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OpenNOW v2.4.3

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@Meganugger Meganugger released this 21 Feb 00:52
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🎉 What’s New

This release brings some of the biggest improvements to OpenNOW so far — completing long-awaited features and significantly improving stability, compatibility, and authentication handling.


🎮 New & Completed Features

✅ Flight Controls Support

  • Support for up to 4 flight controller devices
  • Fully integrated into the WebRTC input pipeline

✅ Discord Rich Presence

  • Automatic game activity updates
  • Seamless integration with your current cloud session

✅ Full Microphone Support

  • Properly negotiated WebRTC microphone pipeline
  • Stable audio track handling
  • Improved stats reporting for mic traffic

🎥 Streaming Improvements

✅ HEVC (H.265) Compatibility Mode

  • Automatic handling for AMD Polaris/Vega GPUs

  • Fallback logic to prevent green-screen decode issues

  • Manual compatibility controls in Settings

  • 🔧 Improved HDR detection & fallback behavior

  • 🔧 Stability improvements across Windows, macOS, and Linux

  • 🔧 Better stats accuracy and diagnostics


🔐 Authentication & Session Handling

  • Added offline_access scope for refresh tokens
  • Automatic token refresh on 401 errors
  • Proper session expiration handling in the UI
  • Improved logout behavior when refresh is unavailable

Authentication is now significantly more resilient and reliable.


🛠 Other Improvements

  • Linux ARM video backend separation (VA-API vs V4L2)
  • Cleaner permission handling
  • Type safety fixes and internal cleanup
  • Improved build matrix performance

Full Changelog: v2.4.2...v2.4.3