- unified version that supports two different ways of installing/running sider
- to accommodate different ways the game can be run: on Windows, macOS, Linux, and SteamDeck
- custom events: support for creating custom trigger code and handler functions in Lua modules
- updated LuaJIT compiler to 2.1 version from October 2024
- tweak for "zlib" library: best compression is now used by default
- new event: "context_reset": occurs when the game returns to main menu
- new event: "display_frame": fired every time the game renders a frame
- new fs.make_dirs function: to create a directory with all intermediate dirs too