SDK 1.10.14 Release

Happy new year everyone! We’re starting off the new year with a fresh release. This release updates the engine with support for Python 3.12, improvements to the shader system, and a wide range of bug fixes. Upgrading is recommended.

Go ahead and download the new release, or upgrade it with pip install -U panda3d if you have installed it using pip. The full list of changes follows below:

API

• Accept bytes object in DatagramOutputFile.write_header()
• Add missing clear_color() method to CardMaker
• Add file_version properties to BamFile and BamWriter, mirroring BamReader
• Add missing method for getting current display mode index (#1550)

Shader Generator

• Add support for perspective points (#1440)
• Implement remaining missing TexGenAttrib modes (#1437)
• Fix support for hardware point sprites
• Support missing texture types: cube map arrays, 1D arrays, buffer textures

Rendering

• Add texconst_i input for Cg shaders to access TexGenAttrib constants
• Fix bug when same texture is used with different TexGenAttrib modes
• OpenGL 3.2+/ES: Correctly handle 4-component texcoords in default shader
• DX9: fix bugs setting some kinds of shader inputs
• OpenGL: guard against exceeding max supported vertex attribute stride
• Add missing handling for 1D array textures in Cg shaders
• OpenGL: improve handling of SM5 Cg shaders
• Fix p3d_LightModel.ambient not updating properly
• Work around wireframe rendering bug in Panfrost drivers
• Fix assertion error when preparing texture fails
• Fix image load/store support in GLES 3.1 (set gl-immutable-texture-storage)

Windowing

• Windows: Fix issues switching fullscreen while maximized (#1469)
• macOS: Fix undecorated setting ignored when switching back to windowed mode
• macOS: Fix window sizing bug when simultaneously changing undecorated
• macOS: Fix black bar when switching to fullscreen with Z-Order set to Top
• macOS: Squelch secure restorable state warning on macOS 14 “Sonoma”
• X11: Fix crash on shutdown when using custom cursor
• EGL: Fix invalid operation error when using headless pbuffer
• EGL: Add support for resizing (offscreen) pbuffers
• Windows: Message loop is no longer disabled when using tk with threaded draw
• Windows: Fix handling of invalid raw mouse devices

Deployment

• Fix crash when running executable built with Python 3.11 (#1423)
• Fix for thirdparty packages that use delvewheel (#1492)
• Strip .abi3.so suffix from libraries
• Silently ignore missing hidden imports
• Add missing hidden imports for setuptools and shapely
• Show better error message when targeting no-longer-supported platforms
• Fix issues running pfreeze on macOS
• Fix crash using on arm64 systems with 16 KiB pages (eg. Asahi Linux)
• Fix error using bam_model_extensions with bdist_apps

Pipeline

• Support reading .bmp files with RLE8 compression
• Fix wrong magfilter being written by egg-palettize (#1585)
• Fix memory leaks when writing TIFF files
• Fix hang in .egg loader when <Collide> used with <Line> (#1515)
• Add assimp-disable-extensions config var (see #1537)
• Fix assert/crash when reading multiple recorders from bam file (#1561)

Build

• Add support for building with Python 3.12
• macOS .dmg are now built as HFS+ for 10.9 compatibility (#1502)
• Don’t use RTTI features in headers when building with -fno-rtti
• Fix some new compiler warnings
• Fix compile errors with some versions of png.h
• Work around GCC 13.2 bug compiling interrogate-generated code (#1580)
• Support building with LibreSSL on Windows (#1503)
• Fix some issues in anticipation of Python 3.13+ (#1523, #1526)
• More robust parsing of version in setup.cfg (incl. #1539)
• Avoid using deprecated distutils module (#1549)
• Add _d suffix to .pyd files when building debug build on Windows (#1566)

Miscellaneous

• Fix bug causing textures to sometimes be randomly downloaded
• Fix PStats Python profiling exception when using metaclasses (#1505)
• Fix segfault when ConnectionRepository is verbose (#1430)
• Fix broken minusnode icon in dmodels (#1449)
• Fix wrong delete operator in ARToolKit
• Fix crash when encountering corruption in OpenAL stream (#1452)
• Fix SimpleHashMap error reporting at static init time
• Fix assorted code issues, typos, and Python 2-isms in direct tree
• Code size reductions for interrogate-generated bindings
• Assorted docstring corrections and additions
• Interrogate supports explicit cls parameter for static methods
• Interrogate: fix enum scope issue
• Don’t assume presence of softspace attribute on files in directnotify
• Use importlib.metadata (not pkg_resources) for entry points in Python 3.8+