Ebitengine 2.7 Release Notes

v2.7.0

Issues for v2.7.0

New Text Rendering Package text/v2

(#2454)

A new text rendering package text/v2 has been added. This package is a successor to the text package.

• Support for languages such as Arabic and vertical Japanese (#675)
• Vectorization of glyphs (#1937)
• Alignment options such as right alignment (#2143)
• Support for OpenType features (#2454)
• Other bug fixes (#498, #2669)

For how to use it, please refer to the following samples.

• examples/fontfeature: OpenType features
• examples/fontvariation: OpenType variations
• examples/fontvector: Glyph vectorization
• examples/mixedfont: Mixing multiple font faces
• examples/text: Basic text drawing
• examples/texti18n: Drawing in various languages

exp/textinput

As an environment supported by the experimental package exp/textinput for IME support, Windows has been added (#2735).

Additionally, an API Field has been added for easier use (#2827).

Other New APIs

• ebiten.BlendOperationMax (#2395)
• ebiten.BlendOperationMin (#2395)
• (*ebiten.Image).Deallocate (#2808)
• (*ebiten.MonitorType).DeviceScaleFactor (#2795)
• (*ebiten.MonitorType).Size (#2795)
• ebiten.NonZero (#2782)
• ebiten.KeyF13 to ebiten.KeyF24 (#2801)
• ebiten.KeyIntlBackslash (#2921)
• ebiten.MaxVertexCount (#2828)
• ebiten.RunGameOptions.SingleThread (#2830)
• ebiten.RunGameOptions.X11ClassName (#2904)
• ebiten.RunGameOptions.X11InstanceName (#2904)
• (*ebiten.Shader).Deallocate (#2808)
• mobile.RunOnJVM (#2748)

Bug Fixes

This release includes all bug fixes from version 2.6.

Deprecated APIs

Incompatible Changes

• gomobile build is no longer supported (#2741).
• When using the ebitenmobile command, golang.org/x/mobile/app's RunOnJVM can no longer be used. Instead, use github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/mobile's RunOnJVM (#2748).

v2.7.1

Issues for v2.7.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where ebiten.SetWindowSize before ebiten.RunGame did not work correctly in the Linux i3wm desktop environment (#2951).
• Fixed an issue where GeoM of the options argument in the the text/v2 package's Draw function was unintentionally modified (#2954).

v2.7.2

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.2

• Fixed an issue where the standard gamepad mapping was not working (#2964).

v2.7.3

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.3

• Fixed an issue where ebiten.ScreenSizeInFullscreen would crash in the browser (#2975).

v2.7.4

Starting from this version, Go 1.18 is no longer supported. This is because we needed to update dependencies that do not support Go 1.18.

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.4

• Fixed an issue where the ebitenmobile command did not work with Android SDK 34 (#2992).

v2.7.5

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.5

• Fixed an issue where exp/textinput did not work correctly in browsers (#3014).

v2.7.6

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.6

• Fixed an issue where ebiten.WindowSize did not work correctly on macOS (#3029).
• Fixed an issue where some objects corresponding to unmanaged ebiten.Image objects were not released even when the images were garbage collected (#3030).

v2.7.7

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.7

• Fixed an issue where the canvas size was not correctly initialized when ebiten.SetRunnableOnUnfocused(false) was called first in web browsers (#3034).

v2.7.8

Bug Fixes

Issues for v2.7.8

• Fixed a memory leak issue when calling WritePixels consecutively on an unmanaged *ebiten.Image (#3036).
• Fixed an issue where text was input twice unintentionally in textinput.Field when using MSIME on Windows (#3041).
• Fixed a crash issue when dropping an HTML element onto the game screen canvas in a browser (#3043).
• Fixed an issue where multiple identical controllers did not function correctly when connected on Windows (#3046, #3047).