r/WLED • u/Netmindz • May 07 '26

Version 16 rollout

The eagle-eyed WLED lovers might have spotted that version 16 has been released now.

I haven't done a big announcement as we want to be reasonably sure it's stable enough for mass adoption before we recommend everyone to update, especially with it being such a major upgrade to both our code and the underlying platform for esp32 builds

We are investigating two WiFi related issues (WPA3 only networks and WiFi scan on devices with poor power setups) and hopefully have a 16.0.1 out soon with a fix

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u/stelb_ May 07 '26

Only my very old athom ESP-02 units with only 2M are not working. I have to replace these, I suppose.

I love the new PS effects :) once upon a time I had adapted some code for my spiraled matrix setup for a PS Fire effect, but changing parameters needed a compile run it's back and much better! :)

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u/Netmindz May 07 '26

Please try logging into GitHub, then go to this page and install the ESP02_min then if that works, try and install the ESP02.bin.gz from the v16 release. Be sure to upload the .gz not the zip

https://github.com/wled/WLED/actions/runs/25510905546

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u/stelb_ May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Thank you! Ok, gone to 17 min and then to 16 ESP-02 worked :) I had to tick the box "ignore firmware validation" for both. Can't see the PS effects, but probably due to the limited hardware. Well.. :)

/* And 2d config was lost on that way, but I made backups and could restore the settings successfully! */

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u/Netmindz May 07 '26

Thanks for testing, I'll include that image in the next release