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This version contains the following new features and fixes:

• Gamepads are now supported on Linux
• International keyboards now report correct scan codes on Windows
• OpenGL renderer now works on macOS Mojave
• Debug markers can now be used with OpenGL
• The anisotropic filter is now supported for OpenGL 4.6 and above
• float32 samples are now supported in OpenAL audio backend
• Every input device now has its own class (e.g. Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad etc.)
• Added support for multiple keyboards and mice on Linux
• Back buttons are now handled correctly on Android, iOS, and tvOS (they close the application if the user returns false from the keyboard handler)
• Implemented input device connect/disconnect events
• Emscripten target now supports touchpads
• Implemented scroll and touch events on ARM Linux
• The current executable path is now being detected correctly on Windows 10
• Fixed the numpad key support
• Power, media, volume, application, AC, and Japanese key scan codes are now reported
• Lots of smaller bug fixes

New features in this release:

• Remade the renderer so that all the graphics commands are executed immediately on the graphics thread
• The window is now centered on Linux
• The cursor is now hidden properly on macOS
• ARM (Raspbian) and x86 Linux code is now merged into a single code base
• Ouzel now uses exceptions for error handling
• Emscripten target now supports fullscreen
• Long filenames (longer than PATH_MAX) are now supported on Windows
• Update thread can now be forced to wait on v-sync instead of running continuously
• Resources can (and must) now be loaded and unloaded in bundles
• Touch events are now supported on macOS
• A bunch of other small fixes and improvements

Fixes and new features in this release:

• Implemented exclusive fullscreen support on macOS (Metal and OpenGL) and Windows (D3D11)
• Now it is possible to execute code on the update thread
• Touch force on iOS and Android is now supported
• Implemented supported resolution getter on macOS and Linux
• Now XDG_DATA_HOME is used to get the home directory on Linux
• Android orientation change events are now being dispatched
• Implemented v-sync support for Emscripten target
• Fixed URL opening on Android
• True type fonts are now supported
• Non-resizable windows are now supported on Linux
• Implemented basic material support
• Added mesh renderer
• Implemented pluggable asset loading system
• Implemented.mtl and .obj loaders (added a 3D box to the perspective sample)
• System keys are now supported on Windows
• Custom JSON and XML parsers
• Unsigned integer uniforms are now supported by the OpenGL renderer (if supported by the hardware)
• Back buttons are now handled on Android, iOS (gamepads), and tvOS
• Added support for the HoriPad Ultimate and Acme GA07 gamepads
• zip file archives are now supported
• Menus now work correctly when controlled with gamepads
• Fixed race condition when running code on the main thread of macOS, iOS, and tvOS
• Sprite animations are now seekable
• Improved the Makefiles so that make can now be run from any directory
• Fixed MinGW build
• Raspbian is now selected as a default target when running make on ARM Linux
• Replace Ant build scripts with Gradle scripts for Android
• Lots of other small bugfixes

This version contains the following new features and fixes:

• ALSA audio backend
• Software audio mixer with a mixer graph functionality
• Implemented task execution on Android GUI thread
• Screenshots can now be disabled on Android
• Hidden cursor can now be shown again for Emscripten target
• Added support for Vorbis audio
• Added support for float PCM wav files
• Implemented face culling
• Rendering is now being done on separate threads on iOS, tvOS and Android
• Added material support to Sprite class
• MFI controllers are now supported on macOS
• GamePads' menu button is now handled my Ouzel engine on iOS and tvOS
• Render target clear depth can now be configured
• Left shift, right shift, left alt and right alt are now handled separately on Windows and Emscripten
• V-sync can now be disabled on iOS and tvOS
• iOS and tvOS targets can now be built with make
• Gamma correction performance improvements by using a lookup table
• OpenGL context is now being recreated after losing it on Android
• Added touch support to Linux target
• Needed submodules can now be configured through Config.h

New features in this release:

• Implemented INI file parser and encoder
• Implemented automatic Engine initialization, settings are being read from settings.ini
• Added RESET and FINISH events that are being posted when animation ends or is being reset
• Added support for dynamic texture upload for Direct3D 11
• Implemented pitch and volume control for DirectSound audio backend
• Implemented control, shift, alt and command button state change events on macOS
• Audio and graphics backends can now be disabled in CompileConfig.h
• Added OpenGL 4 support
• Fixed lots of crashes that happened sometimes when the engine exited
• Implemented screenshot capturing for Direct3D 11 with MSAA enabled
• Now system-wide or user-specific AppData directory can be retrieved on Windows and macOS
• Implemented AppData and temporary directory getter for Linux, Raspbian, Android, iOS, and tvOS
• Fixed OpenGL screenshot capturing
• Fixed OBF string encoding
• Fixed a bug that caused the widgets not being added to menu after the removal from it
• Small bug fixes, memory leak fixes and optimizations for Metal and Direct3D renderers

New features and bug fixes in this release:

• Gamepad support for Emscripten target
• Customizable hardware cursor support on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Added support for custom camera projection
• Implemented frustum culling for 3D objects
• Added color write mask to blend stat
• Added MinGW and Cygwin support to Ouzel Makefile
• Implemented screensaver disabling on X11
• Now touch functionality is fully implemented for Windows platform
• Fixed a bug that caused the depth buffer to not be initialized for OpenGL 2 renderer on Linux
• Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL resolution to not be updated on macOS retina displays
• Now correct pixel formats are picked for OpenGL ES 2
• Fixed a bug that caused the engine to crash on exit because of the incorrect release of sound resources
• Lots of small performance improvements

Fixes, optimizations, and new features in this release:

• High DPI support on Windows
• Now gamepad discovery is started automatically on iOS and tvOS
• Color can now be constructed from strings like "#FFFFFF"
• Shape renderer can now render lines with a specified thickness
• Added helper for converting UTF-32 back to UTF-8
• Now a console window is being created for debug builds on Windows
• Now it is possible to disable or enable screensavers while Ouzel is running
• Mip-map generation is now significantly faster
• Scene nodes now can be passed as raw pointers or unique_ptr (to transfer ownership)
• Engine now dispatches start/stop events when it begins/finishes running
• Scissor rectangle can now be passed to Component's draw method
• Textures can now have custom pixel format
• Animators are now components
• Now debug renderer can be enabled with a debugRenderer setting
• Resource paths now can also be absolute and now a flag can be passed to search for resources in current directory only
• Perspective projection is now being calculated correctly
• Buffers are now being cleared in correct order and depth buffer clear flag is being respected
• Now interval can be passed to UpdateCallback to call it with a specified frequency

Fixes and new features in this release:

• Added support for DirectInput gamepads on WIndows
• Added support for IOKit gamepads on macOS
• Now Metal renderer is using display link and not the MetalKit
• Fixed memory leaks in D3D11 renderer
• Fixed OpenGL render target support
• Fixed a bug that caused the audio thread to start up too early
• Lots of other small bug fixes

Changes and new features in this release:

• Ouzel is now using shared_ptr for scene classes
• Implemented audio updating on a separate thread
• Implemented Bezier curve drawing functionality into ShapeDrawable
• Implemented listener position for OpenAL
• Fixed Direct3D 10 support
• Fixed OpenGL 2 support
• Implemented mouse down modifiers for Emscripten, Linux and Raspbian targets
• Fixed Emscripten mouse position detection
• Implemented configurable texture wrap mode
• Implemented cursor locking for macOS, Emscripten, X11 and Windows targets
• Implemented OpenSL volume control

Changes and new features:

• OpenGL support for Windows
• Anisotropic filtering for all render drivers
• Now OpenGL renderer is initialized in JNI instead of Java
• Now using glBufferSubData instead of buffer mapping, because it is faster
• Fixed race conditions in Window class (now all the attributes are updated on game thread)
• Reduced the size of memory used by graphics resources by uploading data in critical section
• Allow using framebuffers only if framebuffer extension is present for OpenGL
• Now the default OpenGL framebuffer is used for rendering
• Add Doxygen documentation generator (generated documentation is available here: http://www.ouzelengine.org/docs/)
• 3D sound support for OpenAL
• Lots of other small bug fixes and improvements