This release adds support for Python 3.12 and furthermore contains significant bug fixes, and also implements some missing features in the shader generator. Builds are available on the download page.
API
- Accept bytes object in DatagramOutputFile.write_header()
- Add missing clear_color() method to CardMaker
- Add file_version properties to BamFile and BamWriter, mirroring BamReader
- Add missing method for getting current display mode index (#1550)
Shader Generator
- Add support for perspective points (#1440)
- Implement remaining missing TexGenAttrib modes (#1437)
- Fix support for hardware point sprites
- Support missing texture types: cube map arrays, 1D arrays, buffer textures
Rendering
- Add texconst_i input for Cg shaders to access TexGenAttrib constants
- Fix bug when same texture is used with different TexGenAttrib modes
- OpenGL 3.2+/ES: Correctly handle 4-component texcoords in default shader
- DX9: fix bugs setting some kinds of shader inputs
- OpenGL: guard against exceeding max supported vertex attribute stride
- Add missing handling for 1D array textures in Cg shaders
- OpenGL: improve handling of SM5 Cg shaders
- Fix p3d_LightModel.ambient not updating properly
- Work around wireframe rendering bug in Panfrost drivers
- Fix assertion error when preparing texture fails
- Fix image load/store support in GLES 3.1 (set gl-immutable-texture-storage)
Windowing
- Windows: Fix issues switching fullscreen while maximized (#1469)
- macOS: Fix undecorated setting ignored when switching back to windowed mode
- macOS: Fix window sizing bug when simultaneously changing undecorated
- macOS: Fix black bar when switching to fullscreen with Z-Order set to Top
- macOS: Squelch secure restorable state warning on macOS 14 "Sonoma"
- X11: Fix crash on shutdown when using custom cursor
- EGL: Fix invalid operation error when using headless pbuffer
- EGL: Add support for resizing (offscreen) pbuffers
- Windows: Message loop is no longer disabled when using tk with threaded draw
- Windows: Fix handling of invalid raw mouse devices
Deployment
- Fix crash when running executable built with Python 3.11 (#1423)
- Fix for thirdparty packages that use delvewheel (#1492)
- Strip .abi3.so suffix from libraries
- Silently ignore missing hidden imports
- Add missing hidden imports for setuptools and shapely
- Show better error message when targeting no-longer-supported platforms
- Fix issues running pfreeze on macOS
- Fix crash using on arm64 systems with 16 KiB pages (eg. Asahi Linux)
- Fix error using bam_model_extensions with bdist_apps
Pipeline
- Support reading .bmp files with RLE8 compression
- Fix wrong magfilter being written by egg-palettize (#1585)
- Fix memory leaks when writing TIFF files
- Fix hang in .egg loader when
<Collide>used with<Line>(#1515) - Add assimp-disable-extensions config var (see #1537)
- Fix assert/crash when reading multiple recorders from bam file (#1561)
Build
- Add support for building with Python 3.12
- macOS .dmg are now built as HFS+ for 10.9 compatibility (#1502)
- Don't use RTTI features in headers when building with
-fno-rtti - Fix some new compiler warnings
- Fix compile errors with some versions of png.h
- Work around GCC 13.2 bug compiling interrogate-generated code (#1580)
- Support building with LibreSSL on Windows (#1503)
- Fix some issues in anticipation of Python 3.13+ (#1523, #1526)
- More robust parsing of version in setup.cfg (incl. #1539)
- Avoid using deprecated distutils module (#1549)
- Add _d suffix to .pyd files when building debug build on Windows (#1566)
Miscellaneous
- Fix bug causing textures to sometimes be randomly downloaded
- Fix PStats Python profiling exception when using metaclasses (#1505)
- Fix segfault when ConnectionRepository is verbose (#1430)
- Fix broken minusnode icon in dmodels (#1449)
- Fix wrong delete operator in ARToolKit
- Fix crash when encountering corruption in OpenAL stream (#1452)
- Fix SimpleHashMap error reporting at static init time
- Fix assorted code issues, typos, and Python 2-isms in direct tree
- Code size reductions for interrogate-generated bindings
- Assorted docstring corrections and additions
- Interrogate supports explicit cls parameter for static methods
- Interrogate: fix enum scope issue
- Don't assume presence of softspace attribute on files in directnotify
- Use importlib.metadata (not pkg_resources) for entry points in Python 3.8+