v1.17.0

What's Changed

• Add TRANSLATE and ACCESSIBILITY by @RobLoach in #250
• Add GameMode support by @RobLoach in #251
• Add /run/udev to the filesystem by @RobLoach in #259
• Disable suspending the screensaver by @RobLoach in #268
• gamemode: Update to 1.8.1 by @RobLoach in #269
• kde: Update runtime to 5.15-23.08 by @RobLoach in #270
• retroarch: Default to the glcore video driver by @RobLoach in #277
• Grant access to Gamescope socket by @rakonkido in #278
• Add gamescope Vulkan layer to enable HDR on Steam Deck OLED by @jbaiter in #279
• Update to RetroArch 1.17.0 by @RobLoach in #280

New Contributors

• @TigraTT-Driver made their first contribution in #255
• @rakonkido made their first contribution in #278
• @jbaiter made their first contribution in #279

Full Changelog: v1.15.1...v1.17.0

v1.15.1

Hot fix release on top of RetroArch 1.15.0.

Full Changelog: v1.15.0...v1.15.1

v1.15.0

What's Changed

• Use WebM for video recording by @RobLoach in #244
• Update to v1.15.0 by @RobLoach in #245

Full Changelog: v1.14.0...v1.15.0

v1.14.0

What's Changed

• Update runtime to 22.08 by @RobLoach in #229
• Use the shared module for libdecor, and bump it to 0.1.1. by @orowith2os in #240
• Update to RetroArch v1.14.0 by @RobLoach in #242

New Contributors

• @orowith2os made their first contribution in #240

Full Changelog: v1.13.0...v1.14.0

v1.13.0

• 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
• FRONTEND: Fix default remaps folder for various cores
• HOTKEYS: Fix shader toggle and add hotkey + sublabel
• HOTKEYS: Cleanups and corrections
• INPUT: Addition to analog stick menu navigation
• INPUT: Fixed the way devices were previously indexed
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Add option for pause on controller disconnect
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Driver independent disconnection notification
• INPUT/HID: Added usb hid controllers for the famous ZeroDelay encoder
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Add eightway area types
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay next_index for unnamed targets
• 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/INPUT: Add option for swapping menu scrolling buttons
• 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: 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
• OVERLAYS: Ignore hitboxes with zero area
• OVERLAYS: Add 'reach' and 'exclusive' for hitboxes
• QB: Don't fail if OSDependent/OGLCompiler libraries are not present
• THREADED VIDEO/GLCORE: Fix regression 'Shader presets dont load, when video driver is set to glcore'
• VULKAN: Fix HDR inverse tonemapping

v1.12.0

• 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
• 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

v1.10.2

• 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/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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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

v1.10.0

• ARCHIVE: Allow loading files from archive subdirectory
• AUDIO: Remove frame limit from audio batch callback
• 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 does not 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
• 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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

v1.9.14

• 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
• INPUT/GYRO/ACCELEROMETER/ANDROID: Re-enable Gyroscope and 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
• LOGGING: Logging cleanups
• 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
• 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
• VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation can't occur
• VULKAN: Avoid hard crash when capturing screenshot in emulating mailbox

v1.9.13.2

• 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
• NETPLAY: Networking - should not print country for a local lobby
• NETPLAY: Add Text Chat functionality
• OVERLAYS: Fix folder structure
• VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation can't occur
• FLATPAK: Add Overlays to the Flatpak distribution