Beamer 1.5.10

Beamer 1.5.10 adds a Windows portable package that needs no installer, keeps an explicitly chosen peer address through re-pairing and outages, stops fast mouse movement piling up behind a slower receiver, and gives clearer Windows firewall checks. It pairs with every 1.5 version, and your pairings and settings carry over.

Downloads

• macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel: Beamer-1.5.10.dmg, a universal app signed and notarised by Apple.
• Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit: Beamer-Setup-1.5.10.exe, signed with a Certum code-signing certificate. Windows may still say "Windows protected your PC" the first time, because the signature is new; if it does, choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Windows, no installer: Beamer-Portable-1.5.10-windows-x64.zip. Extract the folder and run Beamer without an installer or administrator rights. Settings and pairing keys stay in the adjacent data folder, protected by a passphrase chosen on first use. Keep that passphrase: a wrong passphrase or a damaged settings file does not reset your existing pairings. The portable copy does not change startup tasks, firewall rules or services. Windows and organisation policies can still block connections, and this copy cannot control elevated applications or the secure desktop.
• Linux, 64-bit x86 and arm64: Beamer-1.5.10-x86_64.flatpak or Beamer-1.5.10-aarch64.flatpak, or flatpak update if you installed from the Kalkman Code Flatpak repository.

Installing and setting up is as in the 1.5.3 release notes.

Fixed

• A peer address you chose stays chosen. An explicitly chosen peer address now stays selected through re-pairing and connection outages. Saving unrelated settings does not turn a discovered address into a pinned one.
• Fewer duplicate machines. Discovery avoids duplicate machine rows when network routing sends answers from temporary sockets, and new copies advertise their live pairing port so requests reach the listening app.
• Fast mouse movement no longer builds up behind a slower receiver. High-rate movement is combined before it can queue. Mixed-axis movement keeps the samples needed for clipping and screen crossings, and bends and reversals in a mouse drag keep their intermediate path. Input in flight is bounded, and a receiver that is making progress no longer hits the old acknowledgement timeout. This addresses the queueing problem we reproduced; a drag that changes direction on every single sample is never combined, so it can still lag behind a slow receiver. One reported Windows 10 to Windows 11 setup still needs confirming on its own hardware.
• Clipboard sharing reads less. Beamer no longer repeatedly reads the same contents when they cannot be shared, and returning with an empty clipboard no longer causes an unnecessary wait. Genuine clipboard read failures can still retry.
• Windows input recovery. Stale modifier keys are cleared after returning from the secure desktop, while modifiers that are still physically held are kept.
• Identify screens. Repeated requests are limited, and machines without a currently linked desktop are left out.
• Update checks. Turning them off also clears an outdated Mac menu action, and Flatpak update actions consistently give store update guidance.
• Windows firewall checks. They now include pairing block rules and the active network profile. An existing rule that lacks network coverage produces advice without being treated as a missing rule for automatic repair, and domain-authenticated networks are recognised. This improves diagnosis; the reported two-PC pairing setup is not yet confirmed fixed on its own hardware.

Added

• Windows portable package, as described under Downloads. Installed and portable copies keep separate settings and pairing endpoints. New copies coordinate to avoid controlling input together; portable input waits whilst a legacy installed receiver is present, and older binaries cannot take part in that coordination atomically.

The 1.5.9 changes (the receiver backlog fix, Windows-to-Linux accents, Mouse only, the update notice, the Flatpak QR library and the accented Windows account startup fix) remain included.

SHA-256 checksums

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