RetroArch 1.19.0 release

Libretro Team

RetroArch 1.19.0 has just been released.

Grab it here.

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Changelog

We never got to release 1.18.0 so we’re moving straight to 1.18.0. Therefore we include all the changes for 1.18.0 as well.

1.19.0

  • AI: Revert AI translation to previous version (fix for translation not working with HW rendered cores)
  • APPLE: Try to use system preferred language
  • APPLE: Correctly register for filetypes uniquely
  • APPLE/MFI: improved Switch Online controller support through MFi
  • AUDIO: Bring back audio toggling on menu toggle
  • CHEEVOS: Build a default RetroAchievements memory map when no RetroAchievements game is loaded
  • CHEEVOS: Update to rcheevos 11.3
  • CHEEVOS: fix hardcore acting as if it’s enabled when it isn’t
  • CLANG: Fix clang error incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers
  • CLOUDSYNC/LINUX: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
  • CLOUDSYNC/WEBOS: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
  • CORE: Set compute fps stats logging to debug level
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Added M2000 to core selection dropdown
  • FFMPEG: Add compatibility with FFMPEG 7.0
  • GLSLANG: Remove unneeded ENABLE_HLSL code from glslang
  • GENERAL: Memory leak: Dynamic allocation from msg_hash_get_help_us_enum was not freed.
  • INPUT/KEYBOARD: Add support for multimedia keys – Extended RETROK_ values with 18 new items, commonly found on
    “multimedia” keyboards. Mapping added for SDL, X11, Wayland, dinput, winraw keymaps.
  • INPUT/MFI: Pressure sensitive left/right triggers
  • INPUT/MFI: Fix Start + L1/L2/R2 combinations
  • INPUT/MFI: Support strong and weak rumble
  • INTL: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • INTL: Add Galician and Norwegian to list of languages
  • LAKKA: Display reboot/shutdown message also when not saving config on exit
  • LAKKA: Provide update URL and target name at buildtime
  • LIBRETRO: Add a debug message for the SET_ROTATION callback
  • macOS: Default Accessibility on if VoiceOver is on
  • iOS: default audio sync on again, also more mfi logging
  • iOS: Fix Import Content
  • iOS: Fix ios-arm64 nightly build crash
  • iOS: Import content from iCloud
  • iOS: Fix #16485 crash on startup
  • iOS: Display app icon in app icon picker in materialui
  • iOS/tvOS: Various QoL improvements
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix a couple more path name mangling bugs
  • iOS/tvOS: Better way of packaging Frameworks
  • iOS/tvOS: define PACKAGE_VERSION to be App Store MARKETING_VERSION
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix keyboard handling for app store builds
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix escaping the sandbox for jailbroken devices
  • iOS/tvOS: default accessibility on if voice over is enabled
  • iOS/tvOS: better way of reporting available memory
  • macOS/iOS/tvOS: enable text-to-speech using AVSpeechSynthesizer.
  • tvOS: Fix scaling for 720p
  • MENU: New function in Quick Menu: Add to Playlist
  • MENU/XMB: New theme: FlatUX, designed to merge FlatUI and Retroactive themes into a single, unified design
  • NETWORKING/RETROPAD CORE: Fix socket close method
  • PIXMAN: Update pixman-private.h – patch to fix build issue with musl
  • PLAYLIST: Cleanup ‘Add to Playlist’ (#16495)
  • SCANNING: Fix for scanning PSP ISOs (and probably few others)
  • SAVES: Fix core config saving
  • SAVES: Fix save new config name when core loaded
  • SAVESTATES: Increase save state chunk size for all platforms – Even a class 6 or class 10 SD card can handle reads and writes on the order of MB/s, which means a 4KB chunk size is just wasting time in syscalls. This could maybe be fixed with a buffering reader but I don’t feel comfortable tweaking libretro-common’s VFS to handle that. Instead, I thought it would be good to both remove an ifdef and increase the chunk size to 128KB. For cores with small states this will should make state saving virtually instantaneous, and for cores with large states it should be a 32x speedup.
  • VIDEO: Fix crash when using threaded video – for Mesa 23.2 and later
  • VIDEO/GL: Fix reinitialization of the threaded gl drivers
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Add support for A2R10G10B10 HDR format
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Implement HDR readback – screenshot support
  • WAYLAND: Ignore configure events during splash (fix not remembering window size)
  • WAYLAND: Use frontend signal handler to quit (fix quit by window close)
  • WAYLAND: Commit viewport resizes (window resize is more responsive)
  • UWP: Align MESA to alpha-2-resfix – Remove wrong resolution special handling for OPENGL
  • UWP: 4K fix: align MESA reading of ClientRect to retroarch procedure, this fixes max resolution being set to 1080p. As reading must be done inside an UI thread and is in fact an async operation which might delay frame generation, the reading itself is doen once and cached, give that changing resolution while the app is running is an unlikely corner-case use
  • WINDOWS: Windows mouse ungrab must release the mouse instead of confine it to the current desktop (#16488)
  • WINDOWS: Fix numlock/pause key release events

1.18.0

  • AI: Fix narrator language when AI translation and menu languages are different
  • DISK CONTROL: Add option to disable initial disk change
  • DISK CONTROL: Visibility option for disk control notifications
  • DRM: Fix mode vrefresh calculation. When using an interlaced/doublescan mode, the vertical refresh rate is mis-calculated.
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Fix mouse Y parameter translation in rwebinput
  • INPUT: Fix input state combos including R3 and false triggers of RETROK_UNKNOWN
  • INPUT: Add a new turbo mode, “Classic (Toggle)”
  • INPUT: Fix bind hold when axis does not rest at 0
  • INPUT: Limit axis threshold setting to sensible values
  • INPUT: Add Overlay Mouse, Lightgun, and Pointer
  • INPUT/ANDROID: Fix mouse grab behavior on Android
  • INPUT/LINUXRAW: Fix device name and hotplug reconnect
  • IOS: Minor iOS JIT availability information
  • IOS/TVOS: Pause application on applicationWillResignActive
  • LIBRETRO: Add Doxygen-styled comments to parts of the libretro API
  • LUA: Update Lua to version 5.3.6
  • MENU: Add sublabels for input bind common entries
  • MENU: Don’t load history and favorites if size is 0
  • MENU: Don’t disable fast forward when entering menu
  • MENU: Widget position, size, color, icon adjustments
  • MENU: Fix savestate slots in Qt UI
  • MENU: Reorder and reduce depth of User Interface menu
  • MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar wraparound, visibility after config load, crash after playlist delete
  • MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar and sublabel animations
  • OSX/MACOS: Fix crash on non-Metal build
  • OSX/MACOS: Add portable.txt as flag for portable install
  • REMOTE RETROPAD: add display for analog axes, indication of inputs already pressed
  • SAVES: Allow combining saves in content dir with save sorting
  • SHADER: Added rolling scan line simulation based on the shader subframe feature. This is implemented with a scrolling scissor rect rather than in the shader itself as this is more efficient although may not work for every shader pass – we may need an option to exclude certain passes. The implementation simply divides the screen up by the number of sub frames and then moves the scissor rect down over the screen over the number of sub frames
  • TVOS: Force asset re-extraction when cache is deleted
  • TVOS: Add history and favorites to Top Shelf
  • TVOS: Fix crash when history item does not have a label
  • UWP: Enable HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY for UWP builds
  • UWP: Allow UWP build to work with a modified version of Mesa Gallium D3D12
  • VIDEO: Add subframe shader support for Vulkan/GLcore/DX10-11-12, enabling shaders to run at higher framerate than the content
  • VIDEO: Fix restoring fullscreen/windowed setting when unloading override
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Fix HDR with Vulkan after reinit
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Remove the use of oldSwapchain
  • VIDEO/GL2: Fix OpenGL ES version detection
  • WEBDAV: Fixed SEGFAULT in WebDav task sync + type changes
  • WEBOS: Fix build, add core location on webosbrew.org
  • WIN32: Fix Alt+Enter not working when menubar is disabled

RetroArch Snap Packages Now Available

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Adding to our existing FlatPak packages for distro-independent installation, RetroArch is now available as a snap package, as well. We’re using Canonical’s SnapCraft.io build service, which produces i386, x86_64 and armhf builds. Canonical’s official instructions for installing snap packages on a variety of distros are available here:

https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

If you already have the snap package manager installed, you can download the snap package directly from uApp Explorer:

https://uappexplorer.com/snap/ubuntu/retroarch

and Ubuntu users can search for and install RetroArch directly from the Ubuntu Software store:

If you run into any issues with the snap package, please report them at the retroarch-snap meta-repo, located here:

https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-snap

This package includes assets, database, cheats, joypad autoconfig, info cores, overlay and shaders. After installation, you’ll also need to connect 2 interfaces to get joysticks working:

sudo snap connect retroarch:raw-usb

sudo snap connect retroarch:joystick

If you’re going to use any cores that require BIOS files, you’ll probably want to stop by settings > directory and select a system/BIOS directory, as well. Other than that, you should be good to go!