v1.17.0

1.17.0 (2026-03-18)

🚀 New Features

• 5525: add support for 5525 (b8a9007)
• acpi: Add thermal mode testing command (dcd8f0f)
• acpi: exit instead of crash (05e6c96)
• acpi: Fallback deviceinfo for adding new mode (c888cd9)
• add new device (855670a)
• add support for Alienware Aurora R15 (3a1e816)
• add support for Alienware Aurora R15 (ae4aef9)
• add support for Alienware Aurora R16 (4fd2c64)
• alienware m16 R2: all fan modes supported (0fa740d)
• autorealse: testing (fc44032)
• awcc: follow standard c++ project structure (b7d4769)
• awcc: use new device detection API and merge AWCC interface (6245477)
• clangtidy: add clang-tidy (5d3e984)
• cli: added full cli mode support (e94630f)
• cli: turbo (cabaf10)
• daemon: add daemon support (6ee6f9e)
• daemon: sanatize commands first (d271e07)
• device_detection: add support for multiple devices (2837360)
• device_resolution: Initialize ACPI in correct order and Handel (2c33aad)
• device: 5510 (118feea)
• device: add 16x (1457ad4)
• device: Add Alienware 17 R5 (ca296cf)
• device: add Alienware 18 Area-51 AA18250 (a50ca26)
• device: add Alienware m15 R3 (a99de9e)
• device: add Alienware m15 R4 (dd708bf)
• device: add Alienware x15 R2 (647831e)
• device: add Dell G7 7700 (30e0dd5)
• device: add m16 r1 (d77f039)
• device: add support for Alienware Aurora R12 (d266ee6)
• device: add support for Alienware Aurora R12 (80e8732)
• device: add support for Alienware m18 R1 (fbeb182)
• device: add support for Dell G16 7620 (2bfaf8e)
• device: area51m (95aac38)
• device: aurora r10 (2af95c6)
• device: aurora r10 support (95efb12)
• device: g5 (69e4f90)
• device: m15 Ryz (2e9f568)
• device: m17 r2 (c3337f9)
• device: support Alienware 16 Area-51 AA16250 (4672485)
• device: support Alienware Aurora R9 (1ea6973)
• device: support Dell G15 Special Edition 5521 (688d9f5)
• device: support for Alienware 16 Aurora AC16250 (1e7ca99)
• device: support for Alienware Aurora ACT1250 (51b3971)
• device: support for Alienware m15 R7 (a247d9e)
• device: support for Alienware m17 R5 (44437ed)
• device: support for Alienware m18 R1 AMD (f1d96ab)
• device: support for Alienware x16 R2 (84be144)
• device: support for Dell G15 5515 (5fbe1d1)
• device: support for G7 7500 (d8da08c)
• device: support for m18 r2 (055df8d)
• device: support G3 3590 (278dcd1)
• device: tweak aurora r16 (dc83c29)
• device: x15 R2 (55346ce)
• device: x17 r1 (0d4b50c)
• effect: Light Bar Spectrum (407d930)
• effects: breathe effect & refactor main.cpp (2eafef4)
• effectsfx: added all effects and keybinds (2da7f5f)
• gkey: gkey support (794525c)
• gmode: added Gmode flag (87e7796)
• gmode: toggle for Dell G15 5515 (f89b783)
• gui: fallback fonts and remove print (c8b0bfb)
• GUI: Final GUI Push (614d3d7)
• gui: GUI with initial features (9056b29)
• gui: static fonts and scaling (207b55b)
• hacking: new commands (f3a943a)
• help: show app version (3e45dd0)
• install: cmake install script (ab106aa)
• install: install script for testers (a092fb7)
• keybinder: add keybinder module (85427dd)
• lb: lightbar brightness toggle (c17ef9f)
• lighfx: added lightfx module (9138693)
• lightbar: added lightbar support (84eff1a)
• lightbar: lightbar rainbow (31e3c37)
• manual: add manual mode (a1b76ef)
• release: config (0293e73)
• sockets: intial sockets (39425f0)
• static: Build and link statically (267ff04)
• superboost: basic merge of superboost (e177324)
• support: added support for G15 5520 (f446b96)
• testmode: added testmode flag (472d9ee)
• testzone: tests light zone (a17eb5c)
• thermal: add support for cpu check (d9e2715)
• thermal: querymode and toggleGmode (a355235)
• thermals: new methods (bd427b1)
• workflow: realease workflow (6b07d44)
• workflow: realease workflow (a7ce1ad)
• workflows: auto set project version to release tag (26a2a1b)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 5515: custom tweaks (8c3b880)
• acpi detection: removed acip_call utility (d970fbc)
• acpi: return hex value (9698a36)
• add missing device alienware aurora r7 (ceb92f9)
• add tweaks for Alienware m15 R4 (1e3a447)
• alienware: leagcy (f4c258f)
• alienware: support area-51m (2a5e1d6)
• area51: tweaks (26e15ff)
• build: fix libevdev build (08b6cbc)
• build: fix libevdev build (6f19b0f)
• cmake: disable documentation, tests, and tools (48ac7fa)
• cmake: force release (232319e)
• daemon: already in mode added (fe08cbd)
• daemon: already in mode added (544f076)
• daemon: remove device detection logic (949c0d7)
• daemon: remove device detection logic (3b5b084)
• daemon: run daemon always (1c4cff4)
• device-info: sudo fallback for acip (db7af9b)
• device-info: sudo fallback for acip (bad2c29)
• device: x17 prefix (cddb313)
• elc: fixed setting default animation (8fd5c27)
• font: static footer font (199815e)
• g3: tweaks (fec7be2)
• gmode: fix gmode switching and toggle (11981d0)
• gmode: fix gmode toggle (7fda74d)
• gmode: For AWCC Ryz edition (a5879f0)
• gui: fix gui shinking in hyprland (be73604)
• info: fix device name (71d934f)
• light: always send 33-byte zero-padded packets (ccfca71)
• light: strip to 33 byte & imgui enhance (16ebf66)
• light: use dmi and usb detection (c42b581)
• m15r3: tweaks (3b25813)
• m16: tweaks (9d1cafc)
• main: static link libevdev (d153dfd)
• prefix: for m18 (2e1978c)
• rainbow: tempo (e3be4b5)
• service: new cmd line (0accf68)
• workflow: add udev (2062d43)
• workflow: glfw (928519c)
• workflow: missing dep (d97532d)
• workflows: gl (110a98d)
• workflow: wrong deb pkg (9ea2eb0)

⚙️ Chores

• device: device tested (baab541)
• logs: redundancy (e12ccca)
• main: release 1.1.0 (84243ab)
• main: release 1.1.0 (1e3a8f2)
• main: release 1.1.0 (79fb537)
• main: release 1.10.0 (3987923)
• main: release 1.11.0 (8de59a1)
• main: release 1.12.0 (452fb81)
• main: release 1.13.0 (0884143)
• main: release 1.14.0 (a6b9376)
• main: release 1.14.1 (d4fb6dd)
• main: release 1.15.0 (b95a550)
• main: release 1.16.0 (e8d05f4)
• main: release 1.16.1 (205f775)
• main: release 1.16.2 (ae5712f)
• main: release 1.16.3 (5a3d696)
• main: release 1.16.4 (e8a62b4)
• main: release 1.16.5 (038ccdf)
• main: release 1.16.6 (32aec6d)
• main: release 1.16.7 (0f4797e)
• main: release 1.16.8 (702072b)
• main: release 1.16.9 (5756a42)
• main: release 1.2.0 (3a38dc1)
• main: release 1.2.1 (80659c7)
• main: release 1.2.2 (fb39391)
• main: release 1.3.0 (7e6d748)
• main: release 1.4.0 (78c3c1f)
• main: release 1.5.0 (ac821c1)
• main: release 1.6.0 (d6810e1)
• main: release 1.7.0 (35ca3be)
• main: release 1.7.0 (425bf94)
• main: release 1.8.0 (dbd953f)
• main: release 1.8.1 (a3777ea)
• main: release 1.9.0 (dc17143)
• prefix tweaks (353b684)
• quirks: g5 5505 (c1feb9a)
• readme: update (8b6a8f3)
• readme: Update (cb05cb8)
• release: 1.3.0 (11638cc)
• tweak: add g5 5590 tweaks (42ebaed)
• tweaks: add support for Alienware m17 R2 (db0d318)
• update: add database to release (3fd0e2c)
• update: bump to ver 1.2.0 (c561c02)

♻️ Code Refactoring

• acpi: AMW3 Tweaks (af56b3f)
• acpi: print acpicode & g16 7630 support (8ca7fb1)
• acpi: remove the need of acpiModelID (10b1f8e)
• acpi: thermal mode reference (fd04ac0)
• acpiutils: Instanciate acpiutil only once (f930c0b)
• acpi: x15 tweaks (b1d0227)
• awcc: structs (8dc6dd8)
• build: Refactor build system (2564fa7)
• daemon: use callbacks & gmode key (7433146)
• database: enum class instead of enum (c45531c)
• database: unified database (ce6eff6)
• device-info: Imporve device info detection logic (bc39627)
• device-info: Imporve device info detection logic (e973dd3)
• effect: naming convention (efeb40c)
• gui: build versions from macro (3a1572e)
• gui: gui tweaks (146776c)
• helper: minor refactor (89c5253)
• lights: better way (c025855)
• log: logging (e8f7caa)
• loguru: hacky verbosity set (c5f1746)
• main: test mode optimization (9d69689)
• readme: licence + cleanup (e2fedb6)
• readme: Removed deps (b798f4d)
• tester: set brighntess to 100 before packet (c6d45ad)
• tests: add bright color (54f481a)
• thermal: bidirectional patching (8a78c78)
• thermal: cool mode for testing (1d16b0f)
• thermals: fix log order (7f2cde2)
• ui: tweaks and added font (6a4913f)
• workflow: Include database.json in release tarball (08ad8eb)
• workflow: workflow fix (913b144)