Release News

This describes the latest changes between the PySDL2 releases.

0.7.0

Released on 2013-10-27.

Thanks to Marcel Rodrigues, Roger Flores and otus for providing fixes and improvement ideas.

0.6.0

Released on 2013-09-01.

  • new sdl2.ext.FontManager.size attribute, which gives a default size to be used for adding fonts or rendering text
  • updated sdl2 to include the latest changes of SDL2
  • sdl2.ext.RenderContext.copy() accepts any 4-value sequence as source or destination rectangle now
  • issue #11: throw an ImportError instead of a RuntimeError, if a third-party DLL could not be imported properly
  • fixed a bug in the installation code, which caused sdl2.examples not to install the required resources

Thanks to Steven Johnson for his enhancements to the FontManager class. Thanks to Marcel Rodrigues for the improvements to RenderContext.copy().

0.5.0

Released on 2013-08-14.

  • new sdl2.ext.FontManager class, which provides simple TTF font rendering.
  • new sdl2.ext.SpriteFactory.from_text() method, which creates text sprites
  • put the SDL2 dll path at the beginning of PATH, if a PYSDL2_DLL_PATH is provided to avoid loading issues for third party DLLs on Win32 platforms
  • minor documentation fixes

Thanks to Dan Gillett for providing the FontManager and from_text() enhancements and his patience regarding all the small change requests. Thanks to Mihail Latyshov for providing fixes to the documentation.

0.4.1

Released on 2013-07-26.

Thanks to Steven Johnson, Todd Rovito, Bil Bas and Dan McCombs for providing fixes and improvements.

0.4.0

Released on 2013-06-08.

  • new sdl2.sdlmixer module, which provides access to the SDL2_mixer library
  • issue #1: fixed libc loading for cases where libc.so is a ld script
  • updated sdl2 and sdl2.sdlimage to include the latest changes of the libraries, they wrap

0.3.0

Released on 2013-05-07.

0.2.0

Released on 2013-05-03.

  • removed sdl2.ext.scene; it now lives in python-utils
  • fixed sdl2.haptic module usage for Python 3
  • fixed sdl2.SDL_WindowGetData() and sdl2.SDL_WindowSetData() wrappers
  • fixed sdl2.ext.RenderContext.copy()
  • fixed sdl2.ext.font module usage for Python 3
  • fixed sdl2.ext.line()
  • sdl2 imports all submodules now
  • improved documentation

0.1.0

Released on 2013-04-23.

  • Initial Release

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