Ren'Py 7.4.7 Released
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:32 am
I'm happy to announce Ren'Py 7.4.7, the seventh patch release of Ren'Py 7.4. This release includes many fixes, and some major improvements.
Perhaps the biggest set of changes was to the Web port of Ren'Py, which has been rewritten to use the web browser's native audio processing. This prevents expensive operations, like decoding image files, from interrupting audio playback. (However, an issue with Safari still exists.) Self-voicing has also been added to the web plaform.
There have also been improvements to support for the iOS platform, that allow Ren'Py games to run on the latest iPhones without aggressive pillarboxing.
The input displayable has grown quite a bit of functionality, with more keys being supported, and the caret blinking to indicate that text can be edited.
The Atom editor has been updated.
There is quite a bit of new functionality in this release, please check out the changelog for some of the new things that can be done.
Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years.
Downloads of 7.4.7 can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.7
A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html
A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html
Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.
Perhaps the biggest set of changes was to the Web port of Ren'Py, which has been rewritten to use the web browser's native audio processing. This prevents expensive operations, like decoding image files, from interrupting audio playback. (However, an issue with Safari still exists.) Self-voicing has also been added to the web plaform.
There have also been improvements to support for the iOS platform, that allow Ren'Py games to run on the latest iPhones without aggressive pillarboxing.
The input displayable has grown quite a bit of functionality, with more keys being supported, and the caret blinking to indicate that text can be edited.
The Atom editor has been updated.
There is quite a bit of new functionality in this release, please check out the changelog for some of the new things that can be done.
Ren'Py 7.4 is the the product of over a year of development, and one of the biggest releases of Ren'Py to date. This series of releases focuses on updating Ren'Py's internals so that Ren'Py is ready for its next 15 years.
Downloads of 7.4.7 can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/release/7.4.7
A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelog.html
A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompatible.html
Please also check out the credits and sponsor list.