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Sunshine

v2026.516.143833 Breaking

This release includes breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.

Published 18d Media Servers
✓ No known CVEs patched
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✓ No known CVEs patched in this version

Topics

c++ docker flathub-pkg game-stream game-streaming game-streaming-server
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geforce-experience homebrew-pkg maintainer-wanted moonlight pacman-pkg python remote-desktop replicator-custom-issues replicator-release-notifications rtd winget-pkg

Affected surfaces

auth

Summary

AI summary

Routine maintenance release for Sunshine.

Full changelog

Attention

This release contains critical security updates. For more information see the following:

Please update as soon as possible!

Breaking Changes

  • ViGEmBus is no longer installed automatically. Instead you can install it from the troubleshooting page of the web-ui if needed.
  • CSRF protection has been added to web-ui. If you access Sunshine through an address other than localhost you must add this to your sunshine.conf file manually. See https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/latest/md_docs_2configuration.html#csrf_allowed_origins

Highlighted Changes

  • Added XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture on Linux
  • Added Vulkan encoding on Linux
  • Added official OpenSUSE packages to LizardByte copr repos
  • Added FreeBSD packages
  • Sunshine can now bind to a specific network interface
  • Added msi/wix installer for Windows
  • Added Windows support for ARM64
  • Added signed dmg package for macOS
  • Windows executables and installers are now signed for AMD64 packages
  • New endpoints for Rest API [/api/covers]
  • Updated icons, added themes, and modernized web-ui
  • Capture audio on macOS using Tap API
  • Add client enable/disable access control from web-ui
  • Support for clients to request fractional NTSC framerates
  • Support for split frame encoding on GPUs with 2+ nvenc blocks
  • Updated FFmpeg to 8.1 branch

For a comprehensive list of changes, see below.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/compare/v2025.924.154138...v2026.516.143833


Contributors


📦 Assets:

| ⬇️ Download | #️⃣ Download Count | 🛡️ VirusTotal |
|-------------|-------------------|---------------|
| Sunshine-FreeBSD-14.4-aarch64.pkg | | |
| Sunshine-FreeBSD-14.4-amd64.pkg | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-debuginfo.7z | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-installer.exe | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-installer.msi | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-portable.zip | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-ARM64-debuginfo.7z | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-ARM64-installer.exe | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-ARM64-installer.msi | | |
| Sunshine-Windows-ARM64-portable.zip | | |
| Sunshine-macOS-arm64.dmg | | |
| Sunshine-macOS-x86_64.dmg | | |
| flathub.tar.gz | | |
| sunshine-2026.516.143833-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst | | |
| sunshine-debian-trixie-amd64.deb | | |
| sunshine-debian-trixie-arm64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-22.04-amd64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-22.04-arm64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-24.04-amd64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-24.04-arm64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-26.04-amd64.deb | | |
| sunshine-ubuntu-26.04-arm64.deb | | |
| sunshine.AppImage | | |
| sunshine.pkg.tar.gz | | |
| sunshine.rb | | |
| sunshine_aarch64.flatpak | | |
| sunshine_debug_aarch64.flatpak | | |
| sunshine_debug_x86_64.flatpak | | |
| sunshine_x86_64.flatpak | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc42.aarch64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc43.aarch64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc44.aarch64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc45.aarch64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.suse.lp156.aarch64.rpm | | |
| Sunshine-2026.516.143833-1.suse.lp156.x86_64.rpm | | |

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