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diff --git a/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md b/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44b9b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/chickadee-0.10.0-released.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +title: Chickadee 0.10.0 released +date: 2023-05-24 08:00:00 +tags: guile, gamedev, chickadee, release +summary: Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released +--- + +I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! + +Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to +provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers +need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. + +This release is on the smaller side as I just haven’t had much time to +work on Chickadee in the past 6 or so months, but I'm trying to stick +with the routine of publishing a release before each Lisp Game Jam. +The [Spring Lisp Game Jam +2023](https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2023) is starting on +May 26th and if you're interested enough in Chickadee to read this +blog post then you should considering joining in! + +The biggest change in this release is not technical: Chickadee has +been relicensed from GPLv3 to Apache 2.0. This change reflects the +reality that copyleft isn’t a great strategy for something like a game +development library because there are many options to choose from and +all of the best ones use very liberal licenses like the zlib license. +It used to be that there weren’t a lot of game libraries available for +the Lisp family of languages, but that hasn’t been true for awhile. +Most notably, [Trial](https://shirakumo.github.io/trial/) is a Common +Lisp game *engine* that has been used to ship a very real and very +good game called [Kandria](https://shinmera.itch.io/kandria), is far +more featureful than Chickadee, far more battle-tested, and is +available under the zlib license. Apache 2.0 was chosen despite the +bad name that really ought to be changed because it is a similarly +liberal license but also covers software patent nonsense. If the GPL +has been a blocker to using Chickadee for you in the past then I hope +this license change fixes it. + +Notable improvements and changes: + +* Chickadee is now licensed under the Apache 2.0 license rather than + GPLv3+. +* New window event hooks added to `run-game`. +* Garbage generated in performance critical code has been + significantly reduced (but not eliminated.) +* Syntax highlighting in manual code snippets. +* New `#:smooth?` argument for `load-font`. + +Bug fixes: + +* 9-patches now render texture regions properly. +* List of bundled libraries needed by `chickadee bundle` was + inaccurate in 0.9.0 and has been fixed. +* `#:audio` keyword argument to `make-source` is no longer ignored. +* Loading unsupported types of PNG files no longer throws an exception + when printing the error message. + +source tarball: <https://files.dthompson.us/chickadee/chickadee-0.10.0.tar.gz> + +signature: <https://files.dthompson.us/chickadee/chickadee-0.10.0.tar.gz.asc> + +See the [Chickadee project page](/projects/chickadee.html) for more +information. + +Bug reports, bug fixes, feature requests, and patches are welcomed. + +Have fun! |