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Allegro 5.1.8 released!
Peter Wang
Member #23
April 2000

http://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/files/allegro-unstable/5.1.8/

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Changes from 5.1.7 to 5.1.8 (January 2014)
==========================================

The main developers this time were: Beoran, SiegeLord, Trent Gamblin,
Markus Henschel, Peter Wang.

Core:

- Allow MSVC to use DLL TLS but disable DLL TLS by default.

- Do not include windows.h via allegro.h.

- Fix some memory leaks on X11.

Graphics:

- Spell ALLEGRO_DST_COLOR, ALLEGRO_INVERSE_DST_COLOR with "DEST"
(with compatibility defines).

- Fix bug which meant ALLEGRO_INVERSE_SRC_COLOR and
ALLEGRO_INVERSE_DEST_COLOR never actually worked on D3D.

- Fix horizontal and vertical shears which were not composing with
translations correctly.

- Optimise al_restore_state if saved target display/bitmap are unchanged.

- Fix _al_display_settings_sorter ordering of indexes when scores are equal.

- Use a minimum 16x16 texture workaround even on desktop OpenGL.

- Propagate errors up OpenGL lock bitmap implementations.

- Use proxy bitmap when locking writable backbuffer regions on GLES.

- Clean up FBO creation during bitmap locking.

- Move the half-pixel shift in D3D into the projection matrix.
Use the texture dimensions to compute the half-pixel shift.

- Fix al_get_d3d_texture_size returning zeros.

- Remove ALLEGRO_FORCE_LOCKING flag.

- Setup GL viewport and projection in al_acknowledge_resize on Android.

- Improve implementation of display options on Android: use the same display
setting scoring code as other ports; handle SUGGEST display options
properly; map ALLEGRO_COLOR_SIZE to EGL_BUFFER_SIZE attributes.

Filesystem:

- Add al_ferror and al_ferror. Initial patch by Tobias Scheuer.

- Make al_fclose have a return value.

- Check al_fclose return value in saving routines.

- Make al_fopen_fd not leak a FILE handle in a failure path.

- Make al_make_temp_file allocate temporary buffer to match the template.

- android: Interpret the path to APK asset as AssetManager doesn't.

- android: Correctly return -1 for APK asset file size if it can't be
determined. A side-effect is that FreeType (via the TTF addon) can now
load TTFs stored compressed in APK assets.

- android: Support ungetc on APK file streams.

- android: Fix EOF handling in AllegroInputStream.

Input:

- Initial haptics API, only implemented on Linux to begin with.

- Use Linux input API for joystick driver instead of deprecated joystick API.

- Use Linux joystick driver on Android if OUYA model detected
(Jonathan Lilliemarck).

- Use thread for hotplugging joysticks on Linux instead of timerfd
(due to Android).

- Report unichar in KEY_CHAR events on Android. (Todd Cope)

- Added some Android gaming key codes.

- iOS touch coordinates need to be multiplied by contentScaleFactor.

- Android touch input id 0 was incorrectly treated as invalid.
(Max Savenkov)

Shaders:

- Automatically call OnLostDevice and OnResetDevice on HLSL shaders.

- Remove #version specifier from all shaders.

Audio addon:

- Remove generic audio event source and AudioQueue events.

- Don't queue silent fragments at start of new audio streams.

- Make stream_read return correct number of filled samples when no data is
available (zero).

- A DirectSound voice could not be restarted once it has been stopped.

- Fix crash when attaching empty stream to dsound voice.

- Reset buffer position in stop instead of play in dsound voice.

- Fix calculation of current sample position in dsound voice.

- Reset audio stream when al_set_audio_stream_playing to false for voice and
mixer cases, and make all fragments available for refill.

- Emit stream fragment events when a stream is started.

- Remove unnecessary reallocation of the channel matrix.

- Add al_fill_silence.

- Add al_get_audio_stream_played_samples.

- Fix deadlock in Pulseaudio driver. Reported by Bluebird.

- Let al_set_sample_instance_playing work for unattached instances
and sample instances with no data set. Reported by Bluebird.

- Enable the use of the unpatched DirectX SDK to build.

Audio codec addon:

- Fix looping in Ogg Vorbis stream. (Todd Cope)

- Seeking in wavs would always have returned success.

Image addon:

- Fix many problems in Android native image loader, including:
supporting ALLEGRO_NO_PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA, respecting the new bitmap
format, working for non-APK assets, not crashing on failure.

Native dialogs addon:

- Change native menu ids from int to uint16_t due to limitation with
Windows. (Matthew Leverton)

Primitives addon:

- Rename the primitives buffer flags.

- Simplify the prim buffer hints.

- Simplify the al_create_vertex_buffer API.

- Actually implement uninitialized vertex buffers.

- Add indexed buffer API.

- Polylines with ALLEGRO_LINE_CAP_CLOSED cap style did not draw correctly
with thickness == 0.

- Take into account the projection matrix when computing the scale of the
high level primitives.

- Replace enum arguments for al_draw_polyline and al_draw_polygon with
integers to reduce chance of ABI issues.

TTF addon:

- Fix a bug where some glyphs would be blank.

- Allow glyph allocation to fail without crashing.

Android port:

- Separate Allegro library Java code from the original example project for
Android (Jonathan Lilliemarck).

- Build Allegro library as a JAR.

- Rename Java package to org.liballeg.android.

- Change how the application shared library is specified. Override the
AllegroActivity constructor instead of specifying in AndroidManifest.xml.

- Add a method to tell if the user exited main in the Android Java code.

- Add a fix for the case of launching another activity from your game on
Android and then returning to the game after it finishes.

- Refactoring and clean up.

iOS port:

- Remove al_iphone_get/set_screen_scale as not really needed and confusing.

Build system:

- Integrate Android port into build system, including building and launching
examples for debugging.

- Detect OpenGLES/2 libraries on Android.

- Let clang use same options as gcc in build system.

Python:

- Made the C-parser used in the Python API generator understand more type
constructs. (Elias Pschernig)

Examples:

- Make demos and most examples run (somewhat) on Android.

- Add touch input support to various examples.

- New examples: ex_file, ex_haptic, ex_haptic2, ex_touch_input.

- ex_prim: Demonstrate indexed buffers.

Other:

- More more minor bug fixes and changes.

- Documentation updates.

- Syntax highlight the C source examples and prototypes in the documentation.

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Yodhe23
Member #8,726
June 2007

As always, thanks for all your hard work in getting this release done.
I look forward to some kind and wonderful soul one day compiling some android binaries for this release. :D

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SiegeLord
Member #7,827
October 2006
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Don't forget the most important improvement of all... we got the welcome.wav from A4 back!! Now Allegro users can feel properly welcomed.

Try this if you've got it at home ;):

./ex_mixer_pp data/welcome.wav

And after that, just:

./ex_mixer_pp

to round up the night.

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow."-Ecclesiastes 1:18
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Mark Oates
Member #1,146
March 2001
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Yay allegro! :D

SiegeLord said:

we got the welcome.wav from A4 back!! Now Allegro users can feel properly welcomed.

I miss the old scare_mouse() ;)

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Max Savenkov
Member #4,613
May 2004
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Changelog looks great! I will try new versions for iOS, Android and Windows when I have time.

furinkan
Member #10,271
October 2008
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Is there a roadmap for 5.2 anywhere?

I'm planning on just developing with the 5.1/5.2 branch, since I don't require much stability at the moment.

tobing
Member #5,213
November 2004
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I'm doing my development on 5.1 and it's very nice, almost stable almost all of the time. And if something is strange then it's quickly fixed.

furinkan
Member #10,271
October 2008
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5.1 development it is, then!

I have a utility that I'm rewriting; it can be my guinea pig. Originally, it was written with the latest 5.0 at the time, so there shouldn't be any huge surprises. ;D

Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003

Yippee! Time to git.

Thank you, everyone involved in making the new release.

Stargx
Member #14,836
January 2013

Awesome! Thanks guys. ;D

William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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Viva Allegro!

Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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Anyone have a MinGW 4.7.0 build of this one yet? :)

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AMCerasoli
Member #11,955
May 2010
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I have it for MinGW 4.8.1. Video working fine.

Allegro 5.1.8 - MinGW 4.8.1 - Static

Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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Thank you, maybe it's time for me to upgrade my MinGW. :)

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