Four years later we had millions of streamers relying on our software, had plugged most of the missing feature gaps, grown our theme library to thousands of themes, and added an App Store for 3rd party devs to expand functionality. We put our heads down and got to work fixing bugs, improving performance, adding new features, and continually shipping new updates. Nearly four years ago, we launched Streamlabs Desktop with a V0 version number to reflect the fact that it was beta software, and that there might be some bugs we still needed to squash, and some features might be incomplete or missing. Obviously, from a feature perspective, this isn’t the huge sweeping set of changes some people might expect from a 1.0 release.

We also upgraded Electron, the desktop framework that powers our app. There are also a bunch of under-the-hood tweaks, performance, and stability fixes. The main thing we focused on for this release was expanded VST plugin support and stability. One of the first things people will want to know is what’s new in the latest release and what’s the reason for releasing V1 now? In this blog, we sat down with Andy to discuss the development of Streamlabs Desktop over the years, how it’s changed, and some of the features he is most proud of.

He has been with the team for around 4 years and has been instrumental in the design, implementation, and creation of Streamlabs Desktop. Andy Creeth is the Head of Frontend Engineering on the Streamlabs Desktop team. We’re celebrating the official release of Streamlabs Desktop V1 by interviewing one of the most influential people to work on the project.

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