ckb-next

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

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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

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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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.11 or earlier.

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.
https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/issues/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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.11 or earlier.

This update fixes ckb-next for macOS Catalina

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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.11 or earlier.

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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.10 or earlier.

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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.10 or earlier.

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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.10 or earlier.

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

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Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.10 or earlier.
Linux users running release packages are urged to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

Saving to hardware on the K95 Platinum, as well as hardware animations are still not supported.

Full Changelog

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

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This is a 0.3.0 pre-release to provide up to date macOS builds, both legacy (Qt 5.6) and new (Qt 5.10).

Only install the legacy build if you are running macOS 10.10 or earlier.

EDIT: If you are experiencing mouse cursor movement issues, please redownload, reinstall, and reboot.

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