Linux-FaceLock v2.21: Dynamic Island Face ID & PAM Face Authentication for Linux

🔒 Linux-FaceLock v2.21 — Authentic Face ID for Linux & Windows

✨ Highlights

• Dynamic Island UI: Minimalist 60 FPS face verification pill
• Native PAM Authentication: Full support for sudo, gdm, lightdm, kscreenlocker, xfce4-screensaver
• Multi-Distro Packaging: Debian (.deb), Fedora (.rpm), Arch (.pkg.tar.zst)
• Offline Machine Learning: Pre-bundled dlib & face_recognition models
• Windows Support: Dual-boot Credential Provider helper

📦 Quick Install

# Debian / Ubuntu / Kali / Mint
sudo dpkg -i NovaUnlock-v2.21-Debian.deb

NovaUnlock v2.014

NovaUnlock v2.014 binary release. Offline ML stack bundled: dlib + face_recognition prebuilt (Linux native packages and the universal installer ship prebuilt dlib; the Windows package bundles a prebuilt dlib wheel so setup is a fully offline 1-2 minutes, no compilation needed).

Assets:

• NovaUnlock-v2.014-Debian.deb: native package for Ubuntu/Debian/Kali/Mint/Pop!_OS (apt).
• NovaUnlock-v2.014-Fedora.rpm: native package for Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE (dnf).
• NovaUnlock-v2.014-Arch.pkg.tar.zst: native package for Arch/Manjaro (pacman).
• nova_unlock_installer_v2.014: universal Linux one-file installer for any distro.
• nova_unlock_windows_v2.014.zip: Windows runtime package with prebuilt dlib wheel (source files stripped).
• *.sha256: integrity checksums for each asset.
• nova_unlock_windows_v2.014.manifest.txt: Windows package audit details.

No source archive is uploaded by this script.

NovaUnlock v2.012

NovaUnlock v2.012 binary release. Offline ML stack bundled: dlib + face_recognition prebuilt (Linux native packages and the universal installer ship prebuilt dlib; the Windows package bundles a prebuilt dlib wheel so setup is a fully offline 1-2 minutes, no compilation needed).

Assets:

• NovaUnlock-v2.012-Debian.deb: native package for Ubuntu/Debian/Kali/Mint/Pop!_OS (apt).
• NovaUnlock-v2.012-Fedora.rpm: native package for Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE (dnf).
• NovaUnlock-v2.012-Arch.pkg.tar.zst: native package for Arch/Manjaro (pacman).
• nova_unlock_installer_v2.012: universal Linux one-file installer for any distro.
• nova_unlock_windows_v2.012.zip: Windows runtime package with prebuilt dlib wheel (source files stripped).
• *.sha256: integrity checksums for each asset.
• nova_unlock_windows_v2.012.manifest.txt: Windows package audit details.

No source archive is uploaded by this script.

NovaUnlock v1.38

NovaUnlock v1.38

Face-unlock for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Kali, Fedora, Arch) and Windows.

What's new

• Smoother unlock animation — the success sequence (camera fade → sphere grow → lock open → hold → smooth fade) now plays in full (~1.6s) before the desktop unlocks. Previously the login fired at ~0.45s and cut the animation off mid-play. Fix applies to both Linux and Windows unlock UI.
• Real GUI enrollment on Linux — enrollment now opens a genuine PyQt5 window (live preview + green face box + progress ring). The old code used cv2.imshow, which silently fell back to a text-only CLI under the headless OpenCV build. CLI enrollment remains as a clean fallback when no camera/display is present.

Installers

• Universal one-file (nova_unlock_installer_v1.38) — runs on any supported distro.
• Native packages: .deb (Debian/Ubuntu/Kali), .rpm (Fedora), .pkg.tar.zst (Arch).
• Windows (nova_unlock_windows_v1.38.zip) — includes credential provider + GUI enrollment wizard.

All Linux installers bundle offline ML wheels, so setup completes in ~1 minute with no network.