RetroArch/CHANGES.md

1.6.8 (future)

• 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/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

1.4.1