Starting with this release, we publish statically-linked Linux binaries! We also provide a Dockerfile to build RGBDS.

Deprecated:

• Defining symbols without using DEF (use {interpolation} if you relied on EQUS expansion for defined symbol names)
• RGBASM -H/--nop-after-halt and -l/-auto-ldh options (which are now off by default)

Added:

• Multiple instructions can go on one line, separated by ::
• #"raw strings" don't process any escapes (not even interpolation or macro args!)
• DS ALIGN[size, offset] to insert padding until the next alignment boundary within the same section
• RGBASM allows defining local labels for scopes that aren't active
• INCHARMAP function to check if a string matches a charmap value
• SIZEOF and STARTOF can now take section types like WRAM0 as argument
• ENDSECTION explicitly ends a section
• DS in RGBLINK linker scripts
• OPTIONAL sections in RGBLINK linker scripts
• FLOATING addresses in RGBLINK linker scripts (should improve SDCC interop)
• RGBASM -X/--max-errors stops after too many errors, with a default of 100
• Linker scripts support ALIGN alignment, offset
• RGBFIX warns when SGB compatibility is set with the wrong "old licensee", even if not setting it via RGBFIX itself
• RGBGFX can generate a palette from a spec, without an input image
• RGBGFX forces transparent colors to take slot #0 in all palettes
• RGBGFX -O/--group-outputs bases automatic output filenames on the output path, instead of the input path

Removed:

• name: MACRO syntax (use MACRO name instead)
• Escaped commas "\," inside strings (not necessary in macro arguments)
• __FILE__ and __LINE__
• Exported labels cannot have a space between their two colons (Label: : is invalid)

Changed:

• RGBASM -Wtruncation=1 will not warn about 8-bit ~$FF or 16-bit ~$FFFF values
• The memory usage summary in .map files is now placed at the top of the file
• Alignment offsets in RGBASM can now be negative (ALIGN 8, -1 is equivalent to ALIGN 8, 255)
• RGBGFX's --output-* options have been renamed to --auto-* for clarity
• RGBLINK .sym files sort symbols at the same address by their locality
• RGBLINK -S/--scramble prioritizes higher banks
• RGBGFX's long --output-* flags are renamed to --auto-*
• All programs show usage help when given missing or incorrect command-line arguments
• Add --only-free and --help options to test scripts
• PURGE arguments can go in any order