Change Log

What's new with VuePilot

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App Release: 2.6.2 2nd April 2025

  • Major internal engine version upgrade
  • Major UI Framework upgrade
  • Improved interface elements
  • Adds ability to disable GPU acceleration for Linux systems
  • Adds ability to delay smart page code injection
  • Improved smart page injection detection
  • Adds apps listing screen for easy previewing
  • Rotations now support disabling individual apps and URLs to avoid the need to delete them

App Release: 2.6.1 2nd September 2024

  • Minor internal engine version upgrade
  • Fixes Windows display configuration issue
  • Fixes display listing ordering issue
  • Minor bug fixes

App Release: 2.6.0 8th August 2024

  • Major internal engine version upgrade
  • Improvements to Windows cache clearing mechanisms

Web Release 15th July 2024

  • Machines now able to be grouped together using "Machine Groups"

App Release: 2.5.2 16th April 2024

  • Support for timed hijacks
  • Support for CLI triggered notifications
  • Automatic display remapping and removal of old displays
  • Automatic display descriptions

App Release: 2.5.1 9th Febuary 2024

  • Rotations now support "back" and "forward" functionality for skipping forwards and backwards
  • Rotation cycle improvements
  • Power BI "Fit To Page" Improvements
  • Background color settings option for pages with transparent backgrounds that appear black
  • Internal browser engine version upgrade

Web Release 9th September 2023

  • Rotations page will now remember which rotation you were viewing last when revisiting
  • Added quick delete buttons to apps index page

App Release: 2.4.3 1st September 2023

  • Hijack now performs takeover of all screens attached to device
  • New "Always Start Maximized" allows for rotations to start in maximized window mode
  • Video app now supports HLS streaming with m3u8 manifests
  • Improvements to PDF app and local PDF caching
  • Improvements to countdown app initial rendering
  • Improved cache clearing
  • Minor styling updates for smaller screens
  • Internal engine version upgrade

App Release: 2.4.2 6th July 2023

  • Internal engine version upgrade
  • UI Fixes

App Release: 2.4.1 24th Febuary 2023

  • Internal engine version upgrade
  • Kiosk mode added
  • Minor styling updates and improvements
  • Updated icons for new apps

App Release: 2.3.1 13th September 2022

  • Fixes to hijack window priority and focus
  • Updated icons for new apps
  • Minor internal engine version bump

App Release: 2.3.0 5th July 2022

  • Major internal engine upgrade
  • Internal Chromium version upgrade
  • Cache clearing settings
  • Rotation reload functionality on rotations panel

App Release: 2.2.9 17th Feb 2022

  • Updates to Microsoft Power BI "fit to width" / "fit to screen" functionality
  • Enables remote license deactivation for online machines
  • Hijack z-index improvements now does not stop background rotations
  • Cleaner weather app icons

App Release: 2.2.8 12th July 2021

  • Fixes to Microsoft Power BI dashboards rendering
  • Fixes to Microsoft Power BI public report loading
  • Internal framework upgrades
  • Internal Chromium version upgrades

App Release: 2.2.7 8th April 2021

  • Improvements to Microsoft Power BI app automatic login functionality
  • Microsoft Power BI automatic login for all languages now supported

App Release: 2.2.6 15th Febuary 2021

  • Rotation app select panel search functionality
  • Improved online health checks (machines should be more resilient to droppping offline)

App Release: 2.2.5 4th January 2021

  • Support for HTTP BASIC Authenticated webpages via URL strings - More Info
  • Improved rotation URL parsing

App Release: 2.2.4 14th December 2020

  • "Smart Page" app functionality released - More Info

App Release: 2.2.3 26th November 2020

  • Support for Microsoft Power BI dashboards - More Info
  • Enables Microsoft Power BI dashboard automatic fit to screen functionality

App Release: 2.2.2 16th November 2020

  • Fixes issue with rotation control buttons not responding from the software interface

App Release: 2.2.1 9th November 2020

  • Support for forced offline remote license deactivation
  • Improvments to display configuration synchronization

App Release: 2.2.0 4th November 2020

  • Major internal framework upgrade
  • Chromium version upgrade
  • Various optimizations and refinements

App Release: 2.1.19 26th October 2020

  • Scheduling UI improvements
  • Screen identification improvements
  • Fixes an issue where by identical screens with identical model, serial and make are detected as a single screen

App Release: 2.1.18 22nd October 2020

  • Scheduling functionality
  • Adds the ability for pages in rotations to have one or more schedules configured

App Release: 2.1.17 8th October 2020

  • Registration failure handling
  • Improvements to encrypted licensense management
  • Fixes an issue where in certain situations a license may be activated but corrupt license data may be written

App Release: 2.1.16 20th September 2020

  • UI redesign & styling
  • No functional changes

App Release: 2.1.15 23rd August 2020

  • Improvements to offline functionality
  • Improvements to offline license management
  • Offline deactivation code generation

App Release: 2.1.14 24th July 2020

  • Support for Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Power BI automatic login functionality

App Release: 2.1.13 14th July 2020

  • Styling fixes / SVG updates
  • Automatic updater error handling

App Release: 2.1.12 19th June 2020

  • Improvements for Linux
  • Support for Snapcraft (snap) packages

App Release: 2.1.11 20th May 2020

  • Styling updates
  • Remote command stability fixes

App Release: 2.1.10 12th May 2020

  • Automatic software updates

App Release: 2.1.9 5th May 2020

  • Registration updates
  • Acvivation codes now available

App Release: 2.1.8 April 11th 2020

  • Chromium version bump
  • URL validation updates
  • Local file load support

App Release: 2.1.6 March 14th 2020

  • Automatic App authentication support
  • Display management bug fixes

App Release: 2.1.5 Febuary 25th 2020

  • Multi screen display bug fixes
  • Remote management bug fixes
  • Improved rotation synchronization
  • Improved rotation onboarding

App Release: 2.1.4 Febuary 16th 2020

  • Rotation interval timing improvements and bugfixes

App Release: 2.1.3 Febuary 9th 2020

  • Improvements to browser window z-index positioning. Rotation windows should always be at the front of all other windows

App Release: 2.1.2 Febuary 2nd 2020

  • Proxy server support / SOCKS5 / SOCKS4 / HTTP / HTTPS

App Release: 2.1.1 January 21th 2020

  • Licensing grace period, allows for expired license renewal
  • Improved automatic deactivation handling

App Release: 2.1.0 January 15th 2020

  • Multiscreen functionality. Control multiple screens from the one machine
  • Remote display management
  • Remote display identification
  • Display configuration synchronization

App Release: 2.0.9 January 4th 2020

  • Improved deactivation handling
  • Disables background throttling / improves online persistence

App Release: 2.0.8 December 22nd 2019

  • Powersave mode management improvements. Assists with preventing power saving modes putting screens to sleep
  • NTLM Authentication configuration option

App Release: 2.0.7 December 14th 2019

  • Improved rotation URL sanitization
  • Improved stability
  • Improved browser window error handling

App Release: 2.0.6 December 3rd 2019

  • Improved check in handling. Machines should be more resiliant to dropping offline.

App Release: 2.0.4 November 28th 2019

  • Silences errors for particular HTTP error responses
  • Adds ability to "force check in" a machine, speeding up the online reporting

App Release: 2.0.2 November 7th 2019

  • Improvements to URL validation handling for URLs containing special character sets

App Release: 2.0.1 October 20th 2019

  • Activation improvements
  • General stability fixes