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The Age Of Aquarius,
the northern Winter Solstice,
and the southern Summer Solstice bring us...
a new pygame to play with :)
This is a bug fix release, with a bunch of features and optimizations thrown in for good measure. Thank you to the people reporting issues related to pygame 1 compatibility. Some of them will take a bit longer to discuss, work through, and find solutions. We say goodbye to Travis the CI that served us well. We said goodbye to the pygame discord that had grown too big, only for a few more to have sprouted up in its place. We said hello to the [patreon.com/pygame](https://patreon.com/pygame) and we took a breather for a little bit.
Enough bla bla bla... what's new?
Backwards compatibility fixes
Firstly, a few backwards compatibility fixes have been made.
Dan Lawrence MyreMylar worked some more on the alpha blitter so it's more compatible.
- Change opaque surface test to use SDL_ISPIXELFORMAT_ALPHA() macro 2269
René Dudfield (illume) worked on making some old audio driver and video driver names that had been renamed work in backwards compatible env vars, SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib, SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse or dsound 2292
Major event refactor
Ankith (ankith26) did a major event refactor in 2357 2404 2416 and 2398 This not only cleaned up the event processing code, but fixed a bunch of issues an introduced some new features making event processing more comfy along the way.
- 1236 unicode keydown field does not appear occasionally
- 1238 posting keydown events fills the all fields.
- 1524 Unicode property not returned on KEYUP event
- 1550 time.set_timer accept event object
- 2146 Segfault in pygame.event.post() fixed
- 2214 WINDOWEVENT API upgrade
- 2319 event.get(type) does not return a list of all events posted
- 2347 pygame.time.set_timer() accepts loops param
- 2378 unicode keydown field working when mashing 4 keys at once
Here's a graph to treat your eyes, on an event benchmark where getting lots of events has been sped up a lot. As you can see, its a 7 times speed up. There are also less peaks in there, due to less thread locking on the event queue and using batching API calls.
New contributors
Thanks to bwright8 for adding a unit test for image.load_basic() 2307 and also for adding some Surface.convert tests in 2368.
kristofszentes made a unit test for image.load_extended() in 2324
Paul m. p. P. (pmp-p) fixed typo in windib driver handler condition https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pull/2342
The Dog Lulu (Iamsoto) updated the TYPE_HEAD macro to use a newer API 2363
aminouhammou added a unit test for display.gl_get_attribute() 2375
Tom Fryers (TomFryers) Capitalised "Python" in the import message. 2389
Pierre Sassoulas (Pierre-Sassoulas) has been working on some code quality fixes using the pylint tool (and apart from these merged PRs working on setting up other code quality tools and a pre-commit checker).
- Add parentheses to print so it works in py2 and py3 2284
- Merge some comparisons in lists for simplicity 2290
- Change range(len(x)) to enumerate(x) when applicable 2291
- Temporarily skip test_sound_args on windows and Appveyor 2371
Color.update() and Rect.update()
zoldalma999 (who recently joined the pygame team on github after contributing several high quality patches to pygame) worked on a proposal by David Lönnhager (dlon) to add Color.update and Rect.update 2277
Vectors already have an update() method. Now Color, and Rect do too :)
python
>>> c = pygame.Color(0, 0, 0)
>>> c2 = pygame.Color(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> c
(0, 0, 0, 255)
>>> c.update(c2)
>>> c
(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> rect = pygame.Rect(0, 0, 1, 1)
>>> rect.update(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> rect
<rect(1, 2, 3, 4)>
>>> rect = pygame.Rect(0, 0, 1, 1)
>>> rect2 = pygame.Rect(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> rect.update(rect2)
>>> rect
<rect(1, 2, 3, 4)>
zoldalma999 also worked on:
- the "edit on github" link in the docs was fixed to now point to `main` branch. 2318
- document that sprite groups are ordered in python 3.6 and above 2336
- Remove unittest skip from freetype_Font_render_to_mono 2351
- Fix render_to returning unpositioned rect 2410
René Dudfield (illume) was hacking on some things like these:
- Fixing some sysfont test failures 2354
- docs, tests and types for pathlib support 2387
- fix for a gl crash 2394
- SDL 2.0.14, and manylinux improvements (pulseaudio and other deps) 2395
- Fix and skip test failures 2415