On the 5th day of the 5th month of the 2015th year, I present to you a work-in-progress release of the Allegro 5 library! Truly there is no day more proper than this to make this release.

While primarily a bug-fix release, there have been some major backend refactoring and for the first time in a long time, some API has been removed (mostly with replacement).

Also, a lot of work was done this release to get some handle on the Windows binary situation, so for the first time in a long time (8 years) we'll be providing official Windows binaries again.

Get the sources here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/files/allegro-unstable/5.1.10/

Get the Allegro Windows binaries here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/files/allegro-unstable-bin/5.1.10/

Get the Allegro dependencies binaries here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/files/allegro-deps/1.0.0/

In a day or two, I will also update homebrew packages, compile some mingw-w64 packages and update the Ubuntu PPAs (it's getting late here today, so I can't do it now).

Enjoy!

Changes from 5.1.9 to 5.1.10 (May 2015)

The main developers this time were: SiegeLord, Elias Pschernig, Trent Gamblin, Polybios.

Input

• Add al_set_mouse_wheel_precision and al_get_mouse_wheel_precision.

Graphics

• Added al_transform_coordinates_3d.

  
  

• Added al_build_camera_transform.

  
  

• Make the projection transform a bitmap local state. This removes al_set_projection_transform and al_get_projection_transform, and replaces them with al_use_projection_transform and al_get_current_projection_transform with similar semantics to the regular transforms.

OSX port

• Improved joystick axis layouts on Mac OS X, and added support for some dpads (Max Savenkov).

X11 port

• Fix some memory leaks (ElectricSolstice).

  
  

• Make the XInput2 check more accurate (we require a specific version).

Windows port

• Remove taskbar hiding on Windows.

  
  

• Fix high precision mice on Windows.

  
  

• Fix some D3D conflicts with the OpenGL backend.

  
  

• Remove the prohibition of building OpenGL-only DLLs.

  
  

• Added LRESULT argument to WindowProc callback, fixing al_win_add_window_callback for some event types (Aaron Bolyard).

Android port

• Fix some memory leaks.

  
  

• Make it possible to specify the Android target during building.

iOS port

• Add an XCode project to help build Allegro when CMake support fails.

  
  

• Restore the CMake support.

  
  

• Makes the examples run on the iOS simulator out of the box.

  
  

• Various small fixes (Trent Gamblin, jmasterx).

  
  

• Remove al_iphone_get_last_shake_time and al_iphone_get_battery_level.

  
  

• Hack around iOS not creating mipmaps (jmasterx).

  
  

• If the supported orientation is ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_ORIENTATION_UNKNOWN, default to supporting all orientations.

  
  

• Get Cosmic Protector to compile again.

Build system

• Revamp the detection of DirectX dependencies. Now it should work out of the box for at least MSVC and mingw-w64.

  
  

• Fix GDIPlus finding script (pkrcel).

  
  

• Bump the minimum version of CMake to 2.8.5.

Documentation

• Many documentation improvements, as always (special thanks to Polybios).

  
  

• Make the PDF output prettier with better fonts and an up-to-date version number.

  
  

• Make the Javascript search for online documentation support partial matches.

  
  

• Make [section] links work in HTML.

  
  

• Allow the docs to have more than 1024 entries (Allegro is getting huge!).

Other

• Make the test driver a little more resistant to failure.

  
  

• Various fixes to the experimental SDL backend.

  
  

• Update the CONTRIBUTORS.txt.

Audio addon

• Fix deadlock when destroying an audio stream soon after its creation.

  
  

• Add VOC file support (pkrcel).

  
  

• Disable processing of the XM zero-speed event.

  
  

• Disable processing of module loop points if ALLEGRO_PLAYMODE_ONCE is set.

  
  

• Fix a buffer overflow bug.

Image addon

• Fix loading of indexed + transparent PNGs with the libpng backend.

Dialog addon

• Fix some style issues with the Windows file dialog.

  
  

• Fix a bug with multiple filenames with the Windows file dialog.

  
  

• Change the semantics of the patterns in al_create_native_file_dialog to support future expansion of the patterns to support both AND and OR style filtering.

  
  

• Make the GTK file selection dialog look like it's from 2004 (as opposed to mid-1990s).

TTF addon

• Fix some warnings.

  
  

• Make the page size dynamic, allowing for fonts with up to 8192x8192 glyphs by default.

Examples

• New examples: ex_camera, ex_projection2.

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Great! Thanks to everyone for their efforts!

Great! Thanks a lot!
Do you mean msys2/pacman-packages by "mingw-w64 packages"?

Yes, I do.

Awesome

Great work everybody!

It's awesome that we have binaries for Windows! I'm gonna try them out later today if I have time.

Alright, I've updated the PPA and uploaded the msys2/mingw-w64 packages. I don't know if those work for other mingw distros... contribution of scripts to build packages from the same source the msvc ones are built are welcome .

Binaries work mighty fine!

I created a VS2013 project template. I'm gonna update the readme with some simple instructions on how to use it.

The binaries will really help with getting newbies going I think! I guess we should try to make a how to guide for vs2013 on the wiki as well at some point.

Nice work, thanks.

edit: I got a huge number of errors when trying to compile with this, so going back to an older version. <sigh>