RetroArch/CHANGES.md

1.6.2 (future)

• 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: Mute now no longer disables/enables audio but instead properly mutes the audio volume. Mute is also independent from the audio mixer volume.
• AUDIO: Audio mixer's volume can now be independently increased/decreased, and muted.
• SDL2: Fix 'SDL2 driver does not see the hat on wired Xbox 360 controller"
• SCANNING: Fix PS1 game scanning
• SCANNING: Move content list builder into scanner task with progress, fixes menu freeze with large playlists
• VITA: Add support for external USB if mounted
• VITA: Add cheevos support
• MENU: Add 'User Interface -> Views'. Ability to display/hide online updater and core updater options.
• LINUX: Add a tinyalsa audio driver. Doesn't require asoundlib, should be self-contained and lower-level.
• LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
• WAYLAND: Fix menu mouse input
• WII: Add support for single-port 'PS1/PS2 to USB controller adapter'
• INPUT: Fix 'All Users Control Menu' setting
• INPUT: Add mouse index selection; ability now to select between different mice
• SETTINGS: Fix regression 'Custom Viewport is no longer overridable per-core or per-game'

1.6.0

• 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.
• NET: Fix bug #4703 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/4703)
• ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
• ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
• ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
• ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
• LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
• LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI's default font
• LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
• MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
• OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
• WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode.
• WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input.
• WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores
• MISC: Various frontend optimizations.
• VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work.
• WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
• WIIU: HID Controller support
• WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
• WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
• 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
• THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
• VITA: Fix slow I/O
• VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
• VITA: Fix frame throttle
• VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc.
• VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
• AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game's audio.

1.5.0

• MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection
• MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to default
• 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: Threading fixes
• COMMON: 9-slice texture drawing support
• 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: Various settings are now only visible when advanced settings is enabled
• GUI: Allow changing icon theme on the fly
• GUI: Add a symbol page in the OSK
• GUI: Better dialogs for XMB
• LOCALIZATION: Add/update Korean translation
• LOCALIZATION: Rewrite German translation
• LOCALIZATION: Update several English sublabels
• LOCALIZATION: Update several Japanese labels
• 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: Lan games show next to lobbies with (lan) and connect via the private IP address
• NET: Use new lobby system with MITM support
• NET: Fix netplay rooms being pushed on the wrong tab
• NUKLEAR: Update to current version
• SCANNER: Always add 7z & zip to supported extensions
• VULKAN: Find supported composite alpha in swapchain
• VULKAN: Add snow/bokeh shader pipeline effects - at parity with GL now
• WIIU: Keyboard support
• WINDOWS: Logging to file no longer spawns an empty window
• WINDOWS: Fix loading of core/content via file menu

1.4.1