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@Baba0bab Baba0bab released this 17 Oct 23:57
v4.0.0
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First release of the Baba0bab fork, based on DS4Windows 3.9.9 by schmaldeo.

Platform

  • Now targets .NET 10 (LTS). .NET 8 support ends on 2026-11-10
  • Updated NLog 5.5.1, System.Management 10.0.13, TaskScheduler 2.12.2, WpfScreenHelper 2.1.1 and CsWin32 0.3.363

User interface

  • Modernized theme (light and dark) with Windows 11 style controls: rounded corners, flat surfaces, accent states, thin scrollbars, underline tabs, card group boxes. Every window keeps the same layout
  • The native title bar now follows the selected theme
  • Start/Stop and Save use the accent button style
  • Profile editor now shows the rainbow lightbar state when a profile is loaded
  • Controller Readings refreshes on the UI thread and never waits on the input thread, so a busy interface can no longer stack up refreshes or stall a thread. It only redraws when a new report arrived (about 3x less CPU with the panel open)

Controller connection (HID)

  • Fixed device handles never being closed, which leaked handles and could leave a controller locked in exclusive mode after a disconnect
  • Fixed timed reads (Joy-Con, Switch Pro) leaving a pending request writing into freed memory. Timeouts are now reported as timeouts instead of read errors
  • Reads no longer allocate a kernel event per report: 0 B allocated and about 3x less CPU per read
  • Feature, serial and calibration reads no longer touch an already closed handle
  • Fixed a crash when Windows returns a device description without a terminating null character

Controller detection and hotplug

  • One faulty device no longer aborts the whole controller scan, and devices opened but not kept are closed
  • Fixed a lost hotplug event when a controller was plugged in just as detection finished, and the hotplug worker now survives exceptions
  • Joy-Con USB handshake can no longer spin forever and freeze detection when unplugged during init
  • Joy-Con and Switch Pro now wait for the reply matching each subcommand, which fixes occasional wrong stick calibration
  • Fixed an out-of-range slot at startup with more controllers than slots
  • Stopping a controller now waits for its input thread to really exit
  • No more bogus "read failure: 995" warning on an intentional stop

Input processing

  • Rewrote the button debouncer: no per-report allocation, bounces filtered on both press and release, setting applied live, and disconnected controllers are no longer kept in memory

Stability

  • An invalid UDP server address no longer crashes the app or blocks startup
  • Errors during special actions no longer crash the app
  • The "last update check" date is now stored culture-invariant (day and month were swapped on non-US systems)

Updates

  • The update check now looks for releases of this fork instead of the discontinued upstream project. Accepting an update opens its release page; DS4Updater is no longer downloaded
  • "Skip this version" is now honored by the automatic check at startup
  • Releases ship an installer, a portable zip and SHA-256 checksums

Tests and documentation

  • Fixed outdated test fixtures and added debouncer tests (16 of 16 tests pass)
  • Added build and install guide (COMPIL.md) and a summary of the fixes (AMELIORATIONS.md)
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