After many months of hard work from our team, I am pleased to announce Beta 5 which brings with it a huge number of improvements.

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Announcement and Rundown Video:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHp74s3Smw

Changelog:

B5

• Documentation improvements
• Allow EGL usage with dmabuf on platforms without GL_EXT_buffer_storage suoport.
• Fixed cursor grab retry logic (fixes issues on i3/awesomewm)
• Don't allow in-source builds.
• Wayland curor and keyboard related crash fixes
• jitRender performance optimizations on x11
• Added EWMH event support for better window focus tracking on x11

B5-rc1

• removed SDL displayserver
• reduced amount of GPU buffer allocations in DMABUF import path
• implemented frame damage tracking, used to reduce amount of data copies needed
• added frame damage display mode in EGL backend
• added cimgui/imgui to the project
• added frame timings collection and display
• improved LGMP cursor performance by releasing the memory faster
• implemented eglSwapBuffersWithDamage for X11
• don't allow the mouse to trigger redraws if the video feed is disabled
• New "Overlay Mode" which allows interaction with imgui windows/widgets
• Allow the FPS display to be moved
• Observe XDG_CONFIG_DIR when looking for the configuration
• Added EGL texture import timing graph
• Alerts are now rendered using ImGui
• Added high DPI support
• add JIT rendering mode for wayland
• improve fractional scaling for wayland
• made numbering of IVSHMEM devices consistent
• Added guest cursor warp support to the KVMFR protocol
• Added the ability to have post-processing filters
• Added AMD FidelityFX CAS post-processor
• Added AMD FidelityFX FSR upscaling post-processor
• add DMABUF import support in OBS plugin
• add keyboard LED synchronization
• fix EGL backend not being detected on some systems (e.g. mesa without libglvnd)
• fix cursor blinking issue on certain hardware (e.g. old Intel integrated graphics)
• Guest cursor is now aligned to the local cursor on window entry using guest cursor warp (Fixes mouse acceleration issues)
• add ability to reorder post-processing filters
• add ability to load and save post-processing filter presets.
• add ability to capture via xdg-desktop-portal+PipeWire on Linux
• windows host installers are now distributed as 64-bit executables