Changes from 5.2.9.1 to 5.2.10 (November 2024)

Core

• Add a compatibility config option, keyboard_version=xx.yy.zz as well as the
  same but with joystick_version if it is necessary to restore the old
  behavior. This enables us to fix bugs with the input system, while providing
  a mechanism to restore old buggy behavior temporarily (SiegeLord)

• Assorted timer improvements (Connor Clark)

• Optimize inverse transformations. (SiegeLord)

• Fix the handling of the new window title in ALLEGRO_STATE (#1562)
  (Alexandre Martins)

• Add ALLEGRO_TRACE_LEVEL environment variable. This makes it easier to
  enable logging on release builds. (SiegeLord)

• Add al_ref_info to convert ALLEGRO_USTR_INFO to ALLEGRO_USTR
  (SiegeLord)

• Add al_get_display_adapter (#1578) (SiegeLord)

• Add al_get_render_state (Mark Oates)

MacOS

• Don't use usage numbers as joystick button ids on OSX. (#1527) (SiegeLord)

• Enable deadkey handling on MacOS (SiegeLord).

• Map numpad delete to ALLEGRO_KEY_PAD_DELETE and the weird ISO section key
  to ALLEGRO_KEY_BACKSLASH2 (#1523) (SiegeLord)

Windows

• Fix key events when using modifiers (#1430, #1504) (SiegeLord)

• Fix undesirable deadzone when using analog joysticks (geecab)

• Use the correct monitor when restoring fullscreen window when using OpenGL
  (SiegeLord)

• Fix ALLEGRO_FULLSCREEN_WINDOW not working in certain conditions (SiegeLord)

Linux

• Fix joystick initialization when overriding IO (#1572) (Alexandre Martins)

• Make sure the bitmap for the initial icon is created as a memory bitmap
  (#1571) (SiegeLord)

Android

• Add more joystick buttons (#1482) (Alexandre Martins)

• Fix corruption of bitmaps created with the ALLEGRO_NO_PRESERVE_TEXTURE flag
  when the application loses focus (#1492) (Alexandre Martins)

• Fix a concurrency issue related to al_acknowledge_drawing_halt (Alexandre Martins)

• Add al_android_open_fd (Alexandre Martins)

• Assorted improvements (Alexandre Martins)

iPhone:

• Fix build (Todd Cope)

Audio addon:

• Add MacOS support for listing output devices (Aldrik Ramaekers)

Acodec addon:

• Prefill ALLEGRO_AUDIO_STREAMs with data (SiegeLord)

• Add OpenMPT support. This is meant to replace DUMB, as DUMB is not
  maintained. You can use the compatibility config option acodec_prefer_dumb
  to temporarily make DUMB the preferred handler for module files, if Allegro
  is built with both DUMB and OpenMPT. Some modules may sound different under
  OpenMPT. (SiegeLord)

Native dialog addon:

• Add Android support (Alexandre Martins)

• Auto-scroll the native textlog on MacOS (SiegeLord)

• Fix monospace fonts on MacOS in the native textlog (SiegeLord)

• Improve the patterns arg in al_create_native_file_dialog (SiegeLord)

  • Support for multiple pattern sets (Windows/Linux)
  • Supports for custom pattern set descriptions (Windows/Linux)
  • Support for MIME types on MacOS
  • Remove the implicit catch-all pattern on Windows (the "All files
    ."), it was inconsistent with other platforms.
  • Make MacOS do a better job at extracting the file extension
  • Improve documentation overall

Video addon:

• Make al_is_video_playing return false before al_start_video (SiegeLord)

• Make ALLEGRO_VIDEO work with the automatic destruction system (SiegeLord)

Build system:

• Reproducible build support (Andreas Rönnquist)

• Fix multiarch install location (Andreas Rönnquist)

Examples:

• Remove VLAs to improve Visual Studio support (Jeff Linahan, SiegeLord)

• Fix opaque black background pixels in explosion sprites in the Shooter demo
  (tstoeter)