2.3.0

The Kivy team is happy to announce the release of Kivy 2.3.0

Kivy is an open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including desktop, mobile and embedded platforms.

Kivy is MIT licensed, actively developed by a great community and is supported by many projects managed by the Kivy Organization.

Installation instructions and Kivy Docs are hosted on the Kivy Website

Currently supported Python versions are 3.7-3.12

This marks the final release of the 2.x.x series. Note that anything deprecated in 1.x.x and 2.x.x will be removed in the upcoming major version, 3.0.0.
Scheduled removals and notable changes for Kivy 3.0.0 will be detailed in an upcoming statement over the next few weeks.

This release is the last to support Python 3.7 and Windows 32-bit. We strongly encourage users to migrate their environments accordingly.

Highlights

• [:repo:8298]: core-providers (audio): removes deprecated status property
• [:repo:8299]: core-providers (audio): removes deprecated filename property
• [:repo:8300]: core-providers (window): Removes deprecated toggle_fullscreen method
• [:repo:8309]: Add graphics with antialiasing: SmoothRectangle, SmoothEllipse, SmoothRoundedRectangle, SmoothQuad and SmoothTriangle
• [:repo:8313]: Linux dependencies: Build libpng16 for freetype so can render colored emoji
• [:repo:8315]: Remove the extra position added to undo list while using Shift key
• [:repo:8317]: macOS dependencies: Build libpng16 for freetype, so can render colored emoji
• [:repo:8495]: Honour multiline=True/False while pasting, Fix Scroll after backspace and undo.
• [:repo:8497]: Added spanish layout json for the vkeyboard
• [:repo:8503]: Pillow text provider: use get_bbox when get_size is not available. Allows latest versions of pillow to work along with older ones.

Deprecated

• [:repo:8459]: Deprecate kivy.utils.interpolate and improve related docs

Kv-lang

• [:repo:8206]: Improved KV-lang parser error info when indentation is invalid

Misc

• [:repo:8301]: Rework custom garden importer to avoid usage of imp module (removed in Python 3.12)
• [:repo:8357]: Apply style fixes as suggested by new flake8 version
• [:repo:8443]: Slow down no-response bot
• [:repo:8447]: Remove bountysource link, as bountysource looks died.
• [:repo:8453]: Update support-requests action
• [:repo:8459]: Deprecate kivy.utils.interpolate and improve related docs

Packaging

• [:repo:8428]: Add balenalib/raspberrypi3-debian-python:3.11-bookworm to rpi builds for newer RPi OS

Widgets

• [:repo:8276]: Image: Fix stencil instructions leaking to user canvas.before/canvas instructions
• [:repo:8315]: Remove the extra position added to undo list while using Shift key
• [:repo:8389]: Fixes a regression that prevents the setting panel to load
• [:repo:8492]: ColorWheel and ColorPicker: simplify, cleans up and add tests
• [:repo:8495]: Honour multiline=True/False while pasting, Fix Scroll after backspace and undo.
• [:repo:8535]: Fix text attributes not changing after the settings panel is opened

Core-app

• [:repo:8345]: Prevent apps from crashing when sys.stderr is None (pythonw and pyinstaller 5.7)
• [:repo:8383]: Fix stencil operations when KIVY_WINDOW=x11

Core-providers

• [:repo:8218]: Remove redundant from kivy.base import EventLoop import causing crashes in window_sdl2
• [:repo:8296]: WindowSDL: Add opacity feature
• [:repo:8298]: core-providers (audio): removes deprecated status property
• [:repo:8299]: core-providers (audio): removes deprecated filename property
• [:repo:8300]: core-providers (window): Removes deprecated toggle_fullscreen method
• [:repo:8342]: Clipboard: fixes blank string being pasted into clipboard when using the default win32 backend
• [:repo:8435]: Fixes markup [sup] followed by [sub] doesn't work (issue #8077)
• [:repo:8446]: Window.mouse_pos is incorrect if the scale factor in Windows is not 100%.
• [:repo:8490]: SetClipboardData requires a memory object allocated with GMEM_MOVEABLE (and locks)
• [:repo:8503]: Pillow text provider: use get_bbox when get_size is not available. Allows latest versions of pillow to work along with older ones.
• [:repo:8510]: New feature: Add limit_render_to_text_bbox to Label to limit text rendering to the text bounding box, improving Label alignments.
• [:repo:8511]: PIL text provider: Ensure consistent text height to prevent text from bouncing when typing
• [:repo:8540]: PIL text provider: Do not render text if font size is < 1

Core-widget

• [:repo:8497]: Added spanish layout json for the vkeyboard

Distribution

• [:repo:8253]: Update version to 2.3.0.dev0 for development
• [:repo:8310]: pin Pillow version to 9.5.0
• [:repo:8313]: Linux dependencies: Build libpng16 for freetype so can render colored emoji
• [:repo:8317]: macOS dependencies: Build libpng16 for freetype, so can render colored emoji
• [:repo:8326]: Add support for Cython==3.x.x and increase cython_min version
• [:repo:8393]: Add support for Python 3.12 (tests, wheels)
• [:repo:8479]: Bump SDL2 version to 2.28.5 and SDL_image to 2.8.0 in build dependencies script and update kivy_deps.sdl2 on Windows
• [:repo:8501]: Bump kivy_deps.angle version to ~=0.4.0
• [:repo:8505]: Restrict the Pillow version to >=9.5.0,<11
• [:repo:8513]: Make sure build dependencies are installed for Kivy.app, and use default python version provided by create-osx-bundle.sh
• [:repo:8533]: Bump to 2.3.0rc1
• [:repo:8536]: Bump to 2.3.0rc2
• [:repo:8543]: Bump to 2.3.0rc3

Documentation

• [:repo:8251]: Ensures that jQuery is always installed (on newer sphinx versions is not the default)
• [:repo:8274]: Add disclaimer to use RecycleView instead of ScrollView for large datasets
• [:repo:8289]: Update CHANGELOG for 2.2.1 (#8287)
• [:repo:8303]: Copy-edit to layouts.rst
• [:repo:8308]: Copy edits: Standardize on spelling
• [:repo:8323]: Docs: Fix double word typos
• [:repo:8324]: Fix linux dependencies build instructions
• [:repo:8347]: RecycleDataAdapter: Fixed typo in class docstring
• [:repo:8349]: ObjectProperty: Fixed ValueError message in "convert" method.
• [:repo:8377]: Add doc for Selection handles.
• [:repo:8387]: Docs: Fix grammar
• [:repo:8402]: Docs: Fixes spelling errors and typos
• [:repo:8411]: Removes broken support e-mail address in the README.md, and improve the support section
• [:repo:8440]: Fix #8438: SyntaxWarnings during doc generation.
• [:repo:8442]: Edit Contact Us page in docs
• [:repo:8448]: Update Contribution Guidelines, add FAQ, CONTACT and CONTRIBUTING as separate documents, fix links
• [:repo:8464]: Correct documentation of schedule_interval
• [:repo:8493]: Correct ActionBar documentation
• [:repo:8514]: Make doc structure consistent and up-to-date
• [:repo:8542]: Happy new year! Updated copyright year to 2024

Graphics

• [:repo:8228]: Added a flag to force the use of custom drawing line function.
• [:repo:8270]: Allow Scale and Translate to take x, y and z as kwargs. Removes deprecated Scale().scale property.
• [:repo:8271]: Fix SmoothLine rendering issues
• [:repo:8309]: Add graphics with antialiasing: SmoothRectangle, SmoothEllipse, SmoothRoundedRectangle, SmoothQuad and SmoothTriangle
• [:repo:8374]: Avoid multiple values for noadd in VertexInstruction
• [:repo:8375]: Fix use of BoxShadow with canvas.add, canvas.insert and canvas.remove
• [:repo:8405]: Introduce clear_stencil option in StencilPush, to allow disabling stencil clearing and improve GPU performance when using Stencil Instructions
• [:repo:8413]: Expose new clear_stencil property in StencilPush
• [:repo:8415]: Fix cgl_backend build with clang 16

Tests/ci

• [:repo:8263]: Increase timeout of httpbin tests to reduce risk of failures on CI runs
• [:repo:8359]: Correct CI comment regarding logging tests
• [:repo:8392]: Now Github Actions provides python3 via setup-python also for Apple Silicon Macs
• [:repo:8404]: Add tests for create_json_panel method of Settings
• [:repo:8426]: Install setuptools before sdist generation, as setuptools is not anymore available by default on 3.12
• [:repo:8483]: Check $LastExitCode after pytest run, so we can catch Windows fatal errors
• [:repo:8485]: Refactor filechoosertest_unicode.py
• [:repo:8529]: Request --only-binary for Pillow on Windows when testing wheels

Thanks:

Akshay Arora, André Oliveira, David Pesticcio, Dexer, Elliot Garbus, Filipe Marchesini, Font, GreenJon902, Guy Sheffer, Julian, Kulothungan U.G, Lucas Couto, Mak Sim, Mirko Galimberti, Pamir Roy, Randy Eckenrode, Sehar Batool, Stas Zytkiewicz, Sumit Gupta, Uchenna Wealth, Vibhakar Solanki, Xnot, atharva-satpute, azinneck0485, jfishzon

2.2.1

The Kivy team is happy to announce the release of Kivy 2.2.1

Kivy is a full-featured framework for creating novel and performant user
interfaces, such as multi-touch applications, released under the MIT license.
The framework works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

Installation instructions and Kivy Docs are hosted on the Kivy Website

Currently supported Python versions are 3.7-3.11

Highlights

• [#8283]: backport (#8276): Limit stencil to inner instructions on Image widget

Tests/ci

• [#8288]: backport (#8263): Increase timeout of httpbin tests to reduce risk of failures on CI runs

Documentation

• [#8252]: backport (#8251): Ensures that jQuery is always installed (on newer sphinx versions is not the default)

2.2.0

The Kivy team is happy to announce the release of Kivy 2.2.0.

Kivy is a full-featured framework for creating novel and performant user
interfaces, such as multi-touch applications, released under the MIT license.
The framework works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

Installation instructions and Kivy Docs are hosted on the Kivy Website

Currently supported Python versions are 3.7-3.11

Features marked as deprecated on 1.9.0 and prior versions will be removed in Kivy 2.3.0 (See: #8177)

Highlights

• [#7876]: Line/SmoothLine: Fixes rendering issues related to corner radius and updates its order (rounded_rectangle) + add getter methods for rounded_rectangle, rectangle, ellipse, circle.
• [#7882]: Re-implements the Bubble widget.
• [#7908]: Speed up SmoothLine creation by ~2.5x
• [#7942]: Config unicode support on Windows
• [#7988]: Added support for KIVY_LOG_MODE
• [#8044]: Add support for Python 3.11
• [#8056]: New Feature: Add BoxShadow graphic instruction 🎉
• [#8115]: Use font_direction and font_script_name from SDL2_ttf
• [#8144]: Added property for mouse draggable tab scrollbar to TabbedPanel
• [#8162]: Label: allow different values of left, top, right and bottom for padding.
• [#8169]: Image: add fit_mode feature
• [#8096]: Introduce build script for SDL dependencies and KIVY_DEPS_ROOT

Deprecated

• [#7882]: Re-implements the Bubble widget.

Breaking changes

• [#7876]: Line/SmoothLine: Fixes rendering issues related to corner radius and updates its order (rounded_rectangle) + add getter methods for rounded_rectangle, rectangle, ellipse, circle.

Kv-lang

• [#8021]: Update builder.py

Misc

• [#7906]: Replace deprecated logging.warn with logging.warning
• [#7913]: fix(UrlRequest): Add "on_finish" and add alternative implementation
• [#7943]: Fixes some E275 - assert is a keyword. + other minor PEP8 fixes
• [#7969]: Config is not available when generating docs + Use getdefault instead of has_option + get

Widgets

• [#7626]: New Feature: Allow control how many lines to scroll at once using the mouse wheel on TextInput
• [#7882]: Re-implements the Bubble widget.
• [#7905]: Fix TextInputCutCopyPaste widget
• [#7925]: Qwerty VKeyboard button fix( z, Q and W and ] ) on Linux(Ubuntu Focal Fossa)
• [#8109]: Fix for changes of Splitter.strip_cls having no effect
• [#8144]: Added property for mouse draggable tab scrollbar to TabbedPanel
• [#8169]: Image: add fit_mode feature
• [#8202]: Migrate allow_stretch and keep_ratio in widgets/examples by corresponding fit_mode

Core-app

• [#7942]: Config unicode support on Windows
• [#7958]: Use AddLevelName in kivy.Logger to define TRACE
• [#7962]: Refactored logging.ColoredFormatter to avoid deepcopy.
• [#7971]: Support KivyLogMode environment variable for logging testing
• [#7973]: Bump KIVY_CONFIG_VERSION and add a warning for future changes.
• [#7975]: Light clean up of stderr handling code.
• [#7979]: #7978: Don't monkey-patch logging.root
• [#7985]: Handle non-strings in logs.
• [#7988]: Added support for KIVY_LOG_MODE
• [#7989]: Android Lifecycle convergence
• [#7994]: Use urlopen instead of build_opener when fetching files from 'internet'. Removes some PY2 compat.
• [#8062]: Use find_spec, module_from_spec and exec_module instead of find_module and load_module since are deprecated.

Core-providers

• [#7846]: Fix VKeyboard missing with custom keyboard class
• [#7857]: iOS camera provider enhancements
• [#7982]: Use SDL_WINDOWEVENT_DISPLAY_CHANGED to notice about window switching display to update _density an dpi
• [#7999]: Modify layout fix bug in how long text without space is cut
• [#8025]: Release the GIL when performing SDL_GL_SwapWindow call.
• [#8058]: Makes Windows DPI aware of scale changes
• [#8076]: New Feature: Always On Top
• [#8083]: Allow changing Window.fullscreen and Window.borderless options after setup on iOS
• [#8115]: Use font_direction and font_script_name from SDL2_ttf
• [#8142]: New Feature: Allows to hide the taskbar icon
• [#8146]: Fix memory issue on iOS 16.2 for AVMetadataObject (during QRCode scan)
• [#8147]: Detect High DPI on Linux Desktop
• [#8162]: Label: allow different values of left, top, right and bottom for padding.
• [#8171]: Make VideoFFPy work with RTSP streams.

Core-widget

• [#8035]: Simplify Animation._unregister

Distribution

• [#7837]: Bump to 2.2.0.dev0
• [#7852]: Build python 3.9 wheels for RPi
• [#7974]: Bump SDL2, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf versions to latest stable release
• [#8004]: Bump kivy_deps.sdl2 and kivy_deps.sdl2_dev to 0.5.0
• [#8006]: Use Platypus 5.4
• [#8043]: Bump SDL2 to 2.24.1 on Linux and macOS
• [#8044]: Add support for Python 3.11
• [#8050]: Bump again SDL2 to 2.24.2 on Linux and macOS
• [#8070]: Remove usage of distutils module which is deprecated and slated for removal in 3.12
• [#8096]: Introduce build script for SDL dependencies and KIVY_DEPS_ROOT
• [#8155]: Dependencies build tool: exit immediately on fail and allows to debug easier
• [#8173]: Bump macOS dependencies versions on tools/build_macos_dependencies.sh
• [#8174]: Bump Linux dependencies versions on tools/build_linux_dependencies.sh
• [#8176]: Bump Windows dependencies via kivy_deps packages
• [#8178]: Bump cython_max version
• [#8191]: XCode 14.3 fails to build SDL if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET < 10.13
• [#8203]: Migrate from autotools to cmake for SDL2 linux dependencies
• [#8223]: Perform RPi builds on balenalib/raspberrypi3-* images and skip DISPMANX API usage if can't be used [build wheel armv7l]
• [#8231]: Bump version to 2.2.0rc1

Documentation

• [#7870]: Documentation: bump Gentoo install instructions
• [#7916]: Fixes NO DOCUMENTATION (module kivy.uix.recycleview)
• [#7927]: Fix minor typo in pong tutorial code comments
• [#7928]: Add missing closing paren in hint text
• [#7929]: Use consistent source code notes in pong tutorial
• [#7930]: Purge trailing whitespace in docs source files
• [#7946]: Add doc for Canvas.add()
• [#8026]: Typo : missing coma in the doc
• [#8032]: doc: Initial remarks on BSD compatibility.
• [#8034]: Fix backticks typo in pong tutorial
• [#8039]: Link to buildozer installation instructions instead of duplicating them
• [#8041]: installation-osx.rst: Minor code formatting
• [#8088]: Add support for sphinx 6.0.0
• [#8089]: Add a warning about keyboard_suggestions usage on Android
• [#8139]: Improve docs about BoxShadow behavior and usage.
• [#8156]: Docs: Update the Ubuntu prerequisites to build Kivy and its dependencies
• [#8175]: Update Copyright and LICENSE dates
• [#8179]: Update Python supported versions
• [#8181]: 📖 Grammar tweaks to focus docstrings
• [#8183]: Docs: Fixes a typo (issue #7838)
• [#8229]: Sphinx 7.0.0 is incompatible, use <=6.2.1 for now
• [#8234]: Docs review for RPi installation and build instructions

Graphics

• [#7860]: Ellipse: update angle_start, angle_end to explicit floats
• [#7876]: Line/SmoothLine: Fixes rendering issues related to corner radius and updates its order (rounded_rectangle) + add getter methods for rounded_rectangle, rectangle, ellipse, circle.
• [#7908]: Speed up SmoothLine creation by ~2.5x
• [#8056]: New Feature: Add BoxShadow graphic instruction 🎉
• [#8098]: Fix BoxShadow shader crashing issue on Adreno GPUs
• [#8132]: BoxShadow: Add inset feature
• [#8138]: BoxShadow: Accept values for vertical and horizontal spread_radius
• [#8163]: Line/SmoothLine: ellipse - fix behavior and add feature to allow closing line through center of ellipse
• [#8164]: Ellipse: Handle the number of segments and avoid division by zero
• [#8170]: Add svg rotation transform support
• [#8187]: Line/SmoothLine - ellipse: Handle the number of segments to match Ellipse

Input

• [#8027]: Typo : German Keyboard is QWERTZ

Tests/ci

• [#7847]: Tests: ffpyplayer now ships cp310-* and Apple Silicon compatible wheels, so tests on the full version can be re-introduced.
• [#7854]: Fixes 3.8.x pyenv install due to a recent change in clang [build wheel osx]
• [#7885]: Our self-hosted Apple Silicon runner now has been migrated to actions/runner v2.292.0 which now supports arm64 natively
• [#7903]: Migrate from probot/no-response to lee-dohm/no-response
• [#7917]: When using pytest_asyncio for tests, function should be decorated with pytest_asyncio.fixture
• [#7972]: Fix trivial typo in workflow.
• [#7987]: Fix source typo in test_uix_bubbles.py
• [#8084]: Switch from ubuntu-18.04 to ubuntu-latest as 18.04 runners will be removed on 2023-01-12
• [#8093]: Add gstreamer1.0-plugins-good for autoaudiosink availability during tests
• [#8099]: Install twine only when needed [build wheel]
• [#8117]: Upgrade GitHub Actions
• [#8120]: [build wheel] Upgrade more GitHub Actions
• [#8121]: GitHub Actions: Use current Python instead of hardcoded v3.9
• [#8126]: Switch back to macos-latest instead of macos-11
• [#8129]: Remove remaining nosetest settings in favor of pytest
• [#8157]: Correct the flake8 pre-commit URL
• [#8217]: Generate-sdist needs packaging as a dependency [build wheel win]

Thanks

A big thanks to all of the Contributors, especially those github usernames mentioned here:

Akshay Arora, Alsp, Anders, AnthonyZimmermann, CdrSonan, Cecil Curry, Chris Vincent, Christian Clauss, Danny Dawson, Dexer, Evgeniy Selezniov, Gabriel Pettier, Gabriel Vogel, Hugo van Kemenade, Johan Toft, Julian, Matt Einho...

2.1.0

The Kivy team is happy to announce the release of Kivy 2.1.0.

Kivy is a full-featured framework for creating novel and performant user
interfaces, such as multi-touch applications, released under the MIT license.
The framework works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

Installation instructions and Kivy Docs are hosted on the Kivy Website

• Currently supported Python versions are 3.7-3.10
• macOS Kivy.app now supports both Intel and Apple Silicon hardware.
• aarch64 for manylinux2014 pre-built wheels are now available on PyPi.
• Single universal2 wheel for macos Intel and Apple Silicon is now available on PyPi.

Features marked as deprecated on 1.6.0 and prior versions will be removed in Kivy 2.2.0.

Highlights

• [#7658]: Feature: Added EventManagerBase. We can now register managers that selectively process inputs e.g. touch and decide how to dispatch it to the widget tree. on_motion and motion_filter was added to Widget to handle generic motion inputs from the managers.
• [#7270]: Graphics: We now check whether the user called GL instructions from an external thread and raise an error.
• [#7293]: Properties: Added dynamic screen density/dpi support. KV code referencing density e.g. width: "5dp" will now update if the window dpi changes.
• [#7371]: KV: Allow using f-strings in KV-lang.
• [#7424]: Properties: Speed up bare widget creation (3X) and property dispatching/setting.
• [#7587]: Fix PermissionError when reconnecting mtdev input devices.
• [#7637]: Added Custom titlebar support.
• [#7642]: TextInput loading time optimization for large texts.
• [#7663]: Add python3.10 support.
• [#7678]: Add support for Apple Silicon.

Deprecated

• #7701: deprecate 'kivy.utils.SafeList'.
• [#7786]: WindowBase: Add on_drop_begin, on_droptext and on_drop_end events.

Breaking changes

• [#6290]: Widget: Fix signature of add/remove/clear_widget in subclasses to be consistent with base class.
• [#7264]: Camera: Change play default to False.
• [#7356]: Widget: Widget.clear_widgets providing empty widget list does not remove any children, unlike None that clears all the children.
• [#7437]: TextInput: Remove broken and confusing suggestion_text property
• [#7744]: Change default input_type to null. Add some warning regarding TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS
• [#7763]: Removed Python3.6 from the supported ones, it reached EOL
• [#7820]: kivy_deps.gstreamer releases 0.3.0, 0.14, 0.15, and 0.16 were deleted from PyPi to conserve space. They were not used, but if you did depend on them you can download them from https://kivy.org/downloads/ci/win/deps/.

Kv-lang

• [#7371]: KV: Allow using f-strings in KV-lang
• [#7703]: refactor kivy.lang

Misc

• [#7204]: Kivy: print kivy's version even when not a release.
• [#7271]: Inspector: Prevent circular import breaking Window
• [#7403]: Exceptions: Fix typos in message
• [#7433]: Source: Fix typos in source code
• [#7453]: Screen: Added Oneplus 6t in screen module

Packaging

• [#7341]: OSX: Use platform.machine() for osx version detection
• [#7605]: PyInstaller hook: Replace modname_tkinter with 'tkinter'
• [#7781]: PyInstaller develop version isn't needed anymore

Widgets

• [#7049]: Camera: Fix GI camera provider crash when no texture is available after loading
• [#7213]: ScrollView: Match scroll effect stop condition to start condition.
• [#7261]: Camera: Revert "Fixes crash during camera configuration"
• [#7262]: RecycleGridLayout : Fix layout when number of widgets match number of columns
• [#7264]: Camera: Change play default to False
• [#7322]: Widget: fix export_to_png not passing arguments through
• [#7353]: RecycleLayout: Allow setting x, y sizing of views independently
• [#7372]: Focus: Allow modifiers (e.g. numlock) be present to tab cycle focus
• [#7383]: Dropdown: Fix reposition in scrollview/recycleview
• [#7391]: Factory: Registered TouchRippleBehavior and TouchRippleButtonBehavior with Factory
• [#7426]: Dropdown: Ensure visibility on reposition
• [#7434]: ModalView: code cleanup regarding detection of main-Window:
• [#7437]: TextInput: Remove broken and confusing suggestion_text property
• [#7457]: ScrollView: Fix for scroll bar areas blocking clicks when scroll is disabled with overscroll
• [#7471]: Video: Add support for preview image
• [#7488]: FocusBehavior: Fix assumption that modifiers is always a set.
• [#7520]: Video: Fixed handling eos after unloading
• [#7527]: Label: Fix label not displaying as disabled if it is disabled when created
• [#7548]: Fixes issue #7514 ('auto_halign_r' referenced before assignment)
• [#7610]: Added scroll from swipe feature in TextInput
• [#7612]: Fixed unexpected overscrolling bug when using mouse wheel
• [#7615]: Fixed unexpected overscrolling bug when using mouse wheel, complement to #7612
• [#7618]: Fixed TextInput visual selection bugs while scrolling
• [#7621]: Fixed inconsistent behavior of TextInput bubble and handles
• [#7622]: Fixes TextInput cursor issues when resizing/scrolling
• [#7631]: Fixes some bugs in the TextInput if the text is right-aligned or center-aligned and not multiline.
• [#7636]: Textinput on double tap improvement
• [#7641]: Textinput: Fixes issues #7165, #7236, #7235
• [#7642]: TextInput loading time optimisation for large texts
• [#7706]: SettingColor: Change method name to get_color_from_hex
• [#7737]: CodeInput: fixed disappearing lines after inserting text
• [#7740]: TextInput: easier tokenize delimiters setting; quotes removed from default delimiters
• [#7775]: Don't let 'ScrollEffect.reset()' set 'is_manual' to True
• [#7796]: EventManagerBase: Fix indentation and typos in the doc
• [#7807]: Textinput: Simplified the swipe feature logic. Fixed a bug that was preventing to show the select all / paste bubble
• [#7814]: ⚡ Prevent crash (overflow error) when scrollbar is hidden
• [#7816]: VideoPlayer: Defer before the next frame the default thumbnail and annotations loading

Core-app

• [#7173]: Logger: Do not mutate log record, fixes #7062
• [#7245]: Resources: Add a cache for resource_find
• [#7293]: Properties: Add dynamic screen density/dpi support
• [#7300]: Logger: Remove refactoring artifact
• [#7307]: Logger: Remove purge log's randomized behavior
• [#7326]: Command line: Fix disabling kivy cmd args
• [#7429]: Clock: Print remaining events before next frame upon too much iteration error
• [#7505]: EventLoopBase: Remove provider from auto-remove list
• [#7508]: App: Process app quit event while paused
• [#7512]: EventLoopBase: Start/stop event loop only once
• [#7749]: collections fix for python 3.10
• [#7763]: Removed Python3.6 from the supported ones, it reached EOL
• [#7771]: Explain the '--' separator for option parsing.
• [#7810]: Track whether the clock has started

Core-providers

• [#7228]: Image: Fix PIL label rendering shadow
• [#7231]: Keyboard: Add keyboard suggestions and fix input type on android
• [#7260]: Camera: Use NSString instead of AVCaptureSessionPreset in order to support MacOS < 10.13
• [#7263]: Camera: Added API to change avfoundation camera provider orientation
• [#7279]: Window: prevent "empty" mousewheel events from breaking scrollview
• [#7290]: Camera: improve avfoundation by using memoryview and re-scheduling the interval on framerate change
• [#7299]: Window: Handle DPI Windows messages until SDL2 handles them
• [#7303]: Camera: Fix AVFoundation provider to release the camera, start it async, and check if started before stopping it
• [#7339]: Camera: Android camera focus mode fix
• [#7347]: Window: Delay binding dpi until window is ready.
• [#7389]: Mouse: Fix mouse being offset by 2 pixels vertically
• [#7390]: SoundAndroidPlayer: Properly stop after playback completion
• [#7409]: Window: Fix logging message
• [#7418]: Video: Reduce latency from user interaction for ffpyplayer
• [#7467]: Text: Raise when registering a font_regular with None
• [#7484]: WindowBase: Add to_normalized_pos method
• [#7517]: Core: Use importlib's import for compatibility with patching
• [#7541]: SoundLoader: Fix play calls not working in ffpyplayer after the first
• [#7620]: removed print and added logging to flipVert
• [#7637]: Added Custom titlebar support
• [#7647]: WindowBase: Change type of clearcolor property to ColorProperty
• [#7648]: WindowBase: Add transform_motion_event_2d method
• [#7688]: Fix dds header comparison
• [#7726]: Window.softinput_mode fix for "pan" and "below_target" modes when using kivy virtual keyboard.
• [#7744]: Change default input_type to null. Add some warning regarding TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS
• [#7770]: WindowBase: Update bind list of properties: system_size, size, width, height and center
• [#7778]: WindowBase: Don't return motion event in transform_motion_event_2d method
• [#7786]: WindowBase: Add on_drop_begin, on_droptext and on_drop_end events
• [#7793]: WindowBase|WindowSDL: Add drop position for all on_drop_xxx events
• [#7795]: WindowBase: Add *args to on_drop_xxx events

Core-widget

• [#6290]: Widget: Fix signature of add/remove/clear_widget to be consistent with base class
• [#7209]: Animation: Allow canceling all animated widgets
• [#7356]: Widget: Widget.clear_widgets empty widget list does not remove all children
• [#7424]: Properties: Speed up bare widget creation (3X) and property dispatching/setting
• [#7439]: Properties: Drop long number type and document numpy issues with NumericProperty
• [#7442]: EventDispatcher: Removed/replaced all basestring occurrences with str
• [#7445]: EventDispatcher: Rename method unregister_event_types to unregister_event_type
• [#7449]: TextInput: Fix readonly mode preventi...

Kivy 2.0.0

The Kivy team is happy to announce the release of Kivy 2.0.0.

Kivy is a full-featured framework for creating novel and performant user
interfaces, such as multi-touch applications, released under the MIT license.
The framework works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

• This is the first release to not support Python 2.7 - hence the increase in Kivy's major version to 2. Currently supported Python versions are 3.6 - 3.9.
• Installation has been largely simplified and all platforms now support a simpler pip install (see below).

Installation instructions and Kivy documentation is available on the Kivy website:

https://kivy.org

or on GitHub.

Installation notes

Kivy can now be installed into your Virtual Environment on Windows, Linux, OSX, and RPi simply with:

pip install kivy[base] kivy-examples
# or to get the media dependecies as well
pip install kivy[base,media] kivy-examples
# or to get most kivy optional dependencies
pip install kivy[full] kivy-examples

* For the RPi, additional system dependencies should be pre-installed.

These selectors allow specifying dependency categories, instead of having to pin Kivy's kivy_deps dependencies to specific versions. These selectors will install the proper dependency version to match Kivy's version.

Additionally, by default, Kivy will install the base dependencies even if base is not specified. In order to facilitate easier install for GUI installation users e.g. in PyCharm. However, this may change as pip evolves and base should be manually specified. Use pip's --no-deps flag to disable it.

See the selector documentation for more details.

Installation from source has also been simplified, relying on pip's pyproject.toml. See the simplified instructions.

Highlights

• [#6351]: Support for Python 2 has been dropped and Kivy source code is now incompatible with Python 2.

• [#6368]: Support for async has been added to Kivy. Kivy can now run cooperatively, in the same process or thread as asynchronous code.

  We currently support the stdlib asyncio framework and the excellent trio framework. See the kivy examples for how to use it.

Breaking changes

• [#6351]: Core: Drop Python 2 support.
• [#6368]: Core: Add async support to kivy App
• [#6448]: EventDispatcher: Move __self__ from widget to EventDispatcher and fix tests.
• [#6467]: Graphics: Change filename to source
• [#6469]: ModalView: Updating ModalView to improve theming
• [#6607]: Window: Fix SDL Keycode Typo
• [#6650]: DropDown/ModalView: Make modal and dropdown consistent
• [#6677]: Widget: Remove id from Widget.
• [#6678]: ScrollView: Add always_enable_overscroll property on scrollview
• [#6721]: Image: Remove gpl gif implementation
• [#6918]: ColorProperty: Use ColorProperty instead of ListProperty for color property
• [#6937]: Base: Rename slave to embedded
• [#6950]: Cache: Raise KeyError if None is used as key in Cache

Changelog

Kv-lang

• [#6442]: KV lang: Make it easy to copy Builder and Factory and make them all contexts.
• [#6548]: Factory: Meaningful Error Message
• [#6880]: KV: Use utf-8 encoding by default on reading .kv files. Fixes #5154

Misc

• [#6323]: Loader: User agent was not correctly resolved.
• [#6658]: Garden: Fixes incorrect path to kivy garden libs on iOS
• [#6703]: Network: Fix https in python3.x
• [#6748]: Network: Extend certifi usage to ios
• [#6922]: WeakMethod: Fx and cleanup WeakMethod usage
• [#6931]: VIM: Fix and improve vim syntax highlighting for kv lang
• [#6945]: Cache: Don't double copy keys when purging cache by timeout
• [#6950]: Cache: Raise KeyError if None is used as key in Cache
• [#6954]: Network: Ignore ca_file on http scheme, fixes #6946
• [#7054]: Networking: User Agent and Cookies added to UrlRequest

Packaging

• [#6359]: Packaging: Fix path by setting to bytes
• [#6643]: PyInstaller: List kivy.weakmethod because pyinstaller doesn't see into cython files
• [#6772]: PyInstaller: window_info is not included in x86 pyinstaller
• [#7080]: OSX: Generate Kivy.app on the CI

Widgets

• [#6288]: TextInput: Cache text property in TextInput
• [#6362]: Carousel: Let 'Carousel._curr_slide()' prepare for the situation where 'index' is None
• [#6365]: Carousel: Let 'Carousel.remove_widget()' remove the container of the widget
• [#6372]: Carousel: make 'Carousel.remove_widget()' not cause 'IndexError'
• [#6374]: Carousel: Make 'Carousel' able to handle the case where 'loop == True' and 'len(slides) == 2'
• [#6436]: ColorWheel: Remove bug in algorithm to compute arcs of colorwheel (#6435)
• [#6469]: ModalView: Updating ModalView to improve theming
• [#6481]: ScreenManager: Make clear_widgets correctly iterate over screens
• [#6542]: TextInput: Fixes TextInput Bubble from diseappering immediately after it appears
• [#6543]: TextInput: Fixes TextInput cursor "rendering" issue
• [#6574]: TreeViewNode: Fix arrow pos and size
• [#6579]: Slider: Horizontal value track is offset from the center of Slider
• [#6624]: Filechooser: Use full path
• [#6650]: DropDown/ModalView: Make modal and dropdown consistent
• [#6666]: TextInput: Fix for crashes caused by text selection outside of TextInput area
• [#6678]: ScrollView: Add always_enable_overscroll property on scrollview
• [#6741]: GridLayout: Add 'orientation' property to GridLayout
• [#6815]: Image: Fixes for Image and AsyncImage
• [#6859]: Slider: Adding allow_stretch to Slider in style.kv
• [#6879]: VKeyboard: Fix key_background_color property not used
• [#6897]: RecycleView: Add behavior to set RV data using kv ids
• [#6905]: FileChooser: Add font property
• [#6912]: TextInput: Remove 'encode' argument from getter method of 'text' property of TextInput
• [#6918]: ColorProperty: Use ColorProperty instead of ListProperty for color property
• [#6942]: ScrollView: Don't crash when scrollview's content is the same size
• [#6971]: Camera: Fix an inconsistency between docs and code on Camera
• [#6976]: ModalView: Prevent modalview dismissal without on_touch_down
• [#6985]: ScrollView: Fix scrollview scroll/effect recursion
• [#7009]: TextInput: IME support for textinput
• [#7021]: ColorProperty: Use ColorProperty for remaining color properites
• [#7032]: ScreenManager: Fix typo in SlideTransition
• [#7069]: ScrollView: Horizontal scrolling disabled if no overflow
• [#7074]: Splitter: Fix handling offset
• [#7118]: GridLayout : optimize GridLayout
• [#7129]: TabbedPanel: Stop tab buttons from scrolling around
• [#7196]: ScrollView: fix jumping to bottom when using scrollwheel.

Core-app

• [#6351]: Core: Drop Python 2 support.
• [#6368]: Core: Add async support to kivy App
• [#6376]: Cython: Set cython language_level to py3.
• [#6381]: Inspector: Use sets to check if inspector should be activated.
• [#6404]: App: Fix pausing without app instance
• [#6458]: Core: Fix memory leaks by cleaning up after resources
• [#6540]: Config: fix erroneous check of KIVY_NO_ENV_CONFIG
• [#6581]: Dependencies: Bump max cython version
• [#6729]: DDSFile: ddsfile.py fix for string/bytes comparing for py3
• [#6773]: Clock: Add correct value of CLOCK_MONOTONIC for OpenBSD
• [#6798]: Platform: Corrected platform detection on Android
• [#6910]: Logger: Add encoding
• [#6926]: Clock: Add clock lifecycle, better exception handling and other cleanup
• [#6937]: Base: Rename slave to embedded
• [#6994]: EventLoop: Don't do event loop stuff when stopped.
• [#7083]: Core: Add _version.py and move updating version metadata to the CI
• [#7112]: Python: Require python version >=3.6
• [#7132]: Python: Add support for Python 3.9.
• [#7151]: Dependencies: Bump cython to 0.29.21
• [#7178]: Dependencies: Add dependency selection varaibles
• [#7181]: Logging: Added color support for compatible terminals

Core-providers

• [#6384]: Window: Allow window providers to indicate which gl backends they are compatible with
• [#6422]: Label: Fixes multiline label w/ line_height < 1
• [#6433]: Window: Center cache problem on MacOS
• [#6461]: Audio: Fix playing audio streams from ffpyplayer
• [#6507]: Text: Revert "Fixes multiline label w/ line_height < 1"
• [#6513]: Text: Fix issue #6508 Multiline label w/ line_height < 1 renders badly (workaround)
• [#6515]: Text: Fixes positioning (valign) issue when using max_lines
• [#6578]: Window: Revert swap forced sync (#4219) as it causes performance issue
• [#6589]: Window: Add the ability to show statusbar on iOS
• [#6603]: Audio: Native audio support for Android
• [#6607]: Window: Fix SDL Keycode Typo
• [#6608]: Audio: Replace deprecated variables in audio providers
• [#6721]: Image: Remove gpl gif implementation
• [#6743]: Clipboard: xclip less verbose Kivy startup
• [#6754]: Text: Properly raise errors reading a font
• [#6947]: Image: Remove 'img_gif' entry from image_libs
• [#6988]: Camera: Improve avfoundation camera implementation on iOS
• [#7071]: Camera: Fixes crash during camera configuration
• [#7102]: Audio: Added loop functionality for SoundAndroidPlayer

Core-widget

• [#5926]: Animation: Fix kivy.animation.Sequence and kivy.animation.Parallel consistency
• [#6373]: Properties: Allow observable list and dict dispatch to propagate exceptions.
• [#6441]: EventDispatcher: Move Widget proxy_ref upwards to EventDispatcher
• [#6443]: Property: Initialize KV created property with default value
• [#6448]: EventDispatcher: Move __self__ from widget to EventDispatcher and ...

Kivy 1.11.1

This release fixed some issues with the docs, the CI, and Kivy dependencies that was introduced in 1.11.0 (#6357).

Kivy 1.11.0

We are pleased to announce Kivy 1.11.0.

Kivy is a full featured framework for creating novel and performant user
interfaces, such as multitouch applications, released under the MIT license.
The framework works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

• This is the last release to support Python 2.7. The next release will only support Python 3.5+.
• This is also the first release with Kivy wheels for Linux (3.5+ only, Windows and macOS already have wheels).
• Windows dependencies are now under the kivy_deps.xxx namespace external to Kivy, rather than kivy.deps.xxx under Kivy. Whether you're upgrading Kivy, please pin the dependency versions when installing because Kivy binary dependencies are not generally backward compatible [#6312].
• The kivy.garden.flower namespace is similarly being transitioned to the kivy_garden.flower namespace.

See below for more details.

Downloads and installation instructions are available on the Kivy website:

https://kivy.org

Installation notes

Windows

• [#6324]: We are transitioning the kivy Windows dependencies from the kivy.deps.xxx namespace stored under kivy/deps/xxx to the kivy_deps.xxx namespace stored under kivy_deps/xxx. Pip is sometimes not able to distinguish between these two formats, so follow the instructions below.
  • If you're not upgrading Kivy, please make sure to pin your kivy.deps.xxx==x.y.z dependencies to the versions that was on pypi when your Kivy was released so that you don't get newer incompatible dependencies.
  • If you're upgrading Kivy, manually uninstall all the kivy.deps.xxx dependencies because pip will not uninstall them when you're upgrading. Then re-install the kivy_deps.xxx dependencies as instructed on the Kivy website.
  • If you're installing the first time, simply follow the instructions on Kivy's website.

Linux and macOS

The new Linux wheels (#6248) can be installed with just pip install kivy, however, just like on macOS it comes without the Gstreamer dependencies so it has no video and minor audio support. For video/audio support, please install ffpyplayer and set KIVY_VIDEO=ffpyplayer in the environment, or install kivy using an alternative method that provides these dependencies.

Highlights

Support

• [#5947]: We have moved from IRC to Discord. However, there's matrix integration if you are unable to use Discord. See https://kivy.org/doc/master/contact.html#discord.

Configuration

• [#6192]: Support for environmental variables that control the config in the form of KCFG_SECTION_KEY has been added. E.g. setting KCFG_KIVY_LOG_LEVEL=warning in the environment is the same as calling Config.set("kivy", "log_level", "warning") or setting the log_level in the kivy section of the config to warning. Note that underscores are not allowed in the section names.

  Any key set this will way will take precedence on the loaded config.ini file. Support for this can be disabled by setting the enviornmental variable KIVY_NO_ENV_CONFIG=1 and the environment will not be read for configuration options.

KV lang

• [#6257]: A new KV-Python integration event that fires when all the KV rules of the widget has been applied, on_kv_post, has been added to the Widget class. This event fires for a widget when all the KV rules it participates in has been applied and ids has been initialized. Binding to this event will let you execute code for your widget without having to schedule the code for the next clock cycle.

  Similarly, a new apply_class_lang_rules method was added to Widget that is called in order to apply the KV rules of that widget class. Inheriting and overwriting that method will give you the oppertunity to execute code before any KV rules are applied.

Garden

We are transitioning the Kivy garden flowers from the kivy.garden.flower namespace stored under kivy/garden/flower or ~/.kivy/garden to the normal python package format kivy_garden.flower namespace stored under kivy_garden/flower. With the new configuration, garden flowers will be pip installable, support cython flowers, and not require the custom garden tool.

We're hoping to transition all flowers to the new format, however, for now many flowers still require installation by the garden tool.

For users, see https://kivy-garden.github.io/index.html#generalusageguidelines. For developers, see https://kivy-garden.github.io/index.html#developmentguidelines for how to start a new flower, and https://kivy-garden.github.io/index.html#guideformigratingflowersfromlegacystructure for how to migrate existing flowers to the new format.

Other

• [#6186]: Live resizing has been added for desktop platforms that use the SDL2 window backend.

Deprecated

• [#6313]: Pygame has been deprecated. We urge users who have been using pygame to try SDL2 and
  our other providers. If there are any reasons why Pygame is used instead of SDL2 please let
  us know so we can fix them.

  Deprecation warnings have also been added to everything that has been deprecated in the past.

Breaking changes

• [#6095]: Changed the Android version to use App.user_data_dir for the configuration and added a missing dot to the config file name.
• [#5340]: Removed DropDown.dismiss in on_touch_down so it is only dismissed in on_touch_up.
• [#5990, #6169]: We now use pytest to run our tests rather than nose.
• [#5968]: Listview and all its associated modules has finally be removed in favor of RecycleView.

Changelog

Base

Cache

• [#5995]: : use Logger.trace to prevent the purge flooding terminal in debug
• [#5988]: Removed cache print statements

Config

• [#6333]: Properly chceck that KIVY_NO_ENV_CONFIG is not set to zero.

Inspector

• [#5919]: Let the Inspector browse into WeakProxy'd widgets

Logger

• [#6322]: PermissionError is not defined in py2.

Multistroke

• [#5821]: Increase timeout/sleep to increase test robustness

Network

• [#6256]: Set cookie header workaround
• [#6083]: Added the ability to stop (kill) the UrlRequest thread
• [#5964]: Allow setting url agent for async image and urlrequest

Properties

• [#6223]: Fix handling None values in DictProperty and ListProperty
• [#6055]: Cache values of AliasProperty where possible
• [#5960]: Fix Cython properties syntax
• [#5856]: Update AliasProperty to cache value only if "cache" argument is set to True
• [#5841]: fix issues with disabled aliasproperty

Storage

• [#6230]: Update jsonstore.py

Tools

• [#6330]: Create changelog_parser.py
• [#5797]: fix syntax table for emacs kivy-mode

Utils

• [#6175]: kivy.utils.rgba function bug fix for python 3 (used to crash)

CI

• [#6311]: Fix versioning in CI and in kivy.
• [#6295]: Add pep8 stage and name builds on travis
• [#6250]: Disable wheel building on osx by not watching travis cron status.
• [#6187]: Make travis brew update more reliable
• [#6148]: Fix some travis errors
• [#5985]: Remove notification webhook from travis
• [#5978]: tell travis to use bionic instead of trusty for tests
• [#5977]: Fix travis flaky test
• [#5973]: try using xcode10 for travis, as we cannot reproduce the imageio issue locally
• [#5934]: Fix repo path in github app config comment
• [#5845]: fix osx wheels

Core

Camera

• [#6168]: fix broken update to avfoundation
• [#6156]: Adding fixes to support ios camera
• [#6119]: Add support for opencv 4
• [#6051]: Update camera_android.py; fixes camera for Python 3
• [#6033]: adding division future import to prevent further fps bugs
• [#6032]: ensure floating point math when calculating fps
• [#6027]: Fix 5146
• [#5940]: Set android camera to autofocus
• [#5922]: Updated camera_opencv.py to use reshape(-1) instead of tostring()

Clipboard

• [#6178]: Clipboard: fixes for nspaste

Image

• [#6194]: imageio: fix jpg/png saving
• [#6193]: Image: don't force iteration if we reuse the cache
• [#6142]: Fixes SDL2 image loading (jpg)
• [#6122]: Allow saving a core Image into BytesIO
• [#5822]: AsyncImage test fix for Windows py2.7

Spelling

• [#5951]: Add a warning about support for pyenchant on windows

Text

• [#5970]: fix styles from latests PR
• [#5962]: Pango + fontconfig/freetype2 text provider

Video

• [#6270]: Suggest how to fix unable to create playbin error.
• [#6246]: Disabled set_volume() in core.video.ffpyplayer play() function. Fix for #6210
• [#5959]: Issue 5945

Window

• [#6283]: Limit live resize to desktop
• [#6179]: window: fix multiple resize sent, and always sent the GL size, never …
• [#6164]: Removed default orientation hints on Android
• [#6138]: Fix android's sensor orientation
• [#6133]: Make top/left of window dispatch events on updates
• [#6107]: Fixed fullscreen and orientation handling to work with SDL-2.0.9 on Android
• [#6092]: Fix sdl close inconsistencies. closes #4194

Doc

• [#6343]: Fix docs for the release
• [#6334]: Add docs for linux wheels
• [#6316]: Update doc of AliasProperty
• [#6296]: Remove duplicate installation instructions.
• [#6282]: example for adding, background_color to Label
• [#6217]: add a few kv examples to widget docs
• [#6215]: Added pillow as a required python library
• [#6214]: Grammar tweaks
• [#6204]: Update OSX Install instructions for MakeSymlinks
• [#6199]: Replace "it's" with "its" in several places
• [#6198]: Correct a grammar mistake in two places
• [#6189]: Update docs referring the change from nose tests to pytest
• [#6185]: Raises minimum OSX version for current DMG.
• [#6180]: Updated version no. for SDL building
• [#6159]: Update installation for RPI with notes for latest Raspian issues
• [#6129]: typo in doc comments
• [#6124]: Removed doc note...

1.10.1

This was supposedly a bugfix releases, but a few new features have
managed to get in, aside that, a lot of fixes are included.

Highlighted changes:

• It's now possible to query Window information with the SDL provider.
• SVG support improvements.
• Export_to_png now preserves widget's alpha.
• It's now possible to define a custom comparison for properties, to
  manage dispatching better.
• Layouts' add_widget method now accept the canvas argument that
  Widget's does.
• Fix for infamous SDL window issue on Linux.
• disabled property of widget now restores the previous value of
  disabled of children on unset.
• The tuio implementation now uses the new oscpy library instead of
  the bundled oscAPI module, this solves a lot of issues with python3
  and massively increase performances. The old OSC package is still
  shipped, but will be removed in future releases.
• On Linux, probesysfs input detection doesn't depend on getconf
  anymore, which makes it more portable.

This is the last release to officially support python 3.3 and 3.4.

For technical reasons, there is no 3.7 wheels for Windows yet, they will
come soon after our continuous integration infrastructure allows it.

Many thanks to: Peter Badida, Gabriel Pettier, Richard Larkin, Matthew
Einhorn, Mathieu Virbel, Armin Sebastian, germn, Akshay Arora, fruitbat,
Terje Skjaeveland, Alexander Taylor, Joseph Kogut, Zachary Spector,
DavidCaughell, ismailof, Atis, Boyan Hristov, The Cheaterman, Dominik
Lang, Rasmus Pedersen, Pablo Mendoza, Jan Kantert, audryste, parabolize,
Benoit HERVIER, DefaultUser, Emil Milanov, Eugene, GottaDiveIntoPython,
Volker Gaibler, loa-in-, scoder, skall, sugarlata, Adachinski, Alberto
Galera, Alexandre Esse, Andre Miras, Arien Tolner, Ashok Kumar P
(ParokshaX), Charlie Yan, Christophe CHAUVET, David H. Bronke, Dev,
EndilWayfare, Gleapsite, Kristian Sloth Lauszus, Leon Davison, Manthan
Sharma, Nafis Abdullah Khan, Piotr Kasprzyk, Rafał Kaczor, Ray Gomez,
Robert Bradshaw, Robert Niederreiter, Shubham Tatvamasi, Sumit Madhwani,
WillW, William Bernoudy, Yash Jain, brami, hajime, kinkoazc,
mahomahomaho, onnlv, phunsukwangdu, pythonic64, saband, verderten, and
水戸う納豆斎(Nattōsai Mitō), for their contributions to this release.

The Kivy team plans to drop support for python 2.7 before the end of
2018, but we hope to make multiple releases before that, as a lot of
work to streamline our release process was done during this release.

Full listing of changes by section (with pull request id when there was
one, or commit id when it was directly done on master).

Core
#4974: Video: update 'loaded' on new video, unload previous video
#5053: ffpyplayer video: update frame/position on seek if video paused
#5109: Add textedit event for text editing by IME
#5187: Fix Windows clipboard when pasting a file
#5206: Touchscreen fixes
#5220: Redeclare Svg.reload as throwing an exception.
#5222: Fix typo in SVG
#5233: svg improvements
#5252: Add support for shaped windows
#5264: Remove double list copy in Animation._update
#5265: Remove dead code for SDL2 windowresized event
#5281: Make App.on_config_change an event
#5298: Add support for saving flipped Textures
#5305: img_pygame: Fix loading of binary alpha formats
#5312: ffpyplayer video: disable builtin subtitles by default
#5313: ffpyplayer video: better video seek
#5324: window_sdl2: Fix memory leak in screenshot
#5325: text_sdl2: Fix very unlikely memory leak
#5328: Fix build with cython 0.26
#5355: handle_exception defaults to RAISE, not STOP
#5362: Raspbian stretch egl library fix
#5377: Let dpi formatting exceptions in kv propagate out from cython.
#5382: Fix Json+DictStore not raising error for non-existing folder + unittest
#5387: _text_sdl2.pyx: Don't clear pixel memory twice
#5389: Don t drop SDL_Dropfile event while in pause #5388
#5393: Forward kwargs to config parser.
#5396: Actually display multitouch emulation if sim set to True.
#5421: Fix host/port handling in UrlRequest
#5423: Add probesysfs option to include devices that offer core pointer functionality
#5435: Changed Logger.error to Logger.warning on android import
#5437: Purge KV lang TRACE logs on demand with environment variable
#5459: audio_sdl2: Update for mixer v2.0.2 support
#5461: Monkey patch PIL frombytes & tobytes, fixes #5460
#5470: Added 'frag_modelview_mat' uniform to address #180
#5535: Fix FileNotFoundError when sys path doesn't exist
#5539: Window info
#5555: python3 package of Pillow needs a updated Import
#5556: Fixed loading fonts with dot in name, fixed spelling in Russisn examle
#5576: window_x11: implement get_window_info()
#5577: window_x11: fix python3 TypeError
#5579: Fix Ctypes Clipboard error with embeded null character
#5593: Fix float division by zero
#5612: raise exception when trying to add Widget with a parent to Window
#5621: do not use the clock in dealloc to prevent deadlock
#5624: Update LICENSE
#5664: Fixes renderbuffer leaking when creating Fbo
#5693: PiCamera-based camera provider for Raspberry Pi
#5703: Fixed format string mistake in Error Message
#5705: Check for activation before attaching to window. references #5645
#5716: Replace vendored lib/OSC and lib/oscAPI with oscpy.
#5778: Update extensions for ImageLoaderPIL

fc2c382: Update properties.pxd
5bf0ff0: Properties: Allow custom comparator.
cf7b55c: change opengl ids to unsigned ints
87897c4: Add on_textedit event to SDL2 Window (#5597)
4d9f19d: Expose "absolute" options in HIDInputMotionEventProvider class
ae3665c: camera: fix all export
53c2b4d: picamera: fix for python2. Closes #5698
d3d517d: Re-add gi camera provider.
d175cf8: Fix Inspector crash if shaped window is disabled
4deb360: Add sdl2 system cursors (#5308)
f5161a2: Clean hanging code (#5232)
b7906e7: Fix py2/py3 iteritems (#5194)
5961169: add versionadded tag for KIVY_BCM_DISPMANX_LAYER
ebeb6c4: cache.py bug fixes (#5107)
b4ab896: input: probesysfs: remove getconf dependency
58b9685: @triggered: add cancel method
f8194bb: Add test units to ClockTestCase
dafc07c: @triggered: Set default timeout=0
061891c: Add decorator for Clock.create_trigger()
1c855eb: on_joy_ball is called with 2 position valuesc
1a20a3a: Prioritize XClip for clipboard on Linux

Widgets
#4905: Removed textinput cursor bug #3237
#5167: Add support for RST replace
#5200: Added abs_tol argument to isclose call to ensure no float edge cases
#5212: fix #5184: ScrollView bar_margin affects also touch position
#5218: Add support for footnotes to RST
#5243: Fix for crash when setting is_focusable property in issue #5242
#5255: Fix race condition in AsyncImage
#5260: Disable emacs bindings for Alt-Gr (Ctrl+Alt) key
#5263: Avoid Animation.cancel_all(Window) that interfers with user animations
#5268: Fix crash when instantiating ActionView(use_separator=True)
#5335: issue #5333 - actionbar throws exception when resized
#5339: Rewrite ActionGroup from Spinner to Button+DropDown
#5370: Fix all ScreenManagers sharing the same transition
#5379: Allow negative values in textinput with filters.
#5413: Don't pass touch to children when outside the ScrollView.
#5418: Add text_validate_unfocus option to TextInput
#5445: Resize treeview collapse. closes #5426
#5455: Add TextInput cursor blinking control
#5472: export widget canvas to png including alpha values
#5484: DragBehavior: Transform window coordinates to parent coordinates befo…
#5567: EffectWidget: Correct typo 'setdefaults' to 'setdefault'
#5641: Fix LabelBase.register() to behave as documented
#5715: Let Layout.add_widget use the canvas argument
#5748: Add canvas argument to FloatLayout.add_widget
#5764: Fix #5761 AsyncImage reload() doesn't invalidate Loader Cache
#5632: Fixes #5632, typo of col instead of row.
9a8603d: hotfix: Stop AccordionItem collapse animation
a432e0d: Let BoxLayout.add_widget use the canvas argument
37ccbfa: pass an empty list for "buttons" param to create_touch
8da2272: Remove ineffective changes
2faa6a9: doc: Added default value to Scatter 'do_collide_after_children' property
faa03f7: Gridlayout min size bounds check (#5278)
27e3b90: Fix touch passing down when overlapping TextInputs (#5189)
5e2b718: Fix image size and comment handling in RST (#5197)
b505b1d: Add on_load to AsyncImage (#5195)
873427d: Add Slider.sensitivity (#5145)
d06ea4d: Deprecate the Widget's id property

Tests
#5226: Add test for ScrollView bars
#5282: Add test for _init_rows_cols_sizes
#5346: Add unittest for ActionBar
#5368: Unittesting features
#5372: test_video.py: Fix misleading class name
#5374: Fix creating 'results' folder in GraphicUnitTest if not making screenshots
#5378: Add test for Inspector module, fix children order for ModalView
#5381: Add test for KV event/property + trailing space
#5399: Add unittest for Mouse multitouch simulator
#5433: Add simple guide for GraphicUnitTest
#5446: Add unittest for AsyncImage + remote .zip sequence
#5489: Add unittest for TextInput selection overwrite
#5607: Add unittest for Vector.segment_intersection floatingpoint error
6b93d8a: Fix unicode error
c9ecb40: Add test for RST replace

Docs
#5170: Fix typo in installation/windows.rst
#5177: Fix comments for paste in textinput.py
#5221: Docs: Link methods, remove empty title
#5227: Add gstreamer to ubuntu install
#5240: Settings in example are faulty
#5270: doc: add missing escape characters into Linux installation instructions
#5307: Docs: Explain handling Popup in KV
#5330: Docs: Rewrite system cursor
#5424: Add notice about Kivy.app not being available for download
#5439: OSX Install Instruction Update - Cython explicit version
#5458: Add docs for setting Window.shape_mode
#5518: less renaming
#5519: oxford
#5520: Documentation consisten...

Kivy 1.10.0

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1.9.1

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