1.6.8 (future)

GUI: (MaterialUI) Skip querying and drawing items that are not visible; Cache content height and bbox calculation.
GUI: (XMB) Skip drawing the fading list when it is already transparent. Optimization.
GUI: (XMB) Comment out visible item calculation in xmb_draw_items().
GUI: (RGUI) Prevent crashes when using a non-English language reliant on UTF8.
LINUX/PI: Broadcom VC4: Add Videocore config option
NETPLAY: Fix disconnection not fully deinitializing Netplay.
COMMON: Fix clear/free loop conditionals in playlists.
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix flickering of text.
WINDOWS/WGL: Try to use wglSwapLayerBuffers instead of SwapBuffers if possible (for more optimal performance).
WII: Use custom, embedded libogc SDK.
WIIU: Initial touchscreen support for WiiU gamepad.

1.6.7

SCANNER: Fix directory scanning.
SCANNER: Fix file scanning.
COMMON: Fix 'Disk Image Append' option.
FREEBSD: Compatibility fixes for Video4Linux2 camera driver.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add disk image append icons.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Improve word wrapping when menu icons are enabled.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icons Enable. You can turn on/off the icons on the lefthand side of the menu entries.
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver - only calculates visible items.
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.

1.6.6 (future)

3DS: Fixes serious performance regression that affected every core; rewind was always implicitly enabled.
AUDIO: MOD/S3M/XM sound should now be properly mixed in with the core's sound.
GUI: Visual makeover of MaterialUI.
GUI: Added 'Music', 'Images' and 'Video' collection options to RGUI/MaterialUI.
GUI: Allow the user to add 'Favorites'.
GUI: Allow the user to rename entries.
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver.
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
INPUT: Overlay controller response - when we press buttons on the gamepad or keyboard, the corresponding buttons on the overlay will be highlighted as well.
NETBSD: Silence some compilation warnings.
COMMON: Fixed bug 'Deleting an entry from a playlist would not update the list view inside XMB'.
COMMON: Fix inet_ntop_compat on *nix
LOBBY: Add skeleton to add help descriptions to lobbies

1.6.5

Skipped this one.

1.6.4

ANDROID: Fire Stick & Fire TV remote overrides gamepad port 0 on button press and viceversa like SHIELD devices
ANDROID: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
AUDIO: Audio mixer supports MOD/S3M/XM file types now!
INPUT: input swap override flag (for remotes) is cleared correctly
INPUT: allow specifying libretro device in remap files
INPUT: allow specifying analog dpad mode in remap files
INPUT: allow saving libretro device to remap files
INPUT: allow saving analog dpad mode to remap files
INPUT: allow removing core and game remap files from the menu
COMMON: Cores can now request to set a 'shared context'. You no longer need to explicitly enable 'Shared Hardware Context' for Citra/OpenLara/Dolphin.
COMMON: Add 'Delete Core' option to Core Information menu.
COMMON: Allow Max Timing Skew to be set to 0.
COMMON: Change the "content dir" behavior so it works on either a flag or an empty directory setting, now platform drivers can provide defaults for save / system / state / screenshot dirs and still allow the content dir functionality, these settings are under settings / saving and flagged as advanced
GUI: You can turn on/off 'Horizontal Animation' now for the XMB menu. Turning animations off can result in a performance boost.
GUI: Fix sublabel word-wrapping in XMB where multi-byte languages were cut off too soon
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
WINDOWS: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
LOBBIES: Show what country the host is in
MENU: Enable OSD text rendering for gdi and libcaca drivers
WINDOWS 98/ME/2K: Set default directory for MSVC 2005 RetroArch version.
WII: Better V-Sync handling, backported from SuperrSonic.
WIIU: Exception handler rewritten.

1.6.3

IOS: Fix GL regression - 32bit color format cores were no longer rendering
CHEEVOS: Add support for N64 cheevos and other small fixes.
CHEEVOS: Add 'Achievements -> Achievements Verbose Mode'. Ability to display cheevos related messages in OSD, useful for RetroAchievements users.
AUDIO: Audio mixer's volume can now be independently increased/decreased, and muted.
AUDIO: Mute now no longer disables/enables audio but instead properly mutes the audio volume. Mute is also independent from the audio mixer volume.
INPUT: Add mouse index selection; ability now to select between different mice
INPUT: Fix 'All Users Control Menu' setting
LINUX: Add a tinyalsa audio driver. Doesn't require asoundlib, should be self-contained and lower-level.
LOBBIES: Announce the RetroArch version too
LOCALIZATION: Add Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Add 'User Interface -> Views'. Ability to display/hide online updater and core updater options.
NETPLAY: Disconnecting one client shouldn't cause everyone to disconnect anymore
NETWORK: SSL/TLS support, disabled by default
SCANNER: Fix PS1 game scanning
SCANNER: Move content list builder into scanner task with progress, fixes menu freeze with large playlists
SDL2: Fix 'SDL2 driver does not see the hat on wired Xbox 360 controller"
SETTINGS: Fix regression 'Custom Viewport is no longer overridable per-core or per-game'
VITA: Add cheevos support
VITA: Add support for external USB if mounted
WAYLAND: Fix menu mouse input
WII: Add support for single-port 'PS1/PS2 to USB controller adapter'

1.6.0

ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game's audio.
AUTOSAVE/SRAM - Fix bug #3829 / #4820 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/3829)
ENDIANNESS: Fixed database scanning. Should fix scanning on PS3/WiiU/Wii, etc.
LOBBIES: Fallback to filename based matching if no CRC matches are found (for people making playlists by hand)
LOBBIES: GUI refinement, show stop hosting when a host has been started, show disconnect when playing as client
LOBBIES: if the game is already loaded it will try to connect directly instead of re-loading content (non-fullpath cores only)
LOBBIES: unify both netplay menus
LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI's default font
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
MISC: Various frontend optimizations.
NET: Fix bug #4703 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/4703)
OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work.
VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
VITA: Fix frame throttle
VITA: Fix slow I/O
VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc.
WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
WIIU: HID Controller support
WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input.
WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode.
WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores

1.5.0

ANDROID: Autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Mouse support / Emulated mouse support
AUTOCONF: Fix partial matches for pad name
CHEEVOS: Fix crashes in the cheevos description menu
CHEEVOS: WIP leaderboards support
COMMON: 9-slice texture drawing support
COMMON: Threading fixes
CORETEXT/APPLE: Ability to load menu display font drivers and loading of custom font.
DOS: Add keyboard driver
DOS: Improve color accuracy and scaling
GUI: Add a symbol page in the OSK
GUI: Allow changing icon theme on the fly
GUI: Better dialogs for XMB
GUI: Various settings are now only visible when advanced settings is enabled
LOCALIZATION: Add/update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Rewrite German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update several English sublabels
LOCALIZATION: Update several Japanese labels
MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to default
MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection
NET: Allow manual netplay content loading
NET: Announcing network games to the public lobby is optional now
NET: Bake in miniupnpc
NET: Fix netplay join for contentless cores
NET: Fix netplay rooms being pushed on the wrong tab
NET: Lan games show next to lobbies with (lan) and connect via the private IP address
NET: Use new lobby system with MITM support
NUKLEAR: Update to current version
SCANNER: Always add 7z & zip to supported extensions
VULKAN: Add snow/bokeh shader pipeline effects - at parity with GL now
VULKAN: Find supported composite alpha in swapchain
WIIU: Keyboard support
WINDOWS: Fix loading of core/content via file menu
WINDOWS: Logging to file no longer spawns an empty window

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