v1.6.1

Changelog:

New features

• Sprite rendering now _400%_ faster when dealing with separate textures in webGL

Bug Fixes

• Text width and height now returns the correct values
• Fixed issue where PIXI.Graphics.drawRoundedRect was not rendering in webGL
• Tweaked PIXI.Graphics.arcTo function so it draws correctly
• Fixed PIXI.CanvasRenderer render texture resize issue
• Fixed IE9 issue when declaring Float32Array
• Fixed typo in URL
• Added 0 width check to PIXI.DisplayObjectContainer

Misc

• cleaned up some trailing commas on objects declarations
• redundant variables removed

v1.6.0

Changelog:

New features

• Big graphics update!
• Complex polys now supported in Pixi in webGL.
• Nested masking and complex poly masking supported in webGL.
• quadraticCurveTo added to PIXI.Graphics.
• bezierCurveTo added to PIXI.Graphics.
• arcTo added to PIXI.Graphics.
• arc added to PIXI.Graphics.
• drawPath added to PIXI.Graphics.
• roundedRectangle added to PIXI.Graphics.
• PIXI.Strip and PIXI.Rope added to library along with a new example.
• addChild / addChildAt functions now return the child.
• Add scaleMode params to PIXI.FilterTexture and PIXI.RenderTexture.
• fromFrames and fromImages static helper methods added to PIXI.MovieClip.
• updateSourceImage added to PIXI.BaseTexture.
• Added multitouch support.
• new valid property added to PIXI.Texture.
• Option to control premultiplied alpha on textures.
• Pixi logs current version in the console.
• webp image support.
• clear function added to PIXI.RenderTexture

Bug Fixes

• Fix to roundPixels property in PIXI.CanvasRenderer.
• Fixed interactive bug when mousemove being called on removed objects.
• Fix bug touch move event handling.
• Various CocoonJS Fixs.
• Masks now work when used in PIXI.RenderTextures / cacheAsBitmap and PIXI.Filters.
• Fixed bug where stroked PIXI.Text sometimes got clipped.
• Removed the trailing whitespace when wordwrapping a PIXI.Text.
• Fixed texture loading on IE11.
• Fixed Data URI loading.
• Fixed issue so now loader only uses XDomainRequest in IE, if a crossorigin request is needed.
• Fixed issue where alpha not being respected if cacheAsBitmap is true
• Fixed PIXI.RendeTexture resize bug.
• Fixed PIXI.TilingSprite not render children on canvas.
• Fixes issue where if both mask and filter are applied to one object the object did not render.
• If the texture is destroyed, it should be removed from PIXI.TextureCache too.
• PIXI.Graphics blendMode property now works in webGL.
• Trimmed sprites now behave the same as non trimmed sprites.

Misc

• Doc tweaks / typo corrections.
• Added Spine license to src.
• Removed this.local in InteractionData.
• Shader manager Simplified.
• Sprite._renderCanvas streamlined and optimized.
• WebGL drawCalls optimized.

v1.5.2

Changelog:

New features

• CacheAsBitmap added to displayObjects
• CacheAsBitmap added to Graphics Object
• Added generateTexture function to DispalyObjects
• Added optional FilterArea to displayObject (for optimisation)
• removeChildAt function added to DisplayObject (@andrevenancio)
• removeChildren function added to DisplayObject (@andrevenancio)
• dropShadow properties added to Text.
• Graphics chaining functions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed setTexture bug with TilingSprite
• Fixed anchor point bug in canvas with TilingSprite
• Fixed positionOffset not begin correct in TilingSprite
• Fixed issue where filters were not being applied to TilingSprite
• Fixed SpriteBatch canvas transform bug
• Fixed issue with mouseupoutside not firing, when mouse is out of document body (@ekelokorpi)
• Fixed Cached textures issue when using base64 encoded images (@cacheflowe)
• Fixed issue where visibility was not being respected in sprite batch
• Fixed bug in gl.bindTexture which tried to use an undefined private var. (@photonstorm)
• Fixed the 'short cut' version of Math.floor in setTransform if roundPixels is true. (@photonstorm)
• Fixed cross domain so it is now true by default
• Loader now uses ie9s XDomainRequest object when loading sprite sheet data so loadin crossdomain sprite sheets in ie9 now works like a champ
• Fixed AssetLoader undefined evt.loader (@ekelokorpi)

Misc

• Added cacheAsBitmapExample
• Documentation tweaks
• Lowered the default size of SpriteBatch from 10000 to 2000 as this yields faster results on mobile
• Grunt watch task added to grunt file (@mattdesl)
• Karma verison updated

v1.5.1

• Fix an issue with updateTransform (#569)
• Change parameter order of PIXI.autoDetectRenderer (#572)
• Fix Karma timeout (#574)
• Fix TilingSprite bug in Firefox

v1.5.0

Changelog:

New features

• Added PIXI.SpriteBatch Container to bring crazy speed boosts to the renderer
• Added set function to PIXI.Point
• Pass loader that completed in loader progress event
• Make clear/fill rect and point rounding configurable (thanks @photonstorm)
• Add tinting for BitmapText glyphs (thanks @weepy)
• Add ability to not Y flip a WebGL texture
• Add autoPreventDefault to InteractionManager
• Add WebGL destroy functions
• Add canvas cache for Texture.fromCanvas
• Add all supported blend modes to the Canvas Renderer

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug with masking a tiling sprite
• Fix rouge newline characters in Text (thanks @photonstorm)
• Fix ellipse contains function
• Make trim be a rectangle instead of a point
• Fix some SpriteBatch issues
• Fix gl variable in RenderTexture.resize (thanks @tleunen)
• Fix issues with mouseleave events in InteractionManager
• Fix image type checking (thanks @drkibitz)
• Fix various issues with .getBounds() implementations
• Fix some canvas rendering issues
• Fix problems with ie11 and cross origin
• Fix WebGL transparent canvas issues
• Fix texture scaling in canvas
• Fix issue with tinting in canvas

Misc

• Tons of documentation updates (thanks @alvinsight)
• Remove mat3 and mat4 in favor of a Matrix object - (giving pixi a nice speed boost)
• .addChild now just uses .addChildAt (thanks @qzix13)
• Remove some globals and refactor constants
• Whitespace/grammar fixes (thanks @danzel)

v1.4.3

Fixed Bug Where PIXI.Graphics children not rendering
Fixed Memory Leak in removeChild

Removed visibleCount reference as its no longer used

v1.4.2

• webGL renderer is now fully compatible with IE11
• Fully compatible with Cocoon.js (@ekelokorpi)
• Fixed issue where PIXI.TilingSprite required a power of two texture. It now accepts any texture.
• Added new tint example
• Added new blendMode example
• Added cacheAsBitmap to PIXI.Graphics object. Useful for complex graphics objects. Also a great way to guarantee antialiasing on graphics objects in webGL as it renders using canvas
• Added generateTexture to PIXI.Graphics object. This function returns a PIXI.Texture of the graphics object. Useful if the graphics objects as is used multiple times
• Added AlphaMaskFilter

Bug Fixes

• Added setStageRefferance function added to DisplayObject
• Fixed DestroyTexture function in webGLRenderer
• Redundant code removed from SpineLoader and SpriteSheetLoader (@Nibbler999)

Misc

• Various Minor tweaks.

v1.4.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed some typos and small bugs

v1.4.0

Changelog:

New features

• WebGL Filters
• Added Sprite Tinting (canvas and webGL)
• Added Sprite blend modes (canvas and webGL)
• Added webGL context loss handling
• New webGL renderer
• Restructured the canvas renderer
• Added ability to have multiple renderers on one web page
• Added support for trimmed sprite sheets
• Add a Contributing Guide
• Add an Atlas Spritesheet loader (#444, @MKelm)
• Implement swapChildren (#431, @namuol)
• Add base64 support to asset loader (#414, @mattdesl)
• Add totalFrames to PIXI.MovieClip (#315, @mikkoh)
• Add uniform sprite sheet loader (#311, @alaa-eddine)
• Make Interactive dom element configurable (#321, @mikkoh)
• Add AMD export (#267)
• Implement travis-ci and jshint integration (thanks @drkibitz)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue where urls have http in the resource (#443, @sirflo)
• Fix IE11 check (#442, @photonstorm)
• Fix issues where nested Masking was not working correctly in webGL
• Fix cursor style for interactive sprites (#347, @lain-dono)
• Fix issues with texture destroy (#415, @mattdesl)
• Fix incorrect BitmapText width (#425, @jcd-as)
• Fix issue with query params on asset loader (#400, @hugeen)
• Fix transparent background on objects (#286, @mdoch)
• Fix problems with event emitter (#187, @johnste)
• Fix handling of black colors (#288)
• Fix an issue with empty masks (#313)
• Fix detector code (#358, @mattdesl)
• Fix issues with IE ajax
• Fix misc bugs with PIXI.Graphics
• Fix issue with removing children with filters
• Fix a bunch of documentation errors
• Fix setText to be on proper prototype (#330)

Misc

• Shader code cleanup

v1.3.0

v1.3.0 is here!

So whats new? Basically Its faster and does more stuff:

• Spine runtime is now much more robust with lots of little tweaks and bug fixes to make it more compatible.
• Spine runtime now supports skins.
• New Spine example (goblins) added to show how skins work.
• RequestAnimationFrame Polyfill updated.
• Custom object hitAreas can now be circles / rectangles / or polys.
• WebGL Shader optimised by removing projection matrix.
• Rendering now uses linked list to traverse objects increasing render speeds.
• Optimised addChild function. Its now way faster.
• Added new graphics object allowing for primitive drawing.
• New example added to showcase the graphics object.
• Added masks. A graphics object can now be used to mask another pixi object.
• New example added to showcase masking.
• Src code organised into nice new structure.
• Option to enable/disable antialiasing when creating a webGL renderer.
• Original mouse events now passed along to pixi interaction events.
• PreventDefault is now not called by the interaction manager on mouse down / touchStart.
• setInteractive replaced with the getter/setter interactive.
• Lots of other little bug fixes and tweaks that make pixi even better.

We hope you find this update useful, Enjoy!