melonJS 8.0.0

• Audio : audio core update (2.2.0)
• Audio : me.audio.stop() will now stop all sounds if none is specified
• Color : new lerp() method to provide linear interpolation between two different colors
• Color : allow specifying minimum and maximum value range when generating random colors
• Core : new me.event.VIDEO_INIT system event that will be triggered once the display canvas is initialized
• Core : a default stage is now instantiated at boot time, allowing to more easily write basic examples to test features
• Input : improved input detection when the canvas is embedded into a complex css layout and the page is being scrolled up/down
• Input : Changed the device accelerometer and orientation detection to comply with the latest API changes where a user permission is now required
• Input : fix an issue with uncorrect horizontal delta value for wheel event
• Input : all registered events for a specific renderable are now automatically released upon the object destruction
• Physic : me.game.world is now a specific container (based on me.Container) that will hold and manage all related physic updates
• Physic : gravity for physic bodies is now defined globally under me.game.world.gravity, and can be scaled individually using me.Body.gravityScale
• Physic : added a rotate method to me.Body to allow rotating all the body shapes properly (by default around the body bounding box center)
• Physic : melonJS will now automatically enable body physic when when a me.Body object is added to any renderable
• Renderable : add support for free-texture-packer (http://free-tex-packer.com), the free Texture Packer alternative (thanks @playerkillers)
• Renderable : optimized and tidied up me.Text and me.BitmapText implementation
• Renderable : new isFlippedX & isFlippedY getter to check the current renderable "flip" state
• Renderable : fix implementation and usage of the isDirty flag across Renderables
• Renderable : fix a regression with transformation when a renderable is directly added to a me.Container object
• Renderable : apply a tint color to BitmapText if a fillStyle is specified in the constructor
• Renderer : new optional parameter for createCanvas() to request an OffScreenCanvas if supported by the browser
• Renderer : use OffscreenCanvas by default for all secondary canvas (e.g. debugPanel, double buffering, font texture in WebGL)
• Renderer : properly fallback to the Canvas Renderer including when the WebGL renderer is not able to compile the built-in shaders
• Renderer : dynamically activate WebGL texture sampler instead of pre-indexing them (accordingly to GLSL 1.30 specifications and later)
• Renderer : added support for WebGL2 (disabled by default, use preferWebGL1 = false to enable it when calling me.video.init)
• Renderer : enable use of NPOT textures when in WebGL2 mode for texture mapping and pattern drawing
• Renderer : allow specifying the default powerPreference value for the WebGL Renderer (on Safari and Chrome 80+ default is now low-power)
• Renderer : display GPU information in the console when available (WebGL)
• Renderer : implemented sprite tint support for the Canvas Renderer
• Shapes : vectors and shapes can now be rotated around a given (optional) point instead of the default origin point
• Shapes : added a center vector property for me.Rect, giving the center point of the rectangle
• TMX : fix parsing of tileset image when the "last" tile spacing was truncated
• TMX : fix staggered map rendering, where computed tiles coordinates were non integer values (thanks @siauderman)
• TMX : fix parsing of animated tile with the latest version of Tiled (thanks @alcor)
• TMX : fix anti-diagonal tile flipping (thanks @alcor)
• TMX : fix world bounds not being updated if a level is added manually using addTo (thanks @siauderman)
• Video : fix an issue when using the "flex" scaling mode, and where the reported parent container size could be floating values
• Video : the scale parameter is now optional if scaleMethod is specified (auto-scaling will then automatically be enabled)

melonJS 7.1.1

• Core : fix a crash when a game reset is triggered manually before any default stage has been defined
• Core : new option to automatically change to a newly define stage
• Input : fixed a regression with gamepad polling
• Renderer : fixed an issue where a failed attempt at creating a WebGL context would then prevent from creating a canvas context as fallback

melonJS 7.1.0

• Audio : audio core update (2.1.2) to fix audio unlock on Firefox 66 and onwards
• Core : new me.event.GAME_UPDATE system event that will be triggered at the beginning of the update loop
• Core : me.game.HASH is deprecated and replaced by the me.utils.getUriFragment() function
• Debug : fixed DebugPanel minimum version requirements (should have been 7.0 since last release)
• Font : fix an issue with setText wronly converting a given array of string to a string representing the array
• Input : use passive event listeners when preventDefault is used (default behaviour)
• Input : simplified pointer / keyboard / gamepad implementation and removed support for legacy API (e.g. mousewheel event)
• Input : added a new getBindingKey() method that returns the associated action to a given key
• Input : exposed default targets for Keyboard and Pointer events under me.input
• Physic : fix an issue where gravity was not properly applied on the x axis
• Renderer : fix fill and stroke operations for arc and ellipse in the Canvas Renderer
• Renderer : added missing fill and stroke operations for arc in WebGL mode
• Renderer : align the canvas renderer with the WebGL renderer to properly use CSS scaling
• Sprite : new rotate method as a shortcut to apply a rotation transform to the sprite
• TMX : fixed parsing of string custom properties containing newline(s)
• TMX : use the offsetx/offsety properties when parsing ImageLayer data over the deprecated x/y ones
• TMX : add support for Staggered Isometric maps
• TMX : fix rendering of Staggered Hexagonal maps
• TMX : fix pointer position detection on Hexagonal maps (was slightly off previously)

melonJS 7.0.0

• General : new "grunt-free" build process based on npm, rollup & friends
• Core : removed support for CocoonJS (following service shutdown)
• Core : simplified error/exception handling by removing the custom me.Error class
• Input : removed obsolete support for proprietary windows 8 accelerometer API (not a thing anymore)
• Input : fixed potential issue with hardware not reporting proper event geometry
• Inpit : improved pointer detection when using complex css layouts
• Math : prevent recalculating edges and normals when resizing a rectangle shape with the same width and height values
• Renderer : renderer selection now set to AUTO by default (Attempt WebGL first, with fallback to Canvas)
• Timer : added arguments passing to setTimeout and setInterval
• TMX : fixed temporary vectors recycling in the hexagonal map renderer
• WebGL : shader implementation has been rewritten to allow for a more generic approach, and ease definition of custom shader (see me.GLShader)
• WebGL : properly handle WebGL context lost and restore
• WebGL : updated earcut to version 2.1.5

melonJS 6.4.0

• Documentation : new documentation format, including better layout and search feature
• Math : new PI related constants under me.Math (TAU, ETA, etc..)
• Renderable : added a basic color tint feature (WebGL mode only)
• Renderable : added support for Texture Packer multipack textures
• Renderable : moved the name property definition at the me.Renderable level (prevent mostly all deriving objects from re-defining one)
• Renderable : fixed an issue where a non Boolean value was passed to the onVisibilityChange callback
• Sprite : cleaned up/simplified animation data handling
• TMX : small memory optimization in the isometric renderer, where one temporary vector object was not properly recycled
• Renderer : fixed stroke and fill default color to match standard W3C canvas stroke and fill style (black)

melonJS 6.3.0

• Audio : audio core update (2.1.1), mostly improving auto audio unlock on latest (non-mobile) browser versions
• Color : fixed alpha value not being properly clamped (leading to issue in WebGL mode when passing the glArray buffer)
• Debug : fixed wrong bounding box drawing position for nested containers and entity childs
• Entity : fixed ancestor value for renderable component
• Renderable : added support for rendering mask (in both Canvas and WebGL mode), allowing to use any me.Shape object as a mask
• Renderer : drawShape() is deprecated and has been replaced by a fill() and stroke() methods
• Renderer : cleaned and aligned drawing APIs between the Canvas and WebGL Renderer
• WebGLRenderer : added stroke and fill operations for all me.Shape objects
• WebGLRenderer : fillRect() now use newly added fill method, instead of creating/using a fill texture
• WebGLRenderer : optimized memory usage for shape drawing operations
• WebGLRenderer : enable batching of triangle vertices to speed up shape drawing (when applicable)
• WebGLRenderer : fixed a clipping issue with nested containers
• WebGLRenderer : fixed the clearRect method

melonJS 6.2.0

• Audio : fixed a regression when passing an initial volume value to the play function (thanks @playerkillers)
• Container : new getNextChild function that returns the next child within the container
• Core : renamed me.ScreenObject to me.Stage (with an alias to me.ScreenObject for Backward compatibility)
• Core : cleaned and improved the window auto focus feature
• Core : improve automatic object instance collection & recycling of base components like vectors and shapes.
• Core : ensure the internal coordinates system is updated when the DOM tree structure is modified
• Camera : me.Camera2d objects can now be defined per Stage, rather than having one static global camera under me.game
• Camera : fix infinite generation of the VIEWPORT_ONCHANGE event when using camera damping
• Device : added a me.device.focus() function
• Entity : fix "DRAGEND" event triggering for Draggable Entity, when pointer is moved outside of the screen area
• Entity : fix a regression introduced in 6.0 on optional me.Entity constructor parameters
• Font : fix bounds calculation for BitmapFont objects
• Font : enable Font & BitmapFont bounding box drawing through the Debug Panel
• Font : fix missing documentation on properties for BitmapFont Object.
• Font : Font & BitmapFont objects can now be directly added to a container like any other me.Renderable
• Font : Improved performances when drawing regular me.Font objects
• Font : new me.Text and me.BitmapText generic object replacing me.Font and me.BitmapFont (now deprecated)
• Input : fix a potential issue with "undefined" pointer location upon loading
• Loader : added support for Font Face preloading
• Math : new toBeCloseTo function to determine if two values are closed "enough" to eachother
• Renderable : new onVisibilityChange event handler that is called when leaving or entering a camera viewport
• Renderable : fix documentation for the container clipping flag (was accidentally left private)
• Renderable : update visibility flag for floating objects using actual screen coordinates
• Sprite : fix an issue when flipping trimmed sprite textures (@YosuaHamonangan)
• TMX : add support for orthogonal tile rendering order
• TMX : add support for Text object, allowing to add me.Text or me.BitmapText directly from Tiled
• TMX : optimized the getTile function to avoid duplicate calls to the pixel to tile coordinates functions
• WebGLRenderer : fix a bug when clipping is disabled due to the clipping area being equal to the canvas size

melonJS 6.1.0

• Audio : latest audio core update (2.0.15)
• Core : new linux detection flag under me.device
• Renderer : now systematically warn when using non POT texture in both Canvas and WebGL mode
• Sprite : new function to allow reversing a given or current animation
• TMX : support for the Tiled 1.2 beta JSON property format (backward compatible with previous 1.1 version)
• CanvasRenderer : fix drawImage sub-pixel rendering in Canvas mode when using the short notation (2 or 4 parameters)
• WebGLRenderer : only throw an exception (e.g. stop execution) when using repeat/wrap mode with a non POT texture
• WebGLRenderer : properly fallback to Canvas mode in AUTO and WEBGL mode when failing at creating a valid WebGL Context

melonJS 6.0.0

• Audio : latest audio core update to fix HTML5 Audio issue with FB Instant Games, and Chrome API deprecation
• Container : new clipping feature to automatically clip childrens to their parent container bounds (disable by default)
• Core : Removed unnecessary ES6 polyfill (based on melonJS 5.x minimum browser version)
• Core : API update to sandbox all previous language extension under the me namespace
• Core : added console debug information (melonJS version & basic device capabilities)
• Core : properly support (requires the official weapp-adapter) WeChat Mini Games (@qinchunren)
• Color : fix the me.Color.toHex8() function
• Debug : fix "undefined width error" when instantiating the debug panel
• Font : fix a regression where drawing a web font was not restoring the renderer context properly
• Input : fix an issue where the focus was sometimes lost when using an integrated WebView (e.g. Instant Games)
• Loader : new loader feature to allow preloading of javascript files
• Math : new vector linear interpolation functions
• Math : new equals function for me.Rect shape
• Physic : avoid duplicating the given collision shape through addShape, and directly use the object references
• Physic : gravity property for solid bodies is now a vector object, allowing to defined gravity for both axis
• Physic : new mass property for solid bodies
• Physic : new me.Body.force property allowing to automatically apply a force or acceleration to a solid body
• Physic : me.Body.accel and me.Body.setVelocity are now deprecated and to be replaced by me.Body.force
• Physic : automatically apply any defined physic properties when importing a physic editor JSON file
• Renderable : fix onComplete not being called for me.Sprite single animation frame (@adrian)
• Renderable : fix animation not cycling when using GUI_Object(s)
• Renderable : fix a regression in Sprite when using Texture Packer
• Renderable : fix floating renderable's bounds following its parent container position (@YosuaHamonangan)
• Renderable : fix a potential parameter mismatch in me.Sprite for an animation onComplete callback
• Renderer : use prefixed "image-rendering" CSS properties for non standard browsers
• Renderer : new clipRect function to clip the specified rectangle area
• TMX : allows different tile size per layer (not supported by Tiled, only works with "manually" generated maps) (@YosuaHamonangan)
• TMX : optimised object allocation to lower memory usage (and later GC) when loading a level
• Viewport : new damping feature to enable smooth camera movement
• WebGLRenderer : enable failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat by default when attempting to create a GL Context
• WebGLRenderer : feature to change the blending mode (experimental and limited to "normal" and "multiply" for now)
• WebGLRenderer : fix a deprecation warning in Firefox

melonJS 5.1.0

• Audio : Howler core update (2.0.8)
• Core : window.onReady is now marked as deprecated, and replaced by me.device.onReady
• Container : new onChildChange callback for when a child is added or removed
• Input : further improvements to multitouch support (compatibility on latest device/browser)
• Input : new me.input.setTouchAction function to enable/disable gesture by default (default to "none")
• Input : fix a pointer offset issue when using the browser zoom
• Loader : new "withCredentials" setting to specify if cross-site Access-Control requests should be made using credentials
• Physic : new me.collision.rayCast function for basic Line of Sight implementation
• Physic : slight me.Body refactoring to allow adding a physic body to any base me.Renderable
• Physic : new bounce property for solid bodies
• Renderable : isKinematic is now true by default except for me.Entity, me.Container and me.GUI object
• Renderable : anchor point and transform are now properly applied to me.Sprite Bounding Rect
• TMX : add support for "Collection of Image" tilesets
• Viewport : apply current transformation when converting given coordinates from localToWorld and WorldToLocal
• Viewport : fix a regression where transforms were not applied anymore to the camera/viewport