2023

November 2023

New Features

• There is now an option to use binary shaders: they will be compiled on the first run and then cached on disk
  • Default shaders will use this feature as well, if enabled in the configuration
  • Batched shaders can be compiled twice to query the max number of batches for the UBO size

Improvements

• A new class has been added to calculate a 64-bit hash from strings or from file information (also in the Lua API)
• Emscripten stack size has been increased from the default 64 Kb to 128 Kb
• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.90

October 2023

Breaking Changes

• The Timer::sleep() method now needs an integer number of milliseconds instead of a float number of seconds.
• The join() and exit() methods of the Thread class do not support custom return values anymore

Improvements

• The version of the integrated Tracy has been updated to v0.10

Fixes

• The Thread class can be be move constructed or move assigned without causing random crashes

September 2023

Improvements

• Updated support for Gradle plugin 8.1.0 and build tools 33.0.1 on Android
• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.9
• The version of the integrated Google Test has been updated to v1.14.0
• The version of the integrated Google Benchmark has been updated to v1.8.3

July 2023

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.7

June 2023

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.6

May 2023

New Features

• Add a new apptest_bunnymark, an nCine port of the famous BunyMark benchmark

Improvements

• Added an interface class to tweak the frame timer options
  • A second timer has been added to the frame timer to calculate averages

April 2023

Breaking Changes

• The homeDir() method of the FileSystem class have been renamed to homePath()
• The get_home_dir() function of the Lua filesystem table has been renamed to get_home_path()
• The get_datapath() and get_savepath() functions of the Lua filesystem table have been renamed to get_data_path() and get_save_path()

New Features

• The apptest_lua has a new ImGui interface and can now automatically reload a modified Lua script

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.5
• The version of the integrated Google Test has been updated to v1.13.0
• There is now a new method in the FileSystem class to return the path to store cached files

March 2023

Improvements

• The version of the integrated Tracy has been updated to v0.9.1
• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.4

February 2023

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.3

January 2023

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.89.2