2026

May 2026

Breaking Changes

• Renamed all occurrences of “FullScreen” to “Fullscreeen” and of “fullScreen” to “fullscreen” in all interested methods
• Renamed “full_screen” to “fullscreen” in the Lua app_configuration table
• Renamed nctl::PointerMath::subtract() to distance() when used between pointers
• Most app configuration environment variables (AppCfg EnvVars) have been renamed

Improvements

• The values in the AppConfiguration C++ class and the Lua app_configuration table have been splitted in substructures/subtables
• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.92.8

April 2026

Improvements

• Added support for Lua 5.5
• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.92.7

March 2026

Improvements

• Refactor all iterators to respect STL-style invariants
• Add support for std::initializer_list to nCTL containers
• Add a new Pair and Span classes that works similarly to their STL counterparts
• Fix self-assignment with StaticHashMap and StaticHashSet classes
• It’s now possible to access some nCine and project version strings as numbers in the VersionNumbers struct
• The fast-hash algorithm has been improved and it’s now used by default for all hashmap and hashset classes

February 2026

Breaking Changes

• Renamed ITextureLoader and ITextureSaver to IImageLoader and IImageSaver
  • Png and WebP sub-classes have also been Renamed

Improvements

• The version of the integrated ImGui has been updated to v1.92.6
• Added a Lua utility class to manipulate non-float color objects (nc::Color class)

January 2026

Improvements

• Dependency libraries are now copied in all nCine and project artifacts for MinGW
• Add a new Optional class to nCTL that works similarly to std::optional