Our v2.8.0 release is huge! Lots of new canvas objects, Scheduled Notifications, Linux Wayland testing of Accessibility.
Also enhanced Form and RichText capabilities, more hardware acceleration and more APIs than we can count.
Added
- New canvas objects: ArbitraryPolygon, BezierCurve, Blur, Ellipse & Shader (and NewShaderAnimation)
- Hardware accelerated shadow support for various canvas elements
- Add scheduled notifications API
- Adding Required support to FormItem and Validation to Form
- New RichText types and Markdown support to load tables, checkboxes & strikethrough
- Adding accessibility support (currently off by default, use -tags accessibility to test)
- New support for working with secondary monitors (for fullscreen additional content)
- Add new Cache API for temporary resources, and new CacheResourceFromURLString helper
- Add more requests to desktop Window - Always on Top and Position
- Support for multi-touch drag reporting in mobile driver
- Added APIs for window stacking of internal windows
- Support for underline and strikethrough text
- Add HighlightItem API to collection widgets
- Secondary cut/copy/paste shortcuts for Unix systems
- New sizes and colors in theme to support features
- Added new diagonal resize cursors for desktop
Changed
- Fyne now requires Go 1.22 as a minimum version, as a result we no longer support windows 7 or 8 and macOS 10.14 or earlier.
- Wayland is now supported by default and will automatically be picked at runtime
- Circle canvas object is now always a circle filling centrally in the space
- Popups (modal and regular) no longer include padding by default
- Canvas Polygon renamed to RegularPolygon
- Follow macOS system setting for scroll bar visibility
- Handle nested lists and quotes in Markdown renderer
- AppTabs on mobile render with smaller icons and text, in-keeping with the platform
- Upgrades to RichText rendering and performance including clearer code blocks
- Apps that have not migrated to the fyne.Do thread handling will warn on app launch
Fixed
- Increase thread warnings for 2.8 release prep (#6255)
- Open tree branches when scrolling
- Fix the Android status bar theming (#1442)
- Android: Fix canListContentURI (#6119)
- Fix strange wrapping which results in one char per line (#4303)
- Android: Allow listContentURI to list content of a subfolder
- Fix issue with window placement and fullscreen for macOS 26
- Markdown: Support nested block quotes (#6311, #6297)
- Clarify the size / resize and position of popups. (#6290)
- show a static ellipsis on Activity when animations are disabled (#5252)
- Mobile: Don't let horizontally draggable block vertical dragging (#6158)
- Reset label selection on text change (#6277)
- lang: avoid resolving unrelated languages by script similarity (#6176)
- fix animation progress when duration changes mid-run (#5970
- Prevent multiline Entry long lines from rendering as black boxes (#678)
- And over 150 other fixes and performance improvements!
New Contributors
- @coolapso made their first contribution in #5961
- @marco-m made their first contribution in #6074
- @turtletowerz made their first contribution in #6064
- @benoitkugler made their first contribution in #6098
- @MaxGyver83 made their first contribution in #6115
- @typenoob made their first contribution in #6155
- @Scottcjn made their first contribution in #6267
- @Vinayak9769 made their first contribution in #6299
- @aynakeya made their first contribution in #6309
- @partyzanex made their first contribution in #6305
- @drunlade made their first contribution in #6320
- @GraysonTinker made their first contribution in #6332
- @laszukdawid made their first contribution in #6335
- @bilkoua made their first contribution in #6279
- @mohsenm4 made their first contribution in #6317
- @AJ0070 made their first contribution in #6363
Full Changelog: v2.7.4...v2.8.0