v1.8.0

Changed

• Rebranded to Fosfora — the project, app, window title, NDI source name, macOS bundle, release binaries (fosfora / Fosfora.app), and documentation are now "Fosfora" (Northern Sami for phosphorus). The signature Phosphor effect keeps its name as a heritage nod. Two runtime surfaces are intentionally unchanged this release to avoid breaking existing setups and will migrate later: the config directory (~/.config/phosphor/) and the OSC namespace (/phosphor/*), along with the Python bridges/ tooling that targets it. The macOS bundle identifier (com.kevinraymond.phosphor) is also unchanged so existing microphone permissions are preserved.

Fixed (docs)

• Doc accuracy — corrected the built-in effect count (23 → 24) and removed the non-existent "Swarm" effect from the README table; corrected the audio-feature count (20 → 46) in the README and tutorials; de-duplicated the AI-assist disclaimer in the README "Note from Dev"; fixed the .pfx passes[].feedback default in TECHNICAL.md (documented as false, actually true).

Security

• Dependency advisories — bumped anyhow 1.0.102 → 1.0.103 (RUSTSEC-2026-0190, unsound Error::downcast_mut) and updated wayland-scanner/uds_windows patch versions; added documented deny.toml ignores for quick-xml RUSTSEC-2026-0194/0195 (DoS via untrusted XML — only reachable through wayland-scanner, a build-time proc-macro parsing trusted bundled protocol XML; remove once the Wayland stack allows quick-xml ≥ 0.41)
• Dependency advisories — bumped rustls-webpki 0.103.9 → 0.103.13 (RUSTSEC-2026-0049, RUSTSEC-2026-0098) and tar 0.4.44 → 0.4.46 (RUSTSEC-2026-0067, RUSTSEC-2026-0068) to clear the cargo-deny audit

Fixed

• Multi-pass feedback default — passes[].feedback now defaults to true, matching legacy single-shader behavior, so converting an effect from shader: to passes: no longer silently disables feedback (set "feedback": false explicitly to opt out; all built-in effects set it explicitly and are unaffected)
• Beat pulses no longer dropped — beats are latched via an atomic counter so 1-frame beat triggers survive channel overflow and multi-frame drains; burst-on-beat effects fire on every beat even under load
• Visuals settle on audio stall — held audio features now decay to silence in ~1s instead of freezing at the last loud frame when the device stops delivering data (BPM readout preserved); a watchdog surfaces a status toast once per stall episode (detection only — no auto-reconnect, which could hang on a capture thread blocked in a timeout-less read; on Windows a >10s playback pause may trigger the toast since WASAPI loopback delivers no packets during silence)
• Normalizer field pass-through — all beat-detector-owned features (onset, beat, beat_phase, bpm, beat_strength) now bypass adaptive normalization; an off-by-one index range previously misclassified onset and beat
• Recording A/V sync — audio recording now starts from the moment recording begins instead of draining minutes of stale ring-buffer history into the encoder; ring-buffer reads are also clamped to capacity so a lapped consumer recovers with the newest window
• Save errors surfaced — effect saves (particle definition and debounced parameter saves) and recording-start failures now show a status-bar error toast instead of failing silently; a failed parameter save no longer marks the shader editor's paired .pfx as clean
• Clippy warnings — cleared 13 default-feature clippy lints (collapsible match guards in app.rs/main.rs/web/state.rs, derivable Default for ParticleQuality, redundant String clones in UI panels)
• Depth feature — depth feature now depends on webcam (depth estimation requires webcam input), eliminating dead-code warnings when building with --features depth alone
• Windows CI warnings — removed unused import, allowed dead code on wasapi_available(), fixed unreachable expression in create_audio_fifo(), fixed function pointer cast in midir patch
• Cross-target clippy debt — fixed a Windows-only ptr_as_ptr/ptr_cast_constness violation in wasapi_capture.rs and a webcam/depth-feature implicit_clone in webcam.rs, both previously invisible to the host-only clippy runs (board #1500)

Added

• Pre-commit hook — .githooks/pre-commit runs cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy -D warnings
• Reduced-motion detection (macOS/Windows) — implemented the platform detection that was previously stubbed to always return false: macOS via NSWorkspace.accessibilityDisplayShouldReduceMotion (objc2-app-kit), Windows via SystemParametersInfoW(SPI_GETCLIENTAREAANIMATION). Linux (gsettings) already worked. This is the detection backend only — ReducedMotion is not yet consumed by any effect/animation, so there is no user-visible behavior change until it is wired in

Changed

• CI lints cfg-gated platform code — the cross-OS build matrix now runs cargo clippy -D warnings per native target (Linux/macOS/Windows), so #[cfg(target_os = …)] code that host-only clippy never compiled is finally linted; the Linux lint job now denies warnings too (matching the pre-commit hook). The pre-commit hook stays host-only for fast commits — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the manual cross-target command. (board #1500)
• README — expanded build-from-source section with per-feature prerequisites; added Binding Matrix section and B keyboard shortcut
• NDI docs — clarified that NDI output is built into official release downloads (only the NDI runtime needs installing); the --features ndi flag now framed as a from-source-only step in README and TUTORIALS

Documentation

• Stale-docs sweep — corrected the AudioFeatures doc comment (45 → 46 features) and renamed the byte-size test to match its 184-byte assertion; fixed the audio-panel footer to report the real multi-resolution FFT sizes (4096/1024/512 rather than a bare 512)

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
macOS	.dmg	Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Linux x86_64	.tar.gz	glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+)
Windows x64	.zip	Windows 10+

Getting started

macOS: Open the DMG, drag Fosfora.app to Applications (or run directly). Signed and notarized.

Linux / Windows: Extract, run fosfora from the extracted directory. The assets/ folder must be next to the binary.

Requirements

• GPU: Vulkan (Linux/Windows) or Metal (macOS)
• Audio: Built-in mic or line-in for audio-reactive visuals
• NDI® (optional): NDI® SDK runtime for network video output
• Video playback (optional): ffmpeg on PATH for media layers

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