v0.24.3

• Deprecate linux.XRandr brightness method

v0.24.2

• Improve handling of missing EDIDs in linux.SysFiles method (#45)

v0.24.1

• Add windows.COM_FLAG constant for controlling how pythoncom is initialised (#42, a9b1084)
• Ensure that pythoncom.CoInitialise is not called without needing to
• Fix pythoncom not being uninitialised after we're done with it

v0.24.0

• Improve display identification by adding UID field to monitor info
  • Use WinAPI UID to populate UID field on Windows (#41, @BingoWon)
  • Use I2C path to populate UID field on Linux (05ad0c0)
• Remove deprecated linux.Light brightness method (a3e8085)
• Remove _OS_METHODS attr (011a847)

v0.23.0

• Add allow_duplicates param to filter_monitors and most top-level functions (#34, @BingoWon)
• Add allow_duplicates kwarg to command line (#35, @BingoWon)
• Add ability to stop fade_brightness thread before starting new one (#38, @BingoWon)
• Add ability to set default configuration values (3db8344)
  • Can set default value for method and allow_duplicate kwargs
• Smarter interval handling in fade_brightness (#36, @BingoWon)
• Better handling of monitor identification when using relative brightness values in set_brightness (#37, @BingoWon)
• Fix XRandr reporting displays on wayland session (b76b82f)
• Remove deprecated behaviour of Display.fade_brightness returning the new brightness (8880c65)
• Deprecate linux.Light due to package being unmaintained

v0.22.2

• Removed deprecated top level imports (38e1a85)
• Restrict param types in EDID.parse to prevent potential TypeError (677ea14)
• Fixed some docstrings (7d35446, e91f826)
• Fix force kwarg not being propagated in Display.fade_brightness (ffa10a1)
• Fix excessive calls to dxva2.DestroyPhysicalMonitor (b273777)
• Fix potential UnboundLocalError in VCP.[get/set]_brightness (6e411d4)
• Port test suite to pytest and expand coverage (89642fc...d7a1567)

v0.22.1

• Fix error when laptop screen is closed while external display connected on Windows (#33)

v0.22.0

• Type safety improvements
  • Add proper implementation for MaxRetriesExceededError (53cf7f1)
  • set_brightness now assumes 100% brightness if get_brightness fails (73b9ec1)
• Improved debugging in test runner
• TTL cache now deletes all expired data semi-automatically (31957f2)
• Upgrade out of date notice on documentation to redirect to latest version of current document (f786f71)
• Switch from setup.py to pyproject.toml
• Upgraded release CICD
• Fix filtering list of monitors by method in filter_monitors
• Fix TypeError in Monitor class constructor when passing unknown monitor in
• Fix invalid argument when correcting post-fade brightness in fade_brightness
• Remove support for identifying displays solely by their model (c8e89dd)
• Remove deprecated Monitor.__getitem__ behaviour
• Dropped Python 3.7 support
• Deprecate Display.fade_brightness returning the new brightness. Will return None from v0.23.0

v0.21.0

• Add new Display dataclass to replace old Monitor class
  • Monitor is now deprecated for removal in v0.23.0
• Add ability to disable --async flag in linux.DDCUtil
• Add new type aliases with better descriptions of what they mean (see 5fa542f, 20c3dea)
• Fix not all monitor handles being properly cleaned up in windows.VCP
• Refactor fade_brightness
• Remove redundant type info in docstrings (see 0431b53)
• Remove redundant docstrings (see 20c3dea)
• Deprecate Monitor.__getitem__ behaviour for removal in v0.22.0
• Deprecate using a display's model to identify it. Use the name instead. Will be removed in v0.22.0
• Deprecate unused top-level imports for removal in v0.22.0:
  • MONITOR_MANUFACTURER_CODES
  • debug_info

v0.20.0

• Merge #28 Added increment change for --set in command line argument from @ujjukumar
• Add ability to look up method name via get_methods
• Rework exceptions (see d5f1bdd)
  • New exceptions added. Should all be backwards compatible
• Refactor:
  • windows.get_display_info - removed massive generic try/except blocks
  • helpers.EDID.parse - more helpful exceptions
  • filter_monitors - better readability
• More consistent use of "display", "screen" and "monitor" terminology (see 46bfac2)