Downloaded, installed and verified !!!
There is now a specific driver choice labeled "Lynx" (along with Raw and ENTTEC Pro)
It no longer skips the first channel assigned, behaving perfectly !!
They also said they improved the performance of the Pro DMX dongles. I'll assume that meant a reduction in CPU usage but I can't really verify that yet. I ran 96 DMX channels for Halloween on an ENTTEC Open dongle using the RAW option and never saw any serious CPU usage anyway.
Still no E1.31 or Etherdongle support. But since I have 4 Lynx dongles, I will have no problem with multiple universes this season.