This is a recommended bugfix release, especially for macOS users.
Read the announcement on our blog, or go straight to the download page for the binary builds.
- Fix DPI scaling issue in macOS 10.15 "Catalina" (#794)
- Fix crash on macOS Catalina without "Input Monitoring" permission (#795)
- macOS installer now installs to /Library/Developer/Panda3D (#760)
- macOS thirdparty packages are now linked with libc++ (#584)
- Homebrew Python should now locate Panda libraries correctly (#755)
- Work around Tk bug cancelling Load Params in Particle Panel on macOS (#811)
- Fix NaN assertions when particles get very large positions (#822)
- Add support for Autodesk Maya 2020
- Fix maya2egg erroring when running from a pip installation (#709)
- Support DualShock 4 (2nd gen) controller on Windows
- Support .pz and .gz compressed models in deployment system
- Support implicit namespace packages in deployment system (#778)
- Fix issues when using CEF Python on macOS with deployment system
- Fix deployment system issues reading .pyc files in some Python versions
- Fix error with distutils package when deploying in a "virtualenv" env (#747)
- Fix "NameError: name 'mdef' is not defined" error when deploying (#721)
- Deployment system now strips weird -psn_* argument passed to macOS GUI apps
- Fix custom loader hooks sometimes not working with Actor (#750)
- Fix defaults for package_data_dirs in deployment system (#779)
- Fix issues with adding icons to deployed executable (#718)
- Add PNMImage.quantize() that palettizes using median cut algorithm
- Fix stereo and MRT FBO rendering in OpenGL ES (#815)
- RTM_copy_ram mode is now fixed for multiview textures in OpenGL
- Fix OpenGL multisample FBO issue with 16-bit float buffer (#756)
- Fix DirectX 9 crash when resizing vertex buffer in certain ways (#824)
- Workaround for infinite loop in Triangulator for certain polygons (#737)
- Fix dcparser issue with unpacking uint64 and int64 (#751)
- Fix ability to compile dcparser outside of the Panda3D codebase (#759)
- Fix all direct.stdpy.threading2 threads behaving daemonically (#758)
- direct.stdpy.threading2.Thread instances provide daemon and name properties
- Workaround for Tkinter crash on Windows when resizing window (#586)
- Fix possible stack overflow when reading many bytes from a stream (#754)
- Fix mouse confinement region on Windows not updating on window resize (#727)
- Fix mouse confinement being lost on Windows when window loses focus (#729)
- Support adjusting particle birth offset time (#769)
- Support building against OpenEXR 2.4 on Windows (#799)
- Fix ability to pass a tuple to loader.loadModel
- Fix an issue in interrogate with generating C bindings (#722)
- Fix a variety of ABI compatibility issues with NDEBUG builds
- Fix static linking of harfbuzz and freetype in makepanda
- Fix ability to specify
--python-incdirand -libdir to makepanda on macOS ls()andbam-info -lsnow list included animations- Fix white ambient color when loading PBR materials from .bam/cache (#828)
- Fix inconsistent behavior when passing small values to shader inputs (#827)
- Fix very rare NVIDIA driver crash when mixing GLSL and Cg shaders
- Fix issue passing unicode to DirectScrolledList (#752)
- Fix interrogate parser issue with function-like macro expansion
- Interrogate now finds types nested in explicitly specialized template class
- Improve performance reading all data from a file with direct.stdpy.file
- PandaSystem now records whether libc++ or libstdc++ was used on macOS
- makepanda.bat now builds against Python 3.7 by default
- Many improvements to API documentation
pandac/input/*.ininterrogatedb files are now included in .whl builds- Fix division exception in ServerRepository (#762)
- Fix ShaderBuffer contexts not being cleared at GSG destruction
- Fix DirectOptionMenu item text scale reset on item unhighlight (#768)
- Python particle classes now have snake-case aliases
- Fix crash printing out cached buffer contexts
- Rudimentary, experimental, low-level handling of digitizer input devices