Release notes · 0.3.0

Lambent Server 0.3.0 for Mac

Lambent Server for Mac now serves every screen in your home, with an enhanced picture made on your Mac.

What’s new

• Lambent Server now serves TVs, phones and tablets as well as Apple Vision Pro, and it can use an existing Plex library.
• Lambent Enhance: AI upscaling and HDR from your Mac for every screen, 2D to 3D and Depth Ease on the headset, with a free trial. Without it, titles play at their original quality.
• The Mac’s own enhancer now makes the upscaled, HDR picture, using the Neural Engine and VideoToolbox.
• Titles can be saved to a device for offline viewing.
• A device can be paired to watch away from home.
• FFmpeg now comes with the app, so there’s nothing else to install.

Requirements

• macOS 13 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. Intel Macs are not supported in this release.
• Your screens and the Mac on the same local network. For best results, connect the Mac over Ethernet and a headset over 5 or 6 GHz Wi-Fi.
• FFmpeg 8.1 is included under the GNU LGPL v2.1 or later, built unmodified from its source. To use your own copy, set its path in Settings.

Install

1. Download LambentServer-0.3.0-arm64.dmg from the download page.
2. Open the DMG and drag Lambent Server to Applications.
3. Open Lambent Server from Applications.
4. On first launch, macOS asks to allow incoming connections, and on macOS 15 and later it also asks for Local Network access. Allow both: your screens need them to find and reach your Mac. If you denied either, open the Transport/Diagnostics panel in the app — it has buttons that open the right System Settings panes.

Verify the download

In Terminal, from the folder containing the DMG:

shasum -a 256 LambentServer-0.3.0-arm64.dmg

The output should match exactly:

File: LambentServer-0.3.0-arm64.dmg, about 56 MB. The app is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, and is distributed from the Lambent website — not the Mac App Store.

Known limitations

• No auto-update in this release. New versions are downloaded and installed manually.
• Logging out may skip saving the last few seconds of library state. Quitting normally is unaffected.
• After waking from sleep, the Mac may not re-announce itself on the network right away. If a screen can’t find it, restart the app.
• Apple silicon only (arm64). Intel Macs are not built.