2021.01

Language Features

• New

  • Add function literals
  • Add exponent function (e.g. 2^3)
  • Add convexity parameter to resize()
  • Add support for generic tail recursion
  • Add $vpf for viewport field of view
  • Add support for line-cap and line-join in SVG import
  • Add support stroke-linejoin in SVG import
  • Add warnings for ranges with begin < end
  • Add warnings for matrix structure problems

• Changed

  • Allow random seeds to stick between rands() calls
  • Make comparison operators on mixed types return undef
  • Track reason for values turning undef

• Fixed

  • Fix Range precision
  • Fix empty geometry handling
  • Fix search order for imported modules
  • Improve internal handling of data values
  • Improve performance of array concatenation
  • Improve float accuracy of mirror matrix calculation
  • Improve polygon and polyhedron warnings/errors

Program Features

• GUI

  • Add PDF export (single page only)
  • Add jump to source code from 3D preview
  • Add Error-Log window for tracking errors and warnings
  • Add window menu to allow keyboard access to all docked windows
  • Enable default binary stl output, and ascii option
  • Show message in console when caches are flushed
  • Disable HTML rendering in console
  • Enable color scheme for CGAL 2D render
  • Simplified OpenCSG edge shader, with added smoothing
  • New and updated translations: Chinese, Armenian, French, Russian, Polish, German

• Editor

  • Edit multiple files in tabs
  • Switch tabs via Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab
  • Modify numbers via mouse scroll (when holding ALT)
  • Add auto-complete & call-tips for built-ins
  • Add configurable code snippets
  • Add (line) bookmarks
  • Add jump to error
  • Add support for line/block copy and move
  • Add convenience context menu to tab header
  • Open include<>/use<> files via inline link
  • Fix search highlight for utf8 text
  • Fix display of matches in search field
  • Add Find/Find Next/Find Previous to editor context menu

• Command line

  • Support reading scripts from STDIN
  • Support export to STDOUT
  • Add multi-export on command line
  • Add --animate command line option
  • Add --export-format command line option
  • Allow view-port variables in command-line mode
  • Allow export to .ast, .csg, .echo and .term in preview mode
  • Print statistics in cmdline mode as in GUI

• General

  • Change CGAL Union to join least complex geometries first
  • Install start shortcut for all users on Windows
  • Install icons with defined sizes (e.g. required by flathub)
  • Switch to C++14 and allow usage of header-only CGAL
  • Add support for lib3MF v2.0 API
  • Update AppStream release info

Bug Fixes

• Raise error when export folder does not exist (fixes #432)
• Fixes for linear_extrude with scale and/or twist
• Avoid undefined behavior for `convexity' parameter to linear_extrude
• Fix echo() formatting error (fixes #2950)
• Fix search order for use<>
• Fix large text (fixes #3262)
• Fix initial editor focus (fixes #3471)
• Fix save error handling (fixes #3582)
• Don't show autocomplete in strings (fixes #3563)
• Don't crash with empty CSG normalizer result (fixes #3085)
• Don't crash if 2D hull fails
• Only enable 30ms joystick timer when needed
• Fix 3MF export to produce correct winding order for internal cavities (fixes #3133)
• Fix parent module handling (fixes #3264)
• Fix search highlight with multi-byte utf8 characters (fixes #3068)
• Make editor visible for new file and examples in launching screen (fixes #3401)
• Handle SCN_URIDROPPED introduced in QScintilla 2.11 (fixes #3536)
• Fix Background Modifier (fixes #2978)
• Use std::string as storage (fixes #3057)
• Setting minimum size of search label (fixes #2962)
• Use a relative import() path for svg viewbox tests
• Fix interpretation of '&' in title bar of undocked widget
• Fix Recent-files handling with '&' in filename (fixes #2988)
• Handle empty first geometry in 2D Minkowski (fixes #3527)
• Fix HiDPI non-integer scaling issue (fixes #3614)
• Fix template action shortcut to not clash with Copy&Paste (fixes #3558)
• Abort Nef conversion early on invalid input, to avoid segfault (fixes #2847)
• Have Reindexer return a const ref instead of a pointer into value array
• Set value after min/max so it's not limited to wrong range (fixes #2995)
• Set keyboard shortcut for "reset translation" as Ctrl+Shift+0 (fixes #3488)
• Ensure experimental features are disabled in release mode (fixes #3517)
• Fix handling of file links with spaces or comma characters (fixes #3609)
• Fix customizer presets (fixes #3522)
• Don't crash customizer with saved vector parameters with >4 values
• Fix crash if non-integer in [max] customizer comment
• Fix warning when using deprecated parameter triangles with polyhedron
• Fix reconnect to Xvfb when running tests in parallel
• Fix dangling pointer in "--export-format"
• Fix root modifier warning
• Fix export format name handling
• Fix handling of editor margins
• Fix icon size and location
• Fix build with Boost 1.72
• Build fixes for older systems (Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 8)
• Add work-around for test failures on MIPS