[dispcalGUI-news] DisplayCAL 3.8.8 released

[Florian H. <fl...@di...>]

Changed in this release:

* [Enhancement] Detect and warn about malformed colorimeter corrections
   (e.g. from non-official sources). Move them to the trash automatically
   if they were previously (manually) installed.
* [Enhancement] Always enumerate instruments on application startup if
   more than one instrument was detected the last time the application
   was used (cross-platform consistency).
* [Enhancement] When prompting for instrument calibration, display the
   just now detected instrument name instead of the previously enumerated
   name (the latter might be stale if you forgot to refresh after
   changing connected instruments).
* [Enhancement] Use a slightly improved smoothing method when creating
   high resolution PCS to device tables.
* [Enhancement] Increase automatic PCS to device table resolution for
   L*a*b* LUT profiles to 45x45x45 if using smoothing.
* [Enhancement] [UI] Only auto-close profile/3D LUT installation dialog
   after a successful installation.
* [Enhancement] Don’t auto-close madTPG after 3D LUT installation.
* [Enhancement] macOS: Warn if a black luminance calibration target is
   set.
* [Enhancement] Profile loader (Windows): Use a minimally faster method
   to check for other running applications.

Fixed in this release:

* [Minor] madVR 3D LUT generation: Always write D65 white to 3D LUT
   input primaries metadata so madVR does not attempt to correct
   whitepoint differences on its own when using a custom whitepoint (the
   3D LUT itself will map the custom whitepoint correctly).
* [Minor] madVR 3D LUT installation: Don’t attempt to install 3D LUTs
   with unsupported input primaries metadata (i.e. not Rec. 709, SMPTE C,
   EBU/PAL, Rec. 2020 or DCI P3) as madVR will overwrite the metadata
   depending on the 3D LUT install slot. Such 3D LUTs should only be
   assigned manually in madVR instead.
* [Trivial] [UI] When loading settings, always enable the 3D LUT tab if
   the display is virtual (consistent with display selection behavior).
* [Trivial] Also apply black point correction when creating a matrix
   profile without black point compensation (consistency).
* [Trivial] Do not create swapped matrix fallback tags for XYZ LUT
   profiles when using the alternate forward profiler and the used
   ArgyllCMS version is >= 2.1 (be consistent with ArgyllCMS).
* [Trivial] madVR 3D LUT generation: Accept negative values for input
   primaries metadata.
* [Trivial] madVR 3D LUT installation (Linux, macOS): Send the 3D LUT in
   chunks and increase the timeout to prevent the installation failing
   over a slow network (e.g. WiFi).
* [Cosmetic] [UI] Profile loader (Windows): Prevent a stale tray icon
   remaining (until mouse over) in some rare cases after exiting the
   profile loader.
* [Trivial] Profile loader (Windows 7): Skip incomplete display
   configuration registry entries.

-- 
Florian Höch
https://displaycal.net