0.9.2

no-game screen

The codename for LÖVE 0.9.2 is Baby Inspector. It is currently released.

Changes from 0.9.1

Additions

• Added Lua 5.3's UTF-8 module, via utf8 = require("utf8").
• Added Shader:getExternVariable.
• Added several new Canvas texture formats.
• Added love.graphics.getCanvasFormats.
• Added love.graphics.getCompressedImageFormats.
• Added ParticleSystem:setQuads.
• Added ParticleSystem:setLinearDamping.
• Added ParticleSystem:getLinearDamping.
• Added SpriteBatch:flush.
• Added love.graphics.getStats.
• Added mirroredrepeat WrapMode.
• Added love.audio.setDopplerScale and love.audio.getDopplerScale.
• Added optional duration argument to Joystick:setVibration.
• Added love.joystick.loadGamepadMappings and love.joystick.saveGamepadMappings.
• Added Joint:setUserData and Joint:getUserData.
• Added Joint:getBodies.
• Added GearJoint:getJoints.
• Added Body:getWorld.
• Added Body:getJointList.
• Added Contact:getFixtures and Body:getContactList.
• Added Body:isDestroyed, Fixture:isDestroyed, Joint:isDestroyed, and World:isDestroyed.
• Added love.mousemoved event callback.
• Added love.mouse.setRelativeMode and love.mouse.getRelativeMode.
• Added love.keyboard.getKeyFromScancode and love.keyboard.getScancodeFromKey.
• Added love.window.getDisplayName.
• Added love.window.minimize.
• Added love.window.showMessageBox.
• Added love.window.toPixels and love.window.fromPixels.
• Added love.window.setPosition and love.window.getPosition.
• Added x and y fields to the flags table in love.window.setMode and love.window.getMode, and to the t.window table in love.conf.
• Added refreshrate field to the table returned by love.window.getMode.
• Added love.filesystem.isSymlink, love.filesystem.setSymlinksEnabled, and love.filesystem.areSymlinksEnabled.
• Added love.filesystem.getRealDirectory.

Deprecations

• Deprecated SpriteBatch:bind and SpriteBatch:unbind.
• Deprecated all uses of the name 'FSAA' in favor of 'MSAA'.
• Deprecated the hdrcanvas GraphicsFeature constant in favor of love.graphics.getCanvasFormats.
• Deprecated the dxt and bc5 GraphicsFeature constants in favor of love.graphics.getCompressedImageFormats.
• Deprecated love.window.getWidth, love.window.getHeight, and love.window.getDimensions in favor of the love.graphics equivalents or love.window.getMode.

Renamed APIs

• Renamed all cases of FSAA to MSAA. The FSAA names still exist for backward-compatibility.

Fixes

• Fixed crashes when LÖVE objects are garbage-collected in multiple threads simultaneously.
• Fixed love.filesystem.setIdentity breaking in some situations when called multiple times.
• Fixed the default love.filesystem identity when in Fused mode in Windows.
• Fixed love.system.openURL sometimes blocking indefinitely on Linux.
• Fixed love.joystick.setGamepadMapping.
• Fixed the order of vertices in ChainShapes.
• Fixed love.mouse.getPosition returning outdated values if love.mouse.setPosition was used in the same frame.
• Fixed love.graphics.newFont to error when given an invalid size argument.
• Fixed the file name, line number, and backtrace given if love.graphics.print errors.
• Fixed a small memory leak if love.graphics.newCanvas errors.
• Fixed Shader:getWarnings returning unnecessary information.
• Fixed a potential crash when Shader objects are garbage collected.
• Fixed a potential small memory leak triggered when love.graphics.newShader errors.
• Fixed love.graphics.newMesh(vertexcount, ...) causing the Mesh to do instanced rendering.
• Fixed Mesh:getVertexMap.
• Fixed Image:refresh generating mipmaps multiple times if mipmap filtering is enabled.
• Fixed Image:setMipmapFilter to not keep bad state around if it errors.
• Fixed Mesh:setDrawRange when the Mesh has a vertex map set.
• Fixed internal detection of the 'position' and 'effect' shader functions.
• Fixed some cases of noncompliant shader code not properly erroring on some nvidia drivers.
• Fixed Texture memory leak when Meshes are garbage collected.
• Fixed the default line join mode to be 'miter' instead of an undefined value.
• Fixed Canvas:getPixel to error if the coordinates are not within the Canvas' bounds.
• Fixed detection of compressed textures to work regardless of the file's extension.
• Fixed the default error handler screen's text size when highdpi mode is enabled on a Retina monitor in OS X.
• Fixed the default error handler background color when sRGB mode is enabled for the window.
• Fixed the state of wireframe mode when love.window.setMode is called.
• Fixed love.window.setMode to fall back to the largest available mode if a width or height greater than the largest supported is specified and exclusive-fullscreen mode is used.

Other Changes

• Updated the Windows executable to always prefer the higher performance GPU on nvidia Optimus systems.
• Updated the --console command-line argument in Windows to open the console before conf.lua is loaded.
• Updated t.console and the --console command-line argument in Windows to use the existing console window, if LÖVE was launched from one.
• Updated the love executable to verify that the love library version matches before using it.
• Updated the Lua wrapper code for modules to avoid crashes when the module's instance is created, deleted, and recreated.
• Updated internal code for handling garbage collection of love objects to be more efficient.
• Updated love's initialization code to trigger a Lua error if love.conf has an error in it.
• Updated love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory and friends to strip double-slashes ("//") from their returned paths.
• Updated the error message when love.filesystem.write or File:open fails because the directory doesn't exist.
• Updated error message when love.math.setRandomSeed(0) is attempted.
• Updated the error message when invalid UTF-8 strings are used in love functions that expect UTF-8.
• Updated love.physics.newChainShape to error if the number of arguments is invalid.
• Updated love.physics.newPolygonShape and love.physics.newChainShape to accept a table of vertices.
• Updated love.thread.newThread to accept a literal string of code.
• Updated love-created threads to use names visible in external debuggers.
• Updated SpriteBatch:unbind / SpriteBatch:flush to use less VRAM if the SpriteBatch has the static usage hint.
• Updated love.graphics.newImage, love.image.newImageData, etc. to leave less temporary Lua-owned memory around.
• Updated love.graphics.push to accept different stack types to push. Current types are "transform" and "all".
• Updated love shaders to accept GLSL ES precision qualifiers (lowp, mediump, and highp) on variables, although they do nothing.
• Updated the error message for love.graphics.newShader to be less cryptic if an invalid filename is given.
• Updated compressed texture loading code to support BC6 and BC7 compressed textures (if the graphics driver supports them.)