DisplayCAL 3.4 released

I’m happy to announce that I’ve released DisplayCAL 3.4 as a prelude to the upcoming year 2018.

Added in this release:

  • [Feature] HDR Hybrid Log-Gamma transfer function option for 3D LUTs.
  • [Feature] HDR verification testcharts.
  • [UI] Simplified chinese translation thanks to 林泽帆(Xpesir).
  • [Enhancement] Linux: wxPython Phoenix 4.0.0b/rc1 compatibility.
  • [Enhancement] Profile loader (Windows): Notifications (for 3rd party calibration/profiling software and user-defined exceptions) can be turned off.

Changed in this release:

  • [Enhancement] HDR 3D LUTs: SMPTE 2084 with roll-off now allows specifying the mastering display minimum and peak luminance which are used to adjust the roll-off start and clipping points (BT.2390-3).
  • [Enhancement] HDR 3D LUTs: Chroma compression is now done in Lpt color space, providing improved preservation of detail in compressed highlights.
  • [Enhancement]
    Do not disable the measurement report button if the selected setting is a preset and a simulation profile is used as display profile with tone curve set to “Unchanged” (i.e. do not require selecting “<Current>” under settings to allow verifying the native device response against a selected simulation profile).
  • [Enhancement] Limit profile name length taking into account the full path of the final storage directory.
  • [Enhancement] Disable automatic output levels detection for colorimeter correction creation measurements.
  • Changed the “Softproof” and “Video” presets to no longer intentionally swap red and green for the fallback matrix.
  • [UI] [Cosmetic] Minor UI consistency changes.
  • [Enhancement] Linux: X11 root window _ICC_PROFILE_xxx atom enumeration for Xrandr now matches the Xinerama order, so that _ICC_PROFILE_xxx atoms match irrespective of which extension applications are using. This improves conformance to the ICC Profiles in X Specification and matches the respective change in ArgyllCMS 2.0.
  • Mac OS X (standalone application): No longer support OS X versions prior to 10.6. This streamlines and slims the application bundle and allows using more recent 3rd party dependencies which are not available for older Mac OS X releases. If you still need support for Mac OS X 10.5, use the 0install version of DisplayCAL.

Fixed in this release:

  • [Critical] Ensure alternate forward profiler device to PCS table input curves are strictly monotonically increasing to prevent clipping resulting in peaks in the response in case of bad underlying (non-monotonic) device behavior (regression of a change in DisplayCAL 3.3.5, SVN revision r4838).
  • [Minor] Always force the first entry in PCS to device table input curves to zero when generating high resolution PCS to device tables (fixes potential unexpected non-zero RGB output for zero input to perceptual PCS to device table).
  • [UI] [Cosmetic] When not confirming a manual DisplayCAL update but ArgyllCMS is up to date, reflect this in the final dialog message.
  • [Trivial] ReShade 3D LUT: If ReShade 3.x default shaders are installed, write the different parts of the 3D LUT to the correct respective sub-directories and no longer write the superfluous ReShade.fx.
  • [UI] [Cosmetic] Linux: Prevent flickering of tab buttons on some systems when switching tabs.
  • [Moderate] Linux: The way display device enumeration was performed was not always guaranteed to give consistent results across the different available external device to profile mapping APIs, which could lead to wrong profile associations in multi-display configurations (this fix is required to match how ArgyllCMS 2.0 enumerates displays).
  • [Minor] Mac OS X (standalone application): Bundle certificate authority certificates to enable verifying server certificates (fixes not being able to automatically download updates).
  • [Minor] Windows: When creating a colorimeter correction from measurement file(s) stored in a path where one or more components(s) started with a number from 1-9 or the lowercase letter g, the operation failed and the created colorimeter correction had to be retrieved from the temporary directory manually.
  • [Minor] Profile loader (Windows): When manually disabling calibration loading via the pop-up menu, and then starting DisplayCAL (or another application detected by the profile loader) and closing it again, the profile loader would stay disabled, including the calibration loading related menu items, requiring a profile loader restart.

Enjoy!