4.9.5 - Lunar — ContextQMD

Features

Clock Mode: schedule brightness and contrast presets based on sunset/sunrise/noon or a specific time
Dark Overlay dimming for displays that don't support Gamma or DDC (DisplayLink and Sidecar usually)
Curve Learning now works with external brightness changes if Refresh values from monitor settings is enabled in Advanced settings
- Contrast does nothing when the overlay is used
Sensor Mode can now use the internal light sensor of the M1 MacBooks
Add option to disable checking for DDC responsiveness in Advanced settings
Display filters for deciding what to show in the Preferences window:
- Virtual displays
- AirPlay displays
- Projectors
- Disconnected monitors

Improve dynamic gain on the TSL2591 external light sensor by checking for overflows
- You will need to reinstall the ambient light sensor firmware to get this improvement
Improve Gamma smooth transitions by removing unnecessary animations and allowing it to appear on Mission Control
- Thanks to @waydabber for finding out this edge case and for suggesting that the window needs to be set as stationary to fix it
Recover Facelight state after screen sleep/wake
Improve smooth and slow transitions for Apple vendored displays that can use Native Controls
Reset audio device cache on wake and on display reconnection to avoid volume controls not working in some cases
Do network requests asynchronously where possible to improve responsiveness and fix some memory leaks
Simplify menu bar icon menu

Fix crash when the DDC faults storage was accessed from multiple threads
Fix crash that happened on modifying the I2C controller cache when the IO registry tree changed