libgdx/gdx-liftoff v1.14.1.0

1.14.1.0 "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"

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This is the first release in the completely unexpected 1.14.1 series! It was completely unexpected because there was no communication with the team about a release happening (and there still hasn't been any, in fact), so huge thanks to Mario Zechner for this surprise release! Who doesn't love surprises. The 5 still-open milestones that should have been included in this release, but aren't, like this PR from 2024, must not have mattered very much, I guess. I'm so glad my psychic powers I gained from being an unpaid open source contributor alerted me that I needed to make a gdx-liftoff release!

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There are some important fixes and changes in this release that affect both third-party extensions, some of which must update to 1.14.1 due to breaking changes, and Liftoff itself.

• libGDX has been updated by default to 1.14.1. Some dependencies may now require 1.14.1 to work in their current versions.
• Gradle has been updated to 9.5.1 .
  • The Android Gradle Plugin has not been updated (yet), because I ( @tommyettinger ) personally have no idea what it needs to update, and I have never published anything to Android stores.
  • A PR to update the Android Gradle Plugin would be welcome, if anyone wants it.
• FreetypeSkin has been added to third-party extensions, which is a commonly-needed part of skins made with Skin Composer.
• Lombok has been fixed when GWT is selected, by running delombok on core and having GWT compile the Lombok-less sources.
  • This may mean line numbers won't match your sources that use Lombok, but they will match the ones that had delombok run on them. Those sources are in core/build/generated/sources/delombok/java/main.
• TinyFD has been removed, Liftoff uses NFDe again, and again uses a VisUI fallback on Linux.
  • It turns out using TinyFD does not fix the app-not-responding problem on Linux... Our older VisUI fallback should work, though.
• TextraTypist broke due to subtle API changes in 1.14.1, and needed updating (it is now on 2.3.0).
• kryo-libgdx in kryo-more and tantrum-libgdx were updated to allow serialization for the new LongSet class added in 1.14.1.
• jdkgdxds was updated to include a faster removeIf() using a predicate.
• SquidSquad was updated (to 4.0.10) to use the newer TextraTypist and other updates.

As usual, there is the recommended "normal" gdx-liftoff-1.14.1.0.jar that works on all platforms, as well as 3 platform-specific JARs in case there are antivirus false positives (again). There are also not-especially-recommended distributions as native Windows and Linux binaries, which include a minimized JDK. Having a JDK of your own (especially any OpenJDK 21 distribution) is strongly recommended, though.

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