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v0.18.0

LizardByte/Sunshinev0.18.0Jan 30, 2023by LizardByte-bot

AI Summary

A major feature release adding Intel QuickSync support, HDR capabilities, and Steam Deck compatibility, alongside critical security patches and performance improvements.

Key Highlights

  • Added Intel QuickSync support
  • Added HDR support
  • Added support for streaming from Steam Deck Gaming Mode
  • Fixed critical security vulnerabilities in SimpleWebServer

New Features

  • Intel QuickSync support
  • Hybrid graphics systems support
  • HDR support
  • Steam Deck Gaming Mode support
  • aarch64 deb and rpm packages
  • UPnP port forwarding refactor
  • Enforced 10 FPS encoding frame rate minimum
  • Performance optimizations
  • CPU usage improvements
  • Fixes for streaming to multiple clients

Full Release Notes

Attention, this release contains critical security fixes. Please update as soon as possible. Additionally, we are
encouraging users to change your Sunshine password, especially if you expose the web UI (i.e. port 47790 by default)
to the internet, or have ever uploaded your logs with verbose output to a public resource.

### Added
- (Windows) Add support for Intel QuickSync
- (Linux) Added aarch64 deb and rpm packages
- (Windows) Add support for hybrid graphics systems, such as laptops with both integrated and discrete GPUs
- (Linux) Add support for streaming from Steam Deck Gaming Mode
- (Windows) Add HDR support, see https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/en/latest/about/usage.html#hdr-support
### Fixed
- (Network) Refactor code for UPnP port forwarding
- (Video) Enforce 10 FPS encoding frame rate minimum to improve static image quality
- (Linux) deb and rpm packages are now specific to destination distro and version
- (Docs) Add nvidia/nvenc preset migration guide
- (Network) Performance optimizations
- (Video/Windows) Fix streaming to multiple clients from hardware encoder
- (Linux) Fix child process spawning
- (Security) Fix security vulnerability in implementation of SimpleWebServer
- (Misc) Rename "Steam BigPicture" to "Steam Big Picture" in default apps.json
- (Security) Scrub basic authorization header from logs
- (Linux) The systemd service will now restart in the event of a crash
- (Video/KMS/Linux) Fixed error: `couldn't import RGB Image: 00003002 and 00003004`
- (Video/Windows) Fix stream freezing triggered by the resolution changed
- (Installer/Windows) Fixes silent installation and other miscellaneous improvements
- (CPU) Significantly improved CPU usage