Changelog

v3.1.4 Latest

v3.1.4 · 2026-10-17

Highlights

Sensor reactive lighting. A new Sensor reactive category on the Lighting page's Animation tab has effects driven by your PC's own readings: Load bar follows CPU load, Liquid fill and Segment meter follow memory use, and Color shift and Rising heat follow CPU temperature. Pick a different reading for any of them under Sensor in the effect's settings, and their colors come from the color wheel, with a Reverse colors switch.
Lighting uses less CPU on Windows. Lighting effects now render through Direct3D 11, so on a PC with Intel integrated graphics they no longer keep a CPU core busy in the background. Switching effects is smoother too: the current effect keeps playing while the next one loads.
Music Reactive can listen to a microphone. On Windows, Music Reactive lighting can follow a microphone or any other input instead of what your PC plays. Pick it under Music Reactive source in Settings > Lighting & Cooling, or from the picker beside the music button on the Lighting page.
You choose which competing apps Nexus terminates. When apps that drive the same lighting, fans or peripherals are running, during setup or from the Conflicting apps detected alert, each app is a card you click to choose whether Nexus terminates it or it keeps running. Each card shows the devices it competes for and what will happen to it, an app that starts with Windows can be removed from startup, and nothing changes until you press Terminate or Keep all running.

Lighting

Game Sync has been removed due to compatibility issues, and we may bring it back in an improved form in the future. If your lighting was on Game Sync, it switches to Static. On Windows, the Game Sync tab stays visible but disabled with this note, and Remove tab takes it away.
Picking an effect, a mode tab or a color in Advanced mode while lighting is Off turns it back on for all your devices.
Simple mode no longer takes back devices you turned Nexus Control off for, and neither does choosing Off or finishing lighting setup. A Control all devices button at the top right of the Lighting page brings every device back when you want it.
Customize device has a new Frame cap that limits how often that device's lighting updates (Off, or 30, 20, 15, 10, 5 or 1 Hz), for a device or PC that stutters during animated effects. It is off by default, and your choice stays with the device when you switch presets.
Render GPU in Settings > Lighting & Cooling is now called Rendering device. On Windows it can also pick your CPU ("software rendering"), which frees up the GPU in exchange for higher CPU load.
On a PC with Intel integrated graphics and a dedicated graphics card, Auto no longer moves lighting to the dedicated card, since rendering on the integrated GPU no longer costs a CPU core.
Screen Mirror lighting updates at 30 fps, the same rate as every other effect.
On Windows, opening the Mirror tab while another mode is running shows a live preview of the selected monitor, and effect previews on the Lighting page load faster after your first visit.
In Effect Studio, a knob can now move with a sensor as well as with music or a wave. Starters opens a picker with thumbnails grouped by category, and settings that are either on or off, such as Flip, are switches.
On a new install, every device starts out covering the whole lighting canvas, so each one shows the full effect. Existing layouts are not changed.
Hovering a mode tab on the Lighting page says what it does, such as "Animated effects, or build your own in Effect Studio" for Animation.
Pins explain themselves. The first time you pin a device on the Lighting page, a hint at its pin says to keep it selected to change its lighting, and to unpin it to go back to the lighting for all devices. Hovering a pin says that modes only change that device while it is selected, and Pin and Unpin in a card's right-click menu describe what each does.
On a new install, these mice start with Nexus Control off, because lighting control stops their buttons or DPI from working: Corsair Katar Pro, Katar Pro V2 and Katar Pro XT, Corsair M55 RGB PRO, Corsair M65 RGB Ultra Wired, Corsair Scimitar PRO RGB and HyperX Pulsefire Haste. Turn a mouse's card on to light it anyway. Existing installs keep them as they were.
Newly supported: MSI MEG X870E GODLIKE MAX and MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE, including the Z790's MEG logo and the lights below the riser card and along the bottom edge. Thanks @GrPK!

Cooling

Hovering a mode tab on the Cooling page says what it does, from Silent ("Slow, quiet fans") to Max ("Every fan at 100%, always").
A pinned fan shows a pin you can click to unpin it, and hovering it says why it is pinned: a fan you pinned keeps its own speed when you switch modes, while GPU fans, pumps and AIO coolers start pinned because modes follow CPU temperature, pump speed stays as set, and the cooler runs its own curve. Pin and Unpin in a fan's menu describe what each does.

Monitoring

A new Read RAM temperatures switch in Settings > Monitoring & Diagnostics turns off reading the temperature sensor on each memory stick. It is on by default; turn it off if your PC fails to restart after installing Nexus.

Devices

A device with Nexus Control off can be hidden from the sidebar: right-click its row and choose Hide from sidebar. Its device page has a Show in sidebar switch to bring it back.

Windows

Settings > General has a Fast Startup switch. Fast Startup starts Windows faster after Shut down, but USB devices are not fully reset, so turn it off if a device stops responding or is not detected after startup.

Accounts and privacy

Benchmark results are no longer uploaded to the public leaderboard on their own. After a run, the results ask "Share this result on the public leaderboard?", and nothing is uploaded unless you choose Publish.
Signing in to an account whose email you have not verified offers Resend email, with a short wait between sends.

Fixes

Some PCs could fail to restart after installing Nexus, because the memory's temperature sensor was left in a state the PC did not expect. Nexus now puts it back when it shuts down.
On Windows, the window shown while an update installs could stay on screen after the update had finished.
Windows Defender could flag the window Nexus shows while it installs an update.
A monitor turned into a panel could lose its layout when Windows gave it a new display id, for example after moving it to another port or reinstalling the graphics driver.
Lighting and Cooling on a touch panel could drop back to a single selected device after a restart or a device rescan.
On a touch panel, a palm resting on the static color grid could take the pick from your fingertip.
On a zoomed touch panel, picking a static color could select a different color from the one under your finger.
When editing a widget on a panel, its settings sheet could cover the widget or sit stranded at the bottom of the screen.

v3.1.4-beta.3 Prerelease

v3.1.4-beta.3 · 2026-10-17

Highlights

Sensor reactive lighting. A new Sensor reactive category on the Lighting page's Animation tab has effects driven by your PC's own readings: Load bar follows CPU load, Liquid fill and Segment meter follow memory use, and Color shift and Rising heat follow CPU temperature. Pick a different reading for any of them under Sensor in the effect's settings, and their colors come from the color wheel, with a Reverse colors switch.
Music Reactive can listen to a microphone. On Windows, Music Reactive lighting can follow a microphone or any other input instead of what your PC plays. Pick it under Music Reactive source in Settings > Lighting & Cooling, or from the picker beside the music button on the Lighting page.
You choose which competing apps Nexus terminates. When apps that drive the same lighting, fans or peripherals are running, during setup or from the Conflicting apps detected alert, each app is a card you click to choose whether Nexus terminates it or it keeps running. Each card shows the devices it competes for and what will happen to it, an app that starts with Windows can be removed from startup, and nothing changes until you press Terminate or Keep all running.
Benchmark results stay private until you publish them. Results are no longer uploaded to the public leaderboard on their own. After a run, the results ask "Share this result on the public leaderboard?", and nothing is uploaded unless you choose Publish.

Lighting

In Effect Studio, a knob can now move with a sensor as well as with music or a wave. Starters opens a picker with thumbnails grouped by category, and settings that are either on or off, such as Flip, are switches.
On a new install, every device starts out covering the whole lighting canvas, so each one shows the full effect. Existing layouts are not changed.
Hovering a mode tab on the Lighting page says what it does, such as "Animated effects, or build your own in Effect Studio" for Animation.
Hovering a pin says that modes only change that device while it is selected, and Pin and Unpin in a card's right-click menu describe what each does.

Cooling

Hovering a mode tab on the Cooling page says what it does, from Silent ("Slow, quiet fans") to Max ("Every fan at 100%, always").
A pinned fan shows a pin you can click to unpin it, and hovering it says why it is pinned: a fan you pinned keeps its own speed when you switch modes, while GPU fans, pumps and AIO coolers start pinned because modes follow CPU temperature, pump speed stays as set, and the cooler runs its own curve. Pin and Unpin in a fan's menu describe what each does.

Monitoring

A new Read RAM temperatures switch in Settings > Monitoring & Diagnostics turns off reading the temperature sensor on each memory stick. It is on by default; turn it off if your PC fails to restart after installing Nexus.

Devices

A device with Nexus Control off can be hidden from the sidebar: right-click its row and choose Hide from sidebar. Its device page has a Show in sidebar switch to bring it back.

Windows

Settings > General has a Fast Startup switch. Fast Startup starts Windows faster after Shut down, but USB devices are not fully reset, so turn it off if a device stops responding or is not detected after startup.

Fixes

Some PCs could fail to restart after installing Nexus, because the memory's temperature sensor was left in a state the PC did not expect. Nexus now puts it back when it shuts down.
On Windows, the window shown while an update installs could stay on screen after the update had finished.

v3.1.4-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.1.4-beta.2 · 2026-10-16

Highlights

Lighting comes back on from Advanced mode. Picking an effect, a mode tab or a color while lighting is Off turns it back on for all your devices. Simple mode no longer takes back devices you turned Nexus Control off for, and a new Control all devices button at the top right of the Lighting page brings every device back when you want it.
Lighting uses less CPU on Windows. Lighting effects now render through Direct3D 11, so on a PC with Intel integrated graphics they no longer keep a CPU core busy in the background. Switching effects is smoother too: the current effect keeps playing while the next one loads.
Fan and pump control for the Lian Li HydroShift LCD 360R. Its fans and pump show up on the Cooling page with live RPM and speed control, and the three fan rings light up per LED on the Lighting page.
A Frame cap for each device. Customize device has a new Frame cap that limits how often that device's lighting updates (Off, or 30, 20, 15, 10, 5 or 1 Hz), for a device or PC that stutters during animated effects.

Lighting

Game Sync has been removed due to compatibility issues, and we may bring it back in an improved form in the future. If your lighting was on Game Sync, it switches to Static. On Windows, after upgrading you see the Game Sync tab disabled with this note, and Remove tab takes it away.
Choosing Off in Simple mode or finishing lighting setup also leaves devices with Nexus Control off alone.
Frame cap is off by default, and your choice stays with the device when you switch presets.
Screen Mirror lighting updates at 30 fps, the same rate as every other effect.
On a PC with Intel integrated graphics and a dedicated graphics card, Auto no longer switches lighting to the dedicated card.
Render GPU in Settings > Lighting & Cooling is now called Rendering device. On Windows it can also pick your CPU ("software rendering"), which frees up the GPU in exchange for higher CPU load.
On Windows, opening the Mirror tab while another mode is running shows a live preview of the selected monitor.
On a new install, these mice start with Nexus Control off, because lighting control stops their buttons or DPI from working: Corsair Katar Pro, Katar Pro V2 and Katar Pro XT, Corsair M55 RGB PRO, Corsair M65 RGB Ultra Wired, Corsair Scimitar PRO RGB and HyperX Pulsefire Haste. Turn a mouse's card on to light it anyway. Existing installs keep them as they were.
Newly supported: MSI MEG X870E GODLIKE MAX and MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE, including the Z790's MEG logo and the lights below the riser card and along the bottom edge. Thanks @GrPK!

Lian Li

When Nexus stops controlling the HydroShift LCD 360R, its pump goes back to motherboard control.

Windows

Effect previews on the Lighting page load faster after your first visit.

Also in this release

Signing in to an account whose email you have not verified offers Resend email, with a short wait between sends.

Fixes

The display on a Lian Li HydroShift LCD with older firmware could stay blank.
A monitor turned into a panel could lose its layout when Windows gave it a new display id, for example after moving it to another port or reinstalling the graphics driver.
Lighting and Cooling on a touch panel could drop back to a single selected device after a restart or a device rescan.
On a touch panel, a palm resting on the static color grid could take the pick from your fingertip.
On a zoomed touch panel, picking a static color could select a different color from the one under your finger.
Windows Defender could flag the window Nexus shows while it installs an update.
When editing a widget on a panel, its settings sheet could cover the widget or sit stranded at the bottom of the screen.

v3.1.4-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.1.4-beta.1 · 2026-10-16

Highlights

Web View widget. Show any website live on your Y70 or a touch display turned into a panel on your Windows PC. Tap the tile to open the site fullscreen and use it with your fingers, with Back, Reload and Close at hand. Each widget has its own Zoom (0.25x to 3x) and Auto-refresh (every 1, 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes), and you set the address from the panel editor on your PC. Import from Nexus 2 brings your iFrame widgets over as Web View widgets.
Decks that are ready to use. New Deck widgets start with an Essentials set of keys (volume down, volume up, screenshot, Task manager), and Media and System presets sit next to it. A deck can now be a 4x1 strip along one row, and Launch app takes any path or link you paste.
Always on top for the Y70. A new Always on top switch under Show Panel on the Y70's page lets other windows appear over the panel, so a window you drag onto it stays in view (with Keep panel clear of other windows off). It is on by default.
Turned-off features leave your hardware alone. With Lighting or Cooling turned off, Nexus no longer takes over your hubs and coolers, and on a new install nothing is taken over until you finish the How much control do you want? step.

Panels

The Y70's Keep the mouse off the panel switch now sits right under Keep panel clear of other windows.
The Immersive background option shows only on touch screens, where immersive views exist.
Lighting and Cooling on a touch panel remember which devices you selected, per panel, across restarts.

Deck

New Deck widgets get the Essentials keys, and Media (previous, play/pause, next, mute) and System (lock, sleep, screen recording, Settings) presets are added next to it, on existing installs too. Your existing decks are not changed. The presets show in your language until you rename them.
Deck widgets can now use Screenshot and Screen recording keys, which used to be offered only on physical decks such as Stream Deck, plus a new Task manager key. On Windows, Screenshot and Screen recording open the Snipping Tool overlay, and Screen recording has a camcorder icon.
The Deck widget has a 4x1 size that snaps to single rows.
Launch app accepts a typed drive path or an http, https or steam:// link, with a Browse button beside the search box and a hint under it when the app is not in the list.

Nexus 2 import

The Y70 dock comes over as a 4x1 deck along the bottom of your first panel page, in a preset named Nexus 2 dock: app shortcuts launch the app, files and folders open, websites open their address, one-key recordings become hotkeys, and sound clips play. Importing again updates that preset instead of adding a second deck.
iFrame widgets become 4x4 Web View widgets showing the same site at the same zoom. A widget with no usable address, or with no room on its page, is skipped with a note.
The first import turns off Always on top and Keep panel clear of other windows on the Y70, so the panel behaves as it did in Nexus 2. Importing again keeps your choices.

Widgets

Weather (4x4): each day's range bar is colored by temperature, with a dot marking today's current temperature. Turn on Accent color bars for bars in your accent color instead.
Volume mixer: drag devices into the order you want under Output order and Input order in the widget settings, and Nexus remembers it. New Show labels and Show output menu switches, and Hide idle apps becomes Show idle apps.

Settings

Settings for a feature you have turned off (Lighting, Monitoring events, the thermal guard, drive polling) are replaced by a single note saying which switch to turn on, and search lands on that note. The four feature switches carry a Master switch label.
With Cooling off, onboarding no longer offers to import fan curves from FanControl or Nexus 2.
The competing-app alert counts an app only when it competes for a feature you have turned on, and for a screen only while Nexus is driving that screen.
Drive health (SMART) reads stop while Monitoring and Diagnostics are both off and no fan curve follows a drive.

Lighting

On a PC with an Intel integrated GPU and a dedicated graphics card, the Auto render GPU now uses the dedicated card. Rendering on the Intel GPU kept about one CPU core busy in the background.
Kingston Fury memory updates its lighting faster.
Newly supported: Corsair K70 RGB PRO Optical, Corsair M75 Wireless on its Slipstream receiver, Corsair Scimitar Elite RGB, Roccat Vulcan II Mini, SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless, NZXT F280 RGB Core, Razer mice on the Mouse Dock Pro, and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Eagle OC ICE, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AORUS MASTER, RTX 5060 Ti Aero OC 16G, Radeon RX 9060 XT GAMING ICE, RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC and RX 6750 XT GAMING OC 12G, MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G and RTX 5060 8G GAMING TRIO OC, ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi 24GB OC and Colorful iGame RTX 5080 Ultra W OC.

Lian Li

Lian Li wireless fans and HydroShift II rings stay smooth when devices are pinned.
A wireless fan chain that turns up paired to any other dongle pairs back to yours on its own, unless you unbound it yourself.

Windows

When antivirus blocks Setup, its dialog now has a Learn more button that opens the antivirus help page.

macOS

Launch app keys accept any app or file path on a Mac, and Browse picks one.

Fixes

Screen Mirror lighting could stay dark when Nexus started with Windows, or after its helper restarted.
The Lighting page forgot which devices you had selected.
The static color grid could pick the swatch in the row next to the one you clicked or tapped, and a second finger or palm could steer the pick.
Lighting could freeze on a Corsair Lighting Node or Hydro Platinum cooler that stopped answering.
The same memory module could be detected twice.

v3.1.3

v3.1.3 · 2026-10-16

Highlights

Effect Studio. Build your own animated lighting effect by stacking blocks such as wipes, scanners, chases, flames, spectrum bars, VU meters and beat rings, or start from a starter or Surprise me. Any knob can move with the music or with a wave at a set rate, and Show on all devices plays the effect on your hardware while you edit. Saved effects run like the built-in ones. Open it with the Effect Studio button beside the effect search on the Lighting page's Animation tab.
A different look on every device. Each device can now run its own lighting: different animations on different devices, or a mix of static colors, animations, media and screen mirroring, each assigned on its own. On the Lighting page, select the cards and pick what they should show; every other device keeps its look.
Web View widget. Show any website live on your Y70 or a touch display turned into a panel on your Windows PC. Tap the tile to open the site fullscreen and use it with your fingers, with Back, Reload and Close at hand. Each widget has its own Zoom (0.25x to 3x) and Auto-refresh (every 1, 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes), and you set the address from the panel editor on your PC.
Control center on touch panels. Swipe down from the top edge of a Y70 or a touch monitor panel for brightness, volume with per-app volumes, mic, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, dark mode, media controls, Lock PC, Sleep PC and Screen sleep.

Lighting

A search box above the effects finds any effect by name, and your Effect Studio effects lead the list under Custom.
The new Clock fill effect sweeps around like a clock hand, with one to six hands, and Dot Matrix becomes an LED scoreboard with comets racing along its rows.
Hovering a mode tab, a color or an effect outlines the cards your pick will change, the chip above the effects says what it applies to ("Applies to 2 selected"), and the cards that change pulse once.
In Simple mode, devices with their own look bring up Control all, which puts every device back on one look.
Each LED takes its color from a small spot right under it, and the strips on Lighting page cards show the colors your LEDs are really showing.
The Lighting page remembers which devices you selected, and Lighting and Cooling on a touch panel remember theirs per panel, across restarts.
On a PC with an Intel integrated GPU and a dedicated graphics card, the Auto render GPU now uses the dedicated card. Rendering on the Intel GPU kept about one CPU core busy in the background.
Kingston Fury memory updates its lighting faster.
Newly supported: Corsair K70 RGB PRO Optical, Corsair M75 Wireless on its Slipstream receiver, Corsair Scimitar Elite RGB, Roccat Vulcan II Mini, SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless, NZXT F280 RGB Core, Razer mice on the Mouse Dock Pro, and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Eagle OC ICE, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AORUS MASTER, RTX 5060 Ti Aero OC 16G, Radeon RX 9060 XT GAMING ICE, RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC and RX 6750 XT GAMING OC 12G, MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G and RTX 5060 8G GAMING TRIO OC, ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi 24GB OC and Colorful iGame RTX 5080 Ultra W OC.

Cooling

Import from Nexus 2 (Settings > Privacy & Data) now brings over your fan curves. They apply only to the fans listed, and every other fan keeps its settings. Curves for Q-series and NP50 coolers are skipped for now and show "Not supported yet for this device".
If Nexus 2 ran in Recommended mode, the import switches Nexus 3 to the matching Silent, Balanced or Turbo preset. If you have already set up cooling in Nexus 3, your setup is kept.
Importing from FanControl (Import... in the preset menu) changes only the fans it brings over and leaves your preset and every other fan as they were.
The first time you open advanced cooling, a one-time hint points at Calibrate, so your curves match each fan's real speed.
Fans pin instead of lock, and hovering a preset tab outlines the fans that preset would change.

Panels

On the Y70's page, a new Always on top switch under Show Panel lets other windows appear over the panel, so a window you drag onto it stays in view (with Keep panel clear of other windows off). It is on by default, and Keep the mouse off the panel now sits right under Keep panel clear of other windows.
On Windows, the 2023 NZXT Kraken Elite and the Kraken Z3 (Z53, Z63, Z73) show a Nexus panel on their screen once Nexus Control is on. The Z3 can instead play a GIF from a file or Klipy.
The Immersive background option shows only on touch screens, where immersive views exist.

Deck

New Deck widgets start with an Essentials set of keys (volume down, volume up, screenshot, Task manager), and Media (previous, play/pause, next, mute) and System (lock, sleep, screen recording, Settings) presets are added next to it, on existing installs too. Your existing decks are not changed. The presets show in your language until you rename them.
Deck widgets can now use Screenshot and Screen recording keys, which used to be offered only on physical decks such as Stream Deck, plus a new Task manager key. On Windows, Screenshot and Screen recording open the Snipping Tool overlay.
The Deck widget has a 4x1 size that snaps to single rows.
Launch app accepts a typed drive path or an http, https or steam:// link, with a Browse button beside the search box and a hint under it when the app is not in the list.

Nexus 2 import

The Y70 dock comes over as a 4x1 deck along the bottom of your first panel page, in a preset named Nexus 2 dock: app shortcuts launch the app, files and folders open, websites open their address, one-key recordings become hotkeys, and sound clips play. Importing again updates that preset instead of adding a second deck.
iFrame widgets become 4x4 Web View widgets showing the same site at the same zoom. A widget with no usable address, or with no room on its page, is skipped with a note.
The first import turns off Always on top and Keep panel clear of other windows on the Y70, so the panel behaves as it did in Nexus 2. Importing again keeps your choices.

Widgets

Weather (4x4): each day's range bar is colored by temperature, with a dot marking today's current temperature. Turn on Accent color bars for bars in your accent color instead.
Volume mixer: drag devices into the order you want under Output order and Input order in the widget settings, and Nexus remembers it. New Show labels and Show output menu switches, and Hide idle apps becomes Show idle apps.

Devices

Asiahorse Umbra V2 support. Each port with LEDs becomes a zone on the Lighting page, or the hub plays its own Sync, Async or Merge effects or follows the motherboard ARGB input. Fans follow the motherboard PWM header or Nexus, and Auto Detect LEDs counts the LEDs on every port. When Nexus lets go, the hub returns to its own effect. Nexus Control is on by default, and the hub's own app counts as a competing app.
Device rows show when an update is ready: an Update available chip on the Devices page and a glyph in the sidebar, both leading to Firmware Updates. Device warnings become chips with the full message on hover, and a device with Nexus Control off shows neither in the sidebar.
A device with no icon of its own shows its brand's logo or a generic icon.

Settings

With Lighting or Cooling turned off, Nexus no longer takes over your hubs and coolers, and on a new install nothing is taken over until you finish the How much control do you want? step.
Settings for a feature you have turned off (Lighting, Monitoring events, the thermal guard, drive polling) are replaced by a single note saying which switch to turn on, and search lands on that note. The four feature switches carry a Master switch label.
With Cooling off, onboarding no longer offers to import fan curves from FanControl or Nexus 2.
The conflict alert in the top bar shows only when a running app competes for a device Nexus is controlling, and only for a feature you have turned on.
Drive health (SMART) reads stop while Monitoring and Diagnostics are both off and no fan curve follows a drive.

Benchmark

Remove your own run from the leaderboard, from Results or from its leaderboard page. Places past the top 100 show a Top 5% to Top 50% bracket instead of a rank.

Windows

When antivirus blocks Setup, its dialog now has a Learn more button that opens the antivirus help page.

macOS

With the Nexus app open, the background agent no longer restarts every few seconds.
Launch app keys accept any app or file path on a Mac, and Browse picks one.

Phone apps

In the iOS and Android apps, the panel tray's last tile reads Settings, which is what it opens.

Fixes

On some AMD Radeon graphics cards, Nexus restarted every few seconds and lighting and fan control dropped out.
ARGB lighting could stay on after the PC shut down.
After the PC woke from sleep, every fan could drop to hardware control.
In-game overlay settings could stop applying after a window was dragged or a dialog was open.
Screen Mirror lighting could stay dark when Nexus started with Windows, or after its helper restarted.
Whenever Nexus connected to its helper, Stream Deck keys sat on placeholder icons and the volume mixer, Deck widgets and Y70 orientation froze for several seconds per app icon.
Per-app volume, media controls, Deck icons and Stream Deck widgets could stop working after Nexus reconnected to its helper.
A detected cooler screen with Nexus Control off had no sidebar row, so there was no way to turn it on.
A Q-series panel that came up late waited three minutes before Nexus restarted it; it now takes about 30 seconds. Repair connection pressed during that restart now runs, and a panel asleep while the PC was locked no longer restarts after the PC wakes.
The SmartHub page stayed on not connected after turning Nexus Control on, until you left the page.
Changes on the NP50's page could fail while Nexus was polling the cooler.
After turning lighting off and on, the Lighting widget could count only some of your devices as lit.
The static color grid could pick the swatch in the row next to the one you clicked or tapped, and a second finger or palm could steer the pick.
A value typed into a lighting slider could leave the LEDs on the old value.
Effect tiles, often the running effect's, could show a broken image until clicked.
Lighting could freeze on a Corsair Lighting Node or Hydro Platinum cooler that stopped answering.
The same memory module could be detected twice.
Weather tiles could show No connection for up to 15 minutes after a restart.
After an update, a page left open could fail to load; it now reloads once on its own.
In the Android app, switching between PCs reset both PCs' panel dashboards.
Nexus could crash when another program held one of its profile files open.
Panel background files over the size limit are skipped with a message, and picking only unsupported files says so instead of doing nothing.
A Monitoring chart could crash on an event type it didn't recognize.

v3.1.2-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.1.2-beta.1 · 2026-10-15

Highlights

Effect Studio. Build your own animated lighting effect by stacking blocks such as wipes, scanners, chases, flames, spectrum bars, VU meters and beat rings, or start from a starter or Surprise me. Any knob can move with the music or with a wave at a set rate, and Show on all devices plays the effect on your hardware while you edit. Saved effects run like the built-in ones. Open it with the Effect Studio button beside the effect search on the Lighting page's Animation tab.
A different look on every device. Each device can now run its own lighting: different animations on different devices, or a mix of static colors, animations, media and screen mirroring, each assigned on its own. On the Lighting page, select the cards and pick what they should show; every other device keeps its look.
Control center on touch panels. Swipe down from the top edge of a Y70 or a touch monitor panel for brightness, volume with per-app volumes, mic, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, dark mode, media controls, Lock PC, Sleep PC and Screen sleep.

Lighting

A search box above the effects finds any effect by name, and your Effect Studio effects lead the list under Custom.
The new Clock fill effect sweeps around like a clock hand, with one to six hands, and Dot Matrix becomes an LED scoreboard with comets racing along its rows.
Hovering a mode tab, a color or an effect outlines the cards your pick will change, the chip above the effects says what it applies to ("Applies to 2 selected"), and the cards that change pulse once.
Devices whose lighting is set on their own page stay on the Lighting page as Hardware control cards with Open device page, such as Strimer and wired Lian Li hubs on motherboard ARGB sync. The Lian Li HydroShift II ring, Galahad II and Strimer show Hardware control while their own effect plays, and Take control brings them back.
Each LED takes its color from a small spot right under it, and the strips on Lighting page cards show the colors your LEDs are really showing.
In Simple mode, devices with their own look bring up Control all, which puts every device back on one look.

Cooling

Import from Nexus 2 (Settings > Privacy & Data) now brings over your fan curves. They apply only to the fans listed, and every other fan keeps its settings. Curves for Q-series and NP50 coolers are skipped for now and show "Not supported yet for this device".
If Nexus 2 ran in Recommended mode, the import switches Nexus 3 to the matching Silent, Balanced or Turbo preset. If you have already set up cooling in Nexus 3, your setup is kept.
Importing from FanControl (Import... in the preset menu) changes only the fans it brings over and leaves your preset and every other fan as they were.
The first time you open advanced cooling, a one-time hint points at Calibrate, so your curves match each fan's real speed.
Fans pin instead of lock, and hovering a preset tab outlines the fans that preset would change.

Devices

Asiahorse Umbra V2 support. Each port with LEDs becomes a zone on the Lighting page, or the hub plays its own Sync, Async or Merge effects or follows the motherboard ARGB input. Fans follow the motherboard PWM header or Nexus, and Auto Detect LEDs counts the LEDs on every port. When Nexus lets go, the hub returns to its own effect. Nexus Control is on by default, and the AsiaHorse UMBRA app counts as a competing app.
On Windows, the 2023 NZXT Kraken Elite and the Kraken Z3 (Z53, Z63, Z73) show a Nexus panel on their screen once Nexus Control is on. The Z3 can instead play a GIF from a file or Klipy.
Device rows show when an update is ready: an Update available chip on the Devices page and a glyph in the sidebar, both leading to Firmware Updates. Device warnings become chips with the full message on hover, and a device with Nexus Control off shows neither in the sidebar.
The conflict alert in the top bar shows only when a running app competes for a device Nexus is controlling.
A device with no icon of its own shows its brand's logo or a generic icon.

Lian Li

When the wireless dongle stops taking commands while still listing your fans, Nexus resets it on its own, right from startup, instead of leaving lighting and fan control dead until you replug it.
A wireless fan chain whose pairing comes back garbled pairs back to your dongle on its own, without pressing Bind.
SL-LCD screens switch to a new pick right away, and a Nexus panel on them runs at 25 fps.

macOS

The Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8 shows its Nexus panel on a Mac once Nexus Control is on. This needs the Screen Recording permission.
With the Nexus app open, the background agent no longer restarts every few seconds.

Also in this release

Benchmark: remove your own run from the leaderboard, from Results or from its leaderboard page. Places past the top 100 show a Top 5% to Top 50% bracket instead of a rank.
In the iOS and Android apps, the panel tray's last tile reads Settings, which is what it opens.

Fixes

On some AMD Radeon graphics cards, Nexus restarted every few seconds and lighting and fan control dropped out.
ARGB lighting could stay on after the PC shut down.
In-game overlay settings could stop applying after a window was dragged or a dialog was open.
After the PC woke from sleep, every fan could drop to hardware control.
A Lian Li HydroShift II OLED Curved screen stayed on its own pump screen after sleep until Nexus Control was turned off and on.
An SL-LCD fan screen that was unplugged and plugged back in stayed on its boot logo.
A detected cooler screen with Nexus Control off had no sidebar row, so there was no way to turn it on.
Whenever Nexus connected to its helper, Stream Deck keys sat on placeholder icons and the volume mixer, Deck widgets and Y70 orientation froze for several seconds per app icon.
Per-app volume, media controls, Deck icons and Stream Deck widgets could stop working after Nexus reconnected to its helper.
After turning lighting off and on, the Lighting widget could count only some of your devices as lit.
Weather tiles could show No connection for up to 15 minutes after a restart.
Effect tiles, often the running effect's, could show a broken image until clicked.
A value typed into a lighting slider could leave the LEDs on the old value.
After an update, a page left open could fail to load; it now reloads once on its own.
In the Android app, switching between PCs reset both PCs' panel dashboards.
The SmartHub page stayed on not connected after turning Nexus Control on, until you left the page.
Changes on the NP50's page could fail while Nexus was polling the cooler.
A Q-series panel that came up late waited three minutes before Nexus restarted it; it now takes about 30 seconds. Repair connection pressed during that restart now runs, and a panel asleep while the PC was locked no longer restarts after the PC wakes.
Nexus could crash when another program held one of its profile files open.
Panel background files over the size limit are skipped with a message, and picking only unsupported files says so instead of doing nothing.
A Monitoring chart could crash on an event type it didn't recognize.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.1.1-beta.1...v3.1.2-beta.1

v3.1.1-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.1.1-beta.1 · 2026-10-12

Highlights

Production and Beta channels. Nexus now has a Production channel next to Beta. Change it under Settings > General > Update channel: Nexus shows the version it will install, then downloads and installs it right away, in either direction. Beta keeps getting new features and experimental device support first, and a beta install only ever updates to newer betas.
Screens sleep while your PC is locked. NZXT Kraken, Tryx Panorama, Corsair iCUE LINK LCD, Lian Li SL-LCD fan and HydroShift II screens, and the screens Nexus draws on the PC, now turn off when you lock your PC and fade back in when you unlock it. Each has a Turn off display when PC is locked switch on its page, on by default.
Dim lights when idle. Settings > Lighting & Cooling > Brightness schedule has a new Dim lights when idle option: pick how far to dim and whether it starts after a set time or when your screen turns off. It works whether or not the schedule is on.
Corsair iCUE LINK TITAN RX LCD. The TITAN RX LCD's round screen becomes a Nexus panel, its cap and pump rings play your Lighting page effects, and When Nexus is closed on its page stores an image or GIF on the cooler to show while Nexus is not running.

Panels

A monitor turned into a panel from Devices > Displays now gets a grid sized from the monitor's real size, about one row per inch: a 24" monitor gets 12 rows, a 32" 4K monitor 16. Monitors turned into panels before this release move to the new grid, so their widgets may need rearranging.
A plain monitor panel gets the Widget scale setting: Large shows half as many rows as Small, so widgets stay twice the size.
The ASUS ROG Ryujin III's screen shows a Nexus panel, fitted to its landscape glass, and the ASUS logo marks it in the sidebar.

Cooling

The small fan on the Tryx Panorama's pump head joins the Cooling page as VRM Fan, and the motherboard header the pump runs on is labeled as the pump. When Nexus lets go, the fan returns to the cooler's own setting. Thanks @GrPK!

Lian Li

Wireless fans and the HydroShift that lose their pairing with your dongle pair back on their own, as L-Connect does.
When the wireless dongle stops answering, Nexus resets it in place and keeps the link up, so lighting and fan control no longer drop out while it recovers, and the device list no longer empties.

Corsair

iCUE LINK devices carry iCUE's names, such as iCUE LINK LCD Cap and iCUE LINK TITAN 240, and a cooler's screen is named after its cooler.
When Nexus stops, an iCUE LINK LCD shows your When Nexus is closed choice instead of freezing on the last frame, and a restarted Nexus draws on it again right away.

Lighting

The MSI MEG X870E GODLIKE's Dragon, MEG, Enthusiast and GODLIKE logos light up with your effects. Thanks @GrPK!
The MSI MPG X870E Edge Ti's IO shield joins the Lighting page.
The AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 MASTER ICE lights its three fans, backplate and side logo as separate zones.

Widgets

The Media widget's settings have a Shown app option that keeps one app on screen, playing or paused, and its volume slider follows that app.

Stream Deck

A Stream Deck or Corsair Galleon K100 SD that Nexus has never controlled shows on the Devices page with its Nexus Control switch, so you can turn it on.

Windows

On Windows 10, the screens Nexus draws on the PC now show the panel instead of staying blank.

Linux

On KDE Plasma with Brave or Chrome installed from Flathub, the Y70 shows the same layout as its editor, and changes made on the panel survive a reboot.

Fixes

Changing a fan speed or curve while a cooling preset was loaded could freeze Nexus until it was restarted.
The Mirror lighting effect no longer freezes on its last frame after a fullscreen game starts or the display mode changes.
Monitor brightness changes made after a pause are no longer dropped, and a short brightness drag on a Y70 Touch no longer leaves brightness unresponsive until Nexus restarts.
App icons on Deck widgets that stayed blank after a restart now load as soon as Windows is ready.
The LED dots on the Lighting page go back to their resting look; the live colors trailed moving effects.

v3.1.0

v3.1.0 · 2026-10-12

Nexus 3.1.0 is the first release on the Production channel.

Production and Beta

Production gets releases that have been through a beta first. Beta gets new features and experimental device support first, and may be less stable.
Change channel under Settings > General > Update channel. Nexus shows the version it will install, then downloads and installs it right away, in either direction. After that, each install updates only within its channel.
Lian Li and Corsair devices are marked Experimental, and Nexus Control for them is available on Beta only. On Production their page says so and offers Switch to Beta.

Highlights

Screens sleep while your PC is locked. NZXT Kraken and Tryx Panorama screens now turn off when you lock your PC and fade back in when you unlock it. Each has a Turn off display when PC is locked switch on its page, on by default.
Dim lights when idle. Settings > Lighting & Cooling > Brightness schedule has a new Dim lights when idle option: pick how far to dim and whether it starts after a set time or when your screen turns off. It works whether or not the schedule is on.
Monitor panels sized to the monitor. A monitor turned into a panel from Devices > Displays now gets a grid sized from the monitor's real size, about one row per inch: a 24" monitor gets 12 rows, a 32" 4K monitor 16. Its Widget scale setting switches to Large for half as many rows and twice the widget size. Monitors turned into panels before this release move to the new grid, so their widgets may need rearranging.

Panels

The ASUS ROG Ryujin III's screen shows a Nexus panel, fitted to its landscape glass, and the ASUS logo marks it in the sidebar.

Cooling

The small fan on the Tryx Panorama's pump head joins the Cooling page as VRM Fan, and the motherboard header the pump runs on is labeled as the pump. When Nexus lets go, the fan returns to the cooler's own setting. Thanks @GrPK!

Lighting

The MSI MEG X870E GODLIKE's Dragon, MEG, Enthusiast and GODLIKE logos light up with your effects. Thanks @GrPK!
The MSI MPG X870E Edge Ti's IO shield joins the Lighting page.
The AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 MASTER ICE lights its three fans, backplate and side logo as separate zones.

Widgets

The Media widget's settings have a Shown app option that keeps one app on screen, playing or paused, and its volume slider follows that app.

Stream Deck

A Stream Deck or Corsair Galleon K100 SD that Nexus has never controlled shows on the Devices page with its Nexus Control switch, so you can turn it on.

Windows

On Windows 10, the screens Nexus draws on the PC now show the panel instead of staying blank.

Linux

On KDE Plasma with Brave or Chrome installed from Flathub, the Y70 shows the same layout as its editor, and changes made on the panel survive a reboot.

Fixes

Changing a fan speed or curve while a cooling preset was loaded could freeze Nexus until it was restarted.
The Mirror lighting effect no longer freezes on its last frame after a fullscreen game starts or the display mode changes.
Monitor brightness changes made after a pause are no longer dropped, and a short brightness drag on a Y70 Touch no longer leaves brightness unresponsive until Nexus restarts.
App icons on Deck widgets that stayed blank after a restart now load as soon as Windows is ready.

v3.0.25-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.25-beta.2 · 2026-10-09

Highlights

Lian Li HydroShift II OLED Curved. Its curved OLED becomes a Nexus panel you can fill with widgets, the pump and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, and the 35 edge LEDs play your Lighting page effects. The panel's Settings tab also tilts and raises the screen.
Stream Deck dials and touch screens. The Elgato Stream Deck +, Stream Deck + XL, Stream Deck Studio and Corsair Galleon K100 SD now work with Nexus, dials and screens included, and the Stream Deck Neo gets its info screen and touch keys. Set each dial to volume, app volume, microphone volume, brightness, a Monitoring readout or page turning, or give it your own actions for turns, presses and touches.
Radeon fan control. Nexus now drives the fans of AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and newer graphics cards on Windows, which ignored your curves before. When Nexus lets go of the fan, it puts back the card's own fan curve and Zero RPM setting.
Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8. The 8.8" screen works as a full Nexus widget panel, in landscape or standing on its short side with Portrait mount under Mounting on its Settings tab, and its 60-LED frame is laid out around the screen on the Lighting page.
Widget scale. More screen real estate: the HYTE Q60 and Q80, the Corsair iCUE LINK 5" LCD, the HydroShift II OLED Curved and the Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8 get a Widget scale setting on their Widgets tab. Large shows fewer, bigger widgets and Small fits more on a denser grid. On a Q-series cooler, Small turns the one-widget screen into a grid of widgets, and Nexus lists any widgets that will not fit before it changes the grid.
Font choices for panels. Pick a font for each panel under Theme > Text > Font on its page in Nexus: Lexend, Oswald, Tektur, Jura or Piazzolla. Every widget on that panel draws in it.

Lian Li

The HydroShift II OLED Curved can play a video you upload instead of the Nexus panel, and a Screen saver plays a video every few minutes to protect the OLED from burn-in. Pump follows motherboard lets the pump follow its motherboard header when Nexus is not controlling it, and when Nexus lets go the cooler returns to its own screen.
The HydroShift II LCD-C now works over USB like the LCD-S: its round screen becomes a Nexus panel, its pump, fans and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, and its pump ring plays your Lighting page effects.
The Galahad II LCD's pump and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, with the pump's full speed range that the motherboard pump header could not reach. Its pump-head ring lights up as a single-color zone on the Lighting page instead of staying dark.

Corsair

Nexus works with several iCUE LINK System Hubs at once. When a hub starts without its devices, or a device you plug in stays dark, Nexus re-detects the hub's devices on its own, and a Re-detect devices button on the hub's page does it by hand. The iCUE LINK RX360 II RGB shows by name with its lighting, and QX RGB fans draw as rings on the Lighting page.
The iCUE LINK TITAN II pump and the iCUE LINK 5" LCD module show by name on an iCUE LINK System Hub, with their lighting, speed and temperature. The 5" LCD's screen becomes a Nexus panel, marked Experimental and named Corsair TITAN II LCD when it sits on a TITAN II.
Nexus pauses an iCUE LINK System Hub whenever iCUE is running, stops writing the moment another program talks to the hub, and waits for a quiet minute before taking it back. Writing alongside iCUE could break iCUE's saved profile on the hub and leave its fans dark.

Stream Deck

On a deck with dials, a Keys and Dials switch above the action list on the Customize tab shows the dial actions, and the preview takes the shape of your deck. A dial can stack several actions that a press cycles through, and holding an empty dial, or long-touching an empty spot on the touch strip, opens it for editing in Nexus.
The Stream Deck Neo's info screen shows the clock or the page number, set with Info Screen on the Settings tab, and its touch keys turn pages.
Presets live in the preset menu at the top of the device page, next to Recent Apps. Trigger with apps... switches a deck to a preset while one of its apps is in focus, replacing the App Aware mode, and the per-app starter presets open from Import starter presets... in the same menu.
Importing an Elgato profile brings its dial actions along, and an Open action with a Windows command such as calc now launches it. Keys can also take a Screenshot or Screen recording action, which opens your system's capture tool.

Panels

The rendering engine that draws cooler screens, panels and Stream Deck keys got a little faster.
Big screens Nexus draws on the PC, such as the HydroShift II OLED Curved and the Universal Screen 8.8, render at a lower resolution by default to use less CPU while keeping small text readable. Set Render mode to High resolution under Rendering on the panel's Settings tab for full detail.
On a panel without touch, such as the Universal Screen 8.8, you can now drag, resize and remove widgets in the preview on its page in Nexus, as on a touch panel.
Cooler screens Nexus draws on the PC start on a solid background instead of an animated one, which saves CPU, unless you picked a background yourself. HYTE Q-series coolers keep their animated default.
Page dots on touch panels are larger and stay at the bottom of the screen in landscape.
The Diagnostics widget is offered only on touch panels and the dashboard, since it works by tapping.

Cooling

While AMD Software's automatic GPU tuning is on, the Radeon fan's card on the Cooling page shows a warning triangle explaining how to set GPU tuning to Custom, and the fan follows Nexus again once you do.
When Nexus hands your fans to the BIOS because fan control kept stalling, it now takes them back after 5 minutes without a stall. If it happens a second time, the fans stay with the BIOS until you restart Nexus or switch CPU thermal guard off and on in Settings > Lighting & Cooling.
A USB cooler that stops answering, such as a HydroShift II, no longer holds up control of your other fans or trips the thermal guard. It shows as disconnected until it answers again, then picks its curves back up.

Lighting

The LED dots of a selected device on the Lighting page show the live colors of the running effect, as in the 3D view.
Sony DualShock 4, DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers and the GameSir Nova 2 Lite are no longer taken over for lighting, which could take the controller away from games and Steam Input. They show as switched-off cards on the Lighting page; switch one on to light it.
A search button on the device list of the Lighting page and the fan list of the Cooling page filters the list by name, hub or group.

Widgets

A 2x2 Monitoring widget, square or round, can show two sensors, 2 side by side or 2 stacked, picked in its settings. The small readings of the 1 large + 2 small layout offer more designs.
AIO pump speeds appear in the Cooler category of widget sensor pickers next to the coolant temperature, so a cooler screen can show both.

Updates

With Update channel set to Beta in Settings > General, Nexus updates only to newer betas, so a beta install is never moved onto a stable release by an update.

Windows

Apps, files, folders and links opened from a deck key come to the front instead of opening behind the window you are in, Task Manager included.
If antivirus quarantines Nexus during setup, the installer says so, explains how to restore the file and add an exception for the Nexus folder, and lets you try again instead of showing a bare file error.

Linux

The installer warns when fontconfig is missing, which Stream Deck keys and LCD screens need to draw, and names the package to install.

Also in this release

Turning on Nexus Control for a device marked Experimental now asks you to confirm each time, and the conflicting-apps popup and onboarding mark experimental devices with the Experimental badge.
Device names carry their brand on the Devices page, device pages and top bar, such as Elgato Stream Deck + and Corsair Xeneon Edge. The sidebar shows the brand's logo instead and sorts devices by brand, and HYTE devices show the HYTE logo.
Nollie controllers are no longer marked Experimental.

Fixes

Turning Nexus Control on or off for Memory no longer crashes Nexus.
When an NVIDIA driver update restarts Nexus, Diagnostics lists it as a Driver update restart on the GPU timeline instead of an app crash.
A song started from search in a browser or the Spotify app now shows its album art without skipping away and back.
The Lighting widget no longer counts too few lit devices after Nexus starts.
A touch panel opens on its first page after Nexus restarts instead of the last page it showed, and the blank page after the last one now shows on both the panel and its page in Nexus.
A widget's menu opened near the right edge of a panel stays next to where you pressed instead of jumping away.
On a round cooler screen's page in Nexus, the widget settings preview now matches the size and crop on the screen.
On a 4x4 Media widget on a touch panel, a two-line title no longer pushes the album art and seek bar out of place.
Importing Elgato profiles no longer stops at ten Stream Deck presets.
The pump ring of a wireless HydroShift II LCD-C now starts at the top of the head, so effects line up with it.
A cooler screen connected over USB, such as a HydroShift II, comes back as a Nexus panel after it is unplugged and plugged in again.
On macOS, a running Elgato Stream Deck app now shows as a conflicting app.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.24-beta.1...v3.0.25-beta.1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.25-beta.1...v3.0.25-beta.2

v3.0.25-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.25-beta.1 · 2026-10-09

Highlights

Lian Li HydroShift II OLED Curved. Its curved OLED becomes a Nexus panel you can fill with widgets, the pump and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, and the 35 edge LEDs play your Lighting page effects. The panel's Settings tab also tilts and raises the screen.
Stream Deck dials and touch screens. The Elgato Stream Deck +, Stream Deck + XL, Stream Deck Studio and Corsair Galleon K100 SD now work with Nexus, dials and screens included, and the Stream Deck Neo gets its info screen and touch keys. Set each dial to volume, app volume, microphone volume, brightness, a Monitoring readout or page turning, or give it your own actions for turns, presses and touches.
Radeon fan control. Nexus now drives the fans of AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and newer graphics cards on Windows, which ignored your curves before. When Nexus lets go of the fan, it puts back the card's own fan curve and Zero RPM setting.
Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8. The 8.8" screen works as a full Nexus widget panel, in landscape or standing on its short side with Portrait mount under Mounting on its Settings tab, and its 60-LED frame is laid out around the screen on the Lighting page.
Widget scale. More screen real estate: the HYTE Q60 and Q80, the Corsair iCUE LINK 5" LCD, the HydroShift II OLED Curved and the Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8 get a Widget scale setting on their Widgets tab. Large shows fewer, bigger widgets and Small fits more on a denser grid. On a Q-series cooler, Small turns the one-widget screen into a grid of widgets, and Nexus lists any widgets that will not fit before it changes the grid.
Font choices for panels. Pick a font for each panel under Theme > Text > Font on its page in Nexus: Lexend, Oswald, Tektur, Jura or Piazzolla. Every widget on that panel draws in it.

Lian Li

The HydroShift II OLED Curved can play a video you upload instead of the Nexus panel, and a Screen saver plays a video every few minutes to protect the OLED from burn-in. Pump follows motherboard lets the pump follow its motherboard header when Nexus is not controlling it, and when Nexus lets go the cooler returns to its own screen.
The HydroShift II LCD-C now works over USB like the LCD-S: its round screen becomes a Nexus panel, its pump, fans and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, and its pump ring plays your Lighting page effects.
The Galahad II LCD's pump and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, with the pump's full speed range that the motherboard pump header could not reach. Its pump-head ring lights up as a single-color zone on the Lighting page instead of staying dark.

Corsair

The iCUE LINK TITAN II pump and the iCUE LINK 5" LCD module show by name on an iCUE LINK System Hub, with their lighting, speed and temperature. The 5" LCD's screen becomes a Nexus panel, marked Experimental and named Corsair TITAN II LCD when it sits on a TITAN II.
Nexus pauses an iCUE LINK System Hub whenever iCUE is running, stops writing the moment another program talks to the hub, and waits for a quiet minute before taking it back. Writing alongside iCUE could break iCUE's saved profile on the hub and leave its fans dark.

Stream Deck

On a deck with dials, a Keys and Dials switch above the action list on the Customize tab shows the dial actions, and the preview takes the shape of your deck. A dial can stack several actions that a press cycles through, and holding an empty dial, or long-touching an empty spot on the touch strip, opens it for editing in Nexus.
The Stream Deck Neo's info screen shows the clock or the page number, set with Info Screen on the Settings tab, and its touch keys turn pages.
Presets live in the preset menu at the top of the device page, next to Recent Apps. Trigger with apps... switches a deck to a preset while one of its apps is in focus, replacing the App Aware mode, and the per-app starter presets open from Import starter presets... in the same menu.
Importing an Elgato profile brings its dial actions along, and an Open action with a Windows command such as calc now launches it. Keys can also take a Screenshot or Screen recording action, which opens your system's capture tool.

Panels

The rendering engine that draws cooler screens, panels and Stream Deck keys got a little faster.
Big screens Nexus draws on the PC, such as the HydroShift II OLED Curved and the Universal Screen 8.8, render at a lower resolution by default to use less CPU while keeping small text readable. Set Render mode to High resolution under Rendering on the panel's Settings tab for full detail.
On a panel without touch, such as the Universal Screen 8.8, you can now drag, resize and remove widgets in the preview on its page in Nexus, as on a touch panel.
Cooler screens Nexus draws on the PC start on a solid background instead of an animated one, which saves CPU, unless you picked a background yourself. HYTE Q-series coolers keep their animated default.
Page dots on touch panels are larger and stay at the bottom of the screen in landscape.
The Diagnostics widget is offered only on touch panels and the dashboard, since it works by tapping.

Cooling

While AMD Software's automatic GPU tuning is on, the Radeon fan's card on the Cooling page shows a warning triangle explaining how to set GPU tuning to Custom, and the fan follows Nexus again once you do.
When Nexus hands your fans to the BIOS because fan control kept stalling, it now takes them back after 5 minutes without a stall. If it happens a second time, the fans stay with the BIOS until you restart Nexus or switch CPU thermal guard off and on in Settings > Lighting & Cooling.
A USB cooler that stops answering, such as a HydroShift II, no longer holds up control of your other fans or trips the thermal guard. It shows as disconnected until it answers again, then picks its curves back up.

Lighting

Sony DualShock 4, DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers and the GameSir Nova 2 Lite are no longer taken over for lighting, which could take the controller away from games and Steam Input. They show as switched-off cards on the Lighting page; switch one on to light it.
A search button on the device list of the Lighting page and the fan list of the Cooling page filters the list by name, hub or group.

Widgets

A 2x2 Monitoring widget, square or round, can show two sensors, 2 side by side or 2 stacked, picked in its settings. The small readings of the 1 large + 2 small layout offer more designs.
AIO pump speeds appear in the Cooler category of widget sensor pickers next to the coolant temperature, so a cooler screen can show both.

Updates

With Update channel set to Beta in Settings > General, Nexus updates only to newer betas, so a beta install is never moved onto a stable release by an update.

Windows

Apps, files, folders and links opened from a deck key come to the front instead of opening behind the window you are in, Task Manager included.
If antivirus quarantines Nexus during setup, the installer says so, explains how to restore the file and add an exception for the Nexus folder, and lets you try again instead of showing a bare file error.

Linux

The installer warns when fontconfig is missing, which Stream Deck keys and LCD screens need to draw, and names the package to install.

Also in this release

Turning on Nexus Control for a device marked Experimental now asks you to confirm each time, and the conflicting-apps popup and onboarding mark experimental devices with the Experimental badge.
Device names carry their brand on the Devices page, device pages and top bar, such as Elgato Stream Deck + and Corsair Xeneon Edge. The sidebar shows the brand's logo instead and sorts devices by brand, and HYTE devices show the HYTE logo.
Nollie controllers are no longer marked Experimental.

Fixes

Turning Nexus Control on or off for Memory no longer crashes Nexus.
When an NVIDIA driver update restarts Nexus, Diagnostics lists it as a Driver update restart on the GPU timeline instead of an app crash.
A song started from search in a browser or the Spotify app now shows its album art without skipping away and back.
The Lighting widget no longer counts too few lit devices after Nexus starts.
A touch panel opens on its first page after Nexus restarts instead of the last page it showed, and the blank page after the last one now shows on both the panel and its page in Nexus.
A widget's menu opened near the right edge of a panel stays next to where you pressed instead of jumping away.
On a round cooler screen's page in Nexus, the widget settings preview now matches the size and crop on the screen.
On a 4x4 Media widget on a touch panel, a two-line title no longer pushes the album art and seek bar out of place.
Importing Elgato profiles no longer stops at ten Stream Deck presets.
The pump ring of a wireless HydroShift II LCD-C now starts at the top of the head, so effects line up with it.
A cooler screen connected over USB, such as a HydroShift II, comes back as a Nexus panel after it is unplugged and plugged in again.
On macOS, a running Elgato Stream Deck app now shows as a conflicting app.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.24-beta.1...v3.0.25-beta.1

v3.0.24-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.24-beta.1 · 2026-10-07

Highlights

CPU thermal guard. Nexus now watches the CPU temperature against its limit and raises fan speeds as it gets close, whatever your curves say. At the limit, or when the CPU heats up at low load (a sign of lost cooling), every fan runs at 100%, and if fan speed changes stop taking effect Nexus hands the fans back to the BIOS. It is on by default in Settings > Lighting & Cooling, where you can also set the CPU temperature limit when Nexus cannot read it from your CPU.
Lian Li HydroShift II LCD-S over USB. Plug in the AIO's USB cable and its screen becomes a Nexus panel you can fill with widgets, the pump, radiator fans and coolant temperature join the Cooling page, and the pump ring plays your Lighting page effects. The ring can also play its own built-in effects, picked from the panel's Settings tab.
Dashboard presets. Save your dashboard as a preset, like lighting and cooling presets, then switch between your presets, rename them or delete them from the dashboard's preset bar.
Sentry. Lock your PC from the Nexus phone app and get an alert on your phone if anyone touches it while you are away. Turn on alerts from the Sentry card in the phone app's actions tray, and see which phones get alerts in Settings > Privacy & Data. Sentry is available in the Nexus mobile apps from version 3.0.1, coming to the App Store and Google Play.

Cooling

Fans that could stop while the CPU is hot show a warning triangle on their card; tap it for the reason. Turn the warnings off in Settings > Lighting & Cooling.
After the thermal guard trips, fans whose setup could not protect the CPU move to a shared Thermal guard curve. A notice lists what changed, with Keep and Undo.
Diagnostics shows when the thermal guard tripped and how hot the CPU got.

Lian Li

Up to four wired Uni Hubs run at once, each with its own device page, lighting and fan channels.
On the Uni Hub Lighting tab, a port can play its own animation, the inner and outer rings of SL-Infinity and AL fans can play separate animations, and a merged animation runs through the ports in the order you choose.
AL, AL v2 and SL v2 hubs get their own effect lists and default colors, and SL v2 and AL v2 ports take up to six fans.
Every Uni Hub, Strimer Plus, TL fan and wireless chain can play its motherboard ARGB header through the sync cable.
The device page shows the hub's firmware version, and hubs pick their lighting and fan speeds back up after sleep.
Wireless chains of RL120, SL-INF Flex, TL Flex, SL V4, P28 V2 and CL V2 fans are named and lit with the right LED count. Each chain shows its firmware version, and a fan chain that follows the motherboard header says when its PWM cable is missing.
A wireless HydroShift II gets screen settings on the Screens tab: brightness, theme, text colors, and one reading or a cycle through several with how long each stays up. Changes show on the screen right away.
With its USB cable also plugged in, a Nexus widgets switch on the same tab picks what the HydroShift II screen shows: your Nexus widgets, with Manage panel opening the screen's own page, or the AIO's own theme and readings.
A wireless HydroShift II LCD-S pump ring is laid out around its square screen on the Lighting page.

Panels

Swipe past the last page of a touch panel onto a blank page to start a new one. On a panel's page in Nexus, the next arrow steps onto that blank page too, and adding a widget there creates the page.
A new Keep the mouse off the panel setting on the HYTE Y70 and on monitor panels such as the Corsair Xeneon Edge stops the mouse pointer from moving onto the panel, so you control it by touch only.
A panel that appears while Nexus is open, such as a HydroShift II plugged in over USB, shows in the sidebar straight away.

Dashboard

The dashboard fits the window: widgets that do not fit move below the rest and return to their place when the window is wide enough. This replaces the Auto-arrange switch.
A Marketplace button next to Desktop Widgets opens the Marketplace from the dashboard.

Also in this release

When anonymous usage data is on in Settings > Privacy & Data, Nexus also sends error reports so crashes can be fixed faster.
Notices across the app share one look in three levels (info, warning and critical), and color pickers line up on the right in every settings list.
Supported Devices goes back to search and the device table, with each device's capabilities as chips.
The CPU temperature history is named after your CPU model.

Fixes

On a HYTE Y70 Touch with several monitors, the mouse pointer no longer gets stuck on the panel after the monitors sleep or when the mouse moves during a touch.
Brands with two words, such as Cooler Master, Turtle Beach and Das Keyboard, show their full name in Supported Devices.
A wireless Lian Li chain no longer shows up briefly as a phantom device.
A panel's page in Nexus opens on the page the panel is showing instead of sliding in from the first one.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.23-beta.1...v3.0.24-beta.1

v3.0.23-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.23-beta.1 · 2026-10-05

Highlights

Color by value for every sensor. Power, clocks, fan speed, voltage, throughput and disk space now color by how close they are to their limit, not just temperatures and percentages. Pumps and coolant get their own ranges, NVIDIA GPU power scales to your card's power limit, and disk used/free scale to the drive's size.
Type reactive keyboards. Per-key keyboards can light up as you type: every per-key keyboard on Windows, and the HYTE Keeb TKL on every system. Right-click the keyboard on the Lighting page and choose Type reactive to pick from ten effects: Key fade, Ripple, Row sweep, Column sweep, Crosshair, Starburst, Heatmap, Sparks, Lightning and Trace. They play over whatever effect is running, and a live map of the board lets you click a key to try it.
Your Home Assistant dashboards in Nexus. The Home Assistant page and widget can show any of your Home Assistant dashboards, with tiles for sensors, scenes, scripts, buttons, covers, fans, locks and helpers. The room view gains search and hides unavailable and Home Assistant-hidden entities.
Lian Li Uni Hub synced to an ARGB header. An SL-Infinity hub can hand its fans to a motherboard ARGB header for smooth, full-rate effects: on the hub's Lighting tab, turn on Sync with ARGB header and pick the header its sync cable is plugged into. Each fan on the header is laid out like a fan on the hub's own ports, and turning sync off hands the fans straight back to Nexus.

Monitoring

Every sensor type has a sensible ceiling, so gauges stop pegging at full and Fixed ranges start from a useful value.
Free, Available and Life readings color in reverse, so a nearly full disk reads hot.
Fan sensors named Pump and temperatures named Coolant, Liquid or Water use pump and coolant ranges.

Home Assistant

Pick Rooms or any Home Assistant dashboard as the page's source; the dashboard's views become tabs.
A Home Assistant widget can show one dashboard, or pin a single view of it.
Locks unlock only from the detail dialog.
Collapsed rooms are remembered, unassigned entities come last, and tiles are wider.

Lighting

Type reactive has four backgrounds: play over your lighting, dim it so reactions stand out, keep the board dark except for reactions, or keep it dark and let each reaction reveal your lighting underneath. A keyboard with Type reactive on shows a badge on its card that opens the editor, and the HYTE Keeb TKL's Passive lighting section uses the same editor.
Device menus lead with Customize device and color tuning, followed by the on/off toggles, identify and select, then naming and grouping.
Port controllers that start every port at 0 LEDs (Thermaltake Riing, Quad and Trio, Corsair Lighting Node, the original Lian Li Uni Hub and similar) now appear with a card and an LED count editor per port.
Lian Li UNIFan SL120 and SL140 Infinity fans picked for an ARGB header, whole or as their inner ring or edge on their own, are laid out like the fans on a Uni Hub port: the inner ring centred on the fan and the edge across it.
In the LED map, clicking anywhere on a device row selects it, not just its name.

Cooling

Fan curve temperature and speed ranges can be set much narrower, down to 2 degrees on temperature and 3% on speed.

Lian Li

The wired and wireless device pages have a button beside their tabs: Set color & brightness on the Lighting tab and Set fan speed & curves on the Cooling tab. It opens the Lighting or Cooling page scrolled to the hub, with the hub highlighted.
The Cooling tab on the wired and wireless device pages lists each fan with its RPM and how the Cooling page drives it.
The wired Uni Hub page gains a Devices tab for the fan count on each port.
Uni Hub ports are numbered from 1 on the Cooling and Lighting pages, matching the device page. Saved names, curves and layouts carry over.
Custom effects on the wired SL-Infinity hub play at the rate the hub can show, without stutter or frames jumping back.
Wireless fans no longer drop lighting updates when several clusters play busy effects.
When the L-Wireless Controller's receiver stops answering, Nexus recovers it in place: Windows no longer disconnects and reconnects the dongle, and your wireless fans stay listed.

Vendor apps

A new switch in Manage conflicting applications, Shut down conflicting apps as they open, closes the apps you enabled in the list whenever they start, not only when Nexus starts.
If Nexus could not close an app, a notice says so, with End task.
The owner switch on a conflict card only shows a selection when the app list and your devices agree.

Nexus 2 import

The import brings every HYTE Y70 background and every Q-Series wallpaper you uploaded, not just the one on screen, and a Nexus 2 wallpaper playlist becomes a slideshow with the same interval.
The preview lists what each panel group brings over, including how many backgrounds and wallpapers come over and the slideshow interval.
Backgrounds come over in the order Nexus 2 showed them, newest first.

Updates

The update window no longer sticks on "Starting...".
When the update check fails, Nexus says so instead of "You're on the latest version", and still offers an update it already knew about.
An install that does not start retries on its own, and Download & install stays available after any failure.

Linux

The HYTE Y70 panel opens in Firefox when no Chromium-based browser is installed (as on Bazzite), and lands on the Y70's screen under KDE.

Also in this release

Supported Devices opens with a logo for every brand: pick one to see its devices. Search matches every word you type, in any order.
Widget previews in the add-widget picker show album art for the media widget and the Rainbow effect for the lighting widget.
The install folder includes the license and third-party notices.
The HYTE Keeb TKL icon is redrawn.

Fixes

Devices you turned on in Nexus stay with Nexus instead of being handed to their vendor app whenever that app's background services start (since 3.0.21-beta.1).
The purchases list on the Account page says "Not on this system" for an app that is not installed.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.22-beta.2...v3.0.23-beta.1

v3.0.22-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.22-beta.2 · 2026-10-03

Highlights

Build comes to the app. Plan an upgrade or a whole new system from inside Nexus. Build opens on the System Builder and lives under Show more and in search. The case you pick for this system is remembered and kept in step with your account on the website. A game's page in Frames has a Find upgrades button, and a benchmark result has Open in builder.
Lock a colour on single LEDs. In a device's LED map, select LEDs and pick a colour for them. They keep it over every effect until you clear them, and the device card, its colour strip and the canvas show which LEDs hold a colour.
Breathing with two colours. Breathing now takes turns between two colours, each set on its own wheel as one colour or a hue range to step through. Sharpness replaces Spread and sets how quickly it switches, so a single colour no longer turns into a rainbow across the device. A black second colour gives the classic breath, and new presets add red and blue, greens over deep teal, and blue, purple and pink with white between them.
Upgraded OpenRGB. Nexus ships a newer OpenRGB and talks to it over its latest protocol. When OpenRGB restarts, devices come back in a second or two instead of up to 11. A replugged mouse or keyboard lights up straight away, and lighting no longer freezes on some devices until OpenRGB restarts itself. The upgrade also adds lighting support for more MSI, Gigabyte, PNY, ASUS and ASRock devices and Kingston Fury DDR5 memory.

Lighting

Breathing settings you changed before this update start from the new defaults.
Speed sits right under the colour wheel on every effect.
When the colour wheel narrows to one colour, its handle is filled with that colour instead of hiding it.
In the LED map, the zone tools sit beside the Devices header, LED dots are grey, and a box selection keeps going when you drag past the edge.

Devices

Lian Li HydroShift II wireless AIOs on the L-Wireless dongle: pump speed in Cooling (locked by default, like every pump), coolant temperature as a sensor, and lighting for the pump head and the fans wired to it. While Nexus drives the pump, the AIO's screen shows your CPU and GPU temperatures.
Tryx screens can show GIFs from the built-in GIF search. An upload stays on screen until it finishes, the new media is selected right away, and the preview plays it. Presets now sit below your own media.
After you turn on Nexus Control, a device page shows Detecting device... until the device is found, instead of a "not connected" message.

Panels

A new Immersive background switch: turn it off to see your panel background through fullscreen views. The Backdrop setting is now called Rendering.
Fullscreen views keep text and controls clear of the screen edge. Touch panels show a one-time hint for closing them with a swipe down, and the swipe works from more places, including the media visualizer and a finger sliding in from above the screen.
On touch panels, a swipe up from the bottom bezel opens the actions tray every time.
Adaptive text colour now also covers split-flap tiles and LED and dot-matrix digits, so they stay readable on any background.
Media widget: a Show volume slider switch, and a Show output label switch (off by default) that names what the slider controls. At 4x2 the playback controls are centred.
Media visualizer: tap its left or right side to switch effect.
The Timer widget rings when the countdown ends, and its time blinks until you press Reset. The alarm is on by default with the Beeper sound for 30 seconds. In its settings you can turn the sound off, pick one of ten sounds (each plays when you pick it) and ring for 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds.

Account

My Systems lists the system you are on first, marked This System, with a Sync to account switch. Turn it off to take this system off your account.
The sign-in dialog has one title and a single line of text.

Also in this release

Support bundles include live fan readings.

Fixes

Installing an update could sign you out of your account.
Videos uploaded to a Tryx screen disappeared once Kanali started.
A Lian Li HydroShift II showed four extra wireless fan ports in Cooling, and fan settings on them could reach the pump.
Some RGB devices stayed dark after another device was added or removed.
Lighting settings for some devices, such as an NVIDIA Founders Edition card, could move to another device when RGB devices were added or removed.
A near-black accent colour picked up from the desktop disappeared in dark theme, and a grey accent turned sliders and icons red.
A tooltip could stay open on top of a dialog.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.22-beta.1...v3.0.22-beta.2

v3.0.22-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.22-beta.1 · 2026-10-02

Highlights

Build comes to the app. Plan an upgrade or a whole new system from inside Nexus. Build opens on the System Builder and lives under Show more and in search. The case you pick for this system is remembered and kept in step with your account on the website. A game's page in Frames has a Find upgrades button, and a benchmark result has Open in builder.
Lock a colour on single LEDs. In a device's LED map, select LEDs and pick a colour for them. They keep it over every effect until you clear them, and the device card, its colour strip and the canvas show which LEDs hold a colour.
Breathing with two colours. Breathing now takes turns between two colours, each set on its own wheel as one colour or a hue range to step through. Sharpness replaces Spread and sets how quickly it switches, so a single colour no longer turns into a rainbow across the device. A black second colour gives the classic breath, and new presets add red and blue, greens over deep teal, and blue, purple and pink with white between them.
Upgraded OpenRGB. Nexus ships a newer OpenRGB and talks to it over its latest protocol. When OpenRGB restarts, devices come back in a second or two instead of up to 11. A replugged mouse or keyboard lights up straight away, and lighting no longer freezes on some devices until OpenRGB restarts itself. The upgrade also adds lighting support for more MSI, Gigabyte, PNY, ASUS and ASRock devices and Kingston Fury DDR5 memory.

Lighting

Breathing settings you changed before this update start from the new defaults.
Speed sits right under the colour wheel on every effect.
When the colour wheel narrows to one colour, its handle is filled with that colour instead of hiding it.
In the LED map, the zone tools sit beside the Devices header, LED dots are grey, and a box selection keeps going when you drag past the edge.

Devices

Lian Li HydroShift II wireless AIOs on the L-Wireless dongle: pump speed in Cooling (locked by default, like every pump), coolant temperature as a sensor, and lighting for the pump head and the fans wired to it. While Nexus drives the pump, the AIO's screen shows your CPU and GPU temperatures.
Tryx screens can show GIFs from the built-in GIF search. An upload stays on screen until it finishes, the new media is selected right away, and the preview plays it. Presets now sit below your own media.
After you turn on Nexus Control, a device page shows Detecting device... until the device is found, instead of a "not connected" message.

Panels

A new Immersive background switch: turn it off to see your panel background through fullscreen views. The Backdrop setting is now called Rendering.
Fullscreen views keep text and controls clear of the screen edge. Touch panels show a one-time hint for closing them with a swipe down, and the swipe works from more places, including the media visualizer and a finger sliding in from above the screen.
On touch panels, a swipe up from the bottom bezel opens the actions tray every time.
Adaptive text colour now also covers split-flap tiles and LED and dot-matrix digits, so they stay readable on any background.
Media widget: a Show volume slider switch, and a Show output label switch (off by default) that names what the slider controls. At 4x2 the playback controls are centred.
Media visualizer: tap its left or right side to switch effect.
The Timer widget rings when the countdown ends, and its time blinks until you press Reset. The alarm is on by default with the Beeper sound for 30 seconds. In its settings you can turn the sound off, pick one of ten sounds (each plays when you pick it) and ring for 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds.

Account

My Systems lists the system you are on first, marked This System, with a Sync to account switch. Turn it off to take this system off your account.
The sign-in dialog has one title and a single line of text.

Also in this release

Support bundles include live fan readings.

Fixes

Installing an update could sign you out of your account.
Videos uploaded to a Tryx screen disappeared once Kanali started.
A Lian Li HydroShift II showed four extra wireless fan ports in Cooling, and fan settings on them could reach the pump.
Some RGB devices stayed dark after another device was added or removed.
Lighting settings for some devices, such as an NVIDIA Founders Edition card, could move to another device when RGB devices were added or removed.
A near-black accent colour picked up from the desktop disappeared in dark theme, and a grey accent turned sliders and icons red.
A tooltip could stay open on top of a dialog.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.21-beta.1...v3.0.22-beta.1

v3.0.21-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.21-beta.1 · 2026-10-01

Highlights

Third-party devices wait for their own app. A Corsair, Lian Li or NZXT device you turn on in Nexus now waits while iCUE, L-Connect or NZXT CAM is running, and Nexus takes it over as soon as that app closes. Stream Deck and Tryx devices wait for the Elgato app and Kanali the same way. Corsair and Lian Li hubs are never turned on for you, and on a fresh install these devices start with Nexus Control off and their apps left running.
Recover a HYTE device stuck in update mode. If a firmware update is cut short, a cooler such as the HYTE Q60 can stay in update mode with its fans at full speed. Nexus now spots this, shows a banner on the Cooling page and in Firmware Updates, and Recover reinstalls the firmware in about a minute.
Panel presets that follow your apps. Every panel's page has a presets menu: save the layout, theme, background and widget styling as up to 10 named presets, and use Trigger with apps to load one while a game or app is in focus, like lighting presets.
Widget text that reads on any background. Panels have a new Text color setting. Adaptive, the new default, gives each widget white or black text depending on what is behind it, so text stays readable over bright photos, videos and effects. Theme keeps the previous look, and Custom paints all widget text one colour.

Devices

A device card on the Devices page shows when the app that competes for it is running. Turning Nexus Control on while that app runs asks to end it first, instead of letting both drive the device.
Corsair iCUE LINK hubs: Nexus keeps its connection to the hub open between lighting frames and backs off when the hub is busy, instead of reconnecting over and over.
A monitor used as a panel and then turned off leaves the Devices list; add it again from Devices > Displays. The Corsair Xeneon Edge keeps its row.

Panels

Wallpaper Engine users (Windows): once Wallpaper Engine is running, a HYTE Y70 or a monitor used as a panel switches its Backdrop to Desktop, so the animated wallpaper shows behind the widgets. A Backdrop you already picked is kept, and a Y70 in Compatibility mode keeps the wallpaper.
Marketplace apps such as Aquarium fill the whole round screen of coolers like the NZXT Kraken instead of a smaller square inside it.
Marketplace apps such as Aquarium take about half the processing time to animate.
When a gallery photo covers the whole screen, the background effect or video behind it pauses on single-widget screens like the Q60 and cooler LCDs.
Calculator keys are borderless with larger labels and proper math symbols.
The swipe-up hint on touch panels has a longer arrow and a slower motion.

Profiles and account

Marketplace app data, such as your Aquarium, now belongs to each profile. A new profile starts fresh, and switching profiles switches the app's data too.
Export saves a readable .nexusprofile file that includes app data. Import and restoring from the cloud show which apps' data come along and let you leave it out.
Profiles go to your account only when you press Back up now. The button turns into a Backed up check when it lands, every profile shows the new backup time even if nothing in it changed, and a failed backup shows why.
Cloud profiles show when each was backed up and which system it came from, and the active profile is highlighted.
Your username can be changed once every 30 days, and the message says when you can change it next.
Computers are called systems throughout the app; your account lists them under My Systems.

Benchmark

A new run screen: one column per part rises to its score as each test finishes, then your Nexus Score counts up.
Results show your score on a banner with a Latest/Best picker, and a scrollable history of every run with its date and time.
Hardware lists wrap long part names instead of cutting them off.
Benchmark tools close with Nexus instead of running on in the background after a crash (Windows).

Updates

macOS and Linux install Nexus updates from inside the app, like Windows. This starts with the next update after this one, so this version is still a manual download on those systems.
The update badge appears even when an update cannot download in the background, and opens the update window.
After Download & install, the update window moves to the new version as soon as Nexus restarts instead of sitting on "Starting...".

Coming from Nexus 2

Nexus closes HYTE Nexus 2 every time it starts, since both drive the same devices. Onboarding has an Uninstall HYTE Nexus 2 switch, on by default.
Moving from Nexus 2 brings over the HYTE Y70's background (your upload, a downloaded preset or the default particles video), your primary colour as the accent, and widget opacity.

Also in this release

An app's Marketplace page shows what's new in the version on offer.
Installed Battle.net games are recognised for FPS history (Windows).

Fixes

An update that could not be verified left the update window on a progress bar that never moved and could not be closed.
Quitting Nexus on macOS with a dashboard open could take 30 seconds.
A HYTE device stuck in update mode showed up as an NP50 and a MiniHub.
The Diagnostics widget preview in the widget picker showed a GPU throttling warning.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.20-beta.2...v3.0.21-beta.1

v3.0.20-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.20-beta.2 · 2026-09-30

Highlights

Widget playlists for single-widget screens. HYTE Q60, NZXT Kraken and other cooler LCD screens can rotate through several widgets. Switch the device's Widgets tab to Playlist, click widgets to turn them on or off, drag to set the order, and choose the interval or shuffle. Arrows under the preview jump to the previous or next widget.
Live media backgrounds. Turn on Live background in the media widget to play a music-reactive effect behind it in the colours of the current album art, from 2x2 up to a new 4x4 size. Two new effects, Lava Haze and Lava Ribbons, also appear in Animate on the Lighting page.
Animated weather sky. Turn on Animated sky in a weather widget's settings to show the current conditions as a moving sky behind it. Clouds, rain, snow, fog, the sun and the moon follow the live forecast and the location's time of day.
Pick what Music Reactive listens to (Windows). Choose the sound output in Settings > Lighting & Cooling or from the Music Reactive button on the Lighting page. Lighting keeps reacting when you change your default output or unplug and replug it.

Dashboard and panels

New Auto-arrange switch at the right end of the dashboard toolbar packs your widgets to fit the window and keeps their sizes. It is off by default. The manual dashboard grid is now 16 columns wide.
New Blank widget for single-widget screens, so a background GIF shows with nothing in front of it.
Deck widget keys are always square. A custom key image opens a cropper instead of being cropped silently, and a transparent image sits on black on Stream Deck keys instead of a grey tile.
The Diagnostics widget shows the same four areas as the Diagnostics page: Storage, Memory, Cooling and System. At 4x2, each area opens its own tab.
Names under volume, mixer and brightness sliders wrap to two lines instead of being cut off.

Lighting and monitoring

A clock icon beside the master brightness slider opens the brightness schedule.
FPS readings can be coloured by value, with low frame rates in the warm colours. A new Reverse scale toggle flips the colours on any value-coloured reading.
The benchmark's Hardware card shows installed RAM and the peak CPU clock.

Marketplace

Each app's page lists its permissions: hardware control, network access, sensors, media and lighting.
Nexus checks every app download against the Marketplace's signature and removes an app version the Marketplace has withdrawn.

Also in this release

The sign-in dialog has a title bar and a close button.
Settings search finds more settings, including Restart onboarding, smart polling, Discord status, conflicting-app options and Account settings.

Fixes

Nexus no longer queries unrelated USB devices while looking for its own, which could interrupt some wireless USB headsets.
The full-page monitoring view gives each sensor a full-size tile again, so gauges are readable on the Y70.
HYTE Keeb TKL: recording a macro or assigning a key no longer fails and wipes the keyboard's key assignments.
Dragging a device over a collapsed group on the Lighting or Cooling page no longer crashes the page.
Lian Li wireless: animated effects no longer glitch for a moment as the next part of the animation loads.
Cooler LCDs such as the Lian Li Galahad II LCD and HydroShift show once on the Devices page instead of twice.
Panels set to follow Windows light or dark mode switch even while the Nexus window is closed, and desktop widgets recolour right away.
The benchmark's storage result names the Windows drive it actually tested, not the first disk it found.
Opening the media visualizer no longer switches it to a different effect.
Reloading a Marketplace app's page shows the app instead of an error page.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.20-beta.1...v3.0.20-beta.2

v3.0.20-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.20-beta.1 · 2026-09-30

Highlights

Widget playlists for single-widget screens. HYTE Q60, NZXT Kraken and other cooler LCD screens can rotate through several widgets. Switch the device's Widgets tab to Playlist, click widgets to turn them on or off, drag to set the order, and choose the interval or shuffle. Arrows under the preview jump to the previous or next widget.
Live media backgrounds. Turn on Live background in the media widget to play a music-reactive effect behind it in the colours of the current album art, from 2x2 up to a new 4x4 size. Two new effects, Lava Haze and Lava Ribbons, also appear in Animate on the Lighting page.
Animated weather sky. Turn on Animated sky in a weather widget's settings to show the current conditions as a moving sky behind it. Clouds, rain, snow, fog, the sun and the moon follow the live forecast and the location's time of day.
Pick what Music Reactive listens to (Windows). Choose the sound output in Settings > Lighting & Cooling or from the Music Reactive button on the Lighting page. Lighting keeps reacting when you change your default output or unplug and replug it.

Dashboard and panels

New Auto-arrange switch at the right end of the dashboard toolbar packs your widgets to fit the window and keeps their sizes. It is off by default. The manual dashboard grid is now 16 columns wide.
New Blank widget for single-widget screens, so a background GIF shows with nothing in front of it.
Deck widget keys are always square. A custom key image opens a cropper instead of being cropped silently, and a transparent image sits on black on Stream Deck keys instead of a grey tile.
The Diagnostics widget shows the same four areas as the Diagnostics page: Storage, Memory, Cooling and System. At 4x2, each area opens its own tab.
Names under volume, mixer and brightness sliders wrap to two lines instead of being cut off.

Lighting and monitoring

A clock icon beside the master brightness slider opens the brightness schedule.
FPS readings can be coloured by value, with low frame rates in the warm colours. A new Reverse scale toggle flips the colours on any value-coloured reading.
The benchmark's Hardware card shows installed RAM and the peak CPU clock.

Marketplace

Each app's page lists its permissions: hardware control, network access, sensors, media and lighting.
Nexus checks every app download against the Marketplace's signature and removes an app version the Marketplace has withdrawn.

Also in this release

The sign-in dialog has a title bar and a close button.
Settings search finds more settings, including Restart onboarding, smart polling, Discord status, conflicting-app options and Account settings.

Fixes

HYTE Keeb TKL: recording a macro or assigning a key no longer fails and wipes the keyboard's key assignments.
Dragging a device over a collapsed group on the Lighting or Cooling page no longer crashes the page.
Lian Li wireless: animated effects no longer glitch for a moment as the next part of the animation loads.
Cooler LCDs such as the Lian Li Galahad II LCD and HydroShift show once on the Devices page instead of twice.
Panels set to follow Windows light or dark mode switch even while the Nexus window is closed, and desktop widgets recolour right away.
The benchmark's storage result names the Windows drive it actually tested, not the first disk it found.
Opening the media visualizer no longer switches it to a different effect.
Reloading a Marketplace app's page shows the app instead of an error page.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.19-beta.1...v3.0.20-beta.1

v3.0.19-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.19-beta.1 · 2026-09-29

Highlights

The Marketplace is open. Add apps to your dashboard, panels and desktop from the new Marketplace page in the sidebar, starting with Aquarium. Installing apps needs a Nexus account.
Nexus accounts. Sign in from the profile menu to install and update your apps and keep your profiles in the cloud.
Smoother wireless Lian Li effects. Animated effects on SL V3 wireless fans play smoothly instead of stuttering.
Gallery playlists. Give each Gallery widget its own playlist, built on the Gallery page.

Lighting

Steadier lighting animations on Windows, and the Lian Li Uni Hub no longer repeats or skips frames.
Lian Li SL-Infinity: firmware effects play the effect you picked, single-colour Static and Breathing light every fan, and sweeps travel the right way around the inner ring.
Lian Li wireless: built-in animations start reliably, including on long chains and right after Nexus starts.

Panels and widgets

New date format setting (Settings > Appearance > Units) for clocks and every date in Nexus.
Twitch chat widget: new Clear chat button.
macOS: rotate monitor panels like the Xeneon Edge, with auto-rotation and touch that follows. Nexus tells you when macOS needs to grant touch permission.

Conflicting apps (Windows)

A notification with an End task button appears when a conflicting app opens.
Nexus also closes conflicting apps that open at sign-in. Choose which apps it leaves running in Settings or from a device's conflict card.
On new installs, Stream Deck and Tryx devices start with Nexus Control off.

Also in this release

Linux: Lian Li wireless dongles are supported, the SL-Infinity hub runs at full speed, and LCD screens use less CPU.

Fixes

HYTE Q60: a panel stuck offline after sleep recovers without restarting the PC.
Corsair K70 RGB PRO V2: every key lights up, not just the first few.
Nexus failing to start on some PCs is now fixed by reinstalling or repairing Nexus.
The Y70 panel, tray icon and overlay start after boot on PCs where the user name matches the computer name.
Installing or uninstalling Nexus no longer affects other programs that share the Nexus name.
Wallpaper Engine no longer counts as a game.
Panels without touch no longer show the swipe hint over and over.
macOS: turning off touch permission no longer freezes clicks.
Tryx Panorama: thumbnails match cropped uploads.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.18-beta.1...v3.0.19-beta.1

v3.0.18-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.18-beta.1 · 2026-09-25

Highlights

Updated OpenRGB with new devices. Adds ASRock RX 9070 XT Steel Legend Dark, Gigabyte RTX 5090 XTREME WATERFORCE WB, Gigabyte RTX 4070 SUPER Eagle OC ICE, KFA2 RTX 4080 SG 1-Click OC, Corsair K60 RGB PRO SE, Corsair Sabre RGB Optical, Razer Naga Pro V3 (wired and wireless), the Cooler Master GM34-CWQ monitor and more MSI Mystic Light boards. More versions of the Sapphire RX 9070 XT Nitro+, PNY RTX 5070 Ti Epic-X and Zotac RTX 4070 Ti Trinity are also recognized.
Large performance gains.
- A minimized Nexus window uses almost no CPU (about 6% of a core down to under 1% in our tests) and gives back its memory.
- Panel screens draw animated backgrounds only as fast as the panel can show them, not at your main monitor's refresh rate.
- Streamed LCD panels use less CPU, and a memory leak on them is fixed.
- The Lighting page stays light while effects are running.
- Nexus opens faster, and the Monitoring page shows data right away.
- Lower memory use on CPUs with large caches.
New monitoring layouts. Wide and large monitoring widgets can show big gauges over a row of small readings ("2 large + 3 small" and "4 large + 3 small"). Bar layouts can show a different device on each row with "Multiple devices", and the full-screen view now shows every monitoring graph on the page at once.
Lian Li animations across every fan. Runway, Tide, Mixing and Stack can travel through a whole Uni Hub SL-Infinity with "Merge all ports". Runway and Tide can do the same across a wireless SL V3 chain with "Merge all fans".
Static panel backgrounds in Focus mode. A new per-mode option shows a plain background instead of an animated one on panels like the Y70 while a focus mode is on.

Also in this release

The benchmark leaderboard lets you browse the whole board instead of only the top 50.
Benchmark results go to the leaderboard automatically only when "Help improve Nexus" is on. When it's off, you can upload a run yourself from your history.
Nexus reopens in fullscreen if you closed it in fullscreen.

Fixes

The widget list on a panel's Widgets tab scrolls instead of cutting off.
Tryx Panorama: the media library now lists everything on the panel, including videos and themes added from Tryx's own app, with thumbnails.
Widgets keep their state while you drag or edit them: Twitch chat, album art and running timers no longer reset.
The tray icon comes back on its own if Nexus's helper stops unexpectedly.
macOS: "Open" in the menu bar goes straight to the page you left, without flashing the home page first.
Turning off "Remember last page" now clears the saved page.
OpenRGB: Corsair K100 lighting is more reliable, the HyperX QuadCast 2 S and Gigabyte RTX 5090 XTREME WATERFORCE layouts are corrected, and Intel GPUs and RGB memory are detected more reliably.
Linux: RGB memory and motherboard lighting can work on AM5 boards (setup offers the kernel option they need), the service starts at boot again after an upgrade, panel screens work on X11 desktops, and settings stay in one place.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.17-beta.1...v3.0.18-beta.1

v3.0.17-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.17-beta.1 · 2026-09-24

Highlights

Lian Li wireless animations. SL, TL and SL-INF wireless fan chains and Strimer Wireless now play their animation library, with a Lighting tab per chain and an animation picker.
Aftershock Glacier Matrix support. The Glacier Matrix cooler LCD is now supported and can also run as an extra Windows monitor.
Y70 compatibility mode. A new display setting for Y70 panels that show scrambled or sideways on some graphics cards.
Media widget volume. Choose what the volume slider controls: Auto, the playing app, or a specific output device. Microsoft Store apps now show up in the mixer.

Also in this release

New rainbow breathing lighting effect.
Lian Li device pages gain a Cooling tab.
The sidebar remembers when you collapse it and how you order your apps.
Refreshed benchmark screens.
Frames shows resolutions as 1080p, 1440p and 2160p.
Conflicting apps can be managed straight from the warning.

Fixes

Lian Li wireless fan chains stay connected more reliably and re-sync after the fan count changes.
OpenRGB no longer takes over Lian Li hubs that Nexus drives directly.
The Lian Li Galahad II Vision LCD displays as a square screen.
"Select all" in Lighting includes devices whose lights are off.
The dashboard window opens at the right size on high-DPI monitors.
The media tile's progress bar keeps moving between updates.

v3.0.16-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.16-beta.1 · 2026-09-22

Highlights

Deck Modes. A Stream Deck layout is now a preset that belongs to your PC rather than to one deck, so the same layout drives your hardware and the Deck widget on a panel. Alongside the custom layout you build by hand there are two new modes: Recent Apps turns a deck into a live switcher for the apps you have been using, and App Aware swaps to a different preset the moment a chosen app takes focus. Start a preset from one of ten bundled templates, or share one as a .nexus-deck file.
Stream Decks work on macOS. Elgato Stream Deck hardware is supported on Mac, with the same key rendering, app icons, Recent Apps and App Aware you get on Windows. Bundled templates carry Mac key combinations, and Linux gains the focus tracking Recent Apps needs.
Your Smart Hub lights up again when Nexus is not running. A hub that had ever connected with Firmware Control off stayed dark whenever Nexus quit, slept or was switched off for it. Every hub now falls back to its own built in animation within about five seconds of Nexus releasing it, with no shutdown required. The separate Firmware Control switch is gone: Nexus Control is the only switch.
The NZXT Kraken Elite screen no longer glitches. The band of scrambled pixels that flashed across the bottom of the LCD, most often over busy or animated backgrounds, is fixed.

Presets are host wide and shared: build a layout once and point any deck, any Deck widget, or both at it. A preset automatically fits itself to whatever grid is showing it, paging overflow onto next and previous keys.
Recent Apps keeps its layout steady. Switching between two apps already on the deck highlights the one in front instead of reshuffling every key.
App icons fill the whole key face on hardware, matching the widget. macOS icons are cropped to their artwork so Mac and Windows icons come out the same size.
Recent Apps keys are labelled with the app's Start menu name rather than its process name, and a key you press shows the same pressed inset as a static key.
The preset toolbar gained Export and Import, a fit note explaining how a preset was adapted to a smaller or larger deck, and per key read only notes for the automatic navigation keys.
Excluded apps can be picked from a list so a launcher or a background tool never takes a Recent Apps slot.
Mode, app profiles and the preset toolbar moved to the right column of the Stream Deck page.
Keyboard shortcuts can now use punctuation keys such as comma, slash, semicolon and the brackets, which makes the usual preferences chords available.
Editing or deleting a preset repaints the physical decks using it straight away instead of leaving stale keys on screen.
A deck key tapped on a touch panel no longer stays lit afterwards.

Panels

The actions tray is four floating tiles, with theme and background split apart.
A touch panel shows a swipe up hand and a one time notice above the tray until you open the tray for the first time.
Holding a widget on a touch panel shrinks it slightly before the context menu opens, so it is clear which widget you grabbed.
The emoji widget and the processes widget can be placed at 4x2.
Panel text is rendered at the size it is actually shown, so scaled panels look sharp instead of soft.
The actions tray and editor sheets zoom rather than scale, keeping their contents crisp.

Lighting

Turning Nexus Control off for one Smart Hub port now hands the whole hub back to its firmware, which is how the hardware actually works. Previously ports you left controlled kept the hub in software mode and the port you released went black.
The Nexus Control toggle on a Smart Hub port card no longer appears to flip every other port card on the page.

Performance

LCD panels and Stream Deck keys are encoded with libjpeg-turbo, cutting the CPU cost of a streaming cooler screen to roughly a quarter of what it was.
Panel frame buffers are pooled instead of reallocated every frame, which removes the periodic memory collection pauses on high resolution panels.
The game capture pump runs on a tighter timer, smoothing frame delivery to the overlay.

macOS

Curated displays such as the Corsair Xeneon Edge are promoted to a Nexus panel automatically, the same as on Windows.
Touch input on an external touchscreen is routed to the panel it belongs to, so taps, drags, long presses and swipes land where you touch. Grant Input Monitoring to Nexus once and it stays working across sleep and wake.
Holding a blank Deck key opens the deck editor instead of dropping you on the dashboard.
Shortcut icons are read from the real application bundle, so aliased apps show their own icon.

Fixes

Windows: the "Display cable not connected" warning could stay on the Y70 card for a whole session while the panel was working fine. It appeared when you signed in more than a few minutes after the PC powered on.
Installing an app while a panel is live now places its widget immediately instead of silently dropping it, and uninstalling one clears its widgets from every panel.
A press on a lighting group's name starts a drag.
A video background on a panel no longer keeps the host PC awake.
The widget context menu fades in on monitor attached panels the way it does elsewhere.
Creating a preset no longer leaves it with no page to add keys to, and a preset with a name that is already taken gets a numbered suffix instead of failing.
Importing a Stream Deck package is validated more strictly, and a package containing keyboard or launch actions can only be imported from the desktop app.

v3.0.15-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.15-beta.2 · 2026-09-18

Highlights

Y70 Touch stays detected across reboots. When another display was plugged in but not showing the desktop (a VR headset, a TV switched to another input), Nexus could mistake every monitor for that one after a restart and lose the Y70 panel entirely, touch mapping and the Devices page with it. Each monitor is now identified by the display that is actually driving it.
GIF search works. Every 3.0.15-beta.1 install reported "No Klipy app key configured"; the key now ships with the app.
Media widget reacts instantly. Track changes, play/pause and artwork update the moment they happen instead of on the next refresh.
Uni Fan TL lighting. The Lian Li Uni Fan TL controller's built-in animations are on its device page: mode, zone, brightness, speed, direction and up to four colours.

Panels

Dragging a widget into a full column now makes room: the stack shifts in reading order instead of refusing the drop.
Right-clicking another widget moves the context menu there instead of closing it.
Gradient stops can dock to the panel accent and follow it when the accent changes.
The desktop dashboard has its own gauge gradient, saved with your profile.
Rectangular monitoring tiles default to the filled line again; the ring stays the default on the round tile.
In widget edit panels the selected size, layout, design and icon options wear the solid accent colour.
A panel that is rotated or resized no longer rewrites your saved widget order.

Monitoring

A second graphics card and the integrated GPU are their own categories in the monitoring widget ("GPU 2", "iGPU"), so their temperatures and loads can be placed on a panel.

Stream Deck

The widget editor folds the action list to a one-line summary once a key is bound, so the key's own fields are in view; Change reopens the list.

Fixes

Picking an accent colour from the search bar did nothing while the accent source was set to System.
The monitoring range toggle uses the same chips as the rest of the settings.

v3.0.15-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.15-beta.1 · 2026-09-18

Highlights

Brightness schedule. Master brightness follows a time-of-day schedule: a daylight-shaped default that dims through the night, an editor with one point per hour, and a marker on the slider showing where the schedule sits right now.
Backgrounds through the cropper. Every panel background import opens the cropper, with a fit switch for letterboxing, several files at once, and animated sources playing while you crop.
GIFs from Klipy. Browse or search Klipy and drop a GIF straight onto a panel background or into the lighting media library, cropped to fit.
Game Sync captures. The Razer Chroma, Alienware LightFX and Logitech capture shims now ship in the installer, so games that light vendor devices drive your Nexus devices too.

Lighting

Simple mode gains an animation row: seven sweep patterns under the colour palette.
On Windows, lighting starts within seconds of boot instead of up to half a minute.

Panels

Monitoring gauges colour by the reading, with a gradient you draw per panel (up to six stops; drag a stop off the bar to remove it). History charts use the same colours.
Mark one widget on a panel's first page as immersive on load; the panel opens straight into it.
TRYX Panorama: a slideshow over your custom video library with interval, shuffle and finish-the-video options. It leaves a switched-off screen alone.
Lian Li Galahad II LCD brightness applies immediately (community contribution).
Panels show a spinner while loading and one shared no-connection state instead of a wrong reading.
The Devices page explains what to try when a device is not listed.

Also

The Feedback row in Diagnostics & support opens Discord.

Fixes

Devices you disabled in Device Manager were listed as hardware problems, and Open Device Manager disappeared when nothing was listed.
Onboarding did not replay after a factory reset.
Lian Li hubs: a lighting mode change the hub rejected was shown as applied; it now retries.
MKV, AVI, WMV and MPG imports showed nothing in the cropper; they now keep the still preview.
A transparent PNG fitted with keep-transparency got black bars.
A Klipy pick that could not be used blamed the service instead of saying why.

v3.0.14-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.14-beta.1 · 2026-09-16

Highlights

Background slideshows. A panel background can now be a slideshow: the new Background tab takes a set of images or clips from your gallery, plays them at a shared interval with a crossfade, and lets you drag them into order or shuffle them. Long clips play through before the next slide.
One-click conflict resolution. Setup now has a Conflicts step before device selection. "Resolve all conflicts" closes every competing RGB app, turns off its autostart and, if HYTE Nexus 2 is installed, uninstalls it silently. Startup shutdown of conflicting apps is on by default for new installs.
Diagnostics you can shape. Any device can be switched out of the health check from its card, NVMe drives sit beside the overview, and one "Export support bundle" button in Settings and Diagnostics collects the logs (installer and update logs included).
Strimer Wireless. A bound Lian Li Strimer Wireless shows up as its own mapped lighting device, pre-wired for each cable type.

Lighting

OpenRGB is restarted on its own a few seconds after a competing RGB app exits, so devices it held come back without a rescan.
Game Sync finds games whose executable is very large or whose plugin DLL sits deep in the install tree, and says why it is idle when a vendor SDK is holding the shim slot.
Neon Grid opens in a blue and purple look.

Panels

Slideshow settings are shared between the Background tab and the gallery, with shuffle as a toggle in both.
Reordering media survives a touch scroll and keyboard delete; shuffle never repeats the slide on screen.
Every immersive view renders at the stock widget padding, so text and chrome keep their size when the gaps change.
The 4x2 Snake and Blocks tiles lay out beside their icon.
Preview cells no longer swallow widget controls until the widget is opened for editing.
Each Y70 panel variant is listed by name, including the GW and Ina panels.

Setup

Every setup screen scrolls as one block with the navigation and footer always in view.
The import step's button is always live: "Continue" with nothing ticked, "Import and continue" with a selection.
Conflicts and the Nexus 2 uninstall card sit in one list; the step is skipped when nothing conflicts.

Frames

Discover picks a resolution, scrolls as one page, and keeps its cards the same height.
Switching chips keeps the table that is already loading; an unreachable server is named as such.

Audio

Spatial sound can be switched on for the default output from the mixer's output picker, now tabbed by category.

Diagnostics and support

Per-device Monitor switch beside the status badge; the page tabs stay docked while the content scrolls.
The support bundle also packs update install logs, and Settings has "Open data folder" plus a /logs search shortcut.
The Diagnostics buttons are named after what they do: "Export report" and "Export support bundle".

Also in this release

Process widgets remember their sort column.
The sidebar's More apps strip stays open through a click.
The desktop widget host offers to install the WebView2 runtime when none is found.
The software update dialog is wider.
Every CNVS model is listed in Supported Devices.

Fixes

Simple cooling mode unlocked the GPU, pump and AIO fans when opened.
A Q-series panel left with a stale page after an update or reinstall is now rebooted instead of force-stopped.
The NP50 firmware animation reply was misread.

v3.0.13-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.13-beta.2 · 2026-09-13

Highlights

Lock a device to a static color. On the Static tab, lock any device to its own color or pattern from its card menu. It keeps that look through every other mode (Animate, Screen Mirror, Media, Game Sync) until you unlock it, from any tab. A locked card shows a lock beside its light bar; a pick aimed at it flashes the lock and the canvas says why.
Nollie controllers. A Nollie device page with per-board standalone lighting (the color or built-in effect the board holds once Nexus lets go), and the two Lian Li Strimer connectors as single ports pre-wired for the ATX and GPU cables.
Stack layouts and free rotation. Stacked devices can share their frame as Overlap, Parallel or Series, and any frame can be turned to any angle with a rotate grip.
Stream Deck sleeps with the PC. A deck fades to black when the session locks and wakes on a press, per deck, on by default.

Lighting

Locking is in the card menu ("Lock static color" / "Unlock static color") and applies to the whole selection; unlock also from the lock beside the light bar. Locks are saved with lighting presets.
The Static picker's notices ("No device selected", "This effect fills the whole device", "Static color locked") stay up longer.
Every focused frame on the canvas draws its LED dots, stacked frames included.
A silent OpenRGB daemon no longer freezes rescans, resume or lighting off; it is restarted instead.
Lighting that went dark after a driver install or a driver crash comes back on its own once the card is there again.

Devices

Nollie boards appear as one device entry with a Nollie mark; a simulated board on the Tools page walks the ports and the device page with nothing plugged in.

Panels

Widget padding moves the gaps only; widget text and the touch chrome keep their size. The slider now steps by 25.
Weather immersive view fits the Y70 cell at every padding.

Stream Deck

"Sleep when PC is locked" toggle in deck settings.

Also

Weather widget icon is the cloud-sun mark.

Fixes

Transparent PNG and GIF images showed black behind them in the gallery and the widget viewer.
Stream Deck brightness changes could land in the middle of a lock fade.

v3.0.13-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.13-beta.1 · 2026-09-12

Highlights

ARGB port chains. Pick what is daisy-chained on a motherboard header, Smart Hub, MiniHub, Nollie or Kraken port from a built-in catalog; each product gets its own card and LED map.
Weather page. Saved places, 24-hour and 10-day forecasts, air quality, UV, wind, sunrise/sunset, and an immersive panel view.
Videos in the gallery. MP4, WebM and MOV clips play in the slideshow.
Coolers self-regulate. Q60, Q80 and NP50 return to their firmware curve whenever Nexus stops driving them.

Lighting

LED map editor redesign: chain beside the canvas, drag to reorder, snap to grid, edits stage until Save.
Stack devices onto one canvas frame; groups nest two deep; "Select N devices" on every group.
Neon Grid Spread slider. Hide-uncontrolled is now per page. Names allow 40 characters.

Cooling

GPU fans grouped per card; the motherboard fan block can be renamed.
MiniHub cards show a steady RPM or "no RPM", never junk values.

Panels

Plasma is the default background.
Q60/Q80: the page says why a panel is unreachable and offers Repair; no more waking behind the lock screen; the Screen switch and Danger Zone always work.

Windows

The installer adds the WebView2 runtime when missing.
A switch turns Windows Dynamic Lighting off from Manage conflicting applications.

Also

"HYTE" on every HYTE device name; new SmartHub and memory icons.
Sidebar recents last for the window session (cap 2). Frames is in the Add app drawer.
Lian Li Uni Fan SL v1 hubs are driven natively (not yet verified on hardware).

Fixes

Cooling reset left fans on Manual with no preset curves.
FPS sessions on iGPU + discrete PCs uploaded under a joined GPU name.
Calendar 2x4 overflowed on the Q60. Colour-picker tile lit with nothing picked.
New canvas frames were wide strips; the marquee vanished over lit LEDs.
macOS/Linux: a logging deadlock could hang a profile reset. Gauge tracks were too faint.

v3.0.12-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.12-beta.2 · 2026-09-10

nexus-service

feat(conflicts): report and disable a conflicting app's autostart
fix(logging): drop shader-compile, wasapi and chroma-shim log noise
fix(logging): stop two log storms that hid a lighting bug report
feat(panel): start panels at full background and 70% widget opacity
feat(game-sync): keep the detected games list across a restart
feat(cooling, lighting): persist a show/hide switch for uncontrolled devices
feat(devices): set the backlight on the Lian Li AIO LCDs
fix(devices): address review findings on the HydroShift panel
feat(cooling): keep AIO channels out of the built-in presets
feat(cooling): keep GPU fans out of the built-in presets
fix(cooling): make Max a fixed duty, not a flat-looking Graph
fix(devices): register one panel worker per model, and drain the AIO's frame ack
feat(cooling): add the max built-in fan preset
feat(devices): drive the Lian Li HydroShift LCD as a streamed panel

nexus-web

feat(conflicts): a Disable auto start action under End task
fix(sidebar): scroll the APPS header with the app list
feat(panels): change-background action, curvier cards, new-panel defaults
fix(cooling): carry the board fan group through the group and drag model
style(lighting): tighten the Game Sync header gap and its comments
feat(cooling, lighting): group the board's own fans, and settle the button icon side
feat(panel): split the widget editor when the canvas is docked
feat(lighting): name the Game Sync pane My Games, standardise its actions
refactor(cooling, lighting): one hidden-fan predicate, and pass the eye state to DevicePanel
fix(cooling): hide disconnected fans on the same switch, restore EyeOff
fix(cooling, lighting): closed-eye icon, and the group badge left of the count
feat(lighting): keep the Game Sync games list across a service restart
feat(cooling, lighting): hide devices that Nexus Control is off for
feat(panel): stripe the micro sensor list and mark the edited bar
style(cooling): derive the Max and level-4 spin durations from --ease-slow
fix(cooling): finish the Max flips before full size, dip the scale through each
fix(cooling): snap the Max spin through its flips and shorten it
feat(panel): a backlight slider for the dimmable cooler LCDs
fix(cooling): stop the Max entrance duplicating the fan, and spin it up
feat(cooling): give Max a touchdown, and refill the bars leaving it
fix(cooling): use the tornado for Max
fix(cooling): use the flame for Max
fix(cooling, select): at-the-limit Max icon, drop the echoing option tooltip
feat(cooling): Max mode icon, honest mode labels, Hardware Control wording
feat(lighting, cooling): close the card menu with naming and grouping
refactor(cooling): use CheckeredFlagIcon directly as the Max mode icon
feat(cooling): add the All Max mode
fix(lighting, cooling): the consumers the loosened click gate reached
feat(lighting): link the Game Sync guide from the Game Sync tab
feat(lighting, cooling): number new groups, and band the card menu
feat(lighting, cooling): select a card whose state is off, and move it by menu
fix(lighting, cooling): a dragged group aimed at a card inside another group

nexus-rgb

build: register openrgb-headless as a submodule

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.12-beta.1...v3.0.12-beta.2

v3.0.12-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.12-beta.1 · 2026-09-09

nexus-service

fix(tests): skip the panel-bg transparency bakes when ffmpeg is absent
docs: drop references to the private workspace from code comments
docs(third-party): attribute the bundled tools and the GPL-derived protocols
fix(displays): review pass on the DDC/CI safety gate
fix(gpu): stop a failed GL context from fast-failing the service into a restart loop
fix(qseries): make the Q60 shutdown screen-off reachable, and close three silent no-ops
feat(lighting): add six animate effects, constellation plus five Nexus 2 themes
fix(displays): stop DDC/CI from hanging a monitor across a session lock
feat(cooling): keep the hardware name a fan rename replaced
fix(devices): an unplaced group is null, not pinned to the top
feat(devices): remember where a group sits on the rail
feat(cooling): let a fan group header carry its own name
feat(devices): store user-made lighting and cooling groups
feat(lighting): let a device group carry its own name
feat(panel-bg): keep transparent PNG and GIF backgrounds see-through
feat(lighting): rename lighting cards, keeping the hardware name
feat(lianli-wireless): say why the link is down, not just that it is

nexus-web

docs: drop references to the private workspace from code comments
fix(displays): review pass on the brightness-control toggle
fix(panel): address review on the kiosk seed-overwrite gate
fix(panel): stop the kiosk writing its seed over a stored layout
fix(lighting, cooling): a group anchored to a group, and drops on group chrome
feat(lighting): expose the six new animate effects
fix(lighting, cooling): right-click a group header, and one ring on a fan rename
feat(lighting, cooling): rename from the menu, drag a group by its bar
fix(lighting, cooling): reach the bottom past a group, and stop the gap sliding
feat(displays): per-display brightness-control toggle
refactor(lighting, cooling): drag groups the way dnd-kit means it
fix(lighting, cooling): hold the rail still while aiming at a group
fix(lighting, cooling): size the landing slot from the row being dragged
Revert "fix(lighting, cooling): hold the rail still while aiming at a group"
fix(lighting, cooling): hold the rail still while aiming at a group
fix(lighting, cooling): landing slot matches the gap, and stops flipping
fix(lighting, cooling): dragging a card downward would not reorder
fix(lighting, cooling): one drop marker, not two
fix(lighting, cooling): a group's anchor outranks its first member
feat(lighting, cooling): reset a rename, and deselect from the card menu
fix(lighting, cooling): nothing moves until the pointer is over a group
fix(lighting, cooling): rail glitches found by driving a real drag
fix(lighting, cooling): stop the drag-over render loop
fix(lighting, cooling): make dropping around groups predictable
feat(lighting, cooling): user-made device groups on both rails
feat(lighting): rename group headers, and follow renames into LED settings
feat(panel-bg): "Keep transparency" in the cropper, see-through backgrounds
feat(lighting): click-to-edit device card names
fix(panel): keep the round preview masked at full background opacity
feat(lianli-wireless): name the reason under the disconnected state

nexus-overlay

fix(overlay): retry the status a stopped service actually reports
fix(overlay): stop the failure page retiring on a recovered outage's deadline
fix(overlay): retry the dashboard failure page while the service is down
refactor(overlay): one state document, one reconcile, one idle rule

nexus-rgb

chore: drop the cold-start detection harness

nexus-gamesync

docs: AGPL-3.0 license, CLA, and contributing guide
chore: drop the System32 dev deploy helper

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.11-beta.3...v3.0.12-beta.1

v3.0.11-beta.3 Prerelease

v3.0.11-beta.3 · 2026-09-08

nexus-service

feat(lighting): add the Sharp Lines animate effect
fix(devices): the SMBus device is on by default, whatever else is installed
feat(apps): add a devices.list host action for sandboxed SDK apps
feat(conflicts): log competing apps at startup and as they open
refactor(overlay-host): one supervisor decides whether the overlay runs
docs(devices): cut the SMBus comments back to the facts they carry
feat(devices): list the chipset SMBus as a device, and let it be turned off
fix(peripherals): list the Q80 under its marketed name, THICC Q80
chore(data): regenerate the OpenRGB catalog and bump PawnIO modules for the upstream sync
fix(apps): close the review findings on the proxy and openUrl gates
feat(apps): reach our cloud API and open links from a sandboxed app
build: embed device firmware from outside the repository
feat(telemetry): emit lighting_effect_applied, with the mode the provider ran
fix(nollie): gate the HID sweep on Nollie hardware being present
fix(corsair): name the failed init step in the retry warning
fix(telemetry): omit unknown counts, validate widget types, survive a concurrent walk
feat(telemetry): usage census, dashboard-mode switches, onboarding completion
docs: high-level README, subsystem detail moved to docs/subsystems.md
chore: drop local-only dev scripts and the uninstalled pre-push hook

nexus-web

feat(lighting): surface the Sharp Lines effect in the picker
feat(sdk): expose the external-link glyph to SDK apps
fix(account): stop recovery from forcing the change-password modal open
refactor(panel): one record store behind identity, layout and theme
feat(devices): surface the SMBus pseudo-device and its section grouping
docs(apps): name the real bundled set in the picker gate comment
feat(apps): list user-installed SDK apps in the widget picker
feat(i18n): I18nProvider accepts preloaded translations
docs: drop comment pointers into the private workspace
docs(telemetry): lighting_effect_applied is live, and carries a mode
docs(telemetry): match the catalog to the hardened service behaviour
fix(telemetry-docs): correct the privacy claim, complete the property list
docs(telemetry): document the usage census and person properties
chore: drop one-off bench, drag, and screenshot harnesses

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.11-beta.2...v3.0.11-beta.3

v3.0.11-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.11-beta.2 · 2026-09-05

nexus-service

feat(monitoring): carry renamed fan headers into sensor lists
fix(lighting): colour trims survive a preset, and reach smart lights
perf(lighting): an untuned device pays nothing for colour tuning
feat(lianli-wireless): persist a user order for the SL-LCD screens
fix(lianli-wireless): imitate L-Connect on the air: 0..255 duty bytes, its tick cadence and frame layouts
feat(cloud): push a cloud/accounts topic when the active account changes
feat(lighting): per-device colour tuning trims

nexus-web

fix(lighting): one-field writes, and no Color tuning row it cannot scope
refactor(lighting): drop the Color tuning blurb, lead with the devices
refactor(lighting): state the tuned devices, stack the shift ribbon
feat(lianli-wireless): re-order the fan screens from the Screens tab
fix(account): follow service-side sign-ins by push, prompt for a new password once, keep Remove under Manage purchases
feat(lighting): Color tuning modal for per-device colour trims
feat(account): sign-in dialog from the profile menu, sign-out confirm, clearer recovery and sign-up errors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.11-beta.1...v3.0.11-beta.2

v3.0.11-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.11-beta.1 · 2026-09-04

nexus-service

feat(qseries): enumerate Nexus Link devices on both Q60 channels
feat(peripherals): list HYTE and iBUYPOWER first in the supported-devices catalog
feat(ibp): drive iBUYPOWER keyboards and mice natively; split them off the Keeb handler
docs(readme): link the MCP Server guide
docs(readme): AI Integration guide moved to its own docs section
fix(qseries): re-home qshell so the launcher chooser cannot resurface
fix(mcp): address code review findings on the history/diagnostics tools
feat(mcp): add history and action tools
docs(readme): describe the widened MCP tool surface and the real audit log
fix(mcp): fix rough edges in sensor and profile MCP tools
feat(mcp): add seven read-only diagnostics MCP tools
fix(qseries): push the host timezone to the panel and repair a dropped HOME
feat(ai): compile the local assistant out of release builds
fix(installer): name the MSIX for its payload and architecture
fix(installer): drop the MSIX write-virtualization opt-out
fix(installer): MSIX version tracks the bundled payload, not VERSION
fix(installer): MSIX package name to the reserved Store name
fix(installer): web installer drives the payload silently and keeps the desktop icon
fix(installer): keep the web installer's window up while the payload runs
feat(installer): Windows web installers, built once so SmartScreen reputation accrues

nexus-web

fix(settings): AI Integration hint links the MCP Server guide
fix(settings): point the AI Integration hint at the guide's new section
fix(tabs): restore the --bg active fill, override only in the immersive editors
refactor(settings): derive the AI hint's t type from useTranslation
fix(settings): group privacy rows for dividers, link AI hint to docs
feat(lighting): keep unselected frames on the canvas, dimmed
feat(ai): gate the local assistant behind DEV_TOOLS
fix(tabs): make the selected tab readable, and space it off its pane
feat(cooling): fan selection on the immersive Devices tab
feat(cooling): tab the immersive editor into Devices and Curves
Revert "feat(panel): simple-mode cooling immersive, and Static picks every device by default"
feat(panel): simple-mode cooling immersive, and Static picks every device by default

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.10-beta.4...v3.0.11-beta.1

v3.0.10-beta.4 Prerelease

v3.0.10-beta.4 · 2026-09-03

nexus-service

fix(linux): drive the Q-series panel and keep OpenRGB off the HYTE serial ports
fix(linux): hold a screensaver inhibit while the Y70 kiosk is showing
fix(linux): keep the Y70 kiosk loading and correctly registered on KDE
fix(lighting): broadcast the lighting topic after a zone resize and a device-map save
fix(build): exclude the new Linux-only sources from Windows builds
fix(monitoring): return every app in the window when the client sends no maxApps
feat(deck): resolve every monitoring category for a physical deck key
fix(linux): want the service from graphical.target, not multi-user.target
fix(linux): bring the HYTE serial devices and the Y70 panel up on Linux
feat(monitoring): persist the FPS overlay toggle in shared settings, on by default
feat(monitoring): push history tail, events and privacy sessions over the multiplex socket
fix(usb-phone): give the panel launch intent an action and category

nexus-web

test(rekey): wait on conditions, not turn counts, across the rekey suites
test(rekey): bound the fake-timer pump by real time and yield between rounds
test(rtc): drive the HTTP-tunnel rekey fallback by condition too
test(relay): drive the rekey-fallback tests by condition instead of fixed timer rounds
feat(monitoring): wheel-zoom the history chart and stack the day under the tooltip time
feat(panel): import a whole folder of background media
fix(panel): name the PC on the loading gate, and stop it hanging unbounded
feat(deck): offer every monitoring sensor category on a deck key
fix(monitoring): tell a no-match process search apart from missing data
perf(monitoring): stop refetching FPS sessions on every live-tail tick
feat(monitoring): show the FPS overlay by default
fix(monitoring): buffer in-flight pushes, gate trust-extension on following, decay disk carry-forward
perf(monitoring): drive the disk I/O rate chip from the history-tail push too
fix(monitoring): anchor the live-tail gap-fill on the pre-push last-known point
style(monitoring): trim comment history language and tighten the slack constant's doc
perf(monitoring): drive the live tail, events and privacy from socket pushes instead of polling
fix(store): review pass on the marketplace rebuild
fix(store): move Delete to the app page's top right
fix(store): box the capability strip, stop abbreviating the subtitle
fix(store): call it Marketplace, put the rows back in cards
feat(store): rebuild the storefront and listing on the App Store layout
chore(i18n): rename the Nexus Store to the Nexus Marketplace

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.10-beta.3...v3.0.10-beta.4

v3.0.10-beta.3 Prerelease

v3.0.10-beta.3 · 2026-09-02

nexus-service

fix(cooling): stop deriving off while locked fans are still driven
fix(relay): protocol-v2 in-band rekey stops sealed-tunnel replay
feat(deck): site icons for url keys, exe icons for game keys
fix(security): close the audit's high-severity findings
perf(monitoring): stop re-reading app-usage day segments on every flush and query
test(gallery): feed the resize tests a real JPEG instead of a synthesized one
feat(gallery): serve panel-sized image derivatives

nexus-web

test(relay): wait for the rekey crypto instead of a fixed pump count
fix(relay): protocol-v2 in-band rekey on every sealed client channel
feat(deck): show site icons on url keys and file icons on exe keys
fix(security): dispatch privileged deck keys by slot, lock phone authoring
fix(panel): bound the QR claim, and keep Retry off the claiming state
feat(gallery): pick the displayed image from the tile and keep it
fix(panel): the pair gate always has a way out, and never hangs
feat(gallery): request images at the size the viewer paints

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.10-beta.2...v3.0.10-beta.3

v3.0.10-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.10-beta.2 · 2026-08-31

nexus-service

fix(lighting): keep the excluded card named after the device
fix(store): a local-only purchase row has no store verdict
fix(lighting): scope the exclusion to the detector it disables
fix(lighting): denylist the detector, not the device name
feat(games): fall back to the installed icon for any game, not just epic

nexus-web

fix(store): a sign-in from the store signs the app in
fix(account): purchase date only, store link for every app, icon uninstall
fix(frames): size the art frame to the header image, not the old capsule
feat(account): split Manage purchases onto its own tab
style(focus): widen the chip's gap from the fullscreen toggle
fix(focus): stop the chip label churning its observer on every resize
fix(focus): stop hiding the chip label on windows with room to spare
feat(frames): show the store as its own mark, opposite the fps reading
fix(frames): keep an icon inside the capsule frame
feat(frames): retry failed art as the installed icon before the placeholder
feat(focus): name the active mode's subject beside the chip icon

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.10-beta.1...v3.0.10-beta.2

v3.0.10-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.10-beta.1 · 2026-08-31

nexus-service

fix(store): serve the SPA shell for store app pages
fix(catalog): brand MiniHub as iBUYPOWER, list the Y70 Touch panels
fix(store): one unreadable file must not void an app's size on disk
fix(lighting): don't let the probe re-latch the verdict the budget stopped issuing
fix(review): tighten the game art resolver
feat(store): require an account to install, and serve the purchase library
feat(games): serve cover art per game, from the store or the executable
feat(corsair): drive the iCUE LINK cooler LCD as a streamed panel
fix(lighting): stop treating a slow GPU init as a dead GPU
fix(review): address the focus-mode review findings
fix(games): read Epic manifests as JSON, not by substring scan
fix(focus): enter and leave a mode in seconds, not half a minute
fix(fps): stop every leaked Nexus ETW session, not just this pid's
feat(fps): keep every measured session on disk, gate only the upload
feat(focus): reset modes to the stock pair
fix(panel): re-stamp capabilities on a reused streamed record
fix(panel): read the mount orientation on the first frame
fix(toast): annotate the toast surface to the project OS floor
fix(focus): clamp stored mode names to the cap on read
refactor(focus): drop the master switch, cap mode names at 10 chars
fix(focus): a manual pick must not be swallowed by the master switch
refactor(focus): a trigger is the only activation switch
feat(panel): turn pushed frames for glass mounted upside down
fix(focus): error bodies must be a serializable DTO, not an anonymous type
feat(focus): turn Game Mode into a Focus category with editable modes
fix(game-mode): a game's launcher must not re-arm the mode after a quit
feat(game-mode): hold notifications and background egress while a game runs
feat(thermalright): give wide cooler glass its own panel surface

nexus-web

feat(store): give the storefront its own top-level path
fix(panel): drop the best score from the snake and blocks tiles
fix(store): a catalog without description must not take the page down
fix(store): bag icon, new banner copy, and a real subtitle line
fix(lighting): align the GPU shortcut with the picker it opens
fix(review): cover the art class switch and the failure fallback
feat(store): storefront redesign, account gate, and Manage purchases
feat(frames): point every game thumbnail at the service art endpoint
feat(corsair): iCUE LINK LCD panel branding and screen settings
test(lighting): cover the canvas notice action button
feat(lighting): tell the user the GPU is still coming up, not missing
fix(review): address the focus-mode and hover-guard review findings
feat(monitoring): refresh the fps session range while the overlay is on
fix(tooltip): dismiss a hover tooltip on any press, the trigger's own included
feat(ui): clear hover the moment a click lands, app-wide
fix(panel): declare the row size wide cooler glass lays out against
refactor(focus): compose the modal from DeviceModal and CollapsibleSection
refactor(panel): drop the mounting toggle hint copy
fix(focus): the modes modal was missing its box
fix(focus): the open chip must not keep the hover look
refactor(focus): boxed modal, no master switch, hover off while open
refactor(focus): manage modes in a modal off the chip, not the settings page
feat(panel): add a Mounting section for cooler LCD orientation
feat(focus): Focus chip, editable mode list, fullscreen page tabs
refactor(game-mode): one panel switch, always-visible chip
feat(game-mode): settings section and active-mode top bar chip
feat(panel): add the lcd-wide surface for wide cooler glass

nexus-overlay

fix(overlay): keep a URL from breaking out of the failure page's script
feat(overlay): show a Nexus failure page instead of Edge's

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.9-beta.1...v3.0.10-beta.1

v3.0.9-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.9-beta.1 · 2026-08-30

nexus-service

feat(strimer): support the dual 8-pin GPU harness
feat(panels): widgets on seven third-party cooler LCDs
fix(tests): drop the using for a namespace that never existed
feat(kraken): drive the whole Kraken line from one hub
feat(conflicts): manage which apps Nexus shuts down at startup
fix(kraken): drive each RGB channel with one report
feat(fps): proxy the cloud FPS estimate reads through the service
feat(fps): upload pending fps sessions to nexus-api
docs: correct the CSP rationale and what the installer actually pins
docs: the store installer and catalog proxy
fix(apps): hide an OEM-gated bundled app on non-matching hardware
chore: restore VERSION after the Nollie one-off build
fix(lighting): validate manual registrations before they reach the daemon
fix(kraken): review pass on the LCD locking and the dead edges
feat(lighting): register QMK and E1.31 devices, and import them from OpenRGB
feat(fps): add date-range delete endpoint for fps sessions
feat(kraken): the cooler's own animations, and an API to set them
fix(lighting): Nollie channel cards must report EnabledLedCount
feat(store): install a versioned app from the asset CDN
fix(kraken): re-send a per-LED write the cooler rejects
fix(fps): keep a fresh sub-1 fps reading out of the history series
fix(fps): sample the live fps calculator instead of counting presents
fix(kraken): give the LED zones a canvas footprint an animation can vary over
feat(fps): let users delete a single fps recording or a whole game
fix(kraken): keep the LED pipe free while the LCD streams
fix(fps): keep 0-frame seconds out of the fps history series
fix(kraken): address every LED on a channel, and map them as circles
feat(kraken): stream the widget panel to the LCD
build: assemble the bundled apps payload from source at build time
feat(fps): add GET /api/fps/sessions for the monitoring page's fps overlay
fix(fps): address review findings on the recorder, ring layout, and fps handoff
feat(apps): carry an app's single-instance opt-in on the installed listing
fix(fps): give fps its own ring files instead of widening the scalar ring
feat(conflicts): tag lighting cards with the apps that compete for them
docs: stop linking the private apps payload repo
fix(fps): stop GameCatalog blocking service boot with a synchronous scan
test(fps): cover the fps scalar series, routes, and MetricsSampler demand
feat(fps): add the session recorder and local routes
feat(fps): add the fps histogram bucket math and per-session binary store
feat(fps): add GameCatalog, splitting cheap enumeration out of GameSyncGameScanner
feat(fps): extend the helper focus payload with exe path and display details
feat(fps): wire fps demand into MetricsSampler and the history route
feat(fps): add per-second frame counter and fps history series
fix(nzxt): rotate LCD images host-side, and add the kraken panel surface
feat(nzxt): first-party NZXT Kraken support
feat(apps): carry an app's immersive opt-in on the installed listing
feat(lighting): native Nollie ARGB channel controller support
chore(update): prune the run-ota launcher with its installer
chore(update): drop superseded run-ota launchers from the staging dir
build: make the nexus-apps submodule optional

nexus-web

fix(styles): give line-height a token, and put the calendar back under the ratchet
fix(panel): stop the ellipsized labels clipping their own descenders
fix(panel): drop Dial from the frame-filling set, close two couplings
style(gauges): put the gauge caption on the type scale
feat(panel): make the ring the default monitoring design
fix(panel): let the round card clip a scaled figure, not the slot
fix(panel): stop the Hero small cells clipping their caption
refactor(gauges): normalize the full-circle designs to one outer edge
feat(panel): brand the Lian Li Universal Screen 8.8 in the sidebar
refactor(panel): scale existing radial designs to the round frame
feat(panel): lcd-round and lcd-square cooler surfaces
fix(panel): one edit string for both notices, at button size
fix(panel): scale the widget notices with the panel content zoom
fix(panel): keep the round full-bleed rule off flex gap, mock roundFitStyle
feat(panel): hero monitoring layout and round-glass rim designs
feat(panel): simulate the NZXT Kraken LCD
fix(panel): scale the edit-widget notice icon to the widget, lighten its scrim
feat(settings): a Conflicting apps section that manages the startup shutdown
feat(panel): make widget editing discoverable in the device page (NEX-6)
fix(ui): drop the Launch Discord and Launch OBS buttons
fix(styles): stop cropping descenders in the tight text styles
feat(panel): let the gallery fill the round tile edge to edge
feat(fps): show community FPS estimates in Frames Discover and the Steam library
test(store): cover the gate's release path, and title the gated view
fix(panel): centre round-tile content on the block axis
feat(store): keep the store behind DEV_TOOLS for now
fix(panel): keep round glass a circle, and size its widgets up
fix(store): dedupe sizes, pin the yes/no key meaning, correct a CSP comment
feat(store): spell out what a release offers on the app page
feat(settings): register QMK and WLED devices, and import them from OpenRGB
feat(settings): restructure local data store clear-data flow
fix(datepicker): stop Enter from bubbling to an ancestor modal
feat(fps): add ranged FPS history delete client
fix(panel): one size rung for the round tile, not two
fix(devices): review pass on the Kraken settings tab
fix(panel): let the round tile's fit survive the card's stretch rule
style(lighting): tokenise the mapping notice and clear the drift ratchet
feat(devices): the Kraken's own animations in its settings tab
fix(fps): align Frame Captures translations to the frame wording
feat(lighting): decline visual mapping above 300 LEDs
feat(fps): rename History tab to Frame Captures, FPS casing, card and spacing polish
feat(store): a real store page that installs and removes apps
feat(fps): enlarge the History card avg and match the session highlight to lighting
fix(panel): one advisory for the Kraken, and the true inscribed square
feat(fps): bridge small real-time gaps in every time-series chart line
feat(fps): drop the Sessions container card in the Frames game detail
feat(fps): Frames history card grid, delete flows, and a fixed FPS overlay scale
feat(panel): fit every widget to the round tile, and offer four more
feat(devices): fold the Kraken LCD into the cooler's own page
feat(fps): Frames app for browsing local FPS history
feat(conflicts): keep ended apps listed, marked terminated
feat(devices): give the Kraken LCD its own panel entry
feat(fps): FPS overlay on the monitoring history chart, off by default
Revert "feat(fps): add an FPS ribbon to the CPU/GPU monitoring history chart"
feat(fps): add an FPS ribbon to the CPU/GPU monitoring history chart
feat(sdk): ship the nexus-app CLI in the published package
feat(apps): render SDK app manifest icons, give Store its own page
feat(conflicts): per-app device list with a Nexus / app owner switch
docs: drop apps-repo naming from readme and sdk comments
fix(sdk): keep a widget alive and correctly sized when its fullscreen view closes
feat(panel): make the round tile fill the Kraken glass
feat(fps): local data store, FPS series kind, and Steam page FPS chip
feat(panel): let a widget declare it belongs on a panel only once
feat(panel): circular 2x2 widget size for the Kraken surface
fix(panel): render installed SDK apps on panel surfaces, and give them immersive
feat(devices): NZXT brand icon for the Kraken
fix(panel): custom simulated panel rendered 1.5x too wide
feat(devices): NZXT Kraken device page
feat(sdk): let an app opt into the immersive view, and never paint an unpositioned sprite
fix(lighting): give Static the immersive preview cell on panels
feat(sdk): add ui-layer + ui-sprite so apps can animate sprite art

nexus-overlay

fix(stream): give every raw frame its own buffer
feat(stream): raw framebuffer sink for panels that take whole frames

nexus-apps

build: assemble a source-free ship tree instead of committing the bundle
docs: reframe the readme as a private bundled payload

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.8-beta.2...v3.0.9-beta.1

v3.0.8-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.8-beta.2 · 2026-08-28

nexus-service

fix(lighting): stop the generic LampArray detector duplicating a board
data: regenerate the OpenRGB catalog for the upstream sync

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.8-beta.1...v3.0.8-beta.2

v3.0.8-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.8-beta.1 · 2026-08-28

nexus-service

test(cloud): make the suite pass in a build with no credential
fix(cloud): teach the offline client the per-machine profile signatures
data: regenerate the OpenRGB catalog from the shipped fork commit
fix(cloud): the conflict prompt must name the profile that actually clashed
feat(cloud): gate the hosted services on a build credential
feat(cloud): keep a backup after its local profile is deleted, and allow removing it
feat(cloud): back up only when asked, and apply an import immediately
fix(cloud): report a name clash on import instead of a generic failure
fix(cloud): a re-linked machine keeps its own profiles instead of pulling
refactor(cloud): import another computer's profile as a new local profile
fix(lighting): expose device structures for the HYTE Q-series, CNVS, MiniHub and NP50
fix(cloud): report what an import category adds, not the settings skeleton
feat(cloud): per-machine profile backup with cross-machine category import
fix(lighting): close the review findings on the lock-screen input wake
feat(monitoring): put per-process disk I/O on the process wire
fix(lighting): shorten the lock-input arm grace to 500ms
fix(lighting): shorten the lock-input arm grace to 1s
fix(lighting): drop the lock-screen wake window to 30s
fix(lighting): ignore input for 2s after arming the lock-screen poll, add its switch
feat(lighting): wake the lighting on input at the lock screen
fix(lighting): blank on OS shutdown by accepting SCM preshutdown
feat(helper): stop the window-set walk when Monitoring is gated off
perf(tray): stop writing a log line per mouse-move over the tray icon
perf(helper): stop asking DWM about every window on the desktop
fix(helper): log through HelperLog, not the helper's dead ServiceLog
feat(helper): drive the poller switches from a live-reloaded file
feat(helper): add per-poller disable switches and slow-pass logging
fix(update): stop one locked file aborting the whole OTA install
feat(deck): rework the Nexus device key actions
feat(tray): add Devices to the mac and linux menus, and fix the linux Settings link
feat(devices): let a device declare whether it has a page, and add a tray Devices item
fix(lianli-wireless): gate the bind keepalive on intent, not reported duty
fix(tests): reset everything a shared deck host carries between tests
perf(tests): shorten the driver-respawn negative window
perf(tests): cut the suite from 75s to 34s
fix(lianli-wireless): stop re-binding a converged fan chain every tick
fix(lianli): latch the streamed lighting frame per device
fix(lianli): lay the SL-Infinity outer rim out as a strip
fix(lianli): drive the SL-Infinity LEDs over the control pipe and map them correctly
fix(keeb): place LEDs by board grid, not the firmware scan matrix

nexus-web

refactor(account): move Log out out of the danger zone
fix(profiles): show the cloud refresh only when signed in, and spin it while reading
feat(profiles): refresh control in the Cloud profiles tab, leaner signed-out state
style(profiles): match the settings pages' tab and section spacing
feat(profiles): move cloud management onto its own tab
fix(profiles): keep a local profile listed after its backup is removed
Revert "feat(lighting): rule the swatch grid"
feat(lighting): rule the swatch grid
feat(cloud): hide the hosted surfaces in a build with no credential
refactor(lighting): trim the swatch grid to twelve hues and seven stops
feat(profiles): delete a cloud profile, and restore one that is gone locally
feat(lighting): picker on the touch surface, and swatches gain a vivid middle row
fix(profiles): surface the import name conflict instead of a generic failure
feat(profiles): split cloud profiles into this computer and other computers
feat(lighting): static picker canvas replaces the preset palette
test(profiles): cover row ordering and the inline backup stamp
feat(profiles): fold backup into this computer's rows, prompt on name clash
feat(profiles): list every computer's cloud profiles inline
fix(lighting): stop the LED map editor rendering a failed load as an empty device
fix(panel): scope the processes GPU card to the preferred adapter
fix(panel): restore the immersive scrollbar and drop a dataless I/O card
fix(lighting): restore the immersive swipe-to-close and the static custom colour
feat(profiles): manage cloud profiles under Manage Profiles
style(panel): size the processes graph-card labels to match their values
fix(panel): correct the processes preview width and immersive insets
feat(steam): configure Steam from the page itself when it is not set up
feat(panel): graph mode as the processes widget's immersive default
feat(panel): add a process-list widget
fix(panel): stop immersive mode pinch-zooming the whole page
fix(deck): unstick touch scrolling in the action picker, split Nexus into Lighting / Cooling / Y70
feat(deck): rework the Nexus device key actions
refactor(devices): read hasPage from the service instead of a local list
feat(settings): remember the last opened page
fix(lianli-wireless): drop the persistent CONNECTED badge from the device header
fix(test): address review findings on the environment split
docs(readme): note the per-file vitest environment opt-out
perf(test): drop the vitest run from 52s to 39s
fix(lighting): firmware-controlled badge, take-control menu, and typed slider commits
fix(picker): hold HSV as state so the color picker stops drifting and resetting

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.7-beta.1...v3.0.8-beta.1

v3.0.7-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.7-beta.1 · 2026-08-27

nexus-service

fix(qseries,lighting): close review findings before the beta cut
fix(lighting): restore the settle before the OpenRGB kill
fix(qseries): drive the backlight as the 42-LED panel it is
fix(lighting): drop the redundant Suspend blackout, close review findings
fix(routes): let panel sessions reach shutdown, restart and logout
fix(lighting): publish the blackout before Stop so the final black sticks
fix(lighting): drive the final black to hardware before releasing OpenRGB
fix(qseries): stop rebooting the panel on every host resume
feat(theme): persist the accent palette's custom-colour slot
feat(lighting): blank lighting and Q-series panels while the session is locked
fix(lighting): blackout devices on Lighting disable instead of freezing
fix(cooling,lighting): close feature-gate review findings
fix(cooling): gate the profile-switch fan release on the Cooling feature flag
test(lighting): cover Np50LightingFrameWriter gate-off with a connected hub
test(lighting): cover FeatureReconciler transitions and provider gate-off/suspend contracts
test(monitoring,diagnostics): cover gate-off no-op behavior for the four workers
test(cooling): cover CurveEngine gate-off tick, StopAsync guard, and re-enable redrive
test(features): cover schema v16 migration, preferences round-trip, onboarding flag
feat(onboarding): add featuresCompleted flag and POST /onboarding/features-complete
feat(lighting): 409 hardware-driving lighting routes and MCP tools while disabled
feat(lighting): gate KeebSettingsApplier.Apply and SleepBlackoutCoordinator
feat(lighting): gate the engine provider, RgbBridge activation, and 12 frame writers
feat(cooling): gate CurveEngine, auto-restore, live-sync, and hardware routes
feat(monitoring,diagnostics): gate history collection and diagnostics workers
feat(settings): add FeaturesSettings pillars + onboarding flag, gate/reconciler singletons
fix(cooling): pair a FanControl GPU curve to its vendor's core temp
feat(lighting): four fullscreen-first audio shaders, plus a capture demand
fix(mac): drop the mode-toggle column from the titlebar drag-strip carve-out

nexus-web

test(styles): record the current style-drift count in the ratchet
fix(clock): shrink the date line on 2x4 faces
feat(calculator): translucent button fills and accent-paired equals label
fix(panel): restore the abstract clock sweep on the Q-series WebView
feat(lighting): live drag and click-to-apply on the static custom slot
fix(settings): correct the Lighting-section-omitted test after the merge
feat(settings): toggles for blanking lighting and panels while locked
feat(settings): titled sections for lighting/cooling split, units, and features
feat(color): add a custom-colour slot to the swatch palettes
feat(sidebar): add apps to the sidebar from a left-docked drawer
fix(onboarding): move the re-enable delay off FeatureGate onto the toggle
fix(onboarding): make Continue's features patch fully authoritative
fix(onboarding): let the re-enable toggle animate before the page swaps in
feat(widgets): disabled state and page navigation for lighting/cooling widgets
fix(sidebar): suppress the activity dot on a disabled feature's row
fix(onboarding): top-align the features screen like the other onboarding screens
test(settings): add regression coverage for the features-patch pipeline
fix(units): address review on the Time format sweep
fix(units): localize the decimal readouts that bypassed the number format
fix(onboarding): restore Import's Back-to-welcome fallback
fix(search): only bloom the background when a search action fires
fix(sidebar): stretch the nav label so the off-badge pins to the row edge
fix(units): honour the Time format setting on every surface that shows a clock
fix(gates): tokenize weight, drop raw line-height, mock useFeatureFlags
fix(lint): allowlist FeatureGate's feature prop as a non-UI enum value
feat(sidebar): show a disabled glyph on a feature's pinned/recent row
feat(panel): two-line blocks HUD and a hard-drop that cannot land in the stack
feat(sidebar): pin Diagnostics by default for new installs
test(settings): update SettingsView test for the 5-tab restructure
feat(i18n): add feature-gate strings to all 16 locales
fix(panel): address review on the Weather widget i18n pass
feat(onboarding): add the feature-pillars onboarding screen and page gating
feat(settings): add feature-switch API contract and settings plumbing
fix(panel): translate the Weather widget in full and stop the day label bleeding
fix(tabs): centre tab content, keep the strip off the presets rail
refactor(lighting,cooling): square-dashed / panels glyphs, and a chip mode tab
refactor(lighting,cooling): mode tab is glyph + caret, with the counts beside it
feat(media): audio visualizer in the immersive player
feat(lighting,cooling): put Off and the simple/advanced swap behind one mode tab
fix(blocks): stop a sideways swipe from hard-dropping the piece

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.6...v3.0.7-beta.1

v3.0.6-beta.6 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.6 · 2026-08-26

nexus-service

fix(conflicts): rebroadcast on a pid change, and stop services first
feat(cooling): let a fan be marked not controlled, and make it stick
feat(rgb): log which bundled OpenRGB build is running
fix(rgb): stop resizing zones the controller pins to one size
revert(conflicts): drop autostart discovery and removal
fix(conflicts): report Killed from what is actually running
fix(conflicts): resolve every process of an app, and match a stub launcher
fix(devices): keep Nexus Control off once the user turns it off
fix(conflicts): name the services SignalRGB and NZXT CAM actually start from

nexus-web

fix(onboarding): disarm the conflict gate when Back reopens the lighting one
refactor(conflicts): one all-clear row for both conflict surfaces
feat(cooling): fan cards get the lighting card's menu and Nexus Control
fix(onboarding): subscribe to conflicts inside the multiplex provider
fix(cooling): keep the curve editor on the curve the selection wears
revert(conflicts): drop remove-from-startup
fix(conflicts): stop End task spinning forever when the app comes back
refactor(conflicts): drop the category, badge the PID, warn-tint the modal
feat(onboarding): give conflicting apps their own page

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.5...v3.0.6-beta.6

v3.0.6-beta.5 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.5 · 2026-08-26

nexus-service

fix(notifications): send once, and deliver the balloon's destination
feat(tray): deep-link diagnostics balloons, and restore the last route
fix(conflicts): find every autostart entry, and verify each removal
feat(tray): route an update balloon click to the update view
feat(conflicts): find and remove a conflicting app's autostart entry
fix(aw5): stop driving the Levelplay panel through a host suspend
feat(sensors): per-drive SMART read intervals
fix(migration): read FanControl config v275
fix(cooling): trace the MiniHub channel shape on change, not every 60s
fix(installer): retry a failed signing operation

nexus-web

fix(onboarding): stop treating a failed read as a settled answer
fix(update): read openUpdate during render, before the route redirect
feat(conflicts): follow the autostart list contract, and remember the page
feat(onboarding): conflict step at the end, and an escape hatch
feat(settings): drive health polling controls

nexus-overlay

fix(dashboard): join the token with the separator the path needs
feat(dashboard): accept a deep-link path over WM_COPYDATA
fix(logging): mask credential parameters in logged navigation URLs

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.4...v3.0.6-beta.5

v3.0.6-beta.4 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.4 · 2026-08-25

nexus-service

fix(installer): retry a failed signing operation
feat(audio): per-app volume mixer, endpoint switching and presets
feat(lighting): ramp LEDs to black on sleep, and blank on OS shutdown
fix(qseries): remove the new failure modes from the panel-recovery paths
fix(qseries): probe qshell presence instead of inferring it from am start
feat(lighting): fade LEDs out on sleep and OS shutdown
perf(sensors): halve the idle storage polling rate
feat(lighting): print zone resize bounds in the settled-device log
fix(cooling): drive temps feeding fan curves follow the live cadence
fix(sensors): keep drive data per-second while a client is watching it
perf(sensors): cap hardware polling at 1Hz and skip unchanged RGB writes

nexus-web

feat(panel): volume mixer widget
fix(devices): offer a retry when the panel-app version check fails
fix(lighting): simple mode claims devices when asked, not on arrival
fix(onboarding): the bulk actions stay on screen in every lighting mode
feat(onboarding): the lighting choice leads the screen
feat(lighting): cover shutdown in the LED blackout setting copy
feat(onboarding): choose Simple, Advanced, or no lighting at all
fix(onboarding): a deselected device stays deselected
fix(onboarding): stop rescanning once devices are in, and pin the toggle
fix(onboarding): the tested colour goes in the card's own strip
fix(onboarding): state the close as fact, and settle the lighting screen
chore(i18n): translate the import close switch and the light test strip
fix(import): app cards carry their own close switch; preset rail keeps its width

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.3...v3.0.6-beta.4

v3.0.6-beta.3 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.3 · 2026-08-25

nexus-service

feat(cooling): a FanControl import lands in a preset and takes effect
fix(cooling): match FanControl's temperature sensors properly, drop the notes
feat(cooling): user-saved cooling presets
feat(discord): Rich Presence over the local RPC socket
fix(lighting): serialize app-preset evaluation, widen focus matching
feat(lighting): log zone resize outcomes and zone/device LED mismatches
feat(lighting): refuse an app bound to another preset, drive off screen time
feat(cooling): show a fan's duty offset on its card, and let it be cleared
perf(cooling): hold the FanControl detection result briefly
fix(cooling): review pass on the curve modes and the FanControl import
feat(lighting): activate a preset when a bound app takes focus
fix(cooling): reject a sync curve that follows a fan it drives
feat(cooling): import fan curves and calibration from FanControl
feat(twitch): service-side Twitch chat reader + emote proxy
feat(cooling): trigger, sync and auto curve modes, and evaluate mixed
fix(lighting): make LightingEngine.Dispose idempotent
fix(build): stop shipping docs/, nexus-apps metadata, and mac bundles cross-RID
feat(lighting): blank LEDs while the host sleeps, on by default

nexus-web

feat(import): close-app switch, a hero icon, and a colour test strip
fix(import): hold the import screen still, and give the app cards room
feat(import): one onboarding gate, and one preset rail on every page
refactor(settings): two named leading-icon tiers, and icons across settings
feat(import): one import surface for every app a setup comes from
fix(cooling): drop the reset button from the preset toolbar
feat(cooling): undo/redo over the whole page configuration
refactor(settings): forward icon/iconLeading on SettingSelect and SettingSlider
feat(cooling): the import preview follows its switches, and says what it means
fix(cooling): match the wire's nullability on the create-preset response
feat(settings): Discord Rich Presence, and drop the Discord widget
feat(cooling): saved presets in the page header
refactor(cooling): call the built-in fan profiles modes, not presets
fix(cooling): real tokens for the import rows, and no dead entry off Windows
fix(lighting,cooling): place the advanced-mode CTA under the presets
chore(i18n): drop fanControlImport.entry, now unreferenced
feat(cooling): make the cooling import a source picker, not a FanControl dialog
feat(lighting,cooling): shared simple-mode notice, device-list bottom gap
fix(lighting): never read a failed app-binding save as success
fix(cooling): stop the import dialog naming itself twice
feat(cooling): explain every curve control, and make both imports a clear choice
feat(lighting): one row per app, and say which preset already claims it
fix(cooling): stop a cached curve from crashing the cooling page
feat(cooling): surface a fan's duty offset on its card
fix(cooling): review pass on the curve modes and the import UI
fix(cooling): settle the FanControl gate when its request throws
feat(lighting): bind apps to a preset from the preset dropdown
feat(cooling): translate the FanControl import, tighten its preview rows
feat(panel): standard buttons in widget settings, Twitch immersive view
feat(cooling): trigger, sync and auto curve modes plus the FanControl import
feat(panel): ship the OBS and Twitch chat widgets
feat(lighting): settings row for blanking LEDs during sleep

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.2...v3.0.6-beta.3

v3.0.6-beta.2 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.2 · 2026-08-24

nexus-service

feat(lighting): presets carry per-device assignments; restore dashboard modes
fix(build): keep installer/ out of the service assembly and output
fix(build): stop compiling the MSIX launcher into the service

nexus-web

feat(lighting,cooling): simple mode returns; one select chrome; device-card rework
feat(panel): give the widget catalog its own tile spacing
fix(panel): even out weather widget spacing across panel surfaces

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.6-beta.1...v3.0.6-beta.2

v3.0.6-beta.1 Prerelease

v3.0.6-beta.1 · 2026-08-23

nexus-service

refactor(drivers): decouple the host-exe driver switch from native AW5
feat(telemetry): report attached USB peripherals on the specs event
fix(qseries): apply the firmware animation live, not just to the MCU (NEX-62)

nexus-web

fix(panel): make the whiteboard drawer dismissals and clamp correct
fix(lighting): stop Static reading a shared canvas it does not have
fix(panel): keep the whiteboard tool panels inside the panel frame
fix(lighting): one preview badge wording across every mode
fix(panel): stocks change chips lose their pill tint on Chromium 83
feat(lighting): select all/none in every mode, canvas follows the selection
fix(monitoring): make privacy history an icon next to the events toggle
fix(panel): make q60-reachable styles Chromium 83 safe
fix(panel): address whiteboard review findings
feat(lighting): give immersive Static the page's colours and a device target
feat(panel): move the whiteboard toolbar to the bottom and add a close button
fix(app): blur the backdrop in glass mode
fix(panel): replace flex gap with margins in clock designs for Chromium 83
fix(lighting): stop picturing a Static selection the widget does not have
feat(sidebar): right-click a device row for Nexus Control and simulators
test(sandbox): own the SDK sandbox widget fixtures
fix(lighting): keep the widget's selections across a mode step
feat(panel): restore the whiteboard widget as a pinch-zoom canvas
fix(panel): give the physical Q60 its real content scale
fix(clock): keep the date on one line so every surface renders it the same
style(monitoring): scale up the fill gauge value and its picker icon
fix(clock): size Dots and Matrix to fill like LED, centre the Matrix colon
feat(q60): split the cooler settings into cooling and lighting firmware
feat(clock): vertical layout as a dimmable toggle, one date size for every face
feat(panel): default frosted glass off, describe the background sliders
feat(clock): rework split flap, add stacked layout and the Abstract face
fix(panel): keep the immersive overlay opaque in the see-through backdrop

nexus-apps

chore(apps): drop the example apps and the AW5 driver facet

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.5-beta.20...v3.0.6-beta.1

v3.0.5-beta.20 Prerelease

v3.0.5-beta.20 · 2026-08-23

nexus-service

fix(lighting): publish device frames once per tick instead of painting in place
fix(lighting): write each LED once per frame, so the Keeb stops flickering

nexus-web

fix(lighting,cooling): widen the card select target, cap the count badge

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hello-nexus/nexus/compare/v3.0.5-beta.19...v3.0.5-beta.20

v3.0.5-beta.19 Prerelease

v3.0.5-beta.19 · 2026-08-23

nexus-service

feat(telemetry): evaluate fleet specs on the boot pass only
refactor(preferences): drop the page-level dashboard mode fields
fix(aw5): levelplay clock bar track is nine segments
feat(aw5): drive the Levelplay load and clock bars
fix(aw5): per-bar notch tracks on the coolermaster panel
fix(qseries): gate panel reboot on the flash gate, not the install span
feat(lighting): a Static assignment can be a plain colour
docs(openapi): regenerate for the panel restart and factory reset routes
feat(qseries): add panel restart and factory reset
fix(lighting): rehydrate per-device assignments when settings change
fix(lighting): persist per-device Static assignments
fix(keeb): read the knob on its own HID handle
fix(keeb): drive brightness from events, not a settings poll
fix(keeb): stop the firmware fighting the LED stream
fix(keeb): stop the knob poll from stalling LED frames
chore(keeb): log the stream-time firmware animation pin
fix(keeb): hold the firmware animation on Static while streaming
fix(lighting): sample per-device Static from each LED's real position
feat(lighting): render per-device Static assignments in the engine

nexus-web

refactor: drop the page-level simple/advanced mode
feat(lighting): widget arrows switch mode, nothing else
feat(panel): let a deck widget key be cleared back to blank
fix(lighting): the discovery card wears the rescan icon and the tail width
fix(cooling): the pane header had no gap, so the badge sat against its title
feat(lighting,cooling): off-state guidance, gated colour browser, selection counts
feat(lighting,cooling): header controls, palette layout, remembered selection
fix(panel): key the reboot busy state on lastSeenAt, not the topic firing
feat(lighting): a colour palette replaces the flat Static effects
fix(tabs): a trailing control no longer makes its tab taller
feat(panel): add Q-series restart and factory reset controls
feat(lighting,cooling): preview badge, default-collapsed dock, bulk fan select
fix(cooling): batch curve assignment, and stop the dropdown flipping selection
style(lighting): space the LED strip off the count and menu
feat(lighting): send the whole Static look per device
feat(cooling): click-to-select fan cards, curve section split