1st pass at Year in Review post.

Author: CartBlanche

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+title: A Year in Review
+date: "2024-12-01"
+excerpt: Details about the educational release of Old School Adventure
+tags: foundation, source, educational
+author:  MonoGame Foundation
+image: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+ogImage: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+---
+
+# What a year it's been!
+
+It has been a year since we announced that we received a very generous donation from Re-Logic and the formation of the MonoGame Foundation. A lot has happened.
+
+### So far in the last year we:
+
+* Now have recurring Patreon subscriptions of $788/month  
+* Refreshed the website, with more focus on the creators and their titles \- Thanks Chris (ArisTurtle)  
+* Overhauled the documentation site and increased the content by more than 500%, with even more to come  
+* Released 3.8.2
+
+* #### Appointed to the board
+
+  * President \- Dean Ellis  
+  * Chairman \- Marko Jeremic  
+  * Secretary \- Simon Jackson  
+  * Banking \- Tom Spilman  
+  * Member \- Thomas Altenburger  
+  * Treasurer \- Dominique Louis  
+  * Please read our [Board Meeting notes](https://monogame.net/blog/meeting)  
+* Regular board meetings with full transparency, keeping the community involved in the plans and actions for MonoGame to take it into the next decade.
+
+* #### Completed Bounties
+
+  * [Package up ffmpeg and ffprobe](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8241)  
+  * [Upgrade MonoGame to use BasisUniversal for cross-platform Texture Compression](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8419)  
+  * [A shared base for public and console repos](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8242)  
+  * [Implement the Direct3D 12 / GDK/GDKX backend \#8195](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8195)
+
+* #### In Progress Bounties
+
+  * [Switch the console runtime from BRUTE to NativeAOT \#8194](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8194)  
+  * [A better 2D onboarding tutorial \#8317](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8317)  
+  * [A better 3D onboarding tutorial \#8318](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8318)
+
+* #### More bounties to come in the areas of:
+
+  * Graphics  
+    * Optimise and fix DesktopVK  
+      * Why: it is still experimental and there is some unexpected flickers  
+  * Content  
+    * Native Texture Compression and Asset processing shared object  
+      * Why: enhance assets processing performance and reduce dependencies  
+    * Upgrade Shader Compiler to use [https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor](https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor) and [https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross)	  
+      * Why: retiring mojoshader to allow future improvements on shaders  
+  * Audio  
+    * FAudio implementation for DesktopVK  
+      * Why: replace OpenAL-Soft which can’t be totally XAudio-accurate  
+  * Tutorials and content  
+    * Advanced 3D concepts (Some ideas I know this isn’t a planning doc)  
+      * Custom Effects   
+      * Culling  
+      * Shadows  
+      * Post Processing  
+      * Scene Management?  
+      * Deferred Rendering  
+      * More starter kits for 2D and 3D  
+      * More shader guidance/samples
+
+* #### Bug Fixes
+
+  * Re-enabled the Unit Tests for PR’s.  
+  * [Upgrade Mac Editor to net8.0-macos. Upgrade Eto.Forms](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8505)   
+  * Fix Issues with OpenAL Panning on DekstopGL and Mobile  [https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8480](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8480) and [https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8466](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8466)  
+  * [Detect GamePad/Keyboard events on Android](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8465)   
+  * [Remove string allocations when calling GamePad.GetCapabilities](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8453)
+
+### What is coming in the next year:
+
+* #### 3.8.3 Release
+
+  * Smoother macOS installation support and Content Pipeline  
+  * Bump to use latest StbImageSharp  
+  * more????  
+* The MonoGame.Framework.Native is going to be a principal focus. The plan is to allow the support of NativeAOT on all the platforms which support it.   
+* Upgrading the Shader Compiler to support more modern shader models.   
+* Improved Content pipeline (Mr H / Harry, details)  
+  * Automating XNB builds to make using MGCB or the content editor optional, and adding content more easily to projects  
+* Full DX12 support on Windows / Xbox  
+* Vulkan support to replace OpenGL (Tom to clarify)