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Changelog — v0.21.x archive

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Releases v0.21.0–v0.21.2, covering 2026-09-25 → 2026-10-02. The current changelog (v0.22.0 onward) lives in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.21.2 — 2026-10-02

Added

  • The Fractal Voyage MilkDrop preset journeys through four fractals in turn: a Julia set, the Burning Ship, the Mandelbrot set and the dragon curve.
  • The Fjord MilkDrop preset flies low down a winding Norwegian fjord between cliffs that rise straight out of the water.
  • Press m, or choose Choose Preset… from the panel menu, to browse every MilkDrop preset in a searchable list.
  • The MilkDrop preset list plays each preset live as you scroll, and Enter locks the one on screen.
  • Closing the MilkDrop preset list without choosing returns to the preset you started from.
  • In the MilkDrop preset list you can favorite or hide any preset, bring hidden ones back, or show only favorites.
  • The Starfield Nebula MilkDrop preset flies through liquid stars and a living nebula coloured by your theme.
  • The Pirate Signal MilkDrop preset shows nokkvi’s pirate smiley as a broadcast on an LCD, over living sand and oil paint.

Changed

  • Julia Lace now morphs between different Julia sets and lies in a dark, glossy liquid.
  • Living Ink is rebuilt as a 3D tank: drops of ink shoot into dark water from every direction and linger as drifting, curling clouds.

Removed

  • The Chladni, Cover Kaleido and Cover Orb MilkDrop presets are gone.

v0.21.1 — 2026-09-26

Added

  • The Chladni MilkDrop preset pours theme-coloured sand onto a vibrating plate, redrawing its figure as the music retunes it.
  • The Julia Lace MilkDrop preset dives endlessly into a Julia set’s spiral vortex, the camera swinging between steep dives and skimming glides.
  • The Coral City MilkDrop preset floats through an endless fractal coral reef that sways with the music and leaves light trails.
  • The Coral Dive MilkDrop preset dives endlessly into the coral reef, which repeats itself exactly every 26-fold zoom.
  • The Infinity MilkDrop preset flies down a spiralling corridor of neon-lit polygon frames standing in a dark, rippling liquid that reflects them.
  • Infinity flies faster as the music gets louder and lunges forward on kicks.
  • Each beat sends a wave of light down Infinity’s neon inlays.
  • Switching MilkDrop presets now dissolves the old preset into the new one, in a pattern that changes each time.
  • A Preset Crossfade setting sets how long MilkDrop’s dissolve lasts, up to 10 seconds.
  • A Preset Crossfade of 0 cuts straight to the next preset.

v0.21.0 — 2026-09-25

Added

  • Theater Mode (F11) fills the window with the playing track’s cover, visualizer and lyrics, hiding the library, toolbar and nav.
  • Escape leaves Theater Mode; keys aimed at the hidden list leave it too, and view keys leave and then switch.
  • Right-clicking the Theater Mode cover offers Exit Theater Mode and Refresh Artwork.
  • In Theater Mode the player bar slides away after 2.5 idle seconds and slides back on any mouse or key activity.
  • In Theater Mode the mouse cursor hides after 2.5 idle seconds, like in a video player.
  • In Theater Mode the lyrics grow with the window, up to two and a half times their Queue size.
  • A Cover Art setting can swap the now-playing cover for a plain backdrop, everywhere or only in Theater Mode.
  • With the cover hidden in Theater Mode, the visualizer spans the whole window instead of a centered square.
  • Hovering the Queue cover reveals an expand icon that enters Theater Mode; its right-click menu gains Enter Theater Mode.
  • In Theater Mode an exit icon rides above the player bar.
  • A Theater Controls setting keeps Theater Mode’s player bar auto-hiding, always shown, or always hidden.
  • A Theater Fills the Screen setting also makes the window fullscreen in Theater Mode and restores it on leaving.
  • nokkvi theater toggles Theater Mode from the command line.
  • nokkvi status now reports whether Theater Mode is on.
  • nokkvi preset next (or previous, lock, unlock, favorite, unfavorite, hide) controls MilkDrop presets from the command line.
  • nokkvi status now reports the visualizer mode and the MilkDrop preset on screen.
  • A MilkDrop visualizer mode plays MilkDrop presets in place of the Queue or Radios cover and fills Theater Mode.
  • The visualizer button and v now cycle Off, Bars, Lines, Scope and MilkDrop.
  • MilkDrop switches to another preset every 30 seconds and on each new track, showing the preset’s name.
  • In MilkDrop mode, n jumps to another preset and p returns to the previous one.
  • In MilkDrop mode, Shift+M locks the current preset until pressed again.
  • Right-clicking the MilkDrop panel offers Next, Previous, Lock, Favorite and Never Show This Preset.
  • Never Show This Preset hides a preset for good and moves on at once.
  • Presets dropped into ~/.config/nokkvi/milkdrop/ join the rotation; the refresh key picks up new ones.
  • A MilkDrop settings section sets the preset interval, whether tracks change presets, favorites only, render quality and name toasts.
  • Fourteen nokkvi MilkDrop presets draw in your theme’s colours; eight of them use the playing album’s cover.
  • Two nokkvi presets remake the classic “dedicated to the sherwin maxawow” in your theme’s colours or your cover’s.
  • Two nokkvi presets remake Flexi’s “black holes”, whose bouncing holes swallow the picture, in your theme’s colours or your cover’s.
  • nokkvi’s MilkDrop presets recolour on the spot when you change theme, and keep the theme’s dark colours in light mode.
  • The MilkDrop Presets setting gains nokkvi, which plays only nokkvi’s own presets.
  • Each MilkDrop preset starts from the previous preset’s picture, as in MilkDrop, instead of from black.

Changed

  • Svalbard’s visualizer peaks now step from dark to light teal instead of alternating two colors.
  • The Harbour moon and stars now glow in the lightest peak color, whatever order a theme lists its peaks in.