v2.12.0

What's Changed

• fix: resolve issues with fetching local assets when serving files from the file protocol by @vonvick in #514
• fix programvalue update for length 4 arrays by @jfboeve in #517
• Expose amount of quads metric by @Drulokia in #508
• feat: expose cleanup feature by @wouterlucas in #520
• Optimize Texture Throttling loading by @wouterlucas in #519

New Contributors

• @vonvick made their first contribution in #514

Full Changelog: v2.11.1...v2.12.0

v2.11.1

What's Changed

• fix: duplicate orphaned texture entries, check for renderable and timing by @wouterlucas in #512

Full Changelog: v2.11.0...v2.11.1

v2.11.0

What's Changed

• Fix memory allocations by @wouterlucas in #505
• Improve memory cleanup performance by @wouterlucas in #506
• fix: Unify texture state & subtexture fixes by @wouterlucas in #507

Full Changelog: v2.10.0...v2.11.0

v2.10.0

What's Changed

• refactor: update texture processing to use time limit instead of item limit by @wouterlucas in #502

Warning:
Config option textureProcessingLimit has been renamed to textureProcessingTimeLimit as batch size is now dynamically determined based on available time in between frames. Default is set to 10 ms.

The textureProcessingLimit got introduced in version 2.9.0.

Full Changelog: v2.9.2...v2.10.0

v2.9.2

What's Changed

• fix: Exclude Base64 images from image worker handling by @pecoram in #500
• fix: subTexture in canvas renderer by @pecoram in #501

Full Changelog: v2.9.1...v2.9.2

v2.9.1

What's Changed

• Fix #455 incorrect width when using width and contain by @Drulokia in #494
• Changed Anonymous to anonymous by @Drulokia in #495
• Correct width of text ending with space by @Drulokia in #491
• Texture lifecycle improvements by @wouterlucas in #497
• fix: font face descriptors in chrome 38 by @pecoram in #490

Full Changelog: v2.9.0...v2.9.1

v2.9.0

What's Changed

Feature: Texture Throttling 🚀🎨

Lightning 2.0 introduced the concept of "throttling" texture source creation (and inherently texture creation itself). This was designed to reduce strain on devices with limited pipelines for uploading data from the CPU to the GPU, as well as to limit the number of network requests per frame.

Prior to this feature, L3 would download texture sources and create GPU textures at the end of the rendering pipeline without any mechanism to control how many textures were created at once. In L3 2.8.0 and earlier, if you created 10k nodes, the system would attempt to spawn all 10k nodes in a single frame. While this might work smoothly on desktop Chrome devices with abundant resources, it quickly becomes a bottleneck on embedded devices with limited resources and much lower bus speeds/bandwidth.

Texture throttling introduces a queueing mechanism to regulate the number of texture sources being created/downloaded and textures being uploaded to the GPU. By default, this is set to 0, meaning the entire queue will be processed at once. This value can and should be configured per device or deployment by the consumer of the renderer for optimal performance. 🛠️🎛️

Related PRs:

• Introduce Texture Throttling by @wouterlucas in #472
• Refactor isRenderable detection by @wouterlucas in #479
• 🎨 Refactor CoreNode Renderability Logic 🚀 by @wouterlucas in #476
• fix: added missing check for shader existence by @pecoram in #480
• fix: prevent cleanup of SDF Font Face textures for now by @wouterlucas in #481
• Add render to texture spritemap visual test by @wouterlucas in #485
• fix: deprecate CoreNode.preventCleanup and re-introduce preload option by @wouterlucas in #486

Compatibility Changes 🔄🌐

Lightning 3 faced some shortcomings on Chrome v38 due to incomplete ImageData implementations in the browser, issues with Uint8ClampedArray, and differences in the createImageBitmap signature across Chrome versions v51/52/54. 🖥️🧩

The updates below resolve compatibility with Chrome v38 for color textures 🖌️🎨 and introduce a createImageBitmap fingerprinting mechanism to ensure the most optimal path is used. 🛠️⚡

• Fixes for Chrome v38 by @wouterlucas in #456
• Simplify ImageWorkerManager initialization by @wouterlucas in #460
• fix: compatibility with chrome 51 by @pecoram in #454
• Update README.md & BROWSERS.md by @wouterlucas in #461
• fix: Origin error when using Image() constructor by @wouterlucas in #469
• fix: safari 9 HTMLImageElement check by @pecoram in #473

Other changes

Fixes

• Correct clipping of children in render-to-texture nodes by @erikhaandrikman in #458
• fix: data attr in inspector not reactive.. by @chiefcll in #462
• fix: new Image texture on Canvas by @pecoram in #470
• fix: radialGradient cache key was using linearGradient by @chiefcll in #474

Features

• feat: Add support for Podman by @wouterlucas in #459
• feat: add optional external canvas for rendering by @wouterlucas in #471

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.9.0

v2.8.0

What's Changed

• Added method to set clearColor during runtime by @Drulokia in #451
• fix: Fix RTT Clipping and improve RTT parent lookup by @wouterlucas in #453

Full Changelog: v2.7.2...v2.8.0

v2.7.2

What's Changed

• fix issue when running canvas renderMode by @jfboeve in #450

Full Changelog: v2.7.1...v2.7.2

v2.7.1

What's Changed

• fix(inspector): top left calculated with mount by @pecoram in #445
• fix: added missing error messages by @pecoram in #446
• fix: change ColorTexture to use Uint8Array instead of ImageData by @wouterlucas in #449

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v2.7.1