0.9.0

The information on this page may not be accurate or up to date due to the information pertaining to a version that is currently in development.

The codename for LÖVE 0.9.0 is undetermined. It is currently not released.

Changes from 0.8.0

Additions

• Added --fused command line argument, to simulate fusing.
• Added liblove.
• Added the ability to have exit values.
• Added exit value of 1 in case of error by default.
• Added love.joystick.reload.
• Added basic support for the file:// uri scheme.
• Added love.mouse.setX and love.mouse.setY.
• Added love.filesystem.getIdentity.
• Added HDR canvas support.
• Added Source:isPlaying.
• Added mipmapping support (has love.graphics.isSupported test).
• Added Font:getAscent, Font:getDescent and Font:getBaseline.
• Added Font:setFilter adn Font:getFilter.
• Added Canvas:getPixel.
• Added vertex shader support.
• Added boolean support to Shader:send.
• Added support for UTF-8 ImageFonts.
• Added SoundData:getDuration and SoundData:getSampleCount.
• Added new Channels api for love.thread.
• Added Thread:getError.
• Added flags to love.graphics.setMode.
• Added support for resizable, borderless, and non-centered windows.
• Added resize event.
• Added love.math module.
• Added a platform-independent (good) random implementation to love.math.
• Added love.math.newRandomGenerator.
• Added love.math.triangulate.
• Added blend mode "none".
• Added SpriteBatch:isEmpty and SpriteBatch:isFull.
• Added support for extern Images in Shaders when drawing graphics primitives.
• Added love.timer.getAverageDelta.
• Added love.joystickaxis, love.joystickball and love.joystickhat event callbacks.
• Added ParticleSystem:setQuads.
• Added love.graphics.getDimensions and Image/Canvas/ImageData:getDimensions.
• Added love.filesystem.append.
• Added love.filesystem.getSize.
• Added angle, scale, and shear parameters to love.graphics.printf.
• Added anisotropic filtering support for Images, Canvases, and Fonts.
• Added love.graphics.setCanvases.
• Added ParticleSystem:emit.
• Added love.graphics.setColorMask.
• Added DXT-compressed texture support via love.image.newCompressedData.
• Added love.image.isCompressed and Image:isCompressed.
• Added Image:refresh.
• Added love.graphics.setAlphaTest.
• Added love.graphics.origin.
• Added many ParticleSystem getter methods.
• Added Geometry objects (replaces Quads), allowing for arbitrary textured polygons.
• OPTIONAL: Added support for Game_Music_Emu.

Bugfixes

• Fixed crashes with font drawing on some ATI cards.
• Fixed scaling in several love.physics functions.
• Fixed artifacts when drawing lines at huge scale.
• Fixed Fonts and Canvases ignoring default image filter.
• Fixed getMode and friends returning wrong values when using desktop size.
• Fixed memory leak in the mp3 decoder.
• Fixed sound issues with some versions of OpenAL soft, by enabling direct channels.
• Fixed 'random' hangs in audio.
• Fixed love.graphics.getLineWidth returning incorrect values.
• Fixed possible memory leak in utf-8 decoder.
• Fixed love.sound.newDecoder not accepting FileData.
• Fixed multiplicative blend mode.
• Fixed Box2D exception in World:update.
• Fixed spacing for the last character in an ImageFont.
• Fixed crash when binding SpriteBatches multiple times.
• Fixed SpriteBatches with more than 16,383 sprites.
• Fixed File:read reading past end of file.
• Fixed keyrepeat settings being lost after (indirect) setMode.
• Fixed alpha blend mode.
• Fixed Shader:send with Images and Canvases failing sometimes.
• Fixed love.graphics.getPointStyle.
• Fixed line numbers in shader errors.
• Fixed line wrapping in love.graphics.printf.
• Fixed fused release mode in OS X.
• Fixed love.graphics.getColor on some Windows systems.

Other Changes

• Moved love's startup to modules/love.

• Renamed love's boot script to 'love.boot', which can be required.
• Renamed PixelEffect to Shader (but now with vertex shaders).
• Renamed love.graphics.setDefaultImageFilter to love.graphics.setDefaultFilter.
• Renamed ParticleSystem:setSprite to ParticleSystem:setImage.
• Renamed ParticleSystem:setGravity to ParticleSystem:setLinearAcceleration.

• Updated allocation for SoundData, it's more efficient and less wasteful.
• Updated Source:set* functions to default z to 0.
• Updated the windows console, it now tries to re-use an active one first.
• Updated love.image memory handling, improves errors and thread-safety.
• Updated order of sleep/present in love.run (now draws, *then* sleeps).
• Updated the setFilter and setWrap methods, the second argument is now optional.
• Updated Font and ParticleSystem rendering code, now more performant.
• Updated error handling, error handlers now get resolved when the error occurs.
• Updated SpriteBatch code, now more performant when (un)binding.
• Updated Image creation code to error when creation fails.
• Updated Canvas code to support more systems.
• Updated love.timer.getFPS to be microsecond-accurate.
• Updated love.graphics.newScreenshot to create a fully opaque image by default.
• Updated ImageData:setPixel's alpha parameter to default to 255.

Removals

• Removed love.joystick.open and friends.
• Removed love.graphics.drawTest.
• Removed thread names.
• Removed old thread messaging api (see Channels).
• Removed love.graphics.quad/triangle.
• Removed ColorMode functions.
• Removed Quad objects (replaced by Geometry).

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