0.8.0

no-game screen

The codename for LÖVE 0.8.0 is Rubber Piggy. It is currently released.

Changes from 0.7.2

Additions

• Added release error screen.
• Added alpha to love.graphics.setBackgroundColor.
• Added Canvas:clear(r, g, b, a).
• Added Canvas support to love.graphics.drawq.
• Added Canvas:getWidth and Canvas:getHeight.
• Added love.graphics.arc.
• Added Source:seek and Source:tell.
• Added color interpolation to ParticleSystems.
• Added automatic PO2 padding for systems not supporting the OpenGL extension.
• Added UTF-8 support for fonts.
• Added Box2D error handling for some commonly failing functions.
• Added ability for fused release games to have their write dir in appdata.
• Added love.graphics.shear.
• Added origin to font printing.
• Added love.graphics.getMode.
• Added per-sprite colors on SpriteBatches.
• Added PixelEffects.
• Added love.graphics.isSupported.
• Added love.graphics.getCanvas.
• Added love.event.quit.
• Added stencil masks.
• Added alternative SpriteBatch provider, it should work everywhere now.
• Added a loader for binary modules.
• Added Thread:getKeys().
• Added option of fractions for quads.
• Added PNG, JPEG and GIF support to ImageData:encode.
• Added 64-bit support for Mac OS X.
• Added premultiplied blending mode.
• Added love.graphics.setDefaultImageFilter/getDefaultImageFilter.
• Added SpriteBatch:set.
• Added new events system, with support for custom events and long event names.
• Added sound attenuation by distance.
• Added SpriteBatch:getImage.
• Added combine color mode.
• Added automatic random seeding to love.run.
• Added support for the subtract BlendMode on older graphics cards.
• Added love._os field, which contains the OS the game is running on.

Bugfixes

• Fixed wrapping for single words.
• Fixed tracebacks not showing filenames.
• Fixed love.graphics.push/pop capable of causing overflows/underflows.
• Fixed setScissor on Canvases.
• Fixed several issues with audio, e.g. clicks and pops in mp3s.
• Fixed crashes when bodies were destroyed during collisions.
• Fixed bound SpriteBatches corrupting when drawing.
• Fixed thread-safety issues with ImageData.
• Fixed memory leaks in audio sources.
• Fixed Thread:set (previously send) accidentally changing the type.
• Fixed SoundData allocating the wrong number of samples.
• Fixed SpriteBatch support on Intel cards.
• Fixed love.filesystem.lines leaking.
• Fixed most leaking on unclosed File objects.
• Fixed crashes when operating on non-existent files.
• Fixed a bug where empty files on Windows would never reach EOF.
• Fixed crash when SoundData runs out of memory.
• Fixed ordering of loaders, love should have priority over lua.
• Fixed several miscellaneous memory leaks.
• Fixed a few cases where strings with \0 in them would not be stored correctly.
• Fixed LÖVE's startup time being in the first dt.
• Fixed internal string conversions, they are faster now.
• Fixed (bad) performance of ImageData:paste.
• Fixed love.graphics.toggleFullscreen not maintaining graphics state.

Other Changes

• Renamed SpriteBatch:lock/unlock to bind/unbind.
• Renamed Framebuffer to Canvas.
• Renamed Thread:send/receive to set/get.
• Renamed love.graphics.setRenderTarget to setCanvas.
• Updated love.joystick to be 1-indexed.
• Updated Sources to update more cleanly and control more intuitively.
• Updated font engine.
• Updated line drawing to a custom system.
• Updated love.timer.sleep to use seconds, like the rest of love.
• Updated love.timer to be more accurate.
• Updated love.graphics.circle to have max(10, r) as default for segments.
• Updated ImageData:encode to write to files directly.
• Updated version compatibility system to actually do something.
• Updated love.run's order, events are checked just before update.
• Updated Box2D to version 2.2.1.
• Updated sdl to 1.2.15 on Windows
• Updated freetype to 2.4.9 on Windows
• Updated libjpeg to 8d on Windows
• Updated libmodplug to 0.8.8.4 on Windows
• Updated libogg to 1.3.0 on Windows
• Updated libpng to 1.5.10 on Windows
• Updated mpg123 to 1.13.7 on Windows
• Updated openal-soft to 1.14 on Windows
• Updated zlib to 1.2.6 on Windows

Removals

• Removed Canvas auto-clearing.
• Removed EncodedImageData.
• Removed old syntax for require (with extension and slashes).
• Removed love.graphics.setFont([file, ][size]).
• Removed Thread:kill.