raylib v5.5 #4503

raysan5 · 2024-11-18T12:22:32Z

raysan5
Nov 18, 2024
Maintainer

One year after raylib 5.0 release, arribes raylib 5.5, the next big revision of the library. It's been 11 years since raylib 1.0 release and in all this time it has never stopped growing and improving. With an outstanding number of new contributors and improvements, it's, again, the biggest raylib release to date.

Some numbers for this release:

+270 closed issues (for a TOTAL of +1810!)
+800 commits since previous RELEASE (for a TOTAL of +7770!)
+30 functions ADDED to raylib API (for a TOTAL of 580!)
+110 functions REVIEWED with fixes and improvements
+140 new contributors (for a TOTAL of +640!)

Highlights for raylib 5.5:

NEW raylib pre-configured Windows package: The new raylib portable and self-contained Windows package for raylib 5.5, intended for nobel devs that start in programming world, comes with one big addition: support for C code building for Web platform with one-single-mouse-click! For the last 10 years, the pre-configured raylib Windows package allowed to edit simple C projects on Notepad++ and easely compile Windows executables with an automatic script; this new release adds the possibility to compile the same C projects for Web platform with a simple mouse click. This new addition greatly simplifies C to WebAssembly project building for new users. The raylib Windows Installer package can be downloaded for free from raylib on itch.io.
NEW raylib project creator tool: A brand new tool developed to help raylib users to setup new projects in a professional way. raylib project creator generates a complete project structure with multiple build systems ready-to-use and GitHub CI/CD actions pre-configured. It only requires providing some C files and basic project parameters! The tools is free and open-source, and it can be used online!.
NEW Platform backend supported: RGFW: Thanks to the rcore platform-split implemented in raylib 5.0, adding new platforms backends has been greatly simplified, new backends can be added using provided template, self-contained in a single C module, completely portable. A new platform backend has been added: RGFW. RGFW is a new single-file header-only portable library (RGFW.h) intended for platform-functionality management (windowing and inputs); in this case for desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) but also for Web platform. It adds a new alternative to the already existing GLFW and SDL platform backends.
NEW Platform backend version supported: SDL3: Previous raylib 5.0 added support for SDL2 library, and raylib 5.5 not only improves SDL2 functionality, with several issues reviewed, but also adds support for the recently released big SDL update in years: SDL3. Now users can select at compile time the desired SDL version to use, increasing the number of potential platforms supported in the future!
NEW Retro-console platforms supported: Dreamcast, N64, PSP, PSVita, PS4: Thanks to the platform-split on raylib 5.0, supporting new platform backends is easier than ever! Along the raylib rlgl module support for the OpenGL 1.1 graphics API, it opened the door to multiple homebrew retro-consoles backend implementations! It's amazing to see raylib running on +20 year old consoles like Dreamcast, PSP or PSVita, considering the hardware constraints of those platforms and proves raylib outstanding versability! Those additional platforms can be found in separate repositories and have been created by the amazing programmer Antonio Jose Ramos Marquez (@psxdev).
NEW GPU Skinning support: After lots of requests for this feature, it has been finally added to raylib thanks to the contributor Daniel Holden (@orangeduck), probably the developer that has further pushed models animations with raylib, developing two amazing tools to visualize and test animations: GenoView and BVHView. Adding GPU skinning was a tricky feature, considering it had to be available for all raylib supported platforms, including limited ones like Raspberry Pi with OpenGL ES 2.0, where some advance OpenGL features are not available (UBO, SSBO, Transform Feedback) but a multi-platform solution was found to make it possible. A new example, models_gpu_skinning has been added to illustrate this new functionality. As an extra, previous existing CPU animation system has been greatly improved, multiplying performance by a factor (simplifiying required maths).
NEW raymath C++ operators: After several requested for this feature, C++ math operators for Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Quaternion and Matrix has been added to raymath as an extension to current implementation. Despite being only available for C++ because C does not support it, these operators simplify C++ code when doing math operations.

Beside those new big features, raylib 5.5 comes with MANY other improvements:

Normals support on batching system
Clipboard images reading support
CRC32/MD5/SHA1 hash computation
Gamepad vibration support
Improved font loading (no GPU required) with BDF fonts support
Time-based camera movement
Improved GLTF animations loading

...and much much more, including many functions reviews and new functions added!

Make sure to check raylib CHANGELOG for a detailed list of changes!

To end with, I want to thank all the contributors (+640!) that along the years have greatly improved raylib and pushed it further and better day after day. Thanks to all of them, raylib is the amazing library it is today.

Last but not least, I want to thank raylib sponsors and all the raylib community for their support and continuous engagement with the library, creating and sharing amazing raylib projects on a daily basis. Thanks for making raylib a great platform to enjoy games/tools/graphic programming!

After 11 years of development, raylib 5.5 is the best raylib ever.

Enjoy programming with raylib! :)

New Contributors

@Kimo-s made their first contribution in Image convolution function ImageKernelConvolution #3528
@MrScautHD made their first contribution in Expanding Possibilities: Integrating Additional glTF / GLB Data Formats for Enhanced 3D Experiences #3546
@AuzFox made their first contribution in Update BINDINGS.md for Raylib.nelua #3552
@Zapunidi made their first contribution in Added missing textures_image_kernel example in web makefile #3555
@ManuMario0 made their first contribution in Corrected the path of android ndk toolchains for OSX platforms #3574
@Minmoose made their first contribution in [core] Fix IsMouseButtonUp for PLATFORM_DESKTOP #3609
@davidthings made their first contribution in Updating CMake version to 5.0 so libraries are correctly versioned #3615
@riadbettole made their first contribution in Update audio_raw_stream.c #3624
@lipx1508 made their first contribution in Update audio_stream_effects.c #3618
@benjibst made their first contribution in fixed coding style in function TextToFloat #3627
@rmn20 made their first contribution in Fix box blur symmetry & simplify code #3631
@orosmatthew made their first contribution in [rcore] Remove unused vScreenCenter #3632
@Starpelly made their first contribution in Add new raylib-beef binding #3640
@devdad made their first contribution in basic PBR example #3621
@DongkunLee made their first contribution in BM Font Extender #3536
@Toctave made their first contribution in Implement miters in DrawSplineLinear #3585
@cinghycreations made their first contribution in Don't use a separate thread when polling for gamepad events on DRM platforms #3641
@tromero made their first contribution in VSCode sample project Mac fixup #3666
@wisonye made their first contribution in [ fix-crash-caused-by-zig-build ] - Fixed 'Illegal instruction' crash on 'rtextures' and 'raudio' model that caused by zig build. #3682
@maverikou made their first contribution in TextReplace const correctness #3678
@IoIxD made their first contribution in [rgraphics] Add LoadImageAnimFromMemory. #3681
@seiren-games made their first contribution in Update raylib_api.* by CI #3692
@casavaca made their first contribution in Fix a bug in examples/shapes/shapes_following_eyes #3710
@Minnowo made their first contribution in Simplified for loop for some image manipulation functions #3712
@LievenPetersen made their first contribution in [rtextures] implemented fill color TODO in ImageResizeCanvas() #3720
@candrewlee14 made their first contribution in Add shared library build option for build.zig and update to zig 0.12.0-dev.2139 #3727
@karl-zylinski made their first contribution in High DPI bug fixes #3701
@Blockguy24 made their first contribution in Fix bounds check for ImageDrawRectangleRec #3732
@JayLCypher made their first contribution in [rcore rglfw] Feature Test Macros before include #3737
@idircarlos made their first contribution in Fix typo in HISTORY.md #3751
@mllimo made their first contribution in [shapes] Fix CheckCollisionPointPoly #3750
@aubs-dev made their first contribution in Added missing "standalone" functions to raudio.c & fixed return bug #3760
@marrony made their first contribution in Fix MeasureTextEx() height calculation #3770
@bmbkr made their first contribution in [docs] Correct supported raylib version of Raylib-cs to '5.0' #3774
@stanthesoupking made their first contribution in [rtext] Add BDF font support #3735
@The-Night-Watch made their first contribution in Add gamepad support to PLATFORM_DESKTOP_SDL #3776
@oblerion made their first contribution in [rcore] Fix GetFileNameWithoutExt() #3771
@jfoscarini made their first contribution in Fix implicit conversion from float to double then back to float again #3799
@BliznyukNM made their first contribution in Fixed loading GLTF animations with 1 frame #3804
@Logicless-Coder made their first contribution in Fixed typo in a comment (#3816) #3817
@GideonSerf made their first contribution in Gamepad rumble support with SDL2 #3819
@Dev-Tade made their first contribution in Add very little sanitization to indentifier names in ExportDataAsCode() #3832
@GaryMcWhorter made their first contribution in Fixes IsTextureReady() returns false after successful call of LoadTextureCubemap() #3823
@ipzaur made their first contribution in bone socket tutorial #3833
@Bowserinator made their first contribution in More Vector math functions #3828
@hardliner66 made their first contribution in fix build paths #3835
@zuckschwerdt made their first contribution in Fix DRM cross-compile without sysroot #3839
@aiafrasinei made their first contribution in Fix examples warnings for macos #3842
@REDl3east made their first contribution in Add example that shows off LoadRandomSequence #3846
@joyousblunder made their first contribution in Update BINDINGS.md #3868
@zyperpl made their first contribution in [rmodels] Remove redundant call for disabling vertex color attribute #3871
@proberge-dev made their first contribution in [rtextures] Fix LoadImageFromScreen scaling #3881
@MrMugame made their first contribution in Organizing the drm backend to only use one api to allow for more devices #3879
@ProIcons made their first contribution in Fixes zig build that was broken on #3863 #3891
@iarkn made their first contribution in Fix #3891 breaking builds for Zig v0.11.0 #3896
@Belllg made their first contribution in Update Makefile RAYLIB_VERSION #3901
@AriaMoKr made their first contribution in Update rcore_android.c #3910
@He-Is-HaZaRdOuS made their first contribution in Fix typo in example scene: shaders_hybrid_render.c #3908
@Mute124 made their first contribution in Changed RLGL_VERSION from "4.5" to "5.0 #3914
@dylanlangston made their first contribution in [build.zig] Fix FileNotFound: .../src/raylib.h #3915
@benjitrosch made their first contribution in Added missing interpolation types for GLTF animation channels #3919
@eldskald made their first contribution in Fix window not initializing on primary monitor on GLFW backend #3923
@dertseha made their first contribution in [raudio] Fix 3664: crash in raudio from multithreading issues #3907
@KotzaBoss made their first contribution in [rlgl] Add rlCullDistance variables/getters and rlSetClipPlanes function #3912
@lima-limon-inc made their first contribution in [rcamera] Added missing CAMERA_CUSTOM check in UpdateCamera(Camera *camera, int mode) function #3938
@OetkenPurveyorOfCode made their first contribution in Use builtin_clz for clang on windows #3939
@UmgefallenesGlas made their first contribution in Changed one minor Comment #3949
@gabriel-marques made their first contribution in Implementing GetMonitorWidth/Height for DRM #3956
@ColleagueRiley made their first contribution in make RGFW a custom platform #3941
@alexmozaidze made their first contribution in feat(zig): add opengl_version option #3979
@Filyus made their first contribution in Fix parsing of empty parentheses #3974
@myQwil made their first contribution in [examples] Use logarithmic scaling for 2d examples with zoom functionality #3977
@CosmicBagel made their first contribution in Zig build script - LazyPath.path has been deprecated, using b.path() #3983
@cemalgnlts made their first contribution in [rcore_web] Relative mouse mode issues. #3940
@FishingHacks made their first contribution in [raudio] Removed drwav_uninit in LoadMusicStream to fix a crash #3986
@ListeriaM made their first contribution in fix WaveCrop() and use frames instead of samples #3994
@Odex64 made their first contribution in Updated BINDINGS.md #3995
@sgalindo made their first contribution in [rmodels] Fix out of bounds error in GenMeshTangents for loop. #3990
@L-Briand made their first contribution in Update BINDINGS.md #4004
@avx0 made their first contribution in [parser] MemoryCopy() calls: Prevent buffer overflow by replacing har… #4011
@DarkAssassin23 made their first contribution in [rtext] Added cast to ExportFontAsCode output to fix C++ compiler errors #4013
@vaezim made their first contribution in Fix typos in markdowns and comments, Fix invalid links in HISTORY.md #4017
@kai-z99 made their first contribution in [rshapes]Circle line collision function #4018
@denovodavid made their first contribution in [rmodels] Send full matModel to shader in DrawMesh #4022
@paulmelis made their first contribution in Fix #4024, cylinder drawing was incorrect due to imprecise angle #4034
@Sprixitite made their first contribution in [build] Fix examples not building with gestures system disabled #4020
@jgabaut made their first contribution in [rlgl] Rename near, far variables #4039
@KonradGrande made their first contribution in The example always showed a xbox controller, never a ps3 controller #4040
@fruzitent made their first contribution in fix(cmake): infer CMAKE_MODULE_PATH in super-build #4042
@carverdamien made their first contribution in Make addRaylib use options.opengl_version #4049
@lzralbu made their first contribution in Update Makefile #4054
@VitoTringolo made their first contribution in [rmodels] LoadBoneInfoGLTF(), add check for animation name being NULL #4053
@TokyoSU made their first contribution in Fix rlgl.h standalone/implementation #4059
@ShalokShalom made their first contribution in Update Julia Bindings #4068
@okvik made their first contribution in [build] Fix Zig raygui build when using addRaygui externally #4027
@spelufo made their first contribution in [rshapes] Fix multisegment Bezier splines. #3744
@CrackedPixel made their first contribution in [platform_desktop] fixed issue with GetScreenWidth/GetScreenHeight #4074
@jspast made their first contribution in [web] Fix undesired scrollbars on shell files #4104
@brccabral made their first contribution in [rtextures] Created ImageFromChannel() #4105
@FrankyBalu made their first contribution in Change SDL_Joystick to SDL_GameController #4129
@ninadsachania made their first contribution in Fix Reddit badge in README #4136
@NishiOwO made their first contribution in Add workaround for NetBSD #4139
@InventorXtreme made their first contribution in [build.zig] GLFW Platform Detection Support #4150
@kai-kj made their first contribution in [rlgl] rlGetShaderBufferSize seems to always return 0 #4154
@jkaup made their first contribution in [raudio] Fix crash when switching playback device #4102
@CDM15y made their first contribution in [examples] Fix PBR and Shadowmap example shaders for GLSL 1.20 #4167
@jaens made their first contribution in Fix Carp link - BINDINGS.md #4175
@Jutastre made their first contribution in Warning on invalid image data #4179
@SoloByte made their first contribution in [GLFW] No longer set the RL_TEXTURE_FILTER_LINEAR when high dpi flag is enabled #4189
@maxmutant made their first contribution in [rcore] fix gamepad axis movement and its automation event recording #4184
@rnpnr made their first contribution in [rlgl] use GLint64 for glGetBufferParameteri64v #4197
@ZzzhHe made their first contribution in [examples] Add new example: shaders_vertex_displacement #4186
@lnc3l0t made their first contribution in [build.zig] Override config.h definitions #4193
@MaximKn1 made their first contribution in [rlgl] Adding warnings in case OpenGL 4.3 is not enabled #4202
@hanaxars made their first contribution in Make camera movement independant of framerate #4247
@Paperdomo101 made their first contribution in [rshapes] Review DrawGradient color parameter names #4270
@Bugsia made their first contribution in Fixing GenImagePerlinNoise() being stretched, if Image is not rectangular #4276
@Mercotui made their first contribution in Replace deprecated Android function ALooper_pollAll #4275
@konstruktor227 made their first contribution in [raudio] Support 24-bit FLACs in LoadMusicStreamFromMemory #4279
@satchelfrost made their first contribution in [rmodels] More performant point cloud rendering with DrawModelPoints() #4203
@Tchan0 made their first contribution in rlgl.h: glint64 did not exist before OpenGL 3.2 #4284
@IllusionMan1212 made their first contribution in fix(rcore/android): Allow main() to return it its caller on configuration changes. #4288
@emdzej made their first contribution in [rcore] fix: In certain cases the DRM connector status is reported UNKNOWN #4305
@masnm made their first contribution in Change implicit conversion to explicit conversion to remove warning #4308
@Alex-Velez made their first contribution in Update BINDINGS.md #4311
@dostoievsky made their first contribution in chore: [rcore] Implement GetApplicationDirectory for FreeBSD #4318
@SusgUY446 made their first contribution in [rtextures] add MixColors. a function to mix 2 colors together #4310
@foxblock made their first contribution in [rcore] Add filtering folders to LoadDirectoryFilesEx()/ScanDirectoryFiles() #4302
@orangeduck made their first contribution in [rmodels] Optional GPU skinning #4321
@asdqwe made their first contribution in [rlgl] Fix rlgl standalone defaults #4334
@Ridge3Dproductions made their first contribution in Projects: Fix CMake example project #4332
@FluxFlu made their first contribution in Typo fix #4356
@VisenDev made their first contribution in [zig] Fix build.zig bug #4366
@HarryDC made their first contribution in Some update to gltf loading #4373
@cedeon made their first contribution in Fix build.zig #4374
@yuval-herman made their first contribution in build.zig: Fix options.config type issue #4383
@R-YaTian made their first contribution in qoi: Added support for images of channels 3 #4384
@Joshalosh made their first contribution in [rshapes] Make sure DrawRectangleLinesEx accounts for square tiles #4382
@arrecis made their first contribution in Enhancement VSCode Makefile to support multiple .c files #4391
@rapha-s made their first contribution in [rlgl] Updated instanced rendering support loading #4408
@cypressru made their first contribution in Grammar fix in CONTRIBUTING.md #4423
@franztt made their first contribution in Fix typo in rshapes.c #4421
@juliohq made their first contribution in [examples] Use free camera mode in model shader example #4428
@mpv-enjoyer made their first contribution in Fix negative X output value in MeasureTextEx #4448
@evertonse made their first contribution in [shapes] Add shapes_rectangle_advanced example implementing a DrawRectangleRoundedGradientH function #4435
@archewashi made their first contribution in fix the issue with GetScreenWidth/GetScreenHeight that was identified on other platforms #4451
@MikiZX1 made their first contribution in Update rmodels.c - 'fix' for GenMeshSphere artifact #4460
@waveydave made their first contribution in [raymath] Fix for issue 4454, MatrixDecompose() gave incorrect output for certain scale and rotations #4461
@decromo made their first contribution in [rtextures] fix bad behaviour of GenImageGradientLinear with certain angle values. #4462
@deathbeam made their first contribution in Improve cross-compilation with zig builds #4468
@kimierik made their first contribution in [BUILD][ZIG]: remove raygui from build options and re add addRaygui as a function #4485
@OussamaTeyib made their first contribution in Fix typo in BINDINGS.md #4493
@zet23t made their first contribution in Fixing an OBJ loader bug that fragmented the loaded meshes #4494

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GyanPrakash2483 · 2024-11-20T17:17:10Z

GyanPrakash2483
Nov 20, 2024

I would like to thank and congratulate @raysan5 and all contributors of raylib for this release, thakyou you all to develop and maintain my favourate game development library.

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sajibsrs Nov 24, 2024

Me too, it significantly reduced the CPU usage, at least for me in the Mac Apple silicon m2. From 8-10% to 4.8-5.4%. There's slight memory usage improvement too. Thanks a lot.

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