0.8.0

The codename for LÖVE 0.8.0 is Rubber Piggy. It is not yet 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 love.graphics.arc.
• Added seek and tell to Source objects.
• Added color interpolation to ParticleSystem.
• 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 shear transformation to drawing functions.
• Added origin to font printing.
• Added love.graphics.getMode.
• Added per-sprite colors on SpriteBatches.
• Added pixel effects.
• Added love.graphics.isSupported.
• Added love.graphics.getRenderTarget.
• Added love.event.quit.
• Added stencil masks.

Bugfixes

• Fixed polygon drawing (was off by one).
• Fixed wrapping for single words.
• Fixed tracebacks not showing filenames.
• Fixed love.graphics.push/pop capable of causing overflows/underflows.
• Fixed setScissor on framebuffers.
• 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's 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 Source controls inconsistencies.
• Fixed most leaking on unclosed File objects.
• Fixed crashes when operating on non-existent files.

Other Changes

• Renamed SpriteBatch's lock/unlock to bind/unbind.
• Updated love.joystick to be 1-indexed.
• Updated love.thread to use get/set instead of send/receive.
• Updated font engine.
• Updated line drawing to a custom system.

Removals

• Removed framebuffer auto-clearing.
• Removed EncodedImageData.
• Removed old syntax for require (with extension).