drops a variable timing track whose back-to-back

marks are labelled with the detected chord names.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: new “Vocals waveform (center extract)” filter emphasises centre-panned content

via M – α|S| — a lightweight counterpart to the existing “Non Vocals” filter.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: new “Show Pitch Contour” right-click toggle overlays a colour-coded pitch-vs-time

polyline (colour = pitch class) scaled to a log-frequency y-axis. Useful for vocal / melody

timing work; unvoiced frames break the polyline.

-enh (dkulp) Timing tracks: new “Audio Tempo” option in the “Add Timing Track” dialog runs

autocorrelation on the audio’s onset envelope, confirms the detected BPM, and drops a fixed

timing track with back-to-back marks at each beat.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform (macOS): “Classify Audio…” right-click entry runs Apple’s SNClassifySoundRequest

offline and lets you pick a detected class (drums, vocals, guitar, …); the waveform then

scales to show amplitude only where that class is present. Linux/Windows builds exclude

this via ifdef since the classifier framework is Apple-only.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: new “Perceptual (LUFS)” filter renders the BS.1770 K-weighted momentary-loudness

envelope so timing marks line up with what the ear actually hears on heavily-compressed

tracks where raw amplitude plateaus.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: new “Show Onsets” right-click entry overlays faint amber verticals at detected

percussive onsets. The “Add Timing Track” dialog gains an “Audio Onsets” option that drops

a new variable timing track with back-to-back marks between detected onsets. Spectral-flux

detection runs entirely on-device.

-enh (dkulp) Waveform: overlay the RMS energy band on top of the peak polygon so compressed sections

read as “loud” even when their peaks plateau.

-enh (dkulp) Shape effect: Effect panel now organises its 27 properties into Shape / Size / Motion /

Triggers tabs instead of a flat scroll, matching the grouped layout other large effects use.

-enh (MrPierreB) Value curve Exponential, Logarithmic, and Parabolic types now support Start/End.

-enh (scott) Add “Show Names” and “Show Start Channel” checkboxes to Layout tab to display model names

and controller/port or start channel in the layout preview

-enh (derwin12) Add timing track trigger for Shockwave effect

-enh (derwin12) Include fonts in a Package Sequence (#3503)

-enh (derwin12) Better cube visualizion for dumb rgb (#4652)

-enh (derwin12) Windows now preserves audio pitch at various speeds (#2149)

-enh (derwin12) Show losso box when selecting props in 3D (#3841)

-enh (derwin12) Show warning if you set String property when Controller color order is available (#5441)

-enh (derwin12) Up the pixielink port count capability (#4079)

-enh (derwin12) Add new Label text model (#5145)

-enh (derwin12) Add optional image to custom models (#3825)

-enh (derwin12) Picture effect auto-sets scaling to “Scale To Fit” when appropriate

-enh (derwin12) Add Speed as a Warp effect type (#4596)

-enh (derwin12) Add more variability to Lines Effect. Now using float values (#4532)

-enh (AGFazio) Include Line Count in Submodel dialog (#5359)

-enh (dkulp) Render: RenderProgressInfo now self-signals completion via an atomic flag

-enh (dkulp) Shader effect: dynamic uniforms emit JSON matching the effect-panel schema; JsonEffectPanel

gains a reusable point2d control type, so iPad and desktop build the dynamic rows from the

same description.

-bug (dkulp) Replaced throwing std::stoi calls in OutputManager / xxxSerialOutput / HinksPix with

non-throwing std::strtol so corrupt config or controller responses no longer crash.

-bug (dkulp) State / Faces / Shockwave / VUMeter / Lyric / MatrixModel: added div-by-zero and

map.at() guards on render-thread paths that could crash on edge-case inputs.

-bug (dkulp) Faces / xlFontInfo / SpecialOptions / FileUtils / ip_utils / AudioManager: added

missing locks around static / shared caches that were mutated concurrently from

render workers and could corrupt or crash under heavy parallel rendering.

-bug (dkulp) E1.31 / ArtNet / DDP SetManyChannels: bounds-check the starting channel before

memcpy so an out-of-range channel can’t overflow the packet buffer.

-bug (dkulp) AlphaPix / WLED / HinksPix: free curl_slist headers (and the WLED CURL handle) on

every exit path; firmware-upload filename copy now uses bounded strncpy.

-bug (dkulp) AudioManager: widened sample-loop counters to long so pcm conversion no longer

overflows on multi-hour audio; added missing int16 clamp on the NONVOCALS / VOCALS

mono fallback.

-bug (dkulp) Render engine: AggregatorRenderer::setPreviousFrameDone bounds-checks the frame

index before indexing the per-frame counter array.

-bug (derwin12) Fix state/face definitions copied in layout not rendering in sequence until restart (#6239)

-bug (derwin12) Layout was sizing groups and model names too quickly (#6236)

-bug (derwin12) Fix ON effect was resetting the intensity values (#6233)

-bug (derwin12) Fix visualizer clearing all models (#6227)

-bug (derwin12) Twinkly was blocking the render when devices were offline (#4101)

-bug (derwin12) Fix copy-paste model not assigning the next available start channel

-bug (dkulp) Metal render: drain autoreleased MTLCommandEncoders per frame instead of

per render-job (large memory growth during long renders), fix sparkleBuffer

use-after-free, and release retained Metal objects at shutdown

-bug (dkup/derwin) Handle various codec issues in avi conversions (#6142, #6153)

-bug (derwin12) Fix Use State as Outline for Face Effect default (#6148)

-bug (derwin12) New polyline with default drop pattern did not render (#6156)

-bug (derwin12) ESPixelStick: clear unused ports when uploading with FullxLights Control (#5689)

-bug (derwin12) Fix base show folder merge not detecting child element changes (#4265)

-bug (derwin12) Preserve Layer Blending and Settings when using Random Effects (#6136)

-bug (AGFazio) Honour 2D to 3D Layout changing (#6133)

-bug (AGFazio) Fix pixel sizing appearing zoomed in (#6139)

-bug (derwin12) Downloadeded models now placed where you drop them (#5912)

-bug (derwin12) Random Value Curve now holds the value properly (#4803)

-bug (scott) Fix some values not being stored in (new) settings file (#6134)

-bug (dkulp) Fix layout render glitches by sorting pixels back-to-front by camera-space Z (#6126)

-bug (charlie) Restore performance of House Preview Export to Video

-change (dkulp) Package Sequence: rewritten to walk SequenceMedia + every model/view-object’s file

references + Matrix face images so shaders, custom images, videos, meshes, and

face/state assets are actually included. Show-relative paths preserved where possible;

external files relocated under typed subdirs (Images/ Videos/ Shaders/ Glediators/

Meshes/ Faces/) with folder-based disambiguation on basename collisions so packaged

filenames can’t mimic PicturesEffect’s animation-sequence detection. No more _lost/

dumping;

-change (dkulp) Packaging preferences: “Exclude Presets” renamed to “Exclude Videos” — the old option

stripped a rgbeffects element that no longer carries presets, so it was a no-op;