1.7.1 (future)

3DS: Now correctly reports amount of CPU cores.
3DS: Frontend rating is now correctly implemented for both New 3DS/2DS and Old 3DS/2DS.
3DS: Initial networking support, HTTP requests won't work yet.
CHEEVOS: Fix unofficial achievements not being loaded
CHEEVOS: Support Neo Geo Pocket.
COMMON: New LED API. Driver implemented for Raspberry Pi, proof of concept implemented for core MAME 2003.
DINPUT: don't reinitialize input driver on network events / media insertion / network drive connection
GUI: Allow changing menu font color.
GUI/XMB: Add Monochrome Inverted icon theme.
GUI/XMB: Allow changing menu scale to 200%.
KEYMAPPER: prevent a condition that caused input_menu_toggle to stop working when a RETRO_DEVICE_KEYBOARD type device is enabled
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.
NSW: Initial Nintendo Switch port, based on libtransistor SDK.
PS3: Enable Cheevos.
PSP: Enable threading support through pthreads.
WINDOWS: Improved Unicode support (for cores/directory creation).
WIIU: Overlay support.
WIIU: Transparency support in menu + overlays.
WIIU: New HID pad support.

1.7.0

CHEEVOS: Add badges for achievements, shows thumbnail images of achievements.
CHEEVOS: Leaderboard support.
CHEEVOS: Only disable savestates on hardcore mode if achievements are not available.
COMMANDLINE: Fix fullscreen toggle switch.
COMMON: Add 'Automatically Load Content To Playlist' feature, enabled by default.
COMMON: Fix slowmotion ratio always being reset back to 1.
COMMON: Optimized NBIO implementations now for Apple, Windows, and Linux. Uses mmap for Linux/Windows/BSD if/when available. File I/O should now be much faster for loading images inside the menu.
COMMON: Native Blissbox support now for latest firmware as of writing (2.0). Implementation through libusb and/or native Windows HID.
COMMON: New lightgun API.
COMMON: New VFS (Virtual File System) API.
COMMON: Fixed some playlist bugs.
COMMON: New snow shader.
COMMON: Fix Quick Menu title, no longer shows 'Select File'.
COMMON: Fix loading cores that require no content one after another.
COMMON: Map Delete key to Y button for non-unified menu keyboard controls.
COMMON: Fix for relative paths being normalised and generating a duplicate history entry.
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix references to browserfs.
FREEBSD: Support libusb HID input driver.
HAIKU: Buildfix.
INPUT: Map clear button to DEL key.
LINUX/X11: Add RetroArch logo to window title bar.
LINUX/X11: Input driver now supports new lightgun code.
LINUX/X11: Support window transparency (requires a compositing window manager).
LOBBIES: Fix for crash on join netplay rooms via touch / glui.
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation.
MENU: Snowflake menu shader effect.
OSX/PPC: Fix the GL2 renderchain, had to use EXT versions of framebuffer/renderbuffer functions.
PS3: HTTP requests / downloads should now work.
PS3: Core Updater now works.
PS3: Improved font rendering, enable STB Unicode font renderer.
PSP: Make it work with Vita's Adrenaline.
PSP: Fix audio sync.
PSP: Fix content loading, port should be functional again.
PSP: Use 64MB when available.
SCANNER: Fix crash from Windows-incompatible format string.
VITA: Improve packaging, installation times.
WIIU: Disabled the controller patcher for now since it was the source of many stability issues.
VULKAN: Various stability fixes for WSI.
WINDOWS: Add MSVC 2017 solution.
WINDOWS: Get rid of the empty console window in MSVC 2010 builds.
WINDOWS: Raw input driver now supports new lightgun code.
WINDOWS: Use configured OSD/text message color on GDI driver.
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Populate XInput VID/PID from DInput so autoconfig doesn't rely solely on joypad names
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Fix crash that occurs in some situations with Steam running and a Steam Controller plugged in.
WINDOWS: Improve version reporting under System Information.
WINDOWS: Support window transparency.
WINDOWS: Correct usage of GetWindowPlacement per MS docs, fixes game window position on Win95/98.
WINDOWS: Added Visual Studio 2017 support.

1.6.9

COMMON: Small memory leak.
NETPLAY: Fix network command only working once.

1.6.8

Audio: Fix the Audio DSP picker
CHEEVOS: Add support for Atari Lynx cheevos.
CHEEVOS: Add support for RetroAchievements Leaderboards.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix crash that happened on context reset with Vulkan.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Skip querying and drawing items that are not visible; Cache content height and bbox calculation.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix entry box highlight 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.
GUI: Add menu option for OSD background color.
GUI: Add menu option for OSD text color.
GUI: Add menu option to remove frame count from OSD.
GUI: Allow wraparound of int/float settings when pressing the left key
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for more mouse buttons (buttons 4/5)
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for analog buttons
INPUT: Always show the controls menu even if descriptors are not set
INPUT: Fix input descriptors not being set on cores that don't implement the controllers interface
INPUT: Apply descriptors only for the amount of cores the core supports
INPUT: Implement keyboard to gamepad input remapping (limited to one gamepad device for now)
INPUT: Fix absolute mouse move handling on the winraw driver
INPUT: Ignore keyboard input if window is not active on udev driver
INPUT: Sanitize the filenames of autoconfig profiles before saving
LOBBIES: Fix crash on navigating left / right from the lobby menu
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation.
LINUX/ARMHF: Set buildbot updater URL to armhf location instead of blank string
LINUX/PI: Broadcom VC4: Add Videocore config option
LINUX/UDEV: Fix - RetroArch reads keyboard input when not focused with the udev input driver.
NETPLAY: Fix disconnection not fully deinitializing Netplay.
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms when there is more than one room
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms on systems where all addresses are treated as IPv6
COMMON: Fix clear/free loop conditionals in playlists.
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix flickering of text.
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix graphics corruption on Windows 98
WINDOWS/GDI: Allow compiling without DirectInput8 for NT support
WINDOWS/WGL: Try to use wglSwapLayerBuffers instead of SwapBuffers if possible (for more optimal performance).
WINDOWS: Fix menubar text corruption on Japanese locale systems
WINDOWS: Support Unicode file I/O (can now display CJK characters in file browser for example).
WINDOWS: Support Windows 95, NT3.51, NT4
WINDOWS: add Makefile.griffin targets for msvc6,2003,2005,2010,2012,2013
WII: Use custom, embedded libogc SDK.
WIIU: Initial touchscreen support for WiiU gamepad.
WIIU: Add Cheevos support.
SCANNER: Fix archive scanning.
SCANNER: Support CHD files.
SCANNER: Support Gamecube ISO scanning.
SCANNER: Use primary data track of disc images for CRC lookups rather than cue files. This is slower but finds matches more reliably, and is necessary for CHD files to work at all. Update your databases!
SCANNER: Fall back on looking inside archives when matching MAME/FBA content (most recent cores only). If you had difficulty with content being detected before, you may have better luck now. Update your databases and core info!

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

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 Unix
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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