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About xLights
xLights is a free and open source program that enables you to design, create and play amazing lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.
With it you can layout your display visually then assign effects to the various items throughout your sequence. This can be in time to music (with beat-tracking built into xLights) or just however you like.
xLights runs on Windows, OSX and Linux
For more information see the xLights User Manual, the Video tutorials, the wiki, the forum or our facebook group
Links to downloads are available from the menu at the top of the page
You can access our Privacy Policy here.
How to donate
xLights is free to all users – but if you wish to donate to help support the efforts please feel free to donate via: 
Current Release
2025.06 June 10, 2025
– bug (derwin12) Add editor Right click options to state dialog
– bug (derwin12) Crash when discovering Falcon v4/v5
– bug (MrPierreB) Correct effect movement with drag selection box
– bug (derwin12) Ensure state item render order
– enh (dkulp) Update to ISPC and wxwidgets
– enh (scott) Add ollama AI api service and refactor
– enh (derwin12) Add abitlity to import color palettes and ui change
– bug (derwin12) Dont mark universe per string controllers dirty on startup
– enh (derwin12) Add right click find/replace in timing tracks
– enh (derwin12) Skill multi string shadow models in check sequence
– enh (derwin12) Add option to add an empty group during an effect import
– enh (derwin12) Add redo to menu and shortcut key
– enh (gstrike) Optionally use color palette in candle effect
– enh (derwin12) Retain spacing when copying states
– bug (derwin12) Crash on dropdown selection in Windows
– bug (derwin12) Poly line not rendering flat in model preview
– enh (dkulp) Converting controller to a variant
– enh (gstrike) Add Bong69 controller
– bug (derwin12) Chromakey fix
– enh (derwin12) Have linked Controller/Layout always done
– enh (derwin12) Add blink length to face effect
– enh (scott) hinkspix upload support
– enh (scott) Fedora 42 updates
– bug (cpinkman) Add pixel size to FPP virtual display map
– enh (keith) Fix up EFL vendor model upload links
– enh (derwin12) Add text labels as a timing track creation options
– enh (derwin12) Add right click reset zoom level
– enh (jasonsomers) Add Solo2Go Controller
– bug (derwin12) Handle printing 3d mesh (house) object
– bug (derwin12) Correctly show the default face placement in layout
– enh (dkulp) Vendor model documentation
– enh (dkulp) xLights Vendor info
– enh (Scott) Code refactor
– enh (Scott) Add warning on ESEQ not used 50ms fps
– bug (derwin12) Handle submodel window size being too large
– enh (keith) Add check sequence for mh group not defined correctly
– bug (derwin12) Centering of multiline xlfont text effect
– enh (keith) Preference for bell on render
– enh (keith) Include dimension in model export
– enh (keith) Use dimensions provided in downloaded models
– bug (derwin12) Wave bug with low number of waves having no movement
xLights User Manual
