• ⚡️ Huge performance improvements using OpenGL 3.3+, by way of batch rendering; specifically, we're seeing ~36x faster triangle draw speed, so we can draw a maximum of 21,840,000 triangles per second at 60 FPS (an increase from 600,000 triangles)
• 🖥 Added build support for BSD, #104 (thanks @compufox!)
• ⚙️ Fixed compiling C++ files, #119 (thanks @tomalakgeretkal!)
• 🔊 Added volume control for sounds and sound mixes, #113 (thanks @tlrasor!)
• 🖼 Fixes an issue with SDL 2.0.10 and macOS 10.15 (Catalina) where the viewport doesn't fill the entire window
• ⬆️ Bumped SDL versions

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• Install script now supports virtually all Linux package mangers (yum on Fedora and CentOS, pacman on Arch, zypper on openSUSE, and apt on Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint) 🐧
• Adds the ability to get and set the music volume 🔊
• Adds ability to take a screenshot of the window 📷

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Fixes a rendering issue on macOS 10.14 (Mojave) causing a blank window.

Our 1.0 release! 😅

Major changes include:

• Draw circles 🔴
• Texture rotation for images, sprites, and text 🌀
• Set the icon for the window 🖼
• Frames per second now calculated using an exponential moving average 🖥 Thanks @Dolphindalt! — #84
• S2D_SetText() can now take formatted strings, like printf() 🔤 Thanks @Lincoln96 — #87
• Controller detection, adding, and removing even more reliable 🎮
• Support for installation on Fedora 🐧

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• Adds functions S2D_AddControllerMapping and S2D_LoadControllerMappingsFromFile to add controller mapping strings 🎮 Thanks @andrewhavens!
• Controller GUIDs now get logged, helpful for identifying make/model, not just the instance ID
• Adds ability to install Simple 2D on MinGW using the install script (similar to Linux)
• Allows install confirmation prompts to be skipped (good for CIs)
• Now enforces a minimum version of SDL (important for Linux where package managers might be out of date)

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• Controllers axes and buttons are now mapped to names 🎮
• Adds S2D_GetDisplayDimensions to get the primary display's dimensions, even before a window is created
• Adds a new S2D_EXPAND viewport scaling mode, which is just like S2D_FIXED, but will actually grow the viewport area (so more content can be seen)
• Fixes for Raspbian Stretch (stop moving OpenGL libs around, people!)
• Fixed incorrect viewport size when requested dimensions are not available
• Updates to use latest SDL release
• Other small fixes 🐛

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• Adds iOS and tvOS support 🎉
• Fixes for MSYS2 on Windows
• Minor cleanup

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• Adds line drawing — thanks @killapl!
• Allows for sprite resizing, and maintains scale ratio when clipped
• In the on_key callback, key has been moved to the S2D_Event structure
• Keyboard event types have been renamed to S2D_KEY_DOWN, S2D_KEY_HELD, and S2D_KEY_UP
• Adds new mouse events, like button presses, scrolling, and movement
• The on_mouse and on_controller callback now also use the S2D_Event structure
• Adds support for C++
• Fixed a memory leak in S2D_SetText
• Fixed an SDL installation issue on the Raspberry Pi

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Small release to fix a few lingering things.

• Adds S2D_ShowCursor to control whether mouse cursor is visible over the window.
• Fixes an S2D_FIXED viewport which wasn't being rendered as intended, including mouse position.
• Key repeats are now ignored, that is, S2D_KEYDOWN is now only fired once on key press.
• Fixes a mistake in the Makefile, where CFLAGS was being overwritten on Linux.
• Improvements and fixes to tests.

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• Keyboard now just has a single event callback, on_key. Event types now included as a parameter, see new documentation. "Key down" also now represents a single key press (they key goes down), and "key" is for when they key is held down. This is more consistent with other game engines.
• Controller callback now has a button "pressed" parameter to indicate whether the button is being pressed in or released.
• Adds a new controller test with visual feedback.
• S2D_PlayMusic's repeat parameter is now just a simple loop boolean, instead of times repeated.
• Renamed tests/ directory to just test/, which is a bit more consistent directory structure.
• w and h has been renamed to width and height for types with those attributes, just for clarity.
• Many bug fixes and internal housekeeping.
• Bump SDL to v2.0.5

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