Release 21.0 RC4

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Release 21.0 RC3

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Release 21.0 RC2

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Release 20.1 RC1

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It's finally here!

With this release we decided to drop the "3.Major_revision.Minor_revision" versioning scheme in favor of a year based scheme since the Major and Minor versions did not have much meaning anymore. Instead the scheme will now be "year.release.0". The last 0 is still there because some of our systems expect that. It will be gone at some point.

Change log: (chronologically ordered)

• Various OpenGL optimizations for better graphics performance:
  • Animations now use texture arrays
  • Model uniforms get sent to the GPU using uniform buffers for less overhead
  • Various other, minor changes/li]
• After just 17 years, full Unicode text support! You can finally use non-ASCII characters without having to worry about special fonts and special characters. This is an opt-in mod flag.
• Added various translation features for making it easier to only distribute one version of a mod which includes all languages.
• OpenAL Soft is included by default in binary distributions of FSO now.
• Added system for dynamically adding new SEXPs. With this a Lua script can expose functionality to the mission which can be used exactly the same as a standard SEXP with all the usual editing features in FRED.
• Replaced Blinn-Phong BRDF with GGX BRDF
• Added support for displaying decals on the surface of an object.
• Refactored bitmap slot handling and removed the fixed upper limit on the number of bitmaps. No more bmpman corruption!
• Exposed the movie player to the scripting API for advanced display features
• Integrated support for the Discord Rich Presence API
• Added new, markup based user interface system using libRocket.
• Converted pilot files from custom binary format to JSON

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3.8 Final

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