Modern UI

Modern UI 3.12.0.4 (3.12.0.3, 3.12.0.2, 3.12.0.1)

Changes from

• 3.11.1.11 → 3.12.0.4 for Minecraft 1.21.6-1.21.8
• 3.11.1.11 → 3.12.0.3 for Minecraft 1.21.4
• 3.11.1.9 → 3.12.0.2 for Minecraft 1.21-1.21.1
• 3.11.1.6 → 3.12.0.1 for Minecraft 1.20-1.20.1

NeoForge Extension 1.21.8 (1.21.4, 1.21.1)

• (1.21.8 only) Fully port to 1.21.8 and adapt to the technical changes in vanilla
• (1.21.8, NeoForge only) On Windows/Linux, you have to manually set config/fml.toml > earlyWindowControl to false; otherwise, your game will crash on the first launch — though you can simply restart it to resolve the issue; this will finally be resolved in MC 1.21.9+
• (1.21.8 only) Enable blur effect by default even when OptiFine is installed
• (1.21.8 only) Delay applying the configuration until just before the game finishes loading
• (1.21.8 only) Deprecate method for drawing rounded rectangles in ExtendedGuiGraphics, replaced by gradient rectangles
• (1.21.8 only) MinecraftSurfaceView.Renderer no longer clips to the bounds of draw by default
• (1.21.8 only) Modern rounded tooltip is applied at most once per frame; subsequent tooltips in the same frame are non-rounded
• (1.21.1 only) Disable blur effect by default when OptiFine is installed
• (1.21.1 only) Fix coordinates in layer blitting
• Add complete version of Still Alive, the Portal ending song
• Add bootstrap option modernui_mc_skipGLPromotion to skip GL promotion
• Always skip GL promotion on macOS
• Add modified version of Inter font "Inter Frozen Medium" and its native italic font as default
• Add in-game changelogs to Home UI
• Add bootstrap options:
  • arc3d_context_useStagingBuffers to enable staging buffers in OpenGL, default is false, previously true
  • arc3d_context_allowGLSPIRV to use SPIR-V in OpenGL, compiled by Arc3D shader compiler, default is false
• (Forge/NeoForge only) Initialize UI manager and UI thread earlier
• Add a separate option "Additional Blur Effect" to blur vanilla screens, default is false
• Fix threading issue in layer blitting, which may cause crash when resizing window
• (1.21.1+, NeoForge only) Always do GL promotion if EARLY_WINDOW_CONTROL is disabled
• Use private logger instead of framework logger
• Add configs to custom "ding" sound and volume
• Update localization to match vanilla language data
• Add "Reset to Default" to context menu in Preferences UI, to reset a config entry to its default value
• Add back view configs and add some new view configs
• The entire Center UI is reworked, a great number of UI/UX improvements and bug fixes
• Provide an abstraction of config system

Forge Extension 1.21.8 (1.21.4, 1.21.1, 1.20.1)

• (1.21.8 only) Migrate to new EventBus
• Equivalent to NeoForge version, except where noted

Fabric Extension 1.21.8 (1.21.4, 1.21.1, 1.20.1)

• Functionally equivalent to NeoForge version, except where noted

Modern Text Engine 1.21.8 (1.21.4, 1.21.1, 1.20.1)

• (1.21.8 only) Port to 1.21.8
• (1.21.8 only) Ensure that the shadow layer and non-shadow layer of obfuscated text in GUI use the same glyphs.
• (1.21.8 only) Separate and simplify text rendering logic for world and GUI: in world, always use SDF rendering; in the GUI, determine density and font size from CTM while ensuring pixel-aligned rendering.
• (1.21.8 only) Delay font atlas resizing to the end of the frame
• (1.21.8 only) GlyphManager is no longer initialized when Modern Text Engine is disabled
• Add config for bitmap horizontal offset
• (1.21.4+ only) Add support for no shadow text (i.e. shadow_color=0)
• Emit no lines for empty strings when computing line breaks to match vanilla behavior
• Make StandardGlyphInfo return exact advance instead of ceiling, matching vanilla TrueTypeProvider behavior. This might improve the rendering of the AE2 guidebook
• For line wrapping of formatted text, allow emitting no lines to match vanilla behavior, fixing the issue where an empty tooltip is sometimes visible.
• Fix crash with obfuscated style on large bitmap fonts

Core Framework 3.12.0

• Fix disappearing transitions caused by removing views in batches cannot be seen
• Tweak edge absorption in NestedScrollView
• Delay TextBlob initialization of ShapedText until draw time
• Add paint parameter for leading/trailing margins
• Merge TrailingMarginSpan with LeadingMarginSpan, also fix a text layout bug
• Optimize many text processing methods
• Fix StyleSpan is not cumulative
• Move LogWriter to internal
• Migrate to SLF4J, remove Log4j dependency
• Add filled text field style
• Add measure cache
• Add convenient methods for specifying styles
• Add thread-safe methods to change themes in context
• Change AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener to functional interface
• Fully configurable view configuration
• Update scroller to calculate physical coefficients using ppi
• Make CharacterStyle cloneable, also fix TextPaint.density
• More methods in Color, and allow creating instances
• Update default fragment SFX transitions
• Allow shallow copy of Bitmap and Image as shared owners
• Add TabLayout and styles
• Improve widget scrolling mechanism
• Add tag system to View
• Add MotionEasingUtils for common bezier interpolators
• Add RTL support and fix bugs for ViewPager
• Improvements and fixes for ViewPager
• Fix hotspot point not dispatched to children
• Fix LinearLayout divider layout bug in RTL direction
• Add option to enable SPIR-V in OpenGL backend, but disable by default
  • NVIDIA driver will compile SPIR-V back to into GLSL in OpenGL, and the disassembler takes up at least 40MB of additional RAM usage
• Use rounding for font metrics
  • Rounding seems to produce a more accurate layout, so the ceiling is no longer used unless there are internal changes in the JDK
• Fix view pager touch slop
• Update color mappings for all buttons
• Not showing long click tooltip when there's hover tooltip
• Add icon button styles
• Fix two bugs in font register
  • Should lookup in FontManager to use native bold/italic fonts
  • To ensure thread-safety, lock the whole register method (actually a JDK bug)
• Improve tooltip show/hide logic when tooltip text is changed
• Add shadow alpha configuration to ViewGroup
• Add ComposeShader to composite two layers
• Add copyWithLocalMatrix for gradient shaders
• Use an accurate method to detect whether Bidi is needed
  • Matching ShapedText and MeasuredText behavior. This is 20% slower than the previous one, but is fast enough.
• Optimize image shader constructor, add copyWithLocalMatrix
• Add new slider styles and animation control
• Expose clearFocusInternal method to internal code
• Expose setOptionalIconsVisible method
• Remove unnecessary ThreadLocal usage
• Add View lighting and shadow casting system
• Optimize line breaking performance
• Add Drawable dirty bounds
• Update dropdown style
• Add menu item icon style and update menu item layout
• Add new checkbox style
• Add new text field and spinner styles
• Add the drawable tint methods to TextView
• Move TextStyle from Paint to TextPaint subclass
• Add builtin icons and replace legacy code
• Add new draw methods to Canvas API
• Renew RippleDrawable with masks and animations
• Add Outline class and compute Drawable outline
• Disable edge AA for ImageDrawable by default
• Change font_size_granularity to 0.25
• Enable subpixel positioning for text rendering
• Sync with latest Arc3D
• Add indeterminate state to checkbox, a tri-state checkbox
• Update subset logic for (Rounded)ImageDrawable and move subset to constant state
• Change default reference density DPI to 96
• Add on/off tooltip text for CheckableImageButton, and optimize
• Add ArrayAdapter.getContext()
• Allow nested radio groups to work, deprecate RelativeRadioGroup
• Add on/off text to switch, and optimize
• Add toggle button
• Enhance RadioGroup, so that it can work on all checkable views
• Add Checkable2 interface for checkable views with a callback
• Make CompoundButton always have checkable state to sync with CheckableImageButton
• Add checkable image button
• Add elevated button style
• Adjust default button size
• Move modulateColor to ColorStateList as a public method
• Adjust tooltip padding
• Add InsetDrawable
• Allow ShapeDrawable to draw rounded rectangles with per-corner radius
• Add methods to draw rounded rectangles with different corner radii to Canvas
• Temporarily disable popup anchor aligning to work around a bug
• Add ClipDrawable
• Add AnimationDrawable for frame-by-frame animations
• Add themed resource cache
• Add theme styles
• Add dropdown styles
• Add styles for popup menus
• Add seek bar styles and other improvements
• Add progress bar styles (determinate and indeterminate)
• Full functionality and fixes for ProgressBar
• Update text appearance of menu item
• Add radio button and switch styles
• Make EdgeEffect accept Context to retrieve theme color
• Add TextAppearance class and methods to apply typography
• Add many buttons styles
• Add many system theme values, based on M3 Expressive
• Add attributes/styleables for most UI components
• Rework the TypedValue class
• Add methods to retrieve attributes and styles in batch
• Add base methods for retrieving attributes
• Add ResourceId, StringView, ThemeKey
• Introduce a new Resources and Theme system
• Merge with ICU Bidi for MeasuredText
• Add fast path for BoringLayout.drawText() for all alignments
• Add toString() for animator classes
• Remove assertions for kotlin compile tasks
• Add RoundedImageDrawable (always keeping aspect ratio)
• Remove Paint.getShader() and simplify ImageDrawable
• Update scrollbar colors
• Update toast and tooltip styles
• Update popup menu styles
• Add new slider style
• No longer use pointing hand cursor for buttons (only for hyperlinks now)
• Update SeekBar to respect thumbOffset and support split track
• Add new drop-down style
• Update drop-down transition animation
• Change default layout for ArrayAdapter
• Change default selector for ListView
• Disable default transition for windows (rework needed)
• Add text padding for Switch
• Add custom clip bounds for View
• Add new switch thumb drawable
• Add Switch, deprecate SwitchButton
• Add two cubic Bezier interpolator
• Add button tint blend mode
• Make ShapeDrawable always skip stroking when the color is transparent
• Add new radio button drawable
• Add SystemTheme
• Make ValueAnimator work without values
• Support line spacing addition/multiplier for text Layout
• No longer using Caffeine for text layout caching, remove Caffeine dependency
• Fix AnimationMatrix clear
• Make View.getMatrix() return non-null
• Add partial view invalidation, dirty region accumulation
• Delete obsolete GLSL shaders
• Add RippleDrawable (allowing analytic mask)
• Add Bezier time interpolator
• Add experimental support for Windows native window border (no title bar)

Markflow Extension

The old Markdown extension is completely deprecated and replaced by the new Markflow

• Renew markdown theme & styling
• Fix heading break style when wrapping
• Update API notice for Markflow
• Markflow initial version

Arc3D Graphics Engine

• Update benchmark, shader source, and dependency version
• ContextOptions logger defaults to null
• Remove instance usage of Color
• Disable runtime constant BIG_ENDIAN since LWJGL does not support big endian machines
• Rename Pixels to PixelRef
• Rename Path.recycle() to Path.release()
• Remove the old usage of UniqueID
• Rework some classes
• Optimize TaskList and more
• Fully decouple core and sketch package
• TextureQueryLod support should default to false
• Remove helper methods for drawing round rects
• Rework PathIterable and PathIterator, add Shape interface
• Rename SharedResourceCache to GlobalResourceCache
• Move 2D rendering API to sketch package
• Optimize and fix text metrics computation
• No longer make Blender and ColorFilter ref-counted
• Many improvements on high-quality text rendering
• Add Rect2f.makeInfiniteInverted() for branchless bounds union
• Update load factor for multimap
• Delete a lot of old code
• Add drawEllipse to Canvas
• Add AnalyticComplexBox geometry step, for complex AA rounded rectangles
• Trying to use Contract on read-only parameters
• Fix constant value retrieval for vector splats
• Add isOpaque for more shaders
• Merge Color4fShader with ColorShader
• Allow creating GL programs without fragment shaders (for depth-only pass)
• Add cover bounds step to handle non-AA fill and scissor fill
• Simplify LinkedListMultimap and make it small-footprint
• Add experimental drawEdgeAAQuad and drawBlurredRRect to Canvas
• ResourceCache: move budgeted and shareable to resource creation
• Strengthen FragmentStage initialization
• Add analytic blurred box geometry step
• Add modes for makeWithLocalMatrix, allow pre-concat, post-concat, replacement
• Optimize Vertices color array memcopy, move the swizzling to GPU
• Add RRectShader and implementation
• More methods to the RRect class
• Leak ref count of some wrapper-like effect objects to the underlying objects
• Allow some Shader objects to be trivially ref-counted
• Add option to enable SPIR-V in OpenGL backend
• Enable SPIR-V in OpenGL backend
• Fix vertex array setup prior to OpenGL 4.3
• Add per-edge AA quad geometry step
• Add option to use staging buffers in OpenGL, and default to false (previously is true)
• Rewrite shaders from GLSL to AkSL (Arc3D shading language)
• Fix sizeof(IndexType) calculation
• Fix blend shaders bugs
• Make StrikeDesc immutable by default
• Full support for subpixel positioning fonts
• Add methods to pack subpixel info into glyph ID
• Migrate to jspecify

Arc3D Shader Compiler

• Rename some classes in compiler package
• No longer use 'packed' as a variable name
  • Prior to GLSL ES 3.00, 'packed' is a reserved keyword. However, even if we use versions 3.00 and above, some drivers still consider it a keyword.
• Add some intrinsics to SPIR-V codegen
• Add TreeWriter to visit and modify the AST
• Rework TreeVisitor and AST node accept
• Use Context object everywhere instead of ShaderCompiler object
• Now accept only String input, due to immutability and compressed strings
• Remove short/half types in favor of min16int/min16float types
• Full support for GLSL codegen in OpenGL/ES backend