Download Rainmeter 4.1 r2917 beta

A beta release of Rainmeter version 4.1 has been released. This program can display all kinds of useful, but also less meaningful information on the desktop in real time, such as free hard drive space, network activity and whether there is new e-mail. Functional applets can also be used to, for example, make notes or send tweets. Since version 4.0, support for Windows XP and Vista has been discontinued. New in version 4.1 is the ability to use plugins made in C++ and C#. The complete changelog for this release can be found below.

Added

• Rainmeter plugins: Added the ability to create plugins in C++ or C# supporting Inline Plugin Section Variables in a skin. This is primarily a change for plugin authors, with any documentation for how their plugins should be used in a skin provided by the author. Details on how this can be used in a plugin are at C++ and C#.

Changed

• Rainmeter plugins: The Plugin API has been updated to support Inline Plugin Section Variables. In addition, the documentation for plugin authors has been greatly enhanced and improved, and new and improved example plugins added to the SDK. Plugin authors are strongly encouraged to get the latest Plugin SDK and review the new Developer Documentation.
• Illustro default skins: Changed the URL used to get the user’s WAN IP address in the Network skin in Illustro. Note that Illustro will not be installed or updated on existing Rainmeter installations, only on new installations, and this change should be manually made if Illustro is currently being used.
• lua scripting: Corrected an issue where the GetOption() function referencing meters in the skin were not seeing options set by a MeterStyle.
• About dialog: The Plugins tab in the About dialog will now group the plugins as “External” or “Built-in”.
• About dialog: Added a right-click context menu to copy the value of Variables in the Skins tab.

Fixed

• Rain gauge: Corrected a bug that was not properly resolving variables using the new nesting syntax in some cases.
• Rainmeter Installer: Corrected an issue where the AudioLevel plugin was still being treated as an external plugin, and needlessly copied to the Rainmeter program folder.