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What's New in r397
Release r397 was published on 24 Jun, 2024
It's a new stable release of Construct! If you're updating from the last stable release r388.2, then this update includes changes from r389, r390, r391, r392, r393, r394, r395 and r396. Highlights include:
⭐ Improvements for using templates with hierarchies allowing automatically updating replicas to match the template hierarchy, including new Propagate hierarchy and Ignore hierarchy propagation settings
⭐ Improvements for handing event variables, including a new Reset action to reset an individual variable, and grouping event variables by scope in the Parameters Dialog
⭐ Autocomplete for tags in the Parameters Dialog, covering all kinds of plugins and behaviors, including tweens, timers, AJAX, storage keys, and more
⭐ Image export updates including support for exporting the new modern AVIF format for lossy images, full support for exporting WebP in Safari, and performance improvements. Note that Recompress images has been renamed to Optimize images to better reflect what it does.
⭐ Android publishing updates including support for target SDK 34 (Android 14), Google Play Billing library v7 for Mobile IAP, and Android 14 support for the Share plugin
⭐ Improved video codec support allowing for using more formats like WebM AV1 and MP4 H.265 in the Video plugin, as well as customizing the primary and secondary sources
⭐ New demo games Kitty Katcher and Grukkle Onslaught, plus 12 other new examples. Also note the Ghost Shooter example (and related materials) has been renamed to Spell Caster with new artwork - it is otherwise identical though.
⭐ Loads more improvements including bug fixes, usability improvements, other smaller additions, and much more! See all the intervening beta release notes for full details.
Addon developers should also note this is the first stable release with support for the Addon SDK v2, so updated addons can now start being published. Note that legacy addons (SDK v1) are still supported in this release, and will be for all releases for the next year at least. See this forum thread for more details.
We'll be starting a new beta release cycle soon. If you'd like to help test it, try the beta release opt-in: choose Notify me about updates for beta releases in Settings. Stay tuned for more updates!
