10.4.0: (Future)
  2Bugfixes:
  3 - Qt: Windows no longer spawn in the top left on first launch
  4 - Qt: Fix install path of XDG desktop file with DESTDIR
  5 - Qt: Fix drag and drop on Windows
  6 - Qt: Reenable double buffering, as disabling it broke some Windows configs
  7 - GBA Video: Start on the scanline BIOS finishes on if no BIOS is loaded
  8 - GBA: Deinit savegame when unloading a ROM
  9 - GBA: Fix BIOS check on big endian
 10 - Libretro: Fix a memory leak with the render buffer
 11 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 and 4 registers
 12 - GBA Audio: Fix audio channels being silenced at the wrong time
 13Misc:
 14 - Qt: Window size command line options are now supported
 15 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
 16 - GBA Memory: Use a dynamically sized mask for ROM memory
 17 - Qt: Remove useless help icons in dialogs
 18 - ARM7: Combine shifter-immediate and shifter-register functions to reduce binary size
 19 - SDL: Support fullscreen in SDL 1.2
 20 - GBA: Attempting to save a screenshot-style savestate should be allowed without libpng
 21 - GBA: Better memory handling with PNG savestates
 22 - GBA Audio: Allow GBAAVStream to have no video callback
 23 - ARM7: Force disable LTO on two files to work around a GCC bug
 24 - Libretro: Use anonymous memory mappers for large blocks of memory
 25 - Qt: Add 'Apply' button to settings window
 26 - Qt: Prevent savestate window from opening while in multiplayer
 27
 280.3.0: (2015-08-16)
 29Features:
 30 - Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
 31 - Ability to mute individual audio channels
 32 - Palette viewer and exporter
 33 - Volume control
 34 - More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
 35 - Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
 36 - Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
 37 - Add "Step backwards" item for single increment rewind
 38 - Deadzone estimation for game controllers
 39 - Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
 40 - Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
 41 - Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
 42 - Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
 43 - Memory inspector
 44 - Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
 45 - Load/save the most recent savestate slot
 46 - Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
 47 - Ability to cap fast forward speed
 48 - Finer control over FPS target
 49 - Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
 50 - Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
 51 - Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
 52 - Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
 53 - Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
 54 - Undo-able savestate loading and saving
 55 - Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
 56 - Default controller profiles for several common controllers
 57 - Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
 58 - Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
 59 - Automatically load patches, if found
 60 - Improved video synchronization
 61 - Configurable audio output sample rate
 62Bugfixes:
 63 - ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
 64 - ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
 65 - ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
 66 - ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
 67 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
 68 - GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
 69 - GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
 70 - GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
 71 - GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
 72 - GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
 73 - GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
 74 - GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
 75 - GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
 76 - GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
 77 - GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
 78 - GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
 79 - GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
 80 - GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
 81 - GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
 82 - GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
 83 - GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
 84 - GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
 85 - GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
 86 - GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
 87 - GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
 88 - GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
 89 - GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
 90 - Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
 91 - Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
 92 - Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
 93 - Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
 94 - Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
 95 - Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
 96 - Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
 97 - Qt: Fix passing command line options
 98 - Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
 99 - SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
100 - Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
101 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
102 - VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
103 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
104 - Util: Fix formatting of floats
105Misc:
106 - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
107 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
108 - All: Enable static linking for Windows
109 - All: Enable static linking for OS X
110 - All: Threads are now named
111 - All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
112 - ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
113 - ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
114 - GBA: Add status log level
115 - GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
116 - GBA: SIO logging layer
117 - GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
118 - GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
119 - GBA: Don't include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
120 - GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
121 - GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
122 - GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
123 - GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
124 - GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
125 - GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
126 - GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
127 - GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
128 - GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
129 - GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
130 - GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
131 - GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
132 - Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
133 - Qt: Handle saving input settings better
134 - Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
135 - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
136 - Qt: Show version info in window title
137 - Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
138 - Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
139 - Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn't have been
140 - Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
141 - Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
142 - Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
143 - Qt: Rename "Fullscreen" to "Toggle fullscreen"
144 - Qt: Don't save window size when entering fullscreen
145 - Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
146 - Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
147 - Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
148 - Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
149 - Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
150 - Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
151 - SDL: Properly check for initialization
152 - SDL: Clean up initialization functions
153 - SDL: Clean up GL context
154 - Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
155 - VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing
156
1570.2.1: (2015-05-13)
158Bugfixes:
159 - All: Fix sanitize-deb script not cleaning up after itself
160 - All: Fix dependencies for libavcodec on Debian-derived platforms
161 - ARM7: Handle writeback for PC in addressing modes 2 and 3
162 - ARM7: Make illegal instruction decoding consistent between ARM and Thumb
163 - ARM7: Fix ARM multiply instructions when PC is a destination register
164 - Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
165 - Debugger: Fix boundary conditions in tab completion
166 - GBA: Fix timers not updating timing when writing to only the reload register
167 - GBA: Fix rewind boundary conditions
168 - GBA: Add initial I/O register settings for background matrix registers
169 - GBA: Fix hang when loading a savestate if sync to video is enabled
170 - GBA: Handle out-of-bounds I/O access
171 - GBA: Fix bounds-checking on EEPROM access
172 - GBA Audio: FIFOs should not poll DMAs that are not scheduled for audio
173 - GBA BIOS: Initialize a variable that may be uninitialized in very rare cases
174 - GBA Memory: Allow SRAM to be 64kB
175 - GBA Memory: Fix 32-bit loads from unaddress cartridge space
176 - GBA Memory: Fix jumping to invalid memory when switching from Thumb to ARM
177 - GBA Video: Fix second frame mode 5
178 - Perf: Fix race condition if a game crashes immediately on start
179 - Qt: Fix Display object leak when closing a window
180 - Qt: Fix .deb dependencies
181 - Qt: Fix "QOpenGLContext::swapBuffers() called with non-exposed window" warning
182 - Qt: Fix window not regaining focus after exiting savestate window
183 - Qt: Fix regression where video would not record if the game had already started
184 - Qt: Fix potential crash if a gamepad causes focus to change
185 - Qt: Fix controller axis querying
186 - Qt: Fix multiplayer windows opening as the wrong size
187 - Qt: Fix controllers sometimes not loading the right profile
188 - SDL: Fix boundary conditions for joystick adjustments
189 - SDL: Allocate properly sized input maps
190 - SDL: Fix potential build issues when Qt and SDL2 are in use
191 - Util: Fix resource leak in UTF-8 handling code
192 - Util: Fix a null-pointer issue when attempting to delete a key
193 - VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
194 - Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
195Misc:
196 - GBA Memory: Soft-crash if jumping past the end of a ROM
197 - Qt: Show multiplayer numbers in window title
198 - Qt: Solar sensor can have shortcuts set
199
2000.2.0: (2015-04-03)
201Features:
202 - Support for gamepad axes, e.g. analog sticks or triggers
203 - Add scale presets for up to 6x
204 - Settings window
205 - Bilinear resampling option
206 - Add option to skip BIOS start screen
207 - List of recently opened games
208 - Support for games using the Solar Sensor
209 - Better audio resampling via blip-buf
210 - Game Pak overrides dialog for setting savetype and sensor values
211 - Support for games using the tilt sensor
212 - Remappable shortcuts for keyboard and gamepad
213 - Rewinding of emulation
214 - Implemented BIOS routines SoftReset, RegisterRamReset, Diff8bitUnFilterWram, Diff8bitUnFilterVram, and Diff16bitUnFilter
215 - Support IPv6
216 - Save directory of last loaded file
217 - Support BPS patches
218 - Automatically detect and optimize out idle loops
219 - Configurable game overrides
220 - Support loading 7-Zip files
221 - Drag and drop game loading
222 - Cheat code support
223 - Runtime configurable audio driver
224 - Libretro core for use with RetroArch and other front-ends
225 - Controller profiles for setting different bindings for different controllers
226 - Ability to lock aspect ratio
227 - Local link cable support
228 - Ability to switch which game controller is in use per instance
229 - Ability to prevent opposing directional input
230 - Warning dialog if an unimplemented BIOS feature is called
231 - Debugger: Add CLI "frame", frame advance command
232 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for writing to memory
233 - Debugger: Add CLI functions for examining memory regions
234 - Debugger: Add CLI function for writing a register
235Bugfixes:
236 - ARM7: Extend prefetch by one stage
237 - ARM7: Fix cycle counting for loads
238 - Debugger: Disassembly now lists PSR bitmasks (fixes #191)
239 - GBA: Fix savestate loading of DISPSTAT and WAITCNT registers
240 - GBA: Initialize gba.sync to null
241 - GBA: Fix timer initialization
242 - GBA Audio: Support 16-bit writes to FIFO audio
243 - GBA Audio: Audio buffer sizes are now correct sizes for both sample rates
244 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from an IRQ
245 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after reset
246 - GBA BIOS: Prevent CpuSet and CpuFastSet from using BIOS addresses as a source (fixes #184)
247 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS decompression routines with invalid source addresses
248 - GBA Memory: Fix alignment of open bus 8- and 16-bit loads
249 - GBA Memory: Fix I cycles that had been moved to ARM7 core
250 - GBA Memory: Fix cycle counting for 32-bit load/stores
251 - GBA RR: Fix fallthrough error when reading tags from a movie
252 - GBA Thread: Fix possible hang when loading an archive
253 - GBA Thread: Fix possible deadlock in video sync
254 - Perf: Fix crash when the GBA thread fails to start
255 - Qt: Fix crash starting a GDB stub if a game isn't loaded
256 - Qt: Fix crash when adjusting settings after closing a game
257 - Qt: Fix crash when starting GDB stub after closing a game
258 - Qt: Fix patch loading while a game is running
259 - Qt: Fix crash when loading a game after stopping GDB server
260 - Qt: Pause game while open file dialogs are open (fixes #6 on GitHub)
261 - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to pause if a game is not running
262 - SDL: Properly clean up if a game doesn't launch
263 - Util: Fix sockets on Windows
264Misc:
265 - All: Enable link-time optimization
266 - Debugger: Watchpoints now work on STM/LDM instructions
267 - Debugger: Clean up GDB stub network interfacing
268 - Debugger: Simplify debugger state machine to play nicer with the GBA thread loop
269 - Debugger: Merge Thumb BL instructions when disassembling
270 - Debugger: Clean up debugger interface, removing obsolete state (fixes #67)
271 - Debugger: Watchpoints now report address watched (fixes #68)
272 - Debugger: Add support for soft breakpoints
273 - Debugger: Make I/O register names be addresses instead of values
274 - Debugger: Rename read/write commands
275 - GBA: Improve accuracy of event timing
276 - GBA: Add API for getting Configuration structs for overrides and input
277 - GBA: Refactor gba-sensors and gba-gpio into gba-hardware
278 - GBA: Refactor gba directory, dropping gba- prefix and making supervisor directory
279 - GBA: Move A/V stream interface into core
280 - GBA: Savestates now take into account savedata state machines (fixes #109)
281 - GBA Audio: Change internal audio sample buffer from 32-bit to 16-bit samples
282 - GBA Memory: Simplify memory API and use fixed bus width
283 - GBA Thread: Make GBASyncWaitFrameStart time out
284 - GBA Video: Start video at the last scanline instead of the first
285 - Qt: Optimize logo drawing
286 - Qt: Move frame upload back onto main thread
287 - Qt: Remember window position
288 - Qt: Double-clicking on the window toggles full screen
289 - Util: Use proper locale for reading and writing float values
290
2910.1.1: (2015-01-24)
292Bugfixes:
293 - ARM7: Fix LDM writeback to a register already written
294 - GBA: Fix timers 2 and 3 updating incorrectly
295 - GBA Audio: Make larger buffer sizes than 2048 actually work properly
296 - GBA Audio: Fix GB audio channels being too quiet (fixes #159)
297 - GBA Audio: Properly initialize audio FIFO channels
298 - GBA BIOS: Fix HLE Lz77 and RL functions to properly account for width and invalid addresses
299 - GBA BIOS: Fix BIOS prefetch after returning from a SWI
300 - GBA BIOS: Fix LZ77UnCompVram to use 16-bit loads from decompressed memory
301 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp to work when games pass an invalid bit length
302 - GBA BIOS: Fix GetBiosChecksum to return the value of a real GBA, regardless of used BIOS
303 - GBA BIOS: Fix HuffUnComp boundary conditions
304 - GBA Memory: Don't call into GPIO write calls if GPIO devices are absent
305 - GBA Memory: Properly initialize 1 Mb flash, and add debug logging
306 - GBA Memory: Filter out top nybble of DMA addresses
307 - GBA Memory: Properly bounds-check VRAM accesses
308 - GBA Memory: Fix initial DMA state
309 - GBA Thread: Allow halted games to exit cleanly
310 - GBA Video: Fix blend issues with obscured middle layers
311 - GBA Video: Fix windows not disabling target 1 appropriately (fixes #161)
312 - GBA Video: Fix sprite mis-ordering behavior in some cases (fixes #168)
313 - GBA Video: Fix window interactions with 16-color mode 0 mosaic
314 - GBA Video: Fix sprite boundary conditions with mosaic
315 - GBA Video: Fix mode 0 being able to read tiles above appropriate tile range
316 - Qt: Fix issue with set frame sizes being the wrong height
317 - Qt: Fix emulator crashing when full screen if a game is not running
318 - Qt: Fix window focus issues
319 - Qt: Properly set default video recording settings
320 - Qt: Fix a race condition when a game crashes immediately
321 - Qt: Fix some cases where key mapping can break if focus is adjusted
322 - Qt: Fix crash if a game pauses before any frames are shown
323 - Debugger: Negative PC-relative loads now properly subtract the offset
324 - Debugger: Align PC-relative loads in Thumb
325 - Debugger: Fix watchpoints triggering too late
326 - Debugger: Fix binary print putting spaces between digits
327 - Video: Ensure FFmpeg encoder has audio frames
328 - Video: Fix uncompressed PCM audio recording
329 - Video: Fix FFmpeg crashing when the file extension is wrong
330 - Util: Fix SOCKET_FAILED macro
331Misc:
332 - GBA: Exit cleanly on FATAL if the port supports it
333 - GBA Memory: Implement 16- and 32-bit loads from SRAM
334 - Qt: Disable sync to video by default
335 - Qt: Handle a game crash without crashing
336 - Qt: Set default log level to FATAL, ERROR and WARN
337 - Qt: Clarify some phrasing in the menus
338 - Qt: Clear active buttons when focus is lost
339
3400.1.0: (2014-12-13)
341 - Initial release