v1.6.5

English

This update lets you play a collection with one click, brings scripted particles, cameras and puppets plus colour emoji to scene wallpapers, and adds Steam subscriptions to the Workshop

Features

• Play and Shuffle buttons in the Library and in a collection's menu start rotating a display through all wallpapers, Favorites or that collection right away (c1dde08)
• The Now Playing bar names what a display rotates through, and its new Playlist button shows the order and next change, with Change now and Stop (c1dde08)
• Scene wallpapers whose scripts control particles, the camera, puppet bones or layer parenting now work, so click-to-burst effects and scripted camera moves play (9eac2e4)
• Emoji in scene text layers, such as a clock or a song title, now appear in colour instead of being left out (9eac2e4)
• Signed in to Steam, the Steam Workshop page marks your subscriptions and presets, and lets you subscribe, unsubscribe and read an item's newest comments (9eac2e4)
• A new Halloween look under Appearance dresses the window in pumpkin orange and papercut scenery, on by itself during Halloween week or set to Always or Off (b39a773)
• Optional MetalFX upscaling under Performance, off by default, enlarges scenes drawn at a lowered render scale more sharply instead of stretching them (closes #96) (f4ea93b)
• Anyone with a Crowdin account can now help translate WallpaperMachine without waiting for approval (1207823)

Improvements

• The Steam Workshop page keeps your last sort and filters after the app is relaunched or updated (closes #113) (b0a9116)
• Updates install only when their code signature is intact, and official releases accept only updates signed with the release certificate (9eac2e4)
• Downloading a preset names its base wallpaper and size, stops early when the base will not fit, and offers the preset as an update when its base changes (9eac2e4)
• Buttons in scene wallpapers now click when you release the mouse, and dragging off before letting go cancels the click, as in Wallpaper Engine (9eac2e4)

Bug Fixes

• Video wallpapers no longer flash black for a moment now and then (closes #110) (427d195)
• Some scenes that showed only their fog on black now show all their layers (closes #117) (2650061)
• Scene effects that scripts adjust no longer stop or turn black (9eac2e4)
• The experimental animated lock screen no longer falls back to the macOS wallpaper when macOS briefly ends it while the Mac is unlocked (closes #109) (fbb10de)
• The menu bar no longer flips between dark and light while a web wallpaper starts (closes #118) (f821ab4)
• Steam accounts whose login name is an email address can now sign in and download wallpapers (closes #103) (e24348a)
• Alert sounds, the volume click and Hey Siri no longer mute or pause wallpapers when they are set to react to other apps' sound (9eac2e4)
• A video wallpaper's desktop picture in Mission Control now matches where the clip is playing instead of its opening frame (closes #110) (427d195)
• Puppet wallpapers now show parts such as eyelids fading in and out instead of leaving them fully opaque (9eac2e4)
• Dialogs and popovers such as Steam sign-in, Downloads and Now Playing now switch language together with the window (af61263)
• The SteamCMD dialog keeps its buttons on one row while SteamCMD installs (b882e77)

Thanks to @opastorello for contributing to this release.

Full changelog: v1.6.4...v1.6.5

Install

1. Download WallpaperMachine-1.6.5-arm64.dmg and open it.
2. Drag WallpaperMachine onto the Applications folder in the window that opens. In-app updates
   replace a copy in /Applications or ~/Applications and nowhere else.
3. The app is signed with the project's own certificate but not notarized, so macOS stops
   its first launch: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and confirm.

Verify the download

shasum -a 256 -c WallpaperMachine-1.6.5-arm64.dmg.sha256

Apple silicon (arm64), macOS 15.0 or later.

Built from v1.6.5 at db162b3cd738c35e3d543f2e747ac62a5718b375 (git rev-parse v1.6.5^{commit} must match).