SFML/changelog.md

# Changelog

## Unreleased

### General

-   Ensure GNUInstallDirs cache vars are included before first used (#2778, #2779)
-   [macOS] Fix incorrect variable expansion (#2780)
-   Issue warning when trying to use UCRT MinGW with precompiled MSVCRT depenencies (#2821)
-   Fix Nix pkg-config support

### Audio

**Bugfixes**

-   Abort looping in SoundStream::streamData if an OpenAL error occurs (#1831, #2781)

## SFML 2.6.1

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.6.1

### General

-   Stop overwriting CMAKE_MODULE_PATH (#2577)
-   Loosen restrictions on unknown compilers (#2585)
-   Fix CI deprecation warnings (#2624)
-   Fix unused compiler flag error in Clang (#2625)
-   Disable warnings as errors by default (#2680)

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   [macOS] Fix macOS resize event bug (#2618)
-   [Linux] Skip ClientMessage events with other window ID unless it is for IM (#2651)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Ensure OpenGL extensions are loaded before querying maximum texture size (#2603)
-   [Android] Fixed RenderTexture being upside down on Android (#2730)
-   [Linux] Fix warnings in Linux OpenGL ES codepaths (#2747)

### Audio

**Bugfixes**

-   Remove use of C++11 header (#2591)

## SFML 2.6.0

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.6.0

### General

-   Various CMake enhancements (#1477, #1509, #1561, #1563, #1576, #1624, #1739, #1960)
-   Small documentation changes (#1519, #1608, #1628, #1657, #1658, #1652, #1665, #1697, #1774, #1776, #1853, #2038, #2083, #2271)
-   Various casting fixes (#1499, #1553, #2040, #2222, #2297, #2298, #2323, #2576)
-   Add unit testing foundation to SFML (#623, #1475)
-   Changed Doxygen single-line comment format (#1622, #1623)
-   Add support for GitHub Actions (#1716, #1751, #2058, #2114)
-   Add support for NetBSD (#1535, #1723)
-   Slight increase performance and code refactor (#1732)
-   Use public domain resources for examples (#1627, #1718)
-   Add support for CPack and NSIS with CPack (#1114)
-   Enable support for unity builds (#1787, #1788)
-   Various clean ups (#1848, #1849, #2219, #2220, #2221, #2241)
-   Enable and enforce a large set of warnings (#1785, #1791, #1846, #1906, #1908, #2048, #2066, #2073, #2094, #2100, #2106, #2142, #2217, #2218)
-   Enable search box for the Doxygen documentation (#1841, #1940, #2173, #2477)
-   Enhancements of the CI pipeline (#2046, #2263, #2294)
-   Fix header include paths in Doxygen documentation (#2512)
-   Fix compilation for GCC 13.1.1 (#2553)
-   [macOS] Add support for arm64 on macOS (#1749, #1750, #1761, #1843, #1868)
-   [iOS] Build examples for iOS as well (#1418, #1520, #1522)
-   [Windows] Properly support Clang on Windows (#1612, #1720, #1784, #1795)
-   [Windows] Link legacy stdio definitions on newer Visual Studio versions (#1712)
-   [Windows] Provide additional metadata through resource files (#1419, #1779)
-   [Android] Add 64-bits libraries for Android (#1648, #2165)
-   [Android] Adjust NDK search path to support newer NDKs (#1575)
-   [macOS] Copy logo.png to Resources in Cocoa example (#1818)
-   [Windows] Add support for Visual Studio 2022 (#1819)
-   [Android] Build sfml-main with position-independent code (#2393, #2397)

### System

**Features**

-   [Android] Simplify management of ActivityStates (#1845)

**Bugfixes**

-   [Windows] Fix overflow when using `sf::Clock` for long time (#1765, #1771)

### Window

**Features**

-   Allow creation of a window without an OpenGL context (#1484)
-   Dynamically load EGL and GLES extensions as is done for desktop GL (#1539, #1577, #1603, #2157, #2160)
-   Add support for creating Vulkan window surfaces (#1557)
-   Scancode support (#1235, #1400, #1596, #2009, #2096, #2148, #2243)
-   [Linux] Add support for colored cursors in Unix implementation (#1693, #1694)
-   [Linux] Added support for directional arrow resize cursors on Linux (#1688)
-   [Linux] Add support for X Input Method (#1840, #1850, #2191, #2242)
-   [Linux] Add support for Direct Rendering Mode (DRM) / Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) (#2029, #2146, #2246, #2259, #2400)
-   [Windows] Use monitor aware DPI scaling on Windows (#2268)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fix `sf::Context::getActiveContext` to stop returning inactive contexts (#1794)
-   [Linux] Fixed crash with X11 when `$DISPLAY` is not `0.0` (#724, #1504)
-   [Android] Ensure `setActive(false)` is called before the surface is destroyed in EglContext (#1530, #1531)
-   [Android] Fixed EGL incorrectly being passed the anti-aliasing level as `EGL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS` instead of `EGL_SAMPLES` (#1533, #1534)
-   [Linux] Fix OpenGL extensions not loading in a specific Linux VM configuration (#1495, #1543)
-   [Windows] Fixed potential buffer overrun in Win32 OpenGL error handling (#1245, #1246)
-   [Windows] Fix no longer hides cursor when hovering title bar (#1569, #1570)
-   [macOS] Initialize `m_context` correctly in `SFContext` constructors (#1582, #1610)
-   [Android] Fixed navigation bar not being entirely hidden on Android (#1538, #1554)
-   [Windows] Make the process to set a DirectInput device's axis mode more conservative (#1634)
-   [Linux] Fix an issue where the cursor wasn't changed instantaneously (#1686)
-   [Windows] Fix issue where joystick/controller POV values were not set correctly for DirectInput devices (#1719)
-   [Android] Fix warning: control may reach end of non-void function (#1713)
-   [Windows] Fixed Win32 requestFocus in multi-threaded environment (#1600)
-   [Android] Fix issue where `EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY` is `NULL` (#1639, #1740)
-   [macOS] When initializing an OpenGL view with an existing window, call `finishInit` (#1759, #1760)
-   [macOS] Fix potential crash when changing cursor (#1721, #1736)
-   [Android] Fixed `SIGSEGV` after pressing back button on Android (#531, #1580)
-   [Android] Fix issue with `waitEvent` and an OpenGL Context (#1532, #1790)
-   [iOS] Fix issue where OpenGL ES libraries couldn't be located (#1687, #1804)
-   [macOS] Fix issue where window wouldn't be closing because of events still being processed (#1581, #1814)
-   [Windows] Preserve the drop shadow for system cursors on Windows (#1731)
-   [Windows] Use GetWindowLongPtr for better overall compatibility (#1806)
-   [macOS] Ensure proper nesting of autorelease pools on OS X (#1549, #1820)
-   [Linux] Fix typo in window construction (#1951, #1953)
-   [Linux] Prevent crash in Unix JoystickImpl with too many file descriptors (#1900, #1941)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Allow re-creation of the shared context as a core context if the user requests a core profile context (#1434, #1443)
-   Added `getPosition()` and `getSize()` to `sf::Rect` (#1047)
-   Added `Font::hasGlyph` field (#1644)
-   Implemented saveToMemory and saveImageToMemory (#988, #1597, #1669)
-   Implement smoothing for fonts (#1690, #2064, #2072)
-   Add Min and Max blend modes (#1710, #1756)
-   Support geometry shaders when a OpenGL 3.2+ context is available (#1768, #1769, #1786, #1789)
-   Align encodings for new line characters (#2107)
-   Update stb_image to 2.28, thus adding support for more image formats (#1712, #2322, #2464)
-   [macOS] Improve high DPI handling on macOS (#1817)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed missing checks for empty vertex arrays when updating the vertex buffers in `sf::Text` (#1558, #1560)
-   Remove unnecessary `glFlush()` in `sf::Texture` (#1609)
-   Fixed text rendering artifacts on Radeon cards (#1568)
-   Force OpenGL states to be reset when RenderTarget detects that a new context has to be tracked (#1625, #1630)
-   Don't set default Texture Rect of a `sf::Sprite` before the user provided one (#1725)
-   Added auto hinting compensation to fix too wide gaps between small glyphs (#1745, #1746)
-   Fix support for sRGB color space in `sf::RenderTexture` (#1092, #1757)
-   Fix incorrect glyph rect for text outline (#1826, #1827, #1836)
-   Fix alpha value calculation for semi-transparent pixels on fully transparent pixels with `sf::Image::copy()` (#1993)
-   Fix getLocalBounds inconsistency for `sf::Text` (#2129, #2132)
-   [iOS] Ensure the proper default framebuffer is bound when activating a RenderWindow (#1471, #1487)

### Audio

**Features**

-   Allow explicitly closing `sf::InputSoundFile` (#1516)
-   Replace use of auto_ptr for future-proofing (#1546)
-   Adjustable processing interval in `sf::SoundStream` (#1517, #1666)
-   Fix `sf::Music` sometimes failing to loop after seeking (#1707)
-   Add MP3 decoding support (#1232, #1796, #1851)

**Bugfixes**

-   Rename FindVorbis -> FindVORBIS, for consistency with exported variables (#1626, #1629)
-   Fix naming of VORBIS in `SFMLConfigDependencies.cmake.in` (#1636, #1637)
-   Fixed copy assign operator in `sf::Sound` so it checks for self-assignment (#1744)
-   Fix SoundStream::play to restart the sound if it was played before (#2175)

### Networking

**Features**

-   Added method to get the current read position of `sf::Packet` (#1382, #1641)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed sometimes failing to read floats and doubles from Packet on Android (#1565, #1578)

## SFML 2.5.1

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.5.1

### General

-   Various CMake fixes (#1414, #1416, #1436, #1439, #1467, #1470)
-   Fixed the installation of pkg-config files (#1466)
-   Fixed two conversion warnings (#1454)
-   [Android] Fixes all symbols in sfml-main are hidden (#1457, #1460)
-   [Android] Fixed some `#define` flag problem (#1458)
-   [Android] Fix deadlock in main cleanup (#1265)
-   [iOS] Modernized toolchain file (#1411)
-   [iOS] Check that `<SFML/Main.hpp>` is used (#1412)
-   [macOS] Add `-ObjC` flag to fix static linking on macOS (#1485)

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   [iOS] Use default supported rotations when none are specified (#1417)
-   [iOS] Fixed autocomplete window overlaps keyboard (#1473, #1482)
-   [Linux] Fixed dual monitor issue (#1226, #1238)
-   [Linux] Fixed issue where fullscreen window didn't go over task bars on top and left on in Ubuntu (#1224)
-   [Linux] Fixed the Unix clipboard implementation causing an abort due to internal data races in Xlib (#1437)
-   [macOS] Added additional system cursors (#1401, #1413, #1425)
-   [Windows] Fixed swapped colors for custom cursors (#1464, #1465, #1491)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed a bug in which a `sf::RenderTexture` would not be re-activated after being re-created (#1438)
-   Fixed `sf::RenderTextureImplFBO`'s destructor incorrectly triggering deletion of other `sf::RenderTextureImplFBO`'s active FBOs (#1440)
-   Fix `sf::RenderWindow::setActive` incorrectly trying to unbind an FBO during deactivation (#1442)
-   Fixed `sf::RenderTexture::display()` dereferencing a NULL pointer when being called before `sf::RenderTexture::create()` (#1446)
-   Fixed bug in `sf::Text` when applying an outline color/thickness (#1176)
-   Squash duplicated `sf::Font` glyphs to single chars (#1461)
-   Fixed two issues with glyph sub-pixel positioning (#1452)
-   Reduced context locking & unlocking while creating textures (#1459)
-   Fixed the error message when the wrong bitmap font size is selected (#1456, #1474, #1492)

### Audio

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed performance issue with reading WAV files (#1450)

## SFML 2.5.0

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.5.0

### General

-   Replaced FindSFML.cmake with SFMLConfig.cmake (#1335)
-   Markdown'd and updated readme, changelog, contributing and license files (#1196, #1368, #1317)
-   Improve packaging support (#1173)
-   Added Tagfile generation and search (#1327)
-   Added CMake variables to select the modules to be built (#798, #800)
-   Do not install extlibs if `SFML_USE_SYSTEM_DEPS` is true (#1236, #1237)
-   Fixed various type conversion/comparison warnings (#1325)
-   [Android] Increased minimum API version to 14 (#1362)
-   [Android] Removed custom toolchain and added support for the newest NDK version and Gradle (#1350, #1393)
-   [iOS] Updated the binary libs from exlibs/libs-ios (#1207, #1209)
-   [iOS] Use a CMake toolchain file for iOS build (#1268, #1269)
-   [iOS] Install extlibs if needed (#1348)
-   [iOS] Drop 32 bit support (#1374)
-   [iOS] Force correct iOS architecture for cmake (#1373, #1377)
-   [iOS] Added iOS example (#1378)
-   [macOS] Fixed launch of cocoa examples (#1334)
-   [macOS] Improved application signing process (#1020, #1036, #1194)
-   [macOS] Improved CMake script (#1215, #1371)
-   [macOS] Use `-stdlib=libc++` (#1361)
-   [OpenBSD] Added support for OpenBSD (#1330)

### System

**Bugfixes**

-   Added protected destructor to `sf::NonCopyable` to prevent possible resource leaks (#1125, #1161)
-   Fixed crash when `sf::Clock` is constructed in a global scope (#1258)

### Window

**Features**

-   Implemented Cursor API (#269, #784, #827)
-   Implemented Clipboard API (#715, #1204, #1221)
-   Renamed a few key codes (#1395)
-   Added joystick example (#1363)
-   [Windows] Added support for interfacing with joysticks via DirectInput when it is available (#1251, #1326)
-   [Windows] Fix discrete GPU preference symbols being exported from the wrong place (#1192, #1406)

**Bugfixes**

-   [Android] Return correct key code for delete/backspace (#1309, #1362)
-   [iOS] Don't need to find vorbisfile or vorbisenc (#1347)
-   [Linux] Fixed `sf::Window::getPosition()` returning incorrect position because of differences in window managers (#1228, #1266)
-   [Linux] Fix X11 key repeat handling not filtering out events from other windows (#1223, #1230, #1291)
-   [Linux] Restore fullscreen of a non-visible window (#1339)
-   [macOS] Fixed window menu not working (#1091, #1180, #1193)
-   [macOS] Fixed crash with application messing hardware detection e.g. TeamViewer (#1323)
-   [macOS] Added support for (some) Hat/POV axis (#1248)
-   [Windows] Prevent uninitialized read by zeroing memory (#1264)
-   [Windows] Fixed modifier keys handling (#1357)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Implemented additional line spacing and letter spacing in `sf::Text` (#928, #1366)
-   Added `sf::VertexBuffer` class (#1308)
-   Added GPU local texture copying support, allowing performance optimizations and texture swapping (#1119, #1319, #1320)
-   Optimize performance by skipping `glTexCoordPointer()` call if not needed (#1015)
-   Generate shape outline vertices only if necessary (#925, #1356)
-   Removed dependency to libjpeg, stb_image_write now supports writing JPEG files (#1278, #1279)
-   Enable comparing `sf::Transform` and optimize resetting OpenGL back to the identity matrix (#1298)
-   Added missing `setActive()` virtual method to `sf::RenderTarget` (#1157)
-   Updated stb_image to v2.16 and stb_image_write to v1.07 (#1270)
-   Added `sf::RenderTexture` stencil and multisampling support (#1274, #1285)
-   Added example demonstrating `sf::VertexBuffer`, `sf::Shader` and `sf::Thread` usage (#1352)
-   Optimized `sf::RenderTexture` performance (#1379)

**Bugfixes**

-   Properly free memory in `sf::Font::cleanup()` (#1119)
-   Fixed memory leak in `sf::Font` (#1216)
-   Fix OpenGL texture coordinate pointer not being updated correctly under certain conditions (#1297)
-   Fix for broken text when the font is reloaded (#1345)
-   Fix memory leak in `sf::Text` (#1233, #1360)
-   Fixed strict aliasing punning warning when generating the key of a glyph in Font.cpp (#1187, #1396)
-   Fixed OpenGL version string being parsed incorrectly on some platforms (#1249, #1390)
-   [macOS] Worked around render target bug (#1132, #1342)
-   [Windows] Replaced time-based joystick poll with a hardware event handler (#1179, #1195, #1198, #1199, #1421)

### Audio

**Features**

-   Added loop point support to `sf::Music` (#177, #629)
-   Added support for the extensible PCM wave file format (#1296)
-   [iOS] Enable audio module (#1338)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed inconsistent seek behavior in `sf::SoundStream` (#1118)
-   Fixed stack overflow in `sf::SoundStream::fillAndPushBuffer()` (#1154)
-   Fixed seeking quirks in the FLAC reader (#966, #1162)
-   Allow polymorphism with `sf::SoundSource` (#1185)
-   Fixed WAV file writer writing wrong header values (#1280, #1281)
-   Small bugfix to argument of `alcCaptureOpenDevice()` (#1304, #1305)
-   [iOS] Find OpenAL correctly (#1263, #1376)
-   [Windows] Updated OpenAL Soft to 1.18.1 fixing crashes (#1247, #1260)

### Network

**Features**

-   Add append/overwrite parameter to Ftp::upload (#1072, #1399)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed wrong condition for building network support (#1253)
-   Changed TCP listen backlog from 0 to SOMAXCONN (#1369, #1407)
-   Fixed socket reuse not conforming to documentation (#1346, #1408)

## SFML 2.4.2

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.4.2

### System

**Bugfixes**

-   [Windows] Removed thread affinity changes in sf::Clock (#1107)

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed bug where TransientContextLock would hang (#1165, #1172)
-   [Linux] Fixed GLX extensions being loaded too late (#1183)
-   [Linux] Fix wrong types passed to XChangeProperty (#1168, #1171)
-   [Windows] Make context disabling via wglMakeCurrent more tolerant of broken drivers (#1186)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Optimized sf::Image::create and made it more exception safe (#1166)

## SFML 2.4.1

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.4.1

### General

-   [kFreeBSD] Define SFML_OS_FREEBSD when compiling for kFreeBSD (#1129)
-   [Windows] Added some simple messaging when trying to build under Cygwin (#1153)

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed stack overflow on GlContext creation with multiple threads (#989, #1002)
-   Adjusted mouse cursor grab documentation (#1133)
-   [iOS] Fixed orientation change not rescaling window size properly (#1049, #1050)
-   [Linux] Fixed fullscreen issue (#921, #1138)
-   [Linux] Switched from XCB back to Xlib for windowing (#1138)
-   [Linux] Fixed window icon not showing up on some distros (#1087, #1088)
-   [Linux] Fixed an issue where GNOME flags window unresponsive (#1089, #1138)
-   [Linux] Fixed leak of XVisualInfo objects during GlxContext creation (#1135)
-   [Linux] Fixed possible hang when setting visibility if external window sources (#1136)
-   [macOS] Fixed inconsistency between doc and impl on macOS for the grab feature (#1133, #1148, #1150)
-   [Windows] Fixed context memory leaks (#1143, #1002)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Adjusted uniform error message (#1131)
-   Clarify documentation on Rect::contains function bounds (#1151)

### Network

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed a typo in comment for void unbind() (#1121)

## SFML 2.4.0

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.4.0

### General

-   Added deprecation macro (#969)
-   Fixed issues reported by Coverity Scan static analysis (#1064)
-   Fixed some initialization issues reported by Cppcheck (#1008)
-   Changed comment chars in FindSFML.cmake to # (#1090)
-   Fixed some typos (#1098, #993, #1099, #956, #963, #979)
-   Updated/fixed string comparisons in Config.cmake (#1102)
-   Added the missing -s postfix for the RelWithDebInfo config (#1014)
-   [Android] Fixed current Android compilation issues (#1116, #1111, #1079)
-   [macOS] Update Xcode template material (#976, #968)
-   [Windows] Added support for VS 2015 (#972)
-   [Windows] Create and install PDB debug symbols alongside binaries (#1037)

### Deprecated API

-   sf::RenderWindow::capture(): Use a sf::Texture and its sf::Texture::update(const Window&) function and copy its contents into an sf::Image instead.
-   sf::Shader::setParameter(): Use setUniform() instead.
-   sf::Text::getColor(): There is now fill and outline colors instead of a single global color. Use getFillColor() or getOutlineColor() instead.
-   sf::Text::setColor(): There is now fill and outline colors instead of a single global color. Use setFillColor() or setOutlineColor() instead.
-   sf::LinesStrip: Use LineStrip instead.
-   sf::TrianglesFan: Use TriangleFan instead.
-   sf::TrianglesStrip: Use TriangleStrip instead.

### System

**Features**

-   [Android] Added sf::getNativeActivity() (#1005, #680)

**Bugfixes**

-   Added missing <iterator> include in String.hpp (#1069, #1068)
-   Fixed encoding of UTF-16 (#997)
-   [Android] Fixed crash when trying to load a non-existing font file (#1058)

### Window

**Features**

-   Added ability to grab cursor (#614, #394, #1107)
-   Added Multi-GPU preference (#869, #867)
-   Added support for sRGB capable framebuffers (#981, #175)
-   [Linux, Windows] Improved OpenGL context creation (#884)
-   [Linux, Windows] Added support for pbuffers on Windows and Unix (#885, #434)

**Bugfixes**

-   Updated platform-specific handle documentation (#961)
-   [Android] Accept touch events from "multiple" devices (#954, #953)
-   [Android] Copy the selected EGL context's settings to SFML (#1039)
-   [Linux] Fixed modifiers causing sf::Keyboard::Unknown being returned (#1022, #1012)
-   [macOS] Improved memory management on macOS (#962, #790)
-   [macOS] Fixed crash when resizing a window to a zero-height/width size (#986, #984)
-   [macOS] Use the mouse button constant instead of 0 to avoid a compiler error on macOS (#1035)
-   [macOS] macOS improvement: warnings + bugfix + refactoring, the lot! (#1042)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Added support for outlined text (#840)
-   Add support for geometry shaders (#886, #428)
-   Feature/blend mode reverse subtract (#945, #944)
-   Implemented support for mipmap generation (#973, #498, #123)
-   Added new API to set shader uniforms (#983, #538)
-   Rewrite RenderWindow::capture (#1001)

**Bugfixes**

-   Exporting some Glsl utility functions due to linking issues (#1044, #1046)
-   Fixed missing initialisation of Font::m_stroker (#1059)
-   Changed primitive types to be grammatically correct (#1095, #939)

### Audio

**Features**

-   Implemented stereo audio recording (#1010)

**Bugfixes**

-   Added an assignment operator to SoundSource (#864)
-   [macOS] Updates OpenAL-soft for macOS to version 1.17.2 (#1057, #900, #1000)
-   Fixed a bug where vorbis can't handle large buffers (#1067)
-   Added support for 24-bit .wav files (#958, #955)
-   Fixed threading issue in sf::SoundRecorder (#1011)
-   Made WAV file reader no longer assume that data chunk goes till end of file to prevent reading trailing metadata as samples (#1018)
-   Fixed seeking in multi channel FLAC files (#1041, #1040)

### Network

**Features**

-   Added optional argument on which address to bind (socket). (#850, #678)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed FTP directory listing blocking forever (#1086, #1025)

## SFML 2.3.2

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.3.2

### General

-   Fixed an issue where FindSFML.cmake couldn't find older versions of SFML (#903)
-   Robust alCheck and glCheck macros (#917)
-   Fixed FindSFML.cmake to use the uppercase FLAC name (#923)
-   Added a CONTRIBUTING file so GitHub shows a message when creating a new issue (#932)

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   [Linux] Fixed an issue where the keypad's key weren't being detected (#910)
-   [Linux] Revert to Xlib event handling (#934)
-   [Linux] Fixed `XK_*` inconsistency in InpuImpl.cpp (#947)
-   [Linux] Fix `_NET_WM_PING` messages not being replied to properly (#947)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed clear bug on RenderTextures (#915)
-   Fixed image file extension detection (#929, #930, #931)
-   Secure function against random data return (#935, #942)

## SFML 2.3.1

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.3.1

### Window

**Bugfixes**

-   [Android] Make sure a window still exists before trying to access its dimensions (#854)
-   [Android] Added Android API level checks (#856)
-   [Android] Updated the JNI/event handling code (#906)
-   [Linux] Resized events are only spawned when the window size actually changes (#878, #893)
-   [Linux] Whitelisted X SHAPE events (#879, #883)
-   [Linux] Remap Unix keyboard when user changes layout (#895, #897)
-   [Linux] Fix undefined behavior in ewmhSupported() (#892, #901)

### Graphics

**Bugfixes**

-   Added support for GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp for systems that don't expose GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp (#880, #882)

### Audio

**Bugfixes**

-   [Android] Fixed audio files not loading (and possibly crashing) (#855, #887)

## SFML 2.3

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.3

### General

-   Examples only link against sfml-main in release mode (#610, #766)
-   Replaced unsigned int with std::size_t for array indices and sizes (#739)
-   Fixed some issues with the Doxygen documentation (#750)
-   Added support for EditorConfig (#751)
-   Hide success message for CMake in quiet mode (#753)
-   Improved documentation for statuses with sf::Ftp (#763)
-   Moved stb_image into the extlibs directory (#795)
-   Changed the SOVERSION to major.minor (#812)
-   Fixed warnings about switch-statements (#863)
-   Added missing includes in the general headers (#851)
-   [Android] Updated toolchain file and dependencies (#791)
-   [Linux] Fixed missing pthread dependency (#794)
-   [macOS] Relaxed CMake installation rules regarding framework dependencies (#767)

### Deprecated API

-   sf::Event::MouseWheelEvent: This event is deprecated and potentially inaccurate. Use MouseWheelScrollEvent instead.

### Window

**Features**

-   Added new events for handling high-precision scrolling (#95, #810, #837)
-   Switched from Xlib to XCB (#200, #319, #694, #780, #813, #825)
-   Added support for OpenGL 3 core context creation (#654, #779)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed glXSwapIntervalSGI being broken for some driver implementations (#727, #779)
-   Fixed simultaneous context operations causing crashes on some AMD hardware (#778, #779)
-   Fixed joystick identification (#809, #811)
-   [iOS] Fixed various issues including stencil bits, device orientation and retina support (#748)
-   [iOS] Fixed inconsistency between sf::Touch::getPosition and touch events (#875)
-   [Linux] Fixed Alt+F4 not getting triggered in window mode (#274)
-   [Linux] Fixed Unix joystick stuff (#838)
-   [macOS] Fixed typo in JoystickImpl.cpp to prevent a crash (#762, #765)
-   [macOS] Fixed an issue in InputImpl::getSFOpenGLViewFromSFMLWindow (#782, #792)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Replaced GLEW with loader generated by glLoadGen (#779)
-   Added a new constructor to sf::Color that takes an sf::Uint32 (#722)
-   Updated stb_image to v2.02 (#777)
-   Updated FreeType to v2.5.5 (#799, #804)
-   Added checks for software OpenGL (#870)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed GL_ARB_compatibility not being detected (#859)
-   Fixed pixel format selection (#862)
-   Bumped back the OpenGL version requirement to 1.1 (#858)

### Audio

**Features**

-   Dropped libsndfile and started using Vorbis, FLAC and OGG directly (#604, #757)
-   Added a FLAC file to the sound example (#815)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed access violation error in the destructor of sf::AudioDevice (#30, #602)
-   [macOS] Fixed threading issue with sf::SoundStream and OpenAL (#541, #831)

### Network

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed sf::TcpSocket not handling partial sends properly (#749, #796)

## SFML 2.2

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.2

### General

-   Support for iOS and Android platform (#410, #440)
-   Various documentation corrections (#438, #496, #497, #714)
-   Fixed support for compilers on Debian FreeBSD (#380, #578)
-   Added support for Visual Studio 2013 and proper support for the TDM builds (#482)
-   Fixed CMake problems related to FindSFML and cached variables (#637, #684)
-   Switched and enforced LF line endings (#708, #712)
-   Updated OpenAL to version 1.15.1 (d077210)
-   Made compiler and OS variable names much clearer in CMake files (9b0ed30)
-   Re-enabled RPATH feature (e157e7a)
-   Slight adjustments to the examples (#737)
-   [FreeBSD] Various configuration fixes (#577, #578)
-   [Linux] Updated FindSFML.cmake to add UDev to SFML's dependencies (#728, #729, #734, #736)
-   [macOS] Fixed incorrect symlink in freetype.framework (#519)
-   [macOS] CMake module for correct dependencies (#548)
-   [macOS] Fixed SFML target for Xcode (#595, #596)
-   [macOS] Updated implementation, mainly reverting to non-ARC (#601)
-   [macOS] Fixed memory leaks and dead store (#615)
-   [macOS] Improved event handling and performance (#617)
-   [macOS] Reduced memory usage (#672, #698)
-   [macOS] macOS 10.10 support (#691, #699)
-   [macOS] Improve flexibility of dependencies' locations (#713)
-   [Windows] Removed the hack that copied external libraries into SFML static libraries (dbf01a7)

### System

**Features**

-   Added substring and replace functions to sf::String (#21, #355)
-   Added toUtfX to sf::String (#501)
-   Added fromUtfX functions to set the internal data to a string by converting from another string in a fixed encoding (#196)
-   Added modulo operator for sf::Time (#429, #430)
-   Added division operator for sf::Time (#453)

**Bugfixes**

-   Ensured a high resolution for sf::sleep (#439, #475)
-   [Windows] Fixed stack unalignment by two internal functions (#412)

### Window

**Features**

-   Added window methods to request and to check focus (#518, #525, #613, #723, #735)
-   Provide name, manufacturer ID and product ID via sf::Joystick (#152, #528)
-   [FreeBSD] Joystick support (#477)
-   [macOS] Improved integration with menus and dock actions (#11)
-   [macOS] Support for OpenGL 3.2 (#84)
-   [macOS] Improved fullscreen support (#343)
-   [macOS] Added support for retina displays (#353, #388)
-   [Windows] Removed support for Windows 9x (#469)
-   [Windows] Fixed typo in Windows keyboard implementation (#516)

**Bugfixes**

-   sf::Window::create() now also resets framerate limit (#371)
-   Fixed OpenGL context leak (#635, #705)
-   Fixed various joystick problems (memory leak, accelerometer detected, code refactoring) (#660, #686, #742, #743)
-   Optimized sf::Window::waitEvent a bit, no sleep if events are available at first try (ff555d6)
-   [Linux] Output error message when XOpenDisplay() fails (#508, #616)
-   [Linux] Resize window with setSize when sf::Style::Resize is set (#466)
-   [Linux] Fixed broken key repeat on window recreation (#564, #567)
-   [macOS] Fixed KeyReleased not being fired in fullscreen mode (#465)
-   [macOS] Fixed an issue where disconnecting the keyboard would cause a crash (#467)
-   [macOS] Fixed unexpected resizing behavior (#468)
-   [macOS] Improved resizing windows (#474)
-   [macOS] Fixed memory leak with sf::Window::create() (#484)
-   [macOS] Fixed menu shortcuts in fullscreen on macOS (#527)
-   [macOS] Improved cursor hiding (#703)
-   [macOS] Fixed right click not detected with trackpads (#716, #730)
-   [Windows] Fixed joystick POV values (ef1d29b)
-   [Windows] Fixed Unicode inconsistency (#635)
-   [Windows] Fixed Alt+F4 and mouse clicks issues (#437, #457)
-   [Windows] Send MouseButtonReleased event when the mouse is outside of the window (#455, #457)
-   [Windows] Fixed sf::Joystick wrong registry usage (#701, #702, #706)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Provide more information about the loaded font in sf::Font (#164)
-   Implemented a more flexible blending system (#298)
-   Added strikethrough text style (#243, #362, #682)
-   Slight optimization for sf::Text::setString (#413)
-   Added subtraction operator for sf::Color (#114, #145)
-   Optimized sf::Image::flipVertically/flipHorizontally (#555)
-   Changed sf::Font measurements from int to float to allow better underline drawing (#693)

**Bugfixes**

-   Improved text quality for small and pixelated fonts (#228)
-   Yet another fix for Intel GPUs with sf::RenderTexture (#418)
-   Removed VTab since it causes issues and doesn't have a use nowadays (#442, #445, #460, #588)
-   Fixed broken BDF and PCF font formats (#448)
-   Fixed compilation issue with newer versions of GCC for sf::Rect (#458)
-   Fixed resetGLStates() not explicitly setting the default polygon mode (#480)
-   Fixed division-by-zero in sf::RectangleShape (#499)
-   Fixed potential memory leak in sf::Font (#509)
-   Updated glext and removed glxext (#511, #583)
-   Make sure texture unit 0 is active when resetting sf::RenderTarget states (#523, #591)
-   Fixed texture rect computation in fonts (#669)
-   Improved rendering of underlined text (#593)
-   Avoided repeated output of error messages (#566)
-   Fixed text rendered with vertical offset on ascent and font size mismatch (#576)
-   Fixed rounding problem for viewports (#598)
-   Fixed sf::Shader::isAvailable() possibly breaking context management (#211, #603, #608, #603)
-   Fixed sf::Texture::getMaximumSize() possibly breaking context management (#666)
-   Fixed various sf::Text rendering issues (#692, #699)
-   The texture matrix is now reset in sf::Texture::bind(NULL) (7c4b058)
-   [Windows] Fixed DPI scaling causing strange window behavior (#679, #681, #688)

### Audio

**Features**

-   Added support for selecting the audio capture device (#220, #470)
-   Make sf::SoundRecorder processing frequency configurable (#333)
-   Added up vector to sf::Listener (#545)

**Bugfixes**

-   Prevented sf::SoundStream::setPlayingOffset() from restarting playing even when paused (#203, #592)
-   Fixed sf::SoundBuffer contents not being able to be updated when still attached to sounds (#354, 367, #390, #589)
-   Catch audio format error and prevent division by zero (#529)
-   Fixed sf::SoundBuffer returning wrong duration for sounds containing more than ~4.3 million samples (2ff58ed)
-   Optimized sf::Listener with a cache (d97e524)

### Network

**Features**

-   Added support for PUT and DELETE in sf::Http (#257, #312, #607)
-   Added support for chunked HTTP transfers (#296, #337)
-   Added support for 64-bit integers in sf::Packet (#710)
-   Made sf::Ftp::sendCommand() public (2c5cab5)

**Bugfixes**

-   Checked socket descriptor limit (#153, #628, #683)
-   Fixed sf::TcpSocket::connect()'s switching from blocking to non-blocking mode on immediate connection success (#221)
-   Fixed FTP download and upload file sizes being limited by available RAM (#565, #590)
-   Fixed C++11 compiler warnings for sf::Uint8 (#731, #732)

## SFML 2.1

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.1

### General

-   Updated the Window and OpenGL examples (got rid of GLU and immediate mode)

### Window

**Features**

-   Now using inotify on Linux to avoid constantly polling joystick connections (#96)
-   Add keypad return, equal and period keys support for macOS
-   Improved mouse events on macOS regarding fullscreen mode
-   Improved mouse events on macOS (#213, #277)
-   Improved reactivity of setMousePosition on macOS (#290)
-   Added support for right control key on macOS
-   Improved TextEntered for macOS (#377)
-   Improved the performances of Window::getSize() (the size is now cached)
-   Added the WM_CLASS property to SFML windows on Linux
-   Fake resize events are no longer sent when the window is moved, on Linux
-   Pressing ALT or F10 on Windows no longer steals the focus

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed MouseMove event sometimes not generated when holding left button on Windows (#225)
-   Fixed ContextSettings ignored when creating a 3.x/4.x OpenGL context on Linux (#258)
-   Fixed ContextSettings ignored on Linux when creating a window (#35)
-   Fixed windows bigger than the desktop not appearing on Windows (#215)
-   Fixed KeyRelease events sometimes not reported on Linux (#404)
-   Fixed mouse moved event on macOS when dragging the cursor (#277)
-   Fixed KeyRelease event with CMD key pressed (#381)
-   Fixed taskbar bugs on Windows (#328, #69)
-   Fixed Window::getPosition() on Linux (#346)
-   Unicode characters outside the BMP (> 0xFFFF) are now correctly handled on Windows (#366)

### Graphics

**Features**

-   Checking errors in RenderTarget::pushGLStates() to avoid generating false error messages when user leaves unchecked OpenGL errors (#340)
-   Optimized Shader::setParameter functions, by using a cache internally (#316, #358)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed bounding rect of sf::Text ignoring whitespaces (#216)
-   Solved graphics resources not updated or corrupted when loaded in a thread (#411)
-   Fixed white pixel showing on first character of sf::Text (#414)
-   sf::Rect::contains and sf::Rect::intersects now handle rectangles with negative dimensions correctly (#219)
-   Fixed Shape::setTextureRect not working when called before setTexture

### Audio

**Features**

-   loadFromStream functions now explicitly reset the stream (seek(0)) before starting to read (#349)

**Bugfixes**

-   Added a workaround for a bug in the macOS implementation of OpenAL (unsupported channel count no properly detected) (#201)
-   Fixed SoundBuffer::loadFromStream reading past the end of the stream (#214)

### Network

**Features**

-   Replaced the deprecated gethostbyname with getaddrinfo (#47)
-   Minor improvements to sf::Packet operators (now using strlen and wcslen instead of explicit loops) (#118)

**Bugfixes**

-   Fixed non-blocking connection with a sf::TcpSocket on Windows
-   Fixed TCP packet data corruption in non-blocking mode (#402, #119)
-   On Unix systems, a socket disconnection no longer stops the program with signal SIGPIPE (#72)

## SFML 2.0

Also available on the website: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php#sfml-2.0

No changelog available. _Everything changed._

## Older Releases

See the website for changelogs of older releases: https://www.sfml-dev.org/changelog.php