Changelog

SFML 2.5.0

Replaced FindSFML.cmake with SFMLConfig.cmake (#1335)
Markdown'd and updated readme, changelog, contributing and license files (#1196, #1368, #1317)
Improve packaging support (#1173)
Added Tagfile generation and search (#1327)
Added CMake variables to select the modules to be built (#798, #800)
Do not install extlibs if SFML_USE_SYSTEM_DEPS is true (#1236, #1237)
Fixed various type conversion/comparison warnings (#1325)
[Android] Increased minimum API version to 14 (#1362)
[Android] Removed custom toolchain and added support for the newest NDK version and Gradle (#1350, #1393)
[iOS] Updated the binary libs from exlibs/libs-ios (#1207, #1209)
[iOS] Use a CMake toolchain file for iOS build (#1268, #1269)
[iOS] Install extlibs if needed (#1348)
[iOS] Drop 32 bit support (#1374)
[iOS] Force correct iOS architecture for cmake (#1373, #1377)
[iOS] Added iOS example (#1378)
[macOS] Fixed launch of cocoa examples (#1334)
[macOS] Improved application signing process (#1020, #1036, #1194)
[macOS] Improved CMake script (#1215, #1371)
[macOS] Use -stdlib=libc++ (#1361)
[OpenBSD] Added support for OpenBSD (#1330)

Bugfixes

Added protected destructor to sf::NonCopyable to prevent possible resource leaks (#1125, #1161)
Fixed crash when sf::Clock is constructed in a global scope (#1258)

Features

Implemented Cursor API (#269, #784, #827)
Implemented Clipboard API (#715, #1204, #1221)
Renamed a few key codes (#1395)
Added joystick example (#1363)
[Windows] Added support for interfacing with joysticks via DirectInput when it is available (#1251, #1326)
[Windows] Fix discrete GPU preference symbols being exported from the wrong place (#1192, #1406)

Bugfixes

[Android] Return correct key code for delete/backspace (#1309, #1362)
[iOS] Don't need to find vorbisfile or vorbisenc (#1347)
[Linux] Fixed sf::Window::getPosition() returning incorrect position because of differences in window managers (#1228, #1266)
[Linux] Fix X11 key repeat handling not filtering out events from other windows (#1223, #1230, #1291)
[Linux] Restore fullscreen of a non-visible window (#1339)
[macOS] Fixed window menu not working (#1091, #1180, #1193)
[macOS] Fixed crash with application messing hardware detection e.g. TeamViewer (#1323)
[macOS] Added support for (some) Hat/POV axis (#1248)
[Windows] Prevent uninitialized read by zeroing memory (#1264)
[Windows] Fixed modifier keys handling (#1357)

Features

Implemented additional line spacing and letter spacing in sf::Text (#928, #1366)
Added sf::VertexBuffer class (#1308)
Added GPU local texture copying support, allowing performance optimizations and texture swapping (#1119, #1319, #1320)
Optimize performance by skipping glTexCoordPointer() call if not needed (#1015)
Generate shape outline vertices only if necessary (#925, #1356)
Removed dependency to libjpeg, stb_image_write now supports writing JPEG files (#1278, #1279)
Enable comparing sf::Transform and optimize resetting OpenGL back to the identity matrix (#1298)
Added missing setActive() virtual method to sf::RenderTarget (#1157)
Updated stb_image to v2.16 and stb_image_write to v1.07 (#1270)
Added sf::RenderTexture stencil and multisampling support (#1274, #1285)
Added example demonstrating sf::VertexBuffer, sf::Shader and sf::Thread usage (#1352)
Optimized sf::RenderTexture performance (#1379)

Bugfixes

Properly free memory in sf::Font::cleanup() (#1119)
Fixed memory leak in sf::Font (#1216)
Fix OpenGL texture coordinate pointer not being updated correctly under certain conditions (#1297)
Fix for broken text when the font is reloaded (#1345)
Fix memory leak in sf::Text (#1233, #1360)
Fixed strict aliasing punning warning when generating the key of a glyph in Font.cpp (#1187, #1396)
Fixed OpenGL version string being parsed incorrectly on some platforms (#1249, #1390)
[macOS] Worked around render target bug (#1132, #1342)
[Windows] Replaced time-based joystick poll with a hardware event handler (#1179, #1195, #1198, #1199, #1421)

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