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@leotrax3d leotrax3d released this 08 Nov 15:48
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freeRGB 0.1.0-beta.5

First public beta candidate, on top of 0.1.0-beta.4.
This is a beta: a large part of the hardware support has not been tested on real
devices. Read "Untested hardware" before connecting anything you care about.

Highlights since beta.4

  • Signed in-app updates: the updater now pins the freeRGB release public key and
    verifies a detached Ed25519 signature for every installer
    (UPDATES.md). Releases without a matching .sig asset are refused.
  • Tauri desktop GUI with cooling profile export/import, forget action for setup
    devices, empty/loading states and shared Headers setup with motherboard vendor
    conflict handling.
  • Classic GUI: shared-locale i18n layer and RPC error-code map.
  • Native API 2 SMBus backends (opt-in) and the module policy broker.
  • Core Gigabyte Fusion 2 USB variants; many OpenRGB families ported as downloadable
    modules; official effect catalog.
  • Fan-control safety: cooling drains on safety revocation, hwmon resume is gated;
    udev rule restricted to pwmN/pwmN_enable.
  • Legal/privacy: Beta labelling in app, installer and docs, safety and liability
    texts, community privacy switches, notices and source offer, path redaction.

Untested hardware

Only the owner's machine has been used for hardware checks. Everything else is
implemented from protocol references and fixtures only.

  • Fan control (see promts/fancontrol/07-hardware-acceptance.md,
    COOLING_ACCEPTANCE.md, FAN_COVERAGE.md):
    the full acceptance session (baseline, write, stop-all, pump protection, GPU via
    NVML, AMD GPU and storage) is not complete. Only channels recorded as
    hardware-verified in FAN_COVERAGE.md are verified; all other boards, chips,
    Corsair iCUE LINK variants and GPUs are untested. Fan control keeps its consent and
    channel-identification gates; use them.
  • Motherboard header RGB (MAINBOARD_RGB.md,
    MAINBOARD_RGB_DEVICES.md): ASUS Aura is the only board
    family exercised (PRIME X870-P WIFI). MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock and other detectors,
    SMBus/DRAM paths and the Native API 2 backends have no real-hardware results.
  • USB and peripheral modules (DEVICES.md): keyboards, mice, mouse
    mats, headsets, coolers, AIOs, lightbars, monitors, Corsair, Razer, Cooler Master and
    most other families are protocol-ported with wire fixtures but not tested on the
    devices. Pipelined Bragi streaming is experimental.
  • Cobra / other pending hardware tests listed in HANDOFF.md remain open.

Known gaps

  • The installer and executables are not Authenticode-signed. Windows SmartScreen
    will warn. The Ed25519 update signature is independent of Authenticode and only
    protects the in-app updater.
  • Windows installer lifecycle (UAC, upgrade from beta.4, rollback) was built but not
    executed on a clean VM for this candidate.
  • UI translations beyond English and German (S18) are machine translations and
    unreviewed.
  • Linux packages (.deb etc.) are built by CI only and are not part of this
    candidate; Linux support is not validated on real hardware.
  • No live version-to-version update test through the updater has been run.
  • Hardware modules and plugins are trusted native code, not sandboxed.
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