v2.2.0

The 2.2.0 release is a minor LTS release for bugfixes and improvements

🙏thanks to all contributers of axmol include financial sponsors: @thienphuoc, @bingsoo, @asnagni, @paulocoutinhox, @DelinWorks, @duong

Significant changes relative to 2.1.5:

• Enable vsync by default by @halx99 in #2118
• Improve android media player, also fix #2101 by @halx99 in #2109
• Add build on ubuntu 24.04 support by @halx99 in #2152
• No longer add sprite as child of RenderTexture by @halx99 in #2149
• API change too: remove all DrawNode setLineWidth() stuff by @aismann in #2172

Bug fixes

• Fix invalidated iterator access in Scheduler::unscheduleAllWithMinPriority() by @smilediver in #2194
• Fix label in PauseTest. by @Tosik86 in #2157
• Fix #2147 full screen incorrect on macOS by @halx99 in #2150
• Fix RenderTargetGL FBO not recreate when recv EVENT_RENDERER_RECREATED by @halx99 in #2148
• Fix EventMouse coords by @halx99 in #2141
• Fix for incorrect bits per pixel set on texture reload by @rh101 in #2138
• Fix move constructor comment in Data class by @Tosik86 in #2132
• Fix Node setPosition() and setPositionNormalized() not switching normalized mode if positions match by @smilediver in #2102
• Fix issue with widget positioning when using normalized coordinates by @rh101 in #2110
• Fix RenderTexture data needs to be saved to the cache before the GLSurfaceView context is lost by @rh101 in #2146
• Fix incorrect static value usage in JNI array methods by @rh101 in #2178
• Fix #2199 by @halx99 in #2200
• Fix LuaJit Compilations by @IamSanjid in #2159
• Fix #2163 by @halx99 in #2166
• Fix #2169 by @halx99 in #2170
• fix Crash Sprite when _texture null by @NgVThangBz in #2164
• Fix dangling ref in SpriteFrameCache::removeSpriteFramesFromTexture() by @smilediver in #2106
• Fix android fps issue when certain animation intervals are set by @rh101 in #2162
• Fix DownloaderCURL too many open files and other fixes by @smilediver in #2182

Improvements

• [ImGui] Allow setting of custom font config to enable merging of multiple fonts and other features by @rh101 in #2085
• Update DevSetup.md with iOS simulator build commands by @rh101 in #2087
• Remove couple bad warnings by @smilediver in #2088
• Trim trailing whitespace for files in core folder by @smilediver in #2089
• Remove the NS_AX_BEGIN and NS_AX_END macros. by @j-jorge in #2100
• Remove the USING_NS_AX and NS_AX macros. by @j-jorge in #2103
• Remove usage of the NS_AX macro. by @j-jorge in #2107
• Sprite: show stretch warning only if stretching is enabled by @smilediver in #2113
• Delay load mf.dll, mfplat.dll by @halx99 in #2116
• Remove unreferenced sprite from test scene by @rh101 in #2119
• Set RenderTexture content size on creation by @rh101 in #2120
• Update sweep.h (fix invalid UTF-8) by @aismann in #2121
• Math optimizations by @smilediver in #2115
• DrawNode V2 by @aismann in #2124
• USe gradle-8.8-bin.zip everywhere by @crazyhappygame in #2134
• Refine contributing.md guide by @Tosik86 in #2135
• Allow turn on/off deprecated features by @halx99 in #2136
• Math: remove and replace GP_ASSERT with AX_ASSERT by @smilediver in #2143
• Enable cache render data for webgl by default by @halx99 in #2151
• Fix some compiling deprecated issues by @halx99 in #2154
• Update DrawNode.cpp (fix #2140) by @aismann in #2158
• Add (missing) parameter 'drawLineToCenter' to 'drawSolidCircle(...)' by @aismann in #2160
• Optimize DrawNode by @smilediver in #2165
• remove DrawPrimitivesTests (Cocos2Dx) (redundant mit DrawNodeTest) by @aismann in #2179
• move ZwoptexTest to SpriteTest (better add it to the SpriteTest section as removing) by @aismann in #2180
• Update README.md (thirdparty) by @aismann in #2183
• AxmolActivity refactoring and fixes by @smilediver in #2185
• Update controller.cpp Add small hint that the DrawNode tests be "not finished": "Node: Draw (WIP)" by @aismann in #2189
• DrawNode calls: replacing Color4F with Color4B (without the 'test' folder!) by @aismann in #2192

sdks updates

• emsdk: 3.1.63 ==> 3.1.67

3rdparty updates

• glad: 2.0.6 ==> 2.0.8
• curl: 8.9.1 ==> 8.10.1
• simdjson: 3.10.0 ==> 3.10.1
• libpng: 1.6.43 ==> 1.6.44
• c-ares: 1.33.0 ==> 1.34.1
• openssl: 3.3.1 ==> 3.0.15
• yasio: 4.2.4 ==> 4.3.1
• jpeg-turbo: 3.0.3 ==> 3.0.4
• luajit: 2.1-04dca79 ==> 2.1-97813fb
• simdjson: 3.10.0 ==> 3.10.1
• rapidjson: 1.1.0-b4a6da3 ==> 1.1.0-815e6e7
• freetype: 2.13.2 ==> 2.13.3

MD5 Hash of the release artifacts

• axmol-2.2.0.zip: B1F6EF0B8A31F5B224D4D0FE38677908