Huedra 1.2.0

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.2.0-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.2.0-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.2.0-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Added

• Status is a dashboard: Now running names the game or player that holds HDR, with a link to its settings; Displays shows each display's state and whether Huedra controls it; Pause sits in the Mode card with the shortcuts as key labels; Recent changes are grouped by day, with the latest five shown first.
• Games says more: an HDR support column from PCGamingWiki, the setting reads Default unless a game has its own, a violet marker where PCGamingWiki suggests another setting, and filters for Supports HDR, Own setting and Suggestions. A notice offers to review the suggestions or apply them all at once. A cover grid can replace the list (the buttons beside Find new games), with the portrait art Steam keeps on your PC for Steam games.
• A quick panel opens from the tray icon with a left click: the state, the mode, a switch per display, Pause and Never use HDR for the game running, without opening the window. Long names slide into view when pointed at. The right button keeps the menu.
• After updating, a one-time notice on Status says Huedra has a new look: a click on the tray icon opens the quick panel, and Settings is at the foot of the menu. Show setup opens the setup screens with your current settings. Closing it hides it for good.
• A short setup after the disclaimer on the first start: which displays Huedra controls, the games it found and whether to look up their HDR support on PCGamingWiki, and the mode. Skip setup keeps the defaults.
• A Windows notification when HDR didn't switch on a display after Huedra's retries (never for normal switches). Settings › Notify me when HDR doesn't switch turns it off.
• On Windows 11 22H2 and later the window takes the Mica tint of the desktop behind the navigation pane and the pages, as Windows' own apps do.
• One kind of notice for everything the window has to tell: Huedra not running, a switch that failed, and a new version (See what's new).

Changed

• Always SDR turns HDR off on every display Huedra controls when you choose it or when Huedra starts in it, also where HDR was turned on outside Huedra. HDR you switch on in Windows afterward stays on.
• General is now Settings, pinned at the foot of the navigation pane, as in Windows 11's own apps. huedra settings settings opens it; huedra settings general still works. Timing, keyboard shortcuts, the advanced settings and About fold into sections that sum up their values.
• Managed is now the switch Let Huedra control HDR, and each display says Controlled by Huedra, Not controlled by Huedra or No HDR support.
• Pages stop at 1000 pixels wide, so on a maximized window the switches stay close to their labels.

Fixed

• A game added by hand counted every program in its folder, so a game added from System32, Downloads or the desktop could turn HDR on when another program from there ran (for example when Windows Settings opened). It now counts only its own program.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: UI review: Status dashboard, quick panel, Settings, first-run setup by @lanceranara13 in #44

Changed

• docs: fix the washed-out colors in the README tour by @lanceranara13 in #42
• docs: record the 1.1.2 release by @lanceranara13 in #43

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0

Huedra 1.1.2

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.1.2-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.1.2-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.1.2-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Changed

• Turn HDR on when I press Play in Steam is on by default for every Steam game set to Turn HDR on. Switch it off on a game's page to have HDR wait for the game's window again. With Switch only the display with the game or video on, the main display turns on first and HDR moves to the game's display once its window shows.
• Simpler wording throughout the window, the tray menu and Huedra's messages. Settings keep their place and their values; some have new names: a game's Enable while running, Do not change and Game controls HDR are now Turn HDR on, Leave HDR alone and Let the game switch HDR; Delay before enabling HDR is Wait before turning HDR on; Scan again is Find new games; Turn HDR on when Steam starts the game is Turn HDR on when I press Play in Steam; Only the display showing the content is Switch only the display with the game or video; SDR video with RTX Video HDR is Regular video with RTX Video HDR; Words that mark HDR video is HDR words in file names; Record window titles in the log is Write tab and file names to the log; "Start with HDR" in the menu of programs is Add "Start with HDR" to the right-click menu. The state reads HDR on or HDR off instead of SDR.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: turn HDR on when Steam starts a game by default by @lanceranara13 in #38
• feat: simpler wording throughout the app by @lanceranara13 in #40

Changed

• docs: record the 1.1.1 release by @lanceranara13 in #37
• docs: record the Steam start default check by @lanceranara13 in #39
• chore: changelog for 1.1.2 by @lanceranara13 in #41

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.1.2

Huedra 1.1.1

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.1.1-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.1.1-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.1.1-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Added

• Turn HDR on when Steam starts the game, a switch on a Steam game's page under Start with HDR. HDR turns on as soon as Steam reports the game running, about a second after you choose Play and before the game's window shows, so games that check HDR only while they start (Battlefield 6 grayed out its HDR settings) see it on. Huedra only reads which game Steam reports as running and never touches the game, so it suits games with anti-cheat that refuse to start through the Steam launch option.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: turn HDR on when Steam starts a game by @lanceranara13 in #36

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

Huedra 1.1.0

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Added

• More games are found automatically: the libraries of Battle.net, Riot Games (VALORANT, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics…), HoYoPlay (Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero…), Amazon Games, the itch.io app and Heroic Games Launcher (its Epic, GOG and Amazon games). The Games page has a filter for each. Riot's PBE and Battle.net's test realms and betas are left out, and for League of Legends only the game counts, not its client.
• Games that no launcher lists but that the Xbox Game Bar recognized while they ran (a standalone install, for example) appear under Game Bar, named after their folder. A program inside a game already listed is not added again.
• The Huedra browser extension is on the Chrome Web Store. Get the extension on the Video players page, under Browsers, opens its store page, for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi. The setup guide now installs it from the store; Firefox still loads it from the release's extension zip.

Changed

• Huedra's text uses US English spelling (color, gray, license).

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: link the Chrome Web Store extension from the app and docs by @lanceranara13 in #32
• feat: find games from more launchers and the Xbox Game Bar by @lanceranara13 in #34

Changed

• docs: record the 1.0.2 release by @lanceranara13 in #31
• chore: let the maintainer merge without the admin bypass by @lanceranara13 in #33
• chore: changelog for 1.1.0 by @lanceranara13 in #35

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.1.0

Huedra 1.0.2

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.0.2-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.0.2-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.0.2-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Fixed

• Closing Huedra closes all of it. When the tray process ends for any reason (Exit in the tray menu, huedra exit, an update, or a crash), the Huedra window closes too instead of staying open with "Huedra is not running". A window opened while Huedra was not running still stays, so Start Huedra can be pressed.
• Only one Huedra window opens. Clicking the tray icon again while the window was still opening (right after signing in, for example) could open a second one, and Exit closed only one of them.
• Exit no longer closes a File Explorer window that is open on a folder named Huedra, and Open Huedra no longer brings such a window to the front instead of opening Huedra's.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Changed

• docs: record the 1.0.1 release by @lanceranara13 in #26
• docs: step-by-step setup guide with browser extension and troubleshooting by @lanceranara13 in #27
• docs: add palindrome person to the supporters by @lanceranara13 in #28
• chore: changelog for 1.0.2 by @lanceranara13 in #30

Fixed

• fix: closing Huedra closes every window; one window only by @lanceranara13 in #29

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

Huedra 1.0.1

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Fixed

• huedra exit and huedra uninstall close the Huedra window too, as Exit in the tray menu does. Before, a window that was open stayed open with no Huedra running behind it.

Changed

• Support for the project moved from Ko-fi to Buy Me a Coffee: Buy me a coffee under General › About and Support Huedra on Buy Me a Coffee... in the tray menu open https://buymeacoffee.com/pixelsthecoder.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: support through Buy Me a Coffee; exit closes every process by @lanceranara13 in #24

Changed

• docs: record the 1.0.0 release by @lanceranara13 in #23
• chore: changelog for 1.0.1 by @lanceranara13 in #25

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

Huedra 1.0.0

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

The first stable release. Every feature was tested end to end before it.

Changed

• Huedra is no longer a beta: the disclaimer and the README no longer call it beta software, and the release is not marked Pre-release.

Fixed

• huedra launch with a program that cannot be started (a wrong path, for example) no longer turns HDR on and off again; it reports the problem and exits with code 2, and HDR stays as it was.
• Setting a display to not managed under Displays while Huedra has HDR on there returns it to SDR. Before, it stayed in HDR until it was turned off by hand.
• General › Start with Windows shows whether this copy of Huedra starts with Windows. A second or portable copy showed the other copy's entry as its own, and turning the switch off there removed it.
• Screen readers name the HDR setting and the two times on a game's page under Games.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Changed

• ci: check that Huedra started with no window can start programs by @lanceranara13 in #19
• docs: record the Chrome Web Store listing as submitted by @lanceranara13 in #20
• chore: release 1.0.0, the first stable version by @lanceranara13 in #22

Fixed

• fix: four issues found in the end-to-end pass by @lanceranara13 in #21

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v1.0.0

Huedra 0.1.4 beta

Beta. A pre-release for testing; read the disclaimer first.

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-0.1.4-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-0.1.4-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-0.1.4-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Fixed

• Check for updates and Download and install work when Huedra was started from Explorer. Before, both stopped at once with "The check did not succeed" and wrote nothing to the log. To get this version on 0.1.1 to 0.1.3, choose Install automatically under General › Updates, or run huedra update in a terminal.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Changed

• chore: changelog for 0.1.4 by @lanceranara13 in #18

Fixed

• fix: update check and install from a window opened through Explorer by @lanceranara13 in #17

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

Huedra 0.1.3 beta

Beta. A pre-release for testing; read the disclaimer first.

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-0.1.3-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-0.1.3-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-0.1.3-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Changed

• An update replaces the program and leaves no copy of the old version: huedra.previous.exe is deleted when the new version starts, and huedra update --rollback is gone. Settings are kept, as before.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Added

• feat: updates replace the program and keep no old copy by @lanceranara13 in #15

Changed

• chore: changelog for 0.1.3 by @lanceranara13 in #16

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

Huedra 0.1.2 beta

Beta. A pre-release for testing; read the disclaimer first.

Downloads

File	What it is
huedra-0.1.2-windows-x64.zip	The program. Download this one, unpack it into a folder of your own and start huedra.exe. Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64.
huedra-0.1.2-windows-x64.zip.minisig	Signature of the zip, to check it with minisign (optional).
huedra-browser-extension-0.3.1.zip	The browser extension, for HDR video on YouTube and streaming sites. Optional; until it is in the browser stores, load it unpacked in developer mode.
Source code	Added by GitHub. Not needed to run Huedra.

Check the download (optional):

minisign -Vm huedra-0.1.2-windows-x64.zip -P RWQMYJMzvZ3U6A6z+3fPbuqwGsWXNR2fAEGU/lEduwMTSMyzJdiPX7NE

Changes

Fixed

• Check for updates says that it is checking, and then what it found, under the buttons in General › About.
• Exit in the tray menu closes the Huedra window too.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who supports Huedra: the supporters and everyone who reports problems and tests.

What's Changed

Changed

• docs: 0.1.1 published and updated to from 0.1.0 by @lanceranara13 in #12
• chore: changelog for 0.1.2 by @lanceranara13 in #14

Fixed

• fix: show the update check's progress and result; tray Exit closes the window by @lanceranara13 in #13

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2