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Releases of Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS)

0.0.11 current version, released on: 2026-10-19

Speed up the built-in Convolution Filter and Texer II effects [feature]
Render AVS directly into the host panel window [breaking change]
Remove obsolete AVS host modes and unused symbols [developer]
Normalize AVS engine (`vis_avs`) formatting [developer]
Update build script [developer]

0.0.10 released on: 2026-10-15

Match AVS 2.81d EEL behavior [change]
- Distinguish global registers in EEL comparison optimization
- Restore EEL/AVS expression precedence
- Restore EEL/AVS integer rounding and assignment semantics
Add built-in APEs [feature]
- Build in the "Add Borders" effect
- Build in the "Color Map" effect
- Build in the "Convolution Filter" effect
- Build in the "Global Variables" effect
- Build in the "Multi Filter" effect
- Build in the "Normalise" effect
- Build in the "Picture II" effect
- Build in the "Texer" effect
- Build in the "Texer II" effect
- Build in the "Triangle" effect
- Build in the "Framerate Limiter" effect
- Build in the "AVSTrans Automation" effect
Add window icon [feature]
Add DPI-aware preset menu radio markers [feature]
Update settings dialogs [change]
Invalidate the visualization panel when shown [bug]
Show the AVS window only after embedding it [bug]
Pass waveform samples to AVS as signed 8-bit PCM [bug]
Update Windows 11 SDK to 10.0.28000.2705 [developer]

0.0.10-beta2 released on: 2026-10-15

Work around tab reactivity in Better Tabs
Fix EEL x86 rounding modes, matching vis_avs.dll 2.81d, to fix "camera shake" in "Tokyo Bullet" preset; x64 and ARM64EC rounding modes were already fixed in 0.0.10-alpha0

0.0.10-beta1 released on: 2026-10-14

Additional refinements

0.0.10-alpha0 released on: 2026-10-13

Fix NS-EEL2 using MilkDrop's version to match github.com/visbot/vis_avs behavior
Build-in missing APEs using github.com/grandchild/vis_avs versions

0.0.9-beta0 released on: 2026-10-13

Provide spectrum data to the AVS engine [change]
Keep "Fullscreen" as the only default AVS menu item [bug]
Reuse real audio for short visualization intervals [bug]
Duplicate mono waveform data to both channels [bug]

0.0.8-beta0 released on: 2026-10-12

Detect popup hosts during visualization initialization [change]
Honor the preset directory "no update" marker [change]
Avoid stealing focus when initializing AVS under foobar2000 [bug]
Group keyboard and mouse handlers [developer]
Clean up source and resource formatting [developer]
Disable RTTI in component DLL [developer]
Remove libPPUI as a link dependency [developer]
Cache Wine runtime detection [developer]
Update NS-EEL2 to c707ee0 [developer]
Update foobar2000 SDK to 2026-10-01 [developer]

0.0.7-alpha0 released on: 2026-09-14

Normalize fullscreen and popup handling [feature]
Update component metadata [change]
Respect layout editing context menus in Default UI [bug]
Update build recipe [developer]
Remove per-file `#pragma hdrstop` [developer]
Update Windows 11 SDK to 10.0.28000.2526 [developer]

0.0.6-alpha0 released on: 2026-09-03

Update build recipe [developer]

0.0.5-alpha0 released on: 2026-08-10

Migrate `vis_avs` from MBCS to Unicode [developer]

0.0.4-alpha0 released on: 2026-07-21

Cancel threadpool timers without `SetThreadpoolTimerEx()`

0.0.3-alpha0 released on: 2026-07-19

Fix AVS editor lifecycle and close behavior [bug]

0.0.2-alpha0 released on: 2026-07-19

Guard AVS engine against multiple UI elements [change]
Make `presets_first_run()` resilient to I/O errors (crash) [bug]
Add missing EEL2 object files [developer]
Fix GitHub Actions workflow build [developer]

0.0.1-alpha0 released on: 2026-07-17

Initial release based on Cockos Happy AVS v2.91