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v0.6.0 (2023-06-23)

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Support for new devices:

  • K55 RGB PRO
  • K55 RGB PRO XT
  • K60 PRO (Monochrome)
  • K60 PRO TKL RGB
  • Dark Core RGB Pro (experimental)
  • Dark Core RGB Pro SE (experimental)
  • Slipstream wireless dongle (when paired with a single supported device)

Important bugfixes:

  • The Fn key now behaves as expected on the K65
  • The GUI now accepts macros containing the ISO backslash key
  • A workaround is now implemented to prevent the media keys on the Strafe from getting stuck pressed
  • The daemon no longer crashes with a buffer overflow detected message on start under certain conditions
  • The WinLock LED now functions on the K55 RGB and K55 RGB Pro XT
  • The GUI no longer crashes under certain conditions when the sound server is being restarted
  • The battery states are now reported correctly in the GUI
  • The brightness is now correctly set for newer devices (and the lights now turn off instantly)

New features:

  • The device previews are now rendered using the GPU
  • Horizontal scrolling is now available for binding
  • The mute indicator can now indicate either the default output or input audio device
  • The music visualizer now supports automatic gain control, automatically adapting to volume changes
  • It is now possible to pair wireless devices with dongles (not in GUI yet)

Notes for packagers:

  • There is a new binary ckb-next-sinfo. It is not optional and must be bundled with the GUI. It is not meant to be ran by the end user.
  • The explicit dependency to Xlib has been dropped. Only XCB is required
  • pulse-simple is no longer used. There is still a dependency on libpulse
  • Quazip (for Qt5) is no longer bundled and is required

v0.5.0 (2022-05-27)

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Support for new devices:

  • K95 Platinum XT
  • Katar Pro
  • Katar Pro XT
  • Glaive Pro
  • M55
  • K60 Pro RGB
  • K60 Pro RGB Low Profile
  • K60 Pro RGB SE

Important bugfixes:

  • Scroll wheels are now treated as axes (Responsiveness should be improved for specific mice)
  • The lights on the K95 RGB Platinum top bar are now updated correctly
  • An infinite loop is prevented if certain USB information can not be read
  • GUI no longer crashes on exit under certain conditions
  • Mouse scrolling works again when combined with specific libinput versions
  • The daemon no longer hangs when quitting due to LED keyboard indicators
  • The lighting programming key can now be rebound on K95 Legacy
  • Animations won't break due to daylight savings / system time changes
  • GUI doesn't crash when switching to a hardware mode on a fresh installation
  • Daemon no longer causes a kernel Oops on resume under certain conditions (Devices now resume correctly from sleep)
  • Window detection is more reliable and works correctly on system boot
  • Settings tab now stretches correctly
  • Profile switch button can now be bound correctly on mice
  • ISO Enter key is now aligned correctly
  • Bindings are now consistent between demo and new modes
  • Firmware update dialog is no longer cut off and can be resized
  • RGB data won't be sent to the daemon when brightness is set to 0%

New features:

  • German translation
  • 66 service (not installed automatically)
  • Device previews are now resizable

v0.4.4 (2021-03-18)

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Important bugfixes:

  • Fixed a crash when creating a new profile
  • Fixed lights turning off unexpectedly or not being restored correctly
  • Macros can now be repeated quickly by repeatedly pressing the keys
  • Fixed various deadlocks when resuming from suspend or during device initialisation
  • Fixed devices not functioning during system boot requiring a daemon restart

v0.4.3 (2020-12-18)

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PLEASE NOTE: This is the last version of ckb-next to officially support macOS. It has been reported to work with Big Sur after disabling SIP. ckb-next#660 ARM Macs are NOT supported.

Support for new devices:

  • Scimitar RGB Elite
  • Nightsword RGB

Important bugfixes:

  • Fixed delay when shutting down with K95 RGB
  • Fixed freezing when updating indicator LEDs
  • Indicator LEDs are now more responsive when an animation is playing
  • GUI now starts hidden in tray on KDE
  • The pipe animation now works consistently between mode changes
  • The pipe animation now handles input commands sent in rapid succession before the device is updated
  • Input works on wayland again after recent updates
  • libgdx based games no longer crash on mouse input
  • Mouse settings are now correctly restored when resuming from suspend
  • Fixed a bug where some devices would not be initialised on daemon start and would require a replug
  • Fixed layouts for K68, K65, K63, M95

New features:

  • Under X11 only, lights can now automatically turn off after a user-set time
  • Macros now loop when the key is held down
  • Macro UI has been redesigned and supports recording from non ckb-next managed keyboards
  • Modes can now be changed automatically based on the current focused application (X11/XWayland Only)
  • Translations are now supported

Notes for packagers:

  • The systemd unit directory can be overriden with -DSYSTEMD_UNIT_INSTALL_DIR
  • libappindicator is no longer used
  • Minimum Qt version has been bumped up to 5.5.1 (xenial)
  • cmake now checks for quazip 1.0
  • The following new dependencies have been introduced: Qt5 X11Extras, xcb, xcb-screensaver, xcb-ewmh, Qt5 translation tools, dbusmenu-qt5

v0.4.2 (2019-10-08)

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This update fixes ckb-next for macOS Catalina

Note for Ubuntu PPA users: Please cancel this update. An update will be released shortly through the PPA that also disables this prompt in the future.

Support for new devices:

  • Harpoon RGB Pro
  • Ironclaw RGB

Important bugfixes:

  • ckb-next-daemon now correctly requests permission on macOS Catalina
  • Music visualiser is now included again in macOS packages
  • GUI no longer crashes if an animation has no keys set

Notes:

  • Included quazip was updated to fix deprecation warnings

v0.4.1 (2019-08-27)

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Important bugfixes:

  • Specified keyboard layout is no longer being reverted on restart
  • Pipe animation no longer quits if it can't read data
  • Media keys work again on the legacy K65
  • Daemon no longer crashes on quit on macOS
  • Devices are now re-activated after resume on Linux
  • Gradient animation no longer flickers with dithering enabled
  • HiDPI has been disabled by default due to screen resolution misdetection
  • Max DPI is now per-device
  • Extra words are now filtered from the device name
  • gpg2 is preferred over gpg for signature verification

New features:

  • An uninstall button has been added for macOS users that allows complete uninstallation, including older versions
  • Life animation has a new transparent preset
  • Confirmation dialog boxes have been added when deleting profiles, modes, and animations
  • Animation preview now gets temporarily disabled while ckb-next is out of focus
  • Support for multiple animation paths has been added
  • Pollrate can now be changed through the GUI

Notes for packagers:

  • Udev rules are now installed by default in /lib/udev/rules.d.
  • Udev rule installation path can be changed with UDEV_RULE_DIRECTORY in cmake
  • Init systems can manually be force-enabled with FORCE_INIT_SYSTEM in cmake

v0.4.0 (2019-03-09)

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NOTICE FOR MAC USERS: ckb-next 0.4.0 stores its data using a different backend. If you upgrade, your settings and profiles will be migrated. In case of a downgrade, any changes will not propagate to newer versions of the software.

Support for new devices:

  • K70 RGB MK.2 LP
  • M65 RGB Elite
  • M95 Legacy

Important bugfixes:

  • ST100 now works on macOS properly
  • Strafe RGB MK.2 logo is mapped to the right LEDs, and media buttons are positioned correctly
  • A buffer overflow causing the daemon to crash or hang has been fixed
  • quickinstall can now run correctly with multibyte characters in the path
  • Rename now works correctly in the Profile Manager context menu
  • Animations with no presets no longer get loaded to prevent crashes
  • K70 Lux is now marked correctly as monochrome
  • ckb-next can be built again with Qt 5.2
  • Save to hardware now gets disabled in the context menu for unsupported devices
  • Settings backend has been changed to ini for macOS, preventing silent configuration data corruption
  • The K55, the ST100 and the Polaris now have working default profiles
  • A few cases that may cause the GUI to crash have been found and fixed
  • Blank animation names are no longer allowed

New features:

  • GUI has gained a monochrome tray icon option (QSystemTrayIcon only)
  • Device brightness can be controlled by scrolling on the tray icon on Linux systems that support it (AppIndicator or KDE)
  • Profiles and modes can now be changed with the --profile and --mode arguments passed to the GUI binary
  • New Conway's Game of Life animation
  • New 'snake' animation
  • New 'pipe' animation, allowing the user to send rgb data from external applications
  • Music Visualizer (mviz) is now supported on macOS, and has been reworked to function correctly
  • A --version argument has been added to the daemon

Notes:

  • On Linux, the udev rule has been renamed and moved
  • On Linux, for builds with libappindicator, it can be force enabled/disabled by setting the CKB_NEXT_USE_APPINDICATOR environment variable
  • On Linux, libappindicator support is also enabled if the Qt platform theme is gtk2 (Useful for Unity on Ubuntu 19.04)
  • The restart command has been removed from the daemon
  • Threads are now named for easier debugging
  • Signal handler has been rewritten
  • A few unneeded packets are no longer being sent to M65 mice
  • Only Red channel data is being sent to monochrome devices

v0.3.2 (2018-10-07)

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Important news:

  • This version fixes a major bug for the Scimitar Pro, causing the daemon to not properly interface with the mouse. This could require manually reflashing the mouse firmware if a firmware update was performed with 0.3.1 or earlier.
  • An updater has been created to more quickly push bugfixes to users, especially for those on macOS.
  • There is a new Space Invaders-like minigame that can be played as an animation, thanks to @mvladimirovich.

Support for new devices:

  • Strafe RGB MK.2; by accidental omission from the previous release.
  • K66

Important bugfixes:

  • The Scimitar Pro now defaults to v2.xx endpoints
  • The DPI LED on mice now changes in sniper mode
  • The GUI will warn if uinput cannot be loaded on Linux
  • The "Save to Hardware" button on the Scimitar and Glaive has been greyed out due to a current lack of support
  • Thanks to the efforts of @Kedstar99, the codebase compiles with much fewer warnings
  • The daemon will retry talking to the Karabiner kext in case it runs before the kext is ready
  • Binding commands to wheels will now repeat properly
  • QuaZip is no longer required for daemon-only builds
  • KissFFT is now built as a static library
  • Symbolic links are now created in /dev/input/by-id for evdev users
  • Fixed a regression for devices using the legacy protocol
  • The forwards and backwards keys are now bound by default on Mac
  • Workaround for using the Polaris on macOS

Note for packagers:

  • If ckb-next is updated through a package management system, -DDISABLE_UPDATER=1 should be passed to CMake

v0.3.1 (2018-07-31)

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Important news:

  • macOS now uses Karabiner Elements as a backend. You will need to enable the kext for ckb-next to function.

Support for new devices:

  • K70 RGB MK.2
  • K70 RGB MK.2 SE

New major features:

  • macOS 10.14 Mojave support
  • Karabiner Elements is used as an input backend
  • The GUI now has a generate ckb-next-dev-detect report button

Important bugfixes:

  • Rapidfire keyboards have a workaround on shutdown
  • Bugfix for independent X/Y DPI
  • The new Strafe NRGB has firmware updates now
  • The GUI pops up a warning when trying to bind the Windows key with Winlock enabled
  • The GUI now has a DPI indicator
  • The K68 NRGB winlock light now lights up
  • The GUI handles SIGINT/SIGTERM cleanly, avoiding stalled devices
  • Strafe sidelights now save state on GUI start
  • Original Strafe NRGB's sidelights now toggle correctly
  • ckb-next-dev-detect is now installed to the system and added to PATH

v0.3.0 (2018-04-30)

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Important news:

  • Binaries have been renamed from ckb to ckb-next and qmake has been replaced with CMake

Support for new devices:

  • K55 RGB
  • K68 RGB
  • K90 Legacy
  • Katar RGB
  • Polaris RGB
  • ST100 RGB

New major features:

  • Use URB Interrupts to read data from devices
  • Profile Import/Export
  • Keyboard Layout autodetection
  • CMake build system
  • Relocation of binaries
  • No single global layout for all devices in the GUI

Important bugfixes:

  • Deadlock on daemon exit
  • Support for K95 Platinum profile switch key
  • Keymap corruption on the GUI
  • Pulseaudio GUI deadlock
  • macOS Sierra and higher mouse fixes
  • Use udev to detect the appropriate endpoint max packet size
  • Ignore devices in BIOS mode
  • Disable save to hardware for unsupported devices
  • Keymap patches for K68
  • Devices not being enabled on resume on macOS
  • Workaround for linux kernel out-of-bounds write
  • Memory leaks on firmware update

v0.2.9 (2018-01-21)

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Important news:

  • Project was moved to the organization since mattanger has disappeared
  • Binaries will be renamed in v0.3.0

Important changes:

  • Significantly lower CPU usage on idle
  • Add support for K95 Platinum
  • Add support for K68
  • Add support for (new) Strafe non-RGB
  • Add support for Glaive
  • Add support for Harpoon
  • Add support for Corsair firmware v3
  • Add support for pt_br layout
  • Add support for Japanese layout
  • Add macro delays to the GUI
  • New FIRMWARE file structure
  • GUI warning when daemon is not running
  • udev rule to remove joystick tag
  • Dynamic keymap patching
  • Require Qt >=5.2
  • Numerous small fixes and improvements

v0.2.8 (2017-05-06)

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  • ckb is now ckb-next, but the binaries will be renamed in v0.2.9
  • Releases and release notes are provided from now on #10 #66
  • Numerous PRs from ckb merged #4
  • SIGSEGV when deleting copied profile is fixed #38
  • Modifier keys not working on macOS Sierra are temporarily fixed #29
  • Compilation errors on macOS Sierra are fixed #134
  • make debug target on Linux is fixed #79
  • Heat map animation issues fixed #30
  • Compilation of the music visualizer fixed #21
  • Hardware profile loading error on firmware 2.05 fixed #24
  • Project's own firmware table created, signed and populated with new devices #60
  • Arch Linux and Fedora/CentOS packages added #80 #5 #41