Release 19.04

[skmp]

Pending tasks

• Merge fh/mymaster
• Fix android tv certification
• Coordinate w/ fh for final touches
• Test the release
• Post news/progress report on reicast site
• Post news on FB/Twitter/Discord
• Update link to forums, see Reicast forum index site from google play store doesn't work anymore #1520
• Investigate things to be backported from Clipping switch in settings added - Android (multiplayer/split screen fixed) #1481 Lowering rendering resolution option #1480 Lowering rendering resolution option #1479 and Multipass render to texture with options - implemented #1460
• Add a link to http://report-games.reicast.com in the app

Bonus Tasks

• Fix audio for snaps
• Fix armhf snap builds
• Fix arm64 snap builds

Testing

Testing ticket: #1518

Proposed timeline

• Test things, finalize commits & merge before the weekend
• Have final RC on 31st of march
• Push to early adopters & test manually
• Tag r19.04 on April 1st, nullDC's 12th birthday.

Notes

• Log script : git log --merges --pretty=format:"- %b [%h, %an]" --abbrev-commit r7..r8. Add to some release script
• Remember to make an annotated tag, git tag -a r19.04
• Release channels: Github releases, Android Store, snapcraft (?), others (?)
• Targeting platforms: armv7, arm64, x86, x64

Team, are there any other concerns/comments/things I left out?

[spielvan]

skmp is very good builds, I tested cb278e3 and the result was very satisfactory, but I continue with the bug in the Mortal Kombat Gold game, in the scenario of Goro, which cuts half the screen, this same bug does not occur in the fh / mymaster build and fh / content-browser, a request that I have, would be able to install several builds on android? currently to install a different build need to uninstall the previous one, and if it could have several installed could compare each one of them. A hug.

[skmp]

Merged #1523 (past year’s WIP from FH)

[skmp]

@flyinghead looks like the merge also broke snapcraft, /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ludev https://build.snapcraft.io/user/reicast/reicast-emulator/506975.

[skmp]

Updated the beta support link to chat.reicast.com from #1208, as that seems like a much more appropriate point. Also made a post on FB to test the post-merge version :)

[mar753]

My changes like odd screen resolution handling, scaling, lowering rendering resolution, fast RTT are gone after fh/master->master merge

[skmp]

Figured the merge might have disrupted things, that's why I poked on the other issue. Which MRs were they? #1481 #1480 #1479 and #1460 ? Are you on discord?

[mar753]

Yep. Gles files were overwritten so there's no odd screen resolution handling, scaling and fast RTT. My version of lowering rendering resolution is also gone (there is some other option added as I see which is fixed 640x480, but no smooth lowering).

[spielvan]

@skmp This new menu of choice of games has a bug that I had commented with @flyinghead, if I am using an xbox360 gamepad by usb x-input in my box android tv, it detects the game pad as control 2 and control one is for the touchscreem, so every time you open reicast, you need a mouse to enable the gamepad, it would be interesting not to need the mouse and the gamepad will load when you open reicast.

[ghost]

@skmp tommorow is the next official update in google play store?