winget install --id NortheBridge.LuminalShineAbout LuminalShine
Modern Self-Hosted High Performance Sunshine-compatible game streaming host for Moonlight clients designed for Windows 11 and Windows 11 Insider Preview.
What's new in 26.08.1
LuminalShine 26.08.1 LuminalShine 26.08.1 is a stability-focused release for the LuminalVGD direct-to-encoder path introduced in 26.08.0. It addresses the shared GPU-resource lifetime and recovery failures that could produce a frozen picture, brief continued audio, and eventually an unreachable host. It also corrects worker startup, requested display-mode handling, topology cleanup, and interrupted state-file writes. This release continues to bundle the signed LuminalVGD v0.1.0-alpha.7 / Build 23 package used by 26.08.0: - Driver version: 0.1.0.23 - Driver build: 23 - Protocol: 0.9 - Package SHA-256: afe890d0b0b94232b20eb0b6e3aac738e2f1ea73c66572541b9bb1b2e97d5afe The release build downloads the signed driver archive from the LuminalVGD GitHub release and verifies it against the pinned SHA-256 digest. Signed driver binaries and catalogs are not stored in the LuminalShine source repository. > Recommended update: Hosts running 26.08.0 should upgrade to 26.08.1, especially systems using LuminalVGD direct capture, HDR, high refresh rates, HEVC 4:4:4, or long-running sessions. Highlights Direct capture is decoupled from encoder lifetime LuminalVGD ring textures are no longer kept in an encoder-owned lifetime while NVENC or another encoder is consuming a frame. - Claimed LuminalVGD frames are copied into LuminalShine-owned mailbox textures. - The driver ring slot is released after the bounded copy instead of remaining coupled to encoder progress. - A stalled or rebuilding encoder cannot indefinitely stop the driver producer from recycling its ring surfaces. - Ring ownership, gene...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26.08.1 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.08.1 LuminalShine 26.08.1 is a stability-focused release for the LuminalVGD direct-to-encoder path introduced in 26.08.0. It addresses the shared GPU-resource lifetime and recovery failures that could pro... |
| 26.07.0 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.07.0: The MoonDeck Compatibility Release The Gold release of the 26.07 series, consolidating beta.1, beta.2, and beta.3. This cycle's theme is making LuminalShine a first-class host for handheld clients —... |
| 26.06.4 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.06.4 (Gold) Caution Although this release closes all current memory heap issues with Windows 11 Future Platforms, please update at your own risk as this is only against the latest builds at the time of wr... |
| 26.06.0 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.06.0 - Gold Release Tip This is a "Gold Release," also known as a release that is intended for publication and download as the "stable" version. Note LuminalShine's "Gold Releases" are signed by the North... |
| 26.05.0.19 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.05.0 RC 5 General - WiX 7 installer migration complete. LuminalShine's MSI is now built through the modern WiX 7 toolchain (replacing the CPack WiX generator + WiX 3 stack). A permanent CI gate asserts th... |
| 26.05.0.18 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.05.0 Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Caution This release ships CVE-2026-32253 / GHSA-ph75-mgxh-mv57 (Critical, CVSS 9.8) — an upstream cert-chain authentication bypass that allowed network-reachable attackers... |
| 26.05.0.17 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.05.0 Update Release Candidate 3 Hotfix 4 Important LuminalShine 26.05.0 RC3 is a substantial release to prepare for Authenticode. Please be aware that there are changes such as installing to %ProgramFiles... |
| 26.05.0 | Unknown | LuminalShine 26.05.0 Update Beta 7 Tip This is the final Beta version before we enter the Release Candidate Stage. Important Update to this version as soon as possible. It resolves a critical bug with pairings not being... |