What happened
Gathin23 released CleanYourTV 3.5.0 on November 14. The GitHub release describes eight new themes, three new add-ons, 30 more TV models from 12 new brands, and a change to the Home screen intended to reduce memory use. Since version 3.4.0, the project says its compatibility and customization counts rose to 472 TV models from 442, 129 brands from 117, 29 themes from 21, 36 add-ons from 33, and 243 showcase projects from 212. The release attributes the work since 3.4.0 to 355 pull requests from 152 people.
The clearest quantified change concerns retained Home screens. Gathin23 says every settings change had previously left an old Home screen in memory, at roughly 15 MB per change. Measured on a TV after eight settings changes, the release reports 210 MB before the fix and 114 MB afterward. The notes describe the release as non-disruptive for users whose TV did not need a fix and whose selected theme does not enable a changed switch. They also say stricter resource shrinking freed 888 bytes under the launcher’s size limit.
The eight additions to the theme collection are diwali, ridgelines, twilight, istanbul, istanbul_v2, family, ambient-glass, and glass-gallery. The notes describe themes ranging from festival photographs and time-of-day mountain scenes to illustrated skylines and a glass-style dock. New add-ons include Neon Dream, a configurable neon screensaver and card; Koi Pond, a pixel-art screensaver and card; and a Files card that opens a file manager, with Amaze named first. Sleep Timer now has weekly wake and sleep schedules, with date and time pickers designed for use by remote control.
The release also details changes to remote-button handling, inputs, clocks, language strings, tiles, and focused rows. It adds TV models and firmware notes across new brands including Chihi, Continental Edison, Durabrand, ENGY, Essentiel b, Indurama, Metz, Nonete, SAMPO, STRONG, Turbo-X, and Vityas. Gathin23 says the project distributes no binaries. New users build the launcher with launcher/build-and-install.sh; existing users pull the repository and run the same script, while configuration and themes are retained. The launcher is described as about 574 KB, below a 576 KB gate, with versionName 3.5 and versionCode 14. The README also gains Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Uzbek versions.
What the archive adds
New Runtime's earlier coverage on November 2 described CleanYourTV’s use of Android Debug Bridge access to replace a television home screen. This is a new release on that known project story, adding a reported memory fix, broader device coverage, and more user-facing customization rather than restating the earlier installation approach.
Trend signal
This does not yet fit a pattern New Runtime tracks. The release is primarily a device-specific maintenance and customization update. Its reported state-retention fix is useful engineering evidence, but it does not establish a broader change in how AI systems, agent interfaces, or production software boundaries are being built.
Why now
Gathin23 dates version 3.5 to November 14 and frames its changes against version 3.4.0. The reported 355 pull requests from 152 people make the update a discrete accumulation of compatibility, interface, and safety work. The memory result appears as one part of that wider release rather than as an isolated performance claim.
Why it matters
Configurable interfaces can fail gradually: each individual settings change may look harmless while retained views make the product heavier over a normal session. The reported reduction from 210 MB to 114 MB after eight changes gives teams a concrete test case for checking resource use after repeated configuration actions, not only at cold start or immediately after installation.
The release also illustrates the maintenance burden of device-oriented software. A project can add visible themes and cards while simultaneously carrying model-specific input behavior, firmware differences, remote keys, translations, restore paths, and size limits. CleanYourTV’s numbers do not certify identical behavior on every listed television, but they show that compatibility work is ongoing product work. Builders should treat configuration state, testing across real devices, and reversible upgrades as part of the feature surface.
Limits and uncertainty
The 114 MB and 210 MB comparison is reported by Gathin23. The release does not identify the TV used for that measurement, its software version, the measurement technique, or how results vary across hardware and usage patterns. The model and brand counts describe entries maintained by the project, not independent certification of every configuration. The notes also do not report installation volume, runtime responsiveness, crash rates, or the practical effect of the memory change for users. Because the project ships no binaries, users must build and install the launcher themselves.
Reader takeaway
CleanYourTV 3.5 is more than a visual update: it pairs themes, add-ons, and wider model coverage with a specific claim about reducing retained Home-screen memory. If you maintain configurable software for constrained hardware, test resource use after realistic sequences of user changes, not merely after the first launch.
Open question
How consistently does the reported memory reduction hold across television hardware, firmware versions, and longer sequences of settings changes?