axmol-1.0 release notes [draft]

[axmol-bot]

• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extensions Effekseer support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Replace all string map with robin_map which support heterogeneous lookup
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add precompile_headers all platforms support, thanks to @crazyhappygame
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor VertexLayout sharing mechanism
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor shader program management: link when use, rename ProgramCache to ProgramManager
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve MeshRenderer Sprite3D does not handle model with transparency #879 thanks @solan-solan (Improve #879 thanks @solan-solan  #904)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve model loader, auto set texture for .obj file when texture path not specified
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add apple M1, android x64 support, contributed by @pietpukkel
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add apple tvos support, thanks to @paulocoutinhox
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add Particle System Animations, Alpha Masks & Improvements, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add wireframe rendering and function classification improvements, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [HIGHLIGHT] Imporve text rendering
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve windows workflow, support linking with engine prebuilt libs
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement Windows video player using microsoft media foundation
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve spine RTTI compare performance when compiler string pooling enabled
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement Windows WebView using WebView2 Edge Chromium, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Windows x64 build support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Support custom texture atlas formats, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Downloader realtime md5 checksum calculation support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Decompress astc parallel support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Reimplement HttpClient based on yasio for concurrent http request support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve Lua RTTI performance and less memory cost
• [HIGHLIGHT] Virtual File System support, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor lua loader, speed up 30%+
• [HIGHLIGHT] Update plainlua version to 5.4.4
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use Openal-Soft for all platform
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor UserDefault with mio, speed up 100x+
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement all .wav formats supported by Openal-Soft, such as MS-ADPCM, ADPCM
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use modern GL loader glad (v2.0.0)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add google angle (version 5195) renderer backend support for windows
• [HIGHLIGHT] Update codebase to C++ 17/20 standard
• [HIGHLIGHT] Remove tinyxml2
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use fast pugixml
• [HIGHLIGHT] Spine-3.6~4.1 support, default is 4.1
• [HIGHLIGHT] ASTC 4x4/6x6/8x8 support (if hardware decoder not present, use software decoder)
• [HIGHLIGHT] ETC2 RGB/RGBA support (if hardware decoder not present, use software decoder)
• [HIGHLIGHT] ImGui integrated for Android platform, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] ImGui integrated for PC platforms
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extension FairyGUI support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extension Live2D support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use curl for transferring data with URL syntax
• [HIGHLIGHT] Modularize all optional extension, move from engine core to folder extensions
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve thirdparty libs building, 100% of them build from sources or github actions with latest toolchain, see also: axmolengine/buildware
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add new API Director::setChildrenIndexerEnabled for speed up getChildByTag & getChildByName support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add new API FontFreeType::setStreamParsingEnabled for stream parsing support . It's very useful for reducing memory costs when loading a large .ttf font file
• [HIGHLIGHT] Remove all unnecessary std::nothrow stubs
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use c++17 string_view instead const std::string&
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve code quality (stage1.Oct) (Improve code quality (step1. Oct) #916)
• [NEW] Add closeKeyboard() method for EditBox, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [NEW] Added automake and automake to dependency list, thanks to @clawfinger
• [NEW] Add primitive type support for mesh materials, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [NEW] Add int64_t/uint64_t support for cocos2d::Value
• [NEW] Add support for scaling for RichElementImage, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [NEW] Add fmtlib 9.1.0
• [NEW] Add llhttp 8.1.0
• [NEW] Add return type 'ResourceData' for lua bindings, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [NEW] Add spine binary support for lua bindings, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [Fix] Fix to ensure Component::onEnter() is called (Fix to ensure Component::onEnter() is called #867), thanks to @rh101
• [Fix] Fix Label overflow shrink bug
• [FIX] Fix uniform location mismatch when more than 1 spine with different shaders
• [FIX] Fix imgui draw frame cause afterimage when game scene nothing to draw
• [FIX] Set global Z value of label debug layer to be the same as the parent label to fix display issue
• [FIX] Use TTF scaled metrics to calculate line height, thanks to @rh101
• [FIX] Fix Memory leak in ShaderModuleGL::getErrorLog(), thanks to @Xrysnow
• [FIX] Fix console output text encoding for win32
• [FIX] Fix charset process for fontName on win32
• [FIX] Fix crash on ParticleBatchNode::updateProgramStateTexture()
• [FIX] Fix crash on SpriteBatchNode::appendChild when CC_SPRITE_DEBUG_DRAW==1
• [FIX] Fix Lua can't get unsigned char or unsigned int values of ValueMap
• [FIX] Fix crash on AudioEngine::end after the Director was destroyed
• [FIX] Fix font atlas will leak when it does not exist in the atlas cache, thanks to @rh101
• [FIX] Fix ScrollView shows incorrect position in vertical direction some time, thanks to @wzhengsen
• [FIX] Fix Spine ClippingAttachment doesn't work
• [FIX] Fix render problem with boss.obj
• [FIX] Fix downloader crash in lua coroutine, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [FIX] Fix memory leak (VertexLayout) at Program constructor
• [FIX] Fix missed edge case when resizing the memorymapped file in UserDefault that could cause a crash, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [REFINE] Improve FileUtils::addSearchPath, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [REFINE] Allow the forced reformatting of RichText contents, thanks to @rh101
• [REFINE] Upgrade android toolsets to ndk-r23 LTS
• [REFINE] CCValue move construct and assign with std::string support
• [REFINE] Improve windows dev workflow, use working directory instead copy resources to build binary directory
• [REFINE] Add lua debug project file to lua project template
• [REFINE] Remove lua 64bit spec search path, since we can compile compatible bytecode for both plainlua and luajit
• [REFINE] Put stats labels to safe origin to make sure we can see it integral at some mobile device
• [REFINE] Improve cmake scripts
• [REFINE] Replace deprecated repo jcenter with mavenCentral
• [REFINE] Lua-5.4 compatible
• [REFINE] Improve cmdline-tools
• [REFINE] Ensure label underline node has the same global Z value as the label node to fix visibility issue when global Z is not 0
• [REFINE] Improve android astc support check
• [REFINE] Improve the "Physics part" (Improve the "Physics part"  #379), thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] Rename command line to to axmol
• [REFINE] Update imgui to 1.88
• [REFINE] Rename thirdparty folder external to thirdparty
• [REFINE] Building plainlua as dll on windows always for debugger happy to debug app quickly
• [REFINE] Fix some audio test case can't hear sound
• [REFINE] Avoid OS_WINDOWS conflict with system macro
• [REFINE] Update OpenSSL to v3.0.x latest
• [REFINE] Update FreeType to latest
• [REFINE] Use Freetype SDF render when label distance field enabled
• [REFINE] Always enable string pooling for msvc on cmake
• [REFINE] Change DrawNode api color parameters from Color4F to low Color4B
• [REFINE] Improve DrawNode GC allocs
• [REFINE] Use jni.hpp to improve jni call without method signature GC allocs
• [REFINE] Rename is64BitIOSDevice to is64BitMobileDevice
• [REFINE] Fix Android screen blank issue after unlocking device with application running, thanks to @rh101
• [REFINE] Update zlib to v1.2.13
• [REFINE] Add explicit cmake options
• [REFINE] Migrate cross platform ci checks to github actions
• [REFINE] Replace push_back with emplace_back
• [REFINE] Improve Camera, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [REFINE] Use jpeg-turbo for jpg image decoding
• [REFINE] Update clipper1 to clipper2 1.0.5
• [REFINE] Update flatbuffers to v2.0.8
• [REFINE] Change Program::getActiveAttributes return type to reference
• [REFINE] Rename Sprite3D to MeshRenderer
• [REFINE] Improve AutoPolygon::generateTriangles performance (Improve AutoPolygon::generateTriangles performance #905)
• [REFINE] Add many box2d testbed, thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] Improve c++11 for-loop performance with Universal References (#760), thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] New engine logo & splash (TODO)

Fully changes since cocos2d-x-4.0: ab06e75...dev (2800+ commits)

[aismann]

Maybe a draft icon and "splashscreen" should be part of the 1.0 too.
Better a draft as a wrong:
axmol/tests/cpp-tests/Resources/Hello.png

[aismann]

Please add all "Rename" to an own section:
[REFINE] Rename Sprite3D to MeshRenderer => e.g. [Rename] Sprite3D to MeshRenderer

and add this link:
https://github.com/axmolengine/axmol/blob/07f6b8e23f34580af9305ba856916e530fca1deb/RENAMED_TYPES.md

[aismann]

Anyhow I sorted it lexicographically
(for e.g. same naming/upper-/lowercase etc)
e.g.: see Fix crash /Fix Crash or Fix memory/Fix Memory

• [FIX] Fix charset process for fontName on win32
• [FIX] Fix console output text encoding for win32
• [FIX] Fix crash on AudioEngine::end after the Director was destroyed
• [FIX] Fix Crash on ParticleBatchNode::updateProgramStateTexture()
• [FIX] Fix Crash on SpriteBatchNode::appendChild when CC_SPRITE_DEBUG_DRAW==1
• [FIX] Fix downloader crash in lua coroutine, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [FIX] Fix font atlas will leak when it does not exist in the atlas cache, thanks to @rh101
• [FIX] Fix imgui draw frame cause afterimage when game scene nothing to draw
• [Fix] Fix Label overflow shrink bug
• [FIX] Fix Lua can't get unsigned char or unsigned int values of ValueMap
• [FIX] Fix memory leak (VertexLayout) at Program constructor
• [FIX] Fix Memory leak in ShaderModuleGL::getErrorLog(), thanks to @Xrysnow
• [FIX] Fix missed edge case when resizing the memorymapped file in UserDefault that could cause a crash, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [FIX] Fix render problem with boss.obj
• [FIX] Fix ScrollView shows incorrect position in vertical direction some time, thanks to @wzhengsen
• [FIX] Fix Spine ClippingAttachment doesn't work
• [Fix] Fix to ensure Component::onEnter() is called (Fix to ensure Component::onEnter() is called Fix to ensure Component::onEnter() is called #867), thanks to @rh101
• [FIX] Fix uniform location mismatch when more than 1 spine with different shaders
• [FIX] Set global Z value of label debug layer to be the same as the parent label to fix display issue
• [FIX] Use TTF scaled metrics to calculate line height, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add apple M1, android x64 support, contributed by @pietpukkel
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add apple tvos support, thanks to @paulocoutinhox
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extension FairyGUI support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extension Live2D support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add extensions Effekseer support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add google angle (version 5195) renderer backend support for windows
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add new API Director::setChildrenIndexerEnabled for speed up getChildByTag & getChildByName support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add new API FontFreeType::setStreamParsingEnabled for stream parsing support . It's very useful for reducing memory costs when loading a large .ttf font file
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add Particle System Animations, Alpha Masks & Improvements, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add precompile_headers all platforms support, thanks to @crazyhappygame
• [HIGHLIGHT] Add wireframe rendering and function classification improvements, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [HIGHLIGHT] ASTC 4x4/6x6/8x8 support (if hardware decoder not present, use software decoder)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Decompress astc parallel support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Downloader realtime md5 checksum calculation support
• [HIGHLIGHT] ETC2 RGB/RGBA support (if hardware decoder not present, use software decoder)
• [HIGHLIGHT] ImGui integrated for Android platform, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] ImGui integrated for PC platforms
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement all .wav formats supported by Openal-Soft, such as MS-ADPCM, ADPCM
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement Windows video player using microsoft media foundation
• [HIGHLIGHT] Implement Windows WebView using WebView2 Edge Chromium, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Imporve text rendering
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve code quality (stage1.Oct) (Improve code quality (step1. Oct) Improve code quality (step1. Oct) #916)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve Lua RTTI performance and less memory cost
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve MeshRenderer Sprite3D does not handle model with transparency Sprite3D does not handle model with transparency #879 thanks @solan-solan (Improve Sprite3D does not handle model with transparency #879 thanks @solan-solan Improve #879 thanks @solan-solan  #904)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve model loader, auto set texture for .obj file when texture path not specified
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve spine RTTI compare performance when compiler string pooling enabled
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve thirdparty libs building, 100% of them build from sources or github actions with latest toolchain, see also: axmolengine/buildware
• [HIGHLIGHT] Improve windows workflow, support linking with engine prebuilt libs
• [HIGHLIGHT] Modularize all optional extension, move from engine core to folder extensions
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor lua loader, speed up 30%+
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor shader program management: link when use, rename ProgramCache to ProgramManager
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor UserDefault with mio, speed up 100x+
• [HIGHLIGHT] Refactor VertexLayout sharing mechanism
• [HIGHLIGHT] Reimplement HttpClient based on yasio for concurrent http request support
• [HIGHLIGHT] Remove all unnecessary std::nothrow stubs
• [HIGHLIGHT] Remove tinyxml2
• [HIGHLIGHT] Replace all string map with robin_map which support heterogeneous lookup
• [HIGHLIGHT] Spine-3.6~4.1 support, TODO: update default to 4.1
• [HIGHLIGHT] Support custom texture atlas formats, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Update codebase to C++ 17/20 standard
• [HIGHLIGHT] Update plainlua version to 5.4.4
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use c++17 string_view instead const std::string&
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use curl for transferring data with URL syntax
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use fast pugixml
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use modern GL loader glad (v2.0.0)
• [HIGHLIGHT] Use Openal-Soft for all platform
• [HIGHLIGHT] Virtual File System support, thanks to @rh101
• [HIGHLIGHT] Windows x64 build support
• [NEW] Add closeKeyboard() method for EditBox, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [NEW] Add fmtlib 9.1.0
• [NEW] Add int64_t/uint64_t support for cocos2d::Value
• [NEW] Add llhttp 8.1.0
• [NEW] Add primitive type support for mesh materials, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [NEW] Add return type 'ResourceData' for lua bindings, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [NEW] Add spine binary support for lua bindings, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [NEW] Add support for scaling for RichElementImage, thanks to @theunwisewolf
• [NEW] Added automake and automake to dependency list, thanks to @clawfinger
• [REFINE] Add explicit cmake options
• [REFINE] Add lua debug project file to lua project template
• [REFINE] Add many box2d testbed, thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] Allow the forced reformatting of RichText contents, thanks to @rh101
• [REFINE] Always enable string pooling for msvc on cmake
• [REFINE] Avoid OS_WINDOWS conflict with system macro
• [REFINE] Building plainlua as dll on windows always for debugger happy to debug app quickly
• [REFINE] CCValue move construct and assign with std::string support
• [REFINE] Change DrawNode api color parameters from Color4F to low Color4B
• [REFINE] Change Program::getActiveAttributes return type to reference
• [REFINE] Ensure label underline node has the same global Z value as the label node to fix visibility issue when global Z is not 0
• [REFINE] Fix Android screen blank issue after unlocking device with application running, thanks to @rh101
• [REFINE] Fix some audio test case can't hear sound
• [REFINE] Improve android astc support check
• [REFINE] Improve AutoPolygon::generateTriangles performance (Improve AutoPolygon::generateTriangles performance Improve AutoPolygon::generateTriangles performance #905)
• [REFINE] Improve c++11 for-loop performance with Universal References (replace for(auto <var> to for(auto& <var> #760), thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] Improve Camera, thanks to @DelinWorks
• [REFINE] Improve cmake scripts
• [REFINE] Improve cmdline-tools
• [REFINE] Improve DrawNode GC allocs
• [REFINE] Improve FileUtils::addSearchPath, thanks to @tkzcfc
• [REFINE] Improve the "Physics part" (Improve the "Physics part" Improve the "Physics part"  #379), thanks to @aismann
• [REFINE] Improve windows dev workflow, use working directory instead copy resources to build binary directory
• [REFINE] Lua-5.4 compatible
• [REFINE] Migrate cross platform ci checks to github actions
• [REFINE] New engine logo & splash (TODO)
• [REFINE] Put stats labels to safe origin to make sure we can see it integral at some mobile device
• [REFINE] Remove lua 64bit spec search path, since we can compile compatible bytecode for both plainlua and luajit
• [REFINE] Rename command line to to axmol
• [REFINE] Rename is64BitIOSDevice to is64BitMobileDevice
• [REFINE] Rename Sprite3D to MeshRenderer
• [REFINE] Rename thirdparty folder external to thirdparty
• [REFINE] Replace deprecated repo jcenter with mavenCentral
• [REFINE] Replace push_back with emplace_back
• [REFINE] Update clipper1 to clipper2 1.0.5
• [REFINE] Update flatbuffers to v2.0.8
• [REFINE] Update FreeType to latest
• [REFINE] Update imgui to 1.88
• [REFINE] Update OpenSSL to v3.0.x latest
• [REFINE] Update zlib to v1.2.13
• [REFINE] Upgrade android toolsets to ndk-r23 LTS
• [REFINE] Use Freetype SDF render when label distance field enabled
• [REFINE] Use jni.hpp to improve jni call without method signature GC allocs
• [REFINE] Use jpeg-turbo for jpg image decoding

[aismann]

@halx99
maybe you put it on the repository. => So we can make PRs.

[halx99]

done.

[aismann]

@halx99
Maybe it is time to make a branch axmol 1.x (only bugfixes on it).
What are you think, i belive a "stable" version should be give developer more robustness and no api changes?

[paulocoutinhox]

Can you add my name @paulocoutinhox at the apple tv developer/support of this engine and the libraries for it? Thanks.

[rh101]

Isn't it already listed?

[HIGHLIGHT] Add apple tvos support, thanks to @paulocoutinhox

[iAbdulQadirKhan]

@rh101 Can you point out the commit in which you have done this?
[REFINE] Allow the forced reformatting of RichText contents.

[rh101]

#644