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v4.0.12
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v4.0.12 teaches the serial terminal to render ANSI color codes, unifies the
firmware-loader progress windows behind a shared geometry and a default-open
log panel, and refreshes the bundled firmware and example scripts. It stays on
the Qt Creator 10.0.1 base, and there are no breaking changes.

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Highlights
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- **ANSI color in the serial terminal** — the output window now interprets
  ANSI escape color codes and renders colored text, with brighter, theme-aware
  colors when a dark UI theme is active.
- **Unified firmware-loader windows** — all loader progress windows now share
  one saved geometry, and the log panel starts expanded on first use.
- **Bundled firmware 4.5.0** — refreshed firmware binaries for every supported
  board.
- **Arduino Giga example set** — a complete example tree for the Arduino Giga
  (Giga-H7) was added, covering board control, display, audio, WiFi,
  Bluetooth, and low-power scripts.
- **Modernized examples** — bundled scripts now use the current MicroPython
  ``machine`` and ``time`` API, with a new top-level ``blinky.py`` and new
  sensor and BLE examples.

New features
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- The serial terminal output window now interprets ANSI escape color codes,
  rendering colored text. When a dark UI theme is active, the renderer emits
  brighter, theme-aware colors.
  (`7f1a29ba1 <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/7f1a29ba1>`__)

Other changes and improvements
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- All firmware-loader progress windows (**BOSSAC**, **DfuSe**, **PyDfu**,
  **DFU Util**, **NXP IMX**, **PicoTool**) now share a single saved
  window-geometry/settings group. The details/log panel is expanded by default
  only when no prior window state is saved (first run after the settings groups
  were consolidated); thereafter each window restores the last expanded or
  collapsed state you chose.
  (`6bac6b7eb <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/6bac6b7eb>`__)
- The bundled example scripts were modernized to the current MicroPython API,
  replacing ``pyb`` with the ``machine`` and ``time`` modules (for example
  ``from machine import LED`` with ``LED("LED_BLUE")``, and ``time.ticks_ms()``
  / ``time.ticks_diff()``).
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)
- A complete Arduino Giga (Giga-H7) example set was added under
  ``10-Arduino-Boards/Giga-H7/``, including ``00-Board-Control`` (ADC, CAN,
  CPU-frequency scaling, I2C scanner, LED/pin/PWM/RTC/SPI/timer/UART control,
  USB HID, USB VCP, and VSYNC GPIO output), ``01-Display``, ``02-Audio``
  (``audio_fft.py`` and ``micro_speech.py``), ``03-WiFi`` (connect, DNS, HTTP
  client, SSL HTTP client, MJPEG streamer, MQTT publish/subscribe, NTP, scan,
  and static IP), ``04-Bluetooth``, and ``05-Low-Power`` scripts.
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)
- New BLE examples ``ble_blinky.py`` and ``temp_sensor_aioble.py`` were added
  for the Nicla Vision, Portenta H7, and Arduino Giga boards under their
  Bluetooth example folders.
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)
- A new ``00-HelloWorld/blinky.py`` example was added and now replaces the
  previous per-board ``00-Board-Control/blinky.py`` examples (for the OpenMV
  boards and the Nano 33 BLE Sense, Nano RP2040, Nicla Vision, and Portenta H7
  Arduino boards), which were removed.
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)
- A new ``01-Camera/07-Sensor-Control/sensor_save_and_restore_settings.py``
  example was added, and the misspelled
  ``01-Camera/07-Sensor-Control/sesnor_manual_gain_control.py`` was renamed to
  ``sensor_manual_gain_control.py`` to fix the filename typo.
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)

Platform and tool support
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- **Qt Creator base:** 10.0.1.
- **Bundled OpenMV firmware:** updated from 4.4.3 to 4.5.0, refreshing
  ``firmware`` binaries for all supported boards, plus ``uvc`` and ``openmv``
  binaries for the boards that ship them (``openmv`` binaries for
  OPENMV2/3/4/4P/PT).
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)
- The Arduino Giga firmware was consolidated into a new ``ARDUINO_GIGA``
  folder (swapping its ``bin``/``dfu`` packaging and adding UVC firmware), the
  obsolete ``ARDUINO_GIGA_H7`` firmware folder was removed, and ``boards.txt``
  was repointed to ``ARDUINO_GIGA``.
  (`16fb36f8c <https://github.com/openmv/qt-creator/commit/16fb36f8c>`__)

Breaking changes
----------------

None. This release is fully compatible with existing OpenMV IDE projects and
workflows.