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CoolerControl v3.0.0 brings new advanced features for managing hardware on Linux

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Last updated: 7 Oct 2025 at 12:23 pm UTC

Need help managing various different cooling devices on Linux? CoolerControl v3.0.0 has landed bringing some advanced features and work towards the future.

Giving you a highly customisable interface to monitor and tweak the values for your CPU, GPU and all sorts from various hardware vendors. It's a really impressive free and open source app that you should give a go.

The full list of changes:

Removed

  • The coolercontrol-liqctld package and service has been removed. The service has now been embedded in the coolercontrold daemon as a child process

Added

  • Overlay Profiles: Advanced offset controls on top of base Profiles
  • Custom Sensor Offset and parent-child chaining
  • Custom Profile temperature ranges
  • Ability to import and export color schemes
  • API changes to help 3rd party integrations
  • Keyboard shortcuts for common navigation
  • New device/main menu: drag and drop device and sensor sorting, pinned sensors, host name, additional submenu options, color control for device and entity titles, and improved usability and performance
  • Firmware-controlled profile support for some AMDGPUs and liquidctl devices. (hwmon device support coming soon)
  • Foundation for more advanced device and channel specific controls
  • Min and Max CPU core frequency metrics
  • Mix Profile difference mix function
  • Ability to change liquidctl log level with environment variable

Changed

  • New Color Picker UI component
  • Various logging improvements
  • The liqctld service logs are now unified with the daemon's normal log output
  • Nearly all dependencies upgraded, including several major version changes
  • Website and documentation improvements
  • Improved metric standards in the UI
  • UI Performance and reloading improvements

Fixed

  • Issue with 24h time format
  • Issue with minimum fan duty threshold
  • Various minor bugs and UI issues

Check it out on the GitLab page and their website.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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