Processing 4.5.6

Hello! Welcome to Processing 4.5.6. I hope it works!

Things of note:

• Not only did we upgrade Gradle 8.14.4, we also upgraded to Gradle 9.1! (We are now on Gradle 9.x)
• Mark Sherman's Students made many PRs that were merged in YAY
• @neobrain has officially landed something that will enable the Processing Nix package

Outside of the Release: the-wgpu-moment branch that has been around almost a year is now merged into main! So do reach out in the discord if you're curious about playing with that. It is not made to be easily explored just yet, but we do want to know if you're interested in playing with it, and will definitely help it work on your system.

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What's Changed

What's Changed 🎊

• Gradle 9 compatibility by @letorbi in #1535
• Bump Gradle version to 8.14.4 by @dagadeta in #1523
• Update window class in desktop file template by @letorbi in #1534
• Adding unit tests for PShapeOBJ in processing:core by @jaredacord in #1081
• Replace System.err with Messages.showWarning by @Stefterv in #1358
• Added tests for DoubleList by @srnkan in #1496
• Added testing for Sort.java by @ericahin in #1494
• Avoid disposing current unique window by @Stefterv in #1472
• Fix JDK dirPermissions placement in gradle build files by @neobrain in #1473
• P Font Tests by @isazfranz in #1511
• Lower bounds check on IntList get by @smarasca5 in #1477
• Add a fallback for when project version is unspecified by @catilac in #1536
• Resolves: #[1417] Value Now Compares to missingFloat Variable by @ericahin in #1441
• Updated readInt method so streams are closed on failure or success by @srnkan in #1476
• Merge WebGPU backend by @tychedelia in #1514
• X11 wayland features on linux by @catilac in #1540
• Some tokens used as variable names incorrectly reported as errors by @tychedelia in #1543
• bump version to 4.5.6 by @catilac in #1548
• Codesign clobbered when merging webgpu branch by @catilac in #1549
• Update gradle publishing command for gradle 9.x by @catilac in #1550

New Contributors

• @letorbi made their first contribution in #1535
• @dagadeta made their first contribution in #1523
• @jaredacord made their first contribution in #1081
• @srnkan made their first contribution in #1496
• @ericahin made their first contribution in #1494
• @isazfranz made their first contribution in #1511
• @smarasca5 made their first contribution in #1477

Full Changelog: processing-1433-4.5.5...processing-1434-4.5.6