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@SiegeLord SiegeLord released this 06 Jun 04:34
· 192 commits to master since this release

Changes from 5.2.7 to 5.2.8 (June 2022)

The main developers this time were: SiegeLord, Elias Pschernig,
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, Julian Smythe.

Build system:

  • Add a configuration summary. Currently this mostly reports the addon features.

  • Fix build failure with sanitizers enabled.

  • Remove -Wdeclaration-after-statement, MSVC had support for this for a while
    now.

  • Bump minimum CMake version to 3.0.

Core:

  • Add al_fopen_slice mode to prevent seek on close (Karl Robillard).

  • Allow configuring bitmap wrapping via al_set_new_bitmap_wrap.

Graphics:

  • Reject creating bitmaps with negative width or height (Peter Hull).

  • Add a minimal shader implementation for GLSL. Minimal shader supports fewer
    features, but is faster (Issue #1120). Select it via the _MINIMAL suffix to
    the shader platforms.

Emscripten:

  • Improve emscripten instructions for building demos (Connor Clark).

  • Fix usage of SDL_Init for emscripten (Issue #1322) (Connor Clark).

OSX:

  • Fix a few thread-related crashes.

  • Don't use -flat_namespace in LINK_FLAGS (danielnachun).

  • Make al_get/set_window_position work on Retina displays

Windows:

  • Fix flickering when creating multisampling displays under DirectX.

  • Fix multisampling selection on Windows with OpenGL.

  • Fixed a bug which freezes and crashes the window in Windows OpenGL
    (HerrNamenlos123).

  • Allow specifying shader model 3_0 for HLSL shaders (Issue #1154).

SDL:

  • Ignore touch events from indirect touch devices.

  • Use SDL_PeepEvents for event handling, to improve performance.

  • Improve joysticks support (Issue #1326) (Connor Clark).

  • Fix mouse axis setter (Connor Clark).

Linux:

  • Use clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of gettimeofday
    (check-switch-26).

Android:

  • Update Gradle to 5.0.

Audio addon:

  • Add ALLEGRO_PLAYMODE_LOOP_ONCE (Issue #1309).

  • Add al_play_audio_stream, a 'simple' API endpoint for audio stream playback.

Acodec addon:

  • Fix Vorbis/Opus support under MSVC + Clang.

  • Add audio identification / al_identify_sample.

  • Use regular seeking for Ogg streams. The old one did cross-fades, causing
    unexpected behavior in certain cases (Issue #1310).

  • Enable looping for modules.

Audio addon:

  • Allow identifying and listing audio devices via new API:
    al_get_num_audio_output_devices, al_get_audio_output_device,
    al_get_audio_device_name (Aldrik Ramaekers).

Color addon:

  • Add linear and oklab color spaces to the color addon.

Font addon:

  • Fix declaration of al_draw_multiline_textf() as a PRINTFUNC (check-switch-26).

Image addon:

  • Prevent RLE data in corrupt .tga from overflowing the buffer (Peter Hull).

  • PCX loader validation (Peter Hull).

  • Windows BMP - Make more robust to crashing (Peter Hull).

  • Fix DDS compressed image loading when image dimensions are not multiple of
    block size (check-switch-26).

Native Dialog addon:

  • Fix native dialogs addon compatibility with older GTK+ versions
    (Andrew Kravchuk).

TTF addon:

  • Fixed TTF rendering when using transforms (check-switch-26).

PhysFS addon:

  • Fix incorrect error handling in PHYSFS_close (j-w-c-b).

Video addon:

  • Allow identifying video files via a magic number, exposed via
    al_identify_video (Issue #1262).

  • Fix al_is_video_addon_initalized (Jayson).

Documentation:

  • Document some reasonable defaults for al_create_mixer/al_create_voice.

  • Refactor the audio docs to highlight the simple API better.

Misc:

  • Fix a few data race issues, in an effort to fix ex_threads crashes on Linux.

Examples:

  • Allow exiting from ex_audio_timer (BillKek)

  • Add the Allegro 4 "shooter" demo.

  • Fix ex_threads crash under D3D.

  • Add ex_audio_devices.

  • Update ex_palette to build with Emscripten (Issue #1318).

  • Improve ex_stream_seek.

  • Improve ex_windows.