Weekly build 20260215 (8bb15f5)

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...weekly-20260215-8bb15f5

v2.0.1

Better GPD WinControls 2.0.1 (Bugfix)

This release includes bugfix and maintenance updates since v2.0.

Performance and responsiveness

• Moved heavy GUI device operations to background threads to reduce UI freezes.
• Added busy-state guarding to avoid overlapping long-running GUI actions.
• Batched list/profile UI refresh updates to reduce redraw/layout churn.
• Reused HID request/response/write buffers and reduced allocation churn in device I/O paths.
• Added faster config/key lookups with cached dictionaries for frequently used mappings.

Release and packaging reliability

• Added and stabilized GitHub release asset workflows.
• Releases now build on GitHub and attach a ZIP package with:
  • GpdControl.exe
  • GpdGui.exe
  • default_mappings.txt
  • empty profiles/ folder
• Release assets are marked as latest for published releases.

Additional fixes and maintenance

• Updated GUI app version metadata to 2.0.1.
• Tracked profiles/ directory while ignoring local profile file contents.
• README support section update.

v2.0

Better GPD WinControls 2.0

This release includes all changes since v1.0 and focuses on protocol correctness, safer firmware writes, better accessibility, and easier day-to-day use.

Core reliability and safety

• Fixed HID config field offsets to match the reverse-engineered reference layout.
• Switched writes to indexed 8-block payloads and added write-ready checks.
• Added checksum validation and fail-fast behavior for read/write mismatch cases.
• Added optional Safe Apply Verify mode in GUI (read-back verification after apply).

CLI improvements

• Added stronger profile parsing and invalid-line error reporting.
• Added profile name/path validation to prevent traversal issues.
• Added non-zero process exit codes for command failures.
• Improved command response handling (input report first, feature fallback).

GUI improvements

• Added profile save workflow, profile diff viewer, and backup/restore of firmware config.
• Added bottom actions across tabs: Check for Updates, About, Exit.
• Added startup update check against GitHub releases (TLS 1.2 enabled).
• Added accessibility mode (larger UI, reduced non-critical popups).
• Added configurable data root for profiles/logs.
• Fixed validation loop behavior, mapping target selection checks, and macro capture UI behavior.
• Added direct hex keycode entry and resolved SYSRQ/PRINTSCREEN keycode ambiguity.

Testing and tooling

• Added device-run automation script outputting text/binary result artifacts.
• Added assertion summary output and exit-on-failure behavior for suite runs.
• Added interactive GUI checklist helper script.
• Added weekly release workflow and repository contributor guide.

Thanks to everyone who contributed reverse-engineering insights that made protocol-correct fixes possible.

Weekly build 20260210 (fcacac9)

Full Changelog: v2.0...weekly-20260210-fcacac9

v1.0

Initial release with CLI and GUI tools.