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1.16.0

3DS: Update __system_initArgv
3DS: Update SquirrelJME 3DS Core information along with icons.
ANDROID: Rewrite input handling to better support AINPUT_SOURCE_STYLUS
ANDROID: Prevent the android quick tap mouse click emulation while pressing a button on the on-screen overlay
AUDIO: Fast-Forward Audio Resampling
AUDIO: Reinit audio on audio sync toggle
AUDIO: Count audio samples in stats when rate control is disabled
AUDIO/PULSEAUDIO: Support device list for PulseAudio
AUDIO/WASAPI: WASAPI Frame Delay fix + cleanups
AUDIO/WASAPI/MIDI: Frame Delay correction
ARCHIVE/ZIP: Improve ZIP decompression This reduces the amount of memory Retroarch needs to extract a ROM file. It will only need the size of the ROM plus 128KiB to extract the file from the ZIP. Previously it needed as much as twice that amount if the compression ratio was not great. This is useful on memory constrained platforms and has no impact on platforms with plenty of memory. Handles all cases correctly (with and without MMAP, for cores that require fullpath or not, small and big ZIP files).
APPLE: Add default keyboard overlay directory to platform_darwin
APPLE: Update to MoltenVK 1.2.4
APPLE: Don't include MoltenVK library in Load Core menu list
APPLE: Enable AltServer JIT for builds installed by Xcode
APPLE: The default pthread stack size on Apple is too small for detect_ps2_game, so increase it
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.7
CHEEVOS: Don't initialize rcheevos memory unless used
CHEEVOS: Add progress tracker widget
CHEEVOS: Eliminate leaderboard tracker stutter
CHEEVOS: Expand leaderboard visibility settings
CHEEVOS: Collapse trackers with same value definition
CHEEVOS: prevent frame step when hitting rewind button while paused in hardcore
CHEEVOS: disallow video_swap_interval and black_frame_insertion in hardcore
CRT/SWITCHRES: Don't always force core aspect ratio
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fix aspect ratio for tate games on a horizontal screen
CRT/SWITCHRES: Add PAL threshold option for automatic refresh rate switch
CRT/SWITCHRES/KMS: Add KMS modeswitch
COMMAND: Make cmd interface more useful for replay information
CONFIG: Allow all systems to check for backslashes (Windows) as last slash in path. Improves portable core logic
D3D11: Fix memory corruption in d3d11_gfx_init
D3D12: Enable blending when drawing the menu
D3D12: Move fence signaling out of d3d12_gfx_sync
D3D12/LIBRETRO: Add D3D12 HW_render support
DOWNLOADS/THUMBNAILS: Prevent directory creation on bogus thumbnail downloads
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix Emscripten sleep function/macro
EMSCRIPTEN/RWEBAUDIO: Fix RWebAudioInit race condition
EMSCRIPTEN/OPENAL: Make openal default audio driver
FFMPEG: Fix RetroArch fails to restart streaming when video re-inits and instead starts recording
FRAMESKIP: Use refresh rate instead of core fps for frameskip timing
INPUT: Combo hold + 'enable_hotkey' correction. Fixed issue with having menu toggle hold combo in different button than 'enable_hotkey', which caused 'enable_hotkey' to also act as menu toggle if held long enough, and simplified and unified duplicate code in start+select holds to a single function.
INPUT: input_keyboard_event: Don't check hotkey binds when device is RETRO_DEVICE_POINTER
INPUT: Add input_keymaps_translate_rk_to_ascii() for correct character input to input_keyboard_event
INPUT: input_overlay_poll: Delay clearing INPUT_OVERLAY_BLOCKED flag until there is no overlay input (Avoids stray input after osk_toggle)
INPUT: Send keyboard events for modifiers before other keys (for correct modifier+key input if hitboxes overlap)
INPUT: Remember currently set keyboard mapping bits during same config read, because otherwise customized keybinds can get cleared out of the bits on the next iteration, causing keyboard events to get passed to the core when they should get blocked.
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Reinit after updating autoconf profiles
INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Log mouse devices in info level
INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: First working version of udev driver with touchscreen support and gestures.
INPUT/WAYLAND: Add wayland to input driver list
INPUT/MENU: move port X binds into retropad binds submenu and add appropriate help text and sublabels to discourage people from messing around in there unnecessarily
INPUT/MENU: Add menu icons to 'RetroPad Binds'
INPUT/MENU/OSK: Allow more keyboard actions with menu osk
INPUT/REMAP: Remap label fix when no autoconf profile active
INPUT/REMAP: Add 'Save As' option for remaps and overrides
INPUT/OVERLAY: Add overlay parameter to control x/y separation in auto-scale mode
INPUT/OVERLAY: Revive/rewrite Keyboard Overlay and OSK Toggle. Add keyboard overlay preset, keyboard submenu, and osk_toggle hotkey. Use overlay caching for osk_toggle.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Overlay Caching. Adds overlay_cache_ptr to keep a disabled overlay in memory when it's expected to be shown again. Most input_overlay_deinit calls are replaced with input_overlay_unload, which caches the overlay unless initing/deiniting core or disabling overlays. Loading a cached overlay is done as a swap, intended for osk_toggle.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Add input_overlay_check_mouse_cursor() to preserve show/hide mouse behavior
INPUT/OVERLAY: Don't apply input_overlay_show_mouse_cursor in windowed mode (controlled by mouse grab only)
INPUT/REMAPPING: Stop always reseting to defaults on remap delete
INPUT/SDL: Fix rumble on PS4/PS5 controllers connected via bluetooth
IOS: JIT support in iOS
IOS: Use AltKit to try to enable JIT on iOS
IOS: Fix thumbnails in history on iOS
IOS: Enable option to rumble iOS device instead of controller
IOS: Fix including audio/video filters on iOS
IOS: Haptic feedback for overlay on iOS
IOS: On iOS, stop/start audio on interruptions
IOS: Add accelerometer and gyroscope sensors to iOS
IOS: iOS needs to targets 13 due to some keyboard emulation, but tvOS does not
IOS/TVOS: Rework JIT availability checks
IOS/TVOS: When updating playlist with detected core path, used resolved core path
IOS/TVOS: Implement memory queries on iOS/tvOS
IOS/TVOS: Netplay discovery through bonjour/mdns
IOS/TVOS: Improve some log formatting on iOS/tvOS
IOS/TVOS: Preliminary MetricKit support on iOS/tvOS
TVOS: Fix analog stick handling after adding Siri remote tap support
TVOS: Also handle tap events on tvOS
TVOS: Back up retroarch.cfg to NSUserDefaults on tvOS.
TVOS: tvOS has its own beautiful screensavers and I would like them
TVOS: tvOS Siri remote handling
TVOS: Fix accidental left/right keypresses on tvOS
TVOS/CONFIG: Avoid a crash if there is no backed up config file on tvOS It's not really usable as a game controller, but it is good for going through the menu as a simple LRUD. This also adds better support for names of mFI controllers, as well as being able to do the expected tvOS behavior of "backing out" of the app.
TVOS: AltKit support for tvOS
INTL: Fix language detection in Canada to English
LANGEXTRA: Enable language autodetect for all builds with LANGEXTRA
LIBRETRO: Add new context hardware render enums - enables autodetection of DX12 for PS2 core
LIBRETRO: Add API to check JIT availability on iOS
LIBRETRO: Allow RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_MEMORY_MAPS also after core startup. Change the comment in libretro.h about the removed limit and handle the environment call during core runtime in RetroArch.
LIBRETRO/MICROPHONE: Add new API for microphone support.
LIBRETRO: Add new API for querying the device's power state.
LIBRETRO/VFS: Rewrite retro_vfs_file_remove_impl
LINUX: Input driver fix 8+ joypads. It was reported that controllers beyond 8 worked only partially (analogs yes, but not buttons), and the found fix was also confirmed.
MIDI: Show MIDI output first
MENU: Reorganize 'Saving' menu
MENU: Start directory browsing from current value
MENU: Fix menu toggle combo hold with same 'enable_hotkey'
MENU: Add menu scroll home+end actions
MENU: Move 'systemfiles_in_content_dir' from Saving to Core
MENU: Menu navigation acceleration adjustments
MENU: Audio synchronization menu cleanup
MENU: Menu value label cleanup
MENU: Show playlist history/favorites icons by default
MENU: Remove advanced option flag from video rotation + orientation
MENU: Combine audio resampler menu with audio output menu
MENU: Microphone menu cleanup
MENU: Add missing menu visibility option for content dir override
MENU: Fix menu refresh in action_ok_network
MENU: Video settings menu cleanup
MENU: Try to declutter Quick Menu
MENU: Change network port menu options to 'allow_input' mode
MENU: Preselect current core in "Set Core Assocation" menu for more carefree usage
MENU: Focus back to "Set Core Association" item after returning from the menu instead of first item
MENU: Replaced hack fix for focusing the first item after returning from core suggestion "Run" menu after association reset
MENU: Fixed setting core association in history/favorites after resetting it and running without setting
MENU: Relocate playlist manager core association options to prevent accidental resets with Start
MENU: Fraction setting wraparound rounding correction
MENU: Add more missing sublabels
MENU: 'Updater Settings' relocation
MENU: Search box usability improvements
MENU/RGUI: Implement 'Remember Selection' option
MENU/RGUI: Fix savestate thumbnail fullscreen cancel action
MENU/RGUI: Fix and add toggle for playlist thumbnails
MENU/OZONE: Update Dracula theme
MENU/OZONE: Return to sidebar from playlist manage quick access
MENU/OZONE: Sidebar multiline scrolling
MENU/OZONE: Avoid crash if ozone sidebar_index_size is 0
MENU/OZONE: Prevent metadata and footer overlap
MENU/OZONE: Sublabel width tweak
MENU/OZONE: Mouse hover selection fix
MENU/XMB: Message/help box adjustments
MENU/XMB: XMB menu playlist index bugfix
MENU/XMB: Playlist label limit fixes
MENU/XMB: Prevent playlist label truncating long items even when right thumbnail is not enabled/visible
MENU/XMB: Prevent playlist label length resetting to full width on every item change while thumbnail is pending
MENU/XMB: Stop showing playlist entry index outside of playlists
MENU/XMB: Fix menu focus issue when returning from "Set Core Association" if playlist index is greater than the previous menu
MENU/EXPLORE: Prevent flashing when browsing fullscreen thumbnails
MENU/EXPLORE: Match label ticker length behavior with playlists
MENU/SOUNDS: Fix certain audio drivers from hanging when menu pause is enabled with menu sounds
MENU/SOUNDS: Fix menu sounds stopping after fullscreen toggle / video reinit
MENU/QT/WIMP: Cleanup Desktop Menu welcome text
MENU/OVERLAYS: Reorder overlay menu
MICROPHONE: Add support for microphones.
MICROPHONE/ALSA: Add alsa and alsathread microphone drivers.
MICROPHONE/SDL: Add sdl2 microphone driver.
MICROPHONE/WASAPI: Add wasapi microphone driver.
MOBILE: On mobile in portrait mode, don't override custom viewport
NETWORKING: Enhance netpacket interface
NETWORKING/NETPLAY: Enable core host to refuse connecting new players to limit the number of connected players
NETWORKING/NETPLAY: Enable a core to flush outgoing packets and read incoming packets without waiting for the next frame (can be used for lower latency or blocking reads)
OPENDINGUX/RG350: Enable networking for RG350
OPENGL/WAYLAND: Add frame callback after egl_swap_buffers to improve latency when max_swapchain <= 2
OSD/STATISTICS: Show current video + audio drivers in statistics
OSD/STATISTICS: Ensure statistics text is aligned left
OSX/MACOS: Fix steam OSX core path
OSX/MACOS: Add HAVE_STDIN_CMD support
OSX/MACOS: fix mouse grab in windowed mode
OSX/MACOS/IOS/TVOS: Enable SSL in macos/ios/tvos builds
PLAYLIST: Change default playlist last played time format
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add overlay support
RUNLOOP: Don't count frames while paused
SERENITYOS: Add SerenityOS to the list of supported operating systems
SCANNER: Improve scanner console output
SCANNER: More scanner console output coloring
SCANNER: Improve CLI scan console output
SCANNER: Add content import/scan via CLI
SCANNER/PS1: Serial extraction is now considered a failure if PSX.EXE is found, allowing CRC fallback and actually fixing the game scanning
VIDEO: Correct rotated core provided aspect ratio
VIDEO: Minor adjustments to refresh rate switch behavior
VIDEO: Fix windowed viewport with libretro rotation
VIDEO/SDL2: Use "nearest" scaling in menus
TASKS: Fix corrupt task progress percentage
XVIDEO/MENU: Add menu support to xvideo gfx driver, making it usable
UWP: Fix modifier keys ( shift, ctrl, alt ) as well as F10 not being detected on the UWP platform
VULKAN: Ignore Fast-Forward Frameskip option
VULKAN/KHR_DISPLAY: Support screen refresh rate with Vulkan KHR_Display context
WIN32: Increase maximum window limit
WIN32/WINDOWSXP/MSVC2010: Fix invisible menu display
WAYLAND: Remove splash screen
WAYLAND: Check for pointer before locking it
WAYLAND: Add mouse grab/lock functionality
WAYLAND: Get system wayland-protocols path via pkg-config

1.15.0

AI SERVICE: Fix NVDA switching to Powershell on speak
ANDROID: In Android builds, add input_android_physical_keyboard configuration option and its corresponding menu entry to force a device to act as a physical keyboard. When running on Android, RetroArch considers most devices that emit dpad events as gamepads, even if they also emit other keyboard events; this is usually the right thing to do, but it has the side effect of not letting some actual keyboards (e.g.: Logitech K480) act as such inside RetroArch. This configuration option allows users to manually select a specific input device to act as a physical keyboard instead of a gamepad, which is handy when emulating computers as opposed to consoles.
APPLE: Add App Category to a few places it should have been
APPLE/MFI: Prevent crash when controller player index is unset (-1)
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Helped delay to decrease easier when it should and helped delay to stay put when it should when triggering pause & menu with or without pause & fast-forward & slow-motion & geometry change
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Recalibrate delay on video reinit (fullscreen toggle and such)
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Show (x effective) only in menu item and not in dropdown list items when auto is enabled
CHEEVOS: Allow repositioning of RetroAchievement notifications
CHEEVOS/MENU: Add Achievements Visibility submenu option
CHEEVOS/MENU: Startup Summary split off from Verbose Mode, added option to hide for games with zero core cheevos
CHEEVOS/MENU: 'Unlocks/Mastery' split into two options
CHEEVOS/MENU: 'Account/Login Messages' split off from 'Verbose', gated all login success/error messages
CONFIG/INPUT: Unload restores current global config
CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Removing a file does not unload current override
CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Saving an empty override removes the file if it exists, and won't save when it does not
CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Prevent the use of RUNLOOP_FLAG_OVERRIDES_ACTIVE with appendconfig
CORE OPTION: Core option setting type checks. Added checks for getting and setting core option type, since otherwise there will be a crash on close content after browsing to core option categories. Also fixed the no-show switch icon for lone wolf "Lock Installed Core".
CLI: Update selected save slot when start with cli --entryslot
CLI: Decouple config CLI append and config overrides
CLI/MENU/XMB: Stop showing bogus previous icon on CLI launch
D3D9: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
D3D10: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
D3D11: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
D3D11: Fixed build when HAVE_DXGI_HDR is not defined
D3D11: Moved waitable swapchain waiting to happen always even when resizing swapchain
D3D12: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
D3D12: Fixed window scaling issue, which was caused by swapchain resize function not using the same flags (waitable swapchain) as swapchain creation
D3D12: Fixed swapchain scissoring issue (visual + crash) after manually resizing window to smaller size
D3D12: Fixed eventual crashing issue on video reinit when swapchain is being freed
D3D12: Moved waitable swapchain waiting to happen always even when resizing swapchain
EMSCRIPTEN: Add HAVE_PATCH support for Emscripten
EMSCRIPTEN: Add BSV/Replay support for Emscripten
EMSCRIPTEN: Add command and stdin_cmd features to emscripten RA. update libretro.js to show how commands could be sent over emscripten stdin.
FRAME DELAY/MENU: Show Frame Delay without VSync
GENERAL: Start unpause restriction. Limit the feature using retropad start button to unpause RA to the setting it was made for; "pause on controller disconnect".
GENERAL: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio fallback. Thanks to at least one certain core that announces aspect ratio as 0, we have to add the same fallback in savestate thumbnails that is happening elsewhere in normal video driver use anyway.
GENERAL: Add support for system subdirs per core/database. Added the trivial and graceful automatic ability to send a different system directory to cores if it exists, for keeping the system dir more sane. First by using the core/library name just like in configs and saves, and then by playlist name, like in thumbnails, and of course default to the current global system dir.
GENERAL: Ignore system subdir replacement if subdir has subdirs.
GENERAL: Restore cached video driver always on quit
IOS: Include 'Update Core Info Files'
IOS: Fix #14778 - In addition to sending logs to asl_client, add them to the logfile.
IOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Vulkan video driver on iOS
LATENCY/PREEMPTIVE FRAMES: Add Preemptive Frames to Latency Settings. RunAhead alternative that reruns core logic to "rewrite history" before the current frame. Frames are only rerun when the controller state changes, so it's faster overall.
LATENCY/PREEMPTIVE FRAMES: Call retro_run before retro_serialize (#14893). Fixes preemptive frames not starting up with a few cores
LIBRETRO-COMMON/VFS/FILESTREAM: Fixes filestream_vscanf regression
LOCALIZATION: Updates
LOCALIZATION: Enable localization of video rotation, orientation, and aspect ratio option values.
LOCALIZATION: Mixer stream localization also added
LOCALIZATION/MENU/HELP: Context dependent help text for audio and video drivers. Language corrections
LOCALIZATION/MENU/LANGUAGE: Language submenu now shows the progress of translated strings for each language.
LOCALIZATION: Help texts now localizable through Crowdin.
LIBRETRO: Enable RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_SUPPORT_NO_GAME for libretro-video-processor
LIBRETRO/HW: Add GET_HW_CONTEXT_NEGOTIATION_INTERFACE_SUPPORT. Works around issues in v1 interface where it was not possible to query what frontend would do when faces with newer interface versions. This env-call gives stronger guarantees how things have to work.
INPUT: Allowing keyboard hotkeys to work without hotkey modifier if modifier is only mapped to RetroPad
INPUT: Allowing keyboard hotkey keys for typing if hotkey modifier is set to keyboard but not pressed
INPUT: Allowing keyboard RetroPad keys for typing if emulated device type is "None"
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Check for 'enable_hotkey' also from autoconf binds
INPUT/BLUETOOTH: Fix a crash in for BT HID devices. (#14922) pad_connection_destroy() frees slots, no need to free it again.
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't start video recording when BSV recording starts
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't double-record inputs in BSV recording
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't autoload states if a BSV file is being played back or recorded
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Moved BSV initialization before autoload code
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't trigger autoload code if there is bsv movie state
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Allow for both -e and -R to start a BSV file recording at a state
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add keyboard recording support to BSV
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Fix BSV playback from a starting state for DOSbox
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Associate states with replays. Now states can be saved and loaded during replay recording and playback in a way that keeps the integrity of the recording. Recordings also have a (moderately) unique identifier associated with them.
INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add checkpointing feature for replay recordings. If cores are not deterministic, or if they only have bounded determinism, we can obtain less drift if replay files also contain periodic checkpoint states. These are configured by the new retroarch setting replay_checkpoint_interval (measured in seconds). States are inserted into the replay file in between frames. This also fixes the settings display for the replay autoincrement max keep setting.
INPUT/FRAMEADVANCE: Use non-rendering pause mode when frameadvance is triggered
INPUT/HOTKEYS/OVERLAYS: Do not block input overlay hotkeys
INPUT/HOTKEYS: Hotkey blocking correction. Turned out the previous hotkey blocking changes worked properly only with winraw driver and not the rest (at least with Windows), because input_keyboard_event() could be called at the wrong moment, and thus storing keyboard menu press there broke the separation of controller Guide menu button and keyboard menu key. Also allowed the blocking to work in both directions so that controller hotkeys won't get blocked if only keyboard has "enable_hotkey" bind.
INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix udev guns input when id_mouse is not id_joystick
MENU: Rename 'Standalone Cores' to 'Contentless Cores'
MENU: Music files should also obey builtin_mediaplayer_enable (#14967) Disabling the built in media player should be possible for music files as well. Without this, sound files can not be opened from file browser with cores that support them.
MENU: Relocated items to a more logical order
MENU: Corrected some title capitalizations (when/before/after are not low case, but for/the/a are)
MENU/AUDIO: Add dropdown menu for audio device
MENU/HELP: Help for turbo modes (#14919). Help text added for each of the selectable turbo modes.
MENU/INPUT: Add unified back action to all menu drivers. Usability boost for all menu drivers resulting in similar behavior as with Ozone currently, which is pressing back/cancel enough the selection jumps first to Main Menu and when pressed again jumps to the first item, so that when a core is running, Quick Menu is very quickly accessible from anywhere. And when core is not running, the first item would be Load Core.
MENU/INPUT: Override bind save + menu manager overhaul
MENU/INPUT: Allowed and fixed input bind saving to overrides
MENU/INPUT: Overhauled override menu
MENU/INPUT: Pressing Start on the top active file entry reloads current overrides as startup would
MENU/SUBLABELS: All under "Configuration File" + moved "Reset to Defaults" to bottom
MENU/SUBLABELS: Quick Menu > Controls > Port x Controls
MENU/SUBLABELS: Port x Controls > Device Type
MENU/RGUI: Fix disabled menu item color. The effect was not working properly, since transparency meant using the core output color as background.
MENU/XMB: Horizontal icon animation fix
MENU/XMB: Fixed playlist manager icons to take Explore Views into account properly
MENU/XMB: Changed XMB Explore View title to match Ozone
MENU/XMB: Added "Switch Icons" option
MENU/XMB: Fix MENU_ACTION_CANCEL when search is active. Nasty issue discovered in XMB which broke search term cancelation.
MENU/XMB: Layout corrections:
MENU/XMB: More room for longer item labels and values
MENU/XMB: "Core Downloader" has extra space for item and "installed" indicator
MENU/XMB: Fixed "Menu Scale Factor" to not require restarting to get the actual end result
MENU/XMB: Adjusted scale factor to behave better with both layouts
MENU/XMB: Fixed savestate thumbnails and adjusted vertical fade factor in "Handheld" layout
MENU/XMB: Changed thumbnail shadow to outline and tightened fullscreen thumbnail margins
MENU/XMB: Adjusted global shadow opacity
MENU/XMB: Remove "Framebuffer opacity" from XMB as it does not use it. Also, rename the corresponding menu title, since "framebuffer" is not that intuitive.
MENU/OZONE: Fixed playlist manager icons to take Explore Views into account properly
MENU/OZONE: Refresh thumbnail on close content hotkey
MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancements (#14926). Add Help button (Select) and Reset to Default (Start) to footer where applicable.
MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancements (#14934). Display Help footer only if there is actual info to be displayed, either actual help, or sublabel if it is not visible otherwise.
MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancement: Scan button (#14949). Display Scan button in footer when it is applicable.
MENU/OZONE: Add Clear button to Ozone footer (#14947). Add indication of Clear button when it is applicable (currently: keybinds).
MENU/MATERIALUI: Added missing Favorites+History icons in playlist manager
MENU/MATERIALUI: Added "Switch Icons" option
MENU/CHEATS: Added missing icons in cheats (Delete + Copy After/Before)
MENU/CHEATS: Fixed label capitalization in cheats (Add New After/Before This)
MENU/SOUNDS: Add scrolling sounds for RGUI, XMB, MaterialUI and Ozone.
MENU/SOUNDS: Better scrolling sound implementation, add new 'notice back' sound
MENU/SOUNDS: Scroll sound fixes. Correctly get list size in xmb.c for playing scrolling sound when switching categories, play the scrolling sound when pressing cancel in ozone, play the sound when scrolling with ZL and ZR, play the correct sound when scrolling with L
MENU/WIDGETS: Show square sized widget on volume mute. Volume widget is currently fixed size always, and thus showing a lot of empty space when muting, therefore shorten the box to icon size only when muting.
MIYOO: L3/R3 support for Dingux Gamepad controller device.
NETWORKING: Call ssl_socket_close for SSL sockets
NETWORKING/CHEEVOS: net_http - Temporary fix for cheevos crash. Don't use new timeout/poll code for cheevos HTTP requests.
NETWORKING/MENU: Network information cleanup:
NETWORKING/MENU: Remove extra space from : delimiter
NETWORKING/MENU: Trim useless/duplicate garbage from the end of ipv6 address. Windows shows %[adapter number], Linux shows %[adapter name], which already shows before the address
NETWORKING/STDIN: Add LOAD_STATE_SLOT N command to stdin/network protocol
OSD/STATISTICS: Add Run-Ahead data to on-screen statistics
OSD/STATISTICS: Notification font + statistics adjustments
OSD/STATISTICS: Finetuned statistics layout to be more compact and aligned
OSD/STATISTICS: Group Run-Ahead and Frame Delay as "Latency"
OSD/STATISTICS: Try to scale font as small as possible/readable if stats won't fit
OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Allow reseting notification font with RetroPad Y to "null", which uses the fallback pixel font
OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Show "Default" instead of empty with default font
OSD/STATISTICS/FONT: Start browsing font from assets instead of root
OSX/MACOS: Steam platform support
OSX/MACOS: Set LSApplicationCategoryType to games
OSX/MACOS: Include OpenGL video driver on Metal macOS builds (10.13 and higher)
OSX/MACOS: Fix a few mac windowed mode settings -
OSX/MACOS: Use "Remember window position and size" setting (fixes #14806)
OSX/MACOS: Implement window opacity
OSX/MACOS: Enable "Show window decorations" toggle
OSX/MACOS: Hide "Disable composition" option (osx does not support disabling composition)
OSX/MACOS: Make sure to use the file system path name, not the URL name
OSX/MACOS/IOHIDMANAGER: Various memory access fixes to prevent crashes (#14459) (#15000). Prevent double free and null dereference when the controller is quickly reconnected. Handle error when controller device query returns null instead of crashing.
OSX/MACOS/METAL BUILD: Fix input events (keyboard/mouse) sometimes going lost when switching between fullscreen and windowed mode. Fixes lots of longstanding issues
OSX/MACOS/OPENGL: Fix for fullscreen OpenGL driver in Metal macOS build
OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Default to Vulkan driver when available (for 10.13 Metal Universal build)
OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Updated Vulkan on Metal for OSX via MoltenVK
OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK/HDR: Fix non-HDR colors
OSX/MACOS/SLANG: The change to apply shaders would be executed and then a command to apply shaders would immeidately be enqueued, to run asynchronously after the current event handler, which then did exactly the same. Fixes issue #14789 - Turning on shaders on Metal build 1.14.0 stable for Mac OS will slow emulation drastically thing, creating a busy loop.
PS2: Avoid loading extra drivers when not needed. Fixed a bug where it wasn't using the variable extra_drivers, for loading the specific IRX needed drivers. This is increasing compatibility with some specific PS2 models that sometimes fail when loading cores.
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add improvements to the RSX driver (#14965)
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add modern_alpha_blend and modern_opaque rsx shaders
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add perf improvements to the rsx driver
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add RSX video driver
PS3/PSL1GHT/MENU/XMB: Do XMB menu scaling for psl1ght
PS3/PSL1GHT: Update Makefile to use latest shaders and more UI menu options
PS3/PSL1GHT: Default folders normalization
PS3/PSL1GHT: Fix video rotation
PS3/PSL1GHT: Fix HTTP download
QB/CONFIGURE: Add new flags - HAVE_UPDATE_CORE_INFO, ASSETS_DIR, FILTERS_DIR
RECORDING: Add recordings to video history playlist
REWIND: Don't take rewind steps while menu pause active
RUNLOOP: Currently when core is paused, video output will be stopped completely too, making it impossible to animate widgets while paused, therefore:
RUNLOOP: Added a new runloop state for pause which renders last cached frame
RUNLOOP: Allowed rewinding while paused so that it acts like backwards frameadvance. Also moved rewind step taking before menu iteration so that steps won't be lost while in menu when menu_pause is disabled
RUNLOOP: State load and reset while paused will forget pause for x frames in order to show proper output
RUNLOOP: Allowed reading pause hotkey while menu is active
RUNLOOP: Allowed reading screenshot hotkey while menu is active
RUNLOOP: Joined 2 fullscreen hotkey checks to one (Any ideas why they were separated for paused and non-paused states, since one works fine for both..?)
RUNLOOP: Implement GET_HW_CONTEXT_NEGOTIATION_INTERFACE_SUPPORT. Fairly trivial. Just report the latest version.
SAVESTATES: State slot hotkey adjustments -
SAVESTATES: Allow selecting -1 Auto slot with hotkeys
SAVESTATES: Allow wrap-around from -1 to 999 and backwards
SAVESTATES: Show failure message when trying to load a state that does not exist instead of plain "Loading state"
SAVESTATES: Shorten the duration of slot change notification
SAVESTATES: Change the widget type to the same type as shader toggle for better back and forth action. Closes [Widgets] Save state slot switcher
SHADERS: Append Preset feature
SHADERS: Prepend Preset feature
SHADERS: Shader Preset - Wildcard Replacement in Paths on Load. When a simple preset loads, text wildcards which are found in paths inside the presets will be replaced with values coming from the current RetroArch context. The replacement will be executed on both texture paths and reference paths.
SHADERS/SLANG/SPIRVCROSS: Update to latest SPIRV-Cross, fixing Metal shader compilation issues along the way
STATICALLY LINKED/SALAMANDER: Fix salamander config save on fork for static platforms
TVOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Vulkan on tvOS
VIDEO: Allow manual video swap interval forcing. The addition of auto swap interval effectively prevented manual forcing, which is beneficial when the rate is not reported properly. Therefore use the interval in the calculation only when using automatic interval.
VULKAN: Fix crash when using multiple physical devices and HW core (#14889)
VULKAN: Detect if wrong PhysicalDevice is returned.
VULKAN: Actually query physical device before creating core device.
VULKAN: Define and implement v2 of context negotiation interface
VULKAN: Add v2 of context negotiation interface.
VULKAN: Add vkEnumerateInstanceVersion symbol.
VULKAN: Implement v2 context negotiation
VULKAN: Use compute shaders to upload RGB565
VULKAN: Fix regression with RGB565 and OriginalHistory.
VULKAN/WAYLAND: Don't clamp the number of requested images. Due to an unfortunate "feature", MESA always reports 4 as the Vulkan surface's minImageCount in Wayland. However, values of 2 and 3 work perfectly well, even if they are out of spec, providing way better latencies when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland. So this removes the artificial clamping that was being done to desired_swapchain_images, because it's not really necessary and was causing very noticeable input lag on Wayland+Vulkan.
VULKAN/MENU/RGUI: Fix RGUI on Vulkan on platforms that don't have _pack16 VkFormats
VULKAN/MACOS/OSX: avoid using _PACK16 pixel formats on platforms without them
WAYLAND: On scaled desktops the wayland backend deciding to resize based on values multiplied by the scale factor twice. Resulting in continuous attempts to rebuild the swapchain when in fullscreen.
WAYLAND: Wait for splash screen configuration. Before, configuration (resize) events for the initial wayland window could happen before or after set_video_mode which could result in a small or corrupted window. Now we make sure that the initial window has processed it's resize events before window size is set by set_video_mode.
WAYLAND: Changes the initial window to show a RetroArch logo copied from the icon of the X11 backend.
WAYLAND: Build pointer-constraints and relative-pointer protocols.
WAYLAND/GL: GL is sometimes not rescaling property (Super + Left).
WIN32: Ignore window limiting with fixed position. The other resizing part already took this into account, but WM_GETMINMAXINFO did not.
WIN32/INPUT: Add support for mouse button swap
WIN32: Fix keyboard event characters. Added sending key chars to all input drivers (currently they only send scan codes), and also missing mods for raw.
WIN32: Fix restart if path has spaces. CreateProcess does not like to have anything executable path related in the second parameter lpCommandLine if the path has spaces. Thus strip everything from args except the actual parameters.

1.14.0

AUDIO/COREAUDIO/APPLE: Allow coreaudio3 driver to work with audio devices that have 2 or more output channels
CHEEVOS: Fix construction of Cheevos badge path
CLI: Fixed not getting any output when running --version or --features without --verbose
CLI: Fixed crash when running empty - parameter (it proceeded to content loading)
CLI: Reformatted --features to require less rows and to be more consistent
CLI: Added -V shorthand for --version
CLI: Tab removal + whitespace nits
CONFIG/MIDI: Prevent MIDI startup error with old configurations
D3D11: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc
D3D12: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc
D3D12: Added support for break on errors (development aid - define DEVICE_DEBUG to use)
D3D12: Added support for DRED (device remove extended data) (development aid - define DEVICE_DEBUG to use)
D3D12: Made D3D12 viewport and scissors to behave more like Vulkan drivers (or be more correct)
D3D12: Fixed validation error on start up due to buffers not being setup correctly for one frame
D3D12: Fixed some shaders not appearing with the d3d12 driver - this reintroduces a validation error though but it seems to work as in not crash and is the old RA behaviour. Guess we need a different way of fixing the validation issue.
DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix - RGUI did not clear thumbnail on non-playlist items such as Save and Delete menu_explore_get_entry_playlist_index() returns -1 on invalid entries, but the variable where it was stored was unsigned
DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix - XMB+Ozone cleared thumbnail in Quick Menu when navigating away from Run
DRM/ODROID GO2: Implement get_video_size for DRM GL context driver
FASTFORWARD: Restore framelimit on fastforward toggle. Fast-forward was broken after toggling vrr_runloop off, since it will force frame limit to 1.0 (even on every frame) and never restores it. So let's make sure the wanted ratio is applied when toggling FF (Fastforward).
FFMPEG CORE: Fix runtime error in FFmpeg core when build with FFmpeg n5.1.2 and OpenGL ES
GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: (picoscale_256x_320x240) Added snn function to upscale Fuse (ZX Spectrum) core borderless output to 320x240. ZX Spectrum resolution of 256x192 was previously unsupported.
HOTKEYS: Further reorder internal hotkey items for consistency and removed SEND_DEBUG_INFO, OVERLAY_NEXT and OSK from visible hotkey bind list. "Send Debug Info" stuff is removed as much as possible without breakage due to translation files.
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Disable 'pause on controller disconnect' by default - was enabled by default on 1.13.0
INPUT/MENU: Device Index menu refactor
INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix analog drift blocking touch input (could occur on overlay_next if physical inputs shown on overlay)
INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay_next buttons lighting up in unison
INPUT/OVERLAY: Skip meta keys in input_overlay_add_inputs (not supported by input_state_internal)
INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix mouse position when using input overlay with mouse cursor
INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fixed mouse position to use the same method required for menu items and pointer when simulating input overlays with mouse, since it won't work with multi mouse method
INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fixed passing mouse position to core also when using aforementioned method
LEAPFROG: Add Leapfrog (LFx000) Target
LOCALIZATION: Updates
LOCALIZATION/INPUT/IME/MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: Extended IME and Korean OSK
MENU: Cleanup of help texts
MENU: Allow toggling info off with the same button
MENU: Allow menu wallpaper/background reset. Let's also remove the current wallpaper from the screen when pressing Start.
MENU: Null driver shows with different color (Added for all menus the ability to show "disabled" items with a muted color)
MENU/DRIVERS: Menu driver first, Audio Resampler removed because it is enough to exist under audio settings
MENU/INPUT: Moved "Confirm Quit" to Input menu
MENU/INPUT/HOTKEYS: Input hotkey menu completely overhauled to keep related entries together, and also adjusted some labels and sublabels
MENU/OVERLAY: Fix overlays behind menu without core running. "Show Overlay Behind Menu" is currently broken with Ozone and XMB (with any other color theme than Plain) when running without a core.
MENU/MATERIALUI: Fix home screen on first startup - no more stray entries
MENU/OZONE: Allowed drawing sidebar and thumbnail bar background color also when core is running
MENU/OZONE: Stopped using different padding and position for savestate thumbnails vs imageviewer
MENU/OZONE: Removed gradient background effect when core is running, because some themes already have gradient background, which creates ugly rough steps
MENU/OZONE: Fixed "Gray Light" theme from using the same background as "Gray Dark", which makes selection cursor near impossible to see
MENU/OZONE: Some whitespace corrections
MENU/UX: Extend OFF menu value colors
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Menu Visibility icons (Quick Menu + Settings)
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Playlist Manager icons
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Explore icon as database icon
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - View and filter icons as cursor icon (folder icon in GLUI)
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - View save + delete icons
MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Moved Explore + Views below Standalone Cores
MENU/UX/OZONE: Removed icons from menus where others items don't have icons, and added icons to menus where the rest have icons
MENU/UX/OZONE: Changed the way "no icon" is handled from kludgy way of not drawing SUBSETTING icon
MENU/UX/XMB: Changed playlist entry index positioning to bottom right when thumbnails are in vertical mode, because big lists will overlap with arrow and current "breadcrumb" icons when the position is next to current selection
MENU/UX/XMB: Added a rather nasty hack to prevent showing wrong icons under Explore as "breadcrumb" icon
MENU/UX/XMB: Optimized certain icon drawing loops (Main horizontal icons were looped even when not visible, and all previous "breadcrumb" icons were looped when only one certain was needed)
MENU/UX/MATERIALUI: Fixed showing icons where there should not be any (Waitable Swapchains, Show Recording + Streaming)
OSX/MACOS: Fixed Cocoa keyboard not allowing to map Analog stick
PS2: Use the recently created ps2_drivers which makes easier the loading and init of all the drivers: Memory Card, USB, HDD, Audio, Controllers
PS2: Adds exFat support for USB, and probably solves some unexpected issues when using an HDD driver for booting cores/games.
SDL GFX: Fix no menu on start/blank screen issue.
SRAM: Don't init SRAM saving without content (gets rid of the redundant logging)

1.13.0

3DS: Remove debug button combo to shutdown RA
3DS: Remove MaterialUI as per MrHuu recommendation
ANDROID: Enable 'Vibrate On Key Press' by default
ANDROID: Turn 'Threaded Video' off by default
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.5
COMPILATION: Fixed compiling with --disable-menu
CONFIG: Don't show override notification with appendconfig alone
DATABASE/PLAYLISTS: Playlist + database changes - Cleanup 'entry_slot', fallback label + logging
FRONTEND: Fix default remaps folder for various cores: remap should be nested in config folder
GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Prevent video filter init if game is not running
HOTKEYS: Fix shader toggle and add hotkey + sublabel
HOTKEYS: Cleanups and corrections - Keep hotkey pause and menu pause separate in order to not trigger unwanted pause when toggling menu regardless if menu will pause or not
HOTKEYS: Cleanups and corrections - Allow unpausing with Start (makes resuming more convenient after controller disconnect if menu does not pause)
IOS13+: Pointer movement accuracy. iPad Trackpad Pointer Movement Accuracy through absolute location (for iOS 13.4 and above)
IOS13+: Adds iPad Trackpad Support to iOS13 Project (for iOS 13.4 and above)
INPUT: Fixed the way devices were previously indexed. Input devices were only being indexed in order and would stop at the first time an input has no device connected to it. The problem is when a device gets disconnected, that input will have no devices connected to it, but the next input may still have a device connected. So, that makes changing the port of the currently connected devices impossible.
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Add option for pause on controller disconnect
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Driver independent disconnection notification. Should show disconnect notification now properly on Windows with XInput and/or DirectInput pads
INPUT/HID: Added usb hid controllers for the famous ZeroDelay encoder and also for "Kade: Kick Ass Dynamic Encoder" to be able to use some custom arcade sticks.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Add eightway area types.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Ignore hitboxes with zero area. I.e. Set 'reach_x' or 'reach_y' to zero to ensure no hitbox math is done. This simplifies designating animation-only descriptors (e.g. for eightway areas) or obsolete descriptors.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Add 'reach' and 'exclusive' for hitboxes. Allows stretching hitboxes and handling their overlap.
INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay next_index for unnamed targets
INPUT/MENU: Addition to analog stick menu navigation
INPUT/MENU: Enable menu navigation also with right analog stick
INPUT/MENU: Add option for swapping menu scrolling buttons
LOCALIZATION: Updates
LOCALIZATION: Add Hungarian language option
MENU: Thumbnail fullscreen toggle behavior correction
MENU: Consistent left-right scrolling for Quick Menu items
MENU: Remove useless sublabel from System Information
MENU: Improve widget appearance with missing assets
MENU/QT/WIMP: Remove SSL/TLS check at startup
MENU/OZONE: Show metadata helper in footer only with second thumbnail
MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements - Add "Cycle thumbnails" helper when suitable
MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements - Show "Search" helper only when search function is enabled
MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements - Fix "Thumbnails available" helper for save states
MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements - Tighten padding between icon and title, and widen between helpers
MENU/OZONE: Launching anything from a View no longer throws Quick Menu off the screen
MENU/OZONE: Save state thumbnails in slot dropdown obeys fullscreen toggle properly when content launched via CLI
MENU/OZONE: Save state thumbnail dropdown won’t allow fullscreen toggle when it shouldn’t
MENU/OZONE: Selection position remembering in non-playlists won’t flash the first entry
MENU/OZONE: Remember selection per main tabs
MENU/OZONE: Remove incomplete assets warning
MENU/OZONE: Add option to adjust cursor memory when changing menu tabs
MENU/OZONE: Further extend texture support for Core Option categories
MENU/XMB: Remove incomplete assets warning
MENU/XMB: Add truncate playlist name option
MENU/XMB: Improve background image selector
MENU/XMB: Add option to adjust cursor memory when changing menu tabs
MENU/XMB: Further extend texture support for Core Option categories
MENU/MATERIALUI: Remove incomplete assets warning
OSX: Fixed Z/X keys not working on the macOS port
OSX: Fixed RETROK_LMETA not working on macOS port. The RETROK_LMETA key was not defined in the rarch_key_map_apple_hid
OSX: Fix broken fullscreen mode in macOS Ventura
PS2: Fix Error saving remaps and runtime logs
PS3: Fix Core Remap Overwrite Fail
QB: Don't fail if OSDependent/OGLCompiler libraries are not present
SCANNER/PS1: Improved scanning of PS1 discs
SCANNER/PS2: Added serial scanning of PS2 discs - should now scan DVDs and other discs which were previously missed
THUMBNAIL: If you rename title, you cannot use the thumbnail image. because the thumbnail filename and the title must be the same. If there is no thumbnail with title, find the thumbnail image with rom-name. This has nothing to do with IME.
THREADED VIDEO/GLCORE: Fix regression 'Shader presets dont load, when video driver is set to glcore'
VULKAN: Fix HDR inverse tonemapping. Only skip tonemapper if HDR10 is explicitly enabled by last shader pass. Otherwise, we are simply just inheriting the bit-depth of the swapchain.

1.12.0

CONFIG/CLI: Allow use of --appendconfig with override cfgs instead of getting ignored
CONFIG/LOGGING: No more console startup logging if logging to file
CONFIG: Saves config on exit only once instead of (worst case scenario) 3 times
DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Add View feature - Add saving of a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called "View" file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches.
FILEBROWSER: Fix regression - certain extensions keep disappearing
IOS: New modern iOS version (targeting iOS 13 and up), leverages Swift
IOS: Fixes to iOS toolbar
IOS16: Add iOS 16 lock screen widget
IOS13+: Added emulator keyboard
IOS13+: Add JIT support for non-jailbroken devices
IOS13+: Added support for touch mouse handler
IOS13+: Changed click-and-drag behavior to double tap hold and drag
INPUT/HAPTIC/OVERLAYS/ANDROID: Improve haptic feedback for input overlays
LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Add conditional support for OpenGL ES 3.x
LOCALIZATION: Updates
LOCALIZATION/ENGLISH: Add British English language option
LOGGING/QT: Increase log buffer to 2048 characters - Vulkan validation layer messages output correctly now.
MENU/XMB: Remember selection per main tabs. Addresses the following : collection playlists can contain hundreds or thousands of items. When scrolling through one, pressing left or right by accident can be common. This resets the playlist to the top
MIST/STEAM/STEAMDECK: Don't expose Black Frame Insertion (BFI) if we are running on a Steam Deck
NETWORKING/WINDOWS: Disable poll support for MSVC 2010 and earlier. WSAPoll is not supported on Windows XP and earlier.
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fix socket_connect_with_timeout for WIIU
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes RetroAchievements login
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes other online updater functionality
SAVESTATES/NOTIFICATIONS: Add delay to savestate notifications, so that GPU savestate screenshots stay untouched
SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid 'video_gpu_screenshot' with savestates. Allow GPU screenshots with savestates only when there is no other way of getting a screenshot.
SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Unload screenshot widget texture early. Fixes Vulkan crash when closing content while a screenshot widget is still on-screen
SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Fix screenshot widget crash when ticker animating
WAYLAND: Set correct app ID
WIIU: Add some missing default directories
WIIU: Get mkdir working on WiiU (directory creation)

1.11.1

GENERAL: Fix DEFAULT_FILL_TITLE_MACRO
NETWORKING: Add the const qualifier to some function parameters
NETWORKING/NETPLAY/UPNP: Add a private or CGNAT address warning to UPnP
SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid 'video_gpu_screenshot' with savestates
UWP: Better 'Save on quit' fix

1.11.0

3DS: Add unique ID's
3DS: Add bottom menu options
3DS: Set bottom_asset directory default
3DS: Only enable internal counter with CONSOLE_LOG defined
3DS: Set default bottom font values
3DS: Fix CIA installation issues
3DS: Support latest libctru
ANDROID: Add HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY
ANDROID: Gingerbread support
ANDROID: Touchpads support
ANDROID: Builtin Xperia Play autoconfig profile
ANDROID: Disable Feral GameMode for Android - only available on Linux
ANDROID: Add a configurable workaround for Android reconnecting devices
ANDROID/FDROID: Add F-Droid metadata to repo in Fastlane format
AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety
AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant 'single threaded' rthreads implementation
AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread - if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thread.
CDROM: Fix memory leak caught with asan - buf passed to filestream_read_file
CORE INFO/NETPLAY: Ensure current core info is initialized at runloop_event_init_core when netplay is enabled
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.4
CHEEVOS: Allow creating auto savestate in hardcore
CHEEVOS: prevent invalid memory reference if game has achievements but core doesn't expose memory
CHEEVOS: Release achievement badge textures when video driver is deinitialized
CHEEVOS: Re-enforce hardcore limitations once achievements are loade
CHEEVOS/MENU/MATERIALUI: Show achievement badge icons in MaterialUI driver
D3D9: D3D9 has been split up into two drivers - D3D9 HLSL (max compatibility, no shader support yet) and D3D9 Cg (dependent on deprecated Nvidia Cg runtime library)
D3D9/HLSL/XMB: XMB fix
D3D9/CG: D3D9 Cg driver fixed
D3D11: Fix overlay not showing up
D3D11/12: Reduce lag with WaitForVBlank - this rather simple addition seems to make D3D11/12 very very close to Vulkan/GLCore regarding input lag.
D3D11/12: Add waitable swapchains and max frame latency option
D3D11/12: Make waitable swapchains optional
DATABASE: Reformat 'rdb_entry_int' - Nitpick adjustments for database entries: Capitalize "Release Date", and remove space before : from Release Date rows which use integer
DATABASE/EXPLORE: Allow On-Demand Thumbnails in Explore menu
DATABASE/EXPLORE/MENU/OZONE/XMB/RGUI: Explore menu thumbnails
DISC CONTROL: Better Disc Control append focus
DOS/DJGPP: Add a workaround for libc bug
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added slowmotion resiliency
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added string representation for seeing the current effective delay without opening statistics
AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added "ms" to logging and "(ms)" to label just like in Audio Latency
GENERAL: Don't bake in OpenAL and libcaca by default unless explicitly enabled with configure switch.
GENERAL: Reduce amount of strlen calls
GENERAL: Reduce or simply sin/cosf calls
GFX: Fix readability and precision issues in aspectratio_lut
GFX: Add option to manually enable/disable automatic refresh rate switching
GFX: Enable automatic configuration of 'VSync Swap Interval'
GFX/FONT/FREETYPE: Use FT_New_Memory_Face - first read it from file to memory beforehand - this solves an asset extraction issue when selecting 'Update Assets' - apparently FT_New_Face keeps an open file handle to the font file which prevents it from being overwritten/deleted while the program is still running.
GFX/THUMBNAILS: Thumbnail aspect ratio fix
GFX/THREADED VIDEO: Optimizations, fixes and cleanups
GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Add Upscale_240x160-320x240 video filter with 'mixed' method
GLSLANG: Fix compilation with ./configure --disable-builtinglslang - was missing linking against -lMachineIndependent and -lGenericCodeGen static libs
INPUT: Fix off by one error for input_block_timeout setting. Also default to 0 for this setting (pretty massive performance gain)
INPUT: Analog button mapping fixes
INPUT/HID/OSX: Fix DualShock3 support
INPUT/HID/LINUX: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Linux as long as there are no working backends for both
INPUT/HID/WINDOWS: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Windows as long as there are no working backends for both
INPUT/HID/WIIU: Fix DualShock3 support
INPUT/OVERLAY: Block pointer input when overlay is pressed
INPUT/REMAPPING: input_remapping_save_file - existing remapping file was needlessly reloaded
INPUT/REMAPPING: Add option to disable automatic saving of input remap files
INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix lightgun scaling on Y axis
INPUT/LINUX/X11/LED: Add LED keyboard driver
INPUT/WINDOWS/LED: LED keyboard driver cleanup
INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Clear key states when unfocused
INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix pointer device position
IOS: iOS app icon fixes & revisions
LIBRETRO/SAVESTATES: Implement an api call for context awareness
LOCALIZATION: Updates
LOCALIZATION: Add Catalan language option
LOCALIZATION: Fix some bad localization
LINUX: Make memfd_create call more backwards compatible by calling it through syscall - on older systems, you'll have to include linux/memfd.h for the MFD_ defines, and call memfd_create() via the the syscall(2) wrapper (and include unistd.h and sys/syscall.h for it work). We exclude linux/memfd.h header include because we already provide the MFD_ defines in case they are missing
LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix assertion failed on video threaded switch
MENU: Menu paging navigation adjustments
MENU: New Menu Items for disabling Info & Search buttons in the menu
MENU: Allow the user to use volume up/down/mute hotkeys from within the menu
MENU: Add missing sublabels for non-running Quick Menu
MENU: Reorganize Quick Menu Information
MENU: Savestate thumbnails - Savestate slot reset action
MENU: Allow changing savestate slots with left/right on save/load
MENU: Add 'Ago' to playlist last played styles
MENU: Add proper icons for shader items
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon for 'Download Thumbnails'
MENU/XMB: Add options for hiding header and horizontal title margin
MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fixes
MENU/XMB: Add Daite XMB Icon Theme
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Core option category icon refinements
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail browsing
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add playlist icons under 'Load Content'
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Thumbnail improvements
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fullscreen + dropdown
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Prevent unnecessary thumbnail requests when scrolling through playlists
MENU/OZONE: Fix playlist thumbnail mouse hover after returning from Quick Menu
MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail visibility corrections
MENU/OZONE: Playlist metadata reformat
MENU/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fixes
MENU/OZONE: Add savestate thumbnails
MENU/OZONE: Header icon spacing adjustment
MENU/RGUI: Savestate thumbnails
MENU/SETTINGS: Turn Advanced Settings on by default, this entire filtering of settings will need a complete rethink anyways
MENU/WIDGETS: Widget color + position adjustments
MIYOO: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for Miyoo
MIYOO: Enable screenshots
MIYOO: Enable rewind
NETWORK: Allow MITM server selection on OK callback
NETWORK: Replace socket_select calls
NETWORK: Implement binary network streams
NETWORK: Poll support
NETWORK: Check connect errno for successful connection
NETWORK: Get rid of the timeout_enable parameter for socket_connect
NETWORK: Fix getnameinfo_retro's port value for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms
NETWORK: Define inet_ntop and inet_pton for older Windows versions
NETWORK: Define isinprogress function
NETWORK/NATT: Move natt files to "network"
NETWORK/NETWORK STREAMS: Add function netstream_eof
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix game CRC parsing
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable and hide stateless mode
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Change default for input sharing to "no sharing"
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Enforce a timeout during connection
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow clients from loading states and resetting
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Special saves directory for client
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Ensure current content is reloaded before joining a host
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix client info devices index
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix input for some cores when hosting
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Memory leak fixes
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Force a core update when starting netplay
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix NAT traversal announce for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Refactor fork arguments
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix content reload deadlocks on static core platforms
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow netplay start when content is not loaded for static core platforms
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Show client slowdown information
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Improve check frames menu entry
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Do not try to receive new data if the data is in the buffer
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Copy data on receive, even if the buffer is full
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix lobby sublabel CRC display on some platforms
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for customizing chat colors
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Small launch compatibility patch adjustments
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for banning clients
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Minor tweaks to the find content task
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for gathering client info and kicking
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix possible deadlock
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Initialize client's allow_pausing to true
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable netplay for unsupported cores - with stateless mode being disabled for now, there is no reason not to include this. Refuse to initialize netplay when the current core is not supported (no proper savestates support)
NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Ensure fixed width ints on packet struct
NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Support for IPv4 tunneling (6to4)
NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY/TASKS: Netplay/LAN Discovery Task refactor - aims to prevent blocking the main thread while awaiting for the LAN discovery timeout; This is accomplished by moving the whole discovery functionality into its task and using a non-blocking timer to finish the task. Also fixes discovery sockets not being made non-blocking, which could cause the main thread to hang for very long periods of time every pre-frame.
NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor - fixes many issues along the way, including a couple of nasty memory leaks that would leak thousands of bytes each time the task ran. It also expands the original concept by matching currently run content by filename (CRC matching is always performed first though).
NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor - Ensure CRC32 is 8 characters long
NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add setting for filtering out rooms with non-installed cores
NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Hide older (incompatible) rooms
NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add a toggleable filter for passworded rooms. In addition, move lobby filters into its own submenu for better organization.
NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Chat supported info for the host kick submenu
NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Localize relay servers
NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Host Ban Submenu
NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Add client devices info to the kick sub-menu
NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Path: Netplay -> Host -> Kick Client - Allows the host to kick clients. Allows the host to view client information: connected clients (names), status (playing/spectating) and ping.
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Add net_ifinfo support
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Enable partial LAN discovery
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Change default UDP port to 19492
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Do not multiply negative timeout values
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Fix epoll's timeout parameter
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Adapt POLL for 3DS platform
NETWORK/NETPLAY/PS3: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/WII: Enable net_ifinfo for some features. In practice, this only allows the netplay's UPnP task to succeed on the Wii.
NETWORK/NETPLAY/WIIU: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/SWITCH: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms
NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling
ODROID GO2: Increase DEFAULT_MAX_PADS to 8 for ODROIDGO2, since that impacts the RG351[X] consoles. The RG351[X] have a USB host controller and can have an arbitrary number of USB gamepads.
ONLINE UPDATER: Online Updater menu reorganizing
OSX: Fixed items of system top menu bar on macOS
OSX: Revision to macOS app icon set
PLAYLISTS: Ensure history list will contain CRC32
PLAYLISTS: Fix CRC32 comparison - as state->content_crc has "|crc" suffix.
PS4/ORBIS: Orbis/PS4 Support using OrbisDev toolchain
PS4/ORBIS: Update xxHash dependecy
PS4/ORBIS: Shader cache
RETROFW: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for RetroFW
RETROFW: Support battery indicator on RetroFW
RETROFW: Enable menu toggle button on retrofw devices
SHADERS: Shader Preset Loading of Multiple additional #references lines for settings
SHADERS: Shader Load Extra Parameter Reference Files - this adds the ability to put additional #reference lines inside shader presets which will load additional settings. The first reference in the preset still needs to point at a chain of presets which ends with a shader chain, and subsequent #reference lines will load presets which only have parameter values adjustment. This allows presets to be made with a modular selection of settings. For example with the Mega Bezel one additional reference could point at a preset which contained settings for Night mode vs Day mode, and another reference could point to a preset which contained settings for how much the screen should be zoomed in.
SHADERS/MENU: Increase shader scale max value
SCANNER/DC: Fix Redump bin/cue scan for some DC games
SCANNER/GC/WII: Add RVZ/WIA scan support for GC/Wii
SCANNER/PS1: Improved success rate of Serial scanning on PS1 by adding support for the xx.xxx format
SCANNER/PS1: Changed return value of detect_ps1_game function to actuially return a failure when the Serial couldn't be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database.
SWITCH: Enable RWAV (WAV audio file) support
STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned
TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks
TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait
TVOS: Revised tvOS icons w/ updated alien.
VFS: Fix various VFS / file stream issues
VULKAN: Fix more validation errors
VULKAN: Attempt to fix validation errors with HDR swapchain. Always use final render pass type equal to swapchain format. Use more direct logic to expose if filter chain emits HDR10 color space or not
VULKAN/ANDROID: Honor SUBOPTIMAL on non-Android since you'd want to recreate swapchains then. On Android it can be promoted to SUCCESS. SUBOPTIMAL_KHR can happen there when rotation (pre-rotate) is wrong.
VULKAN/DEBUG: Automatically mark buffer/images/memory with names
VULKAN/DEBUG: Move over to VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug marker is deprecated years ago.
VULKAN/HDR: Fix leak of HDR UBO buffer
VULKAN/BFI: Fix BFI (Black Frame Insertion) regression
WINDOWS: Fix exclusive fullscreen video refresh rate when vsync swap interval is not equal to one - refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen mode was being incorrectly multiplied by vsync swap interval, breaking swap interval functionality at the gfx driver level
WIN32: Do optimization for Windows where we only update the title with SetWindowText when the previous title differs from the current title
WIN32: Skip console attach when logging to file
WIN32: Remove black margins with borderless non-fullscreen window
WIN32/TASKBAR: Release ITaskbarList3 on failed HrInit - pointer wasn't NULL'd, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior
WII/GX: Fix potential datarace
WIIU: Implement sysconf and __clear_cache
WIIU: Add OS memory mapping imports
UWP: Added launch protocol arg 'forceExit' so a frontend can tell an already-running RetroArch UWP instance to quit.
UWP: Enable core downloader/updater
UWP: Remove copy permissions as its inefficient as we can just directly assign the new ACL and that works
Xbox/UWP: Remove expandedResources
Xbox/UWP: UWP OnSuspending crash fix
Xbox/UWP: Enable savestate file compression by default for UWP/Xbox - got told there are no more issues with it
Xbox/UWP: Add support for 4k to angle on xbox for MSVC2017 build

1.10.3

ANDROID: Decouple Play Core dependency to bring app into compliance for F-Droid
ANDROID: Allow audio playback capture on android
AI/SERVICE: Disable AI Service setting by default
BLUETOOTH/LAKKA: bluetoothctl: add / modify pairing steps
CHEEVOS: Disallow manual frame delay setting in Hardcore Mode
DATABASE: Serial scanning for Wii now includes WBFS
INPUT: Allow proper descriptor declaration for analog triggers
INPUT/MAPPING: Fix offset + crash when clearing input port binds
INPUT/MAPPING: Fix saving of 'Analog to Digital Type' when configuration overrides are used
INPUT/MAPPING: Fix saving of 'Analog to Digital Type' when configuration overrides are used
LOCALIZATION: Add Valencian language option
LOCALIZATION: Updates
MENU/SETTINGS: Move 'Show Menu Bar' under 'Windowed Mode' settings
MENU/SETTINGS: Add sublabels for 'Subsystems' and 'Input Deadzone/Sensitivity'
MENU/SETTINGS: Move 'On-Screen Notifications' to top
MENU/XMB: Unified the shadow alpha value to a slightly darker one for better readability
MENU/XMB: Corrected the option label and sublabel for actual behavior
MIYOO: Enable ALSA audio driver and default to it
PSP: Take out extra languages/localization, adds about 4/5MB to the binary, and RAM is limited on PSP (32MB and 64MB RAM models)
STATIC PLATFORMS: Populate all history list metadata when launching content from playlists
STEAM: Introduce Steam Rich Presence
VIDEO: Fast-Forward Frameskip improvement
VIDEO/THREADED: Stability fixes
WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix multiple light guns
WIIU: Fix USB get_device_name(), don't truncate to three chars

1.10.2

3DS: Add a menu toggle for switching between old and new 3DS speeds, located in the 'Power Management' menu. Enabled by default, hidden on old 3DS devices.
AUDIO/MIXER: Free audio voices properly
CHEEVOS: Update to rcheevos 10.3.3
CHEEVOS: Support for Arduboy
CHEEVOS: Fix tab sequences in rich presence being turned into t character
CHEEVOS: Fix overflow when parsing float value that has more than 9 digits after the decimal
CHEEVOS: Fix memory mapping when disconnect mask breaks a region into multiple blocks
CORES: Enable manual selection of which cores are displayed in the 'Standalone Cores' menu
DATABASE/EXPLORE: Added more categories to the Explore menu
INPUT: Fix analog stick not working with 'Unified Menu Controls'
INPUT/MAPPING: Add 'Manage Remap Files' submenu + automatically save input remaps when closing content
INPUT/MAPPING: Add 'Reset Input Mapping' option to 'Manage Remap Files' menu
INPUT/MAPPING: Fix keyboard device remap nulling
IOS/IOS13+: Support a toolbar that allows toggling of onscreen keyboard and touch mouse
LIBRETRO: RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN fix - ensure core is properly unloaded when RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN is called
LIBRETRO: RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN fix - ensure menu stack is properly flushed when RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN is called
LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix segfault switching video threaded from quickmenu
LOCALIZATION: Add Czech language support
MMAP: Handle disconnect bits on both sides of len
MIYOO: Improve CPU architecture and model name identification for Miyoo
MENU/SETTINGS: Remove 'Advanced Settings' flag from 'Settings > Core' menu
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add 'Gray Dark + Light' themes
MENU/RGUI: Add 6x10 extended ASCII and Latin Extended A and B fonts. These will enable most Latin alphabets to be displayed in RGUI.
MENU/RGUI: Add 'Gray Dark + Light' themes
MENU/XMB: Add title margin adjustment
MENU/XMB: Vertical fade corrections
MENU/OZONE: The size of the thumbnail bar can now be changed though a new option (Settings->User interface->Appearance) up to double its normal size.
MENU/OZONE: Add 'Gray Dark + Light' themes
MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail scale option
HOTKEYS: Added hotkey for toggling sync to exact content framerate
HOTKEYS: Prevent log spam when using rewind hotkey with cores that don't support rewind, if rewind functionality itself is disabled
HOTKEYS: Add hotkey for toggling sync to exact content framerate
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add RSX graphics support
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add libco support
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add experimental PSMove support
RS90: Optimise layout of sdl_rs90_video
STEAM: Use native OSK (Onscreen Keyboard) instead of built-in RetroArch version
STEAM: New built-in core DLC downloader
STEAM: Swap OK/Cancel buttons by default
VIDEO/HDR: Removed redundant copy of buffer in HDR mode if the shader has already a HDR format i.e. R10G10B10A2 (updated Vulkan/D3D11/D3D12 drivers)
VIDEO/HDR: Fixed crash when using stock shader and HDR and previous optimisation
WAYLAND: Dynamically load libdecor at runtime
WAYLAND: Fix splash screen when using xdg_toplevel
WAYLAND: SHM anti-collision for the splash screen
WAYLAND: Skip splash screen if window is not ready
WII: Fix find_connection_entry(): needs unsigned int Otherwise the USB gamepad cannot be found, if VID/PID has leading zero. This issue happened with Retrode gamepad adapter
WII: Rework Retrode gamepad implementation to support multi_pad interface
WII: Fix - Unplugging and re-plugging now works again
WII: vWii- Only gamepad 1 is supported, because multi_pad is currently only relevant in the Wii U implementation
WIIU: Implemented the multi_pad interface according to input/connect/connect_wiiugca.c
WIIU: Add Optimize for Gamepad option
WIIU: Fix USB gamepad support

1.10.1

ANDROID: Add HAVE_LANGEXTRA back to makefile
ANDROID: Include adaptive launcher icons
ANDROID: Populate external storage devices inside the file browser on Android 11+ devices
CHEEVOS: add mastery placard
CHEEVOS: more description message for missing RetroAchievements credentials
CHEEVOS: prevent occasional infinite wait loading multi-disc game from secondary disc
CHEEVOS: stop load process if unable to retrieve achievement data
CHEEVOS: support for identifying Dreamcast CHDs
CHEEVOS: Updated to 10.3.2
CONTENTLESS CORES: Disable per-game and per-content-directory remaps when running contentless cores
CONTENTLESS CORES: Disable per-game and per-content-directory shader presets
CONTENTLESS CORES: Enable config overrides
CONTENTLESS CORES: Enable runtime logging
CORE INFORMATION: Show core version
CORE UPDATER: Add 'Core System Files Downloader'
CORES/SETTINGS: Add 'Standalone Cores' menu
D3D10/D3D11: Add Vsync swap interval
EMSCRIPTEN: Enable 7zip
GBA: New GBA filter Upscale_240x160-320x240
GONG: Removed now that it's a standalone core
HISTORY/FAVORITES: Fix default core on 'Add to Favorites'
INPUT/WAYLAND: Allow toggling mouse grabs
INPUT/WAYLAND: Release keys and mouse buttons on lost focus
iOS: Support for custom keyboard and touch mouse support, among other iOS 13 features
LIBRETRO: Fix crash when cores using RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_AUDIO_CALLBACK return false from retro_load_game()
LIBRETRO: Add optional frame skipping when fast-forwarding
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: OSD fonts for Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Persian
LOCALIZATION: Translation fixes for various languages
MENU/RGUI: Add dynamic theme
MIYOO: Enable NEAREST audio resampler
MIYOO: Support battery level
NETPLAY: Disable savestates on stateless mode
NGC/Wii: Several improvements
OSX: Enable compilation on PPC
OZONE/XMB: Improve efficiency/accuracy of History/Favorites icon rendering
RECORDING/FFMPEG: Fix building against FFmpeg 5.0
RETROARCH INFORMATION: No longer report on enabled Python support, which was removed in RetroArch 1.7.8
SAVESTATES: Disable save states based on save state support level defined in core info files
UNIX/WINDOWS: Allow setting the default libretro_directory via environment variable
WAYLAND/VULKAN: Fix Wayland Vulkan not reacting to initial resize
WINDOWS/WINRAW: Enable mouse overlay control
Xbox/UWP: Fix CHD not working with Cheevos / Add 7zip support.

1.10.0

3DS: Add Jaxe, A5200 and WASM4 cores
3DS: Fix rotation
ARCHIVE: Allow loading files from archive subdirectory
AUDIO: Remove frame limit from audio batch callback. Before, if a core used the audio batch callback, there would be a hidden cap of 1024 on the number of audio frames that could be sent. If a core exceeded this value, any excess samples were silently discarded. While this is sufficient for 'normal' samplerates/framerates, it means that e.g. a core using the batch callback to send 44100 Hz audio at 30 fps with would have entirely broken sound. This has been fixed by removing the audio batch frame limit.
AUDIO/RESAMPLER/NEON: Implement sinc kaiser NEON function
CHEEVOS: Reset hardcore default to enabled; show message when trying to load state in hardcore
CHEEVOS: Fix memory map conversion
CHEEVOS: Check netplay status when unlocking achievements
CHEEVOS: Support for hashing buffered NDS ROMs
CHEEVOS: Fix hung task whe badge doesn't exist
CLI: Load save states from command-line or playlist
CORE INFO CACHE/SETTINGS: Restore missing 'Cache Core Info Files' menu entry
DATABASE: Serial scanning for Gamecube/MegaCD/SegaCD/Saturn/PSX/PSP/Dreamcast/Wii
EMSCRIPTEN: Add Jaxe, WASM4 cores
FILE IO: Fix incorrect file names for remap files when the content path doesn't have a preceding slash
INPUT/OVERLAY: Added support for showing the overlay behind the menu instead of in front. This is currently only supported on the GL, Vulkan, D3D 9/10/11/12 and 3DS drivers.
INPUT/UDEV: Convert abs mouse from screen to viewport coordinates; fix relative mouse coords
INPUT/WAYLAND: Ignore mouse clicks on window decoration
INPUT/WAYLAND: Add scroll wheel support
LINUX: Added support for Linux GameMode (https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode), which can be toggled on/off in the Power Management or Latency settings menus.
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: Add Indonesian, Swedish and Ukrainian language options
LOCALIZATION/MENU/RGUI: Enable Indonesian and Swedish localisations for RGUI
LOGGING: Logging cleanups
LOGGING: Stop logging FPS statistics twice on quit
LOGGING: Log font rendering backend only once
HOTKEYS: Added a hotkey toggle for the on-screen technical statistics.
HOTKEYS: Add delay + acceleration to volume hotkeys
MENU: Add option for showing notifications only in menu
MENU/RGUI: Add Finnish to supported languages
MENU/XMB: Optional vertical list item fade
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Category + History/Favorites icons
NETWORK: Fix dummy notification - no longer shows a netplay initialization failed notification when netplay is not enabled
NETWORK: LAN addresses only for UPnP - Some router devices might accept non-LAN addresses without raising an error.
NETWORK: Filter out non-connectable rooms. Add an option for filtering out non-connectable netplay rooms.
NETWORK: Netplay spectator notification fix. Fix double notification when the host switches to spectator.
NETWORK: Prevents long-term pausing from clients dishonoring allow pausing
NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Filter out rooms that are not running RetroArch
NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Display a non-connectable tag to non-connectable rooms
NETWORK/LOBBY: Host: Display warning if we are announcing to the internet but our room isn't connectable from there
NETWORK/RELAY: Custom relay server support - Add support for custom user-ran relay servers
NETWORK/RELAY: Replace Canadian relay server with Singapore relay server. Current relays: New York/USA, Madrid/Spain, Sao Paulo/Brazil, Singapore
NETWORK/UPNP: Various refactors/improvements, no more dependent on miniupnpc
NETWORK/UPNP: Various UPnP binding fixes for specific routers
NETWORK/UPNP: Accept IGD v2 service types
NETWORK/UPNP: Delay lobby server announcing - delay the announcing in order to give UPnP's port forwarding more time. Fix the remaining truncation warnings.
NETWORK/UPNP: Smart interface selection - Find the most suitable address for UPnP by scoring interfaces on how close their address is to the device's address
OPENGL1: Fix buffer overflow - RetroArch would sometimes crashes at startup when loading asset textures with GL1 driver
PS3: PSL1GHT port added to Gitlab CI
VULKAN: Double combined image sampler descriptor pool size - fix segfaults with AMD GPUs using RADV
VULKAN: Emulate mailbox only with Vsync enabled - otherwise have it disabled - useful for VRR/G-Sync/FreeSync
VULKAN/SWAPCHAIN: Vulkan max swapchain images option adjustments: removed value 1, since it won't be used - Video reinit on change, so that there is no need to restart or toggle fullscreen
VULKAN/HDR: HDR support - tested on Windows
WAYLAND: Add libdecor for client side decoration
WAYLAND: Use any display for initial metrics
WAYLAND: Fix the window closing, if RetroArch is build without libdecor
WAYLAND: Use checked sizes in EGL resize
WAYLAND: Fix window title update
WEBOS: Fix webOS build and run
WIIU: Fix rotation
UWP/XBOX: Fix content over 4GB (approx) failing to load, improve/speed up copy/load times
UWP/XBOX: Fix scanning for playlists
UWP/XBOX: Move content copied to LocalState to a dedicated dir and clear on startup
UWP/XBOX: Make content copy to a specific cache directory in the LocalState folder when it's copied
UWP/XBOX: Auto delete VFS cache dir on startup
UWP/XBOX: Make resolution switching automatic and fix angle output issues
UWP/XBOX: Force ANGLE to render at 1080p regardless of screensize as the output is 1080p regardless of screensize. This fixes an issue where at 4k any angle output would be zoomed into a corner.
UWP/XBOX: Set resolution based on display resolution (auto 4k)
UWP/XBOX: Set driver to D3D11 if booting with opengl
UWP/XBOX: Reset width and height of output on boot to match display
UWP/XBOX: Mitigate need for VFS cores on NTFS drives
UWP/XBOX: Make check for standard I/O by access rather than the just assuming based on path string
UWP/XBOX: Add code to auto permissions so files can be accessed by non VFS cores (no exFAT or FAT32 support yet)

1.9.14

ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Implement MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission
ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Bump up SDK level to 30 to comply with Play Store policies
AUDIO/MIXER: Increase sample buffer padding
CHEEVOS: Disallow achievements when spectating netplay
CHEEVOS: Fix need-to-activate achievement logic for non-hardcore
CHEEVOS: Don't queue rewind re-init if already on main thread
CHEEVOS: Ignore unofficial achievements unless setting is enabled
CHEEVOS: Use SSL host when available
CHEEVOS: Validate hashes for secondary discs in multi-disc games
CHEEVOS: Ensure placard is initialized on main thread when game has no achievements
CHEEVOS: Audit achievement settings defaults and visibility
CHEEVOS: Show error message when no password provided
CHEEVOS: Use widget for game loaded achievement progress
CONFIG: Honor config_save_on_exit when Reboot/Shutdown is called
DISK CONTROL: Focus on current content entry in Disk Control append/insert
FRAMEDELAY: Auto Frame Delay Improvements - swap interval handling, D3DX handling, and delay target resets also on core restart. It should now work with high refresh rates and also with Direct3D 10/11/12 drivers
INPUT/GYRO/ACCELEROMETER/ANDROID: Re-enable Gyroscope & Accelerometer when RetroArch resumes or regains focus
INPUT/HID: Fix gamepad disconnect on unrecognized HID device
LAKKA: Patch to fix keyboard typing
LAKKA: CD-ROM eject menu item
LAKKA/BLUETOOTH: Add option to remove pairing
LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable rumble gain
LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable cpu scaling, uses its own CPU governor
LOGGING: Logging cleanups. A bunch of unifications and reformattings (capitalizations, dots, quotes, prefixes etc). Also added a few missing things, such as Run-Ahead error logging and LED interface init logging when it is enabled.
NETPLAY: Networking - should not print country for a local lobby
NETPLAY: Added setting to allow/disallow players other than the host from pausing the game.
NETPLAY: Added a sublabel for netplay max connections.
NETPLAY: Fixed port override macro from not being set immediately after the port setting.
NETPLAY: Show passworded rooms on lobby
NETWORK: Make HTTP header parsing case insensitive
NETWORK/UPNP: Fixed memory leaks
NETWORK/UPNP: Added a task_queue_wait to prevent executing two nat tasks at once, so it's also thread safe now
NETWORK/UPNP: Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free. Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free.
NETWORK/UPNP: Only use a single interface for UPnP, return on the first one found instead of iterating over all of them and opening them one by one
OVERLAYS: Revert changes
RETROFW: Add OSS audio
VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation can't occur. RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION should return false when rotation has been forcefully disabled in frontend, that way the core can decide if aspect ratio should be rotated or not for vertical games. Useful for FBNeo for instance.
VULKAN: Avoid hard crash when capturing screenshot in emulating mailbox.
WIIU: Make wiiu_gfx_load_texture code safer
WIIU: Fix keyboard support.

1.9.13

CHEEVOS/MSVC2010: Add Cheevos support
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixes some issue where scaling is incorrect in some video modes for CRT output.
FRAMEDELAY: Add 'Automatic Frame Delay' option
INPUT: Add 'All users control the menu' setting - any gamepad can control the menu when this is enabled. Only limitation right now is that only player 1 can toggle the menu, but any set Menu Toggle Controller Combo will work fine for all users, so this should be acceptable for now
INPUT/UDEV: Fix Dolphin bar and safeguard against not adding devices with no mouse or touch buttons detected
NETPLAY/CLI: -C/--connect commandline fix
NETPLAY: Other improvements
NETPLAY: Remove forced disconnection on unknown netplay command - will be backwards compatible with any version that removed this disconnect. instead of disconnecting, we just read the data and ignore, like most network implementations do
TASKS/CHEEVOS: Replace coroutines with tasks/thread
TASKS/DATABASE/EXPLORE: Initialise 'Explore' menu on a background thread - no more stall when hovering over the Explore tab

1.9.12

3DS: Ensure parallax barrier is disabled when '3DS Display Mode' is '2D'
COMMAND: Command interface should work again
INPUT/HID: Rewrote the HID deregistration algorithm; it should no longer cause issues when dealing with multiple pads of the same HID/VID combo
INPUT/HID: Fix initialization bug that caused wiimotes to fail to register without an accessory attached
INPUT/HID: Fix Wiimote regression
INPUT/HID/MAC: Get Sony Sixaxis (DualShock 3) working on MacOS
INPUT/UDEV: Add extra abs check for dolphinbar
INPUT/UDEV: Add relative left mouse button when pointer device is not abs
INPUT/WAYLAND: Fix keyboard input on Wayland - fixes 'Certain cores ignore user input'
NETPLAY: Improvements from Cthulhu
OPENDINGUX: Fix HAS_ANALOG/HAS_MENU_TOGGLE defines in sdl_dingux joypad driver
LIBRETRO: Enable SRAM for contentless cores
LIBRETRO: Add environment callback to get the rate retro_run is called - GET_THROTTLE_STATE and RETRO_THROTTLE_UNBLOCKED environment callback
LINUX: Update metadata manifest
MENU/OZONE: New themes - Solarized Light, Solarized Dark
WINDOWS/WIN9X: Fix non-ASCII text display in window title

1.9.11

ANDROID: New launcher logo - will fill the corners on the homescreen
D3D9: Driver works again (RGUI only and software rendered cores work, no shader support yet)
HID/MAC: WiiU GameCube Adapter now works
HID/WIIU: WiiU and general HID subsystem unified/merged
INPUT: Refactor menu toggle combo button logic to allow quit combo button
INPUT/UDEV: Add mouse relative check and set appropriately to fix issue
LIBNX/SWITCH: Splitted Joycon button mapping
LIBRETRO: Add environment callback to enable cores to notify the frontend that a core otion value has changed
MIYOO: Add initial port
OPENDINGUX/RG350: Enable tinyalsa for the RG350
PS2: Add 'Change Resolution' option
PS2: Add option to change video windows offsets
STEAM/LINUX: Move to new 'soldier' runtime
WAYLAND: Remove xdg-shell-v6 protocol
WINDOWS: Fix non-ASCII text display in window title
WINDOWS 11: Shows Windows 11 version name now (Information -> System Information)
UWP: Further improvements to WinRT VFS layer

1.9.10

3DS: Add bottom screen idle state
3DS: Add unique IDs for Gearboy/Gearcoleco/Gearsystem, correct CAP32 code
3DS/SAVESTATES: Fix RAM states to file when core deinits
AUDIO/MIXER: Pad sample buffers to prevent potential heap-buffer-overflows when resampling (fixes crash when using 30 kHz menu audio files)
AUDIO/LINUX/SNAP: Add JACK support
CHEEVOS: Don't write achievement credentials to overrides
CHEEVOS: Disable slowmotion when enabling hardcore mode
D3D9: Fixed MVP matrix issue for RGUI texture (main game frame still won't show up though)
D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Fixed contrast to be more correct - now scales from 0-10 linearly and behaves more the way you'd expect it to - changed name to ditch legacy settings users may have
D3D11/HDR: Fixed D3D11's blend, rasterizer and topology states not being set to the sames when using HDR and leaving the menu - caused issues with PCSX2's Shadow of the Colossus
D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Added ability to skip inverse tonemapper to the shader via the constant buffer using 'inverse_tonemap' - set to 0.0f to skip
D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Fixed potential bug when swapping between hdr and sdr and the bit depth not being set correctly
D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Added numerous helper functions to help create the correct values to colour the UI - normally the white UI elements should be rendered at paper white not max brightness for various reasons
BUGFIX/ANDROID: Fix crash that could happen on Android with Sameboy core - would crash on rumble function
GFX/WIDGETS: New regular widget message appearance
INPUT/MOUSE: Add distinct mouse zero index label for drivers that do not support multimouse
INPUT/RUMBLE: Add generic rumble gain to input settings
INPUT/UDEV/X11: Add workaround to fix keyboard input when using X11 + Udev
LIBNX/SWITCH: Add Video Filters support
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
OPENDINGUX/BETA: Disable OpenAL
PLAYLISTS: Add 'Refresh Playlist' option
STEAM: Initial release on Steam
UWP/VFS/XBOX: Improvements and bugfixes to UWP VFS driver
VIDEO/REFRESH RATE: Automatic PAL/NTSC refresh rate switch where available - as long as the platform display server allows changing refresh rates and the display has the desired refresh rate
VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Picoscale_256x-320x240' video filter
WIIU/HID: Fix analog inputs on HID devices

1.9.9

3DS: Add bottom touchscreen menu
3DS/SAVESTATES: Save and load save states to and from RAM
AUDIO/MIXER: Ensure than menu sounds are re-enabled when calling CMD_EVENT_AUDIO_REINIT
AUDIO/RESAMPLER/MIXER: Fix menu sounds (audio mixing) when using the 'sinc' resampler with quality lower than 'normal'
AUDIO/CONVERSION/ARM NEON: Add intrinsic NEON versions for float_to_s16/s16_to_float - should lead to optimized codepaths for AArch64/ARMv7 architectures without being dependent on ASM codepaths.
AUDIO/RESAMPLER/ARM NEON: Add intrinsic NEON version for lanczos sinc function - should lead to optimized codepaths for AArch64/ARMv7 architectures without being dependent on ASM codepaths.
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.2
CHEATS: Add enhanced search functionality to the 'Cheats' menu
CHEATS/RUNAHEAD: Fix cheats when using second instance runahead
CONFIG: Add option to (force-)write current core options to disk (Quick Menu)
CORE INFO CACHE: Remove core path from core info cache. Should make core info caches portable now (for example: you can move RetroArch to a separate dir and they would still work).
D3D11: Use Shader Model 5.0 for frontend shaders if D3D11 Feature level is at least 11.0 or higher. Should fix some new shaders that require SM 5.0 (like AMD FSR)
D3D11: Add HDR support (disabled for UWP for now)
D3D12: Add HDR support (disabled for UWP for now)
EMSCRIPTEN: Fixed web player bug with filesystem and runtime
INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay input when analog to digital mapping is enabled
INPUT/UDEV: Look for "ID_INPUT_KEY", not "ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD"
INPUT/WINRAW: Fix crash when overlay is enabled
MAC/METAL: Add Discord RPC support
MENU: Allow 'Custom Aspect Ratio (X Position)/(Y Position)/(Width)/(Height)' to be entered manually via keyboard
MENU: Allow 'Vertical Refresh Rate' to be entered manually via keyboard
MENU/SHADERS: Highlight currently selected value in Shader Parameter drop-down lists
STABILITY: Safer way of avoiding the race condition in audio_driver_sample/audio_driver_sample_batch - we can check audio-suspended to see if we're doing a fs/windowed toggle - enhances stability when fullscreen toggling/tearing down context
STABILITY: When audio driver write callback function fails, don't turn audio off completely - look if audio_driver_output_samples_conv_buf is non-NULL first before we attempt to write audio - enhances stability when fullscreen toggling/tearing down context
STABILITY: Input robustness for cores that use internal threading (full teardown/setup), no audio should be processed at this point in time
VIDEO: Screen resolution list sanitizing
VULKAN: Fix some Vulkan validation layer errors
UWP: Updated icons courtesy of Danp142
UWP/XBOX: Disable CPU model check on Xbox as it doesn't work and can even crash
UWP/VFS/XBOX: Code cleanup and simplification of UWP VFS driver

1.9.8

AUDIO/WINDOWS/WASAPI: Stop deactivating audio on fast forward
CHEEVOS: Hide challenge indicators when resetting
CHEEVOS: Support for more than 64 memory regions
CHEEVOS: Automatically retry 'http error code -1'
CONTENT INFORMATION: Show content info label+path rows always
CORE OPTIONS: Core option categories implemented
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to disable core option categories
D3D10/11/12: Fix gfx_display_draw_texture - fixes OSK (On-Screen Keyboard) issues
DATABASE: Fix heap-buffer-overflow when fetching CRC values
DATABASE/EXPLORE: Fix CRC32 reading in explore menu
DATABASE/LIBRETRODB: Fix writing of numerical values
DATABASE/LIBRETRODB: Fix libretro-db loading on big endian platforms
DUMMY CORE: Skip state_manager_event_{deinit/init} when core type is dummy, should skip warning spam 'Implementation uses threaded audio. Cannot use rewind..' when using rewind
INPUT/UDEV: Limit udev device scan to subsystem 'input'
INPUT/SDL2/WINDOWS: Fix keyboard event keycodes
INPUT/WAYLAND: Fixes a bug where the first player's mouse, pointer, and lightgun are echoed to the other ports. Now, those other ports correctly report zero. In the future support for multiple mouselike devices will need to be added, which is a bigger project
INPUT/WAYLAND: The driver now respects keyboard_mapping_blocked
INPUT/WAYLAND: When possible, deprecated lightgun defines are replaced with the new ones. The coordinates are still using the old relative callbacks
INPUT/WINRAW: Trigger joypad driver reinit on DEVICECHANGE - avoids fullscreen toggle
INPUT/WINRAW: Alt sticky fix
INPUT/WINRAW: Prevent Alt getting stuck when Alt-Tabbing
INPUT/WINRAW: Add pointer status
INPUT/WINRAW: Add missing analog keybinds
LIBNX/SWITCH: Fix poll missing for controller 2-8
LIBNX/SWITCH: Fix layout not applied correctly and hangs when splitting joycons
LIBRETRO: Core options category API implemented
LIBRETRO: Fix RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_FASTFORWARDING_OVERRIDE callback when runahead is enabled
LIBRETRO: Add environment callback for enabling core option menu visibility updates without toggling Quick Menu
LOGGING: Starting logging and verbose mode before first config load
LINUX: In some Linux Desktop Environments, like Budgie, task bar feature is unable to pin applications. With StartupWMClass= present in .desktop file, it is possible to pin the application
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
MENU: Relocate 'Manage Playlists' to top
MENU: Fullscreen resolution width/height settings no longer require 'advanced settings'
MENU/REFRESH RATE: Fix double notifications with refresh rate settings
MENU/OZONE: Ensure the existence of values used in selection calculation
MENU/OZONE/VULKAN: Casting to unsigned caused an integer overflow and after float promotion would lead to 'x' being a garbage value, leading to problems when this value was passed to vkCmdSetViewport. This stops Vulkan validation layers from complaining about it
METAL: Fixed font driver memory leaks
MOUSE: Change default mouse index to port index
MOUSE: Friendly names for mice where available
OSX: Fix some memory leaks
OSX: Fix controller duplication bug
PS2: Implement alpha for the video driver
PS2: Aspect ratio handling
RETROFW: Initial port
UWP/XBOX: Enable Explore tab by default - seems to work fine
UWP/XBOX: Fix startup issues with latest Xbox Dashboard updates - ANGLE cores still show up wrong
UWP/XBOX: fix issue where files where opened as OPENALWAYS instead of OPENEXISTING this fixes beetle cores
UWP/XBOX: fix issue where filesizes where not returned properly, this fixes loading arcade dat files
UWP/TRANSLATION: Enabled translation services for both UWP MSVC2017 and 2019. No TTS speech yet.
VIDEO: Fix refresh rate 59Hz rounding
WINDOWS: Remember original refresh rate
WINDOWS/VULKAN: Refresh rate fixes + cleanups
WIIU: Fix L3/R3 buttons
WIIU: Compress RPX libretro cores
WIIU: Add ICInvalidateRange (necessary for JITs)
WIIU: Slight filesystem optimisation
WIIU: Add option for running without core info (emscripten-style)

1.9.7

3DS: Add unique ID's
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed some Monitor index bugs ad updated to the latest SR2
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed monitor index corruption on Windows and added correct fractal scaling. Only used when required
CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated log defines to match SR upstream.
CRT/SWITCHRES: Added new SR_CONFIG_PATHS for non Windows and Linux systems. Not that SR works on them but to fix RA compile issues
CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated SR2 code base to latest. Added supprt for windows monitor indexing. Fixed monitor index bug where index 1 was not being used correctly and "auto" was not being sent.
CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated swithres for x86 windows fix
CRT/SWITCHRES: fixed SR2 auto issue
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed auto monitor bug
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed monitor index corruption on Windows
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed buffer size bug
CRT/SWITCHRES: Added correct fractal scalling. only used when required.
CORE INFO: Automatically disable core info cache when core info directory is read-only
EMSCRIPTEN: add MAME2003 / MAME2003-plus to web.libretro
INPUT/UDEV: udev fixes add pointer pressed to pointer device to allow udev users to access this device
LIBNX/SWITCH: Enable 7zip support
LINUX/XDG: Prevent xdg-screensaver's "Protocol error" messages
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: Add missing languages for the first startup
MENU/XMB/WIDGETS: Add workaround for FPU bug that breaks scale factor comparisons on certain platforms (fixes XMB thumbnails on 32bit Linux/Windows)
MENU/RGUI: Enable fullscreen thumbnail toggle using RetroPad 'start' button
MENU/RGUI: Fix sublabel length when menu clock is disabled
NETWORK/HTTP: Fix HTTP progress indication for large files on 32-bit systems
NETWORK/NATT: implement natt fix from void()
OPENDINGUX: Fix display when cores 'drop' frames
OPENDINGUX BETA: Use ALSA audio driver by default
OPENDINGUX BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running 256x224 (SNES/Genesis) content
PATHS: Fix garbled path string
PS2: Implement proper ps2_font driver instead of using the font driver from gskit
PS2: Use BDM for increasing up USB stability
PS3: First basic RSX driver for PSL1GHT
RS90: Initial port
RS90: Fix offset of OSD text
RS90: Disable menu clock by default
RS90: Hide 'Bilinear Filtering' video option
RS90: Move appdata (retroarch) base directory to external microsd card
RS90: Add optional approximate 'semi-linear' scaling filter
SHADERS: Max Shader Parameters increased to 1024
VIDEO: Add 'Integer Scale Overlay' - Force integer scaling to round up to the next larger integer instead of rounding down
VIDEO: New 'Full' aspect ratio added. This aspect ratio is useful when used with a shader which has a border in it. The aspect ratio is set to the full window area, so that the viewport spans the whole viewport. When using a border type shader like the Mega Bezel this allows the graphics to span the whole window regardless of the user's monitor aspect ratio
VITA: Wrong flags for not piglet version
UNIX: Correct backlight max_brightness path
UWP/XBOX: Default to Direct3D11 driver on UWP builds
UWP/XBOX: Do not use windowed mode on UWP/Xbox by default, set default resolution to 1920x1080 by default. Should fix display issues with Dolphin/PCSX2 on Xbox
WIIU: Fix inputs breaking when connecting/disconnecting remotes
WIIU: Input - ignore some bogus KPAD results
WIIU: Font rendering fixes - render font lines with correct spacing, and only sample alpha channel when rendering fonts
WIIU/NETWORK: Network speed optimisations - WINSCALE, TCP sACK, large buffers
WIIU/LIBFAT: Increase cache size on WiiU
WIIU/FILE IO: Filesystem optimisations - add fast path for already aligned buffers
WIIU/FILE IO: Use 128K vbufs for WiiU - we have loads of RAM and large vbufs are very beneficial
WIIU/MENU/OZONE: Fix Ozone rendering error (scissor fix)
WIIU/MENU/OZONE: Use Ozone icons instead of XMB Monochrome

1.9.6

ARCHIVE: Fix archive delimiter detection when file path contains no slashes
ANDROID: Do not duplicate port 0 mouse and gun inputs to other ports
AUDIO/XAUDIO2: Fail instead of crashing when disconnecting an audio device
CHEEVOS: Reset cached progress each time menu is opened
CRT/SWITCHRES: Add support for switchres.ini core and directory overrides
D3D11: Don't use allow tearing flag with blit swap chains. Also disables the flip model if the allow tearing flag is not supported.
D3D11: Disable DXGI's ALT+ENTER handling
D3D11: Don't pass ALLOW_TEARING when unsupported
D3D11: Fix non-vsynced output without flip, black screens in fullscreen
D3D12: Relocated 'd3d12_gfx_sync'
D3D12: Fixed swap interval option
GFX: Fix uninitialized variables in gfx_display_draw_cursor
HISTORY: Hide 'Add to Favorites' when viewing an entry of the favorites playlist
INPUT: 'Analog to Digital Type' usability improvements
INPUT: Add support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device
INPUT/REMAPPING: Add support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device
INPUT/LIGHTGUN: Bind lightgun trigger to first mouse button by default
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Mouse access violation fix
INPUT/UDEV: Only add mouse if it has buttons and add vebose device friendly names
INPUT/UDEV: Skip mouse with no button errors and keep the rest
INPUT/UDEV: Fix Game Focus mode
INPUT/UDEV/X11: Change udev driver for dual lightgun support in X11
LIBNX/SWITCH: Update to libnx 4.0.0
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: Fix Switchres menu texts
MENU/OZONE: Ensure sidebar display status is updated correctly when performing rapid menu navigation
MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fix
MENU/XMB: Icon opacity fix
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix default core detection when playlist file name does not match 'db_name'
PLAYLISTS: Optimise scanning of large rom sets
SECURITY: Plug so-called high-risk vulnerability related to Powershell - avoid injection - don't send speech input as commandline argument
UWP/XBOX: Add expanded resources Rescap to increase performance of UWP version in app mode on Xbox
WINDOWS/INSTALLER: Add smarter isEmptyDir reference implementation that looks for subdirectories from NSIS documentation
WINDOWS/INSTALLER: Register new function DirectorySet that is called when pressing the "Next" button on the MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY, aka the install folder selection GUI. DirectorySet contains the criteria for an acceptable folder, which are:
- IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\retroarch.exe" returns 1
- IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\*.* returns 0, there is no existing folder
- IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\*.*" returns 1, there is a folder, and isEmptyDir returns 1, therefore the folder is empty, including of subdirectories
X11: Fix threaded video segfault

1.9.5

ALSATHREAD: Make alsathread default for all ALSA devices with threads
ARCHIVE: Fix loading of archived content with file names containing '#' characters
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.1
CHEEVOS: Challenge indicators
CHEEVOS: Group achievements by category in quick menu
CHEEVOS: Relabel 'Start Active' with 'Encore Mode'
D3D10: Window title should now update
D3D11: Window title should now update
D3D11: Allow fastforward in fullscreen
D3D12: Window title should now update
D3D12: Allow fastforward in fullscreen
CRT/SWITCHRES: New implementation
FONTS: Improve message wrapping with CJK languages
FONTS: Fix garbled characters when converting encodings
INPUT: Allow the 8 analog stick directions to be used as keys for core keyboard mappings
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for setting 'need_fullpath' based on content file extension and to request persistent frontend content data buffers
MENU/SEARCH: Add enhanced search functionality to the 'Manage Cores' menu
OPENDINGUX: Fix black screens when triggering gfx driver initialisation via menu actions
UNIX: Get better battery stats on sysfs nodes
VIDEO: Extend Frame Delay range to 19 to accommodate PAL land too
WIFI/LAKKA: Add nmcli to wifi drivers
WIFI/LAKKA: Add wifi configuration menu
X11: fix fullscreen when swapping monitors/resolution

1.9.4

CHEEVOS: update rcheevos to v10.0.0
CONTENT LOADING/FILE IO: Prevent unnecessary extraction (to disk) of compressed content files when need_fullpath is false
CORE INFO/FILE IO: Enable core info cache by default now for all platforms
CORE INFO/REGRESSION FIX: Fix regression caused by core info file caching - Downloads was no longer showing up in Load Content
FILE IO/COMPRESSED: Ability to load content inside ZIP files directly into RAM
INPUT/OVERLAYS: Add option to select between 'touched' elements and physical controller inputs when showing inputs on overlays
INPUT REMAPPING/OVERLAYS: Prevent duplicate inputs when using remaps with input overlays
LAKKA: Add brightness restore hook
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
MENU/OZONE: Added simple playlist entry enumeration
MENU/XMB: Fix display of 'Maximum Users' menu entry dropdown list
PS3/PSL1GHT: Joypad driver works again
PSTV: Fix Vita input driver for PSTV
PSTV: Support for 720p on PSTV when using 'Unlock framebuffer' in Sharpscale plugin
PSTV: Fix scaling on PSTV when not using 720p
RPNG: Fix some memory corruption if processing broken input PNG file
SECURITY: Fix CVE-2021-28927

1.9.3

3DS: Disable menu screensaver animations in XMB/GLUI
COMMAND: Initialize netcmd->cmd_source_len before recvfrom()
CONTENT LOADING/STATICALLY LINKED: Ensure 'Always Reload Core on Run Content' setting is applied when loading content via the file browser
CONTENT LOADING/EMSCRIPTEN: Fix content loading via file browser on platforms with 'broken' core handling (i.e. emscripten)
CORE INFO: Skip whitespace when writing compressed core info cache files
CORE INFO/FILE IO: Core Info cache; significant file I/O performance improvements on systems with slow disk file I/O
CORE INFO/FILE IO: Enable core info cache by default on all 'console' platforms
FREEBSD: FreeBSD build fix
LAKKA: Support for tweaking CPU governors/scaling policies
LAKKA: This adds managed policies and settings to store them and reload them at startup
LIBRETRO API: Add API extension for cores to override frontend fast-forward state
MENU/RGUI: Fix saving of config files/overrides when 'Lock Menu Aspect Ratio' is enabled
SHADERS: Fix 'Auto-Shader Delay' functionality
UWP/D3D11: Disable mipmap generation
UWP/XBOX: Add 'Force 4K resolution' option (Force the resolution to the fullscreen size on Xbox, if set to 0, a fixed value of 3840 x 2160 will be used)

1.9.2

3DS: Enable graphics widgets / overlays
3DS: Load texture images as BGR colors
3DS: Change default asset directory
CHEEVOS: Allow rcheevos_patch_address to be called on game without achievements
CHEEVOS: Update achievement memory maps (add Supervision)
CONFIG/FILE: Use hash map to optimise key/value lookups
CORE INFO: Performance optimisations + code clean-ups/refactors
CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed CRTSwitchRes framebuffer bug
DISCORD/RP: Fix regression
DRM: set the correct video mode
FASTFORWARD: Enforce minimum fastforward_ratio of 1.0
FONTS/FREETYPE/STB_UNICODE/BITMAPFONT: Prevent texture bleed when rendering text at non-integer scales
INPUT: Ensure that 'retro_set_controller_port_device' is called when updating 'Max Users'
INPUT/XEGL/MOUSE: Fix xegl_ctx.c mouse activation
INPUT/SDL: Fix crash in SDL input driver when analogs are bound.
INPUT/POINTER: Add scaling to pointer input.
INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression on loading file
INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression where disabling input remapping would disable input
IOS: Disable system button gestures on iOS 14
IOS: Prevent potential crash on controller connect - randomly would get a crash when connecting a game controller while RA was running
LAKKA: Add menu for time zone setting
LOGGING: RARCH_LOG_V checking for verbosity level is not necessary and can cause issues; removed said check.
LOGGING: Silence inappropriate cheatfile logging
IOS/MAC: Add CPU VFP unit detection for Darwin
MAC: Swallow 'escape' key being pressed - would previously make the game toggle between fullscreen and windowed
MAC: Intel and ARM64 timer change proposal.
MAC/ARM64: run_fast_mode disabled for 64 bits invalid instructions.
MAC/OPENGL: Fix codesigning issue
MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add TTS translation service support.
MENU: Add optional menu screensaver
MENU: Add search filter support to cheats and overlays file browser menus
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Enhanced 'Load Content' file browser search functionality
MENU/INPUT: Block accidental diagonals in menu navigation
MENU/RGUI: Add option to disable menu transparency
MENU/RGUI: Fix display of 'Video > Scaling' menu when 'Lock Menu Aspect Ratio' is enabled
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon to 'Turbo Fire' menu entry
MENU/OZONE: Ozone Dracula theme
OPENDINGUX/BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running GBA-resolution content
OPENDINGUX/BETA: Add 50Hz support
OPENDINGUX: Enable 'SaveRAM Autosave Interval' by default
PATCHES: Added multi-softpatching support + OSD messages for patches
RHMAP: Track the complete string in rhmap
VITA: Align VM block size to 1MB - should fix one of the issues with gpSP
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix non-ASCII text rendering
XEGL: Fix mouse not working when using OpenGLES with X11

1.9.1

3DS: Graphics widgets support
3DS: On error, only init gfx on salamander build. This prevents graphical issues if the gfx is already initialized. Which should always be the case if called from a running core
3DS: Update error applet
3DS: Enable online Core Updater
3DS: Guard threading
3DS: Allow sideways screen rotation
3DS: Enable threading and add a threaded audio driver
ANDROID: Implementation of fullscreen over notch function (for Android 9.0 and up)
ANDROID: Add Play Store module support.
ANDROID: Add option to switch all installed cores to Play Store versions
AUDIO: Memalign audio buffers to 64 bytes. This is the most common cache line size, helps with performance. Also fixes issues with platforms like PSP that wrongly assume that malloc returns aligned buffers (to 16bytes). This recently broke the PSP builds
AUDIO/ALSA: Fix float format detection
AUDIO/JACK: Deinterleave in the process callback. This allows us to avoid the extra copy to the deinterleave buffer and lets us use only a single jack ringbuffer.
AUDIO/JACK: (Audio/JACK) Fix non-blocking write. Previously we would wait on the condition variable even in the non-blocking case. This improves fast-forward performance massively and brings JACK in line with other backends in that regard.
AUDIO/XAUDIO2: Fix threaded audio bugs with cores like Dinothawr
CONFIG: Add support for saving per-directory core options and deleting core option overrides
CONFIG: Enable saving of changed parameters when '#include' directives are used
CONFIG/DIRS: Enable configuration of the directories used for Favorites, History, Images, Music and Video playlists
CONFIG/REMAPS: Allow loading core remaps without content
CONFIG/OVERRIDES: Fix empty override paths when launching without content
CHEATS: Maximum search value corrections
CHEEVOS: Generic memory mapping using rcheevos
CHEEVOS: Ensure badge textures are released before video driver is deinitialized. Should fix crashes with slang shaders.
CHEEVOS: Include achievement runtime state in save states
CHEEVOS: Prevent hardcore toggle when emu-handled cheats are active
CHEEVOS: Add confirmation submenu to achievements hardcore toggle
CHEEVOS: Calculate leaderboard widget spacing based on video resolution
CHEEVOS: Show unsupported core message when viewing achievement list for unsupported core
CHEEVOS: Allow disabling leaderboard notifications and trackers separately
CHEEVOS: Add display widget for active leaderboards
CHEEVOS/CORE OPTIONS: Core options blacklist. Disables hardcore mode when certain core options are set.
CLI: Add option for quitting on close content
CONTEXT/DRIVER SWITCHING: Allow context switching from gl to glcore
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to reset all core options for current core/content
CORE OPTIONS: Add per-folder core options
CRT/SWITCHRES: Improvements
CRT/SWITCHRES: Low resolution switch bug fix - This allows resolutions lower that 32x224 like 256x224 to work
CORE DOWNLOADER: Enhanced core downloader search functionality
D3D10: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D11: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D11: Skip shader/stock blend when we don't have a texture. This happens if the core calls video_cb with the frame set to null on the first frame, and was causing black screens/driver resets. The ffmpeg core seems to do this.
D3D11: Fix shaders with scaled framebuffers
D3D11: Add flip model support - fallback to blit model for OSes where flip model is not supported (windows 7 and earlier). Will add a menu option later allowing the user to switch inbetween the two
D3D12: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
D3D10/11/12: Increase sprite capacity, we need this so that the hardware rendered menu drivers doesn't glitch out
DRM: Fix race condition in drm_surface_set_aspect
DRM/KMS: add support for custom hdmi_timings / modes
DATABASE: Fix crash that could happen when selecting cursor
DATABASE/EXPLORE: Fix - Prevent segfault when accessing 'Explore' menu
EMSCRIPTEN: Only report back one screen pointer for rwebinput, fixes lockup when clicking on an overlay
FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Only attempt to call dir_check_defaults once per runtime session
FILEIO/PERFORMANCE/3DS: Increase file buffer size and savestate chunk size. This seems to help with saving large savestates.
FONTS: Improve handling of Arabic and Persian text
FONTS/FREETYPE: Use fontconfig to select fonts if available
INPUT: Add hold mode for turbo fire 'Single Button'
INPUT MAPPING: Refresh bind list on device type change
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Minor bugfix - Remap file browsing starts navigation at input_remapping_directory even if the core-subdir (where saved files go) exists Having remaps for many different cores makes finding the active core files cumbersome, especially because remaps are not compatible between different cores (but maybe for cores emulating the same hardware)
IOS: Take out 'Core Downloader' from iOS 9/iOS 11 builds
IOS: IOSApp doesn't crash anymore when a file is shared to it
INPUT: Keyboard device mapper rework
INPUT: New input bind order scan/clear fix
INPUT: Duplicate key event blocking additions
INPUT: Prevent duplicate key events with hotkeys + keyboard device type
INPUT: Keyboard LED driver
INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Allow controllers with no/empty names to work.
INPUT/GAME FOCUS: Add option to automatically enable 'game focus' mode when running/resuming content
INPUT/HOTKEYS: Hotkey for Close Content / Unload Core
INPUT/LIBCEC: Map libcec-daemon keys to RETROK
INPUT/X11: Enable keyboard input when mouse cursor is not inside the RetroArch window but window still has focus
INPUT/X11: Fix mouse input when mouse is grabbed
INPUT/UDEV/RUMBLE: Fix rumble.
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Simultaneous shift sticky fix
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Prevent Win-key from opening Start Menu
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grabbing/clipping with Alt-Tab
INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Key position fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Prevent outside window mouse clicks when grabbed
INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Major bugfix - Remap file having a different device type requires manual intervention after loading for the core to register the type properly
JSON: New faster json parser/writer library rjson
JSON/RJSON: Replace rapidjson parser/writer in discord-rpc with rjson
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to query the number of active inputs provided by the frontend
LIBRETRO: Ensure RARCH_CTL_CORE_OPTIONS_LIST_GET returns false if no core options are available
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for overriding frontend audio latency
LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to monitor frontend audio buffer occupancy
LINUX: Also show /run/media or /run/media/$USER in drives list
LINUX: Adjust brightness according to the limit. Seems like some platforms feature non-standard maximums, but the variable is correclty exported for us to use
LOCALIZATION: Add Finnish language
LOGS/SHADER: Shader log spam reduction
LOGS/CONFIG: Config logging cleanup
LOGS/SAVESTATE: Config logging cleanup
MAC: Apple Silicon/Mac M1 support
MAC: Code signing/notarization
MAC: Fix a leak with NSTemporaryDirectory() on ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) code
MAC: Support bundle assets extraction on macOS
MAC: Universal Metal build for both ARM and Intel Macs
MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add CoreAudio3 audio driver for Metal Universal build
MAC/IOS: Only extract assets once on first install
MENU: Add 'L2 + R2' menu toggle gamepad combo
MENU: Menu text improvements; clarifications, consistency, text mistakes,
MENU: Tweak menu scroll initial hold delays
MENU: Restrict menu acceleration to navigation buttons
MENU: Add 'Menu Driver' setting to 'User Interface'
MENU: Relocate 'Menu Scroll' settings.
MENU: Separate 'Turbo Fire' menu.
MENU: Dropdown menu for 'Custom Aspect Ratio' setting.
MENU: Reorder Mouse Index next to Device Index
MENU: Submenu for Device Index/Mouse Index
MENU: Reorganize User Interface menu
MENU: Add 'Remove DSP Plugin' menu entry
MENU: Hide 'Auto-Shader Delay' menu setting when shaders are unavailable
MENU/ANIMATIONS: Fix non-smooth text ticker + reduce line ticker code duplication
MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Add cursor wiggle animation
MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Implement wiggling for main menu when wrap-around is disabled
MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: On-Screen Notifications' menu clean-ups
MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: Add option to show/hide Refresh Rate notification
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Start auto-selecting last used path for more file browser menu entries
MENU/INPUT: Input port label adjustments
MENU/INPUT/XMB: Proper control port icons
MENU/INPUT/OZONE: Proper control port icons
MENU/QUICK MENU: Add remap clearing ability under Quick Menu controls
MENU/QUICK MENU: Cap 'State Slot' drop-down list to a maximum of 1000 (+Auto) entries
MENU: Customizable menu scroll hold delay.
MENU/DESKTOP: Fix mouse cursor limited by window range on F5 press
MENU/DESKTOP: Add simple shader option
MENU/DESKTOP/WINDOWS: Remove broken 'Update RetroArch' functionality for Windows. We want this to not only be system agnostic if we bring it back, but also work outside of the Qt desktop interface
MENU/OZONE: New Theme - Twilight Zone
MENU/RGUI: Add 3:2, 5:3 and 3:2/5:3 (centered) aspects
MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add Russian language text support
MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add support for CJK punctuation glyphs
MIDI/WINMM: Recover from MIDI messages not handled by the device
MIDI/WINMM: Fix winmm midi driver hanging on content closing
NETWORK: Add READ/WRITE_CORE_MEMORY network commands
NETWORK: Fix backwards condition in socket blocking behavior
NETWORK/NETPLAY: Attempt IPv4 when IPv6 fails
OGA/VIDEO: support for OGS
OGA: This keeps the tradition DRM driver along with the OGA one. The probe function skips the driver if the screen is non rotated to fall back to the regular DRM driver.
OGA: Fix messages from not disappearing
OGA: Implement RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_CURRENT_SOFTWARE_FRAMEBUFFER. This is a faster rendering codepath for software rendered libretro cores that some libretro cores use right now. Video drivers in RetroArch have to explicitly implement this for this codepath to work at runtime.
OPENDINGUX: Add/Optimise rumble interface
OPENDINGUX: Fix frozen video when enabling fast forward
OPENDINGUX/SDL: OSD font clean-up
OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable selection of image interpolation method when using 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable integer scaling when using the 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
OVERLAYS: Add option to scale overlays automatically (with aspect ratio correction)
OVERLAYS: Hide Overlay When Gamepad is Connected. Overlays will be hidden automatically when a gamepad is connected in port 1, and shown again when the gamepad is disconnected.
OVERLAYS: New default overlays for mobile (neo-retropad)
OVERLAYS: In addition to overlay scale, the user can now set an Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor. Most overlays are designed for 16:9 displays, which means they become stretched/ugly on modern wide aspect phones and suchlike. By changing the Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor, a user can scale the overlay width/height to achieve a uniform appearance regardless of display resolution.
OVERLAYS: Since scaling a gamepad overlay can result in buttons being squished too close together (or being pulled too far apart), the user can now adjust the effective spacing of the different 'halves' of an overlay via Overlay Horizontal Separation and Overlay Vertical Separation factors. Overlay Horizontal Separation divides the overlay in two vertically (left/right, at the centre point), and applies a spacing offset (positive or negative) between the UI elements on each side; Overlay Vertical Separation does the same, but the split is horizontal (top/bottom)
OVERLAYS/FIX: The Overlay X Offset and Overlay Y Offset options have been fixed, and now work correctly
OVERLAYS/FIX: All of the above options (and Overlay Scale) are configured and saved independently for landscape and portrait display orientations - so adjusting everything for a nice landscape layout won't break the portrait display
OVERLAYS/FIX: When using the Vulkan gfx driver, memory is leaked every time an overlay is freed
OVERLAYS/FIX: When threaded video is enabled, loading overlays with no images (i.e. utility-type overlays, where everything is hidden until the screen is touched) can generate segfaults due to improper usage of realloc()
OVERLAYS/FIX: When Show Inputs on Overlay is enabled, ASAN reports bit shift errors due to an incorrect range check when handling turbo inputs - essentially, there is no upper limit to the considered input id range, which means overlay hotkeys (menu toggle, etc.) are incorrectly treated as having turbo support, causing bit shifts using wildly inappropriate id indices
PLAYLISTS/PORTABLE: Fixed first load initialization
PS2: Added Multitap support (up to 8 players)
PS2: Fix for not recognized digital and other non-standard controllers
PS2: Fix Quitting from RA
PS2: Add Audio mixer
REWIND: Prevent 'Rewind Frames' from being set to '1' incorrectly on load content
RUNAHEAD: Add Run-Ahead Toggle hotkey with notifications
RBUF/ANIMATIONS: Simplify gfx_animation by switching from dynarray to rbuf
RBUF/CORE UPDATER: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
RBUF/M3U: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
SENSORS: Android (crash-)fixes/improvements + add option to disable sensor input
SDL2/VIDEO: Get the SDL2 video driver to work in Wayland/KMS
SAVESTATES: Adding savestate garbage collector for autoincrement stavestates. As some issues indicate, there's an issue with the autoincrement save slot feature: slot index will increase and very old saves won't be deleted. This adds support to delete old save states with a user defined save state limit (global). Instead of wrapping around the slot counter it will simply delete the oldest save, since it is simpler. For now there's a limit of one deletion per save, which ensures a user cannot delete many saves by accident if they set the limit too low.
SAVESTATES/SAVEFILES: Ensure save file and playlist compression is disabled by default
SHADERS: Add option to remember last selected shader preset/shader pass directories
SHADERS: Use last selected shader preset directory when changing shaders via previous/next hotkeys
SHADERS: Remove Parameters line
SHADERS: Shaders fix for duplicate parameters loading bug
SHADERS: Fix Crash change num shader passes in UI
SHADERS/SLANG: Fix slang shaders with rotation
STREAMING/FFMPEG: Add Facebook Game Stream option (for embedded ffmpeg core-enabled RetroArch builds)
SWITCH: Fix input bind icons being off by one line
SWITCH: Fix audio issues
TLS/SSL: Add BearSSL support, as alternative to mbedTLS
VIDEO: AddVariable BFI (Black Frame Insertion)
VIDEO/DRM GO2: Dynamic resolution support
VIDEO FILTERS: Video filter optimisations
VIDEO FILTERS: Add several LCD-effect video filters
VIDEO FILTERS: Gameboy/Dot_Matrix video filters: Add XRGB8888 support
VIDEO FILTERS: Add Normal4x video filter
VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale_256x-320x240' video filter
VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale1.5x' video filter
VITA: Disable temporarily VitaGL
VITA: Fix bubble name
VITA: proper handling of boot params
VITA: Default menu scale 1.5x to improve readability
WIFI/LAKKA: Add a proper WiFi menu, with Enable/Disable & Disconnect options. This also allows WiFi passwords to be remembered. The underlying tool (connman) allows to store passswords (that's why it auto connects whenever you boot a Lakka device), so we expose this so that the user does not have to re-input the pass when connecting to a saved wifi.
WII/HID: Added HID support for HORI mini wired ps4 gamepad
WINDOWS: Add support for accelerators to main win32 message loop
WINDOWS: Add accelerators for Open (Ctrl+O) and Fullscreen (Alt+Enter)
WINDOWS: Fixes some file I/O failures on Windows when paths are longer than 260 characters.
WINDOWS: Fix crashing on startup on Windows when using Chinese Simplified language.
WINDOWS/XP: The OpenGL 1 video driver is now the default for maximum backwards compatibility upon first startup. It's of course always possible for the user to change this.
WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Load accelerators, Localize Win32 menu items to current language, and display shortcut keys
WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Add 'Reinit' to Menubar
WINDOWS/MSVC: Fix rewind crash on MSVC build when using SSE2
UWP: Don't default to XMB menu by default, default to Ozone instead
UWP/VFS: Use Win32 file APIs when possible - better file I/O performance
WIIU/FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Faster startup times - remove the path_is_valid() call when loading textures
WIIU: Fix touchscreen mouse emulation

1.9.0

3DS: Fix sound crackling when paused
ANDROID/VIBRATION: Fixes "Vibrate on Key Press" having no effect on Android devices, which occurred because only the off time/strength was defined in what should have been a pair of off/on values
AUTOCONFIG: Ensure correct directory is used when saving autoconfig profiles
BLUETOOTH: Add a Bluetooth driver (Lakka-only for now)
CHEATS: Fix for wrong number of remaining cheat search matches on some machines
CHEEVOS: Option to play sound on achievement unlock.
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 9.1
CHEEVOS: Restore display of unlocked achievements across hardcore modes
CHEEVOS: Hash buffered data when available
CHEEVOS: Fix 'Auto Save State freezes RetroArch while Cheevos is enabled'
CORE OPTIONS: Pressing OK (or clicking/tapping) on a 'boolean toggle' core option no longer opens a drop-down list. The value now toggles directly, just like boolean options everywhere else in the menu
CORE OPTIONS: Toggling an option that changes the number of core options being displayed (i.e. things like `Show Advanced Audio/Video Settings) no longer resets the navigation pointer to the start of the list
CORE OPTIONS: Before, RetroArch would identify core option values as being 'boolean' if they had labels matching the specific strings enabled or disabled. Most core devs would abide by this, but not always... As a result, we sometimes would end up with misidentified values, with all kinds of Enabled, Off, True, etc. strings littering the menu, in place of proper toggle switches. All boolean-type value labels are now detected, and replaced with standard ON/OFF strings.
CLI: A new command line option --load-menu-on-error has been added
CRT: On the fly CRT porch adjuments - these changes allow a user to adjust how the porch algorithm generates the 15khz/31khz output. Giving the ability to change over/under scan.
CONFIG FILE: Optimise parsing of configuration files
D3D9/D3D11: Fix core-initiated D3D9/D3D11 driver switches
DRIVERS: Implemented protection to avoid setting critical drivers to nothing thus preventing the user from locking him/herself out of the program
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix input code to ignore unknown keys
FFMPEG CORE: Prevent seeking past the end of files (hang fix)
FILE I/O: VFS and NBIO interfaces will now use 64-bit fseek/ftell where possible, should allow for reading/writing to files bigger than 2GB
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Add input remap drop-down lists
IOS: Fixed iOS 6 version
IOS: Hide the home indicator as it obscures the content too frequently
IOS/METAL: Metal video driver now works on RetroArch iOS
IOS/METAL: Support getting video metrics to support proper touchscreen interactions
LOCALIZATION: Updates for several languages (synchronized from Crowdin)
MEMORY/LINUX/ANDROID: Fix reporting of free memory
MEMORY/WINDOWS: Fix reporting of free memory
MENU: Enlarged INT/UINT selection limit from 999 to 9999
MENU: Fix cursor forced to first entry after displaying lists
MENU: Make Notification Font option visible when Graphics Widgets are enabled
MENU/RGUI: Add optional 'toggle switch' icons
MENU/WIDGETS: Add optional widget-based 'load content' launch feedback animation
MENU/WIDGETS: Make notification font size option visible when graphics widgets are enabled
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Video driver - fix race condition with RGUI callback
PLAYLISTS: Change playlists to use dynamic arrays. Instead of a fixed initial 12MB memory allocation (99999 * 128 byte (on 64bit arch)), use a dynamically growing array
PLAYLISTS: Playlist base content directory paths - portable playlists
PLAYLISTS/SEARCH: Enhanced playlist search functionality
PLAYLISTS/DATABASE: Add 'Explore' view
PLAYLISTS/DATABASE/EXPLORE: Show system icons in explore view
PS2: Improve FPS Limiter
RUNAHEAD: Prevent runahead from being disabled permanently when an error occurs
SCANNER: Add more region codes for GameCube/Wii game detection
SHADERS/SLANG: Increased Slang max Parameters, Textures & Passes
VIDEO FILTERS/BLARGG: Make Blargg_snes filter customizable
WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Fix invalid calls to dinput_handle_message when input driver is not set to dinput
X11: Add lightgun support

1.8.9

AUTO SAVESTATES: Ensure save states are correctly flushed to disk when quitting RetroArch (fixes broken save states when exiting RetroArch - without first closing content - with 'Auto Save State' enabled)
BUILTIN CORES: Builtin cores like ffmpeg and imageviewer would previously try to erroneously load a dynamic core named 'builtin' - this would fail and would just be a wasteful operation - this now skips dylib loading in libretro_get_system_info for builtin cores
CHEEVOS: Report API errors when unlocking achievements or submitting leaderboards
CHEEVOS: Support less common file extensions
CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore mode when playing BSV file
CHEEVOS: Correctly report unlocked non-hardcore achievements when hardcore is paused
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - did not handle absolute/relative paths in M3U files correctly before
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it didn't handle comments/directives
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it doesn't handle trailing whitespace
CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - failed when loading M3U files with certain line endings
CORE MANAGEMENT: Add 'core management' menu (Settings -> Core)
CORE MANAGEMENT: Add option to backup/restore installed cores
CORE MANAGEMENT: Improved core selection logic
CORE INFO: Search search optimisations
CORE DOWNLOADER: Rename 'Core Updater' to 'Core Downloader'
CORE DOWNLOADER: Add 'Show Experimental Cores' setting under Settings > Network > Updater
CORE DOWNLOADER: Core licenses are now shown for all entries in the Core Updater menu
CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad select on a Core Updater entry will now display any text in the description field of its info file
CORE DOWNLOADER: Installed cores are now highlighted via a [#] symbol
CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad start on a selected, installed entry opens the Core Information menu (when using Material UI, swiping left or right triggers the same action). This means we can now view bios info etc. - and more importantly delete cores - without jumping through all the hoops of loading a core first and navigating all over the place
CORE DOWNLOADER/UPDATER: Add option to automatically backup cores when updating
DISK CONTROL: Enable 'Load New Disc' while disk tray is open
INPUT: Added a hotkey delay option to allow hotkey input to work properly when it is assigned to another action
INPUT: Remove 'All Users Control Menu' setting, was buggy and will be properly reintroduced after input overhaul
LINUX: Set default saves/save states/system paths
LOCALIZATION: Add Persian language
LOCALIZATION: Add Hebrew language
LOCALIZATION: Add Asturian language
MENU: Proper line wrapping for message dialog boxes
MENU/HOTKEYS: Add sublabels to all hotkey bind entries
MENU/QUICK MENU: Suppress the display of 'empty' quick menu listings when closing content
MENU/OZONE: Performance improvements
MENU/SDL: Add mouse controls
OPENGL1/VITA: Initial changes for HW context without FBO
OVERLAYS: Add options for moving the on-screen overlay
PLAYLISTS/WINDOWS: Fix core path entries in image/video/music history playlists
PS2: Add back CDFS support
SDL/GL: Advertise GLSL support
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix heap-use-after-free errors, leading to memory corruption
VITA: Added custom bubbles support
VITA: VitaGL update
VULKAN/WSI: Better frame pacing
VULKAN/WSI: Fix Intel Mesa being broken when using Fences, we have to use Semaphores to acquire the swapchain or the entire GPU stalls
VULKAN/WSI: Add support for either using fences or semaphores when syncing
VULKAN/WSI: Prefer using semaphores for integrated GPUs as it promotes better throughput over fences
VULKAN/WSI/ANDROID: Do not use mailbox emulation on Android
UWP/XBOX: Potentially improve performance by enabling 'Game Mode'

1.8.8

AUDIO/JACK: Fix regression introduced after 1.8.4 - would hang at startup
CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore when cheats are enabled
CHD: Return false when special track cannot be found
DISCORD/MATCHMAKING: Fix Discord 'Ask To Join' functionality
FILE PATH: Various file path handling optimisations
FONT: Fix Arabic, Chinese and Korean font rendering
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Restore broken 'reset to default' functionality with RetroPad 'start' button
INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Fix 'reset to default' action for analog sticks and undefined core inputs
LOCALIZATION: Update Arabic translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Greek translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Vietnamese translation
LOCALIZATION: Add Slovak translation
MENU: Small buffer optimizations
MENU/THUMBNAILS/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error
MENU/OZONE: Add option to sort playlists after name truncation
MENU/OZONE/ANDROIDTV: Default to Ozone menu driver
MENU/OZONE/ANDROID: Gamepad-like devices default to Ozone now (Shield Portable)
NETPLAY: Lower announcement rate
OVERLAYS: Fix memory leak when loading overlays
SHADER PRESETS: Improved shader preset dirs
TIME/DATE: Enable configuration of date seperator in clock and runtime 'last played' displays
VITA: Fix upside-down vertical games
UWP: Enable playlist and savefile compression by default (because of slow file I/O)
WIIU: Gamepad hotplugging support
WIIU: Theoretical multi-gamepad support
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix overlapping text when simultaneous pop-up notifications and core/shader messages are being displayed
X11: Fix crash in x11_display_server_get_screen_orientation
X11/XSHM: Allow X11/XHSM video driver to operate without SHM extension
X11/XSHM: Fix compatibility with X11 input driver
XVIDEO: Fix keyboard input initialization
XVIDEO/XWAYLAND: Fix XVideo support on xwayland (by supporting I420 and YZ12)

1.8.7

3DS: Add IDs for Frodo
3DS: Enable basic networking / cheevos
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Opening achievements list would crash RetroArch with badges enabled (on new games)
CHEEVOS: Option to start a session with all achievements active
CHEEVOS: Don't perform unnecessary cheevos initialisation when cheevos are disabled. Should reduce startup times when loading content.
CORE OPTIONS: Disable 'Use Global Core Options File' by default
DOS/DJGPP: Add 32bit color support for cores
GLCORE: Switch to glcore video driver when requested by a core
LINUX/XDG: Use GenericName correctly in desktop entry
MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse cursor tracking
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add desktop-style playlist view mode
MENU/MATERIALUI/DESKTOPVIEW: When scrolling playlists, show last selected thumbnails while waiting for next entry to load
MENU/MATERIALUI: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar playlist sort order when 'Truncate Playlist Names' is enabled
MENU/RGUI: Adjusted menu defaults, adjusted default scrolling speed
MENU/RGUI: Enable custom wallpaper when menu size is reduced at low resolutions
MENU/XMB: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
NETPLAY: Fix regressions introduced in 1.8.5
RGUI: Add option to always stretch menu to fill the screen
WIIU: Enable graphics widgets

1.8.6

3DS: Add IDs for UZEM, TGB Dual, and NeoCD
3DS: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
3DS: Allow button presses up to INPUT_MAX_USERS - this enables the 3DS to bind and use buttons and axis for users up to the maximum set by 'Max Users' in the input settings menu.
3DS: Disable video filter if upscaled resolution exceeds hardware limits. The 3DS has a maximum video buffer size of 2048x2048. This is sufficient for every core that it supports, but when using software video filters the core output resolution is doubled. This is made worse by the fact that the video filter upscaling buffer size is dependent upon the maximum output resolution of the core - which in some cases is very large indeed (e.g. pcsx-rearmed sets a maximum width of 1024, for enhanced resolution support). The 3DS has very limited 'linear memory' for graphics buffer purposes, and a large base core buffer + video filter buffer can easily exceed this - which may also disable video output, or cause a crash. This PR very simply adds a 3DS-specific check to the video filter initialisation: if the resultant upscaling buffer exceeds the hardware limitation, then the filter is automatically disabled.
3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: Text colour was wrong: the RGBA channels were muddled, and R was always set to 255
3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: When drawing multiline strings, the line spacing was completely incorrect
3DS/FONT: Improves the appearance of the drop shadow effect on notification text.
3DS/ARCHIVE/7Z: Re-enable 7zip support.
ARCHIVE/ZIP: Expand functionality of 'rzip_stream' interface. This PR expands the functionality of the new rzip_stream archived stream interface such that it now has almost complete feature parity with the standard file_stream interface, and can therefore be used as a drop-in replacement in most situations
AI SERVICE: Hide redundant entries when service is disabled
AI SERVICE: Added in auto-translate support
AI SERVICE: support for NVDA and SAPI narration
AUTOCONFIG: Use correct port index in input device configured/disconnected notifications
BUGFIX: Fix race condition where task could momentarily not be in the queue when reordering
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Prevent null reference rendering achievement list while closing application
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Report non-memorymap GBA cores as unsupported
COMMANDLINE: Advise against using -s and -S variables on the command line. …
CONFIG FILE: Only write config files to disk when parameters change
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: RetroArch no longer crashes when attempting to save a config file after 'unsetting' a parameter (currently, this can be triggered quite easily by manipulating input remaps)
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: When using Material UI, RetroArch no longer modifies the wrong setting (or segfaults...) when tapping entries in the Quick Menu > Controls input remapping submenu
CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: Quite a few real and potential memory leaks have been fixed.
CHD: Fixes a crash caused by ignoring the return value from one of the CHD library functions
FASTFORWARDING: A new Mute When Fast-Forwarding option has been added under Settings > Audio. When enabled, users can fast forward without having to listen to distorted audio.
GLCORE/SLANG: Set filter and wrap mode correctly when intialising shader textures. Before, the glcore shader driver did not correctly initialise loaded textures. The texture filtering and wrap mode were forced on texture creation, but these settings were not recorded - subsequent updates would set garbage values, that would resolve to linear filtering OFF and wrap mode = CLAMP_TO_EDGE.
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
IOS: Set audio session category to ambient so sound does not get cut off on interruption (phone call/playing back audio)
MAC/IOHIDMANAGER/BUGFIX: Fix for Mayflash N64 adapter. In case last hatswitch does not match cookie. For the mayflash N64 adapter, I was getting a BAD EXC ADDRESS (in mac OS 10.13) for this line (tmp was NULL). Retroarch would crash in the gui if I pressed a button from the DPAD on controller 2. With this change, it no longer crashes in the gui and still registers the button push.
MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse input - this brings back two lines of code that have been removed over time but appear to be required in order for mouse input to work on macOS
METAL/BUGFIX: GPU capture on Metal/OSX/NVidia could crash
METAL/BUGFIX: Taking screenshots could capture black frames. Resulting PNG screenshots were black.
METAL/BUGFIX: Corrupted image due to incorrect viewport copy when taking screenshot
MENU: Prevent font-related segfaults when using extremely small scales/window sizes
MENU: Fix 'gfx_display_draw_texture_slice()'
MENU/FONT: Enable correct vertical alignment of text (+ font rendering fixes)
MENU/RGUI: Enable automatic menu size reduction when running at low resolutions (down to 256x192)
MENU/OZONE: Update timedate style options for Last Played sublabel metadata
MENU/OZONE: Hide 'Menu Color Theme' setting when 'Use preferred system color theme' is enabled
MENU/OZONE: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
MENU/OZONE: Prevent glitches when rendering Ozone's selection cursor
MENU/OZONE: Enable proper vertical text alignment + thumbnail display improvements
MENU/OZONE: Enable second thumbnail/content metadata toggle using RetroPad 'select'
MENU/OZONE: Refactor footer display
MENU/OZONE: Hide thumbnail button hints when viewing file browser lists
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Fix undefined behaviour when using touch screen to change input remaps
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: It turns out that Windows reports negative pointer coordinates when the mouse cursor goes beyond the left hand edge of the RetroArch window (this doesn't happen on Linux, so I never encountered this issue before!). As a result, if Ozone is currently not showing the sidebar (menu depth > 1), moving the cursor off the left edge of the window generates a false positive 'cursor in sidebar' event - which breaks menu navigation, as described in #10419. With this PR, we now handle 'cursor in sidebar' status correctly in all cases
MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Pointer input is now correctly disabled when message boxes are displayed
MENU/XMB: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Add DRM HW context driver
PSL1GHT: Initial port
PSL1GHT/KEYBOARD: Implement PSL1GHT keyboard
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to run content via a playlist entry with missing path or core path fields.
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - when a playlist entry has either core path and/or core name set to NULL, DETECT or an empty string, attempting to load content will fallback to the normal 'core selection' code (currently this happens only if both core path and core name are DETECT - this is wholly inadequate!)
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to fetch content runtime information when core path is NULL
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Core name + runtime info will only be displayed on playlists and in the Information submenu if both the core path and core name fields are 'valid' (i.e. not NULL or DETECT)
PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: When handling entries with missing path fields, the menu sorting order now matches that of the playlist sorting order (at present, everything goes out of sync when paths are empty). Moreover, entries with missing path fields can now be 'selected', so users can remove them (currently, hitting A on such an entry immediately tries - and fails - to load the content, so the only way to remove the broken entry is via the Playlist Management > Clean Playlist feature)
PLAYLIST: Add optional per-playlist alphabetical sorting
PLAYLIST: Omit whitespace when writing compressed JSON format playlists
PLAYLIST: Add optional playlist compression
QNX: Support analog sticks
SAVESTATES: Add optional save state compression (enabled by default now)
SRAM: Add optional save (SRAM) file compression
SCANNER: Prevent redundant playlist entries when handling M3U content
SCANNER/ANDROID: Fix content scanner being unable to identify certain games from CHD images (raw data sector/subcode)
TASKS/BUGFIX: Fix task deadlocks
TASKS/SCREENSHOT/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error when widgets are disabled
TVOS: Disable overlays for tvOS, fix app icon
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: The font ascender/descender metrics added in #10375 are now used to achieve 'pixel perfect' vertical text alignment
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Message queue text now uses its own dedicated font. Previously, a single (larger) font was used for all active widgets, and this was scaled down for message queue items. This 'squished' the text a little; more importantly, when using the stb font renderers (on Android. etc.) it caused ugly artefacts around the edges of glyphs due to pixel interpolation errors. Now that a correctly sized font is used, the message queue is always rendered cleanly.
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Previously, each widget font was 'flushed' (font_driver_flush()) at least once a frame. This is quite a slow operation. Now we only flush fonts if they have actually been used.
VULKAN/BUGFIX: Fix display of statistics text
UNIX/BUGFIX: Fix overflow when computing total memory on i386
WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix non-vertex coordinates in draws using tex shader
WIIU/BUGFIX: Update and fix meta.xml file for the WiiU release. This change makes it so the information from the meta.xml file parsed for the WiiU's Homebrew Launcher is displayed properly.

1.8.5

3DS: Keep the bottom screen hidden on sleep/wakeup. When the 3DS wakes back up after being closed, the bottom screen needs to be reinitialized. Adding the condition here will cause the screen to be turned on or off based on the state of ctr_bottom_screen_enabled, as you'd expect
ANDROID/CHROMEBOOK/CRASH: Fix Chromebook crashes (on x86 x64) when touching the screen
BUGFIX: Prevent double input when using 'return' key (hardware) to close on-screen keyboard
BUGFIX: Fix mouse capture hotkey not working
BUGFIX: Avoid overflow when calculating multiplying performance counter
BUGFIX: Retroarch overlay displaying "Game remap file loaded." on the overlay instead of "Core remap file loaded." when only a core remap file is present
CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Achievement triggers could cause Retroarch to Crash
CHEEVOS: Don't block Sameboy core because it only exposes some memory
CHEEVOS: Support for extended Sega CD memory
CHEEVOS: Show RetroAchievements Hash in content information list
CHEEVOS: If the core says it's exposing SYSTEM_RAM, give it the benefit of the doubt
CHEEVOS: RetroAchievements rich presence for RA.org website/Discord
CHEEVOS: Reset token when username or password changes
CHEEVOS: Display measured progress on locked achievements
CHEEVOS: Queue multiple popups
CHEEVOS: Add delay retries to leaderboard submits
CHEEVOS: Prevent buffer overflow when encountering an unknown macro
CORE UPDATER: Prevent hang when fetching core list if HTTP transfer fails
DISK CONTROL: Add disk labels to 'disk inserted' notifications
EMSCRIPTEN: Recreate input event listeners properly
FFMPEG CORE: Fix crash on seeking when using HW decoding in some cases
LIBRETRO: Add disk control interface API extension
LINUX: Avoid possible crash when running retroarch at startup
LINUX/GLX: Fix threaded video crashes/instability because of GLX OML sync callbacks
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
MENU: Add Menu Scroll Acceleration option
MENU: Automatically select currently checked item when opening drop-down lists
MENU: Fix smooth (vertical) line ticker scroll speed
MENU: Don't flush on override/remap messages
MENU/DATETIME: Adds some new timedate styles that follow the DD/MM/YYYY format, found in several European countries
MENU/DATETIME: Modifies the existing translation files in order to accommodate the new options that are now available
MENU/DATETIME: Reorders the timedate view options based on a decreasing order of the quantity of information displayed, so that they are more convenient to switch around and easily categorized
MENU/BUGFIX: Fix bug - if you were in XMB and you would set menu driver to RGUI, you could no longer go to the left or right tab
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add option to remove navigation bar
MENU/OZONE: Add DPI-based scaling
MENU/OZONE: Add rudimentary pointer support
MENU/OZONE: Add 'Nord' and 'Gruvbox Dark' themes
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to switch between sidebar and entries list
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to select sidebar and entries list items
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Both sidebar and entries list can be scrolled by dragging
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Clicking/pressing the header or footer produces a 'cancel' action
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Cursor focus follows mouse pointer from sidebar to entries list (and vice versa)
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In entries list, item under cursor is automatically selected (with some fudging to ensure this doesn't break mouse wheel scrolling)
MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In sidebar, item under cursor is not automatically selected (this is too jarring)
MENU/RGUI: Add 'Flux' theme
MENU/XMB: New color themes 'Cube Purple', 'Family Red', etc
NETPLAY/MENU/BUGFIX: Fix Netplay Stateless Mode doesn't save. Affects other netplay settings which can be overridden by commandline option
ODROID GO ADVANCE: Rotation support
NETPLAY/ROOMS/BUGFIX: Prevent out-of-bounds array indexing when displaying/selecting netplay rooms in menus
SCANNER: Add 'Arcade DAT Filter' Option
SCANNER: Add scanning Korea and Asia PS1 discs
SCANNER: Add support for scanning PSP Korean
VIDEO: Set hardware 'Bilinear filtering' off by default
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Widgets are now menu-independent
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Allow notifications to use full screen width when not displaying menu
VIDEO/WIDGETS: DPI-based scaling
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix volume widget scaling
VIDEO/WIDGETS: Add independent widget scale override settings for fullscreen/windowed modes
VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Prevent improper display of (old style) OSD text when widgets are enabled
VIDEO/WIDGETS/THREADED/BUGFIX: Fix issue - corruption of menu widgets when running some cores (e.g. VICE) with threaded video enabled
WIFI/CONNMANCTL: Display more characters from SSID

1.8.4

ANDROID/BUGFIX: Prevent crash when Android device is minimized and you go back to the app
CAMERA/BUGFIX: Fix crash when a core requires the camera driver and the platform only has a null driver. This would crash mgba on Wii for example
DISK CONTROL: Cycle Disk Tray now becomes Eject Disk or Insert Disk depending upon current drive state
DISK CONTROL: Current Disk Index is only shown when the current disk has been ejected
DISK CONTROL: The old Insert Disk entry has been changed to Load New Disk, and is only shown when a disk is currently inserted (this is because loading a new disk from the filesystem - i.e. bypassing the m3u playlist disk index interface - automatically ejects and inserts disks, and so cannot be done while the virtual drive is empty)
DISK CONTROL: The Current Disk Index may now be set more easily via a drop-down list.
DISK CONTROL: Selecting Eject Disk automatically moves the menu selection to the Current Disk Index entry
DISK CONTROL: Selecting an index via the Current Disk Index drop-down list automatically moves the menu selection back to Insert Disk
DISK CONTROL: The Disk Control entry sublabels have been changed for greater clarity
DISK CONTROL: All of the horrendous notification spam has been removed. Notifications are now only shown in the event of an error, or when the menu itself does not provide sufficient visual feedback (note that using hotkeys to swap disks still produces the old style notifications, since this is typically only done while content is running - i.e. no menu). The duration of disk-related info notifications has also been reduced to a more sane level.
DISK CONTROL: A new Resume content after changing disks option has been added under Settings > User Interface. When enabled (default setting), content is resumed automatically after selecting either Insert Disk or Load New Disk (when disabled, the menu remains open, obviously...)
DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: The Disk Control menu now has the correct title
DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: Selecting a disk via the Load New Disk file browser no longer flushes the user back to the top level menu (it now correctly returns to the Disk Control menu)
LIBNX/SWITCH: Updated libnx integration to v3.0.0. This also cherry-picks libnx commit 583d6bb92dcbb33b6bb4a0fa1a9df6e3725d6ef6, which should fix the requirement having to turn rumble off and on in the system settings once per reboot
PLAYLISTS: Add 'Clean Playlist' option

1.8.3

ANDROID/BUGFIX: Fix 'Install or Restore Core' regression
BUGFIX: Ensure core info is always initialised when calling 'drivers_init()'. This bug could prevent cores from doing content runtime logging
BUGFIX/MENU: History size can only be set to 1 at a minimum
BUGFIX/MENU: (XMB/OZONE) Fix 'quick menu' detection. XMB would not display savestate thumbnails in the quick menu if it was accessed via the main menu
BUGFIX/CRASH/CORE UPDATER: Fix potential double free error
BUGFIX/CRASH/OPENGL/WINDOWS: Fix regression in 1.8.2 that would cause GL-based cores to fail because it would try to erroneously load libGLESv2.dll instead of OpenGL32.dll (cores affected: VitaQuake 2/3/Dhewm3, possibly more)
BUGFIX/MENU/DESKTOP UI: Show desktop menu on startup does not launch Qt UI on Linux
BUGFIX: Entries in the Playlist Thumbnails Updater list were displaying improper sublabels. I have no idea when this broke... The issue is now fixed
CHEEVOS: Don't disable achievement when AddAddress generates an out-of-range address
CHEEVOS: Don't reset triggers/leaderboards that failed to load
CHEEVOS: Don't count unsupported achievements as unlocked
CORE UPDATER: Display number of cores updated when updating installed cores
DINGUX: Initial port
D3D11: Block FL9_3 devices from D3D11 driver because they don't work anyway (current D3D11 driver uses SM4.0 which requires FL10_0 and up)
D3D11: Fallback to GL driver when D3D11 fails
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix assets
HISTORY/FAVORITES: Bump up default to 200 entries from 100
FFMPEG CORE: Implement packet buffer, fixes MP4 video playback for many files
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: Added 'Hosting' menu under Netplay menu
MENU: Added 'Subsystems' menu
MENU/FILEBROWSER: Fix file selection issues when starting from (or navigating to) the top level directory
MENU/WIDGETS: Prevent looping of task title text
RASPBERRY PI: Fix BGRA8888 color inversion issues in the menu and elsewhere with VideoCore GL drivers
NETPLAY/RELAY: Add Sao Paulo (Brazil) relay server
NETPLAY/RELAY: Fix the “spectator” bug when using the relay server – When a player switches into the spectator mode (pressing “i”) while using the relay server, all players will disconnect.
NETPLAY/RELAY: Overall stability has improved. Fixed a memory leak that would cause the relay server to become unresponsive after some time.
NETPLAY/RELAY: Fixed critical bug that would cause all players to be disconnected from the relay server if one player was leaving the game. That bug had been open for one year and we were finally able to fix it.
SWITCH/LIBNX/BUGFIX: Fix onscreen keyboard input regression
THUMBNAIL UPDATER: When waiting for individual thumbnail file http transfers to complete, the task status checking is more accurate. This uses the same method as the new core updater - we now wait until the task is 'really' complete, instead of relying on the (slightly nebulous) 'task finished' state
UWP: Add ANGLE support
UWP: Wire up get_metrics to the fake context of D3D9/10/11/12 driver, enabling proper scaling and mouse/touch gestures
VITA: Re-add Online Updater
VULKAN: Fix font driver 'vulkan_get_message_width()' function
VIDEO FILTERS: Only use threads when the number exceeds 1. Fixes race conditions with some CPU filters on Vita
WINDOWS: Add ANGLE support for x64, separate binary (for now?)

1.8.2

BUG/CRASH/GLSLANG: Fix glslang crashing error - managed to reproduce an issue which has been plaguing users for a while, where glslang throws an assert after closing a game (and starting a new one). This would affect all video drivers that use Slang for shaders, such as D3D10/11/12/Vulkan/Metal
CHEEVOS: Display Unofficial and Unsupported achievement states
CHEEVOS: Pass RetroArch and core versions through User-Agent HTTP header
CHEEVOS: Use PSX.EXE if SYSTEM.CNF cannot be found
CHEEVOS: Prevent loading state while achievements are still being fetched from server
CHEEVOS: Pause hardcore if core doesn't support achievements
CHEEVOS/CRASH: Fix AddressSanitizer + CHD cause hard crash when Cheevos are enabled
CORE UPDATER: Only download when new core is available
CORE UPDATER: Add option to update all installed cores
DRM/KMS: Better detection for the current video mode
DYNAMIC RATE CONTROL: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix bug in Emscripten input code
EMSCRIPTEN: Changes to support upgraded emscripten SDK
FFMPEG CORE: Hardware accelerated video decoding
FFMPEG CORE: Implement send/receive encoding API, will allow for hardware accelerated AMD video encoding
FFMPEG CORE: The video FIFO can be removed, since we have a ring buffer in its place. This removes unneeded copy operations and as a positive side improves overall decoding speed. Makes 8k60p SW and 4k60p HW decoding feasible on many systems. For now the ring buffer is 32 images deep. This limitation will be removed, once audio and video decoder have their own packet handling.
INPUT: Fix 'Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled'
INPUT/TURBO: Added alternate Turbo-Mode 'Single Button' - For systems supporting only a single button, the turbo-button will toggle firing that button without the need to hold it. When holding the button turbo will be suspended and resumed when the button is released. Holding the button may have a different function to just tapping it.
IOS: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until UIWindow concurrency issues are fixed
INPUT/ANALOG: Fix radial analog deadzone scaling
INPUT/ANALOG: Implement proper analog button deadzone
INPUT/MENU: Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
LINUX/LOCALIZATION: Correct Droid Sans Fallback font path in Linux. This should fix Chinese/Korean font display issues on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/openSUSE/SLE
MENU/BUGFIX: When using a keyboard/gamepad/mouse wheel to navigate, the menu scroll position is always maintained and updated in a consistent (and expected) fashion
MENU/BUGFIX: When resizing the window, or changing the orientation of a mobile device, the current scroll position is correctly preserved
MENU/BUGFIX: All 'normal' pointer input is now inhibited when showing message boxes
MENU/BUGFIX: The pointer actions 'select' and 'cancel' both now properly close a message box if it is currently being shown
MENU/BUGFIX: Pointer 'select' and 'cancel' actions are now inhibited when an input bind dialog is active
MENU/INPUT: Change 'User' terminology to 'Port' for input binding
MENU/LINUX: Add proper drives to Load Content
MENU/MATERIALUI: Halt scrolling when pointer is pressed/stationary
MENU/MATERIALUI: Dual thumbnail view
MENU/MATERIALUI: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart
MENU/MATERIALUI: Scroll rapidly by press and holding the scrollbar
MENU/RGUI: New theme 'Flux'
MENU/OZONE: Thumbnails now have a fade-in animation
MENU/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix dock titles getting cut off
MENU/XMB: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide 'Disallow Non-Slave Mode Clients' if 'Allow Slave-Mode Clients' is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Hide 'Show desktop menu on startup' if 'Desktop menu' setting itself is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Reimplement Quick Menu - > Shaders -> Watch shader files for changes - can now be turned on/off through touch
MENU/USABILITY: Refactor Quick Menu - Controls - each port now has its own submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Quick Menu - Cheats - Delete All no longer requires five right button presses - this should fix this functionality for mobile touch users too
MENU/USABILITY: Hide Refresh Rate options when Threaded Video is enabled - these settings do nothing with Threaded Video
MENU/USABILITY: Hide Logging Verbosity levels behind Logging Verbosity
MENU/USABILITY: Get rid of 'Port Number' label for Port Binds screen
MENU/USABILITY/MOBILE: Should no longer crash when clicking on a cheat entry
MENU/USABILITY: Shader parameters now have a dropdown list
MENU/USABILITY: Shader passes now has a dropdown list
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Windowed Mode settings selectively
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Fullscreen Mode settings if windowed mode is not supported by context driver
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Network Command Port
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Relay Server Location
MENU/USABILITY: User Interface -> Appearance - Selectively hide XMB Horizontal Animation setting
MENU/USABILITY: Playlists - more selective hiding
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Rewind Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Overlay Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide FPS Update Interval based on Display Framerate being enabled
MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Onscreen Notifications BG Color Settings
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Logging - Hide 'Log To File Timestamp' if 'Log To File' is disabled
MENU/USABILITY: Video -> Scaling - Hide Custom Viewport X/Y when Integer Scale is enabled as description indicates
MENU/USABILITY: Achievement submenu - selectively hide
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Aspect ratio - selectively hide/show values based on whether you have Custom or Config selected
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Selectively hide Hard Sync
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Implement selective hiding for VSync and Hard Sync
MENU/USABILITY: Selective hiding of Runahead settings based on global setting
MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Haptic Feedback submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Menu Controls submenu
MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Max Swapchain Images - Add OK action
MENU/USABILITY: Input - Implement OK action for Bind Hold, Turbo Period and Duty Cycle
MENU/USABILITY: Input - Hotkey Binds refactor
MENU/USABILITY: Move 'Press Quit Twice' and 'Menu Toggle Gamepad Combo' to Input -> Hotkey Binds
MENU/USABILITY: Video - Add sublabel for Video Output submenu
MENU/USABILITY: If 'Favorites Tab' is disabled, don't show 'Add To Favorites' option in Quick Menu/Playlist menu
MENU/USABILITY: If On-Demand Thumbnail Downloader is enabled, hide 'Download Thumbnails' from playlist menu screen
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio Driver setting to Audio -> Output
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Resampler settings
MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Output and Audio -> Synchronization
OPENGL: Shaders are now working properly (only in OpenGL) when rotating both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation. The fix is clearly visible with crt-royale for example
OPENGL: 1:1 PAR is now correct when rotating (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation, as you said, in the latter case you currently have to change Aspect Ratio after menu video rotation for it to work)
OPENGL: When using Custom Aspect Ratio and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation), Integer Scaling is now working properly (correct multiples of internal resolution). Even when Integer Scaling is not activated, the Custom AR width / height are now correctly labeled using (1x), (2x), ... suffixes. You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
OPENGL: For all other Aspect Ratio options, Integer Scaling and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation) are now working properly together (correct multiples of internal resolution). You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
OPENBSD/POWERPC: Should build now on OpenBSD PowerPC
PLAYLISTS: Pressing 'Start' or long touching a playlist will bring you to a Playlist submenu where you can set a default core, setup thumbnail view, delete the playlist, etc
OSX: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until NSWindow concurrency issues are fixed
PSP: Solving issue exiting RetroArch by HOME button
SCANNER: Manual scanner, not dependent on database files
SCANNER/MANUAL: Add option to scan inside archives
SCANNER/MANUAL: Enable automatic naming of arcade content via DAT files. This is compatible with DAT files in either Logiqx XML or MAME List XML format.
VIDEO: Do not reinit video driver on SET_SYSTEM_AV_INFO unless needed
VIDEO: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
VIDEO LAYOUT: Fixed XML parsing of attributes with spaces, should fix issues with several video layouts
VITA: GL1 driver support
VITA/VITA2D: Several improvements to Vita 2D driver - menu widgets implemented
VITA/VITA2D: Fix clipping and reduce number of calls
VULKAN/ANDROID: Workaround weird WSI return codes in landscape mode - Android WSI wants you to use preTransform, and if it is not used correctly, Android 10 will return VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR, and we would create a new swapchain every frame. This workaround just ignores this error, since it's not really an error. A more "proper" fix is to use prerotate and modify the MVP matrices, which might help certain devices with crummy display processors
VULKAN/ANDROID: Recreate swapchain on orientation change. ANativeWindow getWidth/Height does not detect any changes when using Vulkan, so use the old onContentRectChanged callback to get notified when size changed. Use those values instead when figuring out how large swapchain to create
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Get rid of 128 byte device name limit for XInput device discover - when device name was too long, it would not be picked up by the XInput driver and would instead fallback to DirectInput
WINDOWS: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support
UWP: Fix crashes on startup / prompt for folder permissions when trying to load custom.ini
UWP: Fix - Mouse input is offset on high DPI monitors
UWP: Fix - Keyboard input hangs sometimes
UWP: Fix - Multi-touch support
UWP: Fix - Enable menu touch input by default
UWP: Fix - Get user language
UWP: Fix - Get CPU model name
UWP: Fix - Use GLUI instead of XMB on Windows Mobile 10
UWP: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support

(1.8.1)

BUGFIX/MENU: Fix menu rendering with Mali GPUs after changing video dimensions
CDROM: Adds pregap support to cdfs helper methods
CHEEVOS: Provides the new PCEngine hashing algorithm for RetroAchievements
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU/MATERIALUI: Initial thumbnail support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Cutie / Virtual Boy theme added
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Under certain extreme circumstances, entries with very long sublabel strings could have their text prematurely 'clipped' as the entry is scrolled beyond the top of the screen
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Certain setting value strings were unnecessarily truncated (with a ...) when using smooth ticker text
MENU/XMB: Sunbeam theme added
SWITCH: Accelerometer, gyroscope and illuminance sensor support
VITA: Accelerometer and gyroscope sensor support

(1.8.0)

AI SERVICE: Added in fix for BMP returns to AI service. Added in label passing to AI service call
BSV: Fix BSV recording/playback
BUGFIX: Fix crash when setting Thumbnail Directory
BUGFIX/STABILITY: Set "Automatically Add Content to Playlist" to false by default, this was unstable on PS3 and Mac and other platforms potentially as well.
COMMON: Graceful driver switching for Windows and Linux
COMMON: Cache frame before converting 0RGB1555
LAKKA: Wi-Fi Access Point settings
MENU: Menu scaling improvements
MENU/MATERIALUI: There are no longer any animation glitches when 'wraparound' scrolling from the last entry in a list to the first, or when performing horizontal swipe navigation gestures on certain settings-type entries
MENU/MATERIALUI: List entries underneath the title and navigation bars are no longer highlighted when touching the title/navigation bars (this was only a cosmetic issue, but it was annoying...)
MENU/MATERIALUI: The current menu list is no longer reloaded when pressing the currently active tab on the navigation bar
MENU/MATERIALUI: The ticker text spacer has been set to a 'bullet' character (same as Ozone)
MENU/MATERIALUI: The default colour theme has been set to 'Ozone Dark'
MENU/MATERIALUI: Three new colour themes have been added.
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Menu Transition Animation option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When this is enabled, menu transition events are animated
MENU/MATERIALUI: The navigation bar is now shown at all times - i.e. it is an actual navigation tool, rather than a 'top-level-menu' curiosity
MENU/MATERIALUI: Two new context-sensitive buttons have been added to the navigation bar - back button and resume button
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Auto-Rotate Navigation Bar option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When enabled (this is the default setting), the navigation bar is moved to the right hand side of the screen when using landscape screen orientations.
MENU/MATERIALUI: The playlists tab is now correctly hidden when User Interface > Views > Show Playlist Tabs is disabled
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now correctly readjusts its layout when screen orientation changes on mobile devices
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now resizes in real-time when the user manually sets the Menu Scale Factor (this never worked properly with the old DPI override)
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI no longer leaks memory on 'context reset' (fonts were previously never free()'d)
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Android-style 'system bar' has been added. This shows current core name, clock and battery level
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new search icon is shown on the title bar when viewing playlists and file browser lists. Pressing this launches the search interface
MENU/MATERIALUI: The title bar now uses a larger font, and the sublabel font has also been enlarged a little, to more closely align with Material UI standards
MENU/MATERIALUI: A number (quite a large number) of layout/spacing issues have been fixed
MENU/MATERIALUI: The existing colour theme handling code is not fit for purpose, so the whole lot got ripped out and reimplemented. In doing so, also adjusted all the theme colours to better match Material UI standards - with a few liberties taken for aesthetic purposes.
OSD: Fix fast forward indicator when not using menu widgets
PSP1: Remove duplicated FPS indicator on the screen
SWITCH: Make audren threaded audio driver the new default
VIDEO LAYOUT: Add video layout mame overlay compatibility. Enabled for Windows/Linux/OSX/iOS/Android/libnx. Only works with GL driver for now, no glcore yet

(1.7.9) (v2)

3DS: Fix 3DS screen flickering when OSD is enabled
IOS: Fix crash that could happen at startup
MENU/MATERIALUI: Change DPI scaling back to original - too many issues with current implementation, requires a redesign

(1.7.9)

AI SERVICE: Image mode is now much faster, it now saves the image in-memory in PNG format then passes it along to the translation service
BUGFIX: Touch input - When using an overlay to toggle the quick menu on touchscreen devices, we no longer get 'phantom' menu input - i.e. the old bug of hitting the toggle and instantly resuming content (or performing a save state) is fixed
BUGFIX: Networking - RetroArch crashed when pressing left while Relay Server Location entry was selected
BUGFIX: Networking - fix memory leak that could happen at exit after a network operation had run
CHEEVOS: Improve handling of line endings when calculating CD hashes for retroachievements
CHEEVOS: Add support for Sega CD/Saturn; reduce hash calls to server
FPGA: Add initial FPGA port for Z-Turn boards - not really release-ready yet, will need community support to continue. Currently employs naive framebuffer approach, not fullspeed
GL1: GLDirect (D3D9 to OGL1.1 wrapper) support
GONG: Stability fixes
LINUX/UDEV: Fix touchscreen/lightgun issues
MENU/MATERIALUI: MaterialUI no longer 'forgets' its place when navigating backwards in menus, and navigation in general is 'cleaner'.
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add initial gesture support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Improved touch support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Random' items are no longer automatically highlighted when performing standard up/down 'flick' scrolling through lists (items are only highlighted when you keep the pointer still for > 200 ms)
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The display no longer 'jerks' for one frame when navigating backwards through lists
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The Material UI scaling factor is now based upon the device-reported screen DPI value (previously it relied upon a hard-coded magic number, which was never correct)
MENU/RGUI: Functional mouse/touchscreen support
MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: On-screen keyboard entry via mouse/touchscreen has been tidied up - no more double inputs (or unwanted menu interaction in the background)
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel up/down is now a proper 'up/down', same as using cursor keys or a dpad
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel tilt left/right has been wired up to normal 'left/right' commands. Also further improved mouse wheel tilt
MENU/OZONE: Add option to toggle between static and scrolling content metadata
MENU/XMB: Add full gesture support
MENU/OSX: Fixed mouse buttons - mouse down events were not hooked up
MENU: When navigating backwards from a core options drop-down list (i.e. pressing select or cancel), the last menu position is remembered (instead of resetting back to the first core option item each time)
MENU: Add mouse/touchscreen gesture support
MENU: Add option to delete playlists (Settings > Playlists > Playlist Management)
MOBILE (ANDROID/IOS): Add option to automatically rotate overlays when changing orientation
OSD: Memory details should now be available on every platform (get_mem_total and get_mem_free need to be implemented in the frontend driver for it to work)
OSD: Memory details can now be shown individually without FPS and frame count
PS2: Fix memory leaks in font/video driver
SWITCH: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
THREADED VIDEO: Fix FPS text in threaded video mode
VITA: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
VITA: Add system language detection
VITA: More memory support
WIN32: Log window now has title 'Logging Console'
WII: Add Wiimote lightgun support

1.7.8 (v4)

COMMON: Enable customisation of runtime 'last played' display format.
CHEEVOS: Add hashing support for PSX (bin/cue, chd, or real CD) (for real this time, got added in the CHANGELOG for v2 then reverted before it hit release)
IOS: Update for iOS 13, fix the asset packaging issues
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
MENU: Add 12-hour time/date versions of all formats
SWITCH: Add 'AI Service' option to Switch (untested)
SWITCH: Update to newest libnx

1.7.8 (v3)

GLCORE: Ensure correct scaling of menu texture (with RGUI)
IPS: Soft-Patch any IPS size
METAL: Fix overlay issue - setup correct viewport before rendering overlay
METAL/STB: Fix font driver issue with AMD GPUs on MacOS.
MENU/RGUI: Correctly rescale menu when resizing window if aspect ratio lock is enabled.
OSX: Remove OSX suffix in window title
PSP: Fix audio conversion code
REMAPS: Fix analog remapping regression -analog remapping would break controls

1.7.8 (v2)

3DS: Fix 3DS startup crash
AI SERVICE: Fix 'Japanese' setting
D3D12: Fix runtime error at startup
CHEEVOS: Fix Achievements badges
CHEEVOS: Add hashing support for PSX (bin/cue, chd, or real CD)
GLCORE: Fix regression - shaders don't work
IOS: Use launch storyboard to properly support all screen sizes
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU/XMB: Smooth vertical ticker scrolling
OSX: Fix potential OSX startup crash
PATCH: Fix IPS patches
PLAYLISTS: Fix playlist heap corruption bug. Would also cause potential crashes on OSX and 3DS at startup
SHADERS: Fix shader loading and saving in content-less cores
SHADERS: Implement video_shader_delay setting. Screen grabbing software like streaming software can interfere with the loading of shaders, resulting in graphical glitches or freezes. This PR adds a video_shader_delay setting (in ms) and (advanced) menu entries Video -> Auto-Shader Delay, allowing to work around the issue

1.7.8

3DS: Fix C-Stick y-axis inversion
3DS: Update all icon/banner images
AI: Add AI Service functionality (enabled for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS).
APPLE (MAC/IOS/TVOS): Fix autodetect for mFI controllers: properly call autodetect add on the connect notification, and add call to disconnect on GameController disconnect notification.
ANDROID: Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support
ANDROID: Now can be built with Gradle/Android Studio
AUDIO/WINDOWS: You can now select between audio devices for XAudio2/DirectSound/XAudio2 by pressing left/right on the Audio Device option.
AUDIO/WINDOWS: Setting the device by either index number or name string should work.
BLISS-BOX: Add 4 new pad types from firmware 3.0
BPS/UPS: Re-allocation target_data variable for target patch size (can now apply bigger patches without extra-bytes on memory)
CDROM: Added real CD-ROM functionality for Windows and Linux.
CDROM: Added disc dumping.
COMMON: Add separate frontend logging
COMMON: Ability to set FPS update interval (used in the window titlebar/FPS widget)
COMMON: Add 'Reset Frame Time Counter' functionality, enable it by default for resizing the window, loading/saving shader presets, fastforwarding, etc.
COMMON: Add optional 'on demand' thumbnail downloads
COMMON: Add new playlist-based thumbnail downloader. Hide the legacy thumbnail pack version by default
COMMON: Show license per core (if available) inside 'Load Core'
COMMON: Add option to load content from (and dump) CD-ROM discs
COMMON: Re-enable '--log-file' command line option
COMMON: Default playlist core association is now stored as metadata inside each playlist
COMMON: Fix playlist format detection
COMMON: Favorites playlist size can now be set independently of content history size. Values can be set from 0-999, or '-1' for unlimited (99999)
COMMON: Prevent adding new items to favorites when playlist is full (old entries are no longer overwritten)
COMMON: Prevent loading content with cores that require an incompatible graphics API version from the current one
COMMON: Saved shader presets are now portable across platforms and use relative paths
COMMON: Add '--set-shader' command line option which works like an override for automatic shader presets
COMMON: Add global shader presets
COMMON: Remove 'video_shader' setting, shaders are not saved automatically anymore
CORE OPTIONS: When saving core option overrides, only include settings for the current core
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to save core options per-core
CPU FILTERS: Add Scanline2x filter
DINPUT: Cleanup magic numbers mess surrounding hat code
GAMECUBE: Add default video/audio filter directories
GL/MALI400: Fix menu issues on Mali 400 series GPUs, should also fix 'RetroArch flickers black on ARM Mali GPUs (Android/ARM Linux)
GL/GLCORE: Use highest supported OpenGL Core version on Windows and X11
GL1: Ignore alpha in core video, fixes XRGB8888 rendering in some cores
GLCORE: Don't hardcode shader cross compilation target version but poll it. glcore would always only use the minimum target shader version, i.e. GLSL ES 3.00 for OpenGL ES 3.0+ or GLSL 1.50 for OpenGL 3.2+
D3D10/11/12/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic. Works fine with braid-rewind shader, not entirely perfect with D3D12 though
D3D10/11/12: Add option to select which GPU to render with
D3D10/11: Fix maintaining aspect ratio when resizing window
GLCORE/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
HID: Add Retrode support. Should work on Wii/WiiU.
INPUT: Menu toggle hotkey can now be bound to another keyboard key and it will toggle properly
IOS: Correctly centers screen on iPhone X landscape
IOS: Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support
IOS: Add in more Apple Model numbers for RetroRating Added in all current Apple Model numbers and set a base rating of 19
IOS: Remove pause indicator; show the native UI menu using 4-finger swipe down gesture
IOS: Support L3/R3 in iOS 12.1, Options buttons in MFi/PS4/XBox One controllers in iOS 13
LIBRETRO: Add new core options interface, allows for localization, sublabels and more
LIBRETRO: Add new bitmask input codepath, for RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD only for now
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
MENU: Add smooth ticker text
MENU: Ability to hide every settings submenu (User Interface -> Views -> Settings)
MENU: Ability to hide nearly every quick menu entry (User Interface -> Views -> Quick Menu)
MENU: Fix longstanding menu display issues on Mali400 GPUs (on ARM hardware, SBCs and mobile phones/tablets)
MENU: Fix Record -> Streaming Quality, and Record -> Recording Threads settings
MENU: Fix history playlist navigation after running content
NENU: Menu entry performance optimisations
MENU: Add option to show 'remove playlist entry' only on history/favourites
MENU: Overhaul content 'Information' menu display
MENU: Add new 'Playlist Management' submenu. Allows default core associations to be set (via dropdown list), and all existing associations to be reset
MENU: Add 'Set Core Association' option to Quick Menu
MENU: Add option to remain in menu after saving/loading states
MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Core' will unload the core.
MENU: After a core is running, Load Core will be hidden from view until you select 'Close Content' from the Quick Menu.
MENU/WIDGETS: All widgets are now properly cleaned up, fixing the frozen widgets bug when loading / closing content
MENU/WIDGETS: Fix crash with tasks
MENU/WIDGETS: Widgets are now drawn above the overlay with OpenGL and Vulkan
MENU/WIDGETS: Fine tune progress bar colors
MENU/WIDGETS: Have the progression widget always resize
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Ensure that displayed thumbnails are always refreshed correctly after selecting 'Download Thumbnails' from Quick Menu
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Make PNG image loading/processing non-blocking on non-threaded systems
MENU/OZONE: Add it for PS3
MENU/OZONE: Fix regression in 1.7.7 - OSX/macOS - was unable to start it
MENU/OZONE: Fix sublabel spacing
MENU/OZONE: Add toggle to enable/disable playlist name truncation in Ozone
MENU/OZONE: (Ozone) Fix display of (semi-)transparent thumbnails
MENU/XMB: Add menu animation settings
MENU/XMB: Add optional thumbnail scaling
MENU/XMB: Fix display of long sublabels. Text that would exceed the display area now scrolls line-by-line
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add optional thumbnail upscaling
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add core option sublabels as tooltips, add buttons to reset one/all core options
MENU/QT/WIMP: Word-wrap core option tooltips
MENU/QT/WIMP: Path selector fixes
MENU/RGUI: Enable playlist display on platforms without database support
MENU/RGUI: Make particle effects framerate independent + add animation speed setting
MIDI: correct pitch bend in ALSA driver - MIDI standard pitch bend center position is 0x2000 but ALSA's is 0
MIDI: Fix SysEx handling. We need to clear the event status after each message. Otherwise, after a SysEx message the first byte of the next event will incorrectly inherit its delta_time. This causes a delay of several seconds in nearly every MT-32 games which uses a lot of long SysEx.
METAL/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
NETBSD: Audioio is now the default audio driver
NETBSD: Fix a segfault when starting RetroArch with an empty configuration file and LANG unset in the environment
OSD: OSD is now drawn above the overlay with Vulkan
OSX: Fix regression with Cocoa GL - shader / preset loading was getting stuck in an infinite loop
OSX: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
PLAYLISTS: Add history/favourites to 'Playlist Management' menu
RECORD: Fix Twitch streaming
REMOTE RETROPAD: Fix for Remote RetroPad input - fixes processing of Remote RetroPad input. None of the remote inputs are being executed both in menu and in game. This is due to the way current key binds are being detected which block processing of any remote input. It's been tested using Remote RetroPad core on Android including digital dpad and analog control input.
RUNAHEAD/MSVC2010: Build in runahead support for MSVC2010 and up
RUNAHEAD/VITA: Build in runahead support for Vita version
SAVESTATES: Allow auto save states also in cores that support no content as long as some content is loaded
SCALER: Fix SSE2 path for ARGB/BGRA -> BGR24 - should fix screenshots being taken for XRGB888 (viewport)
SCANNER: Skip all databases with incompatible file extensions, whether content is inside an archive or not
SCANNER: Fix hang on empty files inside archives
SHADERS: Add proper shader compatibility checks
SHADERS: Enable Cg shaders for D3D9
SHADERS: Remove 'video_shader' setting, replace it with global presets that make more sense
SHADERS: #reference directive for shaders. Presets can point to other existing presets if they are unchanged
SHADERS: Will attempt to cache the shader/preset into memory before loading to avoid costly getline/gets/getc operations
SHADERS: New --set-shader commandline option
SHADERS/MENU: Prevent undefined behaviour when failing to load shaders
SHADERS/MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Shader Preset' will reset all shader passes and apply changes, effectively disabling the shaders
SHADERS/MENU: New menu options for removing shader presets (global/core/parent/etc).
SWITCH :Add Audren audio driver.
SWITCH: Fix splitting and joining of joycon controllers. Before this fix, splitting and joining of joycons only ever worked sporadically
SWITCH: Proper x/y scaling for pointer devices, fixes touch lightgun
THUMBNAILS: Add optional On-Demand Thumbnails.
UDEV: Fix wrong udev devices order
UDEV/X11: Mouse pointer should work now in X11 environment with no Display
VITA: Update Vita2D
VULKAN/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
VULKAN: Add option to select which GPU to render with
VULKAN: Validate non-causal filter chain for texture inputs. We only validated for UBO inputs apparently.
WINDOWS: Menubar should no longer be disabled when threaded video is enabled
WINDOWS: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
WINDOWS: Properly set initial directory for menubar 'Load Core' option
WII: Add default video/audio filter directories
WII: Fix RGUI display corruption
WII: Fix HID joypad drivers
WII: Add optional overscan correction
WII: Fix recursive path_mkdir() operations
WII: Add widescreen RGUI support
WIIU: Scale menu to viewport size; respect filtering settings for menu
WIIU/RGUI: RGUI does its own transparency effects in the texture, so we don't have to add another 50% on that
WIIU/RGUI: Use correct pixelformat ordering for menu texture
WIIU/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
X11: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
X11: Add non-evdev keycodes to fix keyboard input on non-Linux systems with X11

1.7.7

3DS: Add unique IDs to prevent cores overwriting each other
3DS: Fix screen tearing when running 50Hz content
ANDROID: We now target API level 26 (minimum is still API level 9)
ANDROID: Add option to vibrate on touch (works in menu or overlay)
ANDROID: Add device vibration option for cores that support rumble
ANDROID: Add gamepad vibration support for cores that support rumble
ANDROID: Allow stylus/pen to move mouse without pressing down
AUDIO: Avoid deadlocks in certain audio drivers when toggling menu sounds on
BLISS-BOX: Support PSX Jogcon (requires firmware 3.0)
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when reading memory that is out of range
CHEEVOS: New Cheevos implementation enabled by default
CHEEVOS: Pop-up badges when an achievement is triggered
CRT: Dynamic super resolution support
DISCORD: Fix potential crash when username is empty and discord is disabled
DISCORD: Ask to join support for Linux
INPUT/ANDROID: Add "Input Block Timeout" option
COMMON: For platforms without HAVE_THREADS, don't automatically resume content when saving/loading states
COMMON: Make playlist sorting optional and consistent
COMMON: Fix sorting of playlists with blank labels
COMMON: Fix content scanner creating false positive playlist entries that also have wrong label and crc32
COMMON: Add some MMX-optimized pixel conversion routines
COMMON: Fix typo preventing some SSE2-optimized pixel conversions from being used
COMMON: Add option to track how long content has been running over time
COMMON: Fix buffer overflows in system information
COMMON: Add option to change screen orientation via the windowing system (Android, Windows, X11)
COMMON: Show CPU model name in log
COMMON: Add "Help -> Send Debug Info" option (and F10 hotkey) to send diagnostic info to the RetroArch team for help with problems
COMMON: Show GPU device name/version in log
COMMON: Add menu option to write log info to a file
COMMON: Add subsystem support for playlists. Subsystem info is automatically saved to the history playlist for easy relaunching
GL: Add new "gl1" OpenGL 1.1 compliant video driver for legacy GPUs and software renderers
GL: Add a new "glcore" driver with slang support (requires GL 3.2+ or GLES3)
GL: Draw OSD on top of overlay
GONG: Add savestate support
GONG: Add video refresh rate core options
GONG: Two player support via core option
GUI: Fix text alignment when using stb_unicode
GUI: Fix text display issues when using Japanese (and other unicode-dependent language) text with stb_unicode
GUI: Set language on first startup to the user's preferred OS language (Windows, *nix and Android)
INPUT: Add (scaled radial) analog deadzone and sensitivity options
LIBRETRO: Add Turkish language support
LIBRETRO: Allow non-accelerated video to rotate the display
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Add new Turkish translation
MIDI: Fix startup crash in midi driver
MENU: Bugfix - you can no longer get stuck in Online Updater -> Update Core screen when toggling between ingame and menu
MENU: Selectively hide 'Take Screenshot' for video drivers that don't support taking screenshots
MENU: Framerate independent menu rendering. MaterialUI/Ozone/XMB/RGUI can now run at higher framerates
MENU: Thumbnails work in history list
MENU: Menu widgets
MENU: Add memory statistics support to more context drivers
MENU: Enable ozone driver for UWP builds
MENU: Add optional "looping" menu text ticker with configurable speed
MENU: Fix core video rendering when using ozone with GL cores that implement the scissor test
MENU: Add optional playlist sublabels (associated core + play time, where available)
MENU: Dropdown list settings now apply immediately
MENU: Add setting to require pressing the "Exit RetroArch" hotkey twice to confirm
MENU: Now able to run at higher refresh rates than 60Hz
MENU: Enable "Add to Favorites" without loading a core
MENU: Allow core name to be hidden on history/favorites playlists
MENU: Populate crc32 and db_name fields when adding history/favourites playlist entries
MENU: Fix TTF files not showing in OSD/menu font selection screen
MENU: Fix audio/video filters not showing in file browser
MENU/MaterialUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/MaterialUI: Add currently selected entry in dropdown menus
MENU/OZONE: Add mouse support on entries (no sidebar yet)
MENU/OZONE: Allow collapsing the sidebar
MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail support
MENU/OZONE: Battery notifications
MENU/OZONE: Add wifi icon for network entries
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add git version and build date to Help->About window
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix content loading via the file browser
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add new settings window to control all RetroArch settings
MENU/RGUI: Improve playlist titles
MENU/RGUI: Add option to hide associated cores in playlists
MENU/RGUI: Add internal upscaling option
MENU/RGUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/RGUI: Add menu sublabel support
MENU/RGUI: Re-enable "Load Core" option when content is loaded
MENU/RGUI: Add optional "Collections" entry to main menu
MENU/RGUI: Add "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option
MENU/RGUI: Add "full width" layout option
MENU/RGUI: Ensure menu color theme is applied immediately
MENU/RGUI: Fix "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option when using custom viewports
MENU/RGUI: Add widescreen support
MENU/RGUI: Allow text to be centred when selecting widescreen layouts
MENU/RGUI: Add inline playlist thumbnail support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional shadow effects
MENU/RGUI: Performance optimizations
MENU/RGUI: Add optional extended ASCII support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional delay when loading thumbnails
MENU/RGUI: Add on-screen keyboard
MENU/RGUI: Battery notifications
MENU/XMB: Prevent crashes when resizing to a tiny window
MENU/XMB: XMB honors the 'show menu sublabels' setting now - was previously RGUI only
NETPLAY: Fix stall-out causing total disconnection with >2 players
NETPLAY: Different (more intuitive?) default netplay share policy
NETPLAY: Add hotkey option to toggle hosting on/off
NETWORKING: Encode URLs to allow for spaces in directory names
OSX: Prevent crash on exit
OSX: Metal is now the default video driver for the RetroArch Metal build
OSX: Enable CoreAudio v3 driver for Metal
OSX/MACOS/IOS: Now uses the STB Unicode font driver
PS2: CDFS support
PS2: Implemented analog support for ps2 controllers
PS2: Fix audio freeze after restarting core
PS2: Fix issues with load state and the font driver
PS2: File I/O now works for USB and network host
PS2: Support cores with extra padding in their frame buffers
SCANNER: New option 'Scan without core match'. When this is enabled, supported extensions by all installed cores are not checked, and instead it will add all content it finds to a playlist. This way, you can install the core you need later on after scanning. Not enabled by default
SHADERS: Don't alphabetize shader presets
SWITCH: Add rumble support
SWITCH: Add USB keyboard support
VITA: Add bluetooth mouse and keyboard support
VULKAN: Fix color issues with RGBA8888 swapchains in readback (screenshots)
WII: Don't init overlay when RAM is beyond 72MB
WII: Skip CRC calculation on content load, can improve load times of larger games by several seconds
WINDOWS: Fall back to gl1 driver if accelerated GPU driver is unavailable
WINDOWS: Allow winraw and xinput to work without dinput (needed for WinRT)
WINDOWS: Add MSVC2017 ARM desktop support
UWP: Fix rewind by opting for slower codepath
UWP: Fix relative path name issues when loading shaders
UWP: Optimizations for VFS system

1.7.6

ANDROID: Fix Xperia Play input binding
CHEEVOS: Reset when hardcore mode is toggled
CHEEVOS: Update the hashing methods to identify NES, SNES and Lynx games (more accurate and accepting headerless ROMs)
COMMON: Add new JSON playlist format
COMMON: Fix playlist corruption when deleting items
COMMON: Fix archive progress display calculation
COMMON: Fix playlist entries appearing with previously used names
COMMON: Fix screenshot filename with no core or content
COMMON: Allow compiling without menu support
CORE UPDATER: Allow sideloading cores from the menu
CPU FILTERS: Add Normal2x filter
CRT/LINUX: New Linux switching method partially implemented
CRT/LINUX: Linux restore desktop resolution fixed
CRT/LINUX: Monitor index switching and auto enumerate for output detection in Linux (still working on the windows method)
CRT/RASPBERRY PI: Initial support
DATE: Add Date / Time style options
DEBUGGING: Add an integrated crash handler for debug builds (see https://docs.libretro.com/tech/debugging)
DISCORD: Register the application name properly
DISK CONTROL: Remember the last used folder / current active folder to make disk-swapping faster
INPUT: Add new menu toggle (hold start button for 2 seconds)
INPUT: Fix arrow keys being incorrectly bound as numpad keys
INPUT/SDL: Flush the joypad events. Decreases cpu usage over time with the SDL joypad driver
LOCALIZATION: Add Greek translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Simplified Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: New "ozone" menu driver
MENU: Only show CRT SwitchRes if video display server is implemented (Windows/Linux for now)
MENU: User Interface -> Appearance -> 'Menu Font Green/Blue Color' settings now work properly
MENU: Add option to enable in-menu sound effects
MENU/D3D: Scissoring support (will be used for Ozone and menu widgets)
MENU/QT/WIMP: Allow building with MSVC2017
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add detailed file browser table
MENU/QT/WIMP: New grid view implementation that is faster and loads thumbnails on-demand
MENU/QT/WIMP: Thumbnail drag and drop support
MENU/RGUI: Overhaul custom theme interface + add wallpaper support
MENU/RGUI: Thumbnail support and thumbnail downscaling
MENU: Hide password values
MENU/SOUNDS: Implement in-menu sound effects (not enabled by default for now, still experimental)
MIDI: Add a Linux ALSA driver for MIDI
NETPLAY: Force fast-save-states when netplay is enabled
NETPLAY: Allow quick joining subsystem lobbies
OSX: Initial CoreAudio V3 audio driver (not yet used in release builds)
OSX: OpenGL 3.2 Core support for cores
PS2: Initial PlayStation2 port
PS4: Initial PlayStation4 port
RECORDING: Implement recording options in the menu complete with quality profiles, streaming, and proper file naming
SCANNER: Fix GDI disc scanning
SHADERS: Fix auto shader preset loading on D3D10, D3D11, D3D12
SUBSYSTEM: Allow more than 10 subsystems
SUBSYSTEM: Cores that use subsystem for complex scenarios can now load content without starting a regular content first
SUBSYSTEM: Remember the last used folder to make loading subsystem type content faster
SWITCH/LIBNX: Improve touch scaling calculation
SWITCH: Proper button labels
TVOS: Initial tvOS port
VULKAN: Fix RGUI crashing at startup
VULKAN/RGUI: Enable 'Menu Linear Filter' option
VULKAN: Fix secondary screens in overlays not working
WAYLAND: Implement idle-inhibit support (needed for screensaver suspend)
WAYLAND: Fix fullscreen toggle
WIIU: Initial netplay peer-to-peer support. Network information working
WINDOWS/WSA: Network Information info is blank until first network operation
WINDOWS: Fix an ancient bug that caused wrong mappings for keyboard arrows
WINDOWS: Remember window size and position if so desired
WINDOWS: SSL/TLS connections now work properly
WINDOWS: Fall back to GDI driver if no accelerated graphics driver is found
UWP: Initial UWP port
VFS: Update to version 3
XBONE: Initial Xbox One port
XMB/OZONE: Add more icons
XMB: Add Automatic Inverted theme
???: Easter Egg

1.7.5

CAMERA: Fix Video4Linux2 driver that broke years ago
CONFIG: Add 'Reset To Defaults' setting in Configurations. Thi will reset your config file to defaults
CHEATS: Add support for Rumble when increase or decrease by the rumble value
CHEATS: Add cheat variables to allow for updating large portions of memory
CHEEVOS: Prevent loading states before achievements are fully loaded
CRT: New porches and interlaced bug fix
CRT: New functionality, ability to switch between 15KHz and 31KHz, etc
COMMON: Support for "OEM-102" key (usually '' on Euro keyboards)
DISCORD: Add 'Ask To Join' Feature
EMSCRIPTEN: Add stb_font support
INPUT: Add new menu toggle combos 'L3 + R' and 'L + R' (useful for Switch)
IOS: Use safe area to account for notch for iPhone X and adjust main view
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: Add dropdown lists for many settings
MENU: Fix crash that could happen when changing core's options on Android
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to rename playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to filter extensions inside archives when adding to a playlist
MENU/QT/WIMP: Rename playlist entries with 2 single clicks
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix shader parameter checkboxes not working
METAL: Add screenshot support
NETPLAY: Save lobby details received back from server after first announcement
OPENGL/GLX: Implement Adaptive VSync - GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear
OPENGL/WGL: Implement Adaptive VSync - WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear
RUNAHEAD: Fix performance degradation that could happen over time (after approx. 30 mins). Fixed input IDs outside of range 0-35 causing slow performance in runahead
SWITCH: Add stb_font support
SWITCH: Add Retro Achievements support
SWITCH: Add networking support
SWITCH: Add touchscreen support
SWITCH: Add OpenGL support
SWITCH: Merging of RetroNX Nintendo Switch port, based on libnx SDK
VULKAN: Fix race condition in threaded mailbox emulation
VULKAN: Maintenance fixes
WIIU: Fix menu lag when built with DevKitPro r32

1.7.4

ANDROID: Add sustained performance mode, can be turned on/off in Power Management settings menu
ANDROID: Powerstate/battery level support
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when scrolling Achievement List while Unofficial Achievements enabled (#6732)
CHEEVOS: Added hitcounts support for PauseIf/ResetIf (#6817)
COMMON: Automatically hide "Configuration Override options" in Quick Menu
COMMON: Small Bugfix to not trigger savestate code when pressing Reset
COMMON: Added libsixel video driver
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix Game Focus Toggle
HID/OSX: Fix to set hid device registration deterministic (#6497), to address issue #6640 re-adding dynamic device registration
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MIDI: Add MIDI support to the libretro API. Dosbox is the first proof of concept core implementing libretro MIDI
MIDI: Add a Windows driver for MIDI, based on winmm
MENU/QT/WIMP: Qt QSlider styling for Dark Theme
MENU/QT/WIMP: Remove button ghostly inside highlighting
MENU/QT/WIMP: Initial grid view
MENU/QT/WIMP: Drag&drop to add new playlist items, add option to add/edit/delete playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to update RetroArch (Windows only for now)
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage shaders
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage core options
MENU/XMB: Add new icons for the settings
MENU/XMB: Add an option to show the desktop ui
METAL: Initial work-in-progress video driver for Metal. macOS-only right now, and currently requires macOS 10.13
METAL: Supports XMB/MaterialUI, has a menu display driver. Has a font rendering driver
METAL/SLANG: Slang shaders should be compatible with Metal video driver
NETWORK: Enable SSL/TLS support by default for desktop platforms
QNX: Fix Game Focus Toggle
PS3: Add audio mixer support for FLAC and MP3
PSP: Use proper button labels, fix inverted R-Stick Y axis
REMAPS: Fix the way offsets are calculated for keyboard remapping
RUNAHEAD: Fix full-screen mode change breaking Secondary Core's environment variables
VITA: Use proper button labels, fix inverted R-Stick Y axis
VITA: Add imc0: mount
VITA: Use sceCtrlIsMultiControllerSupported to detect
VULKAN: Fix two validation errors
VULKAN: Try to avoid creating swapchains redundantly. Should fix black screen and having to alt tab out of window again to get display working on Nvidia GPUs (Windows)
VULKAN/OSX: Initial MoltenVK support. Not enabled yet, several MoltenVK bugs should be fixed first before we can have it fully working
WINDOWS/DINPUT: Add rumble support
WINDOWS/DINPUT: Fix Game Focus Toggle
WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Fix Game Focus Toggle
X11: Fix Game Focus Toggle
WII: Change deflicker setting to work in 480p or higher, and always enables vfilter so that the user can easily change brightness
WIIU: Fix out-of-bounds rendering bug
WIIU: Implement UDP broadcast network logging on Wii U
WIIU: Audio should no longer clip

1.7.3

AUDIO: Audio mixer supports FLAC/MP3 file types now!
COMMON: Fixed bug 'crashing in cores that don't range check retro_set_controller_type'. Some people were having crashes when device is set to RETRO_DEVICE_NONE and the cores don't check the number of ports, in VBAM's case it was overflowing and crashing. QuickNES was crashing too
COMMON: Fixed buffer overflow in url encoding (affecting MSVC2010/2013)
COMMON: (QuickMenu) Added Configuration Override submenu
HID: Merge new HID subsystem
HID: Fix WaveBird support for the Wii U GCA
HID/OSX: Fix regression with IODHIDManager - gamepads which are connected later would not be autoconfigured
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese translation
MENU: New WIMP Qt GUI!
MENU: Audio mixer now works in the menu without any cores loaded. You have to enable the setting 'Enable menu audio' for this to work
REMAPPING/OVERLAYS: Fix regression - overlays could no longer be remapped
SCANNER: Add Wii Backup File WBFS support
X11: CRT SwitchRes support for X11/Linux

1.7.2

ANDROID/OPENSL: Prevent crashes when setting audio latency too low (buffer count can never be lower than 2 now)
CRT: Added CRT SwitchRes
COMMON: Hide the 'Core delete' option if the 'Core updater' is also hidden
COMMON: Add way to reset core association for playlist entry
COMMON: Fix invalid long command line options causing infinite loop on Windows
COMMON: Add OSD statistics for video/audio/core
COMMON: Added runahead system; allows you to drive down latency even further
COMMON: Fix buggy behavior that could happen with ZIP file reading on some platforms as a result of not initializing struct
CHEEVOS: Support Atari 2600, Virtual Boy, and Arcade (only Neo Geo, CPS-1, CPS-2 and CPS-3 and only with fbalpha core)
CHEEVOS: Add option to automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is triggered
CHEEVOS: Fixed incompatibilities with Neo Geo Pocket achievement sets
CHEEVOS: Store only login token, not password
D3D10: Added D3D10 driver to release build. Has working shaders (Slang), overlay, and menu display driver support. Should be on par capabilities wise with D3D11 driver except for there being no hardware rendering right now
D3D11: Experimental hardware renderer. Allows for libretro cores to use D3D11 for hardware rendering. First core to use this is PPSSPP
D3D11: Increase backwards compatibility, shaders compile with Shader Model 4.0 now, added support for more feature levels
D3D10/D3D11/D3D12: Fix crashes with completely black or white thumbnail textures in XMB
GUI: Support disabling window decorations on Windows and Linux
LIBRETRO: Addition - Functions to enable and disable audio and video, and an environment function to query status of audio and video enables
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU: Add Rewind/Latency/Overlay settings to Quick Menu, add options to show/hide them (User Interface -> Views -> Quick Menu)
MENU/RGUI: Only show Menu Linear Filter for RGUI and only show it for video drivers that implement it (D3D8/9/10/11/12/GL)
MENU/RGUI: Add User Interface -> Appearance options
MENU/RGUI: D3D8/D3D9: Hookup Menu Linear Filter
MENU/XMB: Disable XMB shadow icons by default for PowerPC and ARM for performance reasons
MENU/XMB: Left/right thumbnails are now automatically scaled according to layout
MENU/XMB: Add Left Thumbnails (additional to the right)
MENU/XMB: Fixed left/right tab regression
MENU/XMB: Fix scaling of tall images that were cut on bottom previously
MENU/XMB: Menu scale factor setting now changes texts length, image scaling and margins
MENU/XMB: Mouse cursor scales correctly now
MENU/XMB: Add toggle to show/hide Playlist tabs
MENU/XMB: Add menu layout - can switch between Desktop, Handheld and Auto
MENU/XMB: Don't load menu pipeline shaders unless XMB is selected (D3D10/D3D11/D3D12/GL/Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show black frame insertion for the video drivers/context drivers that support it (so far this includes - D3D8/D3D9, OpenGL, Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show max swapchain images if supported by video driver and/or context driver (so far this includes - DRM EGL context driver, VideoCore EGL context driver, Vulkan)
MENU/MaterialUI: Automatic DPI Scaling should be much improved now, now scales as expected at 1440p and 4K resolutions
MENU/MaterialUI: Fix wrong calculation of an entry height causing long playlists to end up outside of screen range. This also could cause crashes on low DPI screens
IOS: Fixed crash when opening downloaded roms from Safari or using the "Open in.." functionality. Added the compiler flag to support keyboard remapping to controls
IOS: Fixed buffer overlap that caused a crash while trying to download GLSL shaders from the buildbot
PS3: fix URLS
REMAPS: Mapping keyboard keys from more than one gamepad (works with dosbox)
REMAPS: Mapping more than one button to the same action
REMAPS: Unmapping buttons
REMAPS: Unmapping analogs
REMAPS: Mapping a button to trigger an analog response (tested with mupen, can run on SM64 with the d-pad now, triggers a full analog tilt)
REMAPS: Mapping an analog to another analog (having more than one analog mapped to the same output causes issues)
REMAPS: Mapping an analog to produce a button response
SCANNER: Should be able to scan dual-layer Wii disc images now, filestream code now supports files larger than 4GB
SHADERS/SLANG: Slang shaders should work again on Android version and MSVC versions (basically all the Griffin-based versions)
SHADERS: If GL context is GLES2/3/Core context, Cg shaders are unavailable. Applies to shader list too
SHADERS: Hide cg/glsl shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/10/11/Vulkan video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Hide slang shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/OpenGL video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Prevent crashes from occurring if we have the GL video driver in use and we try to skip to a slang shader through next/previous hotkeys
SHADERS: Fix shader parameter increase / decrease functions
SUBSYSTEM: handle savestates properly (cart1 + cart2.state0)
VULKAN/X11: Fix X11 Vulkan bug from Wayland driver
VULKAN: Fix multi-line text spacing in menus with Vulkan driver
WINDOWS XP: Add Cheevos support
WINDOWS/MSVC 2003/2005/2010/2013/2015/2017: Add Cheevos support
VITA: Bugfix for 'PS Vita takes many time to start to accept input' issue
X11: Allow compositor disabling on X11 fullscreen through _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR
X11: Prioritize NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN in true fullscreen mode
WIIU: Fix OOB read/write in keyboard driver

1.7.1

3DS: Now correctly reports amount of CPU cores
3DS: Frontend rating is now correctly implemented for both New 3DS/2DS and Old 3DS/2DS
3DS: Initial networking support, HTTP requests won't work yet
3DS: Now reports memory and battery state
AUDIO: Added 'Audio Resampler Quality' setting to Audio Settings. Setting this higher will increase sound quality at the expense of sound latency and/or performance. Setting this value lower will improve sound latency/performance at the expense of sound quality. Only has an effect if the Sinc resampler is used, and you have to restart the game for changes to take effect
CHEEVOS: Fix unofficial achievements not being loaded
CHEEVOS: Show savestate menu entries when no achievements are found even if hardcore mode is enabled
CHEEVOS: Support Neo Geo Pocket
COMMON: Bugfix for issue related to 'Windows mouse pointer visible when running MESS or MAME cores'
COMMON: Fix bug 'Last item in a Playlist is ignored'
COMMON: New LED API. Driver implemented for Raspberry Pi, proof of concept implemented for core MAME 2003
COMMON: Add quick menu option to watch shader files for changes and recompile them automatically (Linux only for now)
D3D8: Direct3D 8 can now work on systems that have Direct3D 8 installed
D3D9: Add menu support for MaterialUI/XMB
D3D10: Initial video driver implementation
D3D11: Initial video driver implementation
D3D11: SPIRV-Cross/slang shader support for D3D11
D3D12: Initial video driver implementation
DINPUT: don't reinitialize input driver on network events / media insertion / network drive connection
INPUT: show friendly names when available under input binds and system information
INPUT: show the config name when available under system information
GUI: Allow changing menu font color
GUI: Menu visibility options for RGUI and MaterialUI
GUI/MaterialUI: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers
GUI/XMB: Add Monochrome Inverted icon theme
GUI/XMB: Allow changing menu scale to 200%
GUI/XMB: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers. Menu shader effects currently don't work on D3D8/D3D9 Cg
HAIKU: Restored port
KEYMAPPER: prevent a condition that caused input_menu_toggle to stop working when a RETRO_DEVICE_KEYBOARD type device is enabled
GL: ignore hard gpu sync when fast-forwarding
IOS10/11: Handle hardware keyboards and iCade controllers
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
NETPLAY: Add menu option to select different MITM (relay) server locations
OSX: Modify HID buttons detection algorithm
QB: Added --datarootdir, --sysconfdir, --bindir, --docdir and --mandir
QB: Deprecated --global-config-dir, --with-bin_dir and --with-man_dir
SHADERS: Allow saving of shader presets based on the parent directory (Saving one for /foo/bar/mario.sfc would result in shaders/presets/corename/bar.ext). We decided it's safer to still isolate the presets to a single core because different cores may treat video output differently
SHADERS: Don't save the path to the current preset to the main config. This was causing weird behavior, instead it will try to load currentconfig.ext and it will save a preset with that name when select apply shader preset. The resulting shader will restore properly after restarting and even after core/parent/game specific presets are loaded
SOLARIS: Initial port
SWITCH: Initial Nintendo Switch port, based on libtransistor SDK
PS3: Enable Cheevos
PSP: Enable threading support through pthreads
SHADERS: SPIRV-Cross/slang shader support for D3D11
SHIELD ATV: Allow the remote / gamepad takeover hack to work with the 2017 gamepad
SUBSYSTEM: Subsystem saves now respect the save directory
SUBSYSTEM: You can now load subsystem games from the menu (see libretro#6282 for caveats)
VULKAN: Fix swapchain recreation bug on Nvidia GPUs with Windows 10 (resolved in Windows Nvidia driver version 390.77)
WINDOWS: Improved Unicode support (for cores/directory creation and 7zip archives)
WINDOWS: Show progress meter on taskbar for downloads (Windows 7 and up)
WINDOWS: WS_EX_LAYERED drastically decreases performance, so only set it when needed (transparency in windowed mode)
WIIU: Overlay support
WIIU: Transparency support in menu + overlays
WIIU: Increased stability during core switching
WIIU: Shader support
WIIU: Menu shader effects added (shaders)
WIIU: Add missing time/clock support. (also fixes RTC [Real Time Clock] in Gambatte)
XBOX OG: Restored port

1.7.0

CHEEVOS: Add badges for achievements, shows thumbnail images of achievements
CHEEVOS: Leaderboard support
CHEEVOS: Only disable savestates on hardcore mode if achievements are not available
COMMANDLINE: Fix fullscreen toggle switch
COMMON: Add 'Automatically Load Content To Playlist' feature, enabled by default
COMMON: Fix slowmotion ratio always being reset back to 1
COMMON: Optimized NBIO implementations now for Apple, Windows, and Linux. Uses mmap for Linux/Windows/BSD if/when available. File I/O should now be much faster for loading images inside the menu
COMMON: Native Blissbox support now for latest firmware as of writing (2.0). Implementation through libusb and/or native Windows HID
COMMON: New lightgun API
COMMON: New VFS (Virtual File System) API
COMMON: Fixed some playlist bugs
COMMON: New snow shader
COMMON: Fix Quick Menu title, no longer shows 'Select File'
COMMON: Fix loading cores that require no content one after another
COMMON: Map Delete key to Y button for non-unified menu keyboard controls
COMMON: Fix for relative paths being normalised and generating a duplicate history entry
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix references to browserfs
FREEBSD: Support libusb HID input driver
HAIKU: Buildfix
INPUT: Map clear button to DEL key
LINUX/X11: Add RetroArch logo to window title bar
LINUX/X11: Input driver now supports new lightgun code
LINUX/X11: Support window transparency (requires a compositing window manager)
LOBBIES: Fix for crash on join netplay rooms via touch / glui
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Snowflake menu shader effect
OSX/PPC: Fix the GL2 renderchain, had to use EXT versions of framebuffer/renderbuffer functions
PS3: HTTP requests / downloads should now work
PS3: Core Updater now works
PS3: Improved font rendering, enable STB Unicode font renderer
PSP: Make it work with Vita's Adrenaline
PSP: Fix audio sync
PSP: Fix content loading, port should be functional again
PSP: Use 64MB when available
SCANNER: Fix crash from Windows-incompatible format string
VITA: Improve packaging, installation times
WIIU: Disabled the controller patcher for now since it was the source of many stability issues
VULKAN: Various stability fixes for WSI
WINDOWS: Add MSVC 2017 solution
WINDOWS: Get rid of the empty console window in MSVC 2010 builds
WINDOWS: Raw input driver now supports new lightgun code
WINDOWS: Use configured OSD/text message color on GDI driver
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Populate XInput VID/PID from DInput so autoconfig doesn't rely solely on joypad names
WINDOWS/XINPUT: Fix crash that occurs in some situations with Steam running and a Steam Controller plugged in
WINDOWS: Improve version reporting under System Information
WINDOWS: Support window transparency
WINDOWS: Correct usage of GetWindowPlacement per MS docs, fixes game window position on Win95/98
WINDOWS: Added Visual Studio 2017 support

1.6.9

COMMON: Small memory leak
NETPLAY: Fix network command only working once

1.6.8

Audio: Fix the Audio DSP picker
CHEEVOS: Add support for Atari Lynx cheevos
CHEEVOS: Add support for RetroAchievements Leaderboards
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix crash that happened on context reset with Vulkan
GUI: (MaterialUI) Skip querying and drawing items that are not visible; Cache content height and bbox calculation
GUI: (MaterialUI) Fix entry box highlight calculation
GUI: (XMB) Skip drawing the fading list when it is already transparent. Optimization
GUI: (XMB) Comment out visible item calculation in xmb_draw_items()
GUI: (RGUI) Prevent crashes when using a non-English language reliant on UTF8
GUI: Add menu option for OSD background color
GUI: Add menu option for OSD text color
GUI: Add menu option to remove frame count from OSD
GUI: Allow wraparound of int/float settings when pressing the left key
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for more mouse buttons (buttons 4/5)
INPUT/LIBRETRO: Add support for analog buttons
INPUT: Always show the controls menu even if descriptors are not set
INPUT: Fix input descriptors not being set on cores that don't implement the controllers interface
INPUT: Apply descriptors only for the amount of cores the core supports
INPUT: Implement keyboard to gamepad input remapping (limited to one gamepad device for now)
INPUT: Fix absolute mouse move handling on the winraw driver
INPUT: Ignore keyboard input if window is not active on udev driver
INPUT: Sanitize the filenames of autoconfig profiles before saving
LOBBIES: Fix crash on navigating left / right from the lobby menu
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LINUX/ARMHF: Set buildbot updater URL to armhf location instead of blank string
LINUX/PI: Broadcom VC4: Add Videocore config option
LINUX/UDEV: Fix - RetroArch reads keyboard input when not focused with the udev input driver
NETPLAY: Fix disconnection not fully deinitializing Netplay
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms when there is more than one room
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms on systems where all addresses are treated as IPv6
COMMON: Fix clear/free loop conditionals in playlists
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix flickering of text
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix graphics corruption on Windows 98
WINDOWS/GDI: Allow compiling without DirectInput8 for NT support
WINDOWS/WGL: Try to use wglSwapLayerBuffers instead of SwapBuffers if possible (for more optimal performance)
WINDOWS: Fix menubar text corruption on Japanese locale systems
WINDOWS: Support Unicode file I/O (can now display CJK characters in file browser for example)
WINDOWS: Support Windows 95, NT3.51, NT4
WINDOWS: add Makefile.griffin targets for msvc6,2003,2005,2010,2012,2013
WII: Use custom, embedded libogc SDK
WIIU: Initial touchscreen support for WiiU gamepad
WIIU: Add Cheevos support
SCANNER: Fix archive scanning
SCANNER: Support CHD files
SCANNER: Support Gamecube ISO scanning
SCANNER: Use primary data track of disc images for CRC lookups rather than cue files. This is slower but finds matches more reliably, and is necessary for CHD files to work at all. Update your databases!
SCANNER: Fall back on looking inside archives when matching MAME/FBA content (most recent cores only). If you had difficulty with content being detected before, you may have better luck now. Update your databases and core info!

1.6.7

SCANNER: Fix directory scanning
SCANNER: Fix file scanning
COMMON: Fix 'Disk Image Append' option
FREEBSD: Compatibility fixes for Video4Linux2 camera driver
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add disk image append icons
GUI: (MaterialUI) Improve word wrapping when menu icons are enabled
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icons Enable. You can turn on/off the icons on the lefthand side of the menu entries
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver - only calculates visible items
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation

1.6.6

3DS: Fixes serious performance regression that affected every core; rewind was always implicitly enabled
AUDIO: MOD/S3M/XM sound should now be properly mixed in with the core's sound
GUI: Visual makeover of MaterialUI
GUI: Added 'Music', 'Images' and 'Video' collection options to RGUI/MaterialUI
GUI: Allow the user to add 'Favorites'
GUI: Allow the user to rename entries
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
INPUT: Overlay controller response - when we press buttons on the gamepad or keyboard, the corresponding buttons on the overlay will be highlighted as well
NETBSD: Silence some compilation warnings
COMMON: Fixed bug 'Deleting an entry from a playlist would not update the list view inside XMB'
COMMON: Fix inet_ntop_compat on Unix
LOBBY: Add skeleton to add help descriptions to lobbies

1.6.5

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1.6.4

ANDROID: Fire Stick & Fire TV remote overrides gamepad port 0 on button press and viceversa like SHIELD devices
ANDROID: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
AUDIO: Audio mixer supports MOD/S3M/XM file types now!
INPUT: input swap override flag (for remotes) is cleared correctly
INPUT: allow specifying libretro device in remap files
INPUT: allow specifying analog dpad mode in remap files
INPUT: allow saving libretro device to remap files
INPUT: allow saving analog dpad mode to remap files
INPUT: allow removing core and game remap files from the menu
COMMON: Cores can now request to set a 'shared context'. You no longer need to explicitly enable 'Shared Hardware Context' for Citra/OpenLara/Dolphin
COMMON: Add 'Delete Core' option to Core Information menu
COMMON: Allow Max Timing Skew to be set to 0
COMMON: Change the "content dir" behavior so it works on either a flag or an empty directory setting, now platform drivers can provide defaults for save / system / state / screenshot dirs and still allow the content dir functionality, these settings are under settings / saving and flagged as advanced
GUI: You can turn on/off 'Horizontal Animation' now for the XMB menu. Turning animations off can result in a performance boost
GUI: Fix sublabel word-wrapping in XMB where multi-byte languages were cut off too soon
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
WINDOWS: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
LOBBIES: Show what country the host is in
MENU: Enable OSD text rendering for gdi and libcaca drivers
WINDOWS 98/ME/2K: Set default directory for MSVC 2005 RetroArch version
WII: Better V-Sync handling, backported from SuperrSonic
WIIU: Exception handler rewritten

1.6.3

IOS: Fix GL regression - 32bit color format cores were no longer rendering
CHEEVOS: Add support for N64 cheevos and other small fixes
CHEEVOS: Add 'Achievements -> Achievements Verbose Mode'. Ability to display cheevos related messages in OSD, useful for RetroAchievements users
AUDIO: Audio mixer's volume can now be independently increased/decreased, and muted
AUDIO: Mute now no longer disables/enables audio but instead properly mutes the audio volume. Mute is also independent from the audio mixer volume
INPUT: Add mouse index selection; ability now to select between different mice
INPUT: Fix 'All Users Control Menu' setting
LINUX: Add a tinyalsa audio driver. Doesn't require asoundlib, should be self-contained and lower-level
LOBBIES: Announce the RetroArch version too
LOCALIZATION: Add Traditional Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Add 'User Interface -> Views'. Ability to display/hide online updater and core updater options
NETPLAY: Disconnecting one client shouldn't cause everyone to disconnect anymore
NETWORK: SSL/TLS support, disabled by default
SCANNER: Fix PS1 game scanning
SCANNER: Move content list builder into scanner task with progress, fixes menu freeze with large playlists
SDL2: Fix 'SDL2 driver does not see the hat on wired Xbox 360 controller"
SETTINGS: Fix regression 'Custom Viewport is no longer overridable per-core or per-game'
VITA: Add cheevos support
VITA: Add support for external USB if mounted
WAYLAND: Fix menu mouse input
WII: Add support for single-port 'PS1/PS2 to USB controller adapter

1.6.0

ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game's audio
AUTOSAVE/SRAM - Fix bug #3829 / #4820 (libretro#3829)
ENDIANNESS: Fixed database scanning. Should fix scanning on PS3/WiiU/Wii, etc
LOBBIES: Fallback to filename based matching if no CRC matches are found (for people making playlists by hand)
LOBBIES: GUI refinement, show stop hosting when a host has been started, show disconnect when playing as client
LOBBIES: if the game is already loaded it will try to connect directly instead of re-loading content (non-fullpath cores only)
LOBBIES: unify both netplay menus
LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI's default font
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
MISC: Various frontend optimizations
NET: Fix bug #4703 (libretro#4703)
OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work
VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
VITA: Fix frame throttle
VITA: Fix slow I/O
VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc
WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
WIIU: HID Controller support
WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input
WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode
WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores

1.5.0

ANDROID: Autoconf fallback
ANDROID: Mouse support / Emulated mouse support
AUTOCONF: Fix partial matches for pad name
CHEEVOS: Fix crashes in the cheevos description menu
CHEEVOS: WIP leaderboards support
COMMON: 9-slice texture drawing support
COMMON: Threading fixes
CORETEXT/APPLE: Ability to load menu display font drivers and loading of custom font
DOS: Add keyboard driver
DOS: Improve color accuracy and scaling
GUI: Add a symbol page in the OSK
GUI: Allow changing icon theme on the fly
GUI: Better dialogs for XMB
GUI: Various settings are now only visible when advanced settings is enabled
LOCALIZATION: Add/update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Rewrite German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update several English sublabels
LOCALIZATION: Update several Japanese labels
MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to default
MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection
NET: Allow manual netplay content loading
NET: Announcing network games to the public lobby is optional now
NET: Bake in miniupnpc
NET: Fix netplay join for contentless cores
NET: Fix netplay rooms being pushed on the wrong tab
NET: Lan games show next to lobbies with (lan) and connect via the private IP address
NET: Use new lobby system with MITM support
NUKLEAR: Update to current version
SCANNER: Always add 7z & zip to supported extensions
VULKAN: Add snow/bokeh shader pipeline effects - at parity with GL now
VULKAN: Find supported composite alpha in swapchain
WIIU: Keyboard support
WINDOWS: Fix loading of core/content via file menu
WINDOWS: Logging to file no longer spawns an empty window

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