From 79667c91864c82fba20f9a23aa0eeea3c9d06fc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Yelon Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:43:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added release notes for 1.4.0 --- doc/doc/ReleaseNotes | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/doc/ReleaseNotes b/doc/doc/ReleaseNotes index 783a7ce987..b8a73850ca 100644 --- a/doc/doc/ReleaseNotes +++ b/doc/doc/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@ +------------------------ RELEASE 1.4.0 ------------------------ + +This release incorporates lots of small, incremental improvements. + +* Improved OSX support: mouselook, fmod fixes, icon filename. +* Better memory usage tracking from pstats. +* Removed dependencies on NSPR. +* New default-model-extension prc variable (instead of old implicit-extension behavior) +* New arc emitter in particle system. +* Multiple different Actors can be flattened into one node. +* Texture compression in DX8, DX9. +* New features to support low-memory platforms. +* ParametricCurveDrawer etc. officially deprecated in favor of RopeNode. +* DynamicTextFont::RenderMode allows generating geometric fonts (instead of always using texture-based fonts). +* Some integrated support for ODE (not yet polished and ready) +* New RigidBodyCombiner unifies independently moving bodies into a single Geom as a rendering optimization. +* Support for depth-stencil textures. +* Better support for fullscreen mode on Linux. +* Panda GL/DX windows can be subordinate to other windows (Win32 only). +* Better multithreaded protection. +* Interrogate correctly handles "const" vs. non-const objects. +* PlaneNode::set_clip_effect allows user-defined cull planes (in addition to clip planes). +* Several low-level rendering optimizations. +* Simple occlusion culling with PipeOcclusionCullTraverser. +* Optional bounding boxes (instead of spheres): "bounds-type box", "bounds-type best" + +I have no doubt that there will be a few significant bugs in this release, like all X.X.0 releases. - Josh + ------------------------ RELEASE 1.3.2 ------------------------ Bugfix release. This fixes a few problems in 1.3.1