diff --git a/app/version.txt b/app/version.txt index 7849b73dc..8ac3c4451 100644 --- a/app/version.txt +++ b/app/version.txt @@ -1 +1 @@ -6.3.3 +6.3.4 diff --git a/docs/release-notes/6.3.4.md b/docs/release-notes/6.3.4.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6f256e331 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release-notes/6.3.4.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +**Seats now appear on their own, from any machine. Before this they only ever appeared if Moonlight +was running on the streaming host itself.** + +## What was wrong + +Seat discovery asked the MultiSeat service for the seat list at `http://127.0.0.1:9550`. On the host +that works. On anything else — a handheld, a laptop, another PC — `127.0.0.1` is *that* device, +which runs no MultiSeat service. The request failed and the failure was swallowed on purpose, so no +seats appeared, no error was shown, and nothing was logged to explain it. + +Even had the request succeeded, every seat was reported at `127.0.0.1`, which would have been just +as unreachable. + +## What happens now + +Seats are found by checking the ports they use on hosts you already have. A seat's Apollo answers on +its own port with a name like `MultiSeat-Gaming-1`, which is exactly what happens when you add one +by hand — that path always worked; discovery simply was not using it. + +This needs nothing from the host: no API key on the client, and MultiSeat's dashboard does not have +to be reachable over the network. If you have the streaming host in your list, its seats should +appear within about fifteen seconds of being provisioned. + +## If a seat still does not appear + +Add it manually at the host's address and the seat's port. The first seat uses **48100**, and each +further seat is thirty higher — 48130, 48160, 48190. + +That is also the answer if the host has changed its port settings. Discovery checks the default +ports, and nothing advertises a custom range, so a host configured differently still needs its seats +added by hand. + +## ⛔ Please read this before updating + +**This change has never been run.** It compiles for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the host side is +confirmed working — a seat really does answer with the name discovery looks for — but no one has +watched a client find a seat with it. The machine it was written on has no Qt toolchain, so a build +could not be tested there. + +The realistic failure is on the client: discovery reads your host list every fifteen seconds while +other parts of the app may be writing to it. That was designed around deliberately, but designed +around is not the same as tested. + +**If Moonlight hangs on startup or when adding a host after updating, this is the first thing to +suspect.** 6.3.3 does not contain this change and is a safe place to go back to. + +## Also in this release + +The pull request build pipeline has been trimmed to the jobs that actually work. It had failed on +every run since May, and a check that is always red teaches people to ignore the ones that matter. +The builds that produce releases were never part of that and are unchanged. + +## Unchanged + +Everything else. No streaming, decoding, input or audio behaviour differs from 6.3.3.