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Ren'Py 8.0.3 and 7.5.3 Released

Ren'Py 8.0.3 and 7.5.3 have been released. These releases upgrade the targeted Android version, give more control over how pauses and timers interact with modal screens, and add Ukrainian translations of the Tutorial and The Question.

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Ren'Py 8.0.2 and Ren'Py 7.5.2 Released

I've released Ren'Py 8.0.2 and Ren'Py 7.5.2. These releases are intended a pure fix releases, addressing reported issues in Ren'Py 8.0.1 and 7.5.1.

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Ren'Py 8.0.1 and Ren'Py 7.5.1 released

These fix issues found in Ren'Py 8.0.0 and 7.5.0, respectively. Both releases also include a new Ukrainian translation of the launcher. Downloads are available at https://www.renpy.org/

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Ren'Py 8.0 and Ren'Py 7.5 Released

Ren'Py 8.0 is the first major release that supports Python 3, while Ren'Py 7.5 improves web support and continues the use of Python 2.7. You can download both releases from https://www.renpy.org.

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Ren'Py 7.4.11 Released

I'd like to announce Ren'Py 7.4.11, the eleventh patch release to Ren'Py 7.4. This is another fix-only release, with a special focus on Android and ChromeOS support via android.

Check the changelog to see the full list of changes, as there are changes that affect every platform.

Downloads of Ren'Py 7.4.11 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.11

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and list of sponsors.

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Ren'Py 7.4.10 Released

I'd like to announce Ren'Py 7.4.10, the tenth patch release of Ren'Py 7.4. This release is a small one, to fix a regression in 7.4.9 that occurred when large images were displayed. There are also several fixes to the way voice interacts with text with pauses; the performance of drag and drop; and how the android port automatically selects an app store. The Indonesian and Polish language translation has been updated. Downloads of 7.4.10 can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.10 A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

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Ren'Py 7.4.9 Released

I'd like to announce Ren'Py 7.4.9, the ninth patch release of Ren'Py 7.4. The largest amount of work was done to update the Android version of Ren'Py to keep pace with Google Play's requirements. Ren'Py now uses the Android App Bundle format, and uses Play Asset Delivery to download assets to the player's device.

In addition to the Android improvements, some of the major changes are:

The iOS version of Ren'Py now produces more complete projects, requiring less work to get projects working.

Improvements to the web updater, providing a less efficient mode that works with https web servers.

A new option in the launcher that can tell you if a new Ren'Py release exists.

Improvements to the 3D stage, so that the camera statement and perspective work with transitions and transforms.

Transforms now can take fractional sizes.

The shift+A accessibility menu now has a new high-contrast mode, to make text more readable.

These are just some of the improvements in this release, so please read the changelog to find everything new.

Downloads of Ren'Py 7.4.9 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.9

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and list of sponsors.

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Ren'Py 7.4.8 Released

I'd like to announce Ren'Py 7.4.8, the eighth patch release of Ren'Py 7.4. This release is focused on fixes, and especially fixes a problem introduced in Ren'Py 7.4.7 that could, in some circumstances, cause data to become corrupt during rollback. Everyone on 7.4.7 should upgrade. In addition to that fix, there are multiple other fixes, and a single new feature - the ability to pause playing movies like any other sound channel. Please see the changelog for a complete list of what has changed. Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years. Downloads of 7.4.8 can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.8 A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

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Ren'Py 7.4.7 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.7, the seventh patch release of Ren'Py 7.4. This release includes many fixes, and some major improvements. Perhaps the biggest set of changes was to the Web port of Ren'Py, which has been rewritten to use the web browser's native audio processing. This prevents expensive operations, like decoding image files, from interrupting audio playback. (However, an issue with Safari still exists.) Self-voicing has also been added to the web plaform. There have also been improvements to support for the iOS platform, that allow Ren'Py games to run on the latest iPhones without aggressive pillarboxing. The input displayable has grown quite a bit of functionality, with more keys being supported, and the caret blinking to indicate that text can be edited. The Atom editor has been updated. There is quite a bit of new functionality in this release, please check out the changelog for some of the new things that can be done. Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years. Downloads of 7.4.7 can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.7 A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

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Ren'Py 7.4.6 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.6, the sixth patch release for the 7.4 series. This release contains a number of fixes for 7.4.5, both to improve platform compatibility and to extend some to the features added for the new 3D Stage.

This release include a new camera statement, which is used to introduce transforms that will persist until changed. This allows the show layer statement to revert to the behavior it had in 7.4.4, improving compatibility with projects in production. At the same time, it allows more concise control of the camera in 3D productions.

This release introduces the Model displayable. While right now focused on allowing multiple textures to be combined (it's now possible to implement dissolve-like transforms without a creator-defined displayable), it will in the future serve as a way to access 2D and 3D model functionality.

This release fixes a mistake in the 7.4.5 that prevented builds from working on iOS, and gets the model-based renderer working on that platform.

This release updates Atom and the language-renpy plugin.

In addition, there are a number of bug fixes and other improvements.

Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years.

Downloads of Ren'Py 7.4.6 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.6

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and list of sponsors.

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Ren'Py 7.4.5 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.5, the fifth patch release for the 7.4 series. This fix adds several features that take advantage of the model-based renderer, improves platform support, and adds other quality of life features, like a dark theme for the launcher.

Perhaps the biggest new feature is the 3D Stage system. This allows a creator to position images on a three dimensional stage, like the one a play takes place on. Images can be rotated and moved in three dimensions, and Ren'Py will take care of rendering them in a perspective-correct manner.

Other features that take advantage of the model-based renderer are new blend modes (including multiply), and a new transition, Swing, that rotates images in three dimensions. The model-based renderer is enabled by default in games released with Ren'Py 7.4.5.

This release also includes improvements for many platforms. The Android support allows new projects to be compiled after the bintray shutdown, while a rewritten splashscreen allows Ren'Py to start on more devices. This release also includes fixes for compiling on iOS, and for signing and notarizing macOS applications.

Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years.

Downloads of 7.4.5 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.5

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

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Ren’Py 7.4.4 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.4, the fourth patch release for the 7.4 series. This fixes a pair of regressions, one that stopped the Web Beta from working, and another that prevented gestures and controller support from working. This release adds basic support for custom blend modes, and uses that support to implement additive and multiplicative blends for Live2D. It also fixes an issuse with large textures that usually manifested as problems with Live2D. It also includes a new feature that makes it possible to supply old .rpyc files to Ren'Py, which should help maintain save compatibility with games that are released more than once, such as games with early access. Everyone should upgrade. Downloads of 7.4.4 can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.4 A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

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Ren’Py 7.4.3 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.3, the third patch release for the 7.4 series. This release improves the compatibility of Ren'Py 7.4, and adds some new features. New to Ren'Py 7.4.3 are:

* Windows improvements that should increase compatibility and reduce the chance of false positives from some antivirus software. * Improved compatibility with Android devices. * A number of focus improvements, including marking frames modal, and focusing the mask part of an AlphaMask. * The ability to render Emoji found in fonts.

This release includes feature improvements and updates translations. Everyone should upgrade.

Downloads of 7.4.3 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.3

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

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Ren’Py 7.4.2 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.2, the second patch release for the 7.4 series. This release fixes a number of issues found in Ren'Py 7.4, including some that only affect users that need accessibility options. Everyone should upgrade.

Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years.

Some of the bigger changes are:

A new model-based renderer. While this is opt-in for the moment, it opens the way to features that creators have been requesting for a long time, such as being able to recolor displayables, blurring the screen, and using Live2D to animate sprites. The model-based renderer is extensible with shaders, allowing for custom effects.

A new Python 3 compatibility mode has been added, to pave the way for Python 3 support in the next release. This mode changes the ways in which Ren'Py runs, to allow you to begin porting your game before full Python 3 comes out in Ren'Py 8.0.

Ren'Py's build system has been modernized, and the libraries underlying it have been updated. This allows 64-bit Windows to be supported.

The web platform has been updated, to allow for the incremental download of games.

This release also raises the minimum requirements to run a Ren'Py game. It is now required that a user's computer have OpenGL 2, DirectX 9, OpenGL ES 2, or WebGL to run Ren'Py. The model-based renderer requires OpenGL ES 3 or WebGL 2.

With these changes, there have been a few deprecations. Ren'Py no longer runs on Windows XP. The minimum version of macOS Ren'Py uspports is now 10.10. The 32-bit armv7l platform has been removed on iOS, as this platform hasn't been supported by Apple for several years. The Editra text editor has been removed, as it hasn't been supported for quite some time, and wasn't compatible with the new build system.

It's my hope that this release will enable creators to take on projects they couldn't before, and will provide a solid basis for the next releases of Ren'Py.

Downloads of 7.4.2 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.2

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.

This release is 7.4.2.1291.

The biggest fix, and the reason I recommend everyone upgrade, is that the say.vbs file (used for accessibility on windows) and some of the ANGLE files were missing from the Windows build.

In addition to that, some of the changes are:

* A new way of scanning for Java on macOS, which doesn't get confused by the Java browser plug-in.

* A fix to the scale_fast field being missing on the software renderer, which means errors in rendering would lead to a crash. (The missing ANGLE files made this more common.)

* Ren'Py no longer disables screensavers and power save. (It's possible to change this default.)

* A new build.include_i686 field, that determines if the 32-bit x86 binaries are included.

* A fix for a problem intersecting polygons.

* New config.context_fadeout_music and config.context_fadein_music variables, that determine music fadeins and fadeouts on context changes like loading.

* Better scanning for expressions in Live2D.

* A pair of focus fixes.

* A fix to webp support on the Raspberry Pi.

Thanks to everyone who worked with me on this release.

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Ren’Py 7.4.1 Released

I released Ren'Py 7.4.1 at Visual;Conference, earlier today. This is the first patch release for the 7.4 series, and fixes a number of bugs. I believe that everyone using 7.4.0 should upgrade to this release. 

Downloads of Ren'Py 7.4.1 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.1

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

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Ren’Py 7.4.0 Released

Ren'Py 7.4.0, "The Big One", has been released. The first and last release of 2020, this release adds a new model-based renderer, which enables things like recoloring displayables, blurring the screen, and Live2D models. It adds a Python 3 compatibility mode, that allows you to write code that is Python 3-ready.In general, this release modernizes Ren'Py and the libraries it depends on, to keep it ready for the next 15 years. Ren'Py 7.4 raises the minimum requirements to run a Ren'Py game. It is now required that a user's computer have OpenGL 2, DirectX 9, OpenGL ES 2, or WebGL to run Ren'Py. The model-based renderer requires OpenGL ES 3 or WebGL 2.Ren'Py no longer runs on Windows XP. 64-bit Windows support has been added, allowing for more complex games. It's my hope that this release will enable creators to take on projects they couldn't before, and will provide a solid basis for the future of Ren'Py.

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Ren’Py 7.3.3 Released

I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.3.3. This release is intended to improve performance and compatibility, fix bugs, and make available minor features that have been added since Ren'Py 7.3.2 was released.

Some highlights are:

An audio directory that allows audio files to define themselves, similar to images.

The ability for Ren'Py to accept audio files generated at runtime.

A lowering of the version of android needed to run Ren'Py.

Many improvements to Web platform support.

Improved render-to-texture performance.

The ability of renpy.input to take custom screens.

Ren'Py is now signed and notarized to run on macOS.

There are also a number of other changes, so check out the changelog for all of what's new.

Downloads of Ren'Py 7.3.3 can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/release/7.3.3

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html

Please also check out the credits and list of sponsors.