A rather big release for CoolerControl is now available with version 2.1 bringing numerous major feature enhancements to the popular open source app. This enables you to control all your cooling devices on Linux across CPUs, GPUs, RGB lighting and more. We also saw a big update to the Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) app just recently too.
The full changes:
Added
- New Icons including symbolic icon.
- Zero RPM feature support for RDNA3/4 AMD GPU fan control - kernel version dependant.
- Improved RDNA3/4 AMD GPU support, logs and docs.
- Nvidia fan RPM support - upstream work.
- Support for general HWMon device Power metrics (watts).
- Full-screen support for Web UI & Desktop app.
- Full-Page feature for Dashboards.
- Enhanced system information logs by default.
- Link to Hardware Support docs in Device Settings.
Changed
- Continued log improvements for various situations.
- Fallback icon logic and badge icon placement improvements.
- Improved liqctld unix socket connection pool handling.
- Improvments to Startup Tour.
- Dependencies updated.
- Build pipeline updates.
Fixed
- Issue when setting AseTek AIOs as either modern or legacy versions.
- Handling for devices that do not have a writable pwmN_enable for fan control.
- Issue on some systems with socket connection issues.
- Issue where changing the Profile Type didn't count towards unsaved changes.
- Minimum Profiles reqiured for Mix Profiles are now properly evaluated.
See more on the GitLab and Website.
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