Moonlight

New features:

• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K has been added to toggle system keyboard grab
• Added support for DualSense adaptive triggers (requires a compatible host)
• Gamepads with a second trackpad can now be passed to the host (requires host support)
• Client identifiers are now provided to the host to allow client-specific session management
• Added an option to disable pre-launch warnings

Behavior Changes:

• Most video renderers now use full range color instead of limited range
• The cursor is now also locked to the video area in single display borderless windowed scenarios. This was previously only done in true full-screen mode.
• The cursor is no longer captured by default in windowed mode. Clicking on the streaming window or pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z will capture the cursor.
• GPUs on non-x86 Linux platforms are now assumed to be slow by default, which enables a number of optimizations for improved performance. GL_IS_SLOW=0/VULKAN_IS_SLOW=0 can be set at runtime to override this.
• The default streaming resolution for new installs is now 1080p instead of 720p.
• Video bitrate no longer resets when adjusting resolution or frame rate if it's already been manually adjusted

Security:

• CVE-2026-33546, CVE-2026-33547, and CVE-2026-41210 have been fixed
• These vulnerabilities could allow a malicious host to crash Moonlight when connecting

Bugfixes:

• Reduced background CPU usage
• Improved startup, settings page, and stream load times
• Optimized the EGL/GLES renderer to improve performance on low end GPUs and embedded devices
• Fixed EGL/GLES renderer failures under X11 when GLX was used for the UI
• Improved readability of the statistics overlay by adding an outline
• Improved timing accuracy in the statistics overlay
• Improved performance when multiple gamepads are sending input simultaneously
• Improved performance when recovering from dropped network packets
• Fixed black or green padding being rendered on the bottom or right side of the video stream when streaming from certain hosts
• Fixed horizontal scroll direction not being correctly inverted when requested
• Fixed Moonlight not exiting after an abnormal stream termination when launched via the CLI
• Fixed failure to start on Linux systems where desktop OpenGL is not available
• Fixed broken overlay rendering on PowerVR systems using the proprietary driver
• Fixed automatic selection of AV1 on systems where HEVC is not available
• Fixed instability when using VAAPI decoding under X11
• Fixed small deviations in chroma co-siting and color conversion
• Fixed suboptimal format selection on some V4L2 decoders
• Fixed handling of some non-US keyboard layouts
• Fixed stale app list being displayed when using CLI commands
• Fixed handling of IPv6 literals that are not URL-escaped
• Fixed AV1 Vulkan Video decoding on newer versions of FFmpeg
• Fixed Ctrl+C/SIGTERM when running from the console
• Fixed several GUI interoperability issues with Qt 6.9 and later
• Fixed the IME or software keyboard being unexpectedly displayed in various situations
• Fixed launching in a new VT while a Wayland compositor is running
• Fixed moving focus from the app grid into the toolbar via the gamepad or keyboard
• Fixed a possible crash in the Vulkan renderer when disabling an overlay
• Fixed keyboard grab not working under sdl2-compat on Wayland compositors that lack support for keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit-unstable-v1
• Fixed CLI stream launch causing the saved manual address to be overwritten
• Fixed distinguishing between Enter and Numpad Enter keys (requires updated host software)
• Fixed mDNS discovering unexpected devices after running for a period of time
• Fixed libdecor-gtk window decorations not being displayed on the streaming window
• Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate