0.11.0: Installer and other system apps

This release brings a lot of new system apps:

• Installer for installing new apps via install.fireflyzero.com
• Viewer for achievements
• Viewer for scoreboards
• Game manuals

All system apps: https://catalog.fireflyzero.com/@sys

New documentation pages:

• Installing apps
• Hacking
• Accessibility

Documentation for audio is temporarily hidden.

Also, image rendering is 40% faster.

0.10.0

• Languages! You can change the interface language and games can optionally provide translations to your language. We already have translations for some system apps. We'll translate more in the next release. Contributions are welcome.
• Themes! Pick the color theme. Same as for languages, it's already supported in some system apps and games can access this info to adjust their UI.
• Screenshots app is stable
• New app to change system settings
• New app to delete apps and their data
• New image format that allows for performance optimizations in the next release

IMPORTANT: For game maintainers

In this release, you need to:

1. Update firefly-cli to the latest version: bash -c "$(curl https://fireflyzero.com/install.sh)"
2. Update the SDK to the latest version in all your apps and games
3. Rebuild and publish all your apps and games with the latest CLI

The old image format is deprecated and will be removed in the next release. The latest SDKs automatically use the new image format.

Full Changelog: 0.9.8...0.10.0

0.9.8: Gotta go fasta! 🏃‍➡️

1. Huge performance improvements in most of the drawing functions, including drawing of some images.
2. firefly-emulator and firefly-runtime are now open-source! Give them a star.
3. We had our first gamejam! Try out our new games: catalog.fireflyzero.com
4. firefly_cli now has an experimental alias ff. And emulator can be launched from firefly_cli. Give it a try: ff emulator.
5. The signing keys are replaced with "provenance" checks, to make publishing games easier for you.
6. "Various bugfixes and improvements", of course :) We had a regression when launcher couldn't read app cache in multiplayer. It's fixed now.

And finally, we now have an installation script for Mac and Linux. It can also handle updates. Give it a try:

bash -c "$(curl https://fireflyzero.com/install.sh)"

0.9.0: Battery is here to stay 🔋

• Show battery info
• Windows binaries are tested and they work!
• Significantly speed up file reads.
• wasmi 1.0.0
• Small bug fixes for memory access in graphics

This release we mostly worked on the new device design and lots of amazing developer tools. Follow us on socials, we'll bring announcements soon.