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The theme is BRIDGES. Good luck everybody!
libGDX 1.14.0 has been released with bug fixes and new features. See the changelog below for a complete overview.
Pools changes in 1.13.5 have been partially reverted and the class has been deprecated. Users should either create a DefaultPool themselves or switch to the new PoolManager. To avoid reflection, PoolManager requires registering a class beforehand either via the constructor or #addPool. See #7648 for more information of the (now deprecated) Pools class and #7678 for more information on PoolManager.JsonValue#get is no longer case insensitive. Use JsonValue#getIgnoreCase().StringBuilder has been removed and its methods merged with CharArray.Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration.useGlfwAsync(); as a shorthand for if (SharedLibraryLoader.os == Os.MacOsX) Configuration.GLFW_LIBRARY_NAME.set("glfw_async");To check out our progress towards the next release, take a look at the corresponding milestone on GitHub. As always, we appreciate feedback on the issues/PRs already part of the milestone and would like to invite you to bring forward anything still missing on our Discord server!
Updating your Gradle project is straight-forward: Check out the instructions on the wiki!
- [BREAKING CHANGE] API: Pools changes in 1.13.5 have been partially reverted. Pools#get/Pools#obtain method return to requiring a Class parameter. Reflection is avoided by using pre-populated Pools for libgdx classes. See https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/pull/7648 and https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/pull/7678
- [BREAKING CHANGE] `JsonSkimmer` API changed to use JsonToken parameters.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] `JsonValue#last` added for O(1) append. Code that changes next may also need to change last.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] `JsonValue#get` is no longer case insensitive. Use `JsonValue#getIgnoreCase()`.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] `StringBuilder` has been deleted; its methods have been merged with `CharArray`.
- API Addition: Added `JsonValue#toJson` that takes a Writer.
- API Addition: Added `getProgrammaticChangeEvents()` to scene2d.ui actors that have `setProgrammaticChangeEvents()`.
- API Addition: Added `JsonMatcher`, extracts values with pattern matching.
- API Addition: Added `setUniform_iv` functions in `ShaderProgram` to set uniform integer arrays
- API Deprecation: Pools class is now deprecated and not used internally. Some functionality can be restored by using the new `PoolManager` class.
- API Fix: Fixed crashes when reading the soft buttons bar height on Android.
- API Addition: Multi sample FBOs can now be used with OpenGL ES 3.0+ instead of OpenGL ES 3.1+
- API Addition: Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration#useGlfwAsync
- API Addition: A Universal Tiled Map Loader
- API Fix: Allow Creation of HexagonTiledMapRenderer with empty TiledMap
- API Fix: Fixed a GWT incompatibility issue in the AtlasTmxMapLoader and AtlasTmjMapLoader
- API Addition: Add a constructor taking a TextureData array to FileTextureArrayData
- API Fix: fix wrong x, y layer offset in HexagonalTiledMapRenderer
- API Addition: Added Template Object Support for TiledMaps
- API Addition: Added glBlendFuncSeparate support in RenderContext
- API Addition: VAO byte calculation add support for int and uint
- API Addition: Add Vector.One static fields for convenience
- API Addition: Extract AndroidGraphics#createGraphics method so a custom instance can be created
- API Addition: Class support in Tiled
- API Addition: Update freetype to v2.13.3
- API Fix: Replace deprecated methods on AndroidAudioDevice and AndroidCursor
- API Fix: Fixed JsonValue#setChild failing when child is null.
- Various javadoc improvements
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The theme is Nature’s Revenge. Good luck everybody!
Hi, kids, Mario here! After accidentally breaking a few patch releases (oops!), I’m back with libGDX 1.13.5! The reason? Sonatype is sunsetting OSSRH in June, forcing us to migrate to their new Central Portal service. With their lacking documentation and Gradle support, it was quite the adventure. But we got there in the end!
Please note that due to an issue with R8 and the Supplier API (which is used within the pooling classes), libGDX 1.13.5 is not recommended for Android. Users are advised to switch to the new 1.14.0 or stay on version 1.13.1.
setEnabled now only works with actors that implement Styleable. Use setEnabledReflection for old behavior.AndroidApplicationConfiguration#touchSleepTime.OpenALLwjgl3Audio#registerSound/registerMusic has changed to use method references.To check out our progress towards the next release, take a look at the corresponding milestone on GitHub. As always, we appreciate feedback on the issues/PRs already part of the milestone and would like to invite you to bring forward anything still missing on our Discord server!
Updating your Gradle project is straight-forward: Check out the instructions on the wiki!
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Gradle: snapshot builds are now publishes to https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/. Update your build scripts and the new repository URL. Some of your other snapshot dependencies might still live on OSSRH, so make sure to keep that repository as well.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Gradle: The `publish` task now uses jreleaser to publish to Maven Central. The RELEASE_REPOSITORY_URL environment variable is no longer interpreted. SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY_URL works as before.]
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android: Updated minSDK to 21. Multidex config is no longer required, please check https://developer.android.com/build/multidex.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android: Proguard config line `boolean getUseDefaultContactFilter();` needs to be added. See https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/pull/7578.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android: Removed `AndroidApplicationConfiguration#touchSleepTime`.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Skin `setEnabled` now only works with actors that implement `Styleable`. Use `setEnabledReflection` for old behavior or add `Styleable` to your actors.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] LWJGL3: The signature of `OpenALLwjgl3Audio#registerSound/registerMusic` has changed. To migrate just replace `registerMusic("myMusic", MyMusic.class);` with `registerMusic("myMusic", MyMusic::new);`
- [BREAKING CHANGE] HorizontalGroup and VerticalGroup set transform false by default.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Gradle: The `publish` task now uses jreleaser to publish to Maven Central. The RELEASE_REPOSITORY_URL environment variable is no longer interpreted. SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY_URL works as before.
- API Addition: Allow option to set Box2D native ContactFilter (World#setContactFilter(null)) for performance improvements.
- API Addition: Added BooleanArray#replaceFirst and BooleanArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added ByteArray#replaceFirst and ByteArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added CharArray#replaceFirst and CharArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added DelayedRemovalArray#replaceFirst and DelayedRemovalArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added FloatArray#replaceFirst and FloatArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added IntArray#replaceFirst and IntArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added LongArray#replaceFirst and LongArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added ShortArray#replaceFirst and ShortArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Added SnapshotArray#replaceFirst and SnapshotArray#replaceAll
- API Addition: Actors that implement `getStyle` and `setStyle` should now implement the `Styleable` interface
- API Addition: Added BitmapFontCache#getPageCount.
- API Addition: Added TextField#drawBackground, #updateDisplayText is protected.
- API Addition: Added Drawable default interface methods.
- Android: Fixed rare NPE when `onDestroy` was called
- Support has been added for Tiled "Text Objects", through new TextMapObject class
- API Deprecation: Deprecated ReflectionPool and the related Pools#get/Pools#obtain method. Please use the new DefaultPool with the new Pools#get/Pools#obtain methods. They offer more safety and can be used with the java 8 method reference syntax (e.g. Pools.get(MyClass::new))
- API Deprecation: Deprecated constructors taking a "Class" for Queue/ArrayMap/Array. Please use the constructors utilising "ArraySupplier". They offer more safety and can be used with the java 8 method reference syntax (e.g. MyClass[]::new)
- API Deprecation: Deprecated constructors taking a "Class" for ParallelArray.ChannelDescriptor. Please use the constructors utilising "ArraySupplier". They offer more safety and can be used with the java 8 method reference syntax (e.g. MyClass[]::new)
- iOS: Update to MobiVM 2.3.23
- iOS: The MetalANGLE backend has been replaced by MetalANGLEKit which uses a newer ANGLE revision
- Fixed Container#setCullingArea.
- iOS: Fixing issue where after setText is called on TextField, characters cannot be deleted until a new character is added.
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The theme is yet to be revealed.
Hot off the press: libGDX 1.13.1 brings a few pressing bugfixes as well as a couple of interesting new features. Check out the full list below to find out more.
To check out our progress towards the next release, take a look at the corresponding milestone on GitHub. As always, we appreciate feedback on the issues/PRs already part of the milestone and would like to invite you to bring forward anything still missing on our Discord server!
Updating your Gradle project is straight-forward: Check out the instructions on the wiki!
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android: Since 1.13.0 libGDX requires setting `android.useAndroidX=true` in your gradle.properties file. In 1.13.1 it is NO longer needed to define the `androidx.core:core` dependency in your Android module.
- iOS: Update to MobiVM 2.3.22
- iOS: Fixes Gdx.openURI() not working on iOS 18.1 Simulator.
- Change visibility of PolygonSpriteBatch.switchTexture() to protected
- Added XmlReader.getChildren() and XmlReader.replaceChild()
- LWJGL3: Fix pauseWhenLostFocus not working as expected
- LWJGL 3: Downgrade to 3.3.3 due to AV false positives on 3.3.4 and OpenAL log spamming issue on 3.3.5.
- API Addition: Added FPSLogger#setBound
- Android: Fix crash on startup if `setContentView` was manually called after `initializeForView`
- API Addition: Added Array#replaceFirst and Array#replaceAll
- Fixed ShortArray#lastIndexOf taking char instead of short.
- Properly validate font name in Hiero
- Fix depth shader recycling
- Support 'class' Tiled/Tmx MapProperty
- Support for Layer TintColor in TiledMap
- Fix classpath files not being loaded on GWT
- Fixed LongArray#lastIndexOf taking char instead of long.
- LongArray#pop and #peek now throw expections if the array is empty
- Reset existing transformations of provided overlap Polygon in Polygon::intersectPolygons
- Added tiledmap loader for JSON files
- Fix duplicate points returned in polygon intersection
- Change defaults of SpriteBatch to use VBO instead of VertexArray on gl2/gles2.0
- Fix: no longer inline the version string
- GWT - Calculate MD5 hash while copying file to avoid errors on very large files
- Fix: Wayland doesn't support setting window position and icon
- Fix: Parsing imagelayer inside a group tag in TMX file
- Improve Android input keyboard with autocorrection
- Unproject and pick ray docs for Viewport/Camera
- Support for Image Layer repeat x and y in TiledMap + Bugfix
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The theme is Roguelike. Good luck everybody!
It has been some time since our last release, but version 1.13.0 of libGDX brings plenty of improvements and bug fixes. Check out the full list below to find out more.
Please note that at the moment, any desktop apps developed with version 1.13.0 seem to be incorrectly flagged by some antivirus programs. The likely cause is a false positive of LWJGL 3’s natives. Find out more here.
The following changes require you to adapt your existing libGDX codebases:
19 (Android 4.4).Input#setCatchBackKey, #isCatchBackKey, #setCatchMenuKey, and #isCatchMenuKey deprecated in 1.9.10. Use #setCatchKey and #isCatchKey instead.android.useAndroidX=true to your gradle.properties file and add implementation "androidx.core:core:1.13.1" as dependency to your Android module. Since libGDX 1.13.1 this dependency is provided by libGDX itself.Runnable tasks scheduled through Gdx.app.postRunnable(...) are no longer swallowed and will crash the app. Add a protection to your tasks if required.com.google.jsinterop:jsinterop-annotations:2.0.2:sources as dependency to your html subproject.Info.plist file if necessary.gdx-lwjgl3-glfw-awt-macos extension was retired. Just remove it from your dependencies and use the following snippet at the start of your main() method instead (#7361):
if (SharedLibraryLoader.isMac) {
Configuration.GLFW_LIBRARY_NAME.set("glfw_async");
}
In addition, there are a couple notable changes:
Sprite and SpriteBatch.GL31FrameBufferMultisampleTest for a simple example of how to use it.GwtApplicationConfiguration#fetchAvailableOutputDevices beforehand.AudioDevice (#7371). It can be configured through IOSApplicationConfiguration with audioDeviceBufferSize and audioDeviceBufferCount.Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration#pauseWhenMinimized and #pauseWhenLostFocus flags to control when the application should call the pause() method on the ApplicationListener (#7287).To check out our progress towards the next release, take a look at the corresponding milestone on GitHub. As always, we appreciate feedback on the issues/PRs already part of the milestone and would like to invite you to bring forward anything still missing on our Discord server!
Updating your Gradle project is straight-forward: Check out the instructions on the wiki!
- [BREAKING CHANGE] GWT: Updated to 2.11.0. `com.google.jsinterop:jsinterop-annotations:2.0.2:sources` must be added as a dependency to your html project dependencies.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android: Minimum API level is now level 19 (Android 4.4)
- [BREAKING CHANGE] iOS: Increased min supported iOS version to 12.0. Update your Info.plist file if necessary.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Android, iOS: Exceptions occurring in Runnable tasks scheduled through Gdx.app.postRunnable() are no longer swallowed and will crash the app (add a protection if required).
- Updated: Update to jnigen 2.5.2
- iOS: Update to MobiVM 2.3.21
- iOS: The iOS backend now implements AudioDevice. It can be configured through IOSApplicationConfiguration with audioDeviceBufferSize/audioDeviceBufferCount
- Fixed GlyphLayout for fixed width glyph offsets at the start and end of lines.
- Fixed scene2d.ui layout for fractional positions and sizes.
- LWJGL3: Added pauseWhenMinimized and pauseWhenLostFocus flags to Lwjgl3ApplicationConfiguration.
- libGDX is now built using Java 17 due to Gradle 8 requirements.
- New GDX Setup projects now use Gradle 8.4 and AGP Plugin 8.1.2 which require at least Java 17.
- Fixed Timer#stop, remember time spent stopped and delay tasks when started again. #7281
- Android: Add configuration option to render under the cutout if available on the device.
- Fix: Keep SelectBox popup from extending past right edge of stage.
- Added Framebuffer multisample support (see GL31FrameBufferMultisampleTest.java for basic usage)
- Fix: Fonts generated with gdx-freetype no longer bleed when drawn with a shadow
- Fixed Timer tasks being run after cancellation.
- Optimization of SpriteBatch in GL30 default modes, as indices do not need to be updated
- Desktop: Added support for 8/32/64-bit PCM and MP3 WAVs
- Desktop: Improved support for surround sound audio files (#6792)
- Android: Added support for predictive back gesture (requires android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback="true" in manifest)
- API Removal: Removed deprecated back and menu key methods. Use `setCatchKey` and `isCatchKey` instead.
- Cache packed color on sprite to improve performance
- Improve JsonReader, add JsonSkimmer, JsonString
- Add proper glTexImage2D support on GWT
- Expose the color variables of Box2DDebugRenderer
- Add Color#set(Color rgb, float a)
- Prevent loss of precision in OrthographicCamera#update
- Fix offsets in ConvexHull while being unsorted
- Small particle emitter improvements
- Fix : RenderBuffer leak in GLFrameBuffer
- LWJGL 3: Remove unnecessary window.makeCurrent() calls to improve performance (#7362)
- Fix: DragListener only listens to the correct touch up events
- Fix incorrect glyph page index in FreeTypeFontGenerator
- Added TextureAtlas.TextureAtlasData.Page#name.
- iOS: Improve preferred FPS setting logic and documentation on iOS backend
- Fixed TextField breaking if the font has markup enabled.
- Only allow scrolling of a scroll pane if it has scroll focus
- iOS: Adding RoboVM AudioDevice implementation
- Add new Color#CLEAR_WHITE
- Fixed ScrollPane#scrollTo setting scrollX when there's a width
- Screens now extend the Disposable interface
- Added antialiasing flag to the ScreenUtils.
- Fix Intersector.intersectPolygons() corner case
- LWJGL 3: Fix the delta time not changing when resizing the window
- GWT: Allow switching the audio device; this has to be enabled via GwtApplicationConfiguration#fetchAvailableOutputDevices
- Add API to get user inout with native text fields (#7004)
- Fix issue with the 'request still pending' check on NetJavaImpl
- Added possibility to reset a particle effect without starting it
- Android & iOS: Use empty Audio implementations on Android and iOS when audio is disabled
- Adds status detection for an httpRequest
- Fix ANGLE GLES renderer on dekstop (#7274)
- Architecture support: Support for Linux RISC-V has been added. The gdx-xxx-natives-desktop.jar files now also contain native libraries for this architecture.
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The theme is THE 4 ELEMENTS. Good luck everybody!
lwjgl3, not desktop, now, because it uses LWJGL3. LWJGL2 is also available if you need it. Raeleus made a video about it. Hooray!]]>