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About this version

This release contains various minor enhancements, tweaks to existing functionality and fixes.

New

  • Added PIP window auto (re)connect option - option to start PIP window when connecting to a display or dummy - #573
  • Added option to toggle PIP window shadow (works when window titlebar is hidden and free scaling is enabled) - #870
  • App now saves PIP window location - #869
  • Added option to customize native smooth scaling min. and max. resolution - #866
  • Added warning about smooth scaling HiDPI not available on pre-12.4 macOS versions to reduce confusion - #761
  • Added option treat a display detected Apple-made as third party/generic - #810
  • Added toggle to allow invalid resolutions and allow 8K+ native scaling options - dependent on macOS support - #834
  • Added option to hide the display header in menu when only one display is present (and there are no dummies)- #886
  • Added option to close the Tools menu into the bottom icon row (instead of collapsing it) - #887
  • Added option to toggle hiding PIP menu item with single display (by default it is hidden now) - #899
  • Menu items wiggle slightly vertically depending on visible content due to differing icon sizes - #907

Fixed

  • Color adjustments, XDR upscaling, dimming might not work upon wake in certain situations - #863
  • Associated dummy still auto-connects in safe mode (SHIFT is pressed during startup) - #856
  • XDR upscaling - slider is rather ineffective beyond combined brightness of 125% on the MBP - #861
  • Apply Display System Configuration button does not take into account the last field update - #891
  • App locked during credentials prompt when clicking Settings/Displays/Apply... - #892
  • Menu items wiggle slightly vertically depending on visible content due to differing icon sizes - #907
  • Typo in settings - #830

The detailed list of the associated issues/enhancements is available here.

Click here for a detailed changelog of previous v1.2.x versions

Changes in v1.2.8

  • Enable Night Shift on Televisions - ability to configure your TV as a computer monitor to let Night Shift and True Tone to take effect. Useful for TV as monitor setups. - #756
  • Added option to force-enable color adjustments on non-natively connected displays - works with DisplayLink displays using the new v1.7.x+ drivers with color-temperature alteration support enabled. - #750
  • Added True Tone and Dark Mode toggles under Tools/System Colors - #748
  • In-app external display HDR switch toggle can now also disable True Tone (alongside Night Shift) during a HDR session - #748
  • Added a notification to Tools/System Colors when Night Shift and/or True Tone was disabled by the in-app HDR switch - #748
  • Ability to flip image horizontally (and vertically) for Picture in Picture and Full Screen Streaming - this is especially useful for teleprompter devices - #757
  • Fixed: 'Manually add custom resolutions' does not work properly (only one resolution added instead of multiple entries) - #771
  • Fixed: Restore software brightness/dimming levels, color alterations, external display HDR brightness upscaling levels after resolution switch, app restart or sleep. - #802
  • Fixed: Volume OSD not showing on the mirror source screen when the volume controlled display is a mirror target - #732
  • Fixed: Custom system configuration for displays with 0 as vendor or model ID not stored properly - #740
  • Fixed: Various other stability improvements.

Changes in v1.2.7

  • Fixed: Third-party external display HDR upscaling does not get activated - #715
  • Fixed: Some settings are not enabled until an other setting is changed on that specific pref pane - #716
  • Fixed: Brightness OSD is not visible on dummy screen when it is being mirrored to a real screen (regression) - #655
  • Fixed: If native media keys used during display configuration, keys might get stuck afterwards - #725

Changes in v1.2.6

  • Less intrusive alternative for the permissions problem alert dialog - #699
  • Emphasize the display header under Displays - #704
  • Display reconfiguarion app menu icon - #703
  • Fixed: Newly connected display with smooth scaling enabled is not detected properly - 694
  • Fixed: Ambient light sensor induced XDR macOS battery drain issue - #702

Changes in v1.2.5c-beta

  • Fixed: Some text in settings is cut off - #683
  • Fixed: Display configuration is editable for DisplayLink connected displays (which don't support this feature) - #681
  • Fixed: Keyboard brightness control does not work when hardware control is disabled in the latest beta - #679
  • Fixed: With combined brightness, when the brightness is decresed to zero externally for Apple displays, external controls can't recover the brightness - #687
  • Fixed: The resolution list in simple mode should show only resolutions for the current refresh rate - #686
  • Fixed: (Suggestion) Reverse resolution list in submenu to show high resolutions first - #684
  • Fixed: Resolution slider always falls short of fully reaching the end even at 100% - #685
  • Fixed: Resolution slider changes to Low resolution when the max value was set once - #682

Changes in v1.2.5b-beta

  • Added option Reset color table on neutral settings + explanation - #644
  • Added cool option to show hw/sw subsliders when combined brightness is enabled
  • Fixed: menu blocks cannot be collapsed and some other display or dummy related settings cannot be changed - #666
  • Fixed: resolution slider is missing issues - #665
  • Fixed: corrupt system configuration when the display is in a rotated during the procedure - #665
  • Fixed: brightness OSD is not visible on dummy screen when it is being mirrored to a real screen - #655

Changes in v1.2.5a-beta

  • App rebranding (in progress) - #641
  • Added feature to manage display system configuration - #645
  • Added feature to allow smooth resolution slider for displays - requires Pro - #645
  • Added feature to override various display data (display name, native resolution, default resolution) - #645
  • Added feature to add custom scaled resolutions to native displays - #645
  • Add option to have only resolutions in the resolution slider that matches/approximates native aspect ratio - #658
  • Added option to show resolution slider as percentage for smoothly-scaled displays - #660
  • Added support for M2 Macbook Air - #656
  • Added support for macOS 13 Ventura - #664
  • Added a way to show some technical info about the displays for troubleshooting - #650
  • Fixed: v1.2.4 and v1.1.24 regression in terms of handing display UUIDs - #662

Changes in v1.2.4-beta

  • Added option to show slider labels - #630
  • Added an option under Preferences/General to enable/disable all brightness related display control functionality - #628
  • Added option to disengage from F14/F15 keys - #629
  • Create a Displays tab for various display related settings - #603
  • Preferences tab should be reorganized to look consistent (scrolling type) - #621 opened 5 days ago by waydabber
  • Startup in safe mode should not restore previous brightness and color adjustment settings - #620
  • A proper prompt to gain Accessibility Privilege for media key control upon startup - #613
  • Streaming status should be shown in app menu just like mirroring - #619
  • Update combined brightness slider/keyboard control state for Apple screens when brightness is changed outside of the app - #602
  • Fixed: "Make fine scale default" for brightness control is at a wrong place in Preferences - #626
  • Fixed: XDR upscale should not be activated on EDR capable non-XDR Apple displays - #622
  • Fixed: Brightness keyboard shortcuts should not affect dummy screens directly but only non-dummy mirror or stream target displays - #616
  • Fixed: DDC Volume slider does not zero on mute + app forgets mute state after restart - #605
  • Fixed: Combined brightness sub-hw-zero-dimming and XDR upscale switching points should always correspond to a full OSD chiclet - #618
  • Fixed: Full screen stream can be resized by clicking on the top/bottom/left/right border of the stream target screen - #617
  • Fixed: Oversaturation when changing between combined and not combined color controls for upscaled Apple XDR displays - #614
  • Fixed: Night Shift should be turned back off when it was turned off by activating HDR mode from app-menu - #606
  • Fixed: Custom keyboard shortcuts don't work when app Menu is open - #596
  • Fixed: Resolution menu/slider is a wreck for some real displays in Monterey 12.4 - #601 opened 11 days ago by waydabber
  • Fixed: Resolution issue with app-created dummies optimized for the new 14" and 16" macbook pro screens and some other displays - #581

Changes in v1.2.3-beta

  • Added various options to manage brightness control methods - #599
  • Combined keyboard control of hardware (Apple, DDC) brightness, software dimming and XDR/HDR upscale - #589
  • Combined hardware brightness, software dimming, XDR/HDR upscale slider - #588
  • Additional options to define keyboard control target screen - #587
  • Advanced options for native keyboard control for brightness and audio - #586
  • Implement Apple native key support for brightness and volume - #583
  • Added fine scale brightness/volume control for custom keyboard shortcuts - #585
  • Brightness and color control smooth transitions - #547
  • Implement DDC Mute control for external displays - #582
  • Implement DDC Volume control for external displays - #580
  • Implement DDC brightness control for external displays - #515
  • Implement Apple brightness control - #516
  • Make the contents of general Tools menu block configurable - #571
  • Option to match menu icon with main display icon - #593
  • Fixed: Display name suffixes might get messed up with multiple displays of same name - #594
  • Fixed: Slider graphics and text colors are somewhat off with some backgrounds - #572

Changes in v1.2.2-beta

  • Added color temperature adjustment slider (especially useful for TVs that are incompatible with Night Shift) - #555
  • Added contrast control - #566
  • Add gain option to squeeze out some more nits or improve brightness when watching a dark movie - #561
  • Added R/G/B tint (gamma) control for... I don't know - why not? - #560
  • HDR/XDR brightness upscale setting is now remembered permanently, don't need to toggle it all the time - #557
  • Added Night Shift controls to the menu (so you don't have to look for that deeply hidden nightshift slider anymore in System Preferences) - #548
  • Added keyboard shortcut options for Night Shift and color temperature - #556
  • Added option to auto-disable Night Shift when reference HDR mode is enabled on an external display in the app menu - #554
  • Added option to reset all color adjustments - #564
  • Restore last applied brightness/color adjustments upon reconnect/restart - #563
  • Redesign the bottom part of the menu - #567
  • Fixed: App keeps forgetting I have a license - update Paddle SDK to 4.3.0 - #558
  • Fixed: After resetting the app in Preferences no items appear under the display in the menu - #565
  • Fixed: Dimming overlay (Sidecar, Dummy, AirPlay, DisplayLink) not resized properly on resolution change - #551
  • Fixed: Enabling HDR/XDR Upscale makes brightness slider disappear - #568
  • Fixed: Max dummy resolution gets limited when switching to portrait mode - #559

Changes in v1.2.1-beta

  • Updated menu appearance, persistent collapsible display/dummy menu blocks - #546
  • Gamma correction slider (you can enable it under Preferences/Appearance) - #525
  • Overlay dimming for virtual displays, Sidecar/AirPlay and DisplayLink - #513
  • System OSD shown for keyboard shortcut induced brightness changes
  • Custom keyboard shortcut for brightness, gamma, HDR upscale and adjustments reset - #521
    Note: Apple keyboard native keys support not added yet!
  • Updated Appearance and Keyboard shortcuts tab - #536
  • Configurable menu location for display/dummy information, toggles and tools and new sliders - #531, #535
  • Fixed: Resolution slider not updated in some circumstances - #534
  • Fixed: Non-whole-numbers refresh rates not shown properly in menu - #541
  • Fixed: Resolution sliders go missing - #532
  • Fixed: Trial counter does not update properly - #533
  • Integrated DDC control framework for Apple Silicon and Intel - #514
    Note: DDC brightness and volume control not yet accessible!

Changes in v1.2.0-beta (compared to v1.1.12)

  • HDR/XDR upscaling (extra brightness) - #499
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