SpotlightDL v2.0.1 / v1.5.1

Changes from previous release:

• Fix DPI setting being ignored in .NET9 build (#41)
• Add uk-UA and ru-UA in locale list (#43)
• Retry on empty image list (#43)

SpotlightDL comes in two versions:

• .NET4 release for Mac, Linux, Windows 7 and greater: Use v1.5.1
• .NET9 release for Windows 10 22H2 and greater: Use v2.0.1
• See README for differences between versions.

Source code for v2.0.1 attached below, for v1.5.1: zip, tgz

Hotfix v2.0.0-r1 / v1.5.0-r1

• Fix batch script admin privileges check in some cases on Windows 11 24H2 (#37)
  • This could cause the install program to get stuck while (un)installing
  • No changes to SpotlightDownloader itself, only batch scripts

There are two versions:

• .NET4 release for Mac, Linux, Windows 7 and greater: Use v1.5.0
• .NET9 release for Windows 10 22H2 and greater: Use v2.0.0
• See SpotlightDL v2.0.0 Release for differences between versions.

(Source code for v2.0.0-r1: attached below, for v1.5.0-r1: link)

SpotlightDL v2.0.0

• Code ported to .NET 9 by @yell0wsuit (#34, #35, #36) for better maintainability

  • Releases include the .NET 9 runtime, so no need to install .NET 9 separately
  • .NET 9 does not support Windows 7, 8, and old Windows 10/11 versions (#38)
    • Please use v1.x.x releases if you are running an unsupported OS

• Implement LockScreen APIs to customise the lockscreen without changing system files

  • (New!) Set user lockscreen image without needing administrator privileges
  • Define global lockscreen though local policy (Pro/Enterprise/Education only)

SpotlightDL v1.5.0

• Add support for Spotlight API v4 from Windows 11 with 4K images (#29, #30)
• Add --api-version command-line parameter to revert to API v3 if needed
• Avoid blurry text when image is smaller than screen by upscaling it before adding caption

SpotlightDL v1.4.5

Fix access to the Spotlight API

• Fix image retrieval by enabling TLS 1.2

SpotlightDL v1.4.4

Resolve image retrieval and improve batch locale download

• Fix image retrieval by updating Spotlight API parameters
• Fix invalid locale stopping download when downloading all locales
• Update the embedded locales list: new locales and remove invalid ones

SpotlightDL v1.4.3

Add support for trying many locales at once

• Embed a list of locales supported by the Spotlight API (#11)
• Allow setting --all-locales to attempt all known locales at once
• Please note that metadata gathering is pointless in this mode

Add Setup program for automatically replacing the lock screen with default settings

SpotlightDL v1.4.2

Add support for metered connections and fix custom DPI scaling

• Save bandwidth by skipping download on metered connections
• Fix screen resolution being incorrectly detected when using display scaling

SpotlightDL v1.4.1

Download images for a different country

• Allow setting --locale xx-XX to specify the desired locale

SpotlightDL v1.4

Embed image title in lockscreen picture, improve cache handling

• Allow setting --cache-size to delete oldest images from SpotlightCache
• Allow setting --embed-meta to embed image title for lockscreen/wallpaper