See changes-5.0.txt for changes in Allegro 5.0.x. These lists serve as summaries; the full histories are in the git repository.

Changes from 5.1.13 to 5.1.13.1 (February 2016)

The main developers this time were: SiegeLord.

Image addon:

• Fix regression in bitmap loading when compiled under MSVC.

Changes from 5.1.12 to 5.1.13 (January 2016)

The main developers this time were: Julian Smythe, Elias Pschernig and Peter Hull.

Graphics:

• Add al_get_opengl_program_object (SiegeLord).

Input:

• Fix spurious triggering of the mouse grab key when it wasn’t otherwise set (SiegeLord).

Android port:

• Avoid multiple HALT/RESUME events on Android (Max Savenkov).

• Implement al_get_monitor_info for Android (Reuben Bell).

• Fix Android crash on file access.

• Implement ALLEGRO_FULLSCREEN_WINDOW on Android.

• Fix crash if display is destroyed while the app is switched out.

• Add support for x86_64 Android.

• Add al_android_set_apk_fs_interface.

Linux port:

• Allow using OpenGL ES in X11.

• Fix the initial display size not being correct sometimes (SiegeLord).

• Fix a race condition in the XInput joystick driver (Trent Gamblin).

OSX port:

• Fix various memory leaks.

• Fix al_set_window_title.

• Fix a lot of decrepid and deprecated code.

• Fix single buffer flip display (SiegeLord).

Windows port:

• Fix Windows UNC path handling.

• Fix clipboard nul-termination issues (Trent Gamblin).

• Set the window title immediately upon window creation (SiegeLord).

Build system:

• Define CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH for i686-w64-mingw32 cross compiler (Martijn van Iersel).

• Allow building with older CMakes again (SiegeLord).

• Do not catche compile tests’ failure (Bruce Pascoe).

• Add a way to statically link the runtime with MinGW (SiegeLord).

• Don’t link the MSVC C runtime at all when requesting a static runtime and building a static library (SiegeLord).

Documentation:

• Add links to the source code of the definitions of the most API entries.

• Fix sidebar generation with modern Pandoc (Boris Carvajal).

Python:

• Fix ordering issue for HAPTIC* structs.

• Fix missing ALLEGRO_PRIM_ATTR_NUM.

Other:

• Add a ‘none’ debug level to turn off logging entirely in debug builds (SiegeLord).

• Reconfigure logging after the configuration files are loaded (SiegeLord).

• Fix al_set_new_window_title() off-by-1 (Bruce Pascoe).

• Don’t call al_get_time() before system is installed (SiegeLord).

Audio addon:

• Add al_get_default_voice and al_set_default_voice.

• Flush the pulse audio stream rather than draining it, fixing some audio breaks (SiegeLord).

• Fill audio stream fragments with silence in the audio addon rather than in the acodec addon, fixing some garbage output (SiegeLord).

• Fix possible deadlock when destroying audio streams (SiegeLord).

Acodec addon:

• Don’t read past the audio chunk’s end when streaming wav files (SiegeLord).

• Turn off allegro_acodec dynamic loading by default, fixing a common footgun (Bruce Pascoe).

Image addon:

• An enormous amount of work supporting reading of esoteric (and not) BMP format variants (palletted, GIMP-style, etc). New tests were added using the manual bmp suites.

Native dialog addon:

• Update code to work with modern OSX versions.

• Clean up menu handling on OSX.

Changes from 5.1.11 to 5.1.12 (September 2015)

The main developers this time were: Bruce Pascoe, Beoran, Elias Pschernig, SiegeLord, Trent Gamblin.

Graphics:

• Add al_set_blend_color and al_set_blender, for additional blending modes.

• Add ALLEGRO_MAXIMIZED display flag.

• Add al_reparent_bitmap, al_get_bitmap_x/y. This allows changing the offset of a sub-bitmap.

• Make ALLEGRO_PIXEL_FORMAT_ANY_NO_ALPHA actually pick a format without an alpha channel.

• Add al_premul_rgba and al_premul_rgba_f convenience functions for dealing with pre-multiplied alpha blending mode.

Input:

• Fix key auto-repeat on modern X11 versions.

• Fix mis-detection of some joysticks on Android.

Android port:

• Fix a crash when minimizing the app before Allegro has been initialized.

iOS port:

Linux port:

• Add al_get_x_window_id (Robert MacGregor)

OSX port:

• Fix some deprecated API usage.

Windows port:

• Fix a dangling pointer issue resulting in crashes when resizing on Windows

Build system:

• Build with multiple processors when using MSVC.

• Make XInput2/touch input optional on Linux.

Documentation:

• Various documentation improvements.

• Fix some badly formatted flags (Rodolfo Lam).

Other:

• Allow injecting Allegro events into event queses using al_emit_user_event (Ryan Roden-Corrent)

• Add al_set_new_window_title and al_get_new_window_title.

• Add al_get_clipboard_text, al_set_clipboard_text and al_clipboard_has_text.

• Add al_resume_timer (Ryan Roden-Corrent).

• Add al_get_cpu_count and al_get_ram_size.

Audio addon:

• Add multiple voice support for the AQueue driver.

• Fix a bug when al_restore_default_mixer was called multiple times.

Color addon:

Font addon:

• Add al_draw_glyph, al_get_glyph_width, al_get_glyph_dimensions and al_get_glyph_advance. These functions are useful when additional control is needed when drawing text.

• Add al_set_fallback_font.

Image addon:

• Add al_register_bitmap_identifier, al_identify_bitmap and al_identify_bitmap_f. This allows detecting the bitmap type by looking at the initial few bytes in the file rather than relying solely on the extension.

• Allow saving bitmaps with uppercase extensions (Daniel).

Native dialog addon:

• Fix crashes when creating menus with sub-menus (Todd Cope).

Video addon:

• Allow using both Ffmpeg and Theora backends simultaneously.

• Reduce latency of al_get_video_frame for the Theora backend.

• Make the Theora backend send the ALLEGRO_VIDEO_FRAME_SHOW events.

• Rename al_get_video_width/height to al_get_video_scaled_width/height which now return the aspect corrected size of the video frame.

• Rename al_pause_video/al_is_video_paused to al_get/set_video_playing.

• Add ALLEGRO_EVENT_VIDEO_FINISHED event.

• Remove ALLEGRO_EVENT_VIDEO_FRAME_ALLOC event.

• Remove al_get_video_aspect_ratio.

Examples:

• New examples: ex_reparent, ex_inject_events, ex_clipboard, ex_cpu, ex_timer_pause.

Changes from 5.1.10 to 5.1.11 (June 2015)

The main developers this time were: SiegeLord, Trent Gamblin.

Input:

• Rename al_get_haptic_active to al_is_haptic_active for consistency.

• Rename al_get_num_haptic_effects to al_get_max_haptic_effects.

• Implement the missing al_is_touch_input_haptic function.

• Move the loops parameter of al_upload_and_play_haptic_effect after the id to be consistent with al_play_haptic_effect.

OSX port:

• Fix mouse warping in OSX.

• Add retina display support to OSX.

Windows port:

• Fix querying display modes before creating a display.

• Make the Windows joystick implementation more fault tolerant.

• Initialize display callbacks when creating faux fullscreen (Edgar Reynaldo).

Build system:

• Fix the conditional compilation of sal.h (Edgar Reynaldo).

• Don’t look at WinSDK when we’re not on MSVC, fixing MinGW builds when MSVC is installed as well.

• Fix the static FLAC compile tests on Android and Windows.

• Make the OSX frameworks install in the proper location again.

• Add WANT_STATIC_RUNTIME CMake build option (currently MSVC-only).

Documentation:

• Various documentation improvements.

Other:

• Return a valid configuration from al_get_system_config before Allegro is installed. This allows you to override the various configuration options without using an on-disk allegro5.cfg.

• Compile in the logging support in release modes by default. Now logging can be turned on in release builds without recompiling the program by editing the system configuration.

• Detect file-overruns when saving configuration files (Bruce Pascoe).

Color addon:

• When converting from YUV to RGB, clamp the returned values between 0 and 1.

Video addon:

• Use an enum in place of magic numbers for al_get_video_position constants.

Changes from 5.1.9 to 5.1.10 (May 2015)

The main developers this time were: SiegeLord, Elias Pschernig, Trent Gamblin, Polybios.

Input:

• Add al_set_mouse_wheel_precision and al_get_mouse_wheel_precision.

Graphics:

• Added al_transform_coordinates_3d.

• Added al_build_camera_transform.

• Make the projection transform a bitmap local state. This removes al_set_projection_transform and al_get_projection_transform, and replaces them with al_use_projection_transform and al_get_current_projection_transform with similar semantics to the regular transforms.

OSX port:

• Improved joystick axis layouts on Mac OS X, and added support for some dpards (Max Savenkov).

X11 port:

• Fix some memory leaks (ElectricSolstice).

• Make the XInput2 check more accurate (we require a specific version).

Windows port:

• Remove taskbar hiding on Windows.

• Fix high precision mice on Windows.

• Fix some D3D conflicts with the OpenGL backend.

• Remove the prohibition of building OpenGL-only DLLs.

• Added LRESULT argument to WindowProc callback, fixing al_win_add_window_callback for some event types (Aaron Bolyard).

Android port:

• Fix some memory leaks.

• Make it possible to specify the Android target during building.

iOS port:

• Add an XCode project to help build Allegro when CMake support fails.

• Restore the CMake support.

• Makes the examples run on the iOS simulator out of the box.

• Various small fixes (Trent Gamblin, jmasterx).

• Remove al_iphone_get_last_shake_time and al_iphone_get_battery_level.

• Hack around iOS not creating mipmaps (jmasterx).

• If the supported orientation is ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_ORIENTATION_UNKNOWN, default to supporting all orientations.

• Get Cosmic Protector to compile again.

Build system:

• Revamp the detection of DirectX dependencies. Now it should work out of the box for at least MSVC and mingw-w64.

• Fix GDIPlus finding script (pkrcel).

• Bump the minimum version of CMake to 2.8.5.

Documentation:

• Many documentation improvements, as always (special thanks to Polybios).

• Make the PDF output prettier with better fonts and an up-to-date version number.

• Make the Javascript search for online documentation support partial matches.

• Make [section] links work in HTML.

• Allow the docs to have more than 1024 entries (Allegro is getting huge!).

Other:

• Make the test driver a little more resistant to failure.

• Various fixes to the experimental SDL backend.

• Update the CONTRIBUTORS.txt.

Audio addon:

• Fix deadlock when destroying an audio stream soon after its creation.

• Add VOC file support (pkrcel).

• Disable processing of the XM zero-speed event.

• Disable processing of module loop points if ALLEGRO_PLAYMODE_ONCE is set.

• Fix a buffer overflow bug.

Image addon:

• Fix loading of indexed + transparent PNGs with the libpng backend.

Dialog addon:

• Fix some style issues with the Windows file dialog.

• Fix a bug with multiple filenames with the Windows file dialog.

• Change the semantics of the patterns in al_create_native_file_dialog to support future expansion of the patterns to support both AND and OR style filtering.

• Make the GTK file selection dialog look like it’s from 2004 (as opposed to mid-1990s).

TTF addon:

• Fix some warnings.

• Make the page size dynamic, allowing for fonts with up to 8192x8192 glyphs by default.

Examples:

• New examples: ex_camera, ex_projection2.

Changes from 5.1.8 to 5.1.9 (January 2015)

The main developers this time were: Trent Gamblin, SiegeLord, Elias Pschernig.

Core:

• Fix OSX backend on OSX 10.10 (lordnoriyuki).

• Simplify how sub-bitmaps interact with their parent bitmaps. You can now destroy a sub-bitmap at any time (not only before the parent is destroyed). Additionally, when the parent is converted using al_convert_bitmap, all the sub-bitmaps are also automatically converted.

• Switch to using unicode Win32 (e.g. this fixes using al_set_window_title with unicode strings).

• Add some Linux WM hints so make Allegro windows work more smoothly (especially with Unity).

Filesystem:

• Add al_fprintf (DanielH and Tobias Scheuer).

• Add al_for_each_fs_entry, a convenience function that helps enumerating the contents of a directory more easily using a callback function (Beoran).

• Fix for al_get_standard_path with Unicode (vkensou).

Input:

• Add X11 touch driver (Ryan Gumbs).

• Emulate mouse pressure for backends that don’t support pressure.

• Added Windows haptics driver, XInput joystick driver (Beoran).

• Fix OSX joystick deinitialization.

Graphics:

• Add block compression pixel formats (ALLEGRO_PIXEL_FORMAT_COMPRESSED_RGBA_DXT1/DXT3/DXT5) for compressed video bitmaps. This includes an API to fetch compressed block size (al_get_pixel_block_width/height/size) as well as API to load and unload compressed bitmap data without paying a runtime compression cost (al_lock_bitmap_blocked). Unfortunately, due to patent concerns this last feature is disabled for OpenGL (if you thinks those concerns don’t apply to you, you can enable it by passing -DWANT_OPENGL_S3TC_LOCKING=1 to cmake).

• Make real fullscreen modes work on OS X again. May not be perfect still. (thanks to SDL).

Shaders:

• Don’t clobber the 0’th texture unit in OpenGL and Direct3D. This simplifies working with shaders.

Android port:

• Bump minimum Android API level from 10 to 12 (aka version 3.1).

• Add controller support to the Android port. An accelerometer ‘joystick’ is still the first joystick. Supports two analog sticks and 10 buttons (A B X Y L1 R1 DPAD_L DPAD_R DPAD_U DPAD_D). Supports hotplugging and theoretically multiple joysticks (needs testing).

• Set correct orientation at startup on Android (thanks to Aikei_c).

Build system:

• Various CMake fixes.

Other:

• Add Travis and AppVeyor continuous integration support.

• Fix a lot of memory leaks.

• Many documentation improvements.

Audio addon:

• Disallow attaching a mixer to itself.

• Fix uni- and bi-directional looping of zero-length samples.

• Fix/avoid all sound examples freezing on OSX with the aqueue driver.

Image addon:

• Add functionality to load Direct Draw Surface files (.dds). Only compressed pixel formats are supported (DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5).

Dialog addon:

• Fix native file dialog default paths on Windows (Edgar Reynaldo).

• Fix unintended behaviour in al_set_menu_item_flags (Malcolm Harrow).

• Fix some bugs with native menus in OSX.

Video addon:

• Fix for now undefined AVCODEC_MAX_AUDIO_FRAME_SIZE (Dennis Busch).

TTF addon:

• Fix a crashing bug in the TTF addon.

• Make al_load_ttf_font_stretch return NULL if invalid width/height are passed.

Font addon:

• Add multi line text output for the font addon (al_draw_multiline_text, al_draw_multiline_textf and al_draw_multiline_ustr).

Primitives addon:

• Fix some sharp-angle polyline drawing bugs.

Examples:

• New examples: ex_compressed, ex_font_multiline.

• ex_dir: demonstrate al_for_each_fs_entry.

• ex_haptic2: demonstrate hotplugging.

Changes from 5.1.7 to 5.1.8 (January 2014)

The main developers this time were: Beoran, SiegeLord, Trent Gamblin, Markus Henschel, Peter Wang.

Core:

• Allow MSVC to use DLL TLS but disable DLL TLS by default.

• Do not include windows.h via allegro.h.

• Fix some memory leaks on X11.

Graphics:

• Spell ALLEGRO_DST_COLOR, ALLEGRO_INVERSE_DST_COLOR with “DEST” (with compatibility defines).

• Fix bug which meant ALLEGRO_INVERSE_SRC_COLOR and ALLEGRO_INVERSE_DEST_COLOR never actually worked on D3D.

• Fix horizontal and vertical shears which were not composing with translations correctly.

• Optimise al_restore_state if saved target display/bitmap are unchanged.

• Fix _al_display_settings_sorter ordering of indexes when scores are equal.

• Use a minimum 16x16 texture workaround even on desktop OpenGL.

• Propagate errors up OpenGL lock bitmap implementations.

• Use proxy bitmap when locking writable backbuffer regions on GLES.

• Clean up FBO creation during bitmap locking.

• Move the half-pixel shift in D3D into the projection matrix. Use the texture dimensions to compute the half-pixel shift.

• Fix al_get_d3d_texture_size returning zeros.

• Remove ALLEGRO_FORCE_LOCKING flag.

• Setup GL viewport and projection in al_acknowledge_resize on Android.

• Improve implementation of display options on Android: use the same display setting scoring code as other ports; handle SUGGEST display options properly; map ALLEGRO_COLOR_SIZE to EGL_BUFFER_SIZE attributes.

Filesystem:

• Add al_ferror and al_ferror. Initial patch by Tobias Scheuer.

• Make al_fclose have a return value.

• Check al_fclose return value in saving routines.

• Make al_fopen_fd not leak a FILE handle in a failure path.

• Make al_make_temp_file allocate temporary buffer to match the template.

• android: Interpret the path to APK asset as AssetManager doesn’t.

• android: Correctly return -1 for APK asset file size if it can’t be determined. A side-effect is that FreeType (via the TTF addon) can now load TTFs stored compressed in APK assets.

• android: Support ungetc on APK file streams.

• android: Fix EOF handling in AllegroInputStream.

Input:

• Initial haptics API, only implemented on Linux to begin with.

• Use Linux input API for joystick driver instead of deprecated joystick API.

• Use Linux joystick driver on Android if OUYA model detected (Jonathan Lilliemarck).

• Use thread for hotplugging joysticks on Linux instead of timerfd (due to Android).

• Report unichar in KEY_CHAR events on Android. (Todd Cope)

• Added some Android gaming key codes.

• iOS touch coordinates need to be multiplied by contentScaleFactor.

• Android touch input id 0 was incorrectly treated as invalid. (Max Savenkov)

Shaders:

• Automatically call OnLostDevice and OnResetDevice on HLSL shaders.

• Remove #version specifier from all shaders.

Audio addon:

• Remove generic audio event source and AudioQueue events.

• Don’t queue silent fragments at start of new audio streams.

• Make stream_read return correct number of filled samples when no data is available (zero).

• A DirectSound voice could not be restarted once it has been stopped.

• Fix crash when attaching empty stream to dsound voice.

• Reset buffer position in stop instead of play in dsound voice.

• Fix calculation of current sample position in dsound voice.

• Reset audio stream when al_set_audio_stream_playing to false for voice and mixer cases, and make all fragments available for refill.

• Emit stream fragment events when a stream is started.

• Remove unnecessary reallocation of the channel matrix.

• Add al_fill_silence.

• Add al_get_audio_stream_played_samples.

• Fix deadlock in Pulseaudio driver. Reported by Bluebird.

• Let al_set_sample_instance_playing work for unattached instances and sample instances with no data set. Reported by Bluebird.

• Enable the use of the unpatched DirectX SDK to build.

Audio codec addon:

• Fix looping in Ogg Vorbis stream. (Todd Cope)

• Seeking in wavs would always have returned success.

Image addon:

• Fix many problems in Android native image loader, including: supporting ALLEGRO_NO_PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA, respecting the new bitmap format, working for non-APK assets, not crashing on failure.

Native dialogs addon:

• Change native menu ids from int to uint16_t due to limitation with Windows. (Matthew Leverton)

Primitives addon:

• Rename the primitives buffer flags.

• Simplify the prim buffer hints.

• Simplify the al_create_vertex_buffer API.

• Actually implement uninitialized vertex buffers.

• Add indexed buffer API.

• Polylines with ALLEGRO_LINE_CAP_CLOSED cap style did not draw correctly with thickness == 0.

• Take into account the projection matrix when computing the scale of the high level primitives.

• Replace enum arguments for al_draw_polyline and al_draw_polygon with integers to reduce chance of ABI issues.

TTF addon:

• Fix a bug where some glyphs would be blank.

• Allow glyph allocation to fail without crashing.

Android port:

• Separate Allegro library Java code from the original example project for Android (Jonathan Lilliemarck).

• Build Allegro library as a JAR.

• Rename Java package to org.liballeg.android.

• Change how the application shared library is specified. Override the AllegroActivity constructor instead of specifying in AndroidManifest.xml.

• Add a method to tell if the user exited main in the Android Java code.

• Add a fix for the case of launching another activity from your game on Android and then returning to the game after it finishes.

• Refactoring and clean up.

iOS port:

• Remove al_iphone_get/set_screen_scale as not really needed and confusing.

Build system:

• Integrate Android port into build system, including building and launching examples for debugging.

• Detect OpenGLES/2 libraries on Android.

• Let clang use same options as gcc in build system.

Python:

• Made the C-parser used in the Python API generator understand more type constructs. (Elias Pschernig)

Examples:

• Make demos and most examples run (somewhat) on Android.

• Add touch input support to various examples.

• New examples: ex_file, ex_haptic, ex_haptic2, ex_touch_input.

• ex_prim: Demonstrate indexed buffers.

Other:

• More more minor bug fixes and changes.

• Documentation updates.

• Syntax highlight the C source examples and prototypes in the documentation.

Changes from 5.1.6 to 5.1.7 (May 2013)

The main developers this time were: Peter Wang, Trent Gamblin.

Graphics:

• Added al_horizontal_shear_transform, al_vertical_shear_transform (Jeff Bernard).

• Make al_destroy_bitmap maintain the current display when untargeting the bitmap to be destroyed.

• Delete al_create_custom_bitmap.

• Delete al_ortho_transform compatibility macro.

• Make al_get_d3d_texture_size fail instead of crash if passed a non-D3D bitmap.

• Make al_get_opengl_texture_size return success code to match D3D.

• Rename al_d3d_set_release/restore_callback to be consistent with existing naming, and pass the display as an argument.

• Check availability of fullscreen button on window frame at run-time (OS X).

Input:

• Fix mouse warping on OS X.

• Fix mouse warping in Linux evdev mouse driver.

Audio addon:

• pulseaudio: Use smaller buffer size by default, and make it configurable.

• pulseaudio: Clean up state transitions.

Color addon:

• Fix al_color_rgb_to_html blue component (Jeff Bernard).

• Implement al_color_html_to_rgb and al_color_html more strictly.

Primitives addon:

• Delete al_draw_polygon_with_holes.

• Delete stride-less version of al_draw_polyline*.

• Simplify interface of al_triangulate_polygon and al_draw_filled_polygon_with_holes.

Video addon:

• Make al_seek_video return a result.

• Fix crash when unable to open a Ogg video.

• Don’t scan to end of headers of unknown stream for Ogg video.

• Stop reading at end of Ogg video.

• Try to account for audio buffers in positioning of Ogg video.

• Implement seek to beginning of file (only) in Ogg backend.

• Replace deprecated av_find_stream_info() call (Nick Black).

Android port:

• Fix some Android switch in/out and exit issues.

Build system:

• Do not install most internal header files.

• Do not search for and link with unneeded X libraries.

Examples:

• ex_audio_timer: New example.

• Revise and comment the ex_prim_shader example and shaders (Paul Suntsov).

Other:

• Various documentation updates.

• Minor fixes and much code refactoring.

Changes from 5.1.5 to 5.1.6 (March 2013)

The main developers this time were: Trent Gamblin, Paul Suntsov, Peter Wang.

Core:

• Fix use of clobbered return value from setlocale() on X11.

• Register system interface even if no display driver available on Windows.

• Fix use of double math functions for float arguments (Nick Trout).

Shaders:

• Revamped shader API. The shader API is now part of the core library, and the shader addon removed.

• Shaders are now a per-bitmap property, set with al_use_shader. A bitmap without a set shader uses a default shader internally, that allows Allegro drawing functions to work as in non-programmable pipeline mode.

• Shader variable setters operate on the shader of the target bitmap.

• Rename ALLEGRO_USE_PROGRAMMABLE_PIPELINE to ALLEGRO_PROGRAMMABLE_PIPELINE.

• Rename al_link_shader to al_build_shader.

• Remove al_set_shader.

• Remove the al_set_shader_*_array functions. These functions cannot be easily (or at all) implemented with the D3D backend.

• Add al_get_shader_platform and al_get_default_shader_source.

• Remove al_get_opengl_program_object, al_set_opengl_program_object, al_get_direct3d_effect, al_set_direct3d_effect.

• Remove Cg shader backend.

• Add macros for shader variable names (Jon Rafkind).

Displays:

• Made al_get_display_mode return the closest thing to a pixel format possible with the WGL driver (tobing).

• Move WGL context destruction out of the message pump thread and into the user/main thread.

• Allow command-tab to work in fullscreen window mode on OS X.

• Remove “user_reload” parameter from al_acknowledge_drawing_resume.

• Don’t crash in al_create_display if there is no display driver.

• Don’t crash at shutdown if there is no display driver (Windows).

• Don’t fail init if both D3D, GL drivers unavailable (Windows).

• Sync bitmaps before resizing display to prevent changes being lost after the resize (D3D).

• Load the D3D9X module during display creation and unload it when the D3D system shuts down.

• Run fullscreen toggle on main thread (OS X).

• Destroy the backbuffer bitmap when destroying the display (OS X).

• Switch to new NSTrackingArea API (OS X).

• Set ALLEGRO_NO_PRESERVE_TEXTURE on backbuffer (OpenGL).

Graphics:

• Let al_destroy_bitmap implicitly untarget the bitmap on the calling thread.

• Fix a bug where bitmap locking may change the target bitmap but not restore it back to NULL (OpenGL).

• Use memory bitmap drawing when either bitmap is locked (OpenGL).

• Fix a crash in D3D destroying sub-bitmaps.

• Add const qualifiers to glUniform*v() functions (Aaron Bolyard).

Input:

• Partially fix mouse buttons “sticking” on Mac, e.g. holding the mouse and toggling fullscreen window.

• al_set_mouse_xy on Windows resulted in the mouse getting set to the wrong position in windowed modes

• Scale the user supplied mouse cursor if it’s too big (Windows).

• Add key constants for some Android keys, those that are used in Xperia Play controls.

Audio addons:

• Fix PulseAudio driver trying to connect to a non-existent server forever.

• Avoid memory leaks with audio event source.

• Use smaller buffer size for OpenSL.

Image addon:

• Use Allegro built-in loaders in preference to OS X loaders for BMP/TGA/PCX. The OS X TGA loader doesn’t support alpha and this is also more consistent.

Font addons:

• Make al_init_font_addon return success value.

• Make al_init_ttf_addon return true for subsequent calls.

Native dialogs addon:

• Fix a crash on iOS due to threading/TLS issues geting the display (Nick Trout).

Primitives addon:

• Speed up al_triangulate_polygon_with_holes.

• Speed up drawing of the rounds for polylines.

• Add custom vertex attributes to the primitives addon.

• Replace vertex shader binary generated by vsa.exe (removed from DirectX SDKs for a while now) by that generated by fxc.exe.

• A minor revamp of the HLSL default shader system in the primitives addon.

• Fix a few incorrect usages of al_lock_vertex_buffer

• Disallow 3 component vectors for ALLEGRO_PRIM_TEX_COORD.

• Add a whole bunch of new ALLEGRO_PRIM_STORAGE values.

• Primitives addon was ignoring the filter settings of textures in the D3D backend.

Android port:

• Generate KEY_CHAR on Android.

• Add key constants for Android.

• Set target bitmap to display backuffer after program is resumed.

• Use different functions for OpenGL ES 1 and OpenGL ES 2 on Android.

iOS port:

• Support stencil buffer on iOS.

• Remove unnecessary autorelease pools. There was a crash when using Airplay that goes away without the pools.

• Make Airplay work the standard way most apps do unless the Allegro user explicitly creates a display on the second screen.

• Don’t autorotate displays other than device.

• Fix some threading and memory issues.

Raspberry Pi port:

• Allow for color size, depth and stencil sizes.

• Support al_show_mouse_cursor and al_hide_mouse_cursor. Disabled as it sometimes ends up stuck on the screen until reboot.

Examples:

• New examples: ex_prim_shader, ex_shader_target.

Other:

• Various documentation updates.

• Minor fixes and code refactoring.

Changes from 5.1.4 to 5.1.5 (January 2013)

The main developers this time were: Trent Gamblin, Elias Pschernig, Jon Rafkind, Peter Wang.

Ports:

• Initial port to Raspberry Pi by Trent Gamblin.

Core:

• Added an al_register_trace_handler function.

• Clean up logging subsystem at shutdown (muhkuh).

• Fix a problem with creating a display after Allegro is shut down then re-initialised on X11.

Displays:

• Fix crashes when resizing a WGL fullscreen window.

• Fix use of invalidated pointers in D3D driver when the first format fails.

• Fix bug where setting the mouse cursor had no effect when the mouse was captured (mouse button held down).

• Fix windows not having a minimise button when set to windowed state from fullscreen window state.

• Respect ALLEGRO_FRAMELESS flag properly when toggling from fullscreen window state to windowed state (Windows).

• Don’t generate DISPLAY_LOST events when resizing a fullscreen display.

• Fix al_set/get_window position on Windows so getting/setting to the same position continuosly doesn’t move the window. (Michael Swiger)

• Rename al_change_display_option to al_set_display_option.

• Add al_set_display_icons (plural), implemented for X11 and Windows.

• Add ALLEGRO_GTK_TOPLEVEL display flag for X11.

• Fix window resizing when using shaders (X11).

Graphics:

• Avoid null pointer dereference when setting a target bitmap after its video_texture has already been released (D3D).

• Make d3d_lock_region fail immediately if _al_d3d_sync_bitmap failed, likely because the device was lost.

• Set device_lost flag immediately when d3d_display_thread_proc finds the device is lost.

• Fix OpenGL extensions being completely ignored on OS X.

• Added a quick hack to fix bitmap locking on desktop OpenGL when using shaders.

Config:

• Added al_remove_config_key and al_remove_config_section functions.

File I/O:

• Fix al_read_directory crash on 64-bit Windows (simast).

Filesystem:

• Keep absolute path in ALLEGRO_FS_ENTRYs so that later changes to the current working directory do not affect the interpretation of the path.

• Set ALLEGRO_FILEMODE_HIDDEN properly on Unix.

• Make sure stat mode bits are cleared in default implementation of al_update_fs_entry.

• Support Unicode paths on Windows.

• Change description of al_get_fs_entry_name about not returning absolute path if created from relative path; no longer true for either the default or Physfs implementations.

Audio addons:

• Fix setting the speed of an audio stream after it was attached to the mixer (Paul Suntsov).

• Shut down threads properly when when destroying FLAC and modaudio streams.

Font addon:

• Avoid making x offset non-integral for ALLEGRO_ALIGN_CENTRE.

• Make al_draw_justified_* respect ALLEGRO_ALIGN_INTEGER.

TTF addon:

• Don’t save the projection transform if no display is set.

Image addon:

• Added a missing autorelease-pool to the OSX bitmap saving function (sleepywind).

• Fix OSX native image loader for loading not-premultiplied RGB data. Previously the data was “de-multiplied”, with possibly all information lost.

• Fix OSX native image loader for loading bitmaps without an alpha channel. They appeared completely black previously.

• Fixed loading interlaced .png files with libpng.

Native dialogs addon:

• Do not unload of rich edit module when closing one text log window while another exists. Reported by URB753.

• Use default colours for Windows text log implementation, avoiding problems when the previous custom colours failed, leading to black text on a nearly black background.

• Add al_shutdown_native_dialog_addon.

• Add native menu support on X11 (requires ALLEGRO_GTK_TOPLEVEL).

• Add native menu support on OS X.

PhysicsFS addon:

• Implement al_change_directory semantics (Todd Cope).

Primitives addon:

• Fixed textured primitives when using shaders (OpenGL).

Shader addon:

• Add dynamic loading of d3dx9_xx.dll (Michał Cichoń).

• Add dynamic loading of Cg DLLs (Michał Cichoń).

• Started implementing default shaders. Only GLSL so far.

• Fix null pointer dereference in al_create_shader if backend init fails.

Android port:

• Fix setting the current display on Android.

• Don’t set the backbuffer when setting up the OpenGL view.

Build system:

• Rename allegro*-5.1.pc files to allegro*-5.pc. The new names will be available in future 5.0.x releases.

• Generate and install allegro_shader pkg-config file.

• Only generate and install pkg-config files for libraries that we build.

Examples:

• ex_icon2: New example.

• ex_shader_multitex: New example.

• ex_shader: Choose shader platform on command-line; external shader sources.

• ex_menu: Various changes.

• speed: Avoid poor performance due to needless redraws.

Other:

• Documentation updates, many thanks to beoran.

• A lot of code refactoring.

Changes from 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 (October 2012)

The main developers this time were: Trent Gamblin, Elias Pschernig, Peter Wang.

Graphics:

• Fixed al_convert_bitmap using the target instead of the source format when converting its data.

• Fix a crash in Direct3D in al_set_target_bitmap when switching from a memory target.

• Fix a potential crash when drawing the screen to a bitmap with D3D.

• WGL shouldn’t need to preserve bitmaps.

• Update the projection transform when setting up the OpenGL context on X11 (SiegeLord).

• Lock bitmap to prevent slowness when creating a cursor from a non-memory bitmap on Windows.

• Conditionally lock bitmap when creating cursor on X11 (previously it did so even if already locked).

Input:

• Make al_install_touch_input fail under Windows if there is no touch device.

• Temporary fix for delay after mouse warp on OS X.

File I/O:

• Fix al_fputc on big-endian. Reported by Andreas Rönnquist and Tobias Hansen.

• Make al_fputc return value like fputc when out of range.

Image addon:

• gdiplus: Only preserve indexed images with KEEP_INDEX flag on.

Font addons:

• Added ALLEGRO_ALIGN_INTEGER text drawing flag (Todd Cope).

• Added a new al_get_font_ranges function.

• Made TTF addon include padding on the top and left edges of pages (Todd Cope).

Audio addon:

• Use programmatically generated interpolators. They cover an additional case which was missed and should be slightly more efficient.

• Support linear interpolation for 16-bit mixers.

• Add cubic interpolation for mixers (off by default).

• Fix potential deadlock in stop_voice for OpenAL.

• Fix potential deadlock in stop_voice for DirectSound.

• Improve buffer filling behaviour for DirectSound, reducing pops and crackles significantly on slower machines.

• Increase default buffer size for DirectSound to 8192 samples.

Android port:

• Support ALLEGRO_KEYBOARD_STATE.

• Fix return type of APK_tell (Todd Cope).

• Allow use of OpenGL ES 2 under Android.

iOS port:

• Make orientation changes work on iOS with SDK 6.

Build system:

• Rename native dialog library back to allegro_dialog to match 5.0.

• Install pkg-config files when cross-compiling on Unix.

Python:

• Make the Python wrapper also check for the monolith DLL.

Examples:

• ex_synth: Add button to save waveform to a file.

• ex_multisample: Demonstrate using moving bitmaps.

• Renamed a5teroids to Cosmic Protector

Other:

• Minor bug fixes and documentation updates.

Changes from 5.1.2 to 5.1.3 (August 2012)

The main developers this time were: Dennis Busch, Trent Gamblin, Elias Pschernig, Jon Rafkind, Paul Suntsov, Peter Wang.

Displays:

• Rewrite D3D display format listing code, which was broken. This should re-enable multi-sampling and fix ex_depth_mask being slow with D3D.

• Fixed a case where changing fullscreen mode in D3D via al_resize_display caused a crash and loss of loaded bitmaps information.

• Fixed a case where changing fullscreen mode in OpenGL (on Windows) via al_resize_display cause nothing to be rendered after the mode change.

• Fixed OpenGL (Windows) bitmap preservation between fullscreen mode changes.

• Fixed missing/incorrect resize events under Windows.

• Fixed ALLEGRO_FULLSCREEN_WINDOW under OS X.

• Fix al_set_new_display_adapter on OS X.

• Enable fullscreen icon on resizable windows on OS X 10.7 and up.

• Added al_osx_get_window function (Dennis Gooden).

Graphics:

• Rename al_ortho_transform to al_orthographic_transform and give it a more consistent parameter order.

• Add al_perspective_transform and al_translate|scale|rotate_transform_3d.

• al_draw_pixel was crashing when drawn on sub-bitmaps on OpenGL.

• Make ogl_flush_vertex_cache disable GL_TEXTURE_2D state.

• Don’t use NSOpenGLPFAAccelerated unnecessarily (OS X).

Input:

• Fix incorrect keyboard modifier flags after leaving and re-entering a window (Windows).

• Fixed a bug with mouse enter/leave events for resized windows under OSX (Dennis Gooden).

Audio addon:

• Add OpenSL ES driver for Android.

Font addons:

• Add builtin font creation function.

• Preserve projection transformation when caching glyphs in the TTF addon.

Image addon:

• Don’t include native image loader source files when the native image loaders are disabled.

Primitives addon:

• Add vertex buffer API.

Native dialogs addon:

• Run NSAlert on the main thread (OS X).

Android port:

• Many bug and compatibility fixes.

• Support al_inhibit_screensaver on Android.

• Generate SWITCH_IN/OUT events on Android similar to iOS.

• Support render state API on Android.

• Make al_acknowledge_drawing_resume take a user callback parameter for interdependant textures.

• Support building Android port for x86.

• Add an ANDROID_APP_NAME CMake variable which will replace all org/liballeg/app and org_liballeg_app with your own app name

Build system:

• Make the monolith dll under Windows use proper dll exports with MSVC.

• Properly include the main addon in the monolith build.

• Add Physfs and Cg include directories.

Examples:

• Added new examples: ex_projection, ex_vertex_buffer.

Other:

• Documented the allegro_main addon.

• Various minor bug fixes and cleanups.

Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 (May 2012)

The main developers this time were: Thomas Fjellstrom, Trent Gamblin, Elias Pschernig, Peter Wang.

Core:

• Add userdata to Windows window callbacks and rename the functions (Matthew Leverton).

• Fix ALLEGRO_STATIC_ASSERT collisions from different files included in the same translation unit. Reported by tobing.

• Make al_ustr_empty_string const correct.

• Fix many memory leak/warnings on MacOS X (Pär Arvidsson).

Filesystem:

• Make stdio al_fopen implementation set proper errno on failure.

• Make al_get_standard_path(ALLEGRO_TEMP_PATH) treat environment values as directory names even without a trailing slash on Unix.

• Fix typo preventing get_executable_name from using System V procfs correctly. Reported by Max Savenkov.

Displays:

• Fixed bug on Windows where two SWITCH_IN events were fired when window was minimized/restored (Michael Swiger).

• Fixed inverted al_toggle_display_flag(ALLEGRO_NOFRAME) logic under Windows as well as a bug where repeatedly setting the flag to on would make the window grow bigger and bigger (Michael Swiger).

• Fixed inverted al_toggle_display_flag(ALLEGRO_NOFRAME) logic in X11.

• Rename al_toggle_display_flag to al_set_display_flag, retaining the older name for compatibility.

• Add ALLEGRO_FRAMELESS as a preferred synonym for the confusing ALLEGRO_NOFRAME flag.

• Set WM_NAME for some window managers (X11).

• Disable the idle timer on iOS (screen lock) when entering airplay mode.

• Make al_destroy_display handle display disconnection properly. The user will need to clean up then call al_destroy_display after receiving ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_DISCONNECTED (iOS).

Graphics:

• Added al_get_parent_bitmap (Paul Suntsov).

• Make blitting from backbuffer work when using multisampling on Windows/D3D.

• Redefine pixel format LUMINANCE_8 as SINGLE_CHANNEL_8.

• Map SINGLE_CHANNEL_8 to red channel only. Fix some software pixel format conversion bugs previously present with the LUMINANCE_8 format.

• Added al_create_custom_bitmap.

• Remove ALLEGRO_PRESERVE_TEXTURE flag. The idea is to always preserve textures unless directed otherwise by the user with ALLEGRO_NO_PRESERVE_TEXTURE.

• Added al_clear_depth_buffer and al_set_render_state functions.

• Force al_create_bitmap to not create oversized bitmaps, to mitigate integer overflow problems.

• Removed initial black frame on all Allegro programs.

OpenGL:

• Fix null pointer dereference if backbuffer creation fails. Reported by Max Savenkov.

• Made the ALLEGRO_OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPATIBLE flag work with al_draw_bitmap.

• Texture should be ‘complete’ (min/mag and wrap set) before glTexImage2D.

• Restore matrix manipulation code for unlocking backbuffer in GL <1.4 case.

• Fixed a bug in al_unlock_bitmap where the pixel alignment mistakenly was used as row length.

• Never set the projection when using programmable pipeline mode unless a program object is bound.

• Do not preserve bound texture state.

• Disable GL_NORMAL_ARRAY in non-programmable pipeline mode.

• Fixed typo in names of some OpenGL extension functions.

• Display list of OpenGL extensions in allegro.log also for OpenGL 3.0.

• Check for OES_texture_npot as well for non-power-of-two support.

• Fix loading of some textures on iOS.

Direct3D:

• Fixed a bug in the D3D driver where separate alpha blending was being tested for when it shouldn’t have been (Max Savenkov).

• Do not manage depth stencil surface.

• Arrange code so that sleep and hibernate work using the release and restore callbacks.

• Fix device reset problem in D3D.

• Make sub-bitmap restore properly on lost device.

Input:

• Increase max number of joystick “sticks”. Due to analogue buttons being mapped to axes, the number of sticks on a single device may be much higher than expected.

• Monitor /dev/input instead of /dev on Linux for hotplugging joysticks (Jon Rafkind).

• Do not permanently change the locale for the X11 keyboard driver. Set LC_CTYPE only, not LC_ALL.

• Update ALLEGRO_MOUSE_STATE even if mouse emulation event source isn’t attached to an event queue (Android and iOS).

• Don’t report shakes at program start accidentally (iOS).

Android port:

• Many graphics-related changes (too many to list).

• Make Android port always choose a double buffered graphics mode.

• Don’t force 16-bit mode if no COLOR_SIZE specified.

• Go fullscreen (no title/status bar).

• Generate ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_HALT_DRAWING, RESUME_DRAWING events instead of SWITCH_IN/OUT.

• Add an APK file driver for reading assets directly from Android app bundles.

• Additions and fixes to accelerometer and orientation code.

• Support for volume keys.

• Added a dummy mouse driver, enough to get al_get_mouse_state working.

• Improve compatibility of touch input emulation driver with iOS touch input emulation.

• Add al_android_get_os_version().

• Fix linking problem on Android 2.2 and below.

• Update and clean up sample project.

Audio addon:

• Fix desychronization due to inaccurate sample positions when resampling. Thanks to _Bnu for discovering the issue and Paul Suntsov for devising the correct solution.

• Fix linear interpolation across audio stream buffer fragments.

• Add stub OpenSL driver (Jon Rafkind).

Image addon:

• Improved accuracy of un-alpha-premultiplying in the native OSX bitmap loader.

• Improve compatibility of BMP loader. In particular, support bitmaps with V2-V5 headers and certain alpha bit masks.

• Improve robustness of BMP loader against some corrupt files.

• Fix TGA loader using more memory than necessary. Reported by Max Savenkov.

• Image loading in Android now works.

Font addon:

• Use user set pixel format for fonts.

TTF addon:

• Added ALLEGRO_TTF_NO_AUTOHINT font loading flag to disable the Auto Hinter which is enabled by default in newer version of FreeType (Michał Cichoń).

• Unlock glyph cache page at end of text_length and get_text_dimensions (jmasterx).

Primitives addon:

• Use GL_REPEAT so textures can be tiled again.

• Always set the texture due to missing glGetInteger on some GLES 1.0/1.1 devices.

Native dialogs addon:

• Only call SetMenu from within the window thread (Matthew Leverton).

• Clear mouse state after dialogs or else it gets messed up (OSX).

• Fix some warnings in gtk_dialog.c.

Build system:

• Added OSX Framework support for the monolith library.

• Make examples build with monolith build.

• Add WANT_ANDROID_LEGACY to allow compiling for older Android platforms.

Examples:

• a5teroids: Added high scores and other improvements. New graphics by Tony Huisman.

• Add ex_file_slice.

• Add ex_resample_test.

• Add ex_depth_mask.

• ex_audio_props: Add bidir button.

• ex_joystick_events: Support hotplugging and fix display of 3-axis sticks.

• ex_polygon: Test al_draw_filled_polygon_with_holes.

• ex_get_path: Test al_set_exe_name.

• Made the skater demo run from within xcode.

• Add test_driver –no-display flag. (Tobias Hansen)

• Add test_driver –force-opengl-2.0 option.

• Make .png and .tga loading tests to not require a backbuffer with an alpha channel.

Other:

• Many minor bug fixes.

• Many documentation updates.

• Fix whatis entries of man pages. (Tobias Hansen)

Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1 (February 2012)

The main developers were: Thomas Fjellstrom, Trent Gamblin, Matthew Leverton, Elias Pschernig, Jon Rafkind, Peter Wang.

Ports:

• Thomas Fjellstrom started an Android port. Displays, keys and touch events work.

Core:

• Make al_ref_cstr, al_ref_ustr and al_ref_buffer return const ALLEGRO_USTR instead of just an ALLEGRO_USTR (Paul Suntsov).

Graphics:

• Fixed a bug in the OpenGL driver when drawing the backbuffer outside the clipping rectangle of the target bitmap.

Displays:

• Fixed a problem with wrong window size when restoring a minimised window, in code that was added to support window constraints (jmasterx).

• Set ALLEGRO_MINIMIZED display flag on Windows (Zac Evans).

• Prevent a deadlock during display creation on X.

• Fallback to the ‘old’ visual selection method on X instead of crashing if the ‘new’ visual selection doesn’t work.

• Implement XEmbed protocol.

• Add hot plug display support on iOS (Airplay and wired.)

Input:

• Use the same logic in set_mouse_xy for FULLSCREEN_WINDOW as was used for FULLSCREEN. (Max OS X)

Audio addons:

• Add audio recording API with implementations for ALSA, AudioQueue, DirectSound8 and PulseAudio.

• Improve code to check that DLL symbols are loaded in the acodec addon. The old method was hacky and broke under -O2 using GCC 4.6.1. (Paul Suntsov)

Image addon:

• Some initial Android support.

• Write libjpeg errors to Allegro log.

TTF addon:

• Clear locked region so pixel borders aren’t random garbage that can be seen sometimes with linear filtering on.

Video addon:

• Added Ogg Theora/Vorbis backend.

• Fixed a few warnings with ffmpeg version 0.7/0.8.

Build system:

• Add monolith library option.

• Detect the new MinGW cross-compiler in Ubuntu.

Examples:

• Added new examples: ex_record, ex_record_name, ex_display_events.

• ex_ogre3d: Make it work under Windows (AMCerasoli).

• skater: small bug fixes, mouse support, add missing files for scrollers.

• a5teroids: Support gamepads that report small non-zero values for sticks that are at rest.

• Added pong example in Python.

Other:

• Added index to HTML version of the reference manual.

• Various documentation updates.

• Other minor bug fixes.

Changes from 5.0.x to 5.1.0 (November 2011)

The main developers were: Michał Cichoń, Trent Gamblin, Matthew Leverton, Elias Pschernig, Paul Suntsov, Peter Wang.

Core:

• Added al_register_assert_handler.

• Added API for registering callbacks to intercept window messages on Windows.

Graphics:

• Added bitmap conversion API: al_convert_bitmap, al_convert_bitmaps, with bitmap flag ALLEGRO_CONVERT_BITMAP and display option ALLEGRO_AUTO_CONVERT_BITMAPS. Automatic bitmap conversion is enabled by default.

• Added al_draw_tinted_scaled_rotated_bitmap_region.

• Added new ALLEGRO_PIXEL_FORMAT_LUMINANCE_8 format.

• Added a new bitmap flag ALLEGRO_KEEP_INDEX.

• Separate bitmap loader flags from bitmap flags. This adds three functions: al_load_bitmap_flags, al_load_bitmap_flags_f and al_load_bitmap_font_flags.

• Add ALLEGRO_SRC_COLOR, ALLEGRO_DST_COLOR blending modes (Jon Rafkind).

• Add ALLEGRO_INVERSE_SRC_COLOR and ALLEGRO_INVERSE_DST_COLOR blending modes.

• Made al_compose_transform do a full 3d multiply.

• Added al_get_current_inverse_transform, al_ortho_transform, al_get_projection_transform, al_set_projection_transform.

• Added al_reset_clipping_rectangle convenience function.

• Added al_get_d3d_texture_size.

• Added al_d3d_set_release_callback and al_d3d_set_restore_callback for release/restoring user d3d objects.

Displays:

• Added al_get_display_orientation.

• Added a new display option ALLEGRO_SUPPORTED_ORIENTATIONS to specify the supported orientations (default is just portrait as before).

• Added al_change_display_option function, initially only for ALLEGRO_SUPPORTED_ORIENTATIONS.

• Add two new display events (only implemented on iOS right now). ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_HALT_DRAWING tells the app to stop all drawing and ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_RESUME_DRAWING tells it it can start drawing again. SWITCH_OUT/IN on iOS were redefined from “going into/out of background” to “going active/inactive”.

• Added the function al_acknowledge_drawing_halt.

• Added window size constraint functions (jmasterx).

Input:

• Add API related to touch input. The implementation covers iDevices and Windows 7 drivers for touch input. A number of mouse emulation modes are provided.

Events:

• Add al_pause_event_queue, al_is_event_queue_paused.

Filesystem:

• Added al_fopen_slice.

• Added al_set_exe_name which allows overriding Allegro’s idea of the path to the current executable.

Audio addon:

• Add mixer gain property and functions.

• Add a ‘global’ audio event source, generating some audio events from the Audio Queues driver: AUDIO_ROUTE_CHANGE, AUDIO_INTERRUPTION, AUDIO_END_INTERRUPTION.

Native dialogs addon:

• Add menus to native dialogs (Windows and GTK).

Primitives addon:

• Add simple polygon triangulator and polygon drawing routines.

• Added al_draw_polyline and al_draw_polyline_ex.

• Added al_draw_filled_pieslice and al_draw_pieslice.

• Added al_draw_elliptical_arc.

TTF addon:

• Added al_load_ttf_font_stretch functions (tobing).

Shader addon:

• Added a shader addon and programmable pipeline support.

Video addon:

• Added a video player addon, currently using ffmpeg.

iOS port:

• Added al_iphone_override_screen_scale, al_iphone_get_screen_scale, al_iphone_set_statusbar_orientation, al_iphone_get_last_shake_time, al_iphone_get_battery_level, al_iphone_get_window, al_iphone_get_view.

Examples:

• Added new example programs: ex_audio_chain, ex_loading_thread, ex_menu, ex_palette, ex_polygon, ex_shader, ex_window_constraints, ex_video.

• Added skater demo ported from Allegro 4.4.