RainbowTaskbar Changelog

What's new in RainbowTaskbar 2.4.1

Nov 6, 2023
  • Actually fixed crunchy radius for multiple monitors.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.4 (Nov 6, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • honestly i kinda forgot there are a lot of bug fixes
  • Underlay border radius is now no longer crispy (taskbar border radius still is sadly, windows limitation)
  • New features:
  • More default presets
  • Duplicate gradient with swapped colors

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.2 (Aug 22, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Added Chinese (Simplified) translations (thanks @wcxu21)
  • Added installer releases
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed numerous issues with the new Windows 11 patch
  • Fixed 32 bit release

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.1.1 (Aug 19, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix auto error detection with the new Windows 11 patch
  • Fix auto update app restart bug
  • Fix weird issue when starting multiple instances of the app

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.1 (Aug 17, 2023)

  • Fix too-many-months-old Windows 11 bug with the new taskbar.
  • Fix another weird transparency bug.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.0.1 (Dec 30, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed Japanese possibly not being chosen when UI language is set to system language.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Localization! Featuring: English, Romanian and Japanese
  • Please report any translation errors as an issue or a pull request!
  • Rounded rectangles
  • Automatically fit rectangles/ellipses to taskbar(s)
  • High contrast preset example

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.3 (Dec 22, 2022)

  • Just some minor quality of life fixes and tweaks to the UI.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.2 (Nov 1, 2022)

  • Better UI design (ModernWPF)

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.1 (Jul 21, 2022)

  • New features :
  • Instruction labels are now more explicit (#8)
  • Changed GUI number increments to 1 instead of 10
  • Bug fixes:
  • Removed image transparency option as it is no longer valid - use layer transparency instead.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2 (Jul 20, 2022)

  • New features:
  • New drawing behaviour option : make graphics span across all taskbars.
  • True multi taskbar support.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Icon not set to editor window.
  • Underlay now doesn't hide when peeking desktop or app.
  • Preset manager now saves new preset by default.
  • Fixed blur.
  • Other minor fixes:
  • Better (lower) memory usage using shady hack.
  • Layer bitmaps are now created on demand (attempt to lower memory usage).
  • Only 1 config thread to fix syncing.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.1 (Apr 19, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Transition list on wrong color types #14
  • Full crash on bad image path #10
  • Gradient preview uses angle
  • New features:
  • New rendering logic: all instructions now draw on a shared layer-specific bitmap.
  • To complement the feature before, Shape, Image and Text instruction have received a "Draw Once" option (since they have either a transparency option or antialising).
  • Shape instruction! (line, ellipse, rectangle)
  • Preset manager (all credits to zCri)
  • Failing instructions now report exception to user and are automatically removed.

New in RainbowTaskbar 2.0 (Apr 15, 2022)

  • Layers!
  • Brand new website
  • Better editor, written in WPF
  • GPU Rendering (also because of WPF)
  • Transparency and color previews
  • HTTP API, for integration with other apps
  • Performance! (hopefully)
  • The old update system is now obsolete. The latest version (https://ad2017.dev/rnbver.txt) will always be set to 2.0 and future updates will be done using the GitHub API.

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.10.1 (Nov 9, 2021)

  • App should now be fully portable (untested)

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.10 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • Second monitor now works if placed on the left of the primary monitor
  • The app will actually build from source code now

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.9 (Oct 31, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Ease functions! you are no longer limited to the boring linear interpolation for fading, instead you can use
  • Sine
  • Cubic
  • Exponential
  • Back
  • Source code file structure refactor (spread out the almost 2k gui.c file)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed crash bug on Windows 8.1 and older
  • something else i forgot :D

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8.4 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Replaced GetDpiForWindow as it only seems to work for Windows 11 and 10, and also made the app crash instantly on older systems.

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8.3 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Fixed underlay overflow on the second monitor if the taskbar is placed site to side with it
  • Fixed taskbar blur not adjusting to rounded corners

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Rounded corners!

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.7 (Oct 28, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Now checking if cURL is installed before performing update check (would cause an update loop)
  • Removed colored window underlay, as it would randomly pop up on older machines

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.6 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Randomizer: randomizes the next color effect
  • Donation button, just for the sake of it
  • New config example - "Randomizer" (duh)
  • Bug fixes:
  • The file version and description is now set
  • The app will no longer get stuck on checking for updates if there is no internet connection
  • Re-added definitions for WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN and VC_EXTRALEAN (removes weird unused libs, smaller file)

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.4 (Oct 25, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Taskbar is finally hidden from ALT+TAB menu

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.3 (Oct 17, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Integrated config examples.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Apply will actually restart the config from the beginning instead of waiting to end the current config.

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.2 (Oct 17, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Taskbar should now revert to original taskbar style when exiting program normally
  • Fixed weird control behavior issue which caused the editor to delete the wrong line

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3 (Oct 10, 2021)

  • New features:
  • GUI config editor
  • 2 monitor support
  • Tray icon: left click to open config editor, right click to close RainbowTaskbar
  • Bug fixes:
  • RainbowTaskbar underlay now always hides from taskbar

New in RainbowTaskbar 1.2.1 (Aug 13, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Config without c or d (containing Sleep functions) no longer cause huge CPU usage
  • Actually fixed bitmap flicker with double buffering