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• perform alpha tests after vertex color multiplication in VBO shaders, fixes #308 (Eugene)
• d523bb4: fix gcc compiler warnings (Eugene)

2024-10-14

14-Oct-2024:

• Common: improved wait command handling, now it will wait exact amount of client/server frames
• Common: allow src and dest buffers to be overlapped in Q_strncpy() for QVM compatibility reasons
• Common: Use nanosleep(2) instead of usleep(3) - usleep(3) was declared obsolete in POSIX.1-2001 and removed in POSIX.1-2008 and nanosleep(2) was recommended to be used instead.
• Server: cache sv_maxclients value to avoid potential crashes caused by VMs changing it at runtime
• Server: save latched sv_pure state to dedicated variable
• Server: suppress false hitch warning during map load
• Server: reworked/optimized gamestate retransmission/acknowledgment
• Server: don't change serverid during map restart
• Server: don't spawn loading clients during map restart
• Server: fix server resource leaks during client reconnect
• Client: rewrote CL_WritePacket() to allow proper packet duplication - which was intended by multiple function calls before
• Client: Strip \cl_aviPipeFormat
• Win32: report actual color bits and correct PFD count
• X11: request alpha bits for >=24 bit color profiles
• Docs: Create quake3e.md, update quake3e.htm
• Vulkan: increase MAX_IMAGE_CHUNKS from 48 to 56
• Vulkan: added missing texture mode setup in GL_SetDefaultState()
• Vulkan: disabled \r_ext_alpha_to_coverage for now due to rendering artifacts on beyond4-wfa map
• Vulkan: do not set transient flag for depth/stencil attachment when bloom (and thus - post-bloom pass) is enabled
• Vulkan: fix screenmap image layout transitions
• Vulkan: re-create swapchain on VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR as well
• Vulkan: improve flare visibility test code
• Vulkan: fixed various image layout transition synchronization issues
• Vulkan: applied fixes to some "Best Practices" validation layer errors
• Vulkan: add \r_bloom_threshold_mode and \r_bloom_modulate cvars, similar to OpenGL renderer
• OpenGL: allow all static tcGens/tcMods for VBO/environment mapping (assuming that we have all tcMod corrections applied before)
• Renderers: use glConfig.stencilBits instead of dereferencing \r_stencilbits cvar
• Renderers: apply lightmap texcoord correction only if lightmap is actually set
• Renderers: apply additional lightmap texcoord corrections when needed
• Renderers: do not merge single lightmap
• Filesystem: allow multiple basegames in fs_basegame cvar separated by '/'
• Filesystem: reset fs_basegame cvar to last separated item
• Makefile: fix grep warnings in macOS builds
• macOS: app will search for pk3 inside and next to the app bundle
• Use SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP on macOS

2023-10-14

14-Oct-2023:

• Added many CVAR descriptions
• Added \vid_restart fast - to perform fast \vid_restart in current gfx context
• x86: print CPU brand string if available
• Fixed spurious bound action on +vstr key releases
• Fix stuck binds in some cases
• Misc: try to apply map-depending configuration from cvar \cl_mapConfig_<mapname> cvars
• com_affinityMask: allow handy binding of P/E cores on Intel's x86, added support for hexadecimal notation and '+'/'-' operators
• Sound: added ogg-vorbis support
• Sound: Use more precise conversion for fp32le sound buffers
• Sound: re-enable sound-mixing asm in MSVC solutions
• Renderers: Fix jumppads shaders on q3wcp14
• Renderers: fix incorrect ovebright bits displayed at startup
• Renderers: Fix clamp to edge detection
• Renderers: allow using *lightmap<num> images in shaders
• Renderers: fix potential crash in FixRenderCommandList()
• Renderers: make sure that merged lighmaps fits well into reported max. texture dimensions
• Renderers: make sure that we always configure dst blend bits
• Renderers: fix bloom latch state when switching back to opengl from vulkan
• Renderers: use more reasonable default backend color
• Also fix \screenshot levelshot taking not factoring scaled capture screen sizes.
• Vulkan: fix dlight regression on q3dm1
• Vulkan: added some color-input optimized shaders, should improve FPS by up to 10% in bandwidth-limited cases (iGPUs)
• Vulkan: rebind indexes after legacy dlight pass before fog pass
• Vulkan: skip color/tex gen only if previous stage was not optimized and really calculated color/tex data
• Vulkan: fix depthFragment shaders in fog, allow fog-collapse for non-world shaders
• Vulkan: allow more color optimizations, with and without fog
• Vulkan: added entity-color optimization for single-stage shaders
• Added support for ppc64/ppc64le platforms
• Fix buffer overflow with \fdir cmd and file argument command completion
• Added \cl_drawRecording cvar to disable or make "RECORDING" demo message shorter
• Github-Actions: run linux builds on Ubuntu-20.04 for binary compatibility reason
• Win32: fixed crash on win11-x64/msvc during longjmp()
• Win32: fix potential null-pointer dereference in ExceptionFilter()
• Msg: check for error before checking value to avoid false-positive results
• Network: Use uint32_t as scope_id for ipv6 connections
• Server: fix formatting for some connection states in \status output
• Server: fix host player being dropped in TA SP
• cURL: updated prebuilt libraries and headers to version 8.4.0
• cURL: increase maximum buffer size
• cURL: fix deprecated warnings on modern versions
• vm_x86: convert "add reg, 128" to "sub reg, -128" to use 1-byte immediate value
• Fix & backport recent joystick code from ioq3
• Fix Info_RemoveKey() deleting only first key
• Fix info string trailing key issue
• Made rsqrt optimization hint really work
• Common: try to init logfile cvar as early as possible
• Stop using acstime for logfile date/time
• Cleanup Makefile

2022-10-14

14-Oct-2022:

• preserve \cl_reconnectAgrs between online mod changes
• fixed nested cgame command execution
• renderers: avoid potential division-by-zero for AGEN_PORTAL
• CMake: numerous improvements
• Vulkan: updated SDK headers, applied potential fix for molten-vk compatibility
• server: do not enforce non-zero level times at startup, for mod compatibility
• SDL2: fix escape key not sending a char event
• Vulkan: fixed insufficient attachment pool size for extreme case (antialiasing + supersampling + hdr + bloom)
• Vulkan: fixed error at \snd_restart (REF_KEEP_WINDOW context)
• video-pipe: use full (pc) color space and do not enforce particular rate for output audio stream
• OpenGL: setup TMU information in R_InitExtensions() to avoid potential errors with KEEP_WINDOW flag
• Implemented \in_forceCharset for SDL backend
• Renderers: fixed non-working \r_ignorehwgamma, \r_overbrightbits now can operate independently from \r_ignorehwgamma in some cases
• Vulkan: handle special DRM/KMS case (FIFO+maxImageCount==0), use 4 swapchain images for that
• Fixed missing video/audio frames during multi-segment avi rendering
• Fix client forgetting password when it is set in main menu
• Renderers: make sure that R_ColorShiftLightingBytes() is not picking more data that we actually need/have
• SDL2: fixed crash when some cvars (like \in_keyboardDebug) may be dereferenced before initialization, unified that behavior with win32 backend
• Better support for non-standard protocols (71-compat etc.)
• Vulkan: use minimal VkApplicationInfo at instance creation
• Vulkan: disable anisotropy for nearest-sampling modes
• win32: show/hide mouse cursor only if it has been not suppressed by OS
• Added con_autoclear cvar
• Added \kicknum, \kickall, and \kickbots commands, patch by Ensiform
• Always keep bots, even with \devmap
• Allow 8x multisampling in traditional (non-framebuffer) MSAA
• Improve the default texture quality settings:
• • Use the highest texture quality
• • Use 8x anisotropic filtering by default
• Renderers: make sure that amplitude for TMOD_STRETCH is not zero
• Fixed stack overflow in \varfunc
• Fixed potential out-of-bounds access caused by large s_paintedtime
• Added \con_scale - to scale console font size relative to default smallchar width/height
• Fixed erroneous gamma setup in windowed mode
• Handle negative color shift that caused black lightmaps
• Use differential time and interval comparisons whenever possible
• Various botlib and QVM fixes
• Vulkan: mark offscreen rendering unavailable for NVidia on linux too

2021-10-14

• Filesystem: close all handles when switching to other game directory
• Sound: fixed potential division-by-zero in S_GetSoundTime() in case of failed DirectSound initialization, reworked shutdown functions
• Unix: output only printable chars in console
• SDL: removed archive flag for \in_nograb
• QVM: added more optimizations, removed unsafe x86 optimizations with disabled VM_RTCHECK_DATA
• QVM: always force either range checks or data mask operations

2021-07-20

• vm_x86: implemented new bytecode compiler with dynamic register allocation and many optimizations similar to aarch64/armv7l, brings ~2x performance increase
• vm_aarch64, vm_armv7l: added more optimizations, yields another ~40% performance increase
• win32: allow copying selected text from dedicated console via keyboard shortcuts
• win32: fixed input regression caused by previous fix for high-dpi mice in win10 insider builds
• win32: fixed application crash caused by hardened longjmp() in recent win10 versions
• win32: fixed broken minimize function after \vid_restart

2021-05-27

• QVM: more correct hanling of NaNs in bytecode compilers
• QVM: fixed non-working RocketArena3 server code
• Cvars: avoid misleading warnings when changing ROM variables
• Cvars: allow override "protocol" from command-line
• Sound: reduced lag during video capture
• SDL2: (somewhat) fixed non-working console key for non-US keyboard layouts
• Vulkan: fixed some broken debug features
• Vulkan: fixed resource leaks and incorrect layout transitions during image capture
• Vulkan: avoid redundant scissor updates
• Vulkan: use correct texture bundle for lighting, use static uniform location to avoid pushing garbage from stack variables
• Vulkan: fixed crash with \r_showtris 1 and \r_fastsky 1, fixed environment shader selection
• OpenGL: fixed crash with \snd_restart
• Do not light up shaders whose sort comes after insertion point (SS_FOG)
• Unified gamma correction between OpenGL and Vulkan renderers

2021-03-28

• Vulkan: implemented super-sample anti-aliasing, can be enabled via \r_ext_supersample 1, requires \r_fbo 1
• Vulkan: added \r_presentBits to support HDR monitors, added \r_dither to control dithering in such cases
• Vulkan: added more multitexturing optimizations
• OpenGL: fixed incorrect image capture with supersampling and renderscale enabled
• OpenGL: fixed texture generation for environment-mapped shaders in VBO
• OpenGL: disable bloom if multitexturing was disabled via \r_ext_multitexture 0
• Renderers: dereference $vid_width and $vid_height to actual rendering width/height inside extended shaders
• Win32: fixed crash on nvidia systems when using Vulkan renderer and Win+D hotkey
• Win32: fixed accidental focus losses when using high-dpi mice
• Win32: fixed non-working \in_minimize in windowed mode
• Win32: catch rare DescribePixelFormat() crash
• Fixed error raised by messagemode 3/4 called without running cgvm
• Fixed another crash in FixRenderCommandList()
• Fixed potential crash with fog table
• Allow \reconnect to work after client restart
• Added warnings in developer mode to know why and when a sound isn't played
• Added \r_dlightSaturation
• Unlocked \r_lodCurveError
• Check integrity of loaded maps and models
• SDL2+Wayland compatibility fixes
• Various fixes and improvements