LEDSpicer Files

Release 0.7.0 — Major Refactor & Modernization

This release is a significant internal update focused on code quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability. While user-facing behavior remains largely familiar, much of the project has been modernized under the hood.

Highlights

• Build system modernization
• Migrated from Autotools to CMake (3.10+)
• Simplified build configuration and dependency handling

• Unit tests integrated into the build process

• Improved test coverage

• Added a comprehensive unit test suite covering core logic, animations, devices, transitions, and utilities
• Enhanced DRY_RUN mode to allow hardware-free testing

• Result: a more stable and predictable codebase

• Architecture cleanup

• Animations and inputs are now compiled into the main binary
• Only devices remain as plugins

• Reduced runtime complexity and dependencies

• Transitions system rewrite

• Legacy begin/end transitions removed

• New, more flexible transition engine with cleaner logic and better profile switching

• Animations and rendering

• Improved animation logic and frame calculations

• StepActor improvements and general optimizations

• Audio improvements

• ALSA audio fixes
• PulseAudio backend migrated to PipeWire

• General cleanup and reliability improvements in audio plugins

• Installation and tooling

• Added a new installation script for easier and more consistent setup

• Core modernization

• Migrated codebase from C++11 to C++17
• Improved serial communication, error handling, and logging

• Extensive refactoring and removal of redundant code

• Documentation & project cleanup

• Removed outdated examples and redundant files
• Documentation reorganized into a separate project

Notes

• Data files now use format version 1.1

This release lays the groundwork for future development by making the project cleaner, better tested, and easier to evolve.