PureBasic full changelog

Added: Brand new ScreenGadget library to create easily UI on a game screen (for 2D and 3D) !
Added: Brand new HID library !
Added: #PB_FTP_Debug flag for OpenFTP() to allow to get more info about the connection.
Added: #PB_ListIcon_NoHeaders flag to ListIconGadget()
Added: #PB_Explorer_NoHeaders flag to ExplorerListGadget()
Added: Unicode() to create a dynamic unicode string like Ascii() and UTF8()
Added: HeaderSection/EndHeaderSection to put C or ASM code outside the main() function
Added: #PB_InputRequester_HandleCancel to have a special return for InputRequester() if the user cancelled it
Added: Gzip encoding support for HttpRequest(), HttpRequestMemory(), ReceiveHTTPFile() and ReceiveHTTPMemory()
Added: #PB_Menu_NativeImageSize tot CreateImageMenu() and CreatePopupImageMenu() to allow larger icons in menus (Windows)
Added: #PB_2DDrawing_FastText for DrawingMode() to have a faster text rendering (Windows).
Added: #PB_Mail_NoSSLCheck and #PB_Mail_WeakSSL flags for SendMail() to ease tests.
Added: Automatic BOM handling to CreateFile() and ReadFile()/OpenFile() with #PB_File_BOM flag
Added: Changed x,y type for DisplaySprite/DisplayTransparentSprite() from integer to float (Not supported on DX9 or DX11 subsystem)
Added: Placeholder support for StringGadget() with #PB_String_PlaceHolder flag
Added: PackerCallback() to monitor and abort compression.
Added: 'onresize' event for Dialog library for gadgets which supports #PB_EventType_Resize
Updated: Splitted the 2DDrawing lib for functions which doesn't needed dependencies (see here)
Changed: CreateImage() background color now takes full RGBA() color for 32-bit picture. #PB_Image_Transparent and #PB_Image_TransparentBlack can be used to set a transparent background with white or black antialising.
Fixed: Some compiler and libraries bugs (fixed bug list)

Added: #PB_Sprite_Transparent support to CreateSprite()
Added: #PB_Image_BlackAlphaBackground and #PB_Image_WhiteAlphaBackground for SaveImage()
Added: LoadImage() now supports 32-bit BMP files when alpha channel is found
Added: OSVersion() now support Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025
Removed: #PB_Menu_ModernLook and #PB_Menu_SysTrayLook support on Windows.
Fixed: Two IDE issues, thanks to kenmo !
Fixed: Some compiler and libraries bugs (fixed bug list)

Updated: OGRE to lastest 14.3 version (big thanks for the help Pf Shadoko) !
Added: Windows 11 native arm64 support !
Added: TLS support for Network library (Thanks Idle for the tips) !
Added: PureLibrary creation in PureBasic !
Added: WebWiewProxy() to enable proxy support (Sponsored by Kukulkan)
Added: #PB_Editor_TabNavigation support to EditorGadget() (Sponsored by Quin)
Added: #PB_Entity_InheritScale support to Get/SetEntityAttribute()
Added: DLL support to UsePostgreSQL() (Sponsored by wayne-c)
Added: Windows 10+ mode to link directly to UCRT.dll to have smaller executables and up-to-date CRT
Added: IsPack()
Added: Get/SetWorldAttribute() to control shadows, water and sky
Added: PureBasic-CLI.cmd to easily open a commandline environment (Windows)
Optimized: BuildMeshLOD() now uses a much better algorithm for automatic LOD creation
Changed: SaveRenderTexture() -> only .png format is supported
Changed: SkyDome() and CreateWater() functions to have better and faster rendering
Changed: Add3DArchive() always needs to be after OpenScreen()
Removed: Sun() has been removed, replaced with CreateLight()
Removed: WaterHeight(), SwitchCamera(), LoadWorld()
Fixed: A few compiler and libraries bugs

Added: SFTP support to the FTP lib !
Added: #PB_OS_MacOSX_13, #PB_OS_MacOSX_14 and #PB_OS_MacOSX_15 for OSVersion()
Added: #PB_Frame_Container support for FrameGadget()
Added: '--console' commandline switch to linux and osx compiler (for consistency)
Added: NavigationCallback support for GTK WebGadget() (all OS now support it)
Added: New linker for DLL creation to have smaller binary size (Windows)
Added: 32-bit float WAV support for LoadSound() and CatchSound()
Added: New Linux package for Ubuntu 24.04
Fixed: Some compiler and libraries bugs (fixed bug list)

Added: 24-bit and 32-bit WAV support
Added: runtime debugger support for whole Packer library
Updated: replaced polink with lld-link on Windows to generate smaller executables
Fixed: Some compiler and libraries bugs (fixed bug list)

Added: #PB_String_NoCaseAscii for CompareMemoryString() for faster string comparison when only ascii characters are involved.
Added: #PB_Compiler_DPIAware compiler constant.
Updated Scintilla to 5.3.5 for all platforms
Optimized: Smaller and more readable C generated file.
Changed: IDE on Linux is now using GTK3 as default (GTK2 IDE is named purebasic_gtk2)
Fixed: A lot of compiler and libraries bugs (fixed bug list)

- Added: HttpTimeout() to set a connection and a global timeout for Http commands.
- Added: GTK3 IDE build for Linux for testing (purebasic_gtk3).
- Added: ReAssembly (--reasm) support for OS X and Linux.
- Updated: libarchive to 3.6.2 - Updated: lib7z to 22.01
- Removed: EnableASM support for C backend as it can't be used correctly (the IDE capitalize the letters for If etc.) and avoid detecting real x86/x64 asm block leading to strange errors. The correct way is now to use the '!' sign at the line start to use directly C code.

Added: #PB_HTTP_WeakSSL to HTTRequest() to support older servers
Added: Added #PB_HTTP_Debug to print in the console debug information
Added: New indentation option (Shardik)
Added: Add option to auto-wrap Find at end of file (kenmo)
Added: New editor shortcuts (upper/lower/invert case) (kenmo)

Added: #PB_HTTP_Headers to HTTPInfo() to get the headers
Added: #PB_HTTP_HeadersOnly to HTTPRequest() to only request the headers (GetHTTPHeaders() is now deprecated)
Added: Scintilla word chars selection as user preference in IDE (kenmo)
Added: Zoom keyboard shortcuts in IDE (kenmo)