preview-v8.0.0-pre.31

🎉 New Features

• changes for JIT support for freebsd (#1696 by polyduekes-git)
• add option to map RAmiga key to another key (#1697 by midwan)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix all C++ string constant conversion warnings (#1686 by wgottwalt)
• HRTMon ROM check fix
• check for $AMIBERRY_HOME_DIR before the last fallback (fixes #1698)
• Virtual keyboard would always show on startup (#1702)
• Virtual keyboard input would pass through (fixes #1702)
• re-enable custom gfx boards sanity check

🔨 Improvements

• Document --log option in help and GUI helptext (fixes #1689)
• merge GCC fixes from WinUAE
• update AROS roms to latest version
• Support broken cue files with "TRACK 0" instead of "TRACK 01". (fixes #1691)
• scale height of NTSC resolutions properly (fixes #1703)
• improve auto-crop when using NTSC (#1703)
• Added CD Drive controller support (fixes #1690)
• upgrade tinyxml2 to latest version

🏗️ Build System

• updated flatpak libpcap package [skip ci]

🏗️ Build System

• automatically disable PCem on RISC-V platforms (#1685)

🪚 Refactors

• fix build for RISC-V by making PCem optional (#1685)

📚 Documentation Changes

• add --log option in manpage (fixes #1695)

🧹 Chores

• rename SCSI Kit -> Blizzard SCSI Kit

preview-v8.0.0-pre.30

This is a preview of the upcoming Amiberry v8.0.0 release, covering 350+ changes since v7.1.1. This represents a massive leap forward — a new GUI framework, new platform support (Windows, Android, Haiku), JIT across all major architectures, a complete networking stack overhaul, and hundreds of fixes and improvements.

⚠️ This is a pre-release. While it's been tested extensively, there may be remaining issues. Please report any problems you find!

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🎉 Major New Features

Dear ImGui GUI (replaces Guisan)

• Complete replacement of the old Guisan-based GUI with modern Dear ImGui (#1740, #1775)
• DPI-aware scaling on all platforms
• ImGuiFileDialog replaces old file browser
• Removed SDL2_TTF and libguisan dependencies entirely
• GUI position is remembered between sessions
• imgui.ini file creation is disabled (settings stored in amiberry.conf)

Windows Native Support

• Full native Windows version (#1781)
• InnoSetup installer with SHA256SUMS and .exe release artifacts
• Optional file associations for Amiga file types (.adf, .hdf, .uae, etc.)
• Embedded application icon in executable
• Capitalized executable name (Amiberry.exe)
• Proper path resolution using executable directory instead of CWD
• Console window management (no forced console on startup)

Android Native Support

• Full native Android version with Kotlin/Compose UI (#1768)
• On-screen touch controls with virtual joystick (#1786)
• Native Android keyboard support
• Android TV support
• Native Home screen with content browsing
• Touch scrolling improvements
• Back button opens GUI
• Version derived from root CMakeLists.txt (single source of truth)
• Available on Google Play Store soon

Libretro Core

• RetroArch/Libretro core integration (#1803)
• Comprehensive improvements in follow-up (#1825):
  • Core options: sound filter, stereo separation, floppy speed, video standard (PAL/NTSC)
  • Modern Libretro API adoption (audio latency, buffer status callbacks, message severity)
  • CUE/CCD sheet parsing for CD content detection
  • Support for RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_SUPPORT_NO_GAME (Workbench boot without game)
  • CD32 Pad and Joystick controller subtypes
  • Superhires geometry support (up to 1920×1280)
  • Save state bug fixes (double close, variable-size serialization quirks)
  • Fixed aspect ratio (4:3) and multi-port mouse polling

OpenGL Renderer & Shader Support

• New OpenGL rendering backend with full GLSL shader support
• Built-in CRT shader: 1084 monitor emulation
• Support for external GLSL shader files
• OpenGL set as default renderer (shader set to none for max performance)
• Improved OpenGL ES and modern OpenGL compatibility (#1760)
• Adaptive VSync implementation
• Lagless VSync options (beam racing)
• OpenGL and Auto Crop interaction fixed with CRT shaders (#1728)
• Shader option exposed to amiberry.conf
• Shader changes apply immediately

ARM64 JIT Compiler

• JIT enabled for ARM64 Linux (#1785)
• JIT enabled for macOS Apple Silicon (#1802)
• JIT enabled for Android
• Major stability fixes for ARM64: crashes, visual corruption, 64-bit pointer safety (#1766, #1824)
• Fixed BSR.L / Bcc.L displacement sign extension
• Fixed 64-bit pointer truncation in FPU branch handler
• JIT and CPU thread can now work together (#1806)
• Dynamic unstable block guard with quarantine system for startup stability

x86-64 JIT Improvements

• Made 64-bit pointer-clean for Windows/Linux/macOS (#1811)
• PIE compatible (#1820)
• FreeBSD support with ASLR-safe cache allocation (#1814)
• Fixed SIGSEGV handler crash with comp_catchfault on Linux (#1816)
• Corrected JIT cache distance check threshold to actual RIP-relative limit (#1821)

Custom Bezels

• Support for custom bezel/overlay images
• Fixed bezel aspect ratio preservation
• Fixed bezel image centering

Networking Overhaul

• TAP networking backend for bridged A2065 emulation (#1784)
• Complete rewrite of PCAP backend for correct bridged networking (#1777)
• Segment GRO/GSO-coalesced packets in PCAP receive path (#1780)
• Fixed deadlock in PCAP worker thread (#1773)
• Populate device_settings when parsing A2065 config (#1774)

Host-Shell Support

• AmigaOS host-run/host-shell integration (#1742)

Haiku OS Support

• Build and run on Haiku R1 Beta5 (#1827)

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🚀 Performance Improvements

• RTG Zero Copy: Zero-copy rendering mechanism for Picasso96, avoiding redundant buffer copies (#1762)
• CPU Threading: Enable and optimize CPU threading with multiple fixes (#1767)
• Partial Renders: Only redraw changed portions of the emulation display
• CL5429 VGA: Improved CL5429 blitter/fill operations for RTG performance
• P96 Dirty Rects: Bridge P96 invalidation to SDL dirty rect system — only update modified portions of RTG screens (#1712, #1741)
• Optimized 24-bpp P96: Faster fillrect_frame_buffer for 24-bit modes
• Shader Rendering: Optimized rendering performance for shaders (#1756)
• Flush Clear Screen: Optimized clear screen operations
• Parallel LTO: Added parallel LTO compilation support and CPU optimization flags (#1724)
• Reduced Render Overhead: Avoid SDL_RenderClear when render quad covers the entire screen; use SDL_Delay to reduce CPU wakeups
• Status Line: Rendered as separate texture instead of pushing pixels on the emulation surface

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🐛 Bug Fixes

BSD Socket / Networking

• Major bsdsocket.library implementation overhaul (#1359)
• Fix SO_EVENTMASK crash and WaitSelect hang (#1787)
• Fix SBTC_DTABLESIZE crash and WaitSelect bounds check (#1788)
• Implement Inet_LnaOf, Inet_NetOf, and Inet_MakeAddr (#1789)
• Fix sendmsg/recvmsg data corruption (#1790)
• Resolve 9 remaining bsdsocket emulation bugs (#1791)
• Fix close event monitor race (#1792)
• Fix Windows bsdsocket bugs and consolidate shared code (#1793)
• Fix errno clobbering and thread cleanup race on non-Windows platforms (#1828)
• Fix host_WaitSelect result propagation
• Add SETERRNO checks throughout
• Add support for Amiga-specific socket options and interface discovery IOCTLs
• Fix multiple bugs in bsdsocket_host.cpp

JIT

• Fix ARM64 JIT crashes, visual corruption, and 64-bit pointer safety (#1824)
• Fix crash when JIT was enabled in complex configs
• Fix JIT FPU would not enable from uae-configuration
• Fix bug when toggling JIT on/off through event
• Fix 32-bit memory allocation (#1753)

Graphics & Display

• Fix black screen when autoresolution was enabled
• Fix OpenGL rendering issues (upside-down textures, format handling, OSD position)
• Fix absolute mouse positioning in fullscreen and HiDPI (Retina) environments
• Fix KMSDRM mode rendering: scale option, 16-bit RTG, keyboard input, mouse offset (#1823)
• Fix hardware RTG cursor and mouse position handling (#1763)
• Fix CL5429 optimizations causing 8-bit modes to show garbage (#1746)
• Fix P96 mode 1024×600 error on startup (#1708)
• Fix hardware mouse cursor using BGR instead of RGB
• Fix display port adapters
• Fix transparency of hardware sprite in P96 modes
• Fix RTG modes having incorrect aspect ratio
• Fix DPF mode garbage in right border
• Fix bpl_end calculation in hires
• Fix mode switch height c...

v7.1.1

🎉 New Features

• changes for JIT support for freebsd (#1696 by polyduekes-git)
• add option to map RAmiga key to another key (#1697 by midwan)

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix all C++ string constant conversion warnings (#1686 by wgottwalt)
• HRTMon ROM check fix
• check for $AMIBERRY_HOME_DIR before the last fallback (fixes #1698)
• Virtual keyboard would always show on startup (#1702)
• Virtual keyboard input would pass through (fixes #1702)
• re-enable custom gfx boards sanity check

🔨 Improvements

• Document --log option in help and GUI helptext (fixes #1689)
• merge GCC fixes from WinUAE
• update AROS roms to latest version
• Support broken cue files with "TRACK 0" instead of "TRACK 01". (fixes #1691)
• scale height of NTSC resolutions properly (fixes #1703)
• improve auto-crop when using NTSC (#1703)
• Added CD Drive controller support (fixes #1690)
• upgrade tinyxml2 to latest version

🏗️ Build System

• updated flatpak libpcap package
• automatically disable PCem on RISC-V platforms (#1685)

🪚 Refactors

• fix build for RISC-V by making PCem optional (#1685)

📚 Documentation Changes

• add --log option in manpage (fixes #1695)

🧹 Chores

• rename SCSI Kit -> Blizzard SCSI Kit

v7.1.0

🎉 New Features

• implement uaenet.device using pcap (fixes #1678 by midwan)
• Add CHD-zstd support (#1679 by rtissera)
• Added FreeBSD support. No binaries available in the release, but it will now build and run properly

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix compile error on latest GCC versions (fixes #1673)
• make gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr thread-safe (issue #1487)
• Don't throw serial port errors to the console
• Prevent null pointer return for small ROM buffer sizes
• Fix Custom Controls not loaded (fixes #1665)

🔨 Improvements

• improve bsdsocket library emulation (#1359)
• log any privileged ports access
• reduce log spam (#1359)
• Improve raw socket handling (#1359)
• Fix display adapter detection logic (fixes #1677)
• Added support for CHD+zstd archives
• make ZSTD support optional

🏗️ Build System

• add libzstd in build dependencies in pipeline
• workflow improvements, added Brewfile
• improve aarch64 toolchain file
• reorganize root cmake file [skip ci]
• workflow fixes
• fixed artifact name

📚 Documentation Changes

• minor fixes in readme

🧹 Chores

• added libpcap in .DEB package description
• improve gitignore file
• updated version to 7.1.0 for next release

v7.0.9

🐛 Bugfixes

• disable debug only DEV IDE entry from Expansions (fixes #1664)
• Fixed some GUI widgets were not visible in Add Hardfile dialog
• Fix keyboard left/right in GUI text fields would jump two characters

🔨 Improvements

• Add Swap Backslash/F11 option to GUI and INI file
• Don't destroy the window when changing gfx settings
• try to calculate hardfile sizes correctly on macOS (#1603)

🧹 Chores

• bump version to 7.0.9

v7.0.8

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed mouse positioning which broke after recent refactor
• Fixed filesys/action_read_link crash (#1659)
• fix version string was not initialized early enough (fixes #1661)
• Fixes filesys returning 0 in case of a malformed UTF filename
• Fixed bsdsocket emulation fdcallback crash (#1663)
• Fix version string being truncated (fixes #1662)
• Fix positioning in checkboxes in Expansion Panel (fixes #1655)

🔨 Improvements

• add support for 3.2.3 ROMs

🏗️ Build System

• skip obsolete Ubuntu 20 from builds

v7.0.7

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fixed GUI Expansion panel (fixes #1652)
• Fixed crash when trying to access non-existing Displays

🪚 Refactors

• Skip gfx_lock/unlock mechanism
• Status LED improvements
• Remove one more gfx_lock/unlock for P96
• convert GUI icons from .ico to .png

🧹 Chores

• fix whitespaces

v7.0.6

🎉 New Features

• Expand uaelib and uaenative with more functions
• implemented custom board order option in HWInfo panel
• expose Z3 mapping mode option in GUI->RAM
• added Default sound frequency option in amiberry.conf (fixes #1644)

🐛 Bugfixes

• fixed setcursor dx/dy variable values
• Update WHDBooter didn't use the correct path on MacOS
• Fixed selecting custom SCSI Rom did not work (fixes #1641)
• if audio was disabled, audio_pull_buffer could fail
• Fix inverted status line colors
• fixed text being cut-off for SLIRP devices
• Fixed SLIRP implementation (fixes #1647)

🔨 Improvements

• add a default Dark theme (fixes #1639) (#1640)
• Updated gamecontrollerdb to latest version
• added A600GS in gamecontrollerdb_user
• updated whdload_db.xml to latest version
• added Drive Cable options for GreaseWeazle

🏎️ Performance Improvements

• optimize read_processor_time

🪚 Refactors

• Refactor most of amiberry_filesys
• more amiberry_filesys refactoring
• more filesystem related refactoring
• remove extra check for parent->parent
• -1 is not a valid number for SDL
• Always set the texture size to that of the surface
• check if surface exists before freeing it
• Use monid in scaling option function
• Use monid in references of scaling function
• indicate more Amigerry-specific sections in the code
• add ifdef in midiemu
• change how Version information is constructed

🧹 Chores

• minor refactoring

v7.0.5

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix CD32 block caching
• serial port support was always disabled after recent refactoring

🔨 Improvements

• Restore focus when exiting debugger
• Debugger window focus update

🏗️ Build System

• Bump version to 7.0.5

🪚 Refactors

• don't create the rp9 folder on startup (#1483)
• don't specify a format during DisplayMode switching

📚 Documentation Changes

• improve Readme regarding available packages (fixes #1630)
• fix typo

🧹 Chores

• mark USE_OPENGL as broken in Cmake

v7.0.4

🐛 Bugfixes

• fix macOS intel crashes in some cases (fixes #1555)

🪚 Refactors

• use tabs in amiberry.cpp