Changes from 5.2.10.1 to 5.2.11 (November 2025)

Core

• Remove tabs and trailing spaces from source files (SiegeLord)
• Disable DebugOutputString on windows for logs by default (#1548) (SiegeLord)
• Fixed initialization of the resize event thread when calling al_init after al_uninstall_system (Kevin Wellwood)
• Add "gamepad" support. This uses the community sourced SDL controller database. See ex_joystick_events for how to use this. (SiegeLord)
• Fix assorted issues with joystick hotplugging (SiegeLord)
• Add locks to avoid stale clipboard text (#1629) (Steve Fosdick)
• Reset the GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH after unlocking certain bitmaps (SiegeLord,
  Alan_Roxdale)

MacOS

• Use a faster method of scrolling to the bottom for MacOS text logs (#1610)
  (SiegeLord)
• Fix static linking (SiegeLord)
• Fix al_set_mouse_xy on high resolution MacOS displays (SiegeLord)
• Add partial support for OpenGL 3 displays. Bitmap drawing works, but primitives addon does not (j-w-c-b)
• Fix Segfault with Japanese keyboards (John Wood)
• Remove the native MacOS image loader, it had too many limitations (#1531) (SiegeLord)

Windows

• Handle DSERR_NODRIVER when reporting error in DirectSound driver (Andrew
  Kravchuk)
• Don't set WM_EX_TOPMOST for Direct3D FULLSCREEN windows (SiegeLord)
• Make Python binding work on Windows (Mikhail Titov)

Linux

• Fixed memory leak (Helodity)
• Fix crash when using the LC_CTYPE=eo.ut8 on X11 (#1651) (SiegeLord)
• Improve behavior when the display is disconnected (SiegeLord)

TTF addon

• Add color emoji support (Elias Pschernig)

Audio addon

• Fix a race between detaching instances from mixers and reading from them (SiegeLord)

Image addon

• Fix loading of padded PCX files (Mikhail Titov)

Video addon

• Add al_open_video_f (jarroddavis68)

Primitives addon

• Move the most of the implementation into the core. This should be feature-neutral, but will enable future unification (#1003) (SiegeLord)
• Populate the UV coordinates for the vertices in many high-level primitives which enables some shader effects. See ex_prim example for how this looks. (Helodity, SiegeLord)

Documentation

• Document ALLEGRO_MOUSE_STATE.display (j-w-c-b)
• Remove GETTER/SETTER from generated docs (j-w-c-b)
• Fix the the return value of al_insert_menu_item (#1648) (SiegeLord)

Build system

• CMake improvements (Cristian Le)
• Export build tree with CMake to ease debugging (Mikhail Titov)
• Allow using SIMD instruction sets besides SSE (Mikhail Titov)
• Check vcpkg locations for dependencies (Mikhail Titov)
• Assorted CI improvements (SiegeLord, Mikhail Titov)

Examples

• ex_joystick_hotplugging is now more exciting (SiegeLord)