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.
• 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 functions to set/get default image filter modes.

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'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.
• 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.

Other Changes

• Renamed SpriteBatch's lock/unlock to bind/unbind.
• Renamed Framebuffer to Canvas.
• Renamed love.thread.send/receive to set/get.
• Updated love.joystick to be 1-indexed.
• Updated font engine.
• Updated line drawing to a custom system.
• Updated love.timer.sleep to use seconds, like the rest of love.
• Updated love.graphics.circle to have max(10, r) as default for segments.
• Updated ImageData:encode to write to files directly.

Removals

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