Sunshine, the game streaming tool you use with Moonlight, has a major upgrade now available with some big new features and a security fix too.
What exactly is it? Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. You can connect to Sunshine from any Moonlight client on a variety of devices. A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favourite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device.
People often prefer it over the likes of Steam Remote Play as it has a lot more features, and often better quality and performance too.
Sunshine v2026.516.143833 was released May 16th, a necessary update due to critical security updates. But, thanks to that, a whole bunch of new features landed too including:
See the release post for more.
Sunshine game streaming tool adds Vulkan encoding plus XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture – GamingOnLinux
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