bevy/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

While we try to keep the Unreleased changes updated, it is often behind and does not include all merged pull requests. To see a list of all changes since the latest release, you may compare current changes on git with previous release tags.

Version 0.6.0 (2022-01-08)

Added

• New Renderer
• Clustered forward rendering
• Frustum culling
• Sprite Batching
• Materials and MaterialPlugin
• 2D Meshes and Materials
• WebGL2 support
• Pipeline Specialization, Shader Assets, and Shader Preprocessing
• Modular Rendering
• Directional light and shadow
• Directional light
• Use the infinite reverse right-handed perspective projection
• Implement and require #[derive(Component)] on all component structs
• Shader Imports. Decouple Mesh logic from PBR
• Add support for opaque, alpha mask, and alpha blend modes
• bevy_gltf: Load light names from gltf
• bevy_gltf: Add support for loading lights
• Spherical Area Lights
• Shader Processor: process imported shader
• Add support for not casting/receiving shadows
• Add support for configurable shadow map sizes
• Implement the Overflow::Hidden style property for UI
• SystemState
• Add a method iter_combinations on query to iterate over combinations of query results
• Add FromReflect trait to convert dynamic types to concrete types
• More pipelined-rendering shader examples
• Configurable wgpu features/limits priority
• Cargo feature for bevy UI
• Spherical area lights example
• Implement ReflectValue serialization for Duration
• bevy_ui: register Overflow type
• Add Visibility component to UI
• Implement non-indexed mesh rendering
• add tracing spans for parallel executor and system overhead
• RemoveChildren command
• report shader processing errors in RenderPipelineCache
• enable Webgl2 optimisation in pbr under feature
• Implement Sub-App Labels
• Added set_cursor_icon(...) to Window
• Support topologies other than TriangleList
• Add an example 'showcasing' using multiple windows
• Add an example to draw a rectangle
• Added set_scissor_rect to tracked render pass.
• Add RenderWorld to Extract step
• re-export ClearPassNode
• add default standard material in PbrBundle
• add methods to get reads and writes of Access<T>
• Add despawn_children
• More Bevy ECS schedule spans
• Added transparency to window builder
• Add Gamepads resource
• Add support for #else for shader defs
• Implement iter() for mutable Queries
• add shadows in examples
• Added missing wgpu image render resources.
• Per-light toggleable shadow mapping
• Support nested shader defs
• use bytemuck crate instead of Byteable trait
• iter_mut() for Assets type
• EntityRenderCommand and PhaseItemRenderCommand
• add position to WindowDescriptor
• Add System Command apply and RenderGraph node spans
• Support for normal maps including from glTF models
• MSAA example
• Add MSAA to new renderer
• Add support for IndexFormat::Uint16
• Apply labels to wgpu resources for improved debugging/profiling
• Add tracing spans around render subapp and stages
• Add set_stencil_reference to TrackedRenderPass
• Add despawn_recursive to EntityMut
• Add trace_tracy feature for Tracy profiling
• Expose wgpu's StencilOperation with bevy
• add get_single variant
• Add builder methods to Transform
• add get_history function to Diagnostic
• Add convenience methods for checking a set of inputs
• Add error messages for the spooky insertions
• Add Deref implementation for ComputePipeline
• Derive thiserror::Error for HexColorError
• Spawn specific entities: spawn or insert operations, refactor spawn internals, world clearing
• Add ClearColor Resource to Pipelined Renderer
• remove_component for ReflectComponent
• Added ComputePipelineDescriptor
• Added StorageTextureAccess to the exposed wgpu API
• Add sprite atlases into the new renderer.
• Log adapter info on initialization
• Add feature flag to enable wasm for bevy_audio
• Allow Option<NonSend<T>> and Option<NonSendMut<T>> as SystemParam
• Added helpful adders for systemsets
• Derive Clone for Time
• Implement Clone for Fetches
• Implement IntoSystemDescriptor for SystemDescriptor
• implement DetectChanges for NonSendMut
• Log errors when loading textures from a gltf file
• expose texture/image conversions as From/TryFrom
• [ecs] implement is_empty for queries
• Add audio to ios example
• Example showing how to use AsyncComputeTaskPool and Tasks
• Expose set_changed() on ResMut and Mut
• Impl AsRef+AsMut for Res, ResMut, and Mut
• Add exit_on_esc_system to examples with window
• Implement rotation for Text2d
• Mesh vertex attributes for skinning and animation
• load zeroed UVs as fallback in gltf loader
• Implement direct mutable dereferencing
• add a span for frames
• Add an alias mouse position -> cursor position
• Adding WorldQuery for WithBundle
• Automatic System Spans
• Add system sets and run criteria example
• EnumVariantMeta derive
• Added TryFrom for VertexAttributeValues
• add render_to_texture example
• Added example of entity sorting by components
• calculate flat normals for mesh if missing
• Add animate shaders example
• examples on how to tests systems
• Add a UV sphere implementation
• Add additional vertex formats
• gltf-loader: support data url for images
• glTF: added color attribute support
• Add synonyms for transform relative vectors

Changed

• Relicense Bevy under the dual MIT or Apache-2.0 license
• [ecs] Improve Commands performance
• Merge AppBuilder into App
• Use a special first depth slice for clustered forward rendering
• Add a separate ClearPass
• bevy_pbr2: Improve lighting units and documentation
• gltf loader: do not use the taskpool for only one task
• System Param Lifetime Split
• Optional .system
• Optional .system(), part 2
• Optional .system(), part 3
• Optional .system(), part 4 (run criteria)
• Optional .system(), part 6 (chaining)
• Make the iter_combinators examples prettier
• Remove dead anchor.rs code
• gltf: load textures asynchronously using io task pool
• Use fully-qualified type names in Label derive.
• Remove Bytes, FromBytes, Labels, EntityLabels
• StorageType parameter removed from ComponentDescriptor::new_resource
• remove dead code: ShaderDefs derive
• Enable Msaa for webgl by default
• Renamed Entity::new to Entity::from_raw
• bevy::scene::Entity renamed to bevy::scene::DynamicEntity.
• make sub_app return an &App and add sub_app_mut() -> &mut App
• use ogg by default instead of mp3
• enable wasm-bindgen feature on gilrs
• Use EventWriter for gilrs_system
• Add some of the missing methods to TrackedRenderPass
• Only bevy_render depends directly on wgpu
• Update wgpu to 0.12 and naga to 0.8
• Improved bevymark: no bouncing offscreen and spawn waves from CLI
• Rename render UiSystem to RenderUiSystem
• Use updated window size in bevymark example
• Enable trace feature for subfeatures using it
• Schedule gilrs system before input systems
• Rename fixed timestep state and add a test
• Port bevy_ui to pipelined-rendering
• update wireframe rendering to new renderer
• Allow String and &String as Id for AssetServer.get_handle(id)
• Ported WgpuOptions to new renderer
• Down with the system!
• Update dependencies ron winit& fix cargo-deny lists
• Improve contributors example quality
• Expose command encoders
• Made Time::time_since_startup return from last tick.
• Default image used in PipelinedSpriteBundle to be able to render without loading a texture
• make texture from sprite pipeline filterable
• iOS: replace cargo-lipo, and update for new macOS
• increase light intensity in pbr example
• Faster gltf loader
• Use crevice std140_size_static everywhere
• replace matrix swizzles in pbr shader with index accesses
• Disable default features from bevy_asset and bevy_ecs
• Update tracing-subscriber requirement from 0.2.22 to 0.3.1
• Update vendored Crevice to 0.8.0 + PR for arrays
• change texture atlas sprite indexing to usize
• Update derive(DynamicPlugin) to edition 2021
• Update to edition 2021 on master
• Add entity ID to expect() message
• Use RenderQueue in BufferVec
• removed unused RenderResourceId and SwapChainFrame
• Unique WorldId
• add_texture returns index to texture
• Update hexasphere requirement from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0
• enable change detection for hierarchy maintenance
• Make events reuse buffers
• Replace .insert_resource(T::default()) calls with init_resource::<T>()
• Improve many sprites example
• Update glam requirement from 0.17.3 to 0.18.0
• update ndk-glue to 0.4
• Remove Need for Sprite Size Sync System
• Pipelined separate shadow vertex shader
• Sub app label changes
• Use Explicit Names for Flex Direction
• Make default near plane more sensible at 0.1
• Reduce visibility of various types and fields
• Cleanup FromResources
• Better error message for unsupported shader features Fixes #869
• Change definition of ScheduleRunnerPlugin
• Re-implement Automatic Sprite Sizing
• Remove with bundle filter
• Remove bevy_dynamic_plugin as a default
• Port bevy_gltf to pipelined-rendering
• Bump notify to 5.0.0-pre.11
• Add 's (state) lifetime to Fetch
• move bevy_core_pipeline to its own plugin
• Refactor ECS to reduce the dependency on a 1-to-1 mapping between components and real rust types
• Inline world get
• Dedupe move logic in remove_bundle and remove_bundle_intersection
• remove .system from pipelined code
• Scale normal bias by texel size
• Make Remove Command's fields public
• bevy_utils: Re-introduce with_capacity().
• Update rodio requirement from 0.13 to 0.14
• Optimize Events::extend and impl std::iter::Extend
• Bump winit to 0.25
• Improve legibility of RunOnce::run_unsafe param
• Update gltf requirement from 0.15.2 to 0.16.0
• Move to smallvec v1.6
• Update rectangle-pack requirement from 0.3 to 0.4
• Make Commands public?
• Monomorphize various things
• Detect camera projection changes
• support assets of any size
• Separate Query filter access from fetch access during initial evaluation
• Provide better error message when missing a render backend
• par_for_each: split batches when iterating on a sparse query
• Allow deriving SystemParam on private types
• Angle bracket annotated types to support generics
• More detailed errors when resource not found
• Moved events to ECS
• Use a sorted Map for vertex buffer attributes
• Error message improvements for shader compilation/gltf loading
• Rename Light => PointLight and remove unused properties
• Override size_hint for all Iterators and add ExactSizeIterator where applicable
• Change breakout to use fixed timestamp

Fixed

• Fix shadows for non-TriangleLists
• Fix error message for the Component macro's component storage attribute.
• do not add plugin ExtractComponentPlugin twice for StandardMaterial
• load spirv using correct API
• fix shader compilation error reporting for non-wgsl shaders
• bevy_ui: Check clip when handling interactions
• crevice derive macro: fix path to render_resource when importing from bevy
• fix parenting of scenes
• Do not panic on failed setting of GameOver state in AlienCakeAddict
• Fix minimization crash because of cluster updates.
• Fix custom mesh pipelines
• Fix hierarchy example panic
• Fix double drop in BlobVec::replace_unchecked (#2597)
• Remove vestigial derives
• Fix crash with disabled winit
• Fix clustering for orthographic projections
• Run a clear pass on Windows without any Views
• Remove some superfluous unsafe code
• clearpass: also clear views without depth (2d)
• Check for NaN in Camera::world_to_screen()
• Fix sprite hot reloading in new renderer
• Fix path used by macro not considering that we can use a sub-crate
• Fix torus normals
• enable alpha mode for textures materials that are transparent
• fix calls to as_rgba_linear
• Fix shadow logic
• fix: as_rgba_linear used wrong variant
• Fix MIME type support for glTF buffer Data URIs
• Remove wasm audio feature flag for 2021
• use correct size of pixel instead of 4
• Fix custom_shader_pipelined example shader
• Fix scale factor for cursor position
• fix window resize after wgpu 0.11 upgrade
• Fix unsound lifetime annotation on Query::get_component
• Remove double Events::update in bevy-gilrs
• Fix bevy_ecs::schedule::executor_parallel::system span management
• Avoid some format! into immediate format!
• Fix panic on is_resource_* calls (#2828)
• Fix window size change panic
• fix Default implementation of Image so that size and data match
• Fix scale_factor_override in the winit backend
• Fix breakout example scoreboard
• Fix Option<NonSend<T>> and Option<NonSendMut<T>>
• fix missing paths in ECS SystemParam derive macro v2
• Add missing bytemuck feature
• Update EntityMut's location in push_children() and insert_children()
• Fixed issue with how texture arrays were uploaded with write_texture.
• Don't update when suspended to avoid GPU use on iOS.
• update archetypes for run criterias
• Fix AssetServer::get_asset_loader deadlock
• Fix unsetting RenderLayers bit in without fn
• Fix view vector in pbr frag to work in ortho
• Fixes Timer Precision Error Causing Panic
• [assets] Fix AssetServer::get_handle_path
• Fix bad bounds for NonSend SystemParams
• Add minimum sizes to textures to prevent crash
• [assets] set LoadState properly and more testing!
• [assets] properly set LoadState with invalid asset extension
• Fix Bevy crashing if no audio device is found
• Fixes dropping empty BlobVec
• [assets] fix Assets being set as 'changed' each frame
• drop overwritten component data on double insert
• Despawn with children doesn't need to remove entities from parents children when parents are also removed
• reduce tricky unsafety and simplify table structure
• Use bevy_reflect as path in case of no direct references
• Fix Events::<drain/clear> bug
• small ecs cleanup and remove_bundle drop bugfix
• Fix PBR regression for unlit materials
• prevent memory leak when dropping ParallelSystemContainer
• fix diagnostic length for asset count
• Fixes incorrect PipelineCompiler::compile_pipeline() step_mode
• Asset re-loading while it's being deleted
• Bevy derives handling generics in impl definitions.
• Fix unsoundness in Query::for_each_mut
• Fix mesh with no vertex attributes causing panic
• Fix alien_cake_addict: cake should not be at height of player's location
• fix memory size for PointLightBundle
• Fix unsoundness in query component access
• fixing compilation error on macos aarch64
• Fix SystemParam handling of Commands
• Fix IcoSphere UV coordinates
• fix 'attempted to subtract with overflow' for State::inactives

Version 0.5.0 (2021-04-06)

Added

• PBR Rendering
• PBR Textures
• HIDPI Text
• Rich text
• Wireframe Rendering Pipeline
• Render Layers
• Add Sprite Flipping
• OrthographicProjection scaling mode + camera bundle refactoring
• 3D OrthographicProjection improvements + new example
• Flexible camera bindings
• Render text in 2D scenes
• Text2d render quality
• System sets and run criteria v2
• System sets and parallel executor v2
• Many-to-many system labels
• Non-string labels (#1423 continued)
• Make EventReader a SystemParam
• Add EventWriter
• Reliable change detection
• Redo State architecture
• Query::get_unique
• gltf: load normal and occlusion as linear textures
• Add separate brightness field to AmbientLight
• world coords to screen space
• Experimental Frustum Culling (for Sprites)
• Enable wgpu device limits
• bevy_render: add torus and capsule shape
• New mesh attribute: color
• Minimal change to support instanced rendering
• Add support for reading from mapped buffers
• Texture atlas format and conversion
• enable wgpu device features
• Subpixel text positioning
• make more information available from loaded GLTF model
• use Name on node when loading a gltf file
• GLTF loader: support mipmap filters
• Add support for gltf::Material::unlit
• Implement Reflect for tuples up to length 12
• Process Asset File Extensions With Multiple Dots
• Update Scene Example to Use scn.ron File
• 3d game example
• Add keyboard modifier example (#1656)
• Count number of times a repeating Timer wraps around in a tick
• recycle Timer refactor to duration.sparkles Add Stopwatch struct.
• add scene instance entity iteration
• Make Commands and World apis consistent
• Add insert_children and push_children to EntityMut
• Extend AppBuilder api with add_system_set and similar methods
• add labels and ordering for transform and parent systems in POST_UPDATE stage
• Explicit execution order ambiguities API
• Resolve (most) internal system ambiguities
• Change 'components' to 'bundles' where it makes sense semantically
• add Flags<T> as a query to get flags of component
• Rename add_resource to insert_resource
• Update init_resource to not overwrite
• Enable dynamic mutable access to component data
• Get rid of ChangedRes
• impl SystemParam for Option<Res<T>> / Option<ResMut<T>>
• Add Window Resize Constraints
• Add basic file drag and drop support
• Modify Derive to allow unit structs for RenderResources.
• bevy_render: load .spv assets
• Expose wgpu backend in WgpuOptions and allow it to be configured from the environment
• updates on diagnostics (log + new diagnostics)
• enable change detection for labels
• Name component with fast comparisons
• Support for !Send tasks
• Add missing spawn_local method to Scope in the single threaded executor case
• Add bmp as a supported texture format
• Add an alternative winit runner that can be started when not on the main thread
• Added use_dpi setting to WindowDescriptor
• Implement Copy for ElementState
• Mutable mesh accessors: indices_mut and attribute_mut
• Add support for OTF fonts
• Add from_xyz to Transform
• Adding copy_texture_to_buffer and copy_texture_to_texture
• Added set_minimized and set_position to Window
• Example for 2D Frustum Culling
• Add remove resource to commands

Changed

• Bevy ECS V2
• Fix Reflect serialization of tuple structs
• color spaces and representation
• Make vertex buffers optional
• add to lower case to make asset loading case insensitive
• Replace right/up/forward and counter parts with local_x/local_y and local_z
• Use valid keys to initialize AHasher in FixedState
• Change Name to take Into<String> instead of String
• Update to wgpu-rs 0.7
• Update glam to 0.13.0.
• use std clamp instead of Bevy's
• Make Reflect impls unsafe (Reflect::any must return self)

Fixed

• convert grayscale images to rgb
• Glb textures should use bevy_render to load images
• Don't panic on error when loading assets
• Prevent ImageBundles from causing constant layout recalculations
• do not check for focus until cursor position has been set
• Fix lock order to remove the chance of deadlock
• Prevent double panic in the Drop of TaksPoolInner
• Ignore events when receiving unknown WindowId
• Fix potential bug when using multiple lights.
• remove panics when mixing UI and non UI entities in hierarchy
• fix label to load gltf scene
• fix repeated gamepad events
• Fix iOS touch location
• Don't panic if there's no index buffer and call draw
• Fix Bug in Asset Server Error Message Formatter
• add_stage now checks Stage existence
• Fix Un-Renamed add_resource Compile Error
• Fix Interaction not resetting to None sometimes
• Fix regression causing "flipped" sprites to be invisible
• revert default vsync mode to Fifo
• Fix missing paths in ECS SystemParam derive macro
• Fix staging buffer required size calculation (fixes #1056)

Version 0.4.0 (2020-12-19)

Added

• add bevymark benchmark example
• gltf: support camera and fix hierarchy
• Add tracing spans to schedules, stages, systems
• add example that represents contributors as bevy icons
• Add received character
• Add bevy_dylib to force dynamic linking of bevy
• Added RenderPass::set_scissor_rect
• bevy_log
  • Adds logging functionality as a Plugin.
  • Changes internal logging to work with the new implementation.
• cross-platform main function
• Controllable ambient light color
  • Added a resource to change the current ambient light color for PBR.
• Added more basic color constants
• Add box shape
• Expose an EventId for events
• System Inputs, Outputs, and Chaining
• Expose an EventId for events
• Added set_cursor_position to Window
• Added new Bevy reflection system
  • Replaces the properties system
• Add support for Apple Silicon
• Live reloading of shaders
• Store mouse cursor position in Window
• Add removal_detection example
• Additional vertex attribute value types
• Added WindowFocused event
• Tracing chrome span names
• Allow windows to be maximized
• GLTF: load default material
• can spawn a scene from a ChildBuilder, or directly set its parent when spawning it
• add ability to load .dds, .tga, and .jpeg texture formats
• add ability to provide custom a AssetIo implementation

Changed

• delegate layout reflection to RenderResourceContext
• Fall back to remove components one by one when failing to remove a bundle
• Port hecs derive macro improvements
• Use glyph_brush_layout and add text alignment support
• upgrade glam and hexasphere
• Flexible ECS Params
• Make Timer.tick return &Self
• FileAssetIo includes full path on error
• Removed ECS query APIs that could easily violate safety from the public interface
• Changed Query filter API to be easier to understand
• bevy_render: delegate buffer aligning to render_resource_context
• wasm32: non-spirv shader specialization
• Renamed XComponents to XBundle
• Check for conflicting system resource parameters
• Tweaks to TextureAtlasBuilder.finish()
• do not spend time drawing text with is_visible = false
• Extend the Texture asset type to support 3D data
• Breaking changes to timer API
  • Created getters and setters rather than exposing struct members.
• Removed timer auto-ticking system
  • Added an example of how to tick timers manually.
• When a task scope produces <= 1 task to run, run it on the calling thread immediately
• Breaking changes to Time API
  • Created getters to get Time state and made members private.
  • Modifying Time's values directly is no longer possible outside of bevy.
• Use mailbox instead of fifo for vsync on supported systems
• switch winit size to logical to be dpi independent
• Change bevy_input::Touch API to match similar APIs
• Run parent-update and transform-propagation during the "post-startup" stage (instead of "startup")
• Renderer Optimization Round 1
• ChangeTextureAtlasBuilder into expected Builder conventions
• Optimize Text rendering / SharedBuffers
• hidpi swap chains
• optimize asset gpu data transfer
• naming coherence for cameras
• Schedule v2
• Use shaderc for aarch64-apple-darwin
• update Window's width & height methods to return f32
• Break out Visible component from Draw
  • Users setting Draw::is_visible or Draw::is_transparent should now set Visible::is_visible and Visible::is_transparent
• winit upgraded from version 0.23 to version 0.24
• set is_transparent to true by default for UI bundles

Fixed

• Fixed typos in KeyCode identifiers
• Remove redundant texture copies in TextureCopyNode
• Fix a deadlock that can occur when using scope() on ComputeTaskPool from within a system
• Don't draw text that isn't visible
• Use instant::Instant for WASM compatibility
• Fix pixel format conversion in bevy_gltf
• Fixed duplicated children when spawning a Scene
• Corrected behaviour of the UI depth system
• Allow despawning of hierarchies in threadlocal systems
• Fix RenderResources index slicing
• Run parent-update and transform-propagation during the "post-startup" stage
• Fix collision detection by comparing abs() penetration depth
• deal with rounding issue when creating the swap chain
• only update components for entities in map
• Don't panic when attempting to set shader defs from an asset that hasn't loaded yet

Version 0.3.0 (2020-11-03)

Added

• Touch Input
• iOS XCode Project
• Android Example and use bevy-glsl-to-spirv 0.2.0
• Introduce Mouse capture API
• bevy_input::touch: implement touch input
• D-pad support on MacOS
• Support for Android file system
• app: PluginGroups and DefaultPlugins
  • PluginGroup is a collection of plugins where each plugin can be enabled or disabled.
• Support to get gamepad button/trigger values using Axis<GamepadButton>
• Expose Winit decorations
• Enable changing window settings at runtime
• Expose a pointer of EventLoopProxy to process custom messages
• Add a way to specify padding/ margins between sprites in a TextureAtlas
• Add bevy_ecs::Commands::remove for bundles
• impl Default for TextureFormat
• Expose current_entity in ChildBuilder
• AppBuilder::add_thread_local_resource
• Commands::write_world_boxed takes a pre-boxed world writer to the ECS's command queue
• FrameTimeDiagnosticsPlugin now shows "frame count" in addition to "frame time" and "fps"
• Add hierarchy example
• WgpuPowerOptions for choosing between low power, high performance, and adaptive power
• Derive Debug for more types: #597, #632
• Index buffer specialization
  • Allows the use of U32 indices in Mesh index buffers in addition to the usual U16 indices
  • Switch to u32 indices by default
• More instructions for system dependencies
  • Add systemd-devel for Fedora Linux dependencies
  • Add libudev-dev to Ubuntu dependencies
  • Add Void Linux to linux dependencies file
  • WSL2 instructions
• Suggest -Zrun-dsymutil-no for faster compilation on MacOS

Changed

• ecs: ergonomic query.iter(), remove locks, add QuerySets
  • query.iter() is now a real iterator!
  • QuerySet allows working with conflicting queries and is checked at compile-time.
• Rename query.entity() and query.get()
  • query.get::<Component>(entity) is now query.get_component::<Component>(entity)
  • query.entity(entity) is now query.get(entity)
• Asset system rework and GLTF scene loading
• Introduces WASM implementation of AssetIo
• Move transform data out of Mat4
• Separate gamepad state code from gamepad event code and other customizations
• gamepad: expose raw and filtered gamepad events
• Do not depend on spirv-reflect on wasm32 target
• Move dynamic plugin loading to its own optional crate
• Add field to WindowDescriptor on wasm32 targets to optionally provide an existing canvas element as winit window
• Adjust how ArchetypeAccess tracks mutable & immutable deps
• Use FnOnce in Commands and ChildBuilder where possible
• Runners explicitly call App.initialize()
• sRGB awareness for Color
  • Color is now assumed to be provided in the non-linear sRGB colorspace. Constructors such as Color::rgb and Color::rgba will be converted to linear sRGB.
  • New methods Color::rgb_linear and Color::rgba_linear will accept colors already in linear sRGB (the old behavior)
  • Individual color-components must now be accessed through setters and getters.
• Mesh overhaul with custom vertex attributes
  • Any vertex attribute can now be added over mesh.attributes.insert().
  • See example/shader/mesh_custom_attribute.rs
  • Removed VertexAttribute, Vertex, AsVertexBufferDescriptor.
  • For missing attributes (requested by shader, but not defined by mesh), Bevy will provide a zero-filled fallback buffer.
• Despawning an entity multiple times causes a debug-level log message to be emitted instead of a panic: #649, #651
• Migrated to Rodio 0.12
  • New method of playing audio can be found in the examples.
• Added support for inserting custom initial values for Local<T> system resources #745

Fixed

• Properly update bind group ids when setting dynamic bindings
• Properly exit the app on AppExit event
• Fix FloatOrd hash being different for different NaN values
• Fix Added behavior for QueryOne get
• Update camera_system to fix issue with late camera addition
• Register IndexFormat as a property
• Fix breakout example bug
• Fix PreviousParent lag by merging parent update systems
• Fix bug of connection event of gamepad at startup
• Fix wavy text

Version 0.2.1 (2020-9-20)

Fixed

• Remove UI queue print
• Use async executor 1.3.0

Version 0.2.0 (2020-9-19)

Added

• Task System for Bevy
  • Replaces rayon with a custom designed task system that consists of several "TaskPools".
  • Exports IOTaskPool, ComputePool, and AsyncComputePool in bevy_tasks crate.
• Parallel queries for distributing work over with the ParallelIterator trait.
  • e.g. query.iter().par_iter(batch_size).for_each(/* ... */)
• Added gamepad support using Gilrs
• Implement WASM support for bevy_winit
• Create winit canvas under WebAssembly
• Implement single threaded task scheduler for WebAssembly
• Support for binary glTF (.glb).
• Support for Or in ECS queries.
• Added methods unload() and unload_sync() on SceneSpawner for unloading scenes..
• Custom rodio source for audio.
  • AudioOuput is now able to play anything Decodable.
• Color::hex for creating Color from string hex values.
  • Accepts the forms RGB, RGBA, RRGGBB, and RRGGBBAA.
• Color::rgb_u8 and Color::rgba_u8.
• Added bevy_render::pass::ClearColor to prelude.
• SpriteResizeMode may choose how Sprite resizing should be handled. Automatic by default.
• Added methods on Input<T> for iterator access to keys.
  • get_pressed(), get_just_pressed(), get_just_released()
• Derived Copy for MouseScrollUnit.
• Derived Clone for UI component bundles.
• Some examples of documentation
• Update docs for Updated, Changed and Mutated
• Tips for faster builds on macOS: #312, #314, #433
• Added and documented cargo features
  • Created document docs/cargo_features.md.
  • Added features for x11 and wayland display servers.
  • and added a feature to disable libloading. (helpful for WASM support)
• Added more instructions for Linux dependencies
  • Arch / Manjaro, NixOS, Ubuntu and Solus
• Provide shell.nix for easier compiling with nix-shell
• Add AppBuilder::add_startup_stage_|before/after

Changed

• Transform rewrite
• Use generational entity ids and other optimizations
• Optimize transform systems to only run on changes.
• Send an AssetEvent when modifying using get_id_mut
• Rename Assets::get_id_mut -> Assets::get_with_id_mut
• Support multiline text in DrawableText
• iOS: use shaderc-rs for glsl to spirv compilation
• Changed the default node size to Auto instead of Undefined to match the Stretch implementation.
• Load assets from root path when loading directly
• Add render feature, which makes the entire render pipeline optional.

Fixed

• Properly track added and removed RenderResources in RenderResourcesNode.
  • Fixes issues where entities vanished or changed color when new entities were spawned/despawned.
• Fixed sprite clipping at same depth
  • Transparent sprites should no longer clip.
• Check asset path existence
• Fixed deadlock in hot asset reloading
• Fixed hot asset reloading on Windows
• Allow glTFs to be loaded that don't have uvs and normals
• Fixed archetypes_generation being incorrectly updated for systems
• Remove child from parent when it is despawned
• Initialize App.schedule systems when running the app
• Fix missing asset info path for synchronous loading
• fix font atlas overflow
• do not assume font handle is present in assets

Internal Improvements

• Many improvements to Bevy's CI #325, #349, #357, #373, #423

Version 0.1.3 (2020-8-22)

Version 0.1.2 (2020-8-10)

Version 0.1.1 (2020-8-10)

Version 0.1.0 (2020-8-10)