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Allegro 5.2.5 released!
SiegeLord
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You know what keeps happening again and again? That's right, it's Allegro 5 releases! It's literally been exactly a year since the previous release, it's amazing how much time gets taken up by having a day job!

Anyway, as always you can download the sources and MinGW binaries on GitHub (get dependencies here). You can MSVC binaries from Nuget and Ubuntu binaries from a PPA. Homebrew binaries are forthcoming.

Here's the changelog:

Changes from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5 (February 2019)

The main developers this time were: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, SiegeLord, Elias Pschernig, Bruce Pascoe, Aldrik Ramaekers, Firat Salgur.

Core:

  • Try to identify bitmap format for unknown extensions.


  • Add some missing OpenGL 4.3 functions.


  • Add al_create_thread_with_stacksize to create threads with a custom stack size. (Aldrik Ramaekers)


  • Add al_get_system_id function, letting you disambiguate platforms at runtime.

Graphics:

  • Add al_get_monitor_dpi to query the DPI of a monitor.


  • Add new API for making blender a bitmap-local state (like transformations), which can simplify some code. See al_set_bitmap_blender and the related APIs. Also see the ex_blend_target example.


  • Added al_transpose_transform. This is useful for rotation transformations.


  • Rework internal GLES support for better portability.


  • Don't force POT bitmaps on GLES.


  • Fix repeated bitmap locking on OpenGL.

Android:

  • Various documentation and other improvements (Christian Mauduit).


  • Fix OpenGL version reporting after display creation.

iOS:

  • Fix OpenGL version reporting after display creation.

Linux:

  • Improve linux joystick detections.


  • Fix a number of memory leaks/crashes in the audio addon when using pulseaudio/alsa. (Julian Smythe)


  • Fix compilation with Mesa 18.2.5 and later.


  • Fix OpenGL version reporting after display creation (Edgar Reynaldo).


  • Fix requesting specific OpenGL versions via display options (Edgar Reynaldo).

OSX:

  • Make al_get_monitor_info return the correct values for Retina displays.


  • Fix vsync on OSX 10.14+.

RaspberryPi:

  • Fix OpenGL version reporting after display creation.

Windows:

  • Fix toggling of menu checkboxes by id.


  • Fix al_draw_indexed_primitive while using Direct3D.


  • Fix crash when passing NULL display to al_show_native_file_dialog while using ALLEGRO_FILECHOOSER_FOLDER.


  • Fix OpenGL version reporting after display creation (Edgar Reynaldo).


  • Fix requesting specific OpenGL versions via display options (Edgar Reynaldo).

SDL:

  • Sebastian Krzyszkowiak has spent a lot of effort to making the SDL backend usable as a nearly fully featured Allegro backend. You can use it on platforms native Allegro implementations do not support (such as emscripten, etc.).

Addons:

  • Better logging when failing to load a resource.


  • Fix a memory leak when destroying a mixer with attached streams.


  • Fix a memory leak in the audio destroying a mixer with attached streams.

Acodec addon:

  • Allow modules to loop properly when the user hasn't specified loop points. (Todd Cope)

Audio addon:

  • Better support for big endian. (Douglas Mencken)

TTF addon:

  • Added support of HarfBuzz in FreeType (Arves100).

Documentation:

  • Source links now point to the correct commit on GitHub.


  • General improvements and clarifications.

Examples:

  • Add ex_blend_target.

Windows Dependencies:

The Windows dependencies got upgraded to their newest versions.

  • libpng 1.6.30 -> 1.6.36

  • freetype 2.8 -> 2.9.1

  • libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 -> 2.0.1

  • physfs 2.0.3 -> 3.0.1

  • dumb 0.9.3 -> 2.0.3

  • libogg 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3

  • libvorbis 1.3.5 -> 1.3.6

  • opus 1.2.1 -> 1.3

  • opusfile 0.8 -> 0.11

  • libwebp 1.0.2 new

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Chris Katko
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January 2002
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I just want to say I really appreciate the work you guys put into these.

I went looking through SDL documentation the other day and honestly, I wonder why people actually use it over Allegro / SDL was more popular. The API is rather ugly, they split the library into many sub-libraries just like Allegro (libmixer is a completely separate download from sdl!??!!), and they don't offer many functions that Allegro does.

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dthompson
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April 2005
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SiegeLord said:

LORD OF CINDER FALLEN

Excellent work, downloading now :)

Edit: I'm getting Opus issues- harks back to NiteHackr in the 5.2.4 release thread. No linker errors though; just a failure to load the stream at runtime. I've got libopus0 and libopusfile0 installed.

Using -lopusfile -lopus doesn't seem to help, and ldd reports that my executable doesn't depend on either library. Am I missing something?

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GullRaDriel
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September 2003
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Maybe the version is too low ?

opus 1.2.1 -> 1.3

opusfile 0.8 -> 0.11

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Allegro Wiki, full of examples and articles !!

Peter Hull
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March 2001

SiegeLord said:

You know what keeps happening again and again?

Is there a regular release schedule or did something particular happen (or was it just a quiet day in Siege Mansions? ;) )

Edgar Reynaldo
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dthompson
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Maybe the version is too low ?

I think SiegeLord was just pointing out the updates to the Windows dependencies bundled in allegro_winpkg. Does anyone know the minimum required versions of libopus/libopusfile? I've got 1.12/0.9 respectively.

ldd reports that compiling with Ubuntu 18.04's stock Allegro 5.2.3 adds libopus.so and libopusfile.so to my executable's dependencies.

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Neil Roy
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Nice work.

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dthompson
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Xiph.org is clearly ruining our builds. They must be stopped.

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SiegeLord
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October 2006
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There's a comment on liballeg about some commits not being in 5.2.5 yet, so I'm delaying my binaries a bit.

All the commits that should be there are in fact there.

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Edgar Reynaldo
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SiegeLord
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October 2006
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That doesn't show what you think it does. Here are the commits in the release: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/commits/5.2.5.0

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Edgar Reynaldo
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Peter Hull
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March 2001

My guess: if you rebase a commit then it's not the same commit (different hash)?

SiegeLord
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https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/compare/5.2.5.0...master shows the commits that were added to master since the last common commit between it and 5.2.5 branch. https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/compare/5.2.5.0..master shows the differences between the tips of both branches, but not commits (not sure how it would show that).

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Edgar Reynaldo
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May 2007
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EDIT 5
There was a bug in PhysFS 3.0.1 that has been fixed and superceded by PhysFS 3.0.2. I updated the binaries to use the new version of physfs. The bug would cause physfs_init to fail on Windows 10. See https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/issues/1029 for details.

The links stayed the same, but the files were updated. So if you downloaded binaries from before today (03/19/2019 16:20 GMT) please download them again.

Binaries are forthcoming. I couldn't get opus and openssl to build with MSYS alone, so I won't be providing them. Pretty much everything else you could think of will be included.

32 bit first, and then 64 bit as I have time.

EDIT
Here's 32 bit Allegro 5.2.5 built with GCC 8.1 using MinGW-W64.

Allegro525_GCC81_MinGW-W64_i686_posix_dwarf.7z
EDIT4
NM. xD

It includes all the dependencies, debugging and release dynamic and static allegro monoliths, example programs, demos, test programs, chm manual, and a batch script to setup a build environment and to run the examples and demos and tests.

I'm in the middle of updating my compile guide too. Gave it a fresher look and better formatting.

And oh yeah, here's a couple tasty treats for you :

Allegro525 CHM Manual

CMake 3.14rc4 CHM Manual

EDIT
It seems there is a bug in PhysFS that makes physfs_init return 0 and fail in version 3.0.1. As soon as it is fixed I will update all the packages.

Rodolfo Lam
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Oh my! A CMake manual in CHM format? Thanks!

SiegeLord
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October 2006
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I've updated the Nuget and MinGW packages to deal with the PhysFS issue on Windows 10. PhysFS is now version 3.0.2.

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