Release Notes

This release introduces lots of old and new, small and big bug fixes. Some notable changes are:

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/DisplayCAL/3.9.12/

Contributions

This release's contributers are: Erkan Ozgur Yilmaz, Radosław Szkodziński, Vladislav Sharapov, Matt Khan, Patrick Zwerschke

Changes per contributor are as follows:

Erkan Ozgur Yilmaz

Fixed #282 (not a real fix but an improvement).
Fixed #283
Fixed #61
Fixed #302
Fixed a regular expression in DisplayCAL.worker module that might be the root cause of #302.
Updated utils.patch_consumer so it stays on top.
Optimized the utils.patch_consumer so that it uses 16bit colors (but the style sheet uses 8bit).
Added utils.patch_consumer to test Resolve patch generator.
Added help make target that displays all available targets.
Fix for DisplayCAL.worker_base.parse_argyll_version_string() when the input is a bytes object.
Fixed BorderGradientButton style for MacOS, which is used as the main button ("Calibrate & Profile" etc.).
Updated the term "Authentification" to a more common one of "Authentication".
Fixed #291
Fixed #303
Fixed #137
Fixed #310
[#318] Fixed a bug that is causing one empty line getting printed after each command output. The output is now better matching vanilla Argyll outputs.
[#318] Fixed display_cal.MeasurementFileCheckSanityDialog for python 3.11+.
[#318] Fixed StartupFrame test for MacOS.
[#318] Introduced some quality of life improvements.
[#318] Added {pydir}/share to data dirs.
[#320] Did some unnecessary formatting updates while searching for a possible bug.
Fixed #271
#261 setuptools build fails on upgrade for nixpkgs (#272)
Updated Makefile workflow, it should now be easier to build/install/run DisplayCAL.
Fixed "Manually Setup" section link.
Update Makefile
Updated Makefile new-release target to use the VERSION variable for the twine command.

Radosław Szkodziński

Vladislav Sharapov

Matt Khan

untethered mode should take multiple white point measurements at the start and should only update the specific sample not all samples with the same RGB
fix for #276 (#278)
- correct bad string/bytes comparison which was preventing correction of gamma applied to a measurement report
- workaround apparent wx regression with honouring hidden when set in xrc document #276
reformat using black
Make maximise lightness diff sort stable
minor code cleanup following pr comments
implement a stable sort_by_L which falls back to a then b sort if L is equal
demonstration of sort problem
fix python3 (str/bytes) compatibility errors in untethered mode
fix py3 compatibility problems in madtpg net
csvwriter requires w mode in python3
make sure measurement data is copied to the joined output, fixes #224
further py2-3 migration fixes around byte handling when handling madvr 3dlut
fix python3 (str/bytes) compatibility errors in untethered mode

Patrick Zwerschke