0.8.0 (March 9, 2018)

Performance improvements.

Major Changes

• Updated to three.js r90.
• Ability to update three.js Object3D position, rotation, scale, and visible directly while being in sync with A-Frame. (#3245)
• Bubble object3dset and object3dremove events no longer bubble. (#3220)
• Raycaster intersection and cleared events now emitted once per event, not on every frame. (#3126)
• Remove VREffect / VRControls for three.js WebGLRenderer API. VR camera pose is managed by three.js. (#3152, #3327)
• Removed geometry.mergeTo. (#3191)
• Removed State mixins. addState and removeState event detail modified to be the state name, not object. (#3171)
• Removed Scene.reload() (#2239)

Deprecations

• Entity.getOrCreateObject3D. (#3222)

Fixes

• Clone object type properties into oldData to fix update method not called on referenced objects. (#3409)
• Fix matrix composition when updating pose for controllers. (#3407)
• Fix component update getting overridden by mixin due to not passing in the whole attrValue into buildData. (#3302)
• Remove a-canvas z-index. (#3391)
• Fix parameters passed to the onButtonEvent function for Windows MR. (#3372)
• Fix black texture issue with a-sky and a-videosphere components with three r89. (#3370)
• Fix material array handling in shadow component. (#3348)
• Postpone the resize operation in iOS to ensure that the window size matches the viewport on orientation changes. (fix #3282) (#3306)
• Fix utils.entity.getComponentPropertyPath if defaultLightsEnabled not defined
• Look-controls don't read HMD position if no headset connected. (#3286)
• Fix raycaster direction. (#3239)
• Fix raycaster line update that wasn't triggered anymore. (#3124)
• Fix data from dom not parsed if skipTypeChecking. (#3153)
• Clone default array property type. (#3095)
• Fix Gear VR buttons highlighting. (#3103)
• Do not resize the canvas while presenting on mobile (#3080)
• Flipped the sign on sampleUV.x in the portal shader used by the link component (#3079)

Enhancements

• Add spectator camera mode and spectator scene component. (#3280)
• Support Pointer Lock API. (#3341)
• Allow mixin composition. (#3305)
• Add a background component for better performant plain color backgrounds than <a-sky>. (#2908)
• Use MutationObserver and object3dset and object3dremove events to refresh raycaster list. (#3070)
• Allow specify container for pool component. (#3392)
• Expose raycaster.intersections array. (#3289)
• Remove cameraRig on setupDefaultCamera. (#3364)
• Add metalnessMap and roughnessMap. (#2722)
• Add spectator camera mode to the camera component and spectator scene component. (#3280)
• Add transparent flag to be able to define transparent backgrounds. (#3320)
• Improve function names in debugger call stacks. (#3310)
• Allow removal of mixed-in components. (#3275)
• Add xOffset option to allow text padding. (#3269)
• Allow disable shadow map auto update, fix shadow system init. (#3214)
• Use component event handlers insted of bound a-scene methods. (#3213)
• Support sources in video. (#3176)
• Make camera system aware of mixins. (#3196)
• Remove everGotGamepadEvent flag and gamepadconnected / gamepaddisconnected. (#3189)
• Register cursor event listeners on canvas, not window. (#3179)
• Do not update style.width and style.height on renderer resize to not override styles applied externally. (#3184)
• Factor out onButtonEvent method from controllers. (#3169)
• Add raycaster.enabled property to toggle tick handler. (#3148)
• Have camera call enter VR handler if scene already entered VR with display activate. (#3149)
• String-trim primitive attribute values. (#3145)
• Add customizeable colors to link portal and title. (#3106)
• Adapt cursor onMouseMove to also accept touchmove events. (#3143)

Performance

• Save array creations on each raycaster update. (#3317)
• Optimize event emit. (#3308)
• Throttle updateControllerList while keeping getGamepads call. (#3112)
• Get rid of some string split operations. (#3316)
• Default the raycaster interval/throttle to 0. (#3293)
• Have getAttribute(visible) return object3D.visible directly. (#3283)
• Optimize aframe.utils.diff. (#3271)
• Raycaster fixes and performance improvements. (#3250)
• Remove garbage for addBehavior/removeBehavior. (#3217)
• Reduce garbage in axismove in tracked-controls. (#3185)
• Prevent component leakage in updateComponents (#3212)
• Cache font image textures for text component (#3158)
• Remove two array allocations per deepEqual call (#3115)
• Reduce Object.keys usage in core/schema (#3117)
• Save object allocation on look-controls.calculateDeltaRotation (#3116)