org.libretro.RetroArch org.libretro.RetroArch.desktop RetroArch

Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players

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RetroArch enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all.

It enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all. RetroArch has advanced features like shaders, netplay, rewinding, next-frame response times, runahead, and more!

GPL-3.0 CC0-1.0 https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-8-1-released/

BUGFIX/MENU: Fix menu rendering with Mali GPUs after changing video dimensions
CDROM: Adds pregap support to cdfs helper methods
CHEEVOS: Provides the new PCEngine hashing algorithm for RetroAchievements
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU/MATERIALUI: Initial thumbnail support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Cutie / Virtual Boy theme added
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Under certain extreme circumstances, entries with very long sublabel strings could have their text prematurely 'clipped' as the entry is scrolled beyond the top of the screen
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Certain setting value strings were unnecessarily truncated (with a ...) when using smooth ticker text
MENU/XMB: Sunbeam theme added

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-8-0-released/

AI SERVICE: Added in fix for BMP returns to AI service
BSV: Fix BSV recording/playback
BUGFIX: Fix crash when setting Thumbnail Directory
BUGFIX/STABILITY: Set "Automatically Add Content to Playlist" to false by default
COMMON: Graceful driver switching for Windows and Linux
COMMON: Cache frame before converting 0RGB1555
MENU: Menu scaling improvements
MENU/MATERIALUI: There are no longer any animation glitches when 'wraparound' scrolling from the last entry in a list to the first, or when performing horizontal swipe navigation gestures on certain settings-type entries
MENU/MATERIALUI: List entries underneath the title and navigation bars are no longer highlighted when touching the title/navigation bars
MENU/MATERIALUI: The current menu list is no longer reloaded when pressing the currently active tab on the navigation bar
MENU/MATERIALUI: The ticker text spacer has been set to a 'bullet' character (same as Ozone)
MENU/MATERIALUI: The default colour theme has been set to 'Ozone Dark'
MENU/MATERIALUI: Three new colour themes have been added
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Menu Transition Animation option has been added under User Interface > Appearance
MENU/MATERIALUI: The navigation bar is now shown at all times
MENU/MATERIALUI: Two new context-sensitive buttons have been added to the navigation bar - back button and resume button
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Auto-Rotate Navigation Bar option has been added under User Interface > Appearance
MENU/MATERIALUI: The playlists tab is now correctly hidden when User Interface > Views > Show Playlist Tabs is disabled
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now correctly readjusts its layout when screen orientation changes on mobile devices
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now resizes in real-time when the user manually sets the Menu Scale Factor (this never worked properly with the old DPI override)
MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI no longer leaks memory on 'context reset' (fonts were previously never free()'d)
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Android-style 'system bar' has been added. This shows current core name, clock and battery level
MENU/MATERIALUI: A new search icon is shown on the title bar when viewing playlists and file browser lists
MENU/MATERIALUI: The title bar now uses a larger font, and the sublabel font has also been enlarged a little, to more closely align with Material UI standards
MENU/MATERIALUI: A number (quite a large number) of layout/spacing issues have been fixed
MENU/MATERIALUI: The existing colour theme handling code is not fit for purpose, so the whole lot got ripped out and reimplemented
OSD: Fix fast forward indicator when not using menu widgets
VIDEO LAYOUT: Add video layout mame overlay compatibility

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-9-released/

AI SERVICE: Image mode is now much faster
BUGFIX: Touch input - When using an overlay to toggle the quick menu on touchscreen devices
BUGFIX: Networking - RetroArch crashed when pressing left while Relay Server Location entry was selected
BUGFIX: Networking - fix memory leak that could happen at exit after a network operation had run
CHEEVOS: Improve handling of line endings when calculating CD hashes for retroachievements
CHEEVOS: Add support for Sega CD/Saturn; reduce hash calls to server
FPGA: Add initial FPGA port for Z-Turn boards - not really release-ready yet, will need community support to continue. Currently employs naive framebuffer approach, not fullspeed
GL1: GLDirect (D3D9 to OGL1.1 wrapper) support
GONG: Stability fixes
LINUX/UDEV: Fix touchscreen/lightgun issues
MENU/MATERIALUI: MaterialUI no longer 'forgets' its place when navigating backwards in menus, and navigation in general is 'cleaner'.
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add initial gesture support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Improved touch support
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Random' items are no longer automatically highlighted when performing standard up/down 'flick' scrolling through lists
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The display no longer 'jerks' for one frame when navigating backwards through lists
MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The Material UI scaling factor is now based upon the device-reported screen DPI value (previously it relied upon a hard-coded magic number, which was never correct)
MENU/RGUI: Functional mouse/touchscreen support
MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: On-screen keyboard entry via mouse/touchscreen has been tidied up - no more double inputs (or unwanted menu interaction in the background)
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel up/down is now a proper 'up/down', same as using cursor keys or a dpad
MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel tilt left/right has been wired up to normal 'left/right' commands
MENU/OZONE: Add option to toggle between static and scrolling content metadata
MENU/XMB: Add full gesture support
MENU: When navigating backwards from a core options drop-down list (i.e. pressing select or cancel), the last menu position is remembered (instead of resetting back to the first core option item each time)
MENU: Add mouse/touchscreen gesture support
MENU: Add option to delete playlists (Settings and Playlists: Playlist Management)
OSD: Memory details should now be available on every platform (get_mem_total and get_mem_free need to be implemented in the frontend driver for it to work)
OSD: Memory details can now be shown individually without FPS and frame count
THREADED VIDEO: Fix FPS text in threaded video mode

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-8-v2-released/

AI: Add AI Service functionality
AI: Fix 'Japanese' setting
BPS/UPS: Re-allocation target_data variable for target patch size
CDROM: Added real CD-ROM functionality for Windows and Linux
CDROM: Added disc dumping
CHEEVOS: Fix Achievements badges
CHEEVOS: Add hashing support for PSX (bin/cue, chd, or real CD)
COMMON: Add separate frontend logging
COMMON: Ability to set FPS update interval (used in the window titlebar/FPS widget)
COMMON: Add 'Reset Frame Time Counter' functionality
COMMON: Add optional 'on demand' thumbnail downloads
COMMON: Add new playlist-based thumbnail downloader
COMMON: Show license per core (if available) inside 'Load Core'
COMMON: Add option to load content from (and dump) CD-ROM discs
COMMON: Re-enable '--log-file' command line option
COMMON: Default playlist core association is now stored as metadata inside each playlist
COMMON: Fix playlist format detection
COMMON: Favorites playlist size can now be set independently of content history size
COMMON: Prevent adding new items to favorites when playlist is full (old entries are no longer overwritten)
COMMON: Prevent loading content with cores that require an incompatible graphics API version from the current one
COMMON: Saved shader presets are now portable across platforms and use relative paths
COMMON: Add '--set-shader' command line option which works like an override for automatic shader presets
COMMON: Add global shader presets
COMMON: Remove 'video_shader' setting, shaders are not saved automatically anymore
CORE OPTIONS: When saving core option overrides, only include settings for the current core
CORE OPTIONS: Add option to save core options per-core
CPU FILTERS: Add Scanline2x filter
GL/MALI400: Fix menu issues on Mali 400 series GPUs, should also fix 'RetroArch flickers black on ARM Mali GPUs (Android/ARM Linux)
GL/GLCORE: Use highest supported OpenGL Core version on Windows and X11
GL1: Ignore alpha in core video, fixes XRGB8888 rendering in some cores
GLCORE: Don't hardcode shader cross compilation target version but poll it
GLCORE: Fix regression - shaders don't work
GLCORE/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection slang semantic
HID: Add Retrode support. Should work on Wii/WiiU
INPUT: Menu toggle hotkey can now be bound to another keyboard key and it will toggle properly
LIBRETRO: Add new core options interface, allows for localization, sublabels and more
LIBRETRO: Add new bitmask input codepath, for RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD only for now
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU/XMB: Smooth vertical ticker scrolling
MENU: Add smooth ticker text
MENU: Ability to hide every settings submenu (User Interface, Views, Settings)
MENU: Ability to hide nearly every quick menu entry (User Interface, Views, Quick Menu)
MENU: Fix longstanding menu display issues on Mali400 GPUs (on ARM hardware, SBCs and mobile phones/tablets)
MENU: Fix Record Streaming Quality, and Record, Recording Threads settings
MENU: Fix history playlist navigation after running content
NENU: Menu entry performance optimisations
MENU: Add option to show 'remove playlist entry' only on history/favourites
MENU: Overhaul content 'Information' menu display
MENU: Add new 'Playlist Management' submenu. Allows default core associations to be set (via dropdown list), and all existing associations to be reset
MENU: Add 'Set Core Association' option to Quick Menu
MENU: Add option to remain in menu after saving/loading states
MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Core' will unload the core
MENU: After a core is running, Load Core will be hidden from view until you select 'Close Content' from the Quick Menu
MENU/WIDGETS: All widgets are now properly cleaned up, fixing the frozen widgets bug when loading / closing content
MENU/WIDGETS: Fix crash with tasks
MENU/WIDGETS: Widgets are now drawn above the overlay with OpenGL and Vulkan
MENU/WIDGETS: Fine tune progress bar colors
MENU/WIDGETS: Have the progression widget always resize
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Ensure that displayed thumbnails are always refreshed correctly after selecting 'Download Thumbnails' from Quick Menu
MENU/THUMBNAILS: Make PNG image loading/processing non-blocking on non-threaded systems
MENU/OZONE: Add it for PS3
MENU/OZONE: Fix regression in 1.7.7 - OSX/macOS - was unable to start it
MENU/OZONE: Fix sublabel spacing
MENU/OZONE: Add toggle to enable/disable playlist name truncation in Ozone
MENU/OZONE: (Ozone) Fix display of (semi-)transparent thumbnails
MENU/XMB: Add menu animation settings
MENU/XMB: Add optional thumbnail scaling
MENU/XMB: Fix display of long sublabels. Text that would exceed the display area now scrolls line-by-line
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add optional thumbnail upscaling
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add core option sublabels as tooltips, add buttons to reset one/all core options
MENU/QT/WIMP: Word-wrap core option tooltips
MENU/QT/WIMP: Path selector fixes
MENU/RGUI: Enable playlist display on platforms without database support
MENU/RGUI: Make particle effects framerate independent + add animation speed setting
MIDI: correct pitch bend in ALSA driver - MIDI standard pitch bend center position is 0x2000 but ALSA's is 0
MIDI: Fix SysEx handling
OSD: OSD is now drawn above the overlay with Vulkan
PATCH: Fix IPS patches
PLAYLISTS: Fix playlist heap corruption bug
PLAYLISTS: Add history/favourites to 'Playlist Management' menu
RECORD: Fix Twitch streaming
REMOTE RETROPAD: Fix for Remote RetroPad input
RUNAHEAD/MSVC2010: Build in runahead support for MSVC2010 and up
RUNAHEAD/VITA: Build in runahead support for Vita version
SAVESTATES: Allow auto save states also in cores that support no content as long as some content is loaded
SCALER: Fix SSE2 path for ARGB/BGRA -> BGR24 - should fix screenshots being taken for XRGB888 (viewport)
SCANNER: Skip all databases with incompatible file extensions, whether content is inside an archive or not
SCANNER: Fix hang on empty files inside archives
SHADERS: Fix shader loading and saving in content-less cores
SHADERS: Implement video shader delay setting
SHADERS: Add proper shader compatibility checks
SHADERS: Enable Cg shaders for D3D9
SHADERS: Remove 'video_shader' setting, replace it with global presets that make more sense
SHADERS: #reference directive for shaders. Presets can point to other existing presets if they are unchanged
SHADERS: Will attempt to cache the shader/preset into memory before loading to avoid costly getline/gets/getc operations
SHADERS: New --set-shader commandline option
SHADERS/MENU: Prevent undefined behaviour when failing to load shaders
SHADERS/MENU: Pressing the Start button on 'Load Shader Preset' will reset all shader passes and apply changes, effectively disabling the shaders
SHADERS/MENU: New menu options for removing shader presets (global/core/parent/etc)
THUMBNAILS: Add optional On-Demand Thumbnails
UDEV: Fix wrong udev devices order
UDEV/X11: Mouse pointer should work now in X11 environment with no Display
VULKAN/SLANG: Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic
VULKAN: Add option to select which GPU to render with
VULKAN: Validate non-causal filter chain for texture inputs. We only validated for UBO inputs apparently
WII: Add default video/audio filter directories
X11: Add improved menu resizing for window resizing
X11: Add non-evdev keycodes to fix keyboard input on non-Linux systems with X11

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-7-released/

AUDIO: Avoid deadlocks in certain audio drivers when toggling menu sounds on
BLISS-BOX: Support PSX Jogcon (requires firmware 3.0)
CHEEVOS: Fix crash when reading memory that is out of range
CHEEVOS: New Cheevos implementation enabled by default
CHEEVOS: Pop-up badges when an achievement is triggered
CRT: Dynamic super resolution support
DISCORD: Fix potential crash when username is empty and discord is disabled
DISCORD: Ask to join support for Linux
INPUT/ANDROID: Add "Input Block Timeout" option
COMMON: For platforms without HAVE_THREADS, don't automatically resume content when saving/loading states
COMMON: Make playlist sorting optional and consistent
COMMON: Fix sorting of playlists with blank labels
COMMON: Fix content scanner creating false positive playlist entries that also have wrong label and crc32
COMMON: Add some MMX-optimized pixel conversion routines
COMMON: Fix typo preventing some SSE2-optimized pixel conversions from being used
COMMON: Add option to track how long content has been running over time
COMMON: Fix buffer overflows in system information
COMMON: Add option to change screen orientation via the windowing system (Android, Windows, X11)
COMMON: Show CPU model name in log
COMMON: Add "Help -> Send Debug Info" option (and F10 hotkey) to send diagnostic info to the RetroArch team for help with problems
COMMON: Show GPU device name/version in log
COMMON: Add menu option to write log info to a file
COMMON: Add subsystem support for playlists. Subsystem info is automatically saved to the history playlist for easy relaunching
GL: Add new "gl1" OpenGL 1.1 compliant video driver for legacy GPUs and software renderers
GL: Add a new "glcore" driver with slang support (requires GL 3.2+ or GLES3)
GL: Draw OSD on top of overlay
GONG: Add savestate support
GONG: Add video refresh rate core options
GONG: Two player support via core option
GUI: Fix text alignment when using stb_unicode
GUI: Fix text display issues when using Japanese (and other unicode-dependent language) text with stb_unicode
GUI: Set language on first startup to the user's preferred OS language (Windows, *nix and Android)
INPUT: Add (scaled radial) analog deadzone and sensitivity options
LIBRETRO: Add Turkish language support
LIBRETRO: Allow non-accelerated video to rotate the display
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
LOCALIZATION: Add new Turkish translation
MIDI: Fix startup crash in midi driver
MENU: Bugfix - you can no longer get stuck in Online Updater -> Update Core screen when toggling between ingame and menu
MENU: Selectively hide 'Take Screenshot' for video drivers that don't support taking screenshots
MENU: Framerate independent menu rendering. MaterialUI/Ozone/XMB/RGUI can now run at higher framerates
MENU: Thumbnails work in history list
MENU: Menu widgets
MENU: Add memory statistics support to more context drivers
MENU: Enable ozone driver for UWP builds
MENU: Add optional "looping" menu text ticker with configurable speed
MENU: Fix core video rendering when using ozone with GL cores that implement the scissor test
MENU: Add optional playlist sublabels (associated core + play time, where available)
MENU: Dropdown list settings now apply immediately
MENU: Add setting to require pressing the "Exit RetroArch" hotkey twice to confirm
MENU: Now able to run at higher refresh rates than 60Hz
MENU: Enable "Add to Favorites" without loading a core
MENU: Allow core name to be hidden on history/favorites playlists
MENU: Populate crc32 and db_name fields when adding history/favourites playlist entries
MENU: Fix TTF files not showing in OSD/menu font selection screen
MENU: Fix audio/video filters not showing in file browser
MENU/MaterialUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/MaterialUI: Add currently selected entry in dropdown menus
MENU/OZONE: Add mouse support on entries (no sidebar yet)
MENU/OZONE: Allow collapsing the sidebar
MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail support
MENU/OZONE: Battery notifications
MENU/OZONE: Add wifi icon for network entries
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add git version and build date to Help->About window
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix content loading via the file browser
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add new settings window to control all RetroArch settings
MENU/RGUI: Improve playlist titles
MENU/RGUI: Add option to hide associated cores in playlists
MENU/RGUI: Add internal upscaling option
MENU/RGUI: Add subsystem support
MENU/RGUI: Add menu sublabel support
MENU/RGUI: Re-enable "Load Core" option when content is loaded
MENU/RGUI: Add optional "Collections" entry to main menu
MENU/RGUI: Add "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option
MENU/RGUI: Add "full width" layout option
MENU/RGUI: Ensure menu color theme is applied immediately
MENU/RGUI: Fix "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option when using custom viewports
MENU/RGUI: Add widescreen support
MENU/RGUI: Allow text to be centred when selecting widescreen layouts
MENU/RGUI: Add inline playlist thumbnail support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional shadow effects
MENU/RGUI: Performance optimizations
MENU/RGUI: Add optional extended ASCII support
MENU/RGUI: Add optional delay when loading thumbnails
MENU/RGUI: Add on-screen keyboard
MENU/RGUI: Battery notifications
MENU/XMB: Prevent crashes when resizing to a tiny window
MENU/XMB: XMB honors the 'show menu sublabels' setting now - was previously RGUI only
NETPLAY: Fix stall-out causing total disconnection with >2 players
NETPLAY: Different (more intuitive?) default netplay share policy
NETPLAY: Add hotkey option to toggle hosting on/off
NETWORKING: Encode URLs to allow for spaces in directory names
SCANNER: New option 'Scan without core match'
SHADERS: Don't alphabetize shader presets
VULKAN: Fix color issues with RGBA8888 swapchains in readback (screenshots)

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-6-released/

CHEEVOS: Reset when hardcore mode is toggled
CHEEVOS: Update the hashing methods to identify NES, SNES and Lynx games (more accurate and accepting headerless ROMs)
COMMON: Add new JSON playlist format
COMMON: Fix playlist corruption when deleting items
COMMON: Fix archive progress display calculation
COMMON: Fix playlist entries appearing with previously used names
COMMON: Fix screenshot filename with no core or content
COMMON: Allow compiling without menu support
CORE UPDATER: Allow sideloading cores from the menu
CPU FILTERS: Add Normal2x filter
CRT/LINUX: New Linux switching method partially implemented
CRT/LINUX: Linux restore desktop resolution fixed
CRT/LINUX: Monitor index switching and auto enumerate for output detection in Linux (still working on the windows method)
CRT/RASPBERRY PI: Initial support
DATE: Add Date / Time style options
DEBUGGING: Add an integrated crash handler for debug builds
DISCORD: Register the application name properly
DISK CONTROL: Remember the last used folder / current active folder to make disk-swapping faster
INPUT: Add new menu toggle (hold start button for 2 seconds)
INPUT: Fix arrow keys being incorrectly bound as numpad keys
INPUT/SDL: Flush the joypad events. Decreases cpu usage over time with the SDL joypad driver
LOCALIZATION: Add Greek translation
LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Simplified Chinese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: New "ozone" menu driver
MENU: Only show CRT SwitchRes if video display server is implemented (Windows/Linux for now)
MENU: User Interface -> Appearance -> 'Menu Font Green/Blue Color' settings now work properly
MENU: Add option to enable in-menu sound effects
MENU/QT/WIMP: Allow building with MSVC2017
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add detailed file browser table
MENU/QT/WIMP: New grid view implementation that is faster and loads thumbnails on-demand
MENU/QT/WIMP: Thumbnail drag and drop support
MENU/RGUI: Overhaul custom theme interface + add wallpaper support
MENU/RGUI: Thumbnail support and thumbnail downscaling
MENU: Hide password values
MENU/SOUNDS: Implement in-menu sound effects (not enabled by default for now, still experimental)
MIDI: Add a Linux ALSA driver for MIDI
NETPLAY: Force fast-save-states when netplay is enabled
NETPLAY: Allow quick joining subsystem lobbies
RECORDING: Implement recording options in the menu complete with quality profiles, streaming, and proper file naming
SCANNER: Fix GDI disc scanning
SHADERS: Fix auto shader preset loading on D3D10, D3D11, D3D12
SUBSYSTEM: Allow more than 10 subsystems
SUBSYSTEM: Cores that use subsystem for complex scenarios can now load content without starting a regular content first
SUBSYSTEM: Remember the last used folder to make loading subsystem type content faster
VULKAN: Fix RGUI crashing at startup
VULKAN/RGUI: Enable 'Menu Linear Filter' option
VULKAN: Fix secondary screens in overlays not working
WAYLAND: Implement idle-inhibit support (needed for screensaver suspend)
WAYLAND: Fix fullscreen toggle
VFS: Update to version 3
XBONE: Initial Xbox One port
XMB/OZONE: Add more icons
Easter egg

CAMERA: Fix Video4Linux2 driver that broke years ago
CONFIG: Add 'Reset To Defaults' setting in Configurations. Thi will reset your config file to defaults
CHEATS: Add support for Rumble when increase or decrease by the rumble value
CHEATS: Add cheat variables to allow for updating large portions of memory
CHEEVOS: Prevent loading states before achievements are fully loaded
COMMON: Support for "OEM-102" key (usually '' on Euro keyboards)
DISCORD: Add 'Ask To Join' Feature
INPUT: Add new menu toggle combos 'L3 + R' and 'L + R' (useful for Switch)
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MENU: Add dropdown lists for many settings
MENU: Fix crash that could happen when changing core's options on Android
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to rename playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add option to filter extensions inside archives when adding to a playlist
MENU/QT/WIMP: Rename playlist entries with 2 single clicks
MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix shader parameter checkboxes not working
NETPLAY: Save lobby details received back from server after first announcement
OPENGL/GLX: Implement Adaptive VSync - GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear
OPENGL/WGL: Implement Adaptive VSync - WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear
RUNAHEAD: Fix performance degradation that could happen over time (after approx. 30 mins). Fixed input IDs outside of range 0-35 causing slow performance in runahead
VULKAN: Fix race condition in threaded mailbox emulation
VULKAN: Maintenance fixes

CHEEVOS: Fix crash when scrolling Achievement List while Unofficial Achievements enabled (#6732)
CHEEVOS: Added hitcounts support for PauseIf/ResetIf (#6817)
COMMON: Automatically hide "Configuration Override options" in Quick Menu
COMMON: Small Bugfix to not trigger savestate code when pressing Reset
COMMON: Added libsixel video driver
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese / Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
MIDI: Add MIDI support to the libretro API. Dosbox is the first proof of concept core implementing libretro MIDI
MENU/QT/WIMP: Qt QSlider styling for Dark Theme
MENU/QT/WIMP: Remove button ghostly inside highlighting
MENU/QT/WIMP: Initial grid view
MENU/QT/WIMP: Drag and drop to add new playlist items, add option to add/edit/delete playlists
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to update RetroArch (Windows only for now)
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage shaders
MENU/QT/WIMP: Add menu option to manage core options
MENU/XMB: Add new icons for the settings
MENU/XMB: Add an option to show the desktop ui
NETWORK: Enable SSL/TLS support by default for desktop platforms
REMAPS: Fix the way offsets are calculated for keyboard remapping
RUNAHEAD: Fix full-screen mode change breaking Secondary Core's environment variables
VULKAN: Fix two validation errors
VULKAN: Try to avoid creating swapchains redundantly. Should fix black screen and having to alt tab out of window again to get display working on Nvidia GPUs (Windows)
X11: Fix Game Focus Toggle

AUDIO: Audio mixer supports FLAC/MP3 file types now
COMMON: Fixed bug 'crashing in cores that don't range check retro_set_controller_type'
COMMON: (QuickMenu) Added Configuration Override submenu
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese translation
MENU: Audio mixer now works in the menu without any cores loaded. You have to enable the setting 'Enable menu audio' for this to work
REMAPPING/OVERLAYS: Fix regression - overlays could no longer be remapped
SCANNER: Add Wii Backup File WBFS support
X11: CRT SwitchRes support for X11/Linux

CRT: Added CRT SwitchRes
COMMON: Hide the 'Core delete' option if the 'Core updater' is also hidden
COMMON: Add way to reset core association for playlist entry
COMMON: Fix invalid long command line options causing infinite loop on Windows
COMMON: Add OSD statistics for video/audio/core
COMMON: Added runahead system; allows you to drive down latency even further
CHEEVOS: Support Atari 2600, Virtual Boy, and Arcade (only Neo Geo, CPS-1, CPS-2 and CPS-3 and only with fbalpha core)
CHEEVOS: Add option to automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is triggered
CHEEVOS: Fixed incompatibilities with Neo Geo Pocket achievement sets
LIBRETRO: Addition - Functions to enable and disable audio and video, and an environment function to query status of audio and video enables
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
MENU: Add Rewind/Latency/Overlay settings to Quick Menu, add options to show/hide them (User Interface -> Views -> Quick Menu)
MENU/RGUI: Only show Menu Linear Filter for RGUI and only show it for video drivers that implement it (D3D8/9/10/11/12/GL)
MENU/RGUI: Add User Interface -> Appearance options
MENU/RGUI: D3D8/D3D9: Hookup Menu Linear Filter
MENU/XMB: Disable XMB shadow icons by default for PowerPC and ARM for performance reasons
MENU/XMB: Left/right thumbnails are now automatically scaled according to layout
MENU/XMB: Add Left Thumbnails (additional to the right)
MENU/XMB: Fixed left/right tab regression
MENU/XMB: Fix scaling of tall images that were cut on bottom previously
MENU/XMB: Menu scale factor setting now changes texts length, image scaling and margins
MENU/XMB: Mouse cursor scales correctly now
MENU/XMB: Add toggle to show/hide Playlist tabs
MENU/XMB: Add menu layout - can switch between Desktop, Handheld and Auto
MENU/XMB: Don't load menu pipeline shaders unless XMB is selected (D3D10/D3D11/D3D12/GL/Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show black frame insertion for the video drivers/context drivers that support it (so far this includes - D3D8/D3D9, OpenGL, Vulkan)
MENU/VIDEO: Only show max swapchain images if supported by video driver and/or context driver (so far this includes - DRM EGL context driver, VideoCore EGL context driver, Vulkan)
MENU/MaterialUI: Automatic DPI Scaling should be much improved now, now scales as expected at 1440p and 4K resolutions
MENU/MaterialUI: Fix wrong calculation of an entry height causing long playlists to end up outside of screen range. This also could cause crashes on low DPI screens
SCANNER: Should be able to scan dual-layer Wii disc images now, filestream code now supports files larger than 4GB
SHADERS/SLANG: Slang shaders should work again on Android version and MSVC versions (basically all the Griffin-based versions)
SHADERS: If GL context is GLES2/3/Core context, Cg shaders are unavailable. Applies to shader list too
SHADERS: Hide cg/glsl shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/10/11/Vulkan video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Hide slang shaders from being able to be selected if D3D8/9/OpenGL video drivers are selected
SHADERS: Prevent crashes from occurring if we have the GL video driver in use and we try to skip to a slang shader through next/previous hotkeys
SHADERS: Fix shader parameter increase / decrease functions
SUBSYSTEM: handle savestates properly (cart1 + cart2.state0)
VULKAN/X11: Fix X11 Vulkan bug from Wayland driver
VULKAN: Fix multi-line text spacing in menus with Vulkan driver
X11: Allow compositor disabling on X11 fullscreen through _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR
X11: Prioritize _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN in true fullscreen mode

AUDIO: Added 'Audio Resampler Quality' setting to Audio Settings
CHEEVOS: Fix unofficial achievements not being loaded
CHEEVOS: Show savestate menu entries when no achievements are found even if hardcore mode is enabled
CHEEVOS: Support Neo Geo Pocket
COMMON: Bugfix for issue related to 'Windows mouse pointer visible when running MESS or MAME cores'
COMMON: Fix bug 'Last item in a Playlist is ignored'
COMMON: New LED API. Driver implemented for Raspberry Pi, proof of concept implemented for core MAME 2003
COMMON: Add quick menu option to watch shader files for changes and recompile them automatically (Linux only for now)
D3D8: Direct3D 8 can now work on systems that have Direct3D 8 installed
INPUT: show friendly names when available under input binds and system information
INPUT: show the config name when available under system information
GUI: Allow changing menu font color
GUI: Menu visibility options for RGUI and MaterialUI
GUI/MaterialUI: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers
GUI/XMB: Add Monochrome Inverted icon theme
GUI/XMB: Allow changing menu scale to 200%
GUI/XMB: Works now with D3D8, D3D9 Cg, D3D11 and D3D12 drivers. Menu shader effects currently don't work on D3D8/D3D9 Cg
KEYMAPPER: prevent a condition that caused input_menu_toggle to stop working when a RETRO_DEVICE_KEYBOARD type device is enabled
GL: ignore hard gpu sync when fast-forwarding
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
NETPLAY: Add menu option to select different MITM (relay) server locations
SHADERS: Allow saving of shader presets based on the parent directory
SHADERS: Don't save the path to the current preset to the main config
SHADERS: SPIRV-Cross/slang shader support for D3D11
SUBSYSTEM: Subsystem saves now respect the save directory
SUBSYSTEM: You can now load subsystem games from the menu
VULKAN: Fix swapchain recreation bug on Nvidia GPUs with Windows 10 (resolved in Windows Nvidia driver version 390.77)

CHEEVOS: Add badges for achievements, shows thumbnail images of achievements
CHEEVOS: Leaderboard support
CHEEVOS: Only disable savestates on hardcore mode if achievements are not available
COMMANDLINE: Fix fullscreen toggle switch
COMMON: Add 'Automatically Load Content To Playlist' feature, enabled by default
COMMON: Fix slowmotion ratio always being reset back to 1
COMMON: Optimized NBIO implementations now for Apple, Windows, and Linux. Uses mmap for Linux/Windows/BSD if/when available. File I/O should now be much faster for loading images inside the menu
COMMON: Native Blissbox support now for latest firmware as of writing (2.0). Implementation through libusb and/or native Windows HID
COMMON: New lightgun API
COMMON: New VFS (Virtual File System) API
COMMON: Fixed some playlist bugs
COMMON: New snow shader
COMMON: Fix Quick Menu title, no longer shows 'Select File'
COMMON: Fix loading cores that require no content one after another
COMMON: Map Delete key to Y button for non-unified menu keyboard controls
COMMON: Fix for relative paths being normalised and generating a duplicate history entry
INPUT: Map clear button to DEL key
LINUX/X11: Add RetroArch logo to window title bar
LINUX/X11: Input driver now supports new lightgun code
LINUX/X11: Support window transparency (requires a compositing window manager)
LOBBIES: Fix for crash on join netplay rooms via touch / glui
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese-Brazilian translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
MENU: Snowflake menu shader effect
SCANNER: Fix crash from Windows-incompatible format string
VULKAN: Various stability fixes for WSI

COMMON: Small memory leak
NETPLAY: Fix network command only working once