Future

1.9.2

3DS: Enable graphics widgets / overlays
3DS: Load texture images as BGR colors
3DS: Change default asset directory
CHEEVOS: Allow rcheevos_patch_address to be called on game without achievements
CHEEVOS: Update achievement memory maps (add Supervision)
CONFIG/FILE: Use hash map to optimise key/value lookups
CORE INFO: Performance optimisations + code clean-ups/refactors
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed CRTSwitchRes framebuffer bug
DISCORD/RP: Fix regression
DRM: set the correct video mode
FASTFORWARD: Enforce minimum fastforward_ratio of 1.0
FONTS/FREETYPE/STB_UNICODE/BITMAPFONT: Prevent texture bleed when rendering text at non-integer scales
INPUT: Ensure that 'retro_set_controller_port_device' is called when updating 'Max Users'
INPUT/XEGL/MOUSE: Fix xegl_ctx.c mouse activation
INPUT/SDL: Fix crash in SDL input driver when analogs are bound.
INPUT/POINTER: Add scaling to pointer input.
INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression on loading file
INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression where disabling input remapping would disable input
IOS: Disable system button gestures on iOS 14
IOS: Prevent potential crash on controller connect - randomly would get a crash when connecting a game controller while RA was running
LAKKA: Add menu for time zone setting
LOGGING: RARCH_LOG_V checking for verbosity level is not necessary and can cause issues; removed said check.
LOGGING: Silence inappropriate cheatfile logging
IOS/MAC: Add CPU VFP unit detection for Darwin
MAC: Swallow 'escape' key being pressed - would previously make the game toggle between fullscreen and windowed
MAC: Intel and ARM64 timer change proposal.
MAC/ARM64: run_fast_mode disabled for 64 bits invalid instructions.
MAC/OPENGL: Fix codesigning issue
MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add TTS translation service support.
MENU: Add optional menu screensaver
MENU: Add search filter support to cheats and overlays file browser menus
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Enhanced 'Load Content' file browser search functionality
MENU/INPUT: Block accidental diagonals in menu navigation
MENU/RGUI: Add option to disable menu transparency
MENU/RGUI: Fix display of 'Video > Scaling' menu when 'Lock Menu Aspect Ratio' is enabled
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon to 'Turbo Fire' menu entry
MENU/OZONE: Ozone Dracula theme
OPENDINGUX/BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running GBA-resolution content
OPENDINGUX/BETA: Add 50Hz support
OPENDINGUX: Enable 'SaveRAM Autosave Interval' by default
PATCHES: Added multi-softpatching support + OSD messages for patches
RHMAP: Track the complete string in rhmap
VITA: Align VM block size to 1MB - should fix one of the issues with gpSP
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix non-ASCII text rendering
XEGL: Fix mouse not working when using OpenGLES with X11

1.9.1

3DS: Graphics widgets support
3DS: On error, only init gfx on salamander build. This prevents graphical issues if the gfx is already initialized. Which should always be the case if called from a running core
3DS: Update error applet
3DS: Enable online Core Updater
3DS: Guard threading
3DS: Allow sideways screen rotation
3DS: Enable threading and add a threaded audio driver
ANDROID: Implementation of fullscreen over notch function (for Android 9.0 and up)
ANDROID: Add Play Store module support.
ANDROID: Add option to switch all installed cores to Play Store versions
AUDIO: Memalign audio buffers to 64 bytes. This is the most common cache line size, helps with performance. Also fixes issues with platforms like PSP that wrongly assume that malloc returns aligned buffers (to 16bytes). This recently broke the PSP builds
AUDIO/ALSA: Fix float format detection
AUDIO/JACK: Deinterleave in the process callback. This allows us to avoid the extra copy to the deinterleave buffer and lets us use only a single jack ringbuffer.
AUDIO/JACK: (Audio/JACK) Fix non-blocking write. Previously we would wait on the condition variable even in the non-blocking case. This improves fast-forward performance massively and brings JACK in line with other backends in that regard.
AUDIO/XAUDIO2: Fix threaded audio bugs with cores like Dinothawr
CONFIG: Add support for saving per-directory core options and deleting core option overrides
CONFIG: Enable saving of changed parameters when '#include' directives are used
CONFIG/DIRS: Enable configuration of the directories used for Favorites, History, Images, Music and Video playlists
CONFIG/REMAPS: Allow loading core remaps without content
CONFIG/OVERRIDES: Fix empty override paths when launching without content
CHEATS: Maximum search value corrections
CHEEVOS: Generic memory mapping using rcheevos
CHEEVOS: Ensure badge textures are released before video driver is deinitialized. Should fix crashes with slang shaders.
CHEEVOS: Include achievement runtime state in save states
CHEEVOS: Prevent hardcore toggle when emu-handled cheats are active
CHEEVOS: Add confirmation submenu to achievements hardcore toggle
CHEEVOS: Calculate leaderboard widget spacing based on video resolution
CHEEVOS: Show unsupported core message when viewing achievement list for unsupported core
CHEEVOS: Allow disabling leaderboard notifications and trackers separately
CHEEVOS: Add display widget for active leaderboards
CHEEVOS/CORE OPTIONS: Core options blacklist. Disables hardcore mode when certain core options are set.
CLI: Add option for quitting on close content
CONTEXT/DRIVER SWITCHING: Allow context switching from gl to glcore
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to reset all core options for current core/content
CORE OPTIONS: Add per-folder core options
CRT/SWITCHRES: Improvements
CRT/SWITCHRES: Low resolution switch bug fix - This allows resolutions lower that 32x224 like 256x224 to work
CORE DOWNLOADER: Enhanced core downloader search functionality
D3D10: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D11: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D11: Skip shader/stock blend when we don't have a texture. This happens if the core calls video_cb with the frame set to null on the first frame, and was causing black screens/driver resets. The ffmpeg core seems to do this.
D3D11: Fix shaders with scaled framebuffers
D3D11: Add flip model support - fallback to blit model for OSes where flip model is not supported (windows 7 and earlier). Will add a menu option later allowing the user to switch inbetween the two
D3D12: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D10/11/12: Increase sprite capacity, we need this so that the hardware rendered menu drivers doesn't glitch out
DRM: Fix race condition in drm_surface_set_aspect
DRM/KMS: add support for custom hdmi_timings / modes
DATABASE: Fix crash that could happen when selecting cursor
DATABASE/EXPLORE: Fix - Prevent segfault when accessing 'Explore' menu
EMSCRIPTEN: Only report back one screen pointer for rwebinput, fixes lockup when clicking on an overlay
FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Only attempt to call dir_check_defaults once per runtime session
FILEIO/PERFORMANCE/3DS: Increase file buffer size and savestate chunk size. This seems to help with saving large savestates.
FONTS: Improve handling of Arabic and Persian text
FONTS/FREETYPE: Use fontconfig to select fonts if available
INPUT: Add hold mode for turbo fire 'Single Button'
INPUT MAPPING: Refresh bind list on device type change
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Minor bugfix - Remap file browsing starts navigation at input_remapping_directory even if the core-subdir (where saved files go) exists Having remaps for many different cores makes finding the active core files cumbersome, especially because remaps are not compatible between different cores (but maybe for cores emulating the same hardware)
IOS: Take out 'Core Downloader' from iOS 9/iOS 11 builds
IOS: IOSApp doesn't crash anymore when a file is shared to it
INPUT: Keyboard device mapper rework
INPUT: New input bind order scan/clear fix
INPUT: Duplicate key event blocking additions
INPUT: Prevent duplicate key events with hotkeys + keyboard device type
INPUT: Keyboard LED driver
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Allow controllers with no/empty names to work.
INPUT/GAME FOCUS: Add option to automatically enable 'game focus' mode when running/resuming content
INPUT/HOTKEYS: Hotkey for Close Content / Unload Core
INPUT/LIBCEC: Map libcec-daemon keys to RETROK
INPUT/X11: Enable keyboard input when mouse cursor is not inside the RetroArch window but window still has focus
INPUT/X11: Fix mouse input when mouse is grabbed
INPUT/UDEV/RUMBLE: Fix rumble.
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Simultaneous shift sticky fix
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Prevent Win-key from opening Start Menu
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grabbing/clipping with Alt-Tab
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Key position fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Prevent outside window mouse clicks when grabbed
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Major bugfix - Remap file having a different device type requires manual intervention after loading for the core to register the type properly
JSON: New faster json parser/writer library rjson
JSON/RJSON: Replace rapidjson parser/writer in discord-rpc with rjson
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to query the number of active inputs provided by the frontend
LIBRETRO: Ensure RARCH_CTL_CORE_OPTIONS_LIST_GET returns false if no core options are available
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for overriding frontend audio latency
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to monitor frontend audio buffer occupancy
LINUX: Also show /run/media or /run/media/$USER in drives list
LINUX: Adjust brightness according to the limit. Seems like some platforms feature non-standard maximums, but the variable is correclty exported for us to use
LOCALIZATION: Add Finnish language
LOGS/SHADER: Shader log spam reduction
LOGS/CONFIG: Config logging cleanup
LOGS/SAVESTATE: Config logging cleanup
MAC: Apple Silicon/Mac M1 support
MAC: Code signing/notarization
MAC: Fix a leak with NSTemporaryDirectory() on ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) code
MAC: Support bundle assets extraction on macOS
MAC: Universal Metal build for both ARM and Intel Macs
MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add CoreAudio3 audio driver for Metal Universal build
MAC/IOS: Only extract assets once on first install
MENU: Add 'L2 + R2' menu toggle gamepad combo
MENU: Menu text improvements; clarifications, consistency, text mistakes,
MENU: Tweak menu scroll initial hold delays
MENU: Restrict menu acceleration to navigation buttons
MENU: Add 'Menu Driver' setting to 'User Interface'
MENU: Relocate 'Menu Scroll' settings.
MENU: Separate 'Turbo Fire' menu.
MENU: Dropdown menu for 'Custom Aspect Ratio' setting.
MENU: Reorder Mouse Index next to Device Index
MENU: Submenu for Device Index/Mouse Index
MENU: Reorganize User Interface menu
MENU: Add 'Remove DSP Plugin' menu entry
MENU: Hide 'Auto-Shader Delay' menu setting when shaders are unavailable
MENU/ANIMATIONS: Fix non-smooth text ticker + reduce line ticker code duplication
MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Add cursor wiggle animation
MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Implement wiggling for main menu when wrap-around is disabled
MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: On-Screen Notifications' menu clean-ups
MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: Add option to show/hide Refresh Rate notification
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Start auto-selecting last used path for more file browser menu entries
MENU/INPUT: Input port label adjustments
MENU/INPUT/XMB: Proper control port icons
MENU/INPUT/OZONE: Proper control port icons
MENU/QUICK MENU: Add remap clearing ability under Quick Menu controls
MENU/QUICK MENU: Cap 'State Slot' drop-down list to a maximum of 1000 (+Auto) entries
MENU: Customizable menu scroll hold delay.
MENU/DESKTOP: Fix mouse cursor limited by window range on F5 press
MENU/DESKTOP: Add simple shader option
MENU/DESKTOP/WINDOWS: Remove broken 'Update RetroArch' functionality for Windows. We want this to not only be system agnostic if we bring it back, but also work outside of the Qt desktop interface
MENU/OZONE: New Theme - Twilight Zone
MENU/RGUI: Add 3:2, 5:3 and 3:2/5:3 (centered) aspects
MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add Russian language text support
MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add support for CJK punctuation glyphs
MIDI/WINMM: Recover from MIDI messages not handled by the device
MIDI/WINMM: Fix winmm midi driver hanging on content closing
NETWORK: Add READ/WRITE_CORE_MEMORY network commands
NETWORK: Fix backwards condition in socket blocking behavior
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Attempt IPv4 when IPv6 fails
OGA/VIDEO: support for OGS
OGA: This keeps the tradition DRM driver along with the OGA one. The probe function skips the driver if the screen is non rotated to fall back to the regular DRM driver.
OGA: Fix messages from not disappearing
OGA: Implement RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_CURRENT_SOFTWARE_FRAMEBUFFER. This is a faster rendering codepath for software rendered libretro cores that some libretro cores use right now. Video drivers in RetroArch have to explicitly implement this for this codepath to work at runtime.
OPENDINGUX: Add/Optimise rumble interface
OPENDINGUX: Fix frozen video when enabling fast forward
OPENDINGUX/SDL: OSD font clean-up
OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable selection of image interpolation method when using 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable integer scaling when using the 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
OVERLAYS: Add option to scale overlays automatically (with aspect ratio correction)
OVERLAYS: Hide Overlay When Gamepad is Connected. Overlays will be hidden automatically when a gamepad is connected in port 1, and shown again when the gamepad is disconnected.
OVERLAYS: New default overlays for mobile (neo-retropad)
OVERLAYS: In addition to overlay scale, the user can now set an Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor. Most overlays are designed for 16:9 displays, which means they become stretched/ugly on modern wide aspect phones and suchlike. By changing the Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor, a user can scale the overlay width/height to achieve a uniform appearance regardless of display resolution.
OVERLAYS: Since scaling a gamepad overlay can result in buttons being squished too close together (or being pulled too far apart), the user can now adjust the effective spacing of the different 'halves' of an overlay via Overlay Horizontal Separation and Overlay Vertical Separation factors. Overlay Horizontal Separation divides the overlay in two vertically (left/right, at the centre point), and applies a spacing offset (positive or negative) between the UI elements on each side; Overlay Vertical Separation does the same, but the split is horizontal (top/bottom)
OVERLAYS/FIX: The Overlay X Offset and Overlay Y Offset options have been fixed, and now work correctly
OVERLAYS/FIX: All of the above options (and Overlay Scale) are configured and saved independently for landscape and portrait display orientations - so adjusting everything for a nice landscape layout won't break the portrait display
OVERLAYS/FIX: When using the Vulkan gfx driver, memory is leaked every time an overlay is freed
OVERLAYS/FIX: When threaded video is enabled, loading overlays with no images (i.e. utility-type overlays, where everything is hidden until the screen is touched) can generate segfaults due to improper usage of realloc()
OVERLAYS/FIX: When Show Inputs on Overlay is enabled, ASAN reports bit shift errors due to an incorrect range check when handling turbo inputs - essentially, there is no upper limit to the considered input id range, which means overlay hotkeys (menu toggle, etc.) are incorrectly treated as having turbo support, causing bit shifts using wildly inappropriate id indices
PLAYLISTS/PORTABLE: Fixed first load initialization
PS2: Added Multitap support (up to 8 players)
PS2: Fix for not recognized digital and other non-standard controllers
PS2: Fix Quitting from RA
PS2: Add Audio mixer
REWIND: Prevent 'Rewind Frames' from being set to '1' incorrectly on load content
RUNAHEAD: Add Run-Ahead Toggle hotkey with notifications
RBUF/ANIMATIONS: Simplify gfx_animation by switching from dynarray to rbuf
RBUF/CORE UPDATER: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
RBUF/M3U: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
SENSORS: Android (crash-)fixes/improvements + add option to disable sensor input
SDL2/VIDEO: Get the SDL2 video driver to work in Wayland/KMS
SAVESTATES: Adding savestate garbage collector for autoincrement stavestates. As some issues indicate, there's an issue with the autoincrement save slot feature: slot index will increase and very old saves won't be deleted. This adds support to delete old save states with a user defined save state limit (global). Instead of wrapping around the slot counter it will simply delete the oldest save, since it is simpler. For now there's a limit of one deletion per save, which ensures a user cannot delete many saves by accident if they set the limit too low.
SAVESTATES/SAVEFILES: Ensure save file and playlist compression is disabled by default
SHADERS: Add option to remember last selected shader preset/shader pass directories
SHADERS: Use last selected shader preset directory when changing shaders via previous/next hotkeys
SHADERS: Remove Parameters line
SHADERS: Shaders fix for duplicate parameters loading bug
SHADERS: Fix Crash change num shader passes in UI
SHADERS/SLANG: Fix slang shaders with rotation
STREAMING/FFMPEG: Add Facebook Game Stream option (for embedded ffmpeg core-enabled RetroArch builds)
SWITCH: Fix input bind icons being off by one line
SWITCH: Fix audio issues
TLS/SSL: Add BearSSL support, as alternative to mbedTLS
VIDEO: AddVariable BFI (Black Frame Insertion)
VIDEO/DRM GO2: Dynamic resolution support
VIDEO FILTERS: Video filter optimisations
VIDEO FILTERS: Add several LCD-effect video filters
VIDEO FILTERS: Gameboy/Dot_Matrix video filters: Add XRGB8888 support
VIDEO FILTERS: Add Normal4x video filter
VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale_256x-320x240' video filter
VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale1.5x' video filter
VITA: Disable temporarily VitaGL
VITA: Fix bubble name
VITA: proper handling of boot params
VITA: Default menu scale 1.5x to improve readability
WIFI/LAKKA: Add a proper WiFi menu, with Enable/Disable & Disconnect options. This also allows WiFi passwords to be remembered. The underlying tool (connman) allows to store passswords (that's why it auto connects whenever you boot a Lakka device), so we expose this so that the user does not have to re-input the pass when connecting to a saved wifi.
WII/HID: Added HID support for HORI mini wired ps4 gamepad
WINDOWS: Add support for accelerators to main win32 message loop
WINDOWS: Add accelerators for Open (Ctrl+O) and Fullscreen (Alt+Enter)
WINDOWS: Fixes some file I/O failures on Windows when paths are longer than 260 characters.
WINDOWS: Fix crashing on startup on Windows when using Chinese Simplified language.
WINDOWS/XP: The OpenGL 1 video driver is now the default for maximum backwards compatibility upon first startup. It's of course always possible for the user to change this.
WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Load accelerators, Localize Win32 menu items to current language, and display shortcut keys
WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Add 'Reinit' to Menubar
WINDOWS/MSVC: Fix rewind crash on MSVC build when using SSE2
UWP: Don't default to XMB menu by default, default to Ozone instead
UWP/VFS: Use Win32 file APIs when possible - better file I/O performance
WIIU/FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Faster startup times - remove the path_is_valid() call when loading textures
WIIU: Fix touchscreen mouse emulation

1.9.0

3DS: Fix sound crackling when paused
ANDROID/VIBRATION: Fixes "Vibrate on Key Press" having no effect on Android devices, which occurred because only the off time/strength was defined in what should have been a pair of off/on values
AUTOCONFIG: Ensure correct directory is used when saving autoconfig profiles
BLUETOOTH: Add a Bluetooth driver (Lakka-only for now)
CHEATS: Fix for wrong number of remaining cheat search matches on some machines
CHEEVOS: Option to play sound on achievement unlock.
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 9.1
CHEEVOS: Restore display of unlocked achievements across hardcore modes
CHEEVOS: Hash buffered data when available
CHEEVOS: Fix 'Auto Save State freezes RetroArch while Cheevos is enabled'
CORE OPTIONS: Pressing OK (or clicking/tapping) on a 'boolean toggle' core option no longer opens a drop-down list. The value now toggles directly, just like boolean options everywhere else in the menu
CORE OPTIONS: Toggling an option that changes the number of core options being displayed (i.e. things like `Show Advanced Audio/Video Settings) no longer resets the navigation pointer to the start of the list
CORE OPTIONS: Before, RetroArch would identify core option values as being 'boolean' if they had labels matching the specific strings enabled or disabled. Most core devs would abide by this, but not always... As a result, we sometimes would end up with misidentified values, with all kinds of Enabled, Off, True, etc. strings littering the menu, in place of proper toggle switches. All boolean-type value labels are now detected, and replaced with standard ON/OFF strings.
CLI: A new command line option --load-menu-on-error has been added
CRT: On the fly CRT porch adjuments - these changes allow a user to adjust how the porch algorithm generates the 15khz/31khz output. Giving the ability to change over/under scan.
CONFIG FILE: Optimise parsing of configuration files
D3D9/D3D11: Fix core-initiated D3D9/D3D11 driver switches
DRIVERS: Implemented protection to avoid setting critical drivers to nothing thus preventing the user from locking him/herself out of the program
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix input code to ignore unknown keys
FFMPEG CORE: Prevent seeking past the end of files (hang fix)
FILE I/O: VFS and NBIO interfaces will now use 64-bit fseek/ftell where possible, should allow for reading/writing to files bigger than 2GB
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Add input remap drop-down lists
IOS: Fixed iOS 6 version
IOS: Hide the home indicator as it obscures the content too frequently
IOS/METAL: Metal video driver now works on RetroArch iOS
IOS/METAL: Support getting video metrics to support proper touchscreen interactions
LOCALIZATION: Updates for several languages (synchronized from Crowdin)
MEMORY/LINUX/ANDROID: Fix reporting of free memory
MEMORY/WINDOWS: Fix reporting of free memory
MENU: Enlarged INT/UINT selection limit from 999 to 9999
MENU: Fix cursor forced to first entry after displaying lists
MENU: Make Notification Font option visible when Graphics Widgets are enabled
MENU/RGUI: Add optional 'toggle switch' icons
MENU/WIDGETS: Add optional widget-based 'load content' launch feedback animation
MENU/WIDGETS: Make notification font size option visible when graphics widgets are enabled
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Video driver - fix race condition with RGUI callback
PLAYLISTS: Change playlists to use dynamic arrays. Instead of a fixed initial 12MB memory allocation (99999 * 128 byte (on 64bit arch)), use a dynamically growing array
PLAYLISTS: Playlist base content directory paths - portable playlists
PLAYLISTS/SEARCH: Enhanced playlist search functionality
PLAYLISTS/DATABASE: Add 'Explore' view
PLAYLISTS/DATABASE/EXPLORE: Show system icons in explore view
PS2: Improve FPS Limiter
RUNAHEAD: Prevent runahead from being disabled permanently when an error occurs
SCANNER: Add more region codes for GameCube/Wii game detection
SHADERS/SLANG: Increased Slang max Parameters, Textures & Passes
VIDEO FILTERS/BLARGG: Make Blargg_snes filter customizable
WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Fix invalid calls to dinput_handle_message when input driver is not set to dinput
X11: Add lightgun support

1.8.9

AUTO SAVESTATES: Ensure save states are correctly flushed to disk when quitting RetroArch (fixes broken save states when exiting RetroArch - without first closing content - with 'Auto Save State' enabled)
BUILTIN CORES: Builtin cores like ffmpeg and imageviewer would previously try to erroneously load a dynamic core named 'builtin' - this would fail and would just be a wasteful operation - this now skips dylib loading in libretro_get_system_info for builtin cores
CHEEVOS: Report API errors when unlocking achievements or submitting leaderboards
CHEEVOS: Support less common file extensions
CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore mode when playing BSV file
CHEEVOS: Correctly report unlocked non-hardcore achievements when hardcore is paused
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - did not handle absolute/relative paths in M3U files correctly before
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it didn't handle comments/directives
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it doesn't handle trailing whitespace
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - failed when loading M3U files with certain line endings
CORE MANAGEMENT: Add 'core management' menu (Settings -> Core)
CORE MANAGEMENT: Add option to backup/restore installed cores
CORE MANAGEMENT: Improved core selection logic
CORE INFO: Search search optimisations
CORE DOWNLOADER: Rename 'Core Updater' to 'Core Downloader'
CORE DOWNLOADER: Add 'Show Experimental Cores' setting under Settings > Network > Updater
CORE DOWNLOADER: Core licenses are now shown for all entries in the Core Updater menu
CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad select on a Core Updater entry will now display any text in the description field of its info file
CORE DOWNLOADER: Installed cores are now highlighted via a [#] symbol
CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad start on a selected, installed entry opens the Core Information menu (when using Material UI, swiping left or right triggers the same action). This means we can now view bios info etc. - and more importantly delete cores - without jumping through all the hoops of loading a core first and navigating all over the place
CORE DOWNLOADER/UPDATER: Add option to automatically backup cores when updating
DISK CONTROL: Enable 'Load New Disc' while disk tray is open
INPUT: Added a hotkey delay option to allow hotkey input to work properly when it is assigned to another action
INPUT: Remove 'All Users Control Menu' setting, was buggy and will be properly reintroduced after input overhaul
LINUX: Set default saves/save states/system paths
LOCALIZATION: Add Persian language
LOCALIZATION: Add Hebrew language
LOCALIZATION: Add Asturian language
MENU: Proper line wrapping for message dialog boxes
MENU/HOTKEYS: Add sublabels to all hotkey bind entries
MENU/QUICK MENU: Suppress the display of 'empty' quick menu listings when closing content
MENU/OZONE: Performance improvements
MENU/SDL: Add mouse controls
OPENGL1/VITA: Initial changes for HW context without FBO
OVERLAYS: Add options for moving the on-screen overlay
PLAYLISTS/WINDOWS: Fix core path entries in image/video/music history playlists
PS2: Add back CDFS support
SDL/GL: Advertise GLSL support
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix heap-use-after-free errors, leading to memory corruption
VITA: Added custom bubbles support
VITA: VitaGL update
VULKAN/WSI: Better frame pacing
VULKAN/WSI: Fix Intel Mesa being broken when using Fences, we have to use Semaphores to acquire the swapchain or the entire GPU stalls
VULKAN/WSI: Add support for either using fences or semaphores when syncing
VULKAN/WSI: Prefer using semaphores for integrated GPUs as it promotes better throughput over fences
VULKAN/WSI/ANDROID: Do not use mailbox emulation on Android
UWP/XBOX: Potentially improve performance by enabling 'Game Mode'

1.8.8

AUDIO/JACK: Fix regression introduced after 1.8.4 - would hang at startup
CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore when cheats are enabled
CHD: Return false when special track cannot be found
DISCORD/MATCHMAKING: Fix Discord 'Ask To Join' functionality
FILE PATH: Various file path handling optimisations
FONT: Fix Arabic, Chinese and Korean font rendering
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Restore broken 'reset to default' functionality with RetroPad 'start' button
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Fix 'reset to default' action for analog sticks and undefined core inputs
LOCALIZATION: Update Arabic translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Greek translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Vietnamese translation
LOCALIZATION: Add Slovak translation
MENU: Small buffer optimizations
MENU/THUMBNAILS/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error
MENU/OZONE: Add option to sort playlists after name truncation
MENU/OZONE/ANDROIDTV: Default to Ozone menu driver
MENU/OZONE/ANDROID: Gamepad-like devices default to Ozone now (Shield Portable)
NETPLAY: Lower announcement rate
OVERLAYS: Fix memory leak when loading overlays
SHADER PRESETS: Improved shader preset dirs
TIME/DATE: Enable configuration of date seperator in clock and runtime 'last played' displays
VITA: Fix upside-down vertical games
UWP: Enable playlist and savefile compression by default (because of slow file I/O)
WIIU: Gamepad hotplugging support
WIIU: Theoretical multi-gamepad support
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix overlapping text when simultaneous pop-up notifications and core/shader messages are being displayed
X11: Fix crash in x11_display_server_get_screen_orientation
X11/XSHM: Allow X11/XHSM video driver to operate without SHM extension
X11/XSHM: Fix compatibility with X11 input driver
XVIDEO: Fix keyboard input initialization
XVIDEO/XWAYLAND: Fix XVideo support on xwayland (by supporting I420 and YZ12)

1.8.7

3DS: Add IDs for Frodo
3DS: Enable basic networking / cheevos
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Opening achievements list would crash RetroArch with badges enabled (on new games)
CHEEVOS: Option to start a session with all achievements active
CHEEVOS: Don't perform unnecessary cheevos initialisation when cheevos are disabled. Should reduce startup times when loading content.
CORE OPTIONS: Disable 'Use Global Core Options File' by default
DOS/DJGPP: Add 32bit color support for cores
GLCORE: Switch to glcore video driver when requested by a core
LINUX/XDG: Use GenericName correctly in desktop entry
MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse cursor tracking
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add desktop-style playlist view mode
MENU/MATERIALUI/DESKTOPVIEW: When scrolling playlists, show last selected thumbnails while waiting for next entry to load
MENU/MATERIALUI: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar playlist sort order when 'Truncate Playlist Names' is enabled
MENU/RGUI: Adjusted menu defaults, adjusted default scrolling speed
MENU/RGUI: Enable custom wallpaper when menu size is reduced at low resolutions
MENU/XMB: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
NETPLAY: Fix regressions introduced in 1.8.5
RGUI: Add option to always stretch menu to fill the screen
WIIU: Enable graphics widgets

1.8.6

3DS: Add IDs for UZEM, TGB Dual, and NeoCD
3DS: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
3DS: Allow button presses up to INPUT_MAX_USERS - this enables the 3DS to bind and use buttons and axis for users up to the maximum set by 'Max Users' in the input settings menu.
3DS: Disable video filter if upscaled resolution exceeds hardware limits. The 3DS has a maximum video buffer size of 2048x2048. This is sufficient for every core that it supports, but when using software video filters the core output resolution is doubled. This is made worse by the fact that the video filter upscaling buffer size is dependent upon the maximum output resolution of the core - which in some cases is very large indeed (e.g. pcsx-rearmed sets a maximum width of 1024, for enhanced resolution support). The 3DS has very limited 'linear memory' for graphics buffer purposes, and a large base core buffer + video filter buffer can easily exceed this - which may also disable video output, or cause a crash. This PR very simply adds a 3DS-specific check to the video filter initialisation: if the resultant upscaling buffer exceeds the hardware limitation, then the filter is automatically disabled.
3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: Text colour was wrong: the RGBA channels were muddled, and R was always set to 255
3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: When drawing multiline strings, the line spacing was completely incorrect
3DS/FONT: Improves the appearance of the drop shadow effect on notification text.
3DS/ARCHIVE/7Z: Re-enable 7zip support.
ARCHIVE/ZIP: Expand functionality of 'rzip_stream' interface. This PR expands the functionality of the new rzip_stream archived stream interface such that it now has almost complete feature parity with the standard file_stream interface, and can therefore be used as a drop-in replacement in most situations
AI SERVICE: Hide redundant entries when service is disabled
AI SERVICE: Added in auto-translate support
AI SERVICE: support for NVDA and SAPI narration
AUTOCONFIG: Use correct port index in input device configured/disconnected notifications
BUGFIX: Fix race condition where task could momentarily not be in the queue when reordering
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Prevent null reference rendering achievement list while closing application
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Report non-memorymap GBA cores as unsupported
COMMANDLINE: Advise against using -s and -S variables on the command line. …
CONFIG FILE: Only write config files to disk when parameters change
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: RetroArch no longer crashes when attempting to save a config file after 'unsetting' a parameter (currently, this can be triggered quite easily by manipulating input remaps)
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: When using Material UI, RetroArch no longer modifies the wrong setting (or segfaults...) when tapping entries in the Quick Menu > Controls input remapping submenu
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: Quite a few real and potential memory leaks have been fixed.
CHD: Fixes a crash caused by ignoring the return value from one of the CHD library functions
FASTFORWARDING: A new Mute When Fast-Forwarding option has been added under Settings > Audio. When enabled, users can fast forward without having to listen to distorted audio.
GLCORE/SLANG: Set filter and wrap mode correctly when intialising shader textures. Before, the glcore shader driver did not correctly initialise loaded textures. The texture filtering and wrap mode were forced on texture creation, but these settings were not recorded - subsequent updates would set garbage values, that would resolve to linear filtering OFF and wrap mode = CLAMP_TO_EDGE.
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
IOS: Set audio session category to ambient so sound does not get cut off on interruption (phone call/playing back audio)
MAC/IOHIDMANAGER/BUGFIX: Fix for Mayflash N64 adapter. In case last hatswitch does not match cookie. For the mayflash N64 adapter, I was getting a BAD EXC ADDRESS (in mac OS 10.13) for this line (tmp was NULL). Retroarch would crash in the gui if I pressed a button from the DPAD on controller 2. With this change, it no longer crashes in the gui and still registers the button push.
MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse input - this brings back two lines of code that have been removed over time but appear to be required in order for mouse input to work on macOS
METAL/BUGFIX: GPU capture on Metal/OSX/NVidia could crash
METAL/BUGFIX: Taking screenshots could capture black frames. Resulting PNG screenshots were black.
METAL/BUGFIX: Corrupted image due to incorrect viewport copy when taking screenshot
MENU: Prevent font-related segfaults when using extremely small scales/window sizes
MENU: Fix 'gfx_display_draw_texture_slice()'
MENU/FONT: Enable correct vertical alignment of text (+ font rendering fixes)
MENU/RGUI: Enable automatic menu size reduction when running at low resolutions (down to 256x192)
MENU/OZONE: Update timedate style options for Last Played sublabel metadata
MENU/OZONE: Hide 'Menu Color Theme' setting when 'Use preferred system color theme' is enabled
MENU/OZONE: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
MENU/OZONE: Prevent glitches when rendering Ozone's selection cursor
MENU/OZONE: Enable proper vertical text alignment + thumbnail display improvements
MENU/OZONE: Enable second thumbnail/content metadata toggle using RetroPad 'select'
MENU/OZONE: Refactor footer display
MENU/OZONE: Hide thumbnail button hints when viewing file browser lists
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Fix undefined behaviour when using touch screen to change input remaps
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: It turns out that Windows reports negative pointer coordinates when the mouse cursor goes beyond the left hand edge of the RetroArch window (this doesn't happen on Linux, so I never encountered this issue before!). As a result, if Ozone is currently not showing the sidebar (menu depth > 1), moving the cursor off the left edge of the window generates a false positive 'cursor in sidebar' event - which breaks menu navigation, as described in #10419. With this PR, we now handle 'cursor in sidebar' status correctly in all cases
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Pointer input is now correctly disabled when message boxes are displayed
MENU/XMB: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Add DRM HW context driver
PSL1GHT: Initial port
PSL1GHT/KEYBOARD: Implement PSL1GHT keyboard
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to run content via a playlist entry with missing path or core path fields.
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - when a playlist entry has either core path and/or core name set to NULL, DETECT or an empty string, attempting to load content will fallback to the normal 'core selection' code (currently this happens only if both core path and core name are DETECT - this is wholly inadequate!)
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to fetch content runtime information when core path is NULL
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Core name + runtime info will only be displayed on playlists and in the Information submenu if both the core path and core name fields are 'valid' (i.e. not NULL or DETECT)
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: When handling entries with missing path fields, the menu sorting order now matches that of the playlist sorting order (at present, everything goes out of sync when paths are empty). Moreover, entries with missing path fields can now be 'selected', so users can remove them (currently, hitting A on such an entry immediately tries - and fails - to load the content, so the only way to remove the broken entry is via the Playlist Management > Clean Playlist feature)
PLAYLIST: Add optional per-playlist alphabetical sorting
PLAYLIST: Omit whitespace when writing compressed JSON format playlists
PLAYLIST: Add optional playlist compression
QNX: Support analog sticks
SAVESTATES: Add optional save state compression (enabled by default now)
SRAM: Add optional save (SRAM) file compression
SCANNER: Prevent redundant playlist entries when handling M3U content
SCANNER/ANDROID: Fix content scanner being unable to identify certain games from CHD images (raw data sector/subcode)
TASKS/BUGFIX: Fix task deadlocks
TASKS/SCREENSHOT/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error when widgets are disabled
TVOS: Disable overlays for tvOS, fix app icon
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: The font ascender/descender metrics added in #10375 are now used to achieve 'pixel perfect' vertical text alignment
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Message queue text now uses its own dedicated font. Previously, a single (larger) font was used for all active widgets, and this was scaled down for message queue items. This 'squished' the text a little; more importantly, when using the stb font renderers (on Android. etc.) it caused ugly artefacts around the edges of glyphs due to pixel interpolation errors. Now that a correctly sized font is used, the message queue is always rendered cleanly.
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Previously, each widget font was 'flushed' (font_driver_flush()) at least once a frame. This is quite a slow operation. Now we only flush fonts if they have actually been used.
VULKAN/BUGFIX: Fix display of statistics text
UNIX/BUGFIX: Fix overflow when computing total memory on i386
WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix non-vertex coordinates in draws using tex shader
WIIU/BUGFIX: Update and fix meta.xml file for the WiiU release. This change makes it so the information from the meta.xml file parsed for the WiiU's Homebrew Launcher is displayed properly.

1.8.5

3DS: Keep the bottom screen hidden on sleep/wakeup. When the 3DS wakes back up after being closed, the bottom screen needs to be reinitialized. Adding the condition here will cause the screen to be turned on or off based on the state of ctr_bottom_screen_enabled, as you'd expect
ANDROID/CHROMEBOOK/CRASH: Fix Chromebook crashes (on x86 x64) when touching the screen
BUGFIX: Prevent double input when using 'return' key (hardware) to close on-screen keyboard
BUGFIX: Fix mouse capture hotkey not working
BUGFIX: Avoid overflow when calculating multiplying performance counter
BUGFIX: Retroarch overlay displaying "Game remap file loaded." on the overlay instead of "Core remap file loaded." when only a core remap file is present
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Achievement triggers could cause Retroarch to Crash
CHEEVOS: Don't block Sameboy core because it only exposes some memory
CHEEVOS: Support for extended Sega CD memory
CHEEVOS: Show RetroAchievements Hash in content information list
CHEEVOS: If the core says it's exposing SYSTEM_RAM, give it the benefit of the doubt
CHEEVOS: RetroAchievements rich presence for RA.org website/Discord
CHEEVOS: Reset token when username or password changes
CHEEVOS: Display measured progress on locked achievements
CHEEVOS: Queue multiple popups
CHEEVOS: Add delay retries to leaderboard submits
CHEEVOS: Prevent buffer overflow when encountering an unknown macro
CORE UPDATER: Prevent hang when fetching core list if HTTP transfer fails
DISK CONTROL: Add disk labels to 'disk inserted' notifications
EMSCRIPTEN: Recreate input event listeners properly
FFMPEG CORE: Fix crash on seeking when using HW decoding in some cases
LIBRETRO: Add disk control interface API extension
LINUX: Avoid possible crash when running retroarch at startup
LINUX/GLX: Fix threaded video crashes/instability because of GLX OML sync callbacks
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
MENU: Add Menu Scroll Acceleration option
MENU: Automatically select currently checked item when opening drop-down lists
MENU: Fix smooth (vertical) line ticker scroll speed
MENU: Don't flush on override/remap messages
MENU/DATETIME: Adds some new timedate styles that follow the DD/MM/YYYY format, found in several European countries
MENU/DATETIME: Modifies the existing translation files in order to accommodate the new options that are now available
MENU/DATETIME: Reorders the timedate view options based on a decreasing order of the quantity of information displayed, so that they are more convenient to switch around and easily categorized
MENU/BUGFIX: Fix bug - if you were in XMB and you would set menu driver to RGUI, you could no longer go to the left or right tab
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add option to remove navigation bar
MENU/OZONE: Add DPI-based scaling
MENU/OZONE: Add rudimentary pointer support
MENU/OZONE: Add 'Nord' and 'Gruvbox Dark' themes
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to switch between sidebar and entries list
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to select sidebar and entries list items
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Both sidebar and entries list can be scrolled by dragging
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Clicking/pressing the header or footer produces a 'cancel' action
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Cursor focus follows mouse pointer from sidebar to entries list (and vice versa)
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In entries list, item under cursor is automatically selected (with some fudging to ensure this doesn't break mouse wheel scrolling)
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In sidebar, item under cursor is not automatically selected (this is too jarring)
MENU/RGUI: Add 'Flux' theme
MENU/XMB: New color themes 'Cube Purple', 'Family Red', etc
NETPLAY/MENU/BUGFIX: Fix Netplay Stateless Mode doesn't save. Affects other netplay settings which can be overridden by commandline option
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Rotation support
NETPLAY/ROOMS/BUGFIX: Prevent out-of-bounds array indexing when displaying/selecting netplay rooms in menus
SCANNER: Add 'Arcade DAT Filter' Option
SCANNER: Add scanning Korea and Asia PS1 discs
SCANNER: Add support for scanning PSP Korean
VIDEO: Set hardware 'Bilinear filtering' off by default
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Widgets are now menu-independent
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Allow notifications to use full screen width when not displaying menu
VIDEO/WIDGETS: DPI-based scaling
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix volume widget scaling
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Add independent widget scale override settings for fullscreen/windowed modes
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Prevent improper display of (old style) OSD text when widgets are enabled
VIDEO/WIDGETS/THREADED/BUGFIX: Fix issue - corruption of menu widgets when running some cores (e.g. VICE) with threaded video enabled
WIFI/CONNMANCTL: Display more characters from SSID

1.8.4

ANDROID/BUGFIX: Prevent crash when Android device is minimized and you go back to the app
CAMERA/BUGFIX: Fix crash when a core requires the camera driver and the platform only has a null driver. This would crash mgba on Wii for example
DISK CONTROL: Cycle Disk Tray now becomes Eject Disk or Insert Disk depending upon current drive state
DISK CONTROL: Current Disk Index is only shown when the current disk has been ejected
DISK CONTROL: The old Insert Disk entry has been changed to Load New Disk, and is only shown when a disk is currently inserted (this is because loading a new disk from the filesystem - i.e. bypassing the m3u playlist disk index interface - automatically ejects and inserts disks, and so cannot be done while the virtual drive is empty)
DISK CONTROL: The Current Disk Index may now be set more easily via a drop-down list.
DISK CONTROL: Selecting Eject Disk automatically moves the menu selection to the Current Disk Index entry
DISK CONTROL: Selecting an index via the Current Disk Index drop-down list automatically moves the menu selection back to Insert Disk
DISK CONTROL: The Disk Control entry sublabels have been changed for greater clarity
DISK CONTROL: All of the horrendous notification spam has been removed. Notifications are now only shown in the event of an error, or when the menu itself does not provide sufficient visual feedback (note that using hotkeys to swap disks still produces the old style notifications, since this is typically only done while content is running - i.e. no menu). The duration of disk-related info notifications has also been reduced to a more sane level.
DISK CONTROL: A new Resume content after changing disks option has been added under Settings > User Interface. When enabled (default setting), content is resumed automatically after selecting either Insert Disk or Load New Disk (when disabled, the menu remains open, obviously...)
DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: The Disk Control menu now has the correct title
DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: Selecting a disk via the Load New Disk file browser no longer flushes the user back to the top level menu (it now correctly returns to the Disk Control menu)
LIBNX/SWITCH: Updated libnx integration to v3.0.0. This also cherry-picks libnx commit 583d6bb92dcbb33b6bb4a0fa1a9df6e3725d6ef6, which should fix the requirement having to turn rumble off and on in the system settings once per reboot
PLAYLISTS: Add 'Clean Playlist' option

1.8.3

ANDROID/BUGFIX: Fix 'Install or Restore Core' regression
BUGFIX: Ensure core info is always initialised when calling 'drivers_init()'. This bug could prevent cores from doing content runtime logging
BUGFIX/MENU: History size can only be set to 1 at a minimum
BUGFIX/MENU: (XMB/OZONE) Fix 'quick menu' detection. XMB would not display savestate thumbnails in the quick menu if it was accessed via the main menu
BUGFIX/CRASH/CORE UPDATER: Fix potential double free error
BUGFIX/CRASH/OPENGL/WINDOWS: Fix regression in 1.8.2 that would cause GL-based cores to fail because it would try to erroneously load libGLESv2.dll instead of OpenGL32.dll (cores affected: VitaQuake 2/3/Dhewm3, possibly more)
BUGFIX/MENU/DESKTOP UI: Show desktop menu on startup does not launch Qt UI on Linux
BUGFIX: Entries in the Playlist Thumbnails Updater list were displaying improper sublabels. I have no idea when this broke... The issue is now fixed
CHEEVOS: Don't disable achievement when AddAddress generates an out-of-range address
CHEEVOS: Don't reset triggers/leaderboards that failed to load
CHEEVOS: Don't count unsupported achievements as unlocked
CORE UPDATER: Display number of cores updated when updating installed cores
DINGUX: Initial port
D3D11: Block FL9_3 devices from D3D11 driver because they don't work anyway (current D3D11 driver uses SM4.0 which requires FL10_0 and up)
D3D11: Fallback to GL driver when D3D11 fails
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix assets
HISTORY/FAVORITES: Bump up default to 200 entries from 100
FFMPEG CORE: Implement packet buffer, fixes MP4 video playback for many files
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: Added 'Hosting' menu under Netplay menu
MENU: Added 'Subsystems' menu
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Fix file selection issues when starting from (or navigating to) the top level directory
MENU/WIDGETS: Prevent looping of task title text
RASPBERRY PI: Fix BGRA8888 color inversion issues in the menu and elsewhere with VideoCore GL drivers
NETPLAY/RELAY: Add Sao Paulo (Brazil) relay server
NETPLAY/RELAY: Fix the “spectator” bug when using the relay server – When a player switches into the spectator mode (pressing “i”) while using the relay server, all players will disconnect.
NETPLAY/RELAY: Overall stability has improved. Fixed a memory leak that would cause the relay server to become unresponsive after some time.
NETPLAY/RELAY: Fixed critical bug that would cause all players to be disconnected from the relay server if one player was leaving the game. That bug had been open for one year and we were finally able to fix it.
SWITCH/LIBNX/BUGFIX: Fix onscreen keyboard input regression
THUMBNAIL UPDATER: When waiting for individual thumbnail file http transfers to complete, the task status checking is more accurate. This uses the same method as the new core updater - we now wait until the task is 'really' complete, instead of relying on the (slightly nebulous) 'task finished' state
UWP: Add ANGLE support
UWP: Wire up get_metrics to the fake context of D3D9/10/11/12 driver, enabling proper scaling and mouse/touch gestures
VITA: Re-add Online Updater
VULKAN: Fix font driver 'vulkan_get_message_width()' function
VIDEO FILTERS: Only use threads when the number exceeds 1. Fixes race conditions with some CPU filters on Vita
WINDOWS: Add ANGLE support for x64, separate binary (for now?)

1.8.2

BUG/CRASH/GLSLANG: Fix glslang crashing error - managed to reproduce an issue which has been plaguing users for a while, where glslang throws an assert after closing a game (and starting a new one). This would affect all video drivers that use Slang for shaders, such as D3D10/11/12/Vulkan/Metal
CHEEVOS: Display Unofficial and Unsupported achievement states
CHEEVOS: Pass RetroArch and core versions through User-Agent HTTP header
CHEEVOS: Use PSX.EXE if SYSTEM.CNF cannot be found
CHEEVOS: Prevent loading state while achievements are still being fetched from server
CHEEVOS: Pause hardcore if core doesn't support achievements
CHEEVOS/CRASH: Fix AddressSanitizer + CHD cause hard crash when Cheevos are enabled
CORE UPDATER: Only download when new core is available
CORE UPDATER: Add option to update all installed cores
DRM/KMS: Better detection for the current video mode
DYNAMIC RATE CONTROL: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix bug in Emscripten input code
EMSCRIPTEN: Changes to support upgraded emscripten SDK
FFMPEG CORE: Hardware accelerated video decoding
FFMPEG CORE: Implement send/receive encoding API, will allow for hardware accelerated AMD video encoding
FFMPEG CORE: The video FIFO can be removed, since we have a ring buffer in its place. This removes unneeded copy operations and as a positive side improves overall decoding speed. Makes 8k60p SW and 4k60p HW decoding feasible on many systems. For now the ring buffer is 32 images deep. This limitation will be removed, once audio and video decoder have their own packet handling.
INPUT: Fix 'Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled'
INPUT/TURBO: Added alternate Turbo-Mode 'Single Button' - For systems supporting only a single button, the turbo-button will toggle firing that button without the need to hold it. When holding the button turbo will be suspended and resumed when the button is released. Holding the button may have a different function to just tapping it.
IOS: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until UIWindow concurrency issues are fixed
INPUT/ANALOG: Fix radial analog deadzone scaling
INPUT/ANALOG: Implement proper analog button deadzone
INPUT/MENU: Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
LINUX/LOCALIZATION: Correct Droid Sans Fallback font path in Linux. This should fix Chinese/Korean font display issues on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/openSUSE/SLE
MENU/BUGFIX: When using a keyboard/gamepad/mouse wheel to navigate, the menu scroll position is always maintained and updated in a consistent (and expected) fashion
MENU/BUGFIX: When resizing the window, or changing the orientation of a mobile device, the current scroll position is correctly preserved
MENU/BUGFIX: All 'normal' pointer input is now inhibited when showing message boxes
MENU/BUGFIX: The pointer actions 'select' and 'cancel' both now properly close a message box if it is currently being shown
MENU/BUGFIX: Pointer 'select' and 'cancel' actions are now inhibited when an input bind dialog is active
MENU/INPUT: Change 'User' terminology to 'Port' for input binding
MENU/LINUX: Add proper drives to Load Content
MENU/MATERIALUI: Halt scrolling when pointer is pressed/stationary
MENU/MATERIALUI: Dual thumbnail view
MENU/MATERIALUI: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart
MENU/MATERIALUI: Scroll rapidly by press and holding the scrollbar
MENU/RGUI: New theme 'Flux'
MENU/OZONE: Thumbnails now have a fade-in animation
MENU/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix dock titles getting cut off
MENU/XMB: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide 'Disallow Non-Slave Mode Clients' if 'Allow Slave-Mode Clients' is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Hide 'Show desktop menu on startup' if 'Desktop menu' setting itself is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Reimplement Quick Menu - > Shaders -> Watch shader files for changes - can now be turned on/off through touch
MENU/USABILITY: Refactor Quick Menu - Controls - each port now has its own submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Quick Menu - Cheats - Delete All no longer requires five right button presses - this should fix this functionality for mobile touch users too
MENU/USABILITY: Hide Refresh Rate options when Threaded Video is enabled - these settings do nothing with Threaded Video
MENU/USABILITY: Hide Logging Verbosity levels behind Logging Verbosity
MENU/USABILITY: Get rid of 'Port Number' label for Port Binds screen
MENU/USABILITY/MOBILE: Should no longer crash when clicking on a cheat entry
MENU/USABILITY: Shader parameters now have a dropdown list
MENU/USABILITY: Shader passes now has a dropdown list
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Windowed Mode settings selectively
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Fullscreen Mode settings if windowed mode is not supported by context driver
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Network Command Port
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Relay Server Location
MENU/USABILITY: User Interface -> Appearance - Selectively hide XMB Horizontal Animation setting
MENU/USABILITY: Playlists - more selective hiding
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Rewind Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Overlay Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide FPS Update Interval based on Display Framerate being enabled
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Onscreen Notifications BG Color Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Logging - Hide 'Log To File Timestamp' if 'Log To File' is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Video -> Scaling - Hide Custom Viewport X/Y when Integer Scale is enabled as description indicates
MENU/USABILITY: Achievement submenu - selectively hide
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Aspect ratio - selectively hide/show values based on whether you have Custom or Config selected
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Selectively hide Hard Sync
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Implement selective hiding for VSync and Hard Sync
MENU/USABILITY: Selective hiding of Runahead settings based on global setting
MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Haptic Feedback submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Menu Controls submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Max Swapchain Images - Add OK action
MENU/USABILITY: Input - Implement OK action for Bind Hold, Turbo Period and Duty Cycle
MENU/USABILITY: Input - Hotkey Binds refactor
MENU/USABILITY: Move 'Press Quit Twice' and 'Menu Toggle Gamepad Combo' to Input -> Hotkey Binds
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Add sublabel for Video Output submenu
MENU/USABILITY: If 'Favorites Tab' is disabled, don't show 'Add To Favorites' option in Quick Menu/Playlist menu
MENU/USABILITY: If On-Demand Thumbnail Downloader is enabled, hide 'Download Thumbnails' from playlist menu screen
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio Driver setting to Audio -> Output
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Resampler settings
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Output and Audio -> Synchronization
OPENGL: Shaders are now working properly (only in OpenGL) when rotating both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation. The fix is clearly visible with crt-royale for example
OPENGL: 1:1 PAR is now correct when rotating (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation, as you said, in the latter case you currently have to change Aspect Ratio after menu video rotation for it to work)
OPENGL: When using Custom Aspect Ratio and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation), Integer Scaling is now working properly (correct multiples of internal resolution). Even when Integer Scaling is not activated, the Custom AR width / height are now correctly labeled using (1x), (2x), ... suffixes. You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
OPENGL: For all other Aspect Ratio options, Integer Scaling and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation) are now working properly together (correct multiples of internal resolution). You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
OPENBSD/POWERPC: Should build now on OpenBSD PowerPC
PLAYLISTS: Pressing 'Start' or long touching a playlist will bring you to a Playlist submenu where you can set a default core, setup thumbnail view, delete the playlist, etc
OSX: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until NSWindow concurrency issues are fixed
PSP: Solving issue exiting RetroArch by HOME button
SCANNER: Manual scanner, not dependent on database files
SCANNER/MANUAL: Add option to scan inside archives
SCANNER/MANUAL: Enable automatic naming of arcade content via DAT files. This is compatible with DAT files in either Logiqx XML or MAME List XML format.
VIDEO: Do not reinit video driver on SET_SYSTEM_AV_INFO unless needed
VIDEO: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
VIDEO LAYOUT: Fixed XML parsing of attributes with spaces, should fix issues with several video layouts
VITA: GL1 driver support
VITA/VITA2D: Several improvements to Vita 2D driver - menu widgets implemented
VITA/VITA2D: Fix clipping and reduce number of calls
VULKAN/ANDROID: Workaround weird WSI return codes in landscape mode - Android WSI wants you to use preTransform, and if it is not used correctly, Android 10 will return VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR, and we would create a new swapchain every frame. This workaround just ignores this error, since it's not really an error. A more "proper" fix is to use prerotate and modify the MVP matrices, which might help certain devices with crummy display processors
VULKAN/ANDROID: Recreate swapchain on orientation change. ANativeWindow getWidth/Height does not detect any changes when using Vulkan, so use the old onContentRectChanged callback to get notified when size changed. Use those values instead when figuring out how large swapchain to create
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Get rid of 128 byte device name limit for XInput device discover - when device name was too long, it would not be picked up by the XInput driver and would instead fallback to DirectInput
WINDOWS: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support
UWP: Fix crashes on startup / prompt for folder permissions when trying to load custom.ini
UWP: Fix - Mouse input is offset on high DPI monitors
UWP: Fix - Keyboard input hangs sometimes
UWP: Fix - Multi-touch support
UWP: Fix - Enable menu touch input by default
UWP: Fix - Get user language
UWP: Fix - Get CPU model name
UWP: Fix - Use GLUI instead of XMB on Windows Mobile 10
UWP: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support

(1.8.1)

BUGFIX/MENU: Fix menu rendering with Mali GPUs after changing video dimensions
CDROM: Adds pregap support to cdfs helper methods
CHEEVOS: Provides the new PCEngine hashing algorithm for RetroAchievements
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU/MATERIALUI: Initial thumbnail support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Cutie / Virtual Boy theme added
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Under certain extreme circumstances, entries with very long sublabel strings could have their text prematurely 'clipped' as the entry is scrolled beyond the top of the screen
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Certain setting value strings were unnecessarily truncated (with a ...) when using smooth ticker text
MENU/XMB: Sunbeam theme added
SWITCH: Accelerometer, gyroscope and illuminance sensor support
VITA: Accelerometer and gyroscope sensor support

(1.8.0)

AI SERVICE: Added in fix for BMP returns to AI service. Added in label passing to AI service call
BSV: Fix BSV recording/playback
BUGFIX: Fix crash when setting Thumbnail Directory
BUGFIX/STABILITY: Set "Automatically Add Content to Playlist" to false by default, this was unstable on PS3 and Mac and other platforms potentially as well.
COMMON: Graceful driver switching for Windows and Linux
COMMON: Cache frame before converting 0RGB1555
LAKKA: Wi-Fi Access Point settings
MENU: Menu scaling improvements
MENU/MATERIALUI: There are no longer any animation glitches when 'wraparound' scrolling from the last entry in a list to the first, or when performing horizontal swipe navigation gestures on certain settings-type entries
MENU/MATERIALUI: List entries underneath the title and navigation bars are no longer highlighted when touching the title/navigation bars (this was only a cosmetic issue, but it was annoying...)
MENU/MATERIALUI: The current menu list is no longer reloaded when pressing the currently active tab on the navigation bar
MENU/MATERIALUI: The ticker text spacer has been set to a 'bullet' character (same as Ozone)
MENU/MATERIALUI: The default colour theme has been set to 'Ozone Dark'
MENU/MATERIALUI: Three new colour themes have been added.
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Menu Transition Animation option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When this is enabled, menu transition events are animated
MENU/MATERIALUI: The navigation bar is now shown at all times - i.e. it is an actual navigation tool, rather than a 'top-level-menu' curiosity
MENU/MATERIALUI: Two new context-sensitive buttons have been added to the navigation bar - back button and resume button
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Auto-Rotate Navigation Bar option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When enabled (this is the default setting), the navigation bar is moved to the right hand side of the screen when using landscape screen orientations.
MENU/MATERIALUI: The playlists tab is now correctly hidden when User Interface > Views > Show Playlist Tabs is disabled
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now correctly readjusts its layout when screen orientation changes on mobile devices
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now resizes in real-time when the user manually sets the Menu Scale Factor (this never worked properly with the old DPI override)
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI no longer leaks memory on 'context reset' (fonts were previously never free()'d)
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Android-style 'system bar' has been added. This shows current core name, clock and battery level
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new search icon is shown on the title bar when viewing playlists and file browser lists. Pressing this launches the search interface
MENU/MATERIALUI: The title bar now uses a larger font, and the sublabel font has also been enlarged a little, to more closely align with Material UI standards
MENU/MATERIALUI: A number (quite a large number) of layout/spacing issues have been fixed
MENU/MATERIALUI: The existing colour theme handling code is not fit for purpose, so the whole lot got ripped out and reimplemented. In doing so, also adjusted all the theme colours to better match Material UI standards - with a few liberties taken for aesthetic purposes.
OSD: Fix fast forward indicator when not using menu widgets
PSP1: Remove duplicated FPS indicator on the screen
SWITCH: Make audren threaded audio driver the new default
VIDEO LAYOUT: Add video layout mame overlay compatibility. Enabled for Windows/Linux/OSX/iOS/Android/libnx. Only works with GL driver for now, no glcore yet

(1.7.9) (v2)

3DS: Fix 3DS screen flickering when OSD is enabled
IOS: Fix crash that could happen at startup
MENU/MATERIALUI: Change DPI scaling back to original - too many issues with current implementation, requires a redesign

(1.7.9)

AI SERVICE: Image mode is now much faster, it now saves the image in-memory in PNG format then passes it along to the translation service
BUGFIX: Touch input - When using an overlay to toggle the quick menu on touchscreen devices, we no longer get 'phantom' menu input - i.e. the old bug of hitting the toggle and instantly resuming content (or performing a save state) is fixed
BUGFIX: Networking - RetroArch crashed when pressing left while Relay Server Location entry was selected
BUGFIX: Networking - fix memory leak that could happen at exit after a network operation had run
CHEEVOS: Improve handling of line endings when calculating CD hashes for retroachievements
CHEEVOS: Add support for Sega CD/Saturn; reduce hash calls to server
FPGA: Add initial FPGA port for Z-Turn boards - not really release-ready yet, will need community support to continue. Currently employs naive framebuffer approach, not fullspeed
GL1: GLDirect (D3D9 to OGL1.1 wrapper) support
GONG: Stability fixes
LINUX/UDEV: Fix touchscreen/lightgun issues
MENU/MATERIALUI: MaterialUI no longer 'forgets' its place when navigating backwards in menus, and navigation in general is 'cleaner'.
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add initial gesture support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Improved touch support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Random' items are no longer automatically highlighted when performing standard up/down 'flick' scrolling through lists (items are only highlighted when you keep the pointer still for > 200 ms)
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The display no longer 'jerks' for one frame when navigating backwards through lists
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The Material UI scaling factor is now based upon the device-reported screen DPI value (previously it relied upon a hard-coded magic number, which was never correct)
MENU/RGUI: Functional mouse/touchscreen support
MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: On-screen keyboard entry via mouse/touchscreen has been tidied up - no more double inputs (or unwanted menu interaction in the background)
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel up/down is now a proper 'up/down', same as using cursor keys or a dpad
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel tilt left/right has been wired up to normal 'left/right' commands. Also further improved mouse wheel tilt
MENU/OZONE: Add option to toggle between static and scrolling content metadata
MENU/XMB: Add full gesture support
MENU/OSX: Fixed mouse buttons - mouse down events were not hooked up
MENU: When navigating backwards from a core options drop-down list (i.e. pressing select or cancel), the last menu position is remembered (instead of resetting back to the first core option item each time)
MENU: Add mouse/touchscreen gesture support
MENU: Add option to delete playlists (Settings > Playlists > Playlist Management)
MOBILE (ANDROID/IOS): Add option to automatically rotate overlays when changing orientation
OSD: Memory details should now be available on every platform (get_mem_total and get_mem_free need to be implemented in the frontend driver for it to work)
OSD: Memory details can now be shown individually without FPS and frame count
PS2: Fix memory leaks in font/video driver
SWITCH: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
THREADED VIDEO: Fix FPS text in threaded video mode
VITA: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
VITA: Add system language detection
VITA: More memory support
WIN32: Log window now has title 'Logging Console'
WII: Add Wiimote lightgun support

1.7.8 (v4)

COMMON: Enable customisation of runtime 'last played' display format.
CHEEVOS: Add hashing support for PSX (bin/cue, chd, or real CD) (for real this time, got added in the CHANGELOG for v2 then reverted before it hit release)
IOS: Update for iOS 13, fix the asset packaging issues
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
MENU: Add 12-hour time/date versions of all formats
SWITCH: Add 'AI Service' option to Switch (untested)
SWITCH: Update to newest libnx

1.7.8 (v3)

GLCORE: Ensure correct scaling of menu texture (with RGUI)
IPS: Soft-Patch any IPS size
METAL: Fix overlay issue - setup correct viewport before rendering overlay
METAL/STB: Fix font driver issue with AMD GPUs on MacOS.
MENU/RGUI: Correctly rescale menu when resizing window if aspect ratio lock is enabled.
OSX: Remove OSX suffix in window title
PSP: Fix audio conversion code
REMAPS: Fix analog remapping regression -analog remapping would break controls

1.7.8 (v2)

3DS: Fix 3DS startup crash
AI SERVICE: Fix 'Japanese' setting
D3D12: Fix runtime error at startup
CHEEVOS: Fix Achievements badges
CHEEVOS: Add hashing support for PSX (bin/cue, chd, or real CD)
GLCORE: Fix regression - shaders don't work
IOS: Use launch storyboard to properly support all screen sizes
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU/XMB: Smooth vertical ticker scrolling
OSX: Fix potential OSX startup crash
PATCH: Fix IPS patches
PLAYLISTS: Fix playlist heap corruption bug. Would also cause potential crashes on OSX and 3DS at startup
SHADERS: Fix shader loading and saving in content-less cores
SHADERS: Implement video_shader_delay setting. Screen grabbing software like streaming software can interfere with the loading of shaders, resulting in graphical glitches or freezes. This PR adds a video_shader_delay setting (in ms) and (advanced) menu entries Video -> Auto-Shader Delay, allowing to work around the issue

1.7.8

3DS: Fix C-Stick y-axis inversion
3DS: Update all icon/banner images
AI: Add AI Service functionality (enabled for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS).
APPLE (MAC/IOS/TVOS): Fix autodetect for mFI controllers: properly call autodetect add on the connect notification, and add call to disconnect on GameController disconnect notification.
ANDROID: Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support
ANDROID: Now can be built with Gradle/Android Studio
AUDIO/WINDOWS: You can now select between audio devices for XAudio2/DirectSound/XAudio2 by pressing left/right on the Audio Device option.
AUDIO/WINDOWS: Setting the device by either index number or name string should work.
BLISS-BOX: Add 4 new pad types from firmware 3.0
BPS/UPS: Re-allocation target_data variable for target patch size (can now apply bigger patches without extra-bytes on memory)
CDROM: Added real CD-ROM functionality for Windows and Linux.
CDROM: Added disc dumping.
COMMON: Add separate frontend logging
COMMON: Ability to set FPS update interval (used in the window titlebar/FPS widget)
COMMON: Add 'Reset Frame Time Counter' functionality, enable it by default for resizing the window, loading/saving shader presets, fastforwarding, etc.
COMMON: Add optional 'on demand' thumbnail downloads
COMMON: Add new playlist-based thumbnail downloader. Hide the legacy thumbnail pack version by default
COMMON: Show license per core (if available) inside 'Load Core'
COMMON: Add option to load content from (and dump) CD-ROM discs
COMMON: Re-enable '--log-file' command line option
COMMON: Default playlist core association is now stored as metadata inside each playlist
COMMON: Fix playlist format detection
COMMON: Favorites playlist size can now be set independently of content history size. Values can be set from 0-999, or '-1' for unlimited (99999)
COMMON: Prevent adding new items to favorites when playlist is full (old entries are no longer overwritten)
COMMON: Prevent loading content with cores that require an incompatible graphics API version from the current one
COMMON: Saved shader presets are now portable across platforms and use relative paths
COMMON: Add '--set-shader' command line option which works like an override for automatic shader presets
COMMON: Add global shader presets
COMMON: Remove 'video_shader' setting, shaders are not saved automatically anymore
CORE OPTIONS: When saving core option overrides, only include settings for the current core
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to save core options per-core
CPU FILTERS: Add Scanline2x filter
DINPUT: Cleanup magic numbers mess surrounding hat code
GAMECUBE: Add default video/audio filter directories
GL/MALI400: Fix menu issues on Mali 400 series GPUs, should also fix 'RetroArch flickers black on ARM Mali GPUs (Android/ARM Linux)
GL/GLCORE: Use highest supported OpenGL Core version on Windows and X11
GL1: Ignore alpha in core video, fixes XRGB8888 rendering in some cores
GLCORE: Don't hardcode shader cross compilation target version but poll it. glcore would always only use the minimum target shader version, i.e. GLSL ES 3.00 for OpenGL ES 3.0+ or GLSL 1.50 for OpenGL 3.2+
D3D10/11/12/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic. Works fine with braid-rewind shader, not entirely perfect with D3D12 though
D3D10/11/12: Add option to select which GPU to render with
D3D10/11: Fix maintaining aspect ratio when resizing window
GLCORE/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
HID: Add Retrode support. Should work on Wii/WiiU.
INPUT: Menu toggle hotkey can now be bound to another keyboard key and it will toggle properly
IOS: Correctly centers screen on iPhone X landscape
IOS: Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support
IOS: Add in more Apple Model numbers for RetroRating Added in all current Apple Model numbers and set a base rating of 19
IOS: Remove pause indicator; show the native UI menu using 4-finger swipe down gesture
IOS: Support L3/R3 in iOS 12.1, Options buttons in MFi/PS4/XBox One controllers in iOS 13
LIBRETRO: Add new core options interface, allows for localization, sublabels and more
LIBRETRO: Add new bitmask input codepath, for RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD only for now
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
MENU: Add smooth ticker text
MENU: Ability to hide every settings submenu (User Interface -> Views -> Settings)
MENU: Ability to hide nearly every quick menu entry (User Interface -> Views -> Quick Menu)
MENU: Fix longstanding menu display issues on Mali400 GPUs (on ARM hardware, SBCs and mobile phones/tablets)
MENU: Fix Record -> Streaming Quality, and Record -> Recording Threads settings
MENU: Fix history playlist navigation after running content
NENU: Menu entry performance optimisations
MENU: Add option to show 'remove playlist entry' only on history/favourites
MENU: Overhaul content 'Information' menu display
MENU: Add new 'Playlist Management' submenu. Allows default core associations to be set (via dropdown list), and all existing associations to be reset
MENU: Add 'Set Core Association' option to Quick Menu
MENU: Add option to remain in menu after saving/loading states
MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Core' will unload the core.
MENU: After a core is running, Load Core will be hidden from view until you select 'Close Content' from the Quick Menu.
MENU/WIDGETS: All widgets are now properly cleaned up, fixing the frozen widgets bug when loading / closing content
MENU/WIDGETS: Fix crash with tasks
MENU/WIDGETS: Widgets are now drawn above the overlay with OpenGL and Vulkan
MENU/WIDGETS: Fine tune progress bar colors
MENU/WIDGETS: Have the progression widget always resize
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Ensure that displayed thumbnails are always refreshed correctly after selecting 'Download Thumbnails' from Quick Menu
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Make PNG image loading/processing non-blocking on non-threaded systems
MENU/OZONE: Add it for PS3
MENU/OZONE: Fix regression in 1.7.7 - OSX/macOS - was unable to start it
MENU/OZONE: Fix sublabel spacing
MENU/OZONE: Add toggle to enable/disable playlist name truncation in Ozone
MENU/OZONE: (Ozone) Fix display of (semi-)transparent thumbnails
MENU/XMB: Add menu animation settings
MENU/XMB: Add optional thumbnail scaling
MENU/XMB: Fix display of long sublabels. Text that would exceed the display area now scrolls line-by-line
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add optional thumbnail upscaling
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add core option sublabels as tooltips, add buttons to reset one/all core options
MENU/QT/WIMP: Word-wrap core option tooltips
MENU/QT/WIMP: Path selector fixes
MENU/RGUI: Enable playlist display on platforms without database support
MENU/RGUI: Make particle effects framerate independent + add animation speed setting
MIDI: correct pitch bend in ALSA driver - MIDI standard pitch bend center position is 0x2000 but ALSA's is 0
MIDI: Fix SysEx handling. We need to clear the event status after each message. Otherwise, after a SysEx message the first byte of the next event will incorrectly inherit its delta_time. This causes a delay of several seconds in nearly every MT-32 games which uses a lot of long SysEx.
METAL/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
NETBSD: Audioio is now the default audio driver
NETBSD: Fix a segfault when starting RetroArch with an empty configuration file and LANG unset in the environment
OSD: OSD is now drawn above the overlay with Vulkan
OSX: Fix regression with Cocoa GL - shader / preset loading was getting stuck in an infinite loop
OSX: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
PLAYLISTS: Add history/favourites to 'Playlist Management' menu
RECORD: Fix Twitch streaming
REMOTE RETROPAD: Fix for Remote RetroPad input - fixes processing of Remote RetroPad input. None of the remote inputs are being executed both in menu and in game. This is due to the way current key binds are being detected which block processing of any remote input. It's been tested using Remote RetroPad core on Android including digital dpad and analog control input.
RUNAHEAD/MSVC2010: Build in runahead support for MSVC2010 and up
RUNAHEAD/VITA: Build in runahead support for Vita version
SAVESTATES: Allow auto save states also in cores that support no content as long as some content is loaded
SCALER: Fix SSE2 path for ARGB/BGRA -> BGR24 - should fix screenshots being taken for XRGB888 (viewport)
SCANNER: Skip all databases with incompatible file extensions, whether content is inside an archive or not
SCANNER: Fix hang on empty files inside archives
SHADERS: Add proper shader compatibility checks
SHADERS: Enable Cg shaders for D3D9
SHADERS: Remove 'video_shader' setting, replace it with global presets that make more sense
SHADERS: #reference directive for shaders. Presets can point to other existing presets if they are unchanged
SHADERS: Will attempt to cache the shader/preset into memory before loading to avoid costly getline/gets/getc operations
SHADERS: New --set-shader commandline option
SHADERS/MENU: Prevent undefined behaviour when failing to load shaders
SHADERS/MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Shader Preset' will reset all shader passes and apply changes, effectively disabling the shaders
SHADERS/MENU: New menu options for removing shader presets (global/core/parent/etc).
SWITCH :Add Audren audio driver.
SWITCH: Fix splitting and joining of joycon controllers. Before this fix, splitting and joining of joycons only ever worked sporadically
SWITCH: Proper x/y scaling for pointer devices, fixes touch lightgun
THUMBNAILS: Add optional On-Demand Thumbnails.
UDEV: Fix wrong udev devices order
UDEV/X11: Mouse pointer should work now in X11 environment with no Display
VITA: Update Vita2D
VULKAN/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
VULKAN: Add option to select which GPU to render with
VULKAN: Validate non-causal filter chain for texture inputs. We only validated for UBO inputs apparently.
WINDOWS: Menubar should no longer be disabled when threaded video is enabled
WINDOWS: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
WINDOWS: Properly set initial directory for menubar 'Load Core' option
WII: Add default video/audio filter directories
WII: Fix RGUI display corruption
WII: Fix HID joypad drivers
WII: Add optional overscan correction
WII: Fix recursive path_mkdir() operations
WII: Add widescreen RGUI support
WIIU: Scale menu to viewport size; respect filtering settings for menu
WIIU/RGUI: RGUI does its own transparency effects in the texture, so we don't have to add another 50% on that
WIIU/RGUI: Use correct pixelformat ordering for menu texture
WIIU/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
X11: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
X11: Add non-evdev keycodes to fix keyboard input on non-Linux systems with X11

1.7.7

3DS: Add unique IDs to prevent cores overwriting each other
3DS: Fix screen tearing when running 50Hz content
ANDROID: We now target API level 26 (minimum is still API level 9)
ANDROID: Add option to vibrate on touch (works in menu or overlay)
ANDROID: Add device vibration option for cores that support rumble
ANDROID: Add gamepad vibration support for cores that support rumble
ANDROID: Allow stylus/pen to move mouse without pressing down
AUDIO: Avoid deadlocks in certain audio drivers when toggling menu sounds on
BLISS-BOX: Support PSX Jogcon (requires firmware 3.0)
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when reading memory that is out of range
CHEEVOS: New Cheevos implementation enabled by default
CHEEVOS: Pop-up badges when an achievement is triggered
CRT: Dynamic super resolution support
DISCORD: Fix potential crash when username is empty and discord is disabled
DISCORD: Ask to join support for Linux
INPUT/ANDROID: Add "Input Block Timeout" option
COMMON: For platforms without HAVE_THREADS, don't automatically resume content when saving/loading states
COMMON: Make playlist sorting optional and consistent
COMMON: Fix sorting of playlists with blank labels
COMMON: Fix content scanner creating false positive playlist entries that also have wrong label and crc32
COMMON: Add some MMX-optimized pixel conversion routines
COMMON: Fix typo preventing some SSE2-optimized pixel conversions from being used
COMMON: Add option to track how long content has been running over time
COMMON: Fix buffer overflows in system information
COMMON: Add option to change screen orientation via the windowing system (Android, Windows, X11)
COMMON: Show CPU model name in log
COMMON: Add "Help -> Send Debug Info" option (and F10 hotkey) to send diagnostic info to the RetroArch team for help with problems
COMMON: Show GPU device name/version in log
COMMON: Add menu option to write log info to a file
COMMON: Add subsystem support for playlists. Subsystem info is automatically saved to the history playlist for easy relaunching
GL: Add new "gl1" OpenGL 1.1 compliant video driver for legacy GPUs and software renderers
GL: Add a new "glcore" driver with slang support (requires GL 3.2+ or GLES3)
GL: Draw OSD on top of overlay
GONG: Add savestate support
GONG: Add video refresh rate core options
GONG: Two player support via core option
GUI: Fix text alignment when using stb_unicode
GUI: Fix text display issues when using Japanese (and other unicode-dependent language) text with stb_unicode
GUI: Set language on first startup to the user's preferred OS language (Windows, *nix and Android)
INPUT: Add (scaled radial) analog deadzone and sensitivity options
LIBRETRO: Add Turkish language support
LIBRETRO: Allow non-accelerated video to rotate the display
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Add new Turkish translation
MIDI: Fix startup crash in midi driver
MENU: Bugfix - you can no longer get stuck in Online Updater -> Update Core screen when toggling between ingame and menu
MENU: Selectively hide 'Take Screenshot' for video drivers that don't support taking screenshots
MENU: Framerate independent menu rendering. MaterialUI/Ozone/XMB/RGUI can now run at higher framerates
MENU: Thumbnails work in history list
MENU: Menu widgets
MENU: Add memory statistics support to more context drivers
MENU: Enable ozone driver for UWP builds
MENU: Add optional "looping" menu text ticker with configurable speed
MENU: Fix core video rendering when using ozone with GL cores that implement the scissor test
MENU: Add optional playlist sublabels (associated core + play time, where available)
MENU: Dropdown list settings now apply immediately
MENU: Add setting to require pressing the "Exit RetroArch" hotkey twice to confirm
MENU: Now able to run at higher refresh rates than 60Hz
MENU: Enable "Add to Favorites" without loading a core
MENU: Allow core name to be hidden on history/favorites playlists
MENU: Populate crc32 and db_name fields when adding history/favourites playlist entries
MENU: Fix TTF files not showing in OSD/menu font selection screen
MENU: Fix audio/video filters not showing in file browser
MENU/MaterialUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/MaterialUI: Add currently selected entry in dropdown menus
MENU/OZONE: Add mouse support on entries (no sidebar yet)
MENU/OZONE: Allow collapsing the sidebar
MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail support
MENU/OZONE: Battery notifications
MENU/OZONE: Add wifi icon for network entries
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add git version and build date to Help->About window
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix content loading via the file browser
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add new settings window to control all RetroArch settings
MENU/RGUI: Improve playlist titles
MENU/RGUI: Add option to hide associated cores in playlists
MENU/RGUI: Add internal upscaling option
MENU/RGUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/RGUI: Add menu sublabel support
MENU/RGUI: Re-enable "Load Core" option when content is loaded
MENU/RGUI: Add optional "Collections" entry to main menu
MENU/RGUI: Add "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option
MENU/RGUI: Add "full width" layout option
MENU/RGUI: Ensure menu color theme is applied immediately
MENU/RGUI: Fix "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option when using custom viewports
MENU/RGUI: Add widescreen support
MENU/RGUI: Allow text to be centred when selecting widescreen layouts
MENU/RGUI: Add inline playlist thumbnail support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional shadow effects
MENU/RGUI: Performance optimizations
MENU/RGUI: Add optional extended ASCII support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional delay when loading thumbnails
MENU/RGUI: Add on-screen keyboard
MENU/RGUI: Battery notifications
MENU/XMB: Prevent crashes when resizing to a tiny window
MENU/XMB: XMB honors the 'show menu sublabels' setting now - was previously RGUI only
NETPLAY: Fix stall-out causing total disconnection with >2 players
NETPLAY: Different (more intuitive?) default netplay share policy
NETPLAY: Add hotkey option to toggle hosting on/off
NETWORKING: Encode URLs to allow for spaces in directory names
OSX: Prevent crash on exit
OSX: Metal is now the default video driver for the RetroArch Metal build
OSX: Enable CoreAudio v3 driver for Metal
OSX/MACOS/IOS: Now uses the STB Unicode font driver
PS2: CDFS support
PS2: Implemented analog support for ps2 controllers
PS2: Fix audio freeze after restarting core
PS2: Fix issues with load state and the font driver
PS2: File I/O now works for USB and network host
PS2: Support cores with extra padding in their frame buffers
SCANNER: New option 'Scan without core match'. When this is enabled, supported extensions by all installed cores are not checked, and instead it will add all content it finds to a playlist. This way, you can install the core you need later on after scanning. Not enabled by default
SHADERS: Don't alphabetize shader presets
SWITCH: Add rumble support
SWITCH: Add USB keyboard support
VITA: Add bluetooth mouse and keyboard support
VULKAN: Fix color issues with RGBA8888 swapchains in readback (screenshots)
WII: Don't init overlay when RAM is beyond 72MB
WII: Skip CRC calculation on content load, can improve load times of larger games by several seconds
WINDOWS: Fall back to gl1 driver if accelerated GPU driver is unavailable
WINDOWS: Allow winraw and xinput to work without dinput (needed for WinRT)
WINDOWS: Add MSVC2017 ARM desktop support
UWP: Fix rewind by opting for slower codepath
UWP: Fix relative path name issues when loading shaders
UWP: Optimizations for VFS system

1.7.6

ANDROID: Fix Xperia Play input binding
CHEEVOS: Reset when hardcore mode is toggled
CHEEVOS: Update the hashing methods to identify NES, SNES and Lynx games (more accurate and accepting headerless ROMs)
COMMON: Add new JSON playlist format
COMMON: Fix playlist corruption when deleting items
COMMON: Fix archive progress display calculation
COMMON: Fix playlist entries appearing with previously used names
COMMON: Fix screenshot filename with no core or content
COMMON: Allow compiling without menu support
CORE UPDATER: Allow sideloading cores from the menu
CPU FILTERS: Add Normal2x filter
CRT/LINUX: New Linux switching method partially implemented
CRT/LINUX: Linux restore desktop resolution fixed
CRT/LINUX: Monitor index switching and auto enumerate for output detection in Linux (still working on the windows method)
CRT/RASPBERRY PI: Initial support
DATE: Add Date / Time style options
DEBUGGING: Add an integrated crash handler for debug builds (see https://docs.libretro.com/tech/debugging)
DISCORD: Register the application name properly
DISK CONTROL: Remember the last used folder / current active folder to make disk-swapping faster
INPUT: Add new menu toggle (hold start button for 2 seconds)
INPUT: Fix arrow keys being incorrectly bound as numpad keys
INPUT/SDL: Flush the joypad events. Decreases cpu usage over time with the SDL joypad driver
LOCALIZATION: Add Greek translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Simplified Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: New "ozone" menu driver
MENU: Only show CRT SwitchRes if video display server is implemented (Windows/Linux for now)
MENU: User Interface -> Appearance -> 'Menu Font Green/Blue Color' settings now work properly
MENU: Add option to enable in-menu sound effects
MENU/D3D: Scissoring support (will be used for Ozone and menu widgets)
MENU/QT/WIMP: Allow building with MSVC2017
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add detailed file browser table
MENU/QT/WIMP: New grid view implementation that is faster and loads thumbnails on-demand
MENU/QT/WIMP: Thumbnail drag and drop support
MENU/RGUI: Overhaul custom theme interface + add wallpaper support
MENU/RGUI: Thumbnail support and thumbnail downscaling
MENU: Hide password values
MENU/SOUNDS: Implement in-menu sound effects (not enabled by default for now, still experimental)
MIDI: Add a Linux ALSA driver for MIDI
NETPLAY: Force fast-save-states when netplay is enabled
NETPLAY: Allow quick joining subsystem lobbies
OSX: Initial CoreAudio V3 audio driver (not yet used in release builds)
OSX: OpenGL 3.2 Core support for cores
PS2: Initial PlayStation2 port
PS4: Initial PlayStation4 port
RECORDING: Implement recording options in the menu complete with quality profiles, streaming, and proper file naming
SCANNER: Fix GDI disc scanning
SHADERS: Fix auto shader preset loading on D3D10, D3D11, D3D12
SUBSYSTEM: Allow more than 10 subsystems
SUBSYSTEM: Cores that use subsystem for complex scenarios can now load content without starting a regular content first
SUBSYSTEM: Remember the last used folder to make loading subsystem type content faster
SWITCH/LIBNX: Improve touch scaling calculation
SWITCH: Proper button labels
TVOS: Initial tvOS port
VULKAN: Fix RGUI crashing at startup
VULKAN/RGUI: Enable 'Menu Linear Filter' option
VULKAN: Fix secondary screens in overlays not working
WAYLAND: Implement idle-inhibit support (needed for screensaver suspend)
WAYLAND: Fix fullscreen toggle
WIIU: Initial netplay peer-to-peer support. Network information working
WINDOWS/WSA: Network Information info is blank until first network operation
WINDOWS: Fix an ancient bug that caused wrong mappings for keyboard arrows
WINDOWS: Remember window size and position if so desired
WINDOWS: SSL/TLS connections now work properly
WINDOWS: Fall back to GDI driver if no accelerated graphics driver is found
UWP: Initial UWP port
VFS: Update to version 3
XBONE: Initial Xbox One port
XMB/OZONE: Add more icons
XMB: Add Automatic Inverted theme
???: Easter Egg

1.7.5

CAMERA: Fix Video4Linux2 driver that broke years ago
CONFIG: Add 'Reset To Defaults' setting in Configurations. Thi will reset your config file to defaults
CHEATS: Add support for Rumble when increase or decrease by the rumble value
CHEATS: Add cheat variables to allow for updating large portions of memory
CHEEVOS: Prevent loading states before achievements are fully loaded
CRT: New porches and interlaced bug fix
CRT: New functionality, ability to switch between 15KHz and 31KHz, etc
COMMON: Support for "OEM-102" key (usually '' on Euro keyboards)
DISCORD: Add 'Ask To Join' Feature
EMSCRIPTEN: Add stb_font support
INPUT: Add new menu toggle combos 'L3 + R' and 'L + R' (useful for Switch)
IOS: Use safe area to account for notch for iPhone X and adjust main view
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: Add dropdown lists for many settings
MENU: Fix crash that could happen when changing core's options on Android
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to rename playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to filter extensions inside archives when adding to a playlist
MENU/QT/WIMP: Rename playlist entries with 2 single clicks
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix shader parameter checkboxes not working
METAL: Add screenshot support
NETPLAY: Save lobby details received back from server after first announcement
OPENGL/GLX: Implement Adaptive VSync - GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear
OPENGL/WGL: Implement Adaptive VSync - WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear
RUNAHEAD: Fix performance degradation that could happen over time (after approx. 30 mins). Fixed input IDs outside of range 0-35 causing slow performance in runahead
SWITCH: Add stb_font support
SWITCH: Add Retro Achievements support
SWITCH: Add networking support
SWITCH: Add touchscreen support
SWITCH: Add OpenGL support
SWITCH: Merging of RetroNX Nintendo Switch port, based on libnx SDK
VULKAN: Fix race condition in threaded mailbox emulation
VULKAN: Maintenance fixes
WIIU: Fix menu lag when built with DevKitPro r32

1.7.4

ANDROID: Add sustained performance mode, can be turned on/off in Power Management settings menu
ANDROID: Powerstate/battery level support
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when scrolling Achievement List while Unofficial Achievements enabled (#6732)
CHEEVOS: Added hitcounts support for PauseIf/ResetIf (#6817)
COMMON: Automatically hide "Configuration Override options" in Quick Menu
COMMON: Small Bugfix to not trigger savestate code when pressing Reset
COMMON: Added libsixel video driver
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix Game Focus Toggle
HID/OSX: Fix to set hid device registration deterministic (#6497), to address issue #6640 re-adding dynamic device registration
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MIDI: Add MIDI support to the libretro API. Dosbox is the first proof of concept core implementing libretro MIDI
MIDI: Add a Windows driver for MIDI, based on winmm
MENU/QT/WIMP: Qt QSlider styling for Dark Theme
MENU/QT/WIMP: Remove button ghostly inside highlighting
MENU/QT/WIMP: Initial grid view
MENU/QT/WIMP: Drag&drop to add new playlist items, add option to add/edit/delete playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to update RetroArch (Windows only for now)
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage shaders
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage core options
MENU/XMB: Add new icons for the settings
MENU/XMB: Add an option to show the desktop ui
METAL: Initial work-in-progress video driver for Metal. macOS-only right now, and currently requires macOS 10.13
METAL: Supports XMB/MaterialUI, has a menu display driver. Has a font rendering driver
METAL/SLANG: Slang shaders should be compatible with Metal video driver
NETWORK: Enable SSL/TLS support by default for desktop platforms
QNX: Fix Game Focus Toggle
PS3: Add audio mixer support for FLAC and MP3
PSP: Use proper button labels, fix inverted R-Stick Y axis
REMAPS: Fix the way offsets are calculated for keyboard remapping
RUNAHEAD: Fix full-screen mode change breaking Secondary Core's environment variables
VITA: Use proper button labels, fix inverted R-Stick Y axis
VITA: Add imc0: mount
VITA: Use sceCtrlIsMultiControllerSupported to detect
VULKAN: Fix two validation errors
VULKAN: Try to avoid creating swapchains redundantly. Should fix black screen and having to alt tab out of window again to get display working on Nvidia GPUs (Windows)
VULKAN/OSX: Initial MoltenVK support. Not enabled yet, several MoltenVK bugs should be fixed first before we can have it fully working
WINDOWS/DINPUT: Add rumble support
WINDOWS/DINPUT: Fix Game Focus Toggle
WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Fix Game Focus Toggle
X11: Fix Game Focus Toggle
WII: Change deflicker setting to work in 480p or higher, and always enables vfilter so that the user can easily change brightness
WIIU: Fix out-of-bounds rendering bug
WIIU: Implement UDP broadcast network logging on Wii U
WIIU: Audio should no longer clip

1.7.3

AUDIO: Audio mixer supports FLAC/MP3 file types now!
COMMON: Fixed bug 'crashing in cores that don't range check retro_set_controller_type'. Some people were having crashes when device is set to RETRO_DEVICE_NONE and the cores don't check the number of ports, in VBAM's case it was overflowing and crashing. QuickNES was crashing too
COMMON: Fixed buffer overflow in url encoding (affecting MSVC2010/2013)
COMMON: (QuickMenu) Added Configuration Override submenu
HID: Merge new HID subsystem
HID: Fix WaveBird support for the Wii U GCA
HID/OSX: Fix regression with IODHIDManager - gamepads which are connected later would not be autoconfigured
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese translation
MENU: New WIMP Qt GUI!
MENU: Audio mixer now works in the menu without any cores loaded. You have to enable the setting 'Enable menu audio' for this to work
REMAPPING/OVERLAYS: Fix regression - overlays could no longer be remapped
SCANNER: Add Wii Backup File WBFS support
X11: CRT SwitchRes support for X11/Linux

1.7.2

ANDROID/OPENSL: Prevent crashes when setting audio latency too low (buffer count can never be lower than 2 now)
CRT: Added CRT SwitchRes
COMMON: Hide the 'Core delete' option if the 'Core updater' is also hidden
COMMON: Add way to reset core association for playlist entry
COMMON: Fix invalid long command line options causing infinite loop on Windows
COMMON: Add OSD statistics for video/audio/core
COMMON: Added runahead system; allows you to drive down latency even further
COMMON: Fix buggy behavior that could happen with ZIP file reading on some platforms as a result of not initializing struct
CHEEVOS: Support Atari 2600, Virtual Boy, and Arcade (only Neo Geo, CPS-1, CPS-2 and CPS-3 and only with fbalpha core)
CHEEVOS: Add option to automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is triggered
CHEEVOS: Fixed incompatibilities with Neo Geo Pocket achievement sets
CHEEVOS: Store only login token, not password
D3D10: Added D3D10 driver to release build. Has working shaders (Slang), overlay, and menu display driver support. Should be on par capabilities wise with D3D11 driver except for there being no hardware rendering right now
D3D11: Experimental hardware renderer. Allows for libretro cores to use D3D11 for hardware rendering. First core to use this is PPSSPP
D3D11: Increase backwards compatibility, shaders compile with Shader Model 4.0 now, added support for more feature levels
D3D10/D3D11/D3D12: Fix crashes with completely black or white thumbnail textures in XMB
GUI: Support disabling window decorations on Windows and Linux
LIBRETRO: Addition - Functions to enable and disable audio and video, and an environment function to query status of audio and video enables
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU: Add Rewind/Latency/Overlay settings to Quick Menu, add options to show/hide them (User Interface -> Views -> Quick Menu)
MENU/RGUI: Only show Menu Linear Filter for RGUI and only show it for video drivers that implement it (D3D8/9/10/11/12/GL)
MENU/RGUI: Add User Interface -> Appearance options
MENU/RGUI: D3D8/D3D9: Hookup Menu Linear Filter
MENU/XMB: Disable XMB shadow icons by default for PowerPC and ARM for performance reasons
MENU/XMB: Left/right thumbnails are now automatically scaled according to layout
MENU/XMB: Add Left Thumbnails (additional to the right)
MENU/XMB: Fixed left/right tab regression
MENU/XMB: Fix scaling of tall images that were cut on bottom previously
MENU/XMB: Menu scale factor setting now changes texts length, image scaling and margins
MENU/XMB: Mouse cursor scales correctly now
MENU/XMB: Add toggle to show/hide Playlist tabs
MENU/XMB: Add menu layout - can switch between Desktop, Handheld and Auto
MENU/XMB: Don't load menu pipeline shaders unless XMB is selected (D3D10/D3D11/D3D12/GL/Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show black frame insertion for the video drivers/context drivers that support it (so far this includes - D3D8/D3D9, OpenGL, Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show max swapchain images if supported by video driver and/or context driver (so far this includes - DRM EGL context driver, VideoCore EGL context driver, Vulkan)
MENU/MaterialUI: Automatic DPI Scaling should be much improved now, now scales as expected at 1440p and 4K resolutions
MENU/MaterialUI: Fix wrong calculation of an entry height causing long playlists to end up outside of screen range. This also could cause crashes on low DPI screens
IOS: Fixed crash when opening downloaded roms from Safari or using the "Open in.." functionality. Added the compiler flag to support keyboard remapping to controls
IOS: Fixed buffer overlap that caused a crash while trying to download GLSL shaders from the buildbot
PS3: fix URLS
REMAPS: Mapping keyboard keys from more than one gamepad (works with dosbox)
REMAPS: Mapping more than one button to the same action
REMAPS: Unmapping buttons
REMAPS: Unmapping analogs
REMAPS: Mapping a button to trigger an analog response (tested with mupen, can run on SM64 with the d-pad now, triggers a full analog tilt)
REMAPS: Mapping an analog to another analog (having more than one analog mapped to the same output causes issues)
REMAPS: Mapping an analog to produce a button response
SCANNER: Should be able to scan dual-layer Wii disc images now, filestream code now supports files larger than 4GB
SHADERS/SLANG: Slang shaders should work again on Android version and MSVC versions (basically all the Griffin-based versions)
SHADERS: If GL context is GLES2/3/Core context, Cg shaders are unavailable. Applies to shader list too
SHADERS: Hide cg/glsl shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/10/11/Vulkan video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Hide slang shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/OpenGL video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Prevent crashes from occurring if we have the GL video driver in use and we try to skip to a slang shader through next/previous hotkeys
SHADERS: Fix shader parameter increase / decrease functions
SUBSYSTEM: handle savestates properly (cart1 + cart2.state0)
VULKAN/X11: Fix X11 Vulkan bug from Wayland driver
VULKAN: Fix multi-line text spacing in menus with Vulkan driver
WINDOWS XP: Add Cheevos support
WINDOWS/MSVC 2003/2005/2010/2013/2015/2017: Add Cheevos support
VITA: Bugfix for 'PS Vita takes many time to start to accept input' issue
X11: Allow compositor disabling on X11 fullscreen through _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR
X11: Prioritize NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN in true fullscreen mode
WIIU: Fix OOB read/write in keyboard driver

1.7.1

3DS: Now correctly reports amount of CPU cores
3DS: Frontend rating is now correctly implemented for both New 3DS/2DS and Old 3DS/2DS
3DS: Initial networking support, HTTP requests won't work yet
3DS: Now reports memory and battery state
AUDIO: Added 'Audio Resampler Quality' setting to Audio Settings. Setting this higher will increase sound quality at the expense of sound latency and/or performance. Setting this value lower will improve sound latency/performance at the expense of sound quality. Only has an effect if the Sinc resampler is used, and you have to restart the game for changes to take effect
CHEEVOS: Fix unofficial achievements not being loaded
CHEEVOS: Show savestate menu entries when no achievements are found even if hardcore mode is enabled
CHEEVOS: Support Neo Geo Pocket
COMMON: Bugfix for issue related to 'Windows mouse pointer visible when running MESS or MAME cores'
COMMON: Fix bug 'Last item in a Playlist is ignored'
COMMON: New LED API. Driver implemented for Raspberry Pi, proof of concept implemented for core MAME 2003
COMMON: Add quick menu option to watch shader files for changes and recompile them automatically (Linux only for now)
D3D8: Direct3D 8 can now work on systems that have Direct3D 8 installed
D3D9: Add menu support for MaterialUI/XMB
D3D10: Initial video driver implementation
D3D11: Initial video driver implementation
D3D11: SPIRV-Cross/slang shader support for D3D11
D3D12: Initial video driver implementation
DINPUT: don't reinitialize input driver on network events / media insertion / network drive connection
INPUT: show friendly names when available under input binds and system information
INPUT: show the config name when available under system information
GUI: Allow changing menu font color
GUI: Menu visibility options for RGUI and MaterialUI
GUI/MaterialUI: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers
GUI/XMB: Add Monochrome Inverted icon theme
GUI/XMB: Allow changing menu scale to 200%
GUI/XMB: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers. Menu shader effects currently don't work on D3D8/D3D9 Cg
HAIKU: Restored port
KEYMAPPER: prevent a condition that caused input_menu_toggle to stop working when a RETRO_DEVICE_KEYBOARD type device is enabled
GL: ignore hard gpu sync when fast-forwarding
IOS10/11: Handle hardware keyboards and iCade controllers
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
NETPLAY: Add menu option to select different MITM (relay) server locations
OSX: Modify HID buttons detection algorithm
QB: Added --datarootdir, --sysconfdir, --bindir, --docdir and --mandir
QB: Deprecated --global-config-dir, --with-bin_dir and --with-man_dir
SHADERS: Allow saving of shader presets based on the parent directory (Saving one for /foo/bar/mario.sfc would result in shaders/presets/corename/bar.ext). We decided it's safer to still isolate the presets to a single core because different cores may treat video output differently
SHADERS: Don't save the path to the current preset to the main config. This was causing weird behavior, instead it will try to load currentconfig.ext and it will save a preset with that name when select apply shader preset. The resulting shader will restore properly after restarting and even after core/parent/game specific presets are loaded
SOLARIS: Initial port
SWITCH: Initial Nintendo Switch port, based on libtransistor SDK
PS3: Enable Cheevos
PSP: Enable threading support through pthreads
SHADERS: SPIRV-Cross/slang shader support for D3D11
SHIELD ATV: Allow the remote / gamepad takeover hack to work with the 2017 gamepad
SUBSYSTEM: Subsystem saves now respect the save directory
SUBSYSTEM: You can now load subsystem games from the menu (see #6282 for caveats)
VULKAN: Fix swapchain recreation bug on Nvidia GPUs with Windows 10 (resolved in Windows Nvidia driver version 390.77)
WINDOWS: Improved Unicode support (for cores/directory creation and 7zip archives)
WINDOWS: Show progress meter on taskbar for downloads (Windows 7 and up)
WINDOWS: WS_EX_LAYERED drastically decreases performance, so only set it when needed (transparency in windowed mode)
WIIU: Overlay support
WIIU: Transparency support in menu + overlays
WIIU: Increased stability during core switching
WIIU: Shader support
WIIU: Menu shader effects added (shaders)
WIIU: Add missing time/clock support. (also fixes RTC [Real Time Clock] in Gambatte)
XBOX OG: Restored port

1.7.0

CHEEVOS: Add badges for achievements, shows thumbnail images of achievements
CHEEVOS: Leaderboard support
CHEEVOS: Only disable savestates on hardcore mode if achievements are not available
COMMANDLINE: Fix fullscreen toggle switch
COMMON: Add 'Automatically Load Content To Playlist' feature, enabled by default
COMMON: Fix slowmotion ratio always being reset back to 1
COMMON: Optimized NBIO implementations now for Apple, Windows, and Linux. Uses mmap for Linux/Windows/BSD if/when available. File I/O should now be much faster for loading images inside the menu
COMMON: Native Blissbox support now for latest firmware as of writing (2.0). Implementation through libusb and/or native Windows HID
COMMON: New lightgun API
COMMON: New VFS (Virtual File System) API
COMMON: Fixed some playlist bugs
COMMON: New snow shader
COMMON: Fix Quick Menu title, no longer shows 'Select File'
COMMON: Fix loading cores that require no content one after another
COMMON: Map Delete key to Y button for non-unified menu keyboard controls
COMMON: Fix for relative paths being normalised and generating a duplicate history entry
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix references to browserfs
FREEBSD: Support libusb HID input driver
HAIKU: Buildfix
INPUT: Map clear button to DEL key
LINUX/X11: Add RetroArch logo to window title bar
LINUX/X11: Input driver now supports new lightgun code
LINUX/X11: Support window transparency (requires a compositing window manager)
LOBBIES: Fix for crash on join netplay rooms via touch / glui
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Snowflake menu shader effect
OSX/PPC: Fix the GL2 renderchain, had to use EXT versions of framebuffer/renderbuffer functions
PS3: HTTP requests / downloads should now work
PS3: Core Updater now works
PS3: Improved font rendering, enable STB Unicode font renderer
PSP: Make it work with Vita's Adrenaline
PSP: Fix audio sync
PSP: Fix content loading, port should be functional again
PSP: Use 64MB when available
SCANNER: Fix crash from Windows-incompatible format string
VITA: Improve packaging, installation times
WIIU: Disabled the controller patcher for now since it was the source of many stability issues
VULKAN: Various stability fixes for WSI
WINDOWS: Add MSVC 2017 solution
WINDOWS: Get rid of the empty console window in MSVC 2010 builds
WINDOWS: Raw input driver now supports new lightgun code
WINDOWS: Use configured OSD/text message color on GDI driver
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Populate XInput VID/PID from DInput so autoconfig doesn't rely solely on joypad names
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Fix crash that occurs in some situations with Steam running and a Steam Controller plugged in
WINDOWS: Improve version reporting under System Information
WINDOWS: Support window transparency
WINDOWS: Correct usage of GetWindowPlacement per MS docs, fixes game window position on Win95/98
WINDOWS: Added Visual Studio 2017 support

1.6.9

COMMON: Small memory leak
NETPLAY: Fix network command only working once

1.6.8

Audio: Fix the Audio DSP picker
CHEEVOS: Add support for Atari Lynx cheevos
CHEEVOS: Add support for RetroAchievements Leaderboards
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix crash that happened on context reset with Vulkan
GUI: (MaterialUI) Skip querying and drawing items that are not visible; Cache content height and bbox calculation
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix entry box highlight calculation
GUI: (XMB) Skip drawing the fading list when it is already transparent. Optimization
GUI: (XMB) Comment out visible item calculation in xmb_draw_items()
GUI: (RGUI) Prevent crashes when using a non-English language reliant on UTF8
GUI: Add menu option for OSD background color
GUI: Add menu option for OSD text color
GUI: Add menu option to remove frame count from OSD
GUI: Allow wraparound of int/float settings when pressing the left key
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for more mouse buttons (buttons 4/5)
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for analog buttons
INPUT: Always show the controls menu even if descriptors are not set
INPUT: Fix input descriptors not being set on cores that don't implement the controllers interface
INPUT: Apply descriptors only for the amount of cores the core supports
INPUT: Implement keyboard to gamepad input remapping (limited to one gamepad device for now)
INPUT: Fix absolute mouse move handling on the winraw driver
INPUT: Ignore keyboard input if window is not active on udev driver
INPUT: Sanitize the filenames of autoconfig profiles before saving
LOBBIES: Fix crash on navigating left / right from the lobby menu
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LINUX/ARMHF: Set buildbot updater URL to armhf location instead of blank string
LINUX/PI: Broadcom VC4: Add Videocore config option
LINUX/UDEV: Fix - RetroArch reads keyboard input when not focused with the udev input driver
NETPLAY: Fix disconnection not fully deinitializing Netplay
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms when there is more than one room
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms on systems where all addresses are treated as IPv6
COMMON: Fix clear/free loop conditionals in playlists
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix flickering of text
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix graphics corruption on Windows 98
WINDOWS/GDI: Allow compiling without DirectInput8 for NT support
WINDOWS/WGL: Try to use wglSwapLayerBuffers instead of SwapBuffers if possible (for more optimal performance)
WINDOWS: Fix menubar text corruption on Japanese locale systems
WINDOWS: Support Unicode file I/O (can now display CJK characters in file browser for example)
WINDOWS: Support Windows 95, NT3.51, NT4
WINDOWS: add Makefile.griffin targets for msvc6,2003,2005,2010,2012,2013
WII: Use custom, embedded libogc SDK
WIIU: Initial touchscreen support for WiiU gamepad
WIIU: Add Cheevos support
SCANNER: Fix archive scanning
SCANNER: Support CHD files
SCANNER: Support Gamecube ISO scanning
SCANNER: Use primary data track of disc images for CRC lookups rather than cue files. This is slower but finds matches more reliably, and is necessary for CHD files to work at all. Update your databases!
SCANNER: Fall back on looking inside archives when matching MAME/FBA content (most recent cores only). If you had difficulty with content being detected before, you may have better luck now. Update your databases and core info!

1.6.7

SCANNER: Fix directory scanning
SCANNER: Fix file scanning
COMMON: Fix 'Disk Image Append' option
FREEBSD: Compatibility fixes for Video4Linux2 camera driver
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add disk image append icons
GUI: (MaterialUI) Improve word wrapping when menu icons are enabled
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icons Enable. You can turn on/off the icons on the lefthand side of the menu entries
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver - only calculates visible items
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation

1.6.6

3DS: Fixes serious performance regression that affected every core; rewind was always implicitly enabled
AUDIO: MOD/S3M/XM sound should now be properly mixed in with the core's sound
GUI: Visual makeover of MaterialUI
GUI: Added 'Music', 'Images' and 'Video' collection options to RGUI/MaterialUI
GUI: Allow the user to add 'Favorites'
GUI: Allow the user to rename entries
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
INPUT: Overlay controller response - when we press buttons on the gamepad or keyboard, the corresponding buttons on the overlay will be highlighted as well
NETBSD: Silence some compilation warnings
COMMON: Fixed bug 'Deleting an entry from a playlist would not update the list view inside XMB'
COMMON: Fix inet_ntop_compat on Unix
LOBBY: Add skeleton to add help descriptions to lobbies

1.6.5

Skipped this one

1.6.4

ANDROID: Fire Stick & Fire TV remote overrides gamepad port 0 on button press and viceversa like SHIELD devices
ANDROID: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
AUDIO: Audio mixer supports MOD/S3M/XM file types now!
INPUT: input swap override flag (for remotes) is cleared correctly
INPUT: allow specifying libretro device in remap files
INPUT: allow specifying analog dpad mode in remap files
INPUT: allow saving libretro device to remap files
INPUT: allow saving analog dpad mode to remap files
INPUT: allow removing core and game remap files from the menu
COMMON: Cores can now request to set a 'shared context'. You no longer need to explicitly enable 'Shared Hardware Context' for Citra/OpenLara/Dolphin
COMMON: Add 'Delete Core' option to Core Information menu
COMMON: Allow Max Timing Skew to be set to 0
COMMON: Change the "content dir" behavior so it works on either a flag or an empty directory setting, now platform drivers can provide defaults for save / system / state / screenshot dirs and still allow the content dir functionality, these settings are under settings / saving and flagged as advanced
GUI: You can turn on/off 'Horizontal Animation' now for the XMB menu. Turning animations off can result in a performance boost
GUI: Fix sublabel word-wrapping in XMB where multi-byte languages were cut off too soon
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
WINDOWS: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
LOBBIES: Show what country the host is in
MENU: Enable OSD text rendering for gdi and libcaca drivers
WINDOWS 98/ME/2K: Set default directory for MSVC 2005 RetroArch version
WII: Better V-Sync handling, backported from SuperrSonic
WIIU: Exception handler rewritten

1.6.3

IOS: Fix GL regression - 32bit color format cores were no longer rendering
CHEEVOS: Add support for N64 cheevos and other small fixes
CHEEVOS: Add 'Achievements -> Achievements Verbose Mode'. Ability to display cheevos related messages in OSD, useful for RetroAchievements users
AUDIO: Audio mixer's volume can now be independently increased/decreased, and muted
AUDIO: Mute now no longer disables/enables audio but instead properly mutes the audio volume. Mute is also independent from the audio mixer volume
INPUT: Add mouse index selection; ability now to select between different mice
INPUT: Fix 'All Users Control Menu' setting
LINUX: Add a tinyalsa audio driver. Doesn't require asoundlib, should be self-contained and lower-level
LOBBIES: Announce the RetroArch version too
LOCALIZATION: Add Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Add 'User Interface -> Views'. Ability to display/hide online updater and core updater options
NETPLAY: Disconnecting one client shouldn't cause everyone to disconnect anymore
NETWORK: SSL/TLS support, disabled by default
SCANNER: Fix PS1 game scanning
SCANNER: Move content list builder into scanner task with progress, fixes menu freeze with large playlists
SDL2: Fix 'SDL2 driver does not see the hat on wired Xbox 360 controller"
SETTINGS: Fix regression 'Custom Viewport is no longer overridable per-core or per-game'
VITA: Add cheevos support
VITA: Add support for external USB if mounted
WAYLAND: Fix menu mouse input
WII: Add support for single-port 'PS1/PS2 to USB controller adapter

1.6.0

ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game's audio
AUTOSAVE/SRAM - Fix bug #3829 / #4820 (#3829)
ENDIANNESS: Fixed database scanning. Should fix scanning on PS3/WiiU/Wii, etc
LOBBIES: Fallback to filename based matching if no CRC matches are found (for people making playlists by hand)
LOBBIES: GUI refinement, show stop hosting when a host has been started, show disconnect when playing as client
LOBBIES: if the game is already loaded it will try to connect directly instead of re-loading content (non-fullpath cores only)
LOBBIES: unify both netplay menus
LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI's default font
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
MISC: Various frontend optimizations
NET: Fix bug #4703 (#4703)
OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work
VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
VITA: Fix frame throttle
VITA: Fix slow I/O
VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc
WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
WIIU: HID Controller support
WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input
WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode
WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores

1.5.0

ANDROID: Autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Mouse support / Emulated mouse support
AUTOCONF: Fix partial matches for pad name
CHEEVOS: Fix crashes in the cheevos description menu
CHEEVOS: WIP leaderboards support
COMMON: 9-slice texture drawing support
COMMON: Threading fixes
CORETEXT/APPLE: Ability to load menu display font drivers and loading of custom font
DOS: Add keyboard driver
DOS: Improve color accuracy and scaling
GUI: Add a symbol page in the OSK
GUI: Allow changing icon theme on the fly
GUI: Better dialogs for XMB
GUI: Various settings are now only visible when advanced settings is enabled
LOCALIZATION: Add/update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Rewrite German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update several English sublabels
LOCALIZATION: Update several Japanese labels
MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to default
MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection
NET: Allow manual netplay content loading
NET: Announcing network games to the public lobby is optional now
NET: Bake in miniupnpc
NET: Fix netplay join for contentless cores
NET: Fix netplay rooms being pushed on the wrong tab
NET: Lan games show next to lobbies with (lan) and connect via the private IP address
NET: Use new lobby system with MITM support
NUKLEAR: Update to current version
SCANNER: Always add 7z & zip to supported extensions
VULKAN: Add snow/bokeh shader pipeline effects - at parity with GL now
VULKAN: Find supported composite alpha in swapchain
WIIU: Keyboard support
WINDOWS: Fix loading of core/content via file menu
WINDOWS: Logging to file no longer spawns an empty window

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