• FXAA Anti-aliasing - Images look much nicer now without the jagged edges! FXAA is on by default, but can be shut off. It has minimal performance impact.

  RTX FXAA Off	RTX FXAA On

• Pipes! - Can now read STL data from the stdin stream instead of a file https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/stl-thumb/issues/23

• Faster Image Compression

• Added option to force recalculating face normals if your STL files are malformed https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/stl-thumb/issues/59

• Published on package on crates.io and docs on docs.rs.

For KDE users

See stl-thumb-kde

Full Changelog: https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/stl-thumb/compare/v0.4.1...v0.5.0

Changes

• Underlying libraries have been fully updated and a lot of work has been done to make initializing OpenGL more robust. Hopefully this takes care of https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/stl-thumb/issues/41, https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/stl-thumb/issues/40, and probably more.
• New softer default color

For KDE users

See stl-thumb-kde

• stl-thumb now supports the KDE desktop environment on Linux. If you are a KDE/Plasma user, you will need to install the separate stl-thumb-kde package.
• Under the hood, stl-thumb has been restructured as a library. This allows you to use it directly inside of any C/C++ or Rust program. Here is an example.

I think this is a pretty cool update.

• On Windows, now it uses your system's color scheme instead of the default blue.

Note: Your existing icons will not be updated to the new colors automatically. Use the disk cleanup tool to clear the thumbnail cache and your icons will be regenerated.

• Added CLI option to set the background color.
• Optimizations.

• Added option to choose an image format.
• Added option to choose the colors of the model.
• Workaround for issue with Mesa on Arch, which was causing blank images.
• Fixed Debian package dependencies.

• Made compatible with Gnome Files (Nautilus).
• Enabled true headless rendering and try to use it whenever possible. Fall back to a normal context with a hidden window if it doesn't work.

Changes

• Backported shaders to GLSL 1.20 - Allows support for very old GPUs.
• Updated stl_io to version 0.3.7 - Fixes reading ASCII STL files with Windows style line endings
• Updated glium

First release! Yay!