v2.2.0

2.2.0 (2025-10-21)

Features

• allow setting range for hue color source (98c5cb8)
• describe the things the debug mode does (2d56bc7)
• smoother visualizer when the widget is taller than 100px (2787335)

Bug Fixes

• widget resize creating multiple cava instances in fallback mode (fec989f)

v2.1.0

2.1.0 (2025-10-12)

Features

• add reverse option to hue and custom color list (401ee36)
• improve logging and debug mode (a347cf2)

Bug Fixes

• bar width changes bar count in wave style (6198154)
• don't allow gap of 0 for wave style (8aa8000)
• multiple cava restarts during initialization or resize (301c9a7)
• wait canvas context to be available (8144147)
• zombie cava process after stop/restart (3093f83)

v2.0.0

2.0.0 (2025-09-21)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• If you are using the equalizer feature you will need to enable it in the CAVA tab

Features

• add option to disable EQ and disable it by default (f6306b0)
• allow to disable widget left click (b247034)
• cava>=0.10.6 pipewire settings [input] virtual, active, remix, channel (86d86e1)
• raise maximum value for bar width and gap (42945e0)

Bug Fixes

• stop cava from right click menu not working (3d13183)

v1.2.0

1.2.0 (2025-08-07)

Features

• button to copy support information (ca4cc45)
• stop & start cava from widget settings (f110161)

Bug Fixes

• read-only propery error (76111fe)

v1.1.0

1.1.0 (2025-07-19)

Features

• control cava sleep mode (6cba407)

Bug Fixes

• source names with spaces getting truncated (a7d861d)
• widget resize starting multiple instances of cava in fallback mode (98453a4)

v1.0.0

1.0.0 (2025-07-15)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• make visualizer fit widget fixed/auto width/height
• Number of bars option has been disabled for the current visualizer styles (bars, wave), it's now is automatically calculated based on the widget width or height

Features

• add option to disable widget tooltip (330d335)
• allow to change visualizer orientation (a016c73)
• control cava [input] sample_rate, sample_bits, channels, autoconnect (a6f7617)
• control cava [output] channels, mono channel, reverse frequencies (094b6ab)
• control cava equalizer (63570e9)
• control cava frequency range (4e0ec29)
• control cava input method and source (e2f5a87)
• control cava sensitivity (4582842)
• make time to hide when idle configurable (773616b)
• make visualizer fit widget fixed/auto width/height (a256305)
• show ProcessMonitor loading errors (37dfdba)
• support vertical panels (a256305)

Bug Fixes

• use versionless QML imports (85a5244)

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v0.4.0

0.4.0 (2025-06-30)

Project name is now Kurve

AUR package: plasma6-applets-kurve
KDE Store (same url as before): https://store.kde.org/p/2299506

Sorry for the noise Arch people...

Features

• rename project to 'Kurve' (e9757f7)
• split configuration into tabs (a8be687)

Bug Fixes

• typo in monstercat configuration option (bb605fe)

v0.3.1

0.3.1 (2025-06-29)

Miscellaneous Chores

• release 0.3.1 (8d243a5)

v0.3.0

0.3.0 (2025-06-29)

Now available in the KDE Store and Arch Linux User Repository (AUR)

Features

• debug mode (86b7698)
• display errors and support information in widget popup (90b9df8)
• fallback to WebSocketServer if C++ plugin is not found (57716cb)
• show if cava is running and allow stopping/starting it (2993dab)
• update default configuration (1edb732)
• wave fill color (87d8b4d)

Bug Fixes

• blurry bars (b5be93a)
• don't force WebSocketServer fallback by default (8c17b0a)
• force a minimum of two bars for wave and 1 for bar width (b7f60e7)
• improve wave pixel alignment (b827d52)
• inverted gradient direction (ab360ae)
• missing executable permission for the fallback commandMonitor (3f99eb8)

Performance Improvements

• create gradient once instead of on each paint (4197892)

Support the development

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