We are excited to announce the latest release, bringing support for Python 3.13 and introducing important fixes across various modules. This update addresses a few significant bugs and upgrading is therefore highly recommended for improved stability.
We hope that this is going to be the final release of the 1.10 series, so that we can focus full steam ahead on the 1.11 release. On that front, much progress has been made on the new shader pipeline, with the most major challenges now having been solved. We hope to be able to merge it into the main development branch soon.
Aside from the added support for Python 3.13, only one new feature has been added: experimental support has been added for the Khronos PBR Neutral tonemapping operator to the High Dynamic Range filter. Previously, we were only providing the ACES operator, which is a widely used operator in the industry but by default causes objects to look desaturated and requires applying additional color correction to obtain good results. The new operator is designed to provide better-looking results by default.
Keep reading for the release notes, or head straight for the download page to grab the new release. As usual, the new release is also available through the pip package manager.
Windowing
- Fix regression related to fullscreen switching on Windows (#1594)
- Fix issues related to fullscreen switching corner cases on macOS
- Fix keyUp event being eaten when switching fullscreen modes on macOS
- Support UTF-8 window titles on X11
- Fix wrong error message on X11 if xf86dga extension is not found
Rendering
- Add "Khronos PBR Neutral" tone mapping operator to HDR filter (#1659)
- OpenGL: Fix offscreen buffer clearing if back buffers are requested
- DirectX 9: Fix crash on window event after window close
- DirectX 9: Fix support for r32f and rgba32f textures
- DirectX 9: Fix crash when copying inverted framebuffer to texture RAM
- DirectX 9: Fix buffer crash if main window has no depth buffer
Text
- Fix handling of surrogate pairs in text on Windows (#1629)
- Fix disabling text-native-antialias setting not working properly
- Fix small-caps not working with text-use-harfbuzz enabled (#1666)
- Show error instead of crash if glyph does not fit in page (#1626)
- Update docstring for set_text_color() (#1621)
GUI
- Fix crash when PGEntry removes itself with background focus (#1650)
- Fix
PGEntry::get_cursor_Y(), which always returned 0.0 (#1633) - Now makes copies of mutable default values in DirectGUI constructor (#1587)
Deployment
- Fix wrong relative paths with bam_model_extensions (#1642)
- Add bam_embed_textures option to embed textures in .bam files
- Don’t warn about missing ld-linux library on aarch64 Linux
- build_apps dist hooks no longer import Panda3D (#1624)
Miscellaneous
- Fix major memory leak on M1/M2/M3 Macs
- Fix seeking in OpenAL sounds not working on macOS in some cases (#1607)
- Fix direct.stdpy.glob not finding files in VFS (#1675)
- Improve printing of floating-point linmath objects (#1671)
- Fix VFS mount points not being listed as directories (#1244)
- Fix splits occurring in RopeNode geometry (#1325)
- Fix DistancePhasedNode exception at module clean-up time
- Fix magfilter on KW_mipmap in egg-palettize (#1631)
- Fix creating LerpFunctionInterval from functools.partial (#1623)
- Fix "no attribute notifier" in FSM.requestNext/Prev (#1644)
- Fix file_texture_mode property on BamWriter being read-only
- TransformState getters no longer return references to temporary (#1625)
Build
- Assorted build fixes for Python 3.13 and 3.13t
- Fix assorted compiler warnings
- Build fix for newer FFmpeg versions
- Add –ignore option to test_wheel.py to allow ignoring tests
- Update Eigen to 3.2.10 (fixes binder2nd error when building with C++17)
- Fix non-determinism in Python bindings (#1651)
- Fix preprocessor issues in interrogate (#1635)