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For F3D users:

• Added a new option --point-type used to specify how to display points sprites
• Add support for 3D Gaussians Splatting in binary .splat format
• Added ability to cycle through available animations by pressing W hotkey (thanks @kathleenhang!)
• Added display of current animation name within cheatsheet (thanks @kathleenhang!)
• Added orthographic camera projection option (--camera-orthographic) and binding (5) (thanks @kidharb!)
• Added proper continuous integration for MacOS ARM64
• Added support for glTF Draco encoded file
• Added support for dark title bar on Windows (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Added support for colormap presets, using --colormap-file option
• Added a option to reload file automatically when changed on disk (--watch)
• Added support for streaming output images to stdout, using - filename
• Added animation support to Alembic plugin
• Improved OCCT plugin (STEP and IGES files) performance drastically (thanks @snoyer!)
• Improved config file parsing so that it is parsed in file order (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with blur circle of confusion (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with the grid being clipped (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue with STEP file coloring (thanks @snoyer!)
• Fixed an issue when time range was not starting at zero (thanks @z-shaffer!)
• Fixed an issue when record file does not exist (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Fixed an issue when using --no-render and --hdri
• Fixed an issue with the Windows thumbnailer with process never properly killed (thanks @chirag-droid!)
• Fixed an issue where OCCT would output to terminal
• Fixed an issue with FISH completion

For libf3d users:

• Added a new option model.point-sprites.type used to specify how to display points (only if model.point-sprites.enable is true)
• Added a image::toTerminalText method to print image to terminal text (thanks @snoyer!)
• Added an image metadata API (thanks @snoyer!)
• Added a vtkext module for plugin developer, see the documentation
• Added a new f3d component to find_package of, pluginsdk, require to build plugins against F3D

For F3D packagers:

• Added a CMake report at the end of configuration
• Added a new cmake installation component, plugin_sdk, needed to compile external plugin against F3D
• Added a new cmake installation component, colormaps, needed for the colormap feature
• Fixed multiple issue with static (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF) build
• Fixed a compilation issue with gcc14 (thanks @topazus!)
• Fixed a compilation issue with OCCT 7.8.0 (thanks @thierry-FreeBSD!)

For F3D users:

• Added --animation-autoplay option (libf3d: scene.animation.autoplay) to automatically start animation on file load (Thanks @technologeli !)
• Added an experimental vdb plugin in order to read .vdb files using OpenVDB
• Added an usd plugin in order to read .usd files using OpenUSD
• Added .3mf and .x files support in the assimp plugin
• Added a small margin between the model and the grid to avoid potential z-fighting
• Added VTK output to the log when using --verbose=debug for easier debug
• Reworked the alembic plugin to read Texture Coordinates and Normals for .abc files
• Improved the reading of EXR files using multi-threading for better performance when loading HDRIs
• Improved the documentation on https://f3d.app (thanks @Ramalama2 @jspanchu @felixonmars @zhiyuang !)
• Improved general logging in order to make it easier to understand issues with file and options
• Fixed potential crashes when reading assimp plugin file formats
• Fixed --grid-absolute for off-center models (thanks @snoyer !)
• Fixed an issue with thumbnail generation showing the log window
• Fixed many interaction issues on non-Qwerty keyboard layout
• Fixed handling of filenames containing commas (thanks @snoyer !)
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the log window would appear on top of F3D window (thanks @jiangsheng !)
• Fixed crashes with specific .obj file
• Fixed an issue with incorrect return code when using headless mode or incorrect options
• Fixed dependency issue with the headless .deb binary release
• Fixed a crash when using a file with more than 254 bones (Requires OpenGL 4.3)
• Fixed an issue with Unicode filenames on the title bar on Windows
• Fixed an issue where focal point picking would generate error messages (thanks @snoyer !)
• Changed --verbose into a string based option, eg: --verbose=quiet or --verbose=debug. --verbose is still supported.
• Changed --no-render behavior so that it doesn't impact verbosity anymore
• Changed the default configuration file so that translucency support is enabled by default
• Deprecated --quiet, use --verbose=quiet instead
• Deprecated --input, use positional argument instead

For libf3d users:

• Added scene.animation.autoplay option
• Added a f3d::image::saveBuffer API to save an image as a file format in memory
• Fixed the default name of the window (thanks @shaikan !)

For F3D packagers:

• Added a new optional dependency, OpenUSD. Enable with F3D_PLUGIN_BUILD_USD CMake option
• Added a new optional dependency through VTK, OpenVDB. Enable with F3D_PLUGIN_BUILD_VDB CMake option
• Added a new CMake option to control the link against libatomic. Control with F3D_LINUX_LIBRARY_LINK_ATOMIC (Thanks @mzf-guest !)
• Added two new packages to the list, OpenMandriva and Mageia, thanks @papoteur-mga @berolinux