This is a recommended bugfix release, especially for macOS users. Read the release announcement here.

• Fix DPI scaling issue in macOS 10.15 “Catalina” (#794)
• Fix crash on macOS Catalina without “Input Monitoring” permission (#795)
• macOS installer now installs to /Library/Developer/Panda3D (#760)
• macOS thirdparty packages are now linked with libc++ (#584)
• Homebrew Python should now locate Panda libraries correctly (#755)
• Work around Tk bug cancelling Load Params in Particle Panel on macOS (#811)
• Fix NaN assertions when particles get very large positions (#822)
• Add support for Autodesk Maya 2020
• Fix maya2egg erroring when running from a pip installation (#709)
• Support DualShock 4 (2nd gen) controller on Windows
• Support .pz and .gz compressed models in deployment system
• Support implicit namespace packages in deployment system (#778)
• Fix issues when using CEF Python on macOS with deployment system
• Fix deployment system issues reading .pyc files in some Python versions
• Fix error with distutils package when deploying in a “virtualenv” env (#747)
• Fix “NameError: name ‘mdef’ is not defined” error when deploying (#721)
• Deployment system now strips weird -psn_* argument passed to macOS GUI apps
• Fix custom loader hooks sometimes not working with Actor (#750)
• Fix defaults for package_data_dirs in deployment system (#779)
• Fix issues with adding icons to deployed executable (#718)
• Add PNMImage.quantize() that palettizes using median cut algorithm
• Fix stereo and MRT FBO rendering in OpenGL ES (#815)
• RTM_copy_ram mode is now fixed for multiview textures in OpenGL
• Fix OpenGL multisample FBO issue with 16-bit float buffer (#756)
• Fix DirectX 9 crash when resizing vertex buffer in certain ways (#824)
• Workaround for infinite loop in Triangulator for certain polygons (#737)
• Fix dcparser issue with unpacking uint64 and int64 (#751)
• Fix ability to compile dcparser outside of the Panda3D codebase (#759)
• Fix all direct.stdpy.threading2 threads behaving daemonically (#758)
• direct.stdpy.threading2.Thread instances provide daemon and name properties
• Workaround for Tkinter crash on Windows when resizing window (#586)
• Fix possible stack overflow when reading many bytes from a stream (#754)
• Fix mouse confinement region on Windows not updating on window resize (#727)
• Fix mouse confinement being lost on Windows when window loses focus (#729)
• Support adjusting particle birth offset time (#769)
• Support building against OpenEXR 2.4 on Windows (#799)
• Fix ability to pass a tuple to loader.loadModel
• Fix an issue in interrogate with generating C bindings (#722)
• Fix a variety of ABI compatibility issues with NDEBUG builds
• Fix static linking of harfbuzz and freetype in makepanda
• Fix ability to specify –python-incdir and -libdir to makepanda on macOS
• ls() and bam-info -ls now list included animations
• Fix white ambient color when loading PBR materials from .bam/cache (#828)
• Fix inconsistent behavior when passing small values to shader inputs (#827)
• Fix very rare NVIDIA driver crash when mixing GLSL and Cg shaders
• Fix issue passing unicode to DirectScrolledList (#752)
• Fix interrogate parser issue with function-like macro expansion
• Interrogate now finds types nested in explicitly specialized template class
• Improve performance reading all data from a file with direct.stdpy.file
• PandaSystem now records whether libc++ or libstdc++ was used on macOS
• makepanda.bat now builds against Python 3.7 by default
• Many improvements to API documentation
• pandac/input/*.in interrogatedb files are now included in .whl builds
• Fix division exception in ServerRepository (#762)
• Fix ShaderBuffer contexts not being cleared at GSG destruction
• Fix DirectOptionMenu item text scale reset on item unhighlight (#768)
• Python particle classes now have snake-case aliases
• Fix crash printing out cached buffer contexts
• Rudimentary, experimental, low-level handling of digitizer input devices