pygame-ce 2.2.1

# if you're switching over from pygame/pygame,
# remove it first to avoid conflicting namespace
pip uninstall pygame
pip install pygame-ce==2.2.1

This is a quick patch release to address a reported regression in a certain type of alpha blits, after the blit optimizations from 2.2.0. We're not sure how common this issue is, only one person reported it, but we wanted to get a release out quickly to address it.

We're also including all the changes since 2.2.0 merged in the last ~week, so it's not just that bugfix, we also have some nice enhancements.

What's Changed

Enhancements

@ankith26 and @Starbuck5 pulled in updates for pygame's dependencies: SDL and SDL satellite libraries. This updates us with all their hard work fixing bugs. #2057, #1986
@Starbuck5 sped up pygame.transform.scale and scale_by by replacing our internal scaling algorithm with an SDL function which is 10-40% faster. #1884
@SSS-Says-Snek added some helpful information to the Surface repr. When you print a surface, it looks like <Surface(50x50x32 SW)>. Now, it might look like <Surface(50x50x32, colorkey=(255, 255, 255, 255))> or <Surface(50x50x32, global_alpha=200)>. The idea is to give more information in the representation when there is more relevant things to know about the Surface. We hope that this will help people confused by Surface behavior in debugging. #2016
@Sjmarf made it so font.Sysfont will emit a warning if your font choice fell back to the default font. #1973

Bugfixes

@Starbuck5 fixed a regression in one of the AVX2 alpha blitters, thanks to @bigwhoopgames for the bug report. #2067
@dr0id fixed a bug where Sysfont could rarely give you a non-existent font file on Windows. (That's what we get for believing the Windows registry) #2034
@robertpfeiffer fixed a regresion where having $XDG_SESSION_TYPE not set would cause a crash in display.set_mode #2079

Docs, Examples, and Types

@yunline added a Simplified Chinese version of the README. #1848, #2061
@gresm and @Starbuck5 spruced up the examples to use more preferred pygame conventions. #2072, #2074
@VantaTree made transform docs consistent about expectations for the dest_surface parameter of many functions. #2049

Cleanups and Robustness

@yunline and @Starbuck5 both improved how bits of internal C code are written. #2065, #2064
@Starbuck5 fixed a few typos and retargeted some old links. #2059, #2075
@yunline fixed an internal problem where some SDL constants were shadowed with 0. #2078
@yunline fixed a problem in gen_stubs.py. @2089

New Contributors

@Sjmarf made their first contribution in #1973
@VantaTree made their first contribution in #2049

Other News

The pygame community organization now has a twitter acount. Consider following if you use the bird site :). https://twitter.com/pygamecommunity

Full Changelog: 2.2.0...2.2.1

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