PrBoom-Plus 2.6.66

What's Changed

• Move default data directory to XDG_DATA_HOME on Linux by @facespkz in #470
• sort resolutions by width first and height second by @fabiangreffrath in #472
• check return status when checking for old prboom_dir by @facespkz in #473
• Fix integer overflow during multiplication with realtic_clock_rate by @jengelh in #476
• Fix UMAPINFO par times not loading for finale levels. by @JadingTsunami in #479
• Don't overwrite user-configured custom docdir by @vilhelmgray in #480
• Generate mixer buffer size from sample rate by @facespkz in #483
• Allow uppercase episode shortcuts in UMAPINFO by @facespkz in #486
• Add complevel hints for Default compatibility level by @facespkz in #488
• UMAPINFO: Fix nextsecret inconsistencies by @rfomin in #497
• Fix mid-texture judder when upper and middle textures overlap. by @JadingTsunami in #507
• include wipe effect into video capture by @vadosnaprimer in #506
• allow to -warp to MAP00 by @fabiangreffrath in #509
• Workaround for optimization bug in clang by @rfomin in #512
• Show a message when demo recording starts. by @JadingTsunami in #517
• Remove shift when initializing translation tables vs. colormap. by @JadingTsunami in #519
• Fix PortMidi level transitions by @ceski-1 in #523
• replace doomedsda.us links with dsdarchive.com by @andrey-budko in #525
• Add proper SysEx support to PortMidi by @ceski-1 in #526
• Fix color translation tables to not rely on player map arrow colors. by @JadingTsunami in #527
• Fix pitch bend typo for PortMidi by @ceski-1 in #529
• Add configurable reverb and chorus for PortMidi by @ceski-1 in #530
• Adjust music volume slider to match vanilla Doom by @ceski-1 in #531
• Use non-linear scaling for high volume levels by @ceski-1 in #532
• Adjust PortMidi volume slider to match midiOutSetVolume by @ceski-1 in #533
• Remove alpha channel from FBO scene texture. by @JadingTsunami in #534
• UMAPINFO: bring par times fix in line with Woof by @fabiangreffrath in #537
• Fixing wall texture bleed when a sector is inside the sky by @JadingTsunami in #542
• Send all notes/sound off prior to SysEx reset by @ceski-1 in #543
• Fix MIDI looping when using reset delay by @ceski-1 in #544
• Clean up and fixes for PortMidi by @ceski-1 in #548
• Fix FluidSynth mode and polyphony by @ceski-1 in #550
• PortMidi: Use channel volume control, remove extra delay after reset by @ceski-1 in #552
• Replace win_fopen.c with wrappers used in Chocolate Doom by @rfomin in #554
• PortMidi: Preserve timing when filtering SysEx; default to GM mode by @ceski-1 in #555
• PortMidi: Add fix for MS GS Synth bug by @ceski-1 in #557
• PortMidi: Fix songs with missing "hold pedal off" events by @ceski-1 in #560
• PortMidi: Send "reset all controllers" when song loops by @ceski-1 in #562
• Fix M_getcwd() in MinGW build by @rfomin in #563
• Fix string overflow with large map numbers. by @JadingTsunami in #569
• Supply correct texture format for GL wipe. by @JadingTsunami in #570
• PortMidi: Update volume after "reset all controllers" event by @ceski-1 in #571
• PortMidi: Optimize reset messages by @ceski-1 in #572
• PortMidi Updates by @ceski-1 in #576
• UMAPINFO: Introduce the new author field. by @rfomin in #436

New Contributors

• @facespkz made their first contribution in #470
• @vadosnaprimer made their first contribution in #506
• @ceski-1 made their first contribution in #523

Full Changelog: v2.6.2...v2.6.66

PrBoom-Plus 2.6.2

• added a prospective fix for OpenGL rendering: don't bleed walls through sky floors
• account for proper crosshair offsets when locked on to monsters
• relaxed "IWAD tag not present" error to a warning, which allows loading REKKR IWAD
• fixed processing of multiple DEHs
• UMAPINFO: fixed error reporting if token == TK_NoToken
• fixed intermission screen for E0Mx
• fixed Alt+Tabbing on Windows, broken in new SDL2 version
• UMAPINFO: fixed using_FMI reset * no more crashes at textscreens
  (e.g. after MAP06, MAP11 or MAP20) after viewing finale picture upon finishing
  a level with UMAPINFO 'endpic' property
• fixed freezing at TITLEPIC while using mousewheel in menus
• fixed looping forever in G_NextWeapon()
• UMAPINFO: fix 'entering' and 'enterpic' shown on exit levels
• GL: adjust sky offsets for non-standard FOVs
• fixed stuttering with uncapped framerate
• added support for widescreen low resolutions
• added REKKR to launcher string list
• let G_GotoNextLevel() close the circle for maps with an endpic
• Launcher: identify IWADs either by IWAD tag, or by PWAD tag and matching filename
• Portmidi: fix freeze after song change
• fixed scaled time interpolation when changing game speed
• fixed wrong pitch of SFX when MIDI Player is set to SDL
• v1.2 compat:
  • do not use sfx_getpow for powerups
  • do not render powerups and attacking Spiderdemon fullbright
• UMAPINFO: fixed par times not showing
• fixed demo playback warp consistency
• added SKILL cheat to display current skill level
• fixed calculation of interpolation frac value
• guard against screen buffer underflow
• fixed crash at startup by properly closing IWAD file handle
• added vanilla_keymap option à la Chocolate Doom
• added 'run' as a mouse-settable control (mouseb_speed)

PrBoom-Plus 2.6.1um

• fixed MOD playback with DUMB 2.x
• added TNTCLxx cheat, e.g. TNTCL04 sets complevel 4 (Final DOOM)
• draw crosshair before messages, draw crosshair for fist/chainsaw and during on-screen messages
• fixed crosshair locking on target for melee weapons
• more consistently check for ammo instead of weapon type
• fixed odd strafe values (vanilla allows even values only)
• added TNTSHORT cheat to toggle shorttics on and off while in game
• fixed typo in ZDoom-style Actor name (Slalagtite -> Stalagtite)
• fixed Windows Alt-Tab
• fixed a memory leak on SDL_Quit()
• preserve automap position/scale when toggling overlay mode
• allow binding weapon selection to mouse buttons
• add a -pistolstart command-line parameter
• fixed crashes on WADs with empty music lumps, e.g. Nihility.wad
• enabled loading 16 bit RIFF wavs in WADs
• make low-pass sound filter (introduced by the previous change) optional
• if executable directory appears not writable, fall back to .
• made pitch-shift range independent of target samplerate
• fixed bogus condition preventing automap lines from being drawn
• fixed saving of mouse button bindings
• fixed interpolated z-coordinate after teleporting
• added a new option "Disable sound cutoffs" to allow removed map objects to finish playing their sounds and to make seesounds uninterruptible
• allow deleting savegames from menu
• fixed automap crash when USE_VERTEX_ARRAYS and GL_VBO are undefined
• fluidsynth: reset all controllers when looping a song
• fixed hanging notes on exit when using Portmidi
• show current and next levels when typing IDCLEV cheat
• added a config key for "exclusive" i.e. mode-changing fullscreen
• UMAPINFO: if interbackdrop does not specify a valid flat, draw it as a patch instead
• appended revision tracker to UMAPINFO spec document
• ALSA sequencer API backend for ALSA MIDI support (Linux only)
• extended range of maps reachable via -warp and IDCLEV:
  • from E1M1-E4M9 to E1M0-E9M99 for D1
  • from MAP01-MAP33 to MAP00-MAP99
  • Limitations:
    • E0My doesn't work, since episode must always be > 0
    • -warp x 0, because zero passed to -warp as map number is used to warping to first changed map in PWAD
• evaluate mouse motion only once per tick
• show Time/STS widgets above status bar
• removed lowpass-filter item from menu
• fixed P_SetMobjState() stack, fixes crash on mayhem18p.wad/m18p31-1509.lmp
• fixed crash in automap on certain maps (e.g. Sunlust MAP01) when using GL renderer, Thing Appearance = Icons and 2xIDDT
• fixed menu intermission desync
• fixed crash when leaving menu in Chex Quest
• initialize the map title widget with the generic map lump name
• make "Next Level" key simply increase map number if already outside regular level transition range
• check for next level in IDCLEV cheat before announcing it
• make sure "Next Level" key never warps to a non-existent map
• reformatted umapinfo.txt so that it is easier to read in plaintext
• fixed custom episode select for Doom 2
• fixed shifting automap markers
• allow translucent sprites on all complevels
• allow disabling predefined translucency on all complevels
• fixed flood HOM on certain maps (e.g. Plutonia MAP11, HR MAP01) (GL)
• fixed sky walls for cases with sky vs. sky toptextures (e.g. E4M6) (GL)
• fixed transparent spites being rendered incorrectly with transparent walls in view (GL)
• generate a default save-slot name when saving to an empty slot
• added mouse button binds for turn left/right
• fixed sky scaling for non-standard sky sizes, e.g. Eviternity and Ancient Aliens (GL)
• added new advanced HUD layout by Fireb3rt+
• added slice_samplecount config option
• added manifest to declare app as DPI aware, so that Windows will not apply DPI virtualization
• added support for widescreen assets
• added ZDoom's names for the new Crispy Doom/DEHEXTRA things to ActorNames[], so they can be used with BossAction() if needed
• fixed UMAPINFO music restarting issue
• skip the 'entering level' screen if one of endgame, endpic, endbunny or endcast is set (UMAPINFO)
• fixed endbunny and endgame UMAPINFO fields
• reset mlook on demo recording
• added OpenGL sprite fuzz options ("darken", "shadow", "transparent", "ghostly")
• properly check for the CreateFileMapping() symbol (build)
• always precache sound lumps
• replace W_SafeGetNumForName() with W_CheckNumForName()
• removed defunct lump locking warnings
• removed obsolete SFX usefulness references
• allow colored blood to get set/overridden by DEHACKED, implemented Eternity's coloredblood spec, added three additional color translation tables for black, purple and white
• made the Ouch Face fix available on all complevels
• added the autoload directory feature from Chocolate Doom
• implemented custom atexit() sequence, ported over from Chocolate Doom, fixing crashes during shutdown e.g. on Linux using Wayland
• fixed switching weapons when reaching zero ammo with boom_autoswitch == 0
• made Doom sound quirk fixes available on all complevels
• UMAPINFO: introduced the new 'label' field
• do not cast degenmobj_t as mobj_t, breaks aliasing rules on platforms where mobj_t pointers are 64-bit aligned and
  degenmobj_t pointers are only 32-bit aligned
• fixed -solo-net for demo restart
• fixed levelstat crash for MAP33 and above
• added autoload per PWAD feature, further enhancing the autoload directory feature
• UMAPINFO: fixed 'episode' field parsing, 'label' is single-line
• removed obsolete weapon toggle setting
• added ftell() and fseek() implementations for DEHACKED lumps, allowing the DEH parser to roll back to the start of a line following a blank line and re-process it with the last valid block code handler
• added mouse look / vertical mouse movement toggle notifications
• fixed forcing aspect ratio correction only for the canonical 16:10 (i.e. 320x200 and 640x400) modes
• do not even attempt to play DEMO4 if it is not available
• only apply palette changes when inside a level
• fixed 32-bit widescreen pain palette
• added a -coop_spawns parameter for using "coop in single-player" mode
• fixed OpenGL effect palettes
• added support for non-latin paths and filenames on Windows
• made sure to always autoload prboom-plus.wad
• introduced a supplemental data directory "PRBOOMDATADIR" to install prboom-plus.wad into (build)
• prepared for different autoload base directories, respecting the -noload parameter
• fixed playback of complevel 11 demo with UMAPINFO
• fixed attempted playback of a UMAPINFO demo without UMAPINFO loaded
• never exceed desktop resolution in fullscreen desktop mode
• UMAPINFO: entries without defined 'levelname' fall back to default
• UMAPINFO: fixed default intermission
• fixed setting 'finaleflat' in FMI_StartFinale (UMAPINFO)
• fixed load game during multiplayer demo playback
• fixed OpenGL backfill

PrBoom-Plus 2.6um

• fixed episode selection when playing Doom 2
• fixed Doom 1 level progression
• print a blinking arrow next to the currently highlighted menu item
• print another blinking arrow to the right of the currently selected menu setting
• support the DOOMWADPATH environment variable
• add some extra states, sprites and mobjtypes from Doom Retro and Crispy Doom
• fullscreen desktop for the software renderer
• improved v1.2 compat:
  • fixed a desync on the internal demo in DTH1.WAD
  • fixed the walkways to the BFG rising a little too high on 1_ON_1.WAD
  • moving floors (except plats) should not make the floor stop sound
• fixed infinite loop in macOS launcher
• added CMake build system
• fixed the mainfest to allow 64 bit builds
• fixed PortMidi support on 64-bit Windows
• disabled the "popping skull player death" easter egg
• do not wait for VSync if running a timedemo
• added -statdump parameter from Chocolate Doom
• added mouse-strafe divisor setting
• removed and/or replace all non-free data lumps
• improved Boom random seed
• added -stroller param
• include secret exit in -levelstat
• added configurable quickstart window
• disallow 180-turn with strafe on
• fixed endianess for 32-bit ZDoom nodes
• show Extended Help screen when pressing the Help key
• made armor color depend on type, not amount
• added Chocolate Doom mouse behavior option
• fixed Boom autoswitch behavior
• reinstated the "WEAPON ATTACK ALIGNMENT" menu option
• changed "SECRET AREAS" menu option to "REPORT REVEALED SECRETS"
• fixed endianess for DeePBSP V4 nodes
• show error message boxes on Windows, except when video-dumping a demo
• unbind game speed changing keys in default config
• fixed heap buffer overflows in UDP multiplayer code
• fixed -longtics having no effect
• changed video capture to an ffmpeg-based approach
• track demo joins for TAS-detection purposes
• fixed some episode transition issues when using UMAPINFO
• added automap rotate and overlay keybindings to menus
• fixed a bug in DeHackEd string replacements with a length of exactly four
• added "Dropped Item" menu support
• enabled automap Follow Mode by default
• disabled chorus and reverb for Fluidsynth by default
• fix segfault with -viewangle parameter
• next levels no longer reset if endscreen is disabled in UMAPINFO
• added 200 Sounds for DEHEXTRA
• respawn when using IDDQD while dead
• fixes for empty DeHackEd lumps and entries
• restrict "next level" button usage to in-level only
• added adaptations for fluidsynth 2.0
• added "No Vertical Mouse" setting and keybind
• save / load -complevel 9 friction
• added extensible demo format + "PR+UM" signature
• made canonical resolutions (320x200, 320x240, 640x400 and 640x480)
  always available in menu, regardless of what video driver/SDL report
• fixed aspect ratio for canonical resolutions; be sure to set "Aspect Ratio" to "Auto"
  and "Status Bar and Menu Appearance" to "Not Adjusted" for both 320x200 and 640x400
• set minimum windows size to prevent window from shrinking when changing video modes
• "Screen Multiple Factor" now functions like a "window size factor"
  (i.e. like "-1", "-2", "-3" in Chocolate Doom) and has no effect in fullscreen modes
• added "Integer Screen Scaling" option (à la Crispy Doom), which restricts the screen
  size to integer multiples of the game resolution, under Options -> General, page 5
• both executables now share the same config file "prboom-plus.cfg", with all config
  keys always preserved - including the GL-related ones
• switched to the unified executable "prboom-plus" with optional OpenGL rendering
• portmidi: pitch bends are now reset when stopping song
• added support for more mouse buttons
• fixed resolution-independent mouse sensitivity
• added demo restart functionality - record a new demo on map restart
• setup menus remember last active item
• fixed the KFA cheat sting not read from .bex patches
• UMAPINFO docs updated re: "bossaction" field
• fixed a crash when running out of space while typing in a file path into the autoload
  fields (Options -> General, page 2)
• fixed the "Garbage lines at the top of weapon sprites" issue (#95)
• add support for named complevels on command line:
  -complevel 1.9 = -complevel 2
  -complevel doom2 = -complevel 2
  -complevel ultimate = -complevel 3
  -complevel udoom = -complevel 3
  -complevel final = -complevel 4
  -complevel tnt = -complevel 4
  -complevel plutonia = -complevel 4
  -complevel boom = -complevel 9
  -complevel mbf = -complevel 11
  -complevel vanilla = complevel autodetected according to IWAD loaded
• allow MBF sky transfers in all complevels
• add support for colored blood and gibs
• fixed key-bindings unusable after mouse-wheel up/down

Windows Dependencies for GitHub Actions CI

windows_dependencies.zip is the latest version.

Version	Changes
v0	Stock libraries only
v1	Custom DUMB portfile
v2	Fix for PortMidi on 64-bit Windows
v3	Static CRT, SDL2_mixer dependencies, no .pdb's, requires #49
v4	SDL2_mixer dependencies, no useless files

PrBoom-Plus 2.5.1.7um

• adds a special marker to demos recorded with UMAPINFO
• addes support for ZDBSP's compressed node format
• fixes the rendering problems in OpenGL
• fixes TRANMAP caching

PrBoom-Plus 2.5.1.6um

This fixes a major bug with the episode selection menu not working and adds IDCLEV checks for maps outside the standard range.

PrBoom-Plus 2.5.1.5um

First official release with UMAPINFO support

2.5.1.4.umapinfo_test

Beta version with UMAPINFO support.
Note that this is for testing as the newly added MAPINFO feature has not seen thorough testing yet.
prboom-plus-2.5.1.4um-win32.zip