Release Notes - 2025-10-25

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Security

• Updated the Unity3D engine to address an important security vulnerability.

⚠️We strongly recommend updating all your Sound Show installations, including Sound Show Remote and Sound Show Mobile.

Project Saving & Backups

• Ctrl+S to Save
  You can now quickly save the current project with Ctrl+S.
• Auto-Save
  New option to automatically save your project.
  • When enabled in Main Options, Sound Show will save the project ~10 seconds after changes, once editing has paused.
• Save Backups
  New backup system that keeps previous versions of your project.
  • By default, 1 previous version is kept (configurable in Main Options).
  • Backups use a -prev suffix, for example: projectName-prev.ssp.
• Overwrite Warning
  If you try to create a new project using a name that already exists, Sound Show will now warn you before overwriting it.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• You can now navigate and select categories (tabs) using keyboard mappings (configuration in Options -> Keyboard)
• Holding the + or - keys now continuously increases or decreases volume instead of requiring repeated taps.

Options Management

• Export / Import Settings
  You can now export your options to a .sso (Sound Show Options) file and import them later, on the same machine or another machine.
  These actions are available at the bottom of the Main Options popup.
• Restore Defaults (Fixed)
  “Restore default values” now correctly resets all options to their factory defaults.

Help Category

• Added a new Help category (question mark icon) next to Search in the Special Category panel.
• Goal: make the first steps smoother for new users.
• Includes quick links to resources like:
  • Getting started guide
  • YouTube channel
  • Articles / documentation
    Clicking a button opens the link in your web browser.
• For Pro users, the Help button can be hidden in the Special Category panel settings.

Volume Normalization

• Per-Sound Normalized Volume
  Each sound now has a new Normalized Volume field in its configuration popup.
  • This is an internal multiplier that affects how loud the sound actually plays.
  • This is now the recommended setting to use if a sound is too loud or too quiet.
  • The existing Volume setting is still available to set the starting volume for playback, which is useful when you want a specific start level, not global loudness correction.
• Category-wide Normalize Action
  In a category’s configuration popup, there’s a new Normalize action.
  • It analyzes all sounds in that category and adjusts their normalized volume so they play at a more consistent level.