v5.7.0 (2026-03-21)

Release Notes – v5.7.0

This release focuses on a major audio overhaul across all platforms, alongside improvements in Android Auto, testing, and CI.

Fix

• Fixed Android Auto phone call microphone uplink (correct HFP / decodeType handling)
• Fixed post-call media resume and audio state handling
• Fixed protocol asset resolution and file naming issues

Improvements

• Stabilized microphone capture and audio pipeline behavior
• Improved CarPlay lifecycle handling
• General protocol and asset handling improvements

Feature

• Full GStreamer audio backend on all platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows)

  • Unified audio pipeline across all platforms
  • Improved low-latency and real-time performance
  • Foundation for advanced audio processing (mixing, DSP, effects)
  • Bundled GStreamer runtime for all supported platforms

• Frontend unit tests

  • Added initial frontend test coverage

Chores

• Automated GStreamer asset builds for all platforms in CI
• Unified platform and architecture naming across build and assets
• Updated CI workflows and artifact handling
• Updated dependencies (Electron 41, Vite 8, ESLint 10)
• General CI, build, and codebase cleanup

Contributors

• @AS87-code

v5.6.0 (2026-03-14)

Release Notes – v5.6.0

This release significantly improves Android Auto integration and adds new firmware-related settings. It also expands Android Auto display compatibility, allowing LIVI to properly support ultra-wide and other non-16:9 displays when using Android Auto.

Fix

• Fixed duplicate ipcMain handler registration and memory leak @AS87-code
• Various test and CI fixes @AS87-code

Improvements

• Improved Android Auto video handling with adaptive cropping and scaling
• DPI now derived from the negotiated display resolution
• Better touch mapping for Android Auto across different display sizes
• Settings system now validates and sanitizes configuration values
• Reworked shared type structure and internal projection naming

Feature

• Android Auto ultra-wide display support
  Proper handling for non-16:9 resolutions and wide displays

• Android Auto Turn-by-Turn maneuver support
  Navigation instructions can now include maneuver PNG images

• Firmware feature controls in Settings

  • Navigation dashboard information
  • GNSS capability announcement to the phone
    • Forwarder not tested yet
  • Additional dongle feature switches
    These settings can now be configured directly from the UI

• Dongle tools improvements

Chores

• Migrated build system to Vite 8
• Updated to Electron 41
• Updated CI workflows for Node 24
• Dependency and lint housekeeping

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v5.5.0 (2026-03-08)

Release Notes – v5.5.0

This release introduces Android Auto support for LIVI, including automatic provisioning and protocol switching between CarPlay and Android Auto, as well as Android-specific media metadata handling.

Features

• Initial Android Auto support

  • Includes first-time provisioning support (no vendor APK required)
  • Automatic protocol switching between CarPlay and Android Auto
  • Proper Android Auto resolution and aspect ratio handling
  • Media Player now supports Android Auto

• Configurable UI zoom

  • UI scale can now be adjusted and stored persistently
  • Helps adapt the interface to very small or very high-resolution displays

• Rotary navigation support

  • The interface can now be controlled using rotary encoders

Improvements

• Reworked dongle information handling
• Refined in-app debugger
• Optimized logging

Fixes

• Fixed stale media snapshot on application start

Chores

• Updated to Electron 40.8.0
• Linux AppImage now uses FUSE 3 runtime
• General refactoring and codebase cleanup

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v5.4.0 (2026-03-02)

Release Notes – v5.4.0

Fix

• Fixed microphone selection logic

Improvements

• Extended USB dongle audio information (sample rate, channels, bitrate)
• Extended phone information (model, OS, link version, CPU temperature)
• General refactoring and internal cleanup

Features

• Added Device Manager:
  • List paired devices
  • Delete devices directly from LIVI
• Added Windows (x64) build
  • Provided as best-effort build
  • Uses FFmpeg (DirectShow) for microphone capture
  • Uses FFplay for low-latency audio playback

Chores

• Internal IPC adjustments
• Codebase cleanup and structural improvements

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Thanks again to @AS87-code 💙💛 for contributing to this release.

v5.3.0 (2026-02-26)

Release Notes – v5.3.0

This release introduces another major internal refactor of the main process — once again thanks to @AS87-code 💙💛 — and adds the new Telemetry Dashboard system*, including developer tooling for external data integration.

Features

• Introduced a new modular Telemetry Dashboard system
• Dashboards can now be enabled, disabled, and reordered dynamically
• Added the telemetry_sim example tool demonstrating how to push telemetry data into the app

Improvements

• Major refactor of the main process architecture
• Improved IPC structure and stronger typing
• General UI and layout refinements

Fixes

• Fixed various lint and type issues
• Improved audio stability on macOS during window minimize events

Chores

• Updated to Electron 40.6.1
• Upgraded ESLint to v10
• Dependency housekeeping
• CI improvements for faster and more efficient builds
• CI is now ready to build FUSE3-based AppImages

*The API is not yet stable, and the dashboard system still requires significant work, but it provides a solid starting point for further development.

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v5.2.1 (2026-02-18)

Release Notes – v5.2.1

This is a small maintenance release focused on a regression fix and minor internal cleanup.

Fix

• Fixed an issue where select/text values in Settings were not displayed correctly after the recent lint/type cleanup

Improvements

• Minor layout adjustments

Chores

• Updated to Electron 40.4.1
• CI migrated from npm to pnpm
• Build pipeline migrated from uraimo to Docker
• General CI and dependency housekeeping (faster ARM64 builds)

v5.2.0 (2026-02-11)

Release Notes – v5.2.0

This release introduces an initial Telemetry page, improves type safety across main and renderer, updates Electron, and includes several navigation and layout fixes.

Fix

• Synchronized macOS kiosk state correctly after fullscreen transitions

Improvements

• Cleaned up ESLint and TypeScript warnings in renderer
• Improved overall typing consistency across IPC boundaries
• Improved media artwork scaling on large screens

Feature

• Telemetry (feature-flagged)
  • Added initial Telemetry page

Chores

• Updated to Electron 40.3.0
• General dependency and internal cleanup

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v5.1.0 (2026-02-05)

Release Notes – v5.1.0

This release focuses on initial instrument cluster video support, iAP2 turn-by-turn navigation data parsing and exposure, dongle tooling, and input and IPC stability, with a solid amount of cleanup and dependency maintenance.

Fix

• Restored app restart on Linux after a regression
• Prevented duplicate active highlights during touch interaction

Improvement

• Internal settings synchronization moved fully to IPC for improved reliability
• Improved touch targets and visual feedback for the NumberSpinner component

Feature

• Maps (feature-flagged)
  • Integrated Maps video stream
  • Auto-hide navigation UI
• Navigation (feature-flagged)
  • Initial turn-by-turn navigation support
  • available via navigationData.json
• Dongle
  • Added Dev Tools installer for advanced dongle features
  • Automatic AndroidWorkMode switching based on detected phone type
• Input
  • Arrow navigation keys are now fully rebindable with safe fallbacks
• Debugging
  • Added a live debug console
• Configurable app start page
• Configurable page switching on events
  • On phone call
  • On navigation guidance
  • On stream start

Chores

• Dependency updates:
  • Electron 40.1.0
  • Electron Builder 26.7.0
  • Minor dependency bumps
• Removed unused socket.io-client and related code paths
• Release housekeeping and version bumps
• CI and build pipeline adjustments (node 24)

Instrument cluster video

Debug

Dev Tools

v5.0.3 (2026-01-28)

Release Notes – v5.0.3

This release continues the post-v5 refactor stabilization with small UX improvements, including support for screens down to 300x200px, and internal cleanup.

Fixes

• Prevented black screen on renderer errors
• Enforced a minimum window size in windowed mode to avoid invalid layouts

Improvements

• Centered status overlay in the content area to avoid overlap on small screens
• Improved internal UI logging for better diagnostics
• Reset Settings navigation to root when reselecting the Settings tab

Notes

• Includes minor dependency updates
• No breaking changes

v5.0.2 (2026-01-26)

Release Notes – v5.0.2

This release focuses on stability fixes and polish following the large v5 refactor.

Fixes

• Prevented invalid configuration writes caused by in-progress numeric input
• Added bounds validation to numeric settings to prevent zero- or near-zero window sizes
• Fixed Linux fractional scaling issues that could push the window off-screen
• Fixed invalid tsconfig configuration related to WebGPU typings
• Fixed a Linux in-app updater issue that could start a new instance before the previous one had fully shut down

Notes

• This is a maintenance release with no functional changes
• The updater fix above resolves a Linux-only issue where updating could trigger Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::4000