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latest release: 2.6.1
10 months ago

After 5.5 years, we're proud to announce a new and massive SFML release. Over the past few years a lot has changed code-wise, in the team, in the community, and also with the roadmap of SFML. We would like to thank every single one of our contributors, who helped make this release - check the lengthy list at the bottom. Thank You!

It's important to note, that this will be the final SFML 2.x release. We will provide fixes for critical issues as patch releases (e.g. 2.6.1), but all the other development efforts are focused on SFML 3. For more details and future discussions, see the Roadmap.

Highlights

  • ⌨️ Support for Scancodes
  • 🗔 Create windows without OpenGL context
  • 🪟 Create windows with a Vulkan context
  • 💻 SFML supports ARM64 on macOS, i.e. M1 and M2 chipsets
  • 🧪 Unit testing foundation has been created

Changelog

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.6.0

General

System

Features

  • [Android] Simplify management of ActivityStates (#1845)

Bugfixes

  • [Windows] Fix overflow when using sf::Clock for long time (#1765, #1771)

Window

Features

  • Allow creation of a window without an OpenGL context (#1484)
  • Dynamically load EGL and GLES extensions as is done for desktop GL (#1539, #1577, #1603, #2157, #2160)
  • Add support for creating Vulkan window surfaces (#1557)
  • Scancode support (#1235, #1400, #1596, #2009, #2096, #2148, #2243)
  • [Linux] Add support for colored cursors in Unix implementation (#1693, #1694)
  • [Linux] Added support for directional arrow resize cursors on Linux (#1688)
  • [Linux] Add support for X Input Method (#1840, #1850, #2191, #2242)
  • [Linux] Add support for Direct Rendering Mode (DRM) / Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) (#2029, #2146, #2246, #2259, #2400)
  • [Windows] Use monitor aware DPI scaling on Windows (#2268)

Bugfixes

  • Fix sf::Context::getActiveContext to stop returning inactive contexts (#1794)
  • [Linux] Fixed crash with X11 when $DISPLAY is not 0.0 (#724, #1504)
  • [Android] Ensure setActive(false) is called before the surface is destroyed in EglContext (#1530, #1531)
  • [Android] Fixed EGL incorrectly being passed the anti-aliasing level as EGL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS instead of EGL_SAMPLES (#1533, #1534)
  • [Linux] Fix OpenGL extensions not loading in a specific Linux VM configuration (#1495, #1543)
  • [Windows] Fixed potential buffer overrun in Win32 OpenGL error handling (#1245, #1246)
  • [Windows] Fix no longer hides cursor when hovering title bar (#1569, #1570)
  • [macOS] Initialize m_context correctly in SFContext constructors (#1582, #1610)
  • [Android] Fixed navigation bar not being entirely hidden on Android (#1538, #1554)
  • [Windows] Make the process to set a DirectInput device's axis mode more conservative (#1634)
  • [Linux] Fix an issue where the cursor wasn't changed instantaneously (#1686)
  • [Windows] Fix issue where joystick/controller POV values were not set correctly for DirectInput devices (#1719)
  • [Android] Fix warning: control may reach end of non-void function (#1713)
  • [Windows] Fixed Win32 requestFocus in multi-threaded environment (#1600)
  • [Android] Fix issue where EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY is NULL (#1639, #1740)
  • [macOS] When initializing an OpenGL view with an existing window, call finishInit (#1759, #1760)
  • [macOS] Fix potential crash when changing cursor (#1721, #1736)
  • [Android] Fixed SIGSEGV after pressing back button on Android (#531, #1580)
  • [Android] Fix issue with waitEvent and an OpenGL Context (#1532, #1790)
  • [iOS] Fix issue where OpenGL ES libraries couldn't be located (#1687, #1804)
  • [macOS] Fix issue where window wouldn't be closing because of events still being processed (#1581, #1814)
  • [Windows] Preserve the drop shadow for system cursors on Windows (#1731)
  • [Windows] Use GetWindowLongPtr for better overall compatibility (#1806)
  • [macOS] Ensure proper nesting of autorelease pools on OS X (#1549, #1820)
  • [Linux] Fix typo in window construction (#1951, #1953)
  • [Linux] Prevent crash in Unix JoystickImpl with too many file descriptors (#1900, #1941)

Graphics

Features

  • Allow re-creation of the shared context as a core context if the user requests a core profile context (#1434, #1443)
  • Added getPosition() and getSize() to sf::Rect (#1047)
  • Added Font::hasGlyph field (#1644)
  • Implemented saveToMemory and saveImageToMemory (#988, #1597, #1669)
  • Implement smoothing for fonts (#1690, #2064, #2072)
  • Add Min and Max blend modes (#1710, #1756)
  • Support geometry shaders when a OpenGL 3.2+ context is available (#1768, #1769, #1786, #1789)
  • Align encodings for new line characters (#2107)
  • Update stb_image to 2.28, thus adding support for more image formats (#1712, #2322, #2464)
  • [macOS] Improve high DPI handling on macOS (#1817)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed missing checks for empty vertex arrays when updating the vertex buffers in sf::Text (#1558, #1560)
  • Remove unnecessary glFlush() in sf::Texture (#1609)
  • Fixed text rendering artifacts on Radeon cards (#1568)
  • Force OpenGL states to be reset when RenderTarget detects that a new context has to be tracked (#1625, #1630)
  • Don't set default Texture Rect of a sf::Sprite before the user provided one (#1725)
  • Added auto hinting compensation to fix too wide gaps between small glyphs (#1745, #1746)
  • Fix support for sRGB color space in sf::RenderTexture (#1092, #1757)
  • Fix incorrect glyph rect for text outline (#1826, #1827, #1836)
  • Fix alpha value calculation for semi-transparent pixels on fully transparent pixels with sf::Image::copy() (#1993)
  • Fix getLocalBounds inconsistency for sf::Text (#2129, #2132)
  • [iOS] Ensure the proper default framebuffer is bound when activating a RenderWindow (#1471, #1487)

Audio

Features

  • Allow explicitly closing sf::InputSoundFile (#1516)
  • Replace use of auto_ptr for future-proofing (#1546)
  • Adjustable processing interval in sf::SoundStream (#1517, #1666)
  • Fix sf::Music sometimes failing to loop after seeking (#1707)
  • Add MP3 decoding support (#1232, #1796, #1851)

Bugfixes

  • Rename FindVorbis -> FindVORBIS, for consistency with exported variables (#1626, #1629)
  • Fix naming of VORBIS in SFMLConfigDependencies.cmake.in (#1636, #1637)
  • Fixed copy assign operator in sf::Sound so it checks for self-assignment (#1744)
  • Fix SoundStream::play to restart the sound if it was played before (#2175)

Networking

Features

  • Added method to get the current read position of sf::Packet (#1382, #1641)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed sometimes failing to read floats and doubles from Packet on Android (#1565, #1578)

Contributors

Thank You! 🎉

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