A maintenance release fixing a few small things.

Changes

• 🇫🇷 Updated translation for French (@foXaCe, #542)
• Add translation links in the About dialog and Help menu.
• Add deprecation message for polychromatic-cli as it is likely to be removed in a future release. See here for more details.

Fixes

• Fix our configuration window not being used in OpenRazer >=3.10 due to version parsing error.
• Hide problematic "Off" effect for 🖱️ Razer Basilisk V3 for users with OpenRazer 3.7.0 (or earlier).
  • Setting "Off" would cause the firmware to become buggy.
  • This was fixed in OpenRazer 3.8.0 over a year ago.
  • Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12 and Linux Mint users may have installed OpenRazer from their official repositories, which is usually a few versions behind. This ensures users on older versions with this mouse don't encounter the bug.

A maintenance release fixing a few small things.

Fixes

• Fix playback loop skipping over the first frame while in the editor (#541)
• Improve DPI presentation for very high DPI devices (#535)
• Troubleshooter: Improve detection when Python library fails to load.
• Improve quality of build scripts (#537 by @xgqt, @eli-schwartz)

For distro packagers

• Drop sassc build dependency: 812c0f4

This maintenance release backports fixes for the older Qt 5 version.

Fixes

• Improve DPI presentation for very high DPI devices (#535)
• Troubleshooter: Improve detection when Python library fails to load.
• Drop sassc build dependency

From the v0.9.4 changes, the playback loop bug in the editor (#541) did not affect this version.

A maintenance release fixing a few small things.

What's New?

• Add device map for Razer Huntsman V2 Analog (UK) (#527, @dvs999)

Changes

• Add appstream metainfo.
  • The app's appearance may improve in your software center application.
• Add support for a Flatpak version.

Fixes

• Only show the instructions button for on-the-fly macro recording if supported by device / version.
• Fix crash at start-up if the effect file is moved or renamed (#467)

This maintenance release backports fixes for the older Qt 5 version, currently still supported.

See v0.9.3 for the changes.

A maintenance release fixing a few small things.

Changes

• Add OpenRazer config option for "persistence_dual_boot_quirk".
  • This will be a new configuration option in a future release of OpenRazer (3.9+)
  • This option can help devices that don't seem to restore their last selected effect in Linux after using the official Razer Synapse driver in Windows.

Fixes

• Fix broken header graphic when tiling application.
• Fix 'Hz' typo for DeathAdder 3.5G DPI list.
• Hide Y axis for Razer Basilisk Essential as it only supports X axis.
• Troubleshooter: Improve secure boot check.

This maintenance release backports fixes for the older Qt 5 version, currently still supported.

See v0.9.2 for the changes.

A maintenance release mainly fixing translations, some of them being regressions from v0.9.0 when porting to Qt 6.

Changes

• OpenRazer: Recognise new capabilities low_battery_threshold and idle_time that'll be used in a future version of OpenRazer.
• Updated translation for 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (@UM-Li, #514)

Fixes

• Controller: Set the desktop filename for Wayland (@ReillyBrogan, #512)
• Fix bugs rendering translations, causing English to be displayed in places even if the locale was fully translated.
  • As a result, more of the tray applet and CLI is translatable.

This maintenance release backports translations fixes for the older Qt 5 version, currently still supported.

See v0.9.1 for the changes.

Qt 6 "Controller" Port

PyQt is the underlying framework powering the main graphical interface of Polychromatic. This release ports the codebase from PyQt5 to PyQt6 to ensure future readiness and to support distributions that may be moving away from PyQt5 (#508). As a result, Python 3.7 or later is required.

In terms of differences, it's a bit boring — visually, it's 98% the same.

Changes since v0.8.4

• Code improvements to tidy up or fix issues after porting to PyQt6.
• Remove some unused code.
• Fix effect restoration when closing 'Inspect Matrix' via ESC key.

v0.8.x will continue to be supported for Qt 5

While v0.9.0 will be rolled out to distributions providing PyQt6, there are many distros that only support PyQt5. Today will also be releasing v0.8.4 and will continue to backport changes (where possible) from v0.9.x.