v1.53.0

Highlights

• Floating panels in the desktop background — choose the Desktop wallpaper layer with floating panels on, and every panel sits in the desktop background where you placed it: see-through like the panels, behind every window, and still there after Win+D.
• The dashboard stays put in the desktop background — place it in the Normal layer and switch to Desktop wallpaper: it now covers exactly the same spot, where its panels used to sit a little higher.
• Corsair lighting, first devices — the Corsair M65 RGB Ultra (by cable) and the MM700 mousepad can follow your Control Center lighting: one colour or off (breathing and colour cycle show as that colour, and the Lighting tab says so on such devices), back on their own lighting when RIGStats stops, and left alone while iCUE runs. Tested by a beta tester on both devices.
• SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless battery — the headset's battery level and charging, read from its base station, now show in the Peripherals panel and the tray card. Tested by a beta tester: the level matches SteelSeries GG.
• The dashboard stays on its screen while you game — a game in fullscreen at a lower resolution than your main screen (like Spore) moves a screen beside it, and RIGStats used to vanish from that screen until the game ended. It now follows the screen, in every layer including the desktop background.
• Lighting comes back after sleep — when the PC wakes and the screen comes on, your profile's lighting is written again, so a keyboard that lost its colour in sleep (like the ROG Azoth X on the Omni receiver, or a laptop keyboard) no longer needs a profile switch.

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1.53.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• about: a small coffee-cup icon by the Support link (#651) (fb3be0d), closes #650
• about: a Support link to Buy Me a Coffee (#642) (78cfd8d), closes #631
• lighting: Corsair M65 RGB Ultra and MM700 (V2 protocol), not yet verified (#634) (77063f5)
• peripherals: battery of the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless (#623) (239df3f), closes #621
• wallpaper: floating panels in the desktop background (#662) (12a1791), closes #170

Bug Fixes

• app: window titles say RIGStats (#644) (55f739f), closes #643
• build: a release candidate's app and service name the RC, not the last release (#694) (ed967c4)
• clock: centre the update badge in the compact layout and draw its arrow (#686) (70e10c1), closes #685
• control: a preview ends the retry before it; cap and check saved profiles (#684) (62312ed), closes #678
• control: say so when a change can't be sent to the service (#683) (bd32a23), closes #677
• display: the dashboard follows its screen when a game changes the resolution (#691) (7891f41), closes #690
• lighting: say on the device's row when an effect shows as a steady colour (#660) (4362494), closes #659
• lighting: write the profile's lighting again after sleep (#672) (78b9198), closes #670
• net: skip adapter filter bindings when picking the interface (#669) (981f479), closes #668
• roadmap: read gh output as UTF-8 in the sync script (#654) (f2a4827), closes #653
• security: load vendor DLLs from System32 only, and check the pipe client's kernel image path (#681) (bb18d84), closes #675
• service: key file born restricted, dump folder cleaned, HID handle not leaked (#692) (e17274b)
• sessions: an OS lock on the sessions index, never taken over (#699) (5a20a21)
• settings: keep a settings file that doesn't parse, and every field that does (#682) (d7bf6c2), closes #676
• wallpaper: the dashboard in the same place in every window layer (#667) (d26f0ee)

Thanks

Thanks to everyone outside the core team whose work is in this release:

• @SirBlacky21 — tested the Corsair M65 RGB Ultra and MM700 lighting and the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless battery on real hardware (#620, #621)