RetroArch 1.11.0 has just been released! Months of work has gone into significantly improving RetroArch across the board. Particular points of focus have been networking/netplay and user interface improvements. Read the full article on our website here. Patch notes: AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant single threaded rthreads implementation AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thread. CDROM: Fix memory leak caught with asan buf passed to filestream_read_file CORE INFO/NETPLAY: Ensure current core info is initialized at runloop_event_init_core when netplay is enabled CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.4 CHEEVOS: Allow creating auto savestate in hardcore CHEEVOS: prevent invalid memory reference if game has achievements but core doesnt expose memory CHEEVOS: Release achievement badge textures when video driver is deinitialized CHEEVOS: Re-enforce hardcore limitations once achievements are loaded CHEEVOS/MENU/MATERIALUI: Show achievement badge icons in MaterialUI driver D3D9: D3D9 has been split up into two drivers D3D9 HLSL (max compatibility, no shader support yet) and D3D9 Cg (dependent on deprecated Nvidia Cg runtime library) D3D9/HLSL/XMB: XMB fix D3D9/CG: D3D9 Cg driver fixed D3D11: Fix overlay not showing up D3D11/12: Reduce lag with WaitForVBlank this rather simple addition seems to make D3D11/12 very very close to Vulkan/GLCore regarding input lag. D3D11/12: Add waitable swapchains and max frame latency option D3D11/12: Make waitable swapchains optional DATABASE: Reformat rdb_entry_int Nitpick adjustments for database entries: Capitalize Release Date, and remove space before : from Release Date rows which use integer DATABASE/EXPLORE: Allow On-Demand Thumbnails in Explore menu DATABASE/EXPLORE/MENU/OZONE/XMB/RGUI: Explore menu thumbnails DISC CONTROL: Better Disc Control append focus AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added slowmotion resiliency AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added string representation for seeing the current effective delay without opening statistics AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added ms to logging and (ms) to label just like in Audio Latency GENERAL: Dont bake in OpenAL and libcaca by default unless explicitly enabled with configure switch. GENERAL: Reduce amount of strlen calls GENERAL: Reduce or simply sin/cosf calls GFX: Fix readability and precision issues in aspectratio_lut GFX: Add option to manually enable/disable automatic refresh rate switching GFX: Enable automatic configuration of VSync Swap Interval GFX/FONT/FREETYPE: Use FT_New_Memory_Face first read it from file to memory beforehand this solves an asset extraction issue when selecting Update Assets apparently FT_New_Face keeps an open file handle to the font file which prevents it from being overwritten/deleted while the program is still running. GFX/THUMBNAILS: Thumbnail aspect ratio fix GFX/THREADED VIDEO: Optimizations, fixes and cleanups GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Add Upscale_240x160-320240 video filter with mixed method GLSLANG: Fix compilation with ./configure disable-builtinglslang was missing linking against -lMachineIndependent and -lGenericCodeGen static libs INPUT: Fix off by one error for input_block_timeout setting. Also default to 0 for this setting (pretty massive performance gain) INPUT: Analog button mapping fixes INPUT/HID/OSX: Fix DualShock3 support INPUT/HID/LINUX: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Linux as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/HID/WINDOWS: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Windows as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/OVERLAY: Block pointer input when overlay is pressed INPUT/REMAPPING: input_remapping_save_file existing remapping file was needlessly reloaded INPUT/REMAPPING: Add option to disable automatic saving of input remap files INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix lightgun scaling on Y axis INPUT/LINUX/X11/LED: Add LED keyboard driver INPUT/WINDOWS/LED: LED keyboard driver cleanup INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Clear key states when unfocused INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix pointer device position LIBRETRO/SAVESTATES: Implement an api call for context awareness LOCALIZATION: Updates LOCALIZATION: Add Catalan language option LOCALIZATION: Fix some bad localization LINUX: Make memfd_create call more backwards compatible by calling it through syscall on older systems, youll have to include linux/memfd.h for the MFD_ defines, and call memfd_create() via the the syscall(2) wrapper (and include unistd.h and sys/syscall.h for it work). We exclude linux/memfd.h header include because we already provide the MFD_ defines in case they are missing LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix assertion failed on video threaded switch MENU: Menu paging navigation adjustments MENU: New Menu Items for disabling Info & Search buttons in the menu MENU: Allow the user to use volume up/down/mute hotkeys from within the menu MENU: Add missing sublabels for non-running Quick Menu MENU: Reorganize Quick Menu Information MENU: Savestate thumbnails Savestate slot reset action MENU: Allow changing savestate slots with left/right on save/load MENU: Add Ago to playlist last played styles MENU: Add proper icons for shader items MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon for Download Thumbnails MENU/XMB: Add options for hiding header and horizontal title margin MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fixes MENU/XMB: Add Daite XMB Icon Theme MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio MENU/XMB/OZONE: Core option category icon refinements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail browsing MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add playlist icons under Load Content MENU/XMB/OZONE: Thumbnail improvements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fullscreen + dropdown MENU/XMB/OZONE: Prevent unnecessary thumbnail requests when scrolling through playlists MENU/OZONE: Fix playlist thumbnail mouse hover after returning from Quick Menu MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail visibility corrections MENU/OZONE: Playlist metadata reformat MENU/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fixes MENU/OZONE: Add savestate thumbnails MENU/OZONE: Header icon spacing adjustment MENU/RGUI: Savestate thumbnails MENU/SETTINGS: Turn Advanced Settings on by default, this entire filtering of settings will need a complete rethink anyways MENU/WIDGETS: Widget color + position adjustments NETWORK: Allow MITM server selection on OK callback NETWORK: Replace socket_select calls NETWORK: Implement binary network streams NETWORK: Poll support NETWORK: Check connect errno for successful connection NETWORK: Get rid of the timeout_enable parameter for socket_connect NETWORK: Fix getnameinfo_retros port value for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK: Define inet_ntop and inet_pton for older Windows versions NETWORK: Define isinprogress function NETWORK/NATT: Move natt files to network NETWORK/NETWORK STREAMS: Add function netstream_eof NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix game CRC parsing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable and hide stateless mode NETWORK/NETPLAY: Change default for input sharing to no sharing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Enforce a timeout during connection NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow clients from loading states and resetting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Special saves directory for client NETWORK/NETPLAY: Ensure current content is reloaded before joining a host NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix client info devices index NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix input for some cores when hosting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Memory leak fixes NETWORK/NETPLAY: Force a core update when starting netplay NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix NAT traversal announce for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Refactor fork arguments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix content reload deadlocks on static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow netplay start when content is not loaded for static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Show client slowdown information NETWORK/NETPLAY: Improve check frames menu entry NETWORK/NETPLAY: Do not try to receive new data if the data is in the buffer NETWORK/NETPLAY: Copy data on receive, even if the buffer is full NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix lobby sublabel CRC display on some platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for customizing chat colors NETWORK/NETPLAY: Small launch compatibility patch adjustments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for banning clients NETWORK/NETPLAY: Minor tweaks to the find content task NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for gathering client info and kicking NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix possible deadlock NETWORK/NETPLAY: Initialize clients allow_pausing to true NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable netplay for unsupported cores with stateless mode being disabled for now, there is no reason not to include this. Refuse to initialize netplay when the current core is not supported (no proper savestates support) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Ensure fixed width ints on packet struct NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Support for IPv4 tunneling (6to4) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY/TASKS: Netplay/LAN Discovery Task refactor aims to prevent blocking the main thread while awaiting for the LAN discovery timeout; This is accomplished by moving the whole discovery functionality into its task and using a non-blocking timer to finish the task. Also fixes discovery sockets not being made non-blocking, which could cause the main thread to hang for very long periods of time every pre-frame. NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor fixes many issues along the way, including a couple of nasty memory leaks that would leak thousands of bytes each time the task ran. It also expands the original concept by matching currently run content by filename (CRC matching is always performed first though). NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor Ensure CRC32 is 8 characters long NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add setting for filtering out rooms with non-installed cores NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Hide older (incompatible) rooms NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add a toggleable filter for passworded rooms. In addition, move lobby filters into its own submenu for better organization. NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Chat supported info for the host kick submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Localize relay servers NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Host Ban Submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Add client devices info to the kick sub-menu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Path: Netplay -> Host -> Kick Client Allows the host to kick clients. Allows the host to view client information: connected clients (names), status (playing/spectating) and ping. NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling ONLINE UPDATER: Online Updater menu reorganizing OSX: Fixed items of system top menu bar on macOS OSX: Revision to macOS app icon set PLAYLISTS: Ensure history list will contain CRC32 PLAYLISTS: Fix CRC32 comparison as state->content_crc has |crc suffix. SHADERS: Shader Preset Loading of Multiple additional #references lines for settings SHADERS: Shader Load Extra Parameter Reference Files this adds the ability to put additional #reference lines inside shader presets which will load additional settings. The first reference in the preset still needs to point at a chain of presets which ends with a shader chain, and subsequent #reference lines will load presets which only have parameter values adjustment. This allows presets to be made with a modular selection of settings. For example with the Mega Bezel one additional reference could point at a preset which contained settings for Night mode vs Day mode, and another reference could point to a preset which contained settings for how much the screen should be zoomed in. SHADERS/MENU: Increase shader scale max value SCANNER/DC: Fix Redump bin/cue scan for some DC games SCANNER/GC/WII: Add RVZ/WIA scan support for GC/Wii SCANNER/PS1: Improved success rate of Serial scanning on PS1 by adding support for the xx.xxx format SCANNER/PS1: Changed return value of detect_ps1_game function to actually return a failure when the Serial couldnt be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database. STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait VFS: Fix various VFS / file stream issues VULKAN: Fix more validation errors VULKAN: Attempt to fix validation errors with HDR swapchain. Always use final render pass type equal to swapchain format. Use more direct logic to expose if filter chain emits HDR10 color space or not VULKAN/DEBUG: Automatically mark buffer/images/memory with names VULKAN/DEBUG: Move over to VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug marker is deprecated years ago. VULKAN/HDR: Fix leak of HDR UBO buffer VULKAN/BFI: Fix BFI (Black Frame Insertion) regression WINDOWS: Fix exclusive fullscreen video refresh rate when vsync swap interval is not equal to one refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen mode was being incorrectly multiplied by vsync swap interval, breaking swap interval functionality at the gfx driver level WIN32: Do optimization for Windows where we only update the title with SetWindowText when the previous title differs from the current title WIN32: Skip console attach when logging to file WIN32: Remove black margins with borderless non-fullscreen window WIN32/TASKBAR: Release ITaskbarList3 on failed HrInit pointer wasnt NULLd, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior